A PCR primer bank for quantitative gene expression analysis
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- 15 December 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 31 (24) , 154e-154
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gng154
Abstract
Although gene expression profiling by microarray analysis is a useful tool for assessing global levels of transcriptional activity, variability associated with the data sets usually requires that observed differences be validated by some other method, such as real‐time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (real‐time PCR). However, non‐specific amplification of non‐target genes is frequently observed in the latter, confounding the analysis in ∼40% of real‐time PCR attempts when primer‐specific labels are not used. Here we present an experimentally validated algorithm for the identification of transcript‐specific PCR primers on a genomic scale that can be applied to real‐time PCR with sequence‐independent detection methods. An online database, PrimerBank, has been created for researchers to retrieve primer information for their genes of interest. PrimerBank currently contains 147 404 primers encompassing most known human and mouse genes. The primer design algorithm has been tested by conventional and real‐time PCR for a subset of 112 primer pairs with a success rate of 98.2%.Keywords
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