This is the Windows app named miRprimer whose latest release can be downloaded as miRprimer2.exe. It can be run online in the free hosting provider OnWorks for workstations.
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SCREENSHOTS:
miRprimer
DESCRIPTION:
miRprimer designs primers for PCR amplification of microRNAs as described (Busk (2014). A tool for design of primers for microRNA-specific quantitative RT-qPCR. BMC Bioinformatics. 15, 29) for use with the method miR-specific RT-qPCR (Cirera, S., and Busk, P.K. (2014). Quantification of miRNAs by a simple and specific qPCR method. Methods in Molecular Biology. 1182, 73-81.).
The program was written in Ruby and is available as source code for developers and as an .exe file for easy use.
Audience
Science/Research, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Programming Language
Ruby
Categories
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