VPrimer: A method of designing and updating primer and probe with high variant coverage for RNA virus detection
- Authors
- Jeon, Hajin; Bae, Jeongmin; Kim, Hyerin; Kim, Min-Soo
- Issue Date
- Jan-2023
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Keywords
- Algorithm design and analysis; bioinformatics; database; genomics; molecular biology; polymerase chain reaction (PCR); primer design; probe; server
- Citation
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, v.20, no.1, pp.775 - 784
- Journal Title
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Volume
- 20
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 775
- End Page
- 784
- URI
- http://scholarworks.bwise.kr/kbri/handle/2023.sw.kbri/169
- DOI
- 10.1109/TCBB.2021.3138145
- ISSN
- 1545-5963
- Abstract
- Fatal infectious diseases caused by RNA viruses, such as COVID-19, have emerged around the world. RT-PCR is widely employed for virus detection, and its accuracy depends on the primers and probes since RT-PCR can detect a virus only when the primers and probes bind to the target gene of the virus. Most of primer design methods are for a single host and so require a great deal of effort to design for RNA virus detection, including homology tests among the host and all the viruses for the host using BLAST-like tools. Furthermore, they do not consider variant sequences, which are very common in viruses. In this study, we describe VPrimer, a method of designing high-quality primer-probe sets for RNA viruses. VPrimer can find primer-probe sets that cover more than 95% of the variants of a target virus but do not cover any sequences of other viruses or the host. With VPrimer, we found 381,698,582 primer-probe sets for 3,104 RNA viruses. Multiplex PCR assays using the top 2 primer-probe sets suggested by VPrimer usually cover 100% of variants. To address the rapid changes in viral genomes, VPrimer finds the best and up-to-date primer-probe sets incrementally against the most recently reported variants.
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