Nucleic Acids Research, 1994, Vol. 22, No. 14 2760-2768
© 1994
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY |
Thermal denaturation of double-stranded nucleic acids: prediction of temperatures critical for gradient gel electrophoresis and polymerase chain reaction
Institut für Physikalische Biologie Geb. 26.12.U1 Heinrich-Heine-Universität Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Dusseldorf, Germany
Received April 23, 1994. Revised June 17, 1994. Accepted June 17, 1994.
A program is described which calculates the thermal stability and the denaturation behaviour of doublestranded DNAs and RNAs up to a length of 1000 base pairs. The algorithm is based on recursive generation of conditional and a priori probabilities for base stacking. Output of the program may be compared directly to experimental results; thus the program may be used to optimize the nucleic acid fragments, the primers and the experimental conditions prior to experiments like polymerase chain reactions, temperature-gradient gel electrophoresis, denaturinggradient gel electrophoresis and hybridizations. The program is available in three versions; the first version runs interactively on VAXstations producing graphics output directly, the second is implemented as part of the HUSAR package at GENIUSnet, the third runs on any computer producing text output which serves as input to available graphics programs.
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