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ArticleBioinformatics advances2024

DeGenPrime provides robust primer design and optimization unlocking the biosphere.

Bryan Fulghum, Sophie H Tanker, Richard Allen White

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Article in Bioinformatics advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bryan FulghumDepartment of Bioinformatics and Genomics, North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC), The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Kannapolis, NC 28081, United States.
Sophie H TankerDepartment of Bioinformatics and Genomics, North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC), The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Kannapolis, NC 28081, United States.
Richard Allen WhiteDepartment of Bioinformatics and Genomics, North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC), The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Kannapolis, NC 28081, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6292-5936
University of North Carolina at Charlotte · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Motivation: Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the world's most important molecular diagnostic with applications ranging from medicine to ecology. PCR can fail because of poor primer design. The nearest-neighbor thermodynamic properties, picking conserved regions, and filtration via penalty of oligonucleotides form the basis for good primer design. Results: DeGenPrime is a console-based high-quality PCR primer design tool that can utilize MSA formats and degenerate bases expanding the target range for a single primer set. Our software utilizes thermodynamic properties, filtration metrics, penalty scoring, and conserved region finding of any proposed primer. It has degeneracy, repeated Availability and implementation: DeGenPrime is written in C++ and distributed under a BSD-3-Clause license. The source code for DeGenPrime is freely available on www.github.com/raw-lab/degenprime.

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PMID38590916
PMCPMC11001487
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