KASpOD—a web service for highly specific and explorative oligonucleotide design

• DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts597
• Publication Date: 2012-10-10T08:45:27Z
• Authors: Nicolas Parisot; Jérémie Denonfoux; Eric Dugat-Bony; Pierre Peyret; Eric Peyretaillade
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; Internet; probe design; [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]; communities; 03 medical and health sciences; sequences; Cluster Analysis; Oligonucleotide Probes; microarray; Algorithms; Software; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis

Abstract Summary: KASpOD is a web service dedicated to the design of signature sequences using k-mer–based algorithm. Such highly specific and explorative oligonucleotides are then suitable for various goals, including Phylogenetic Oligonucleotide Arrays. Availability: http://g2im.u-clermont1.fr/kaspod. Contact: [e-mail] Supplementary information: data available at Bioinformatics online.