Selection of oligonucleotides for whole-genome microarrays with semi-automatic update

Abstract

Abstract Summary: Oligonucleotide microarray probes are designed to match specific transcripts present in databases that are regularly updated. As a consequence probes should be checked every new database release. We thus developed an informatics tool allowing the semi-automatic update of probe collections of long oligonucleotides and applied it to the mouse RefSeq database. Availability: http://www.bio.espci.fr/sol/ Contact: marie-claude.potier@espci.fr Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at http://www.bio.espci.fr/sol/