ConsensusPrime—A Bioinformatic Pipeline for Ideal Consensus Primer Design

Autor: Maximilian Collatz, Sascha D. Braun, Stefan Monecke, Ralf Ehricht
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: BioMedInformatics, Vol 2, Iss 4, Pp 637-642 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2673-7426
DOI: 10.3390/biomedinformatics2040041
Popis: Background: High-quality oligonucleotides for molecular amplification and detection procedures of diverse target sequences depend on sequence homology. Processing input sequences and identifying homogeneous regions in alignments can be carried out by hand only if they are small and contain sequences of high similarity. Finding the best regions for large and inhomogeneous alignments needs to be automated. Results: The ConsensusPrime pipeline was developed to sort out redundant and technical interfering data in multiple sequence alignments and detect the most homologous regions from multiple sequences. It automates the prediction of optimal consensus primers for molecular analytical and sequence-based procedures/assays. Conclusion: ConsensusPrime is a fast and easy-to-use pipeline for predicting optimal consensus primers that is executable on local systems without depending on external resources and web services. An implementation in a Docker image ensures platform-independent executability and installability despite the combination of multiple programs. The source code and installation instructions are publicly available on GitHub.
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