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Predicting oligonucleotide affinity to nucleic acid targets
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Predicting oligonucleotide affinity to nucleic acid targets

DAVID H. Mathews, MARK E. Burkard, SUSAN M. Freier, JACQUELINE R. Wyatt and DOUGLAS H. Turner
RNA (Cambridge), Vol.5(11), pp.1458-1469
11/1999
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838299991148
PMCID: PMC1369867
PMID: 10580474
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https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc1369867View
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Abstract

A computer program, OligoWalk, is reported that predicts the equilibrium affinity of complementary DNA or RNA oligonucleotides to an RNA target. This program considers the predicted stability of the oligonucleotide-target helix and the competition with predicted secondary structure of both the target and the oligonucleotide. Both unimolecular and bimolecular oligonucleotide self structure are considered with a user-defined concentration. The application of OligoWalk is illustrated with three comparisons to experimental results drawn from the literature.
primer extension reverse PCR bimolecular RNA secondary structure antisense oligonucleotides RNA secondary-structure prediction hybridization reverse transcription

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