Skip the alignment: Degenerate, multiplex primer and probe design using k-mer matching instead of alignments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Hysom, David A ^a   Naraghi Arani, Pejman ^a   Elsheikh, Maher ^a   Carrillo, A Celena ^a   Williams, Peter L ^b   Gardner, Shea N ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE PROBE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; K-MER; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIMUX; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEROTYPE; DENGUE VIRUS; DNA PROBE; GENETICS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

DENGUE VIRUS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS;

PRIMER DNA;

BASE SEQUENCE; DENGUE VIRUS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA PROBES; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84859256758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034560     Document Type: Article

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