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Primrose identifies potentially useful oligonucleotides for use as
phylogenetic probes and PCR primers.
This is achieved by following a four step process.
Construct Database.
Construct
a sequence database from one or more sequence
files.
Specify Target Taxon.
Identify sequences, within the database, that represent the
phylogenetic group to be targeted by oligonucleotide.
Find Oligonucleotides.
Find
potentially useful oligonucleotides which could describe this target
group.
Check
Oligonucleotides
Against Database. Screen
these oligonucleotides against the sequence database to find which
describe the target
group best - i.e., which oligonucleotides target the highest number of
sequence records within the target group and the least number of
records outside the target group.
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