Primer3Plus is a web-interface for primer3

Primer3Plus

Primer3Plus - Download Primer3Plus Program and Source Code

Source code is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/primer3/.

Primer3Plus - Copyright Notice and Disclaimer

Copyright (c) 2006, 2007
by Andreas Untergasser and Harm Nijveen
All rights reserved.

The Primer3Plus is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Primer3Plus is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

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Citing Primer3Plus

Andreas Untergasser, Harm Nijveen, Xiangyu Rao, Ton Bisseling, René Geurts, and Jack A.M. Leunissen: Primer3Plus, an enhanced web interface to Primer3 Nucleic Acids Research 2007 35: W71-W74; doi:10.1093/nar/gkm306

Acknowledgments of Primer3Plus

We thank Gerben Bijl for extensive beta-testing.

Primer3

Primer3 - Alternative Web Interface

http://primer3.sourceforge.net/webif.php

Primer3 - Download Primer3 Program and Source Code

Source code available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/primer3/.

Primer3 - Copyright Notice and Disclaimer

Copyright (c) 1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2004,2006
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Steve Rozen, and Helen Skaletsky
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
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Citing Primer3

We request that use of this software be cited in publications as

Steve Rozen and Helen J. Skaletsky (2000) Primer3 on the WWW for general users and for biologist programmers. In: Krawetz S, Misener S (eds) Bioinformatics Methods and Protocols: Methods in Molecular Biology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 365-386

Acknowledgments of Primer3

The development of Primer3 and the Primer3 web site was funded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute and by the National Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute. under grants R01-HG00257 (to David C. Page) and P50-HG00098 (to Eric S. Lander).

We thank Centerline Software, Inc., for use of their TestCenter memory-error, -leak, and test-coverage checker.

Primer3 was a complete re-implementation of an earlier program: Primer 0.5 (Steve Lincoln, Mark Daly, and Eric S. Lander). Lincoln Stein championed the idea of making Primer3 a software component suitable for high-throughput primer design.