Journal article
BOND: Basic OligoNucleotide Design
BMC Bioinformatics, Vol.14(1)
2013
Abstract
Background
DNA microarrays have become ubiquitous in biological and medical research. The most difficult problem that needs to be solved is the design of DNA oligonucleotides that (i) are highly specific, that is, bind only to the intended target, (ii) cover the highest possible number of genes, that is, all genes that allow such unique regions, and (iii) are computed fast. None of the existing programs meet all these criteria.
Results
We introduce a new approach with our software program BOND (Basic OligoNucleotide Design). According to Kane’s criteria for oligo design, BOND computes highly specific DNA oligonucleotides, for all the genes that admit unique probes, while running orders of magnitude faster than the existing programs. The same approach enables us to introduce also an evaluation procedure that correctly measures the quality of the oligonucleotides. Extensive comparison is performed to prove our claims. BOND is flexible, easy to use, requires no additional software, and is freely available for non-commercial use from http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ilie/BOND/ webcite.
Conclusions
We provide an improved solution to the important problem of oligonucleotide design, including a thorough evaluation of oligo design programs. We hope BOND will become a useful tool for researchers in biological and medical sciences by making the microarray procedures faster and more accurate.
Details
- Title
- BOND: Basic OligoNucleotide Design
- Authors/Creators
- L. Ilie (Author/Creator) - Western UniversityH. Mohamadi (Author/Creator) - McMaster UniversityG.B. Golding (Author/Creator) - McMaster UniversityW.F. Smyth (Author/Creator) - McMaster University
- Publication Details
- BMC Bioinformatics, Vol.14(1)
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Identifiers
- 991005541237407891
- Copyright
- © 2013 Ilie et al.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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