Prioritized selection of oligodeoxyribonucleotide probes for efficient hybridization to RNA transcripts.

ABSTRACT: Only a small fraction of short oligonucleotide probes bind efficiently to complementary segments in long RNA transcripts. Technologies such as array-based transcript profiling and antisense control of gene expression would benefit greatly from a method for predicting probes that bind well to a given target RNA. To develop an algorithm for prioritizing selection of probes, we have analyzed predicted thermodynamic parameters for the binding of several large sets of probes to complementary RNA transcripts. The binding of five of these sets of probes to their RNA targets has been reported by others. In addition, we have used a method for light-directed synthesis of oligonucleotide arrays that we developed to generate two new arrays of surface-bound probes and measured the binding of these prob

SUBMITTER: Luebke KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC140499 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature