Probe Design for Large-Scale Molecular Biology Applications Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • 2003 IEEE. Large-scale molecular biology technologies such as DNA microarrays and large-scale in situ hybridization (ISH) are used to gain an appreciation of global attributes in biological tissues and cells. Although many of these efforts use cDNA probes, an approach that makes use of designed oligo probes should offer improved consistency at uniform hybridization conditions and improved specificity, as demonstrated by various oligo microarray platforms. We describe a new Web-based application that takes FASTA-formatted sequences as input, and returns both a list of the best choices for probes and a full report containing possible alternatives. Probe design for microarrays may use a scoring routine that optimizes probe intensity based upon an artificial neural network (ANN) trained to predict the average probe intensity from the physical properties of the probe and a screen for possible cross-reactivity. This new tool should provide a reliable way to construct probes that maximize signal intensity while minimizing cross-reactivity.

name of conference

  • Computational Systems Bioinformatics. CSB2003. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Bioinformatics Conference. CSB2003

published proceedings

  • Computational Systems Bioinformatics. CSB2003. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Bioinformatics Conference. CSB2003

author list (cited authors)

  • VanBuren, V., Yoshikawa, T., Hamatani, T., & Ko, M.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • VanBuren, Vincent||Yoshikawa, Toshiyuki||Hamatani, Toshio||Ko, Minoru SH

publication date

  • January 2003