GeneFisher-Software Support for the Detection of Postulated Genes

Whena family of genes from closely related organisms is known,there is a certain chance to extract the corresponding gene from the genomeof another related organism. This can be done by polymerase chain reaction, providedthat a pair of suitable primers can be designed. In contrast to primer design for a single, knowntarget sequence, systematic primer design for an unknowntarget given a group of homologues can by no meansbe done manually. GcneFisher is a software tool which automates this task, and takes special care to makethe impact of the manifold design parameters transparent to the user.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: ISMB
• Authors: Robert Giegerich, Folker Meyer, Chris Schleiermacher
• Keywords: Computational Biology, ISMB 1996, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Primer Design, Related Organism