Abstract:
:Secondary structure motifs in nucleic acid probes generally impair intended hybridization reactions and so efforts to predict and avoid such structures are commonly employed in probe design schemes. Another key facet of probe design that has received much less attention, however, is that secondary structure at targeted probe binding site regions may also impair hybridization. Thus, evaluation of both probe and target site secondary structures together should improve hybridization prediction and design effectiveness. Several challenges confound this goal, including imperfect empirical rules and parameters underlying predictions and the fact that folding algorithms scale poorly with respect to sequence length. Here, we attempt to quantify the consequences of target site structure on predicted hybridization using sequences sampled from the human genome. We also provide a methodology for choosing a reasonable "window size" around target sites that is as small as possible without compromising folding algorithm prediction accuracy.
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Comput Biol Chemjournal_title
Computational biology and chemistryauthors
Koehler RT,Peyret Ndoi
10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2005.09.002keywords:
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2005-12-01 00:00:00pages
393-7issue
6eissn
1476-9271issn
1476-928Xpii
S1476-9271(05)00095-2journal_volume
29pub_type
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