| Literature DB >> 15073008 |
Paul C Boutros1, Allan B Okey.
Abstract
UNLABELLED: We developed a CGI/Perl-based web server to perform in silico polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on PCR primer sequences. The PUNS (Primer-UniGene Selectivity) server simulates PCR reactions by running BLASTN analysis on user-entered primer pairs against both the transcriptome and the genome to assess primer specificity. PUNS is particularly suited for the identification of highly selective primers for quantitative microarray validation. AVAILABILITY: Both system access and source-code are freely available at http://okeylabimac.med.utoronto.ca/PUNS.Mesh:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15073008 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bth257
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bioinformatics ISSN: 1367-4803 Impact factor: 6.937