We request but do not require that use of this software be cited inpublications as* Untergasser A, Cutcutache I, Koressaar T, Ye J, Faircloth BC, Remm M and Rozen SG.Primer3--new capabilities and interfaces.Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Aug 1;40(15):e115.* Koressaar T and Remm M.Enhancements and modifications of primer design program Primer3.Bioinformatics 23(10):1289-91.* Koressaar T, Lepamets M, Kaplinski L, Raime K, Andreson R and Remm M.Primer3_masker: integrating masking of template sequence with primer design software.Bioinformatics 2018;34(11):1937-1938.The papers are available at: Source code available at -org.
Primer3 was a complete re-implementationof an earlier program:Primer 0.5 (Steve Lincoln, Mark Daly, and EricS. Lander).Lincoln Stein championed the idea of making Primer3 a software component suitable for high-throughputprimer design.Web interface bySteve Rozen
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We highly recommend using one of the many computer software programs available to design primers. This will help to accurately calculate the melting temperature (Tm) and help to identify potential secondary hybridization sites and secondary structure issues. The following must be taken into consideration when designing sequencing primers:
We have developed a novel method to predict the success of PCR amplification for a specific primer set and DNA template based on the relationship between the primer sequence and the template. To perform the prediction using a recurrent neural network, the usual double-stranded formation between the primer and template nucleotide sequences was herein expressed as a five-lettered word. The set of words (pseudo-sentences) was placed to indicate the success or failure of PCR targeted to learn recurrent neural network (RNN). After learning pseudo-sentences, RNN predicted PCR results from pseudo-sentences which were created by primer and template sequences with 70% accuracy. These results suggest that PCR results could be predicted using learned RNN and the trained RNN could be used as a replacement for preliminary PCR experimentation. This is the first report which utilized the application of neural network for primer design and prediction of PCR results.
PCR primers have been traditionally designed by thermodynamic interaction with the desired templates1,2. Primers are designed to increase two respectively significant base sequence specificity and reasonable GC content indicators. The high specificity can prevent mispriming in regions other than the target region, and the GC content of a primer is a major factor in determining the annealing temperature (Tm). Maintaining the Tm value optimally affects the amplification efficiency of primers being used3. The reference scaffold for primers with high PCR success has been determined based on the result of trials of up to around 1990 thermodynamic calculations1. Indices such as discontinuity of the same base are also empirically determined. The Tm value, which explains the specificity of binding to the template and possibly with the primer dimer, among others, are evaluated to determine the appropriate primer pair on each template. With this, some of the proposed software has been designed. The most frequently used primer design software include PrimerSelect4, Primer Express (Applied Biosystems Primer Express Software Version 3.0 Getting Started Guide, 2004), Primer Premier ( ), OLIGO 75, Primer36, and OMP2. Of these primer design softwares, Primer3 software provides both a primer design on the Web and a local program (Primer3_core) that corresponds to a large amount of primer design, that becomes a standard for PCR primer design. In particular, Primer3 added some thermodynamic findings in 2007 and 20122,7. Its revision in 2012 provided an added knowledge about DNA duplex stability8 which incorporated an algorithm for designing primers on the target9. This enabled a primer design even in the boundary regions of exons.
Current primer design techniques allow the design of primers that amplify the subject sequence with high probability resultant of combining thermodynamic theory alongside the experience of many researchers. However, it has not been designed to make predictions about a nucleotide sequence that is said to be "not amplifying" a known template. In some previous cases where amplification was performed with an unexpected template in a PCR experiment, knowledge-feedback was unfortunately not documented. Earlier contributions on PCR primer designs have incorporated these into modifications of thermodynamic laws before being compacted to a primer design software2,5. To indicate the presence of a particular DNA or RNA sequence, there is always a need to predict that no PCR will occur at sequences that are not of interest or prime importance. In pathogen detection, PCR primers are selected based on several preliminary experiments to confirm that PCR can predictably occur only with a specifically targeted pathogen10,11,12,13. Since false positives pose a major problem in detecting many pathogens including COVID-19, it is important to develop a method for predicting false positives ( -19/false-negatives-how-accurate-are-pcr-tests-for-covid-19/). Hence, if specificity of a primer pair can be predicted from nucleotide sequences of primers and templates, hindrances including false-positives can be readily corrected resulting to an accelerated research process.
