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Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Steve Rozen, Maido Remm, Triinu Koressaar and Helen Skaletsky
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Citing Primer3

We request that use of this software be cited in publications as

Untergasser A, Cutcutache I, Koressaar T, Ye J, Faircloth BC, Remm M, Rozen SG (2012) Primer3 - new capabilities and interfaces. Nucleic Acids Research 40(15):e115
Koressaar T, Remm M (2007) Enhancements and modifications of primer design program Primer3 Bioinformatics 23(10):1289-91

Source code available at primer3.sourceforge.net/.

Acknowledgments

The development of Primer3 and the Primer3 web site was funded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute and by the National Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute. under grants R01-HG00257 (to David C. Page) and P50-HG00098 (to Eric S. Lander).

We thank Centerline Software, Inc., for use of their TestCenter memory-error, -leak, and test-coverage checker.

Primer3 was a complete re-implementation of an earlier program: Primer 0.5 (Steve Lincoln, Mark Daly, and Eric S. Lander). Lincoln Stein championed the idea of making Primer3 a software component suitable for high-throughput primer design.
Web interface by Steve Rozen

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