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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2025

EasyKASP: a simple and fast tool for KASP primer design.

Jian Zhang, Jingjing Yang, Changlong Wen

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Jian ZhangBeijing Vegetable Research Center (BVRC), Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100097, China.
Jingjing YangBeijing Vegetable Research Center (BVRC), Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100097, China.
Changlong WenNational Engineering Research Center for Vegetables, Beijing, 100097, China. BVRC_SNP@126.com.

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Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences QNJJ202327, KJCX20230301, KJCX20230308Biological Breeding-National Science and Technology Major Project 2022ZD0401903
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundKompetitive Allele-Specific PCR (KASP) is a fluorescence-based, high-throughput and cost-effective genotyping technology widely used for detecting single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and insertion-deletions (InDels) across various species. However, few software tools are available for automatically designing KASP primers, especially for InDel variations.

resultsTo address the lack of free and user-friendly automated tools for KASP primer design, we analyzed the sequence characteristics of KASP primers and developed a user-friendly program named EasyKASP on the Excel VBA platform. EasyKASP designs KASP primers for both SNP and InDel variations, with an average processing time of only 0.03 s per primer pair. A total of 80 SNP loci and 6 InDel loci with variations of different lengths were selected to validate the KASP markers designed by EasyKASP, all of which were successfully amplified and genotyped using KASP technology.

conclusionsEasyKASP is a simple and rapid tool for KASP primer design, demonstrating broad applicability in KASP genotyping studies.

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DNA PrimersPolymerase Chain ReactionSoftwareAllelesGenotyping TechniquesINDEL MutationPolymorphism, Single NucleotideDNA PrimersExcel VBAInDelKASP primer designSNP

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PMID41419795
PMCPMC12717768

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