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Table 3 Degenerate PCR primer properties

From: In silico design and validation of a highly degenerate primer pair: a systematic approach

Primers

%GC

A

G

T

C

μg/OD260

L.C

(%)

PPe

(%)

∆G kcal/mol

catAf

52.9

5.8

5.3

5.0

6.8

31.722

88

87

−29.0

catAr

57.2

6.3

9.6

3.6

3.6

30.985

95

51

−31.1

  1. F Forward, R Reverse, GC Guanine-cytosine percentage, AGTC Number of adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine residues present in primer, OD Optical density, LC Linguistic complexity, PPe Primer’s PCR efficiency, ∆G Change in free energy