Enhancements and modifications of primer design program Primer3
Enhancements and modifications of primer design program Primer3
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DOI:
10.1093/bioinformatics/btm091
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发表时间:
2007-05-15
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5.8
通讯作者:
Remm, Maido
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作者:
Koressaar, Triinu;Remm, Maido
The determination of annealing temperature is a critical step in PCR design. This parameter is typically derived from the melting temperature of the PCR primers, so for successful PCR work it is important to determine the melting temperature of primer accurately. We introduced several enhancements in the widely used primer design program Primer3. The improvements include a formula for calculating melting temperature and a salt correction formula. Also, the new version can take into account the effects of clivalent cations, which are included in most PCR buffers. Another modification enables using lowercase masked template sequences for primer design.