A thermodynamic approach to PCR primer design

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 2009, Pages

  Mann, Tobias ^a   Humbert, Richard ^a   Dorschner, Michael ^a   Stamatoyannopoulos, John ^a   Noble, William Stafford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PRIMER DNA; DNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; DNA BINDING; DNA DENATURATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYTHIA ALGORITHM; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; THERMODYNAMICS; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; GENOMICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; STANDARD;

PYTHIA;

ALGORITHMS; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 67949094335     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp443     Document Type: Article

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