Finding Unique PCR Products on Distributed Databases

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Thanks to the development of genetic engineering, various kinds of genomic information are being unveiled. Hence, now, it becomes feasible to study in molecular biology by analyzing the entire genomic information. On the other hand, the quantity of the genomic information stocked in database is increasing day after day. In order to process the whole information, we have to develop an effective method to deal with lots of data. It is indispensable not only to make an effective and rapid algorithm but also to use high-speed computer resource so as to analyze the biological information. For this purpose, as one of the most promised computting environments, the grid computing architecture has appeared recently. The European Data Grid (EDG) is one of the grid computing environments. In the first stage of designing hybridization probes and PCR primers, it is extremely important to find genuinely unique sequence on a target genome. We deployed a novel method to design PCR primers, which takes into account not Only the specificity of the primer itself but also the uniqueness of the product length. In this paper, we improve our proposed method to find unique PCR products on distributed databases. We show also the sequences found by our method, which can not be uniquely observed by any probe sequence but by a pair of PCR primers on S, cerevisiae genome.
一般社団法人情報処理学会の論文
2003-05-15