Weinvestigate the problemof designingefficient multiplex PCRfor medical applications. Weshowthat the problemis NP-completeby transformation to the Multiple Choice Matchingproblema...
Background: Multiplex PCR, defined as the simultaneous amplification of multiple regions of a DNA template or multiple DNA templates using more than one primer set (comprising a f...
Background: The design of oligonucleotides and PCR primers for studying large genomes is complicated by the redundancy of sequences. The eukaryotic genomes are particularly diffic...
Reidar Andreson, Eric Reppo, Lauris Kaplinski, Mai...
Primer approximation multiplex PCR (PAMP) is a new experimental protocol for efficiently assaying structural variation in genomes. PAMP is particularly suited to cancer genomes w...
Ali Bashir, Yu-Tsueng Liu, Benjamin J. Raphael, De...
Background: Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is used in directed sequencing for the discovery of novel polymorphisms. As the first step in PCR directed sequencing, effective PCR pr...
Kelvin Li, Anushka Brownley, Timothy B. Stockwell,...