To express the relationships of these schemas as words, we decided to express the hairpin, primer dimer, primer-template bond, and primer-PCR product bond as words. The strength of the primer-template bond on the forward and reverse flanks greatly influences the establishment of the PCR reaction. For combinations that are not of the original primer-template, the binding position needs to be determined by PCR from the possible binding of multiple primer-templates. With this, we constructed the words for the learning RNN.
In this study, pseudo-words were created based on primer hairpins, dimers, primer-template homology, and primer-PCR product homology. Predicting the priming position is expected to be particularly important among pseudo-words. This is because PCR is established based on the elongation of DNA from the priming position (Fig. 1). When designing the optimum primer as in the conventional case, the binding position of the primer has a long complementary region and high stability as compared with other positions. However, when comparing the complementarity between the template and the primer sequence, which was not originally designed, it is necessary to determine the priming position from a large number of candidates having similar length and stability of the complementary strand. Also, the effect of priming position was conveyed by expressing the priming position in capital letters. The accuracy of this pumping position affects the accuracy of the overall prediction, whereas, in addition to the complementarity with the base sequence and template of the primer, it becomes an amplified sequence or set (reverse for forward, forward for reverse). Thus, its relationship with the priming position is also affected. Therefore, it is ideally desirable to learn and predict this priming position by artificial intelligence. However, since the basic data is not available in this study, the stability of the complementary strand is predicted by the nearest neighbor method. The priming position that maximizes stability was predicted with the set of priming positions. For the prediction of free energy by the nearest neighbor method, in addition to the values reported so far, values extrapolated from those values were set and used. Since some of these numbers are simple extrapolations from the reported numbers, their accuracy is not yet guaranteed, hence, future improvements are still needed.
3. Students added to the class automatically have full access to the app from any device. Students can access their software at www.behrmanhouse.com/PlayLearn or they can download the app free from the Apple App Store or Google Play (Andoid OS 9) and log in using their OLC login information.
The exact and rapid quantification of transgene copy numbers is often required for gene-delivery experiments. As we generally use the SB transposon system in our laboratory, we aimed to develop a real-time PCR-based technique that would be transgene-independent, specific for the transposon regions and therefore widely applicable. To optimize the qPCR-TI method, we began with clones of HEK-293 cells with SB transposons carrying two transcription units expressing GFP and the puromycin-resistance gene, which are both under the control of the CAG promoter (Figure 1A). This transgene setup allowed generation of clones with various copy numbers by either fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) or antibiotic selection. Specific TaqMan (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) assays were designed for the two IRDR motifs of the SB transposon and for the GFP sequence (Figure 1A). The widely applicable SB transposon version used throughout this study has two asymmetric IRDR regions ('left' and 'right' [22]). In most transposon flanking sequences, the two IRDR regions are repeat-rich DNA sequences, which makes PCR primer design relatively difficult. Moreover, the left and the right IRDRs are very similar to each other, which further increases the difficulty of designing specific assays for them. Nevertheless, we could still develop specific assays for each; neither of the IRDR-L nor the IRDR-R probe set gave signals in the exclusive presence of the other template (data not shown).
GFP-expressing cells were analyzed by a flow cytometer (FACSCalibur; Becton-Dickinson, San Jose, CA, USA) with Cellquest-Pro analysis software (Becton-Dickinson). Mock-transfected cells were used as labeling controls, and propidium iodide or 7-aminoactinomycin D staining was used to exclude non-viable cells. To select and clone cells expressing GFP, a fluorescence based cell sorter (FACSAria High Speed Cell Sorter; Becton-Dickinson) was used in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. 2ff7e9595c
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