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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-11-8
pubmed:abstractText
MOTIVATION: DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism of gene regulation. Bisulfite- conversion-based PCR methods, such as bisulfite sequencing PCR (BSP) and methylation specific PCR (MSP), remain the most commonly used techniques for methylation mapping. Existing primer design programs developed for standard PCR cannot handle primer design for bisulfite-conversion-based PCRs due to changes in DNA sequence context caused by bisulfite treatment and many special constraints both on the primers and the region to be amplified for such experiments. Therefore, the present study was designed to develop a program for such applications. RESULTS: MethPrimer, based on Primer 3, is a program for designing PCR primers for methylation mapping. It first takes a DNA sequence as its input and searches the sequence for potential CpG islands. Primers are then picked around the predicted CpG islands or around regions specified by users. MethPrimer can design primers for BSP and MSP. Results of primer selection are delivered through a web browser in text and in graphic view.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1367-4803
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
18
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1427-31
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12424112-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-Computer-Aided Design, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-CpG Islands, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-DNA Methylation, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-Equipment Design, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-Estrogen Receptor beta, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-Internet, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-Multimedia, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-Pilot Projects, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-Quality Control, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-Receptors, Estrogen, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-Sensitivity and Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-Sequence Analysis, DNA, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-Software, pubmed-meshheading:12424112-User-Computer Interface
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
MethPrimer: designing primers for methylation PCRs.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Urology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA. longli@itsa.ucsf.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Evaluation Studies