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Title

 

 

 

 

 

SNP-Flankplus: SNP ID-centric retrieval for SNP flanking sequences

 

Authors

 

 Cheng-Hong Yang1, Yu-Huei Cheng1, Li-Yeh Chuang2 and Hsueh-Wei Chang3, 4, 5, *

 

Affiliation

 

 

1Department of Electronic Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan; 2Department of Chemical Engineering, I-Shou University, Taiwan; 3Faculty of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan; 4Graduate Institute of Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan; 5Center of Excellence for Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan;

 

Email

 

changhw@kmu.edu.tw; *Corresponding author

 

Article Type

 

Web Server

Date

 

received November 25, 2008; accepted December 01, 2008; published December 06, 2008

 

Abstract

The flanking sequences provided by dbSNP of NCBI are usually short and fixed length without further extension, thus making the design of appropriate PCR primers difficult. Here, we introduce a tool named “SNP-Flankplus” to provide a web environment for retrieval of SNP flanking sequences from both the dbSNP and the nucleotide databases of NCBI. Two SNP ID types, rs# and ss#, are acceptable for querying SNP flanking sequences with adjustable lengths for at least sixteen organisms.

 

Keywords

 

PCR; SNP; primer design; flanking sequences

Citation

 

Yang et al., Bioinformation 3(4): 147-149 (2008)

Edited by

 

P. Kangueane

 

ISSN

 

0973-2063

Publisher

 

Biomedical Informatics

License

 

 

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.