Expeditor: A Pipeline for Designing Primers Using Human Gene Structure and Livestock Animal EST Information
Author(s) -
Zhi-Liang Hu,
Kim Glenn,
A. M. Ramos,
C. J. Otieno,
James M. Reecy,
M. F. Rothschild
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of heredity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1471-8505
pISSN - 0022-1503
DOI - 10.1093/jhered/esi015
Subject(s) - biology , livestock , identification (biology) , software , pipeline (software) , primer (cosmetics) , gene , computational biology , genetics , computer science , ecology , chemistry , organic chemistry , programming language
We have developed software, called Expeditor, that can be used to combine known gene structure information from human and coding sequence information from farm animal species for a streamlined primer design in target farm animal species. This software has many utilities, which include PCR-based SNP discovery for identification of genes/markers associated with economically important traits in farm animals, comparative mapping analysis, and evolution studies. The use of this software helps minimize tedious manual operations and reduces the chance of errors by more conventional approaches.
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