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* Untergasser A, Cutcutache I, Koressaar T, Ye J, Faircloth BC, Remm M and Rozen SG.
Primer3--new capabilities and interfaces.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Aug 1;40(15):e115.
* Koressaar T and Remm M.
Enhancements and modifications of primer design program Primer3.
Bioinformatics 23(10):1289-91.
* Koressaar T, Lepamets M, Kaplinski L, Raime K, Andreson R and Remm M.
Primer3_masker: integrating masking of template sequence with primer design software.
Bioinformatics 2018;34(11):1937-1938.
The papers are available at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3424584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17379693
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29360956
Source code available at https://github.com/primer3-org.
Initial development of Primer3 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). Ongoing development is partly funded by institutional grant IUT34-11 from the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research and by Centre of Excellence in Genomics and Translational Medicine at University of Tartu (funding from EU ERDF).
Primer3 was a complete re-implementation of an earlier program: Primer 0.5 (Steve Lincoln, Mark Daly, and Eric S. Lander).
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