biologger/mfeprimer-py3

python3 version of MFEprimer-2.0

mfeprimer-py3

Python3 version initiative for command line scripts of MFEprimer-2.0

Installation

Using pip:

pip install mfeprimer-py3

Using git (optional):

git clone https://github.com/Ulises-Rosas/mfeprimer-py3.git
cd mfeprimer-py3
python3 setup.py install
python3 setup.py install_data

Usage

# Index the database
IndexDb.py test/test.rna
# Run MFEprimer
MFEprimer.py -i test/p.fa -d test/test.rna

Check original repo (https://github.com/quwubin/MFEprimer-2.0) for further details about features, outcomes and license agreement.

Citations

• Wubin Qu, Yang Zhou, Yanchun Zhang, Yiming Lu, Xiaolei Wang, Dongsheng Zhao, Yi Yang and Chenggang Zhang*. MFEprimer-2.0: A fast thermodynamics-based program for checking PCR primer specificity. Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 (accepted).

• Wubin Qu, Zhiyong Shen, Dongsheng Zhao, Yi Yang and Chenggang Zhang. (2009) MFEprimer: multiple factor evaluation of the specificity of PCR primers, Bioinformatics, 25(2), 276-278.