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...These problems include mis-priming due to nonspecific binding to non-target DNA templates, primer dimerization, and the inability to separate and purify DNA amplicons of similar electrophoretic mobility. Results: A new program named MPprimer was developed to help users design primer sets for multiplex PCR with high reliability. It employs the widely used primer design program Primer3 and the primer specificity evaluation program MFEprimer to design and evaluate the candidate primers based on genomic or transcript DNA database, followed by careful examination to avoid primer dimerization.

...MSTgold estimates the number of alternative MSTs, reports up to a user-determined number of those trees, reports a consensus tree, and implements a bootstrapping metric to assess the reliability of alternate MST solutions. MSTgold accepts single-character data that are nucleotides, amino acids, binary characters, or SNPs; integers that represent, for instance, the lengths of VNTRs or microsatellites; and distance matrices. The MSTgold package includes Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows executables of the MSTgold program, a detailed Manual, example data and results, and executables of the program Fasta2MSTG which converts Fasta sequence files to the MSTgold input format.