MFEprimer-2.0: A fast thermodynamics-based program for checking PCR primer specificity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue W1, 2012, Pages

  Qu, Wubin ^a   Zhou, Yang ^a,b   Zhang, Yanchun ^a   Lu, Yiming ^a   Wang, Xiaolei ^c   Zhao, Dongsheng ^c   Yang, Yi ^b   Zhang, Chenggang ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF RADIATION MEDICINE   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Beijing Institute of Health Service and Medical Information   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ALGORITHM; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; INTERNET; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84864481879     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks552     Document Type: Article

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