RExPrimer: An integrated primer designing tool increases PCR effectiveness by avoiding 3' SNP-in-primer and mis-priming from structural variation

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2009, Pages

  Piriyapongsa, Jittima ^a   Ngamphiw, Chumpol ^a   Assawamakin, Anunchai ^a,b   Wangkumhang, Pongsakorn ^a   Suwannasri, Payiarat ^c   Ruangrit, Uttapong ^a   Agavatpanitch, Gallissara ^a   Tongsima, Sissades ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; INTERNET; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; WEB BROWSER; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

COPY NUMBER; CORE ALGORITHMS; DESIGNING TOOLS; GENE STRUCTURE; HOMOLOGOUS SEQUENCES; PCR PRIMERS; PRIMER DESIGN; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; PYTHON LANGUAGE; REGION OF INTEREST; SCALABLE VECTOR GRAPHICS; SEGMENTAL DUPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE USE; STRUCTURAL POLYMORPHISMS; STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS; USER FRIENDLY INTERFACE; WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS;

BIOINFORMATICS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DESIGN; GENES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CYTOCHROME P450 2D6; PRIMER DNA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP2D6; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 71549173409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-S3-S4     Document Type: Article

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