articleNucleic Acids ResearchMay 8, 2007GOLD OA

Primer3Plus, an enhanced web interface to Primer3

Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences

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Abstract

Here we present Primer3Plus, a new web interface to the popular Primer3 primer design program as an enhanced alternative for the CGI- scripts that come with Primer3. Primer3 consists of a command line program and a web interface. The web interface is one large form showing all of the possible options. This makes the interface powerful, but at the same time confusing for occasional users. Primer3Plus provides an intuitive user interface using present-day web technologies and has been developed in close collaboration with molecular biologists and technicians regularly designing primers. It focuses on the task at hand, and hides detailed settings from the user until these are needed. We also added functionality…

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Keywords
  • Interface (matter)
  • Perl
  • Scripting language
  • User interface
  • Computer science
  • World Wide Web
  • Software
  • Web application
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