Bioc2026 Registration Open!

openPrimeR

This is the released version of openPrimeR; for the devel version, see openPrimeR.

Multiplex PCR Primer Design and Analysis


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

An implementation of methods for designing, evaluating, and comparing primer sets for multiplex PCR. Primers are designed by solving a set cover problem such that the number of covered template sequences is maximized with the smallest possible set of primers. To guarantee that high-quality primers are generated, only primers fulfilling constraints on their physicochemical properties are selected. A Shiny app providing a user interface for the functionalities of this package is provided by the 'openPrimeRui' package.

Author: Matthias Döring [aut, cre], Nico Pfeifer [aut]

Maintainer: Matthias Döring <matthias-doering at gmx.de>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("openPrimeR")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:


if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("openPrimeR")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("openPrimeR")
openPrimeR HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text

Details

biocViews Coverage, MultipleComparison, Software, Technology
Version 1.34.0
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.6 (R-3.4) (9 years)
License GPL-2
Depends R (>= 4.0.0)
Imports Biostrings(>= 2.38.4), pwalign, XML (>= 3.98-1.4), scales (>= 0.4.0), reshape2 (>= 1.4.1), seqinr (>= 3.3-3), IRanges(>= 2.4.8), GenomicRanges(>= 1.22.4), ggplot2 (>= 2.1.0), plyr (>= 1.8.4), dplyr (>= 0.5.0), stringdist (>= 0.9.4.1), stringr (>= 1.0.0), RColorBrewer (>= 1.1-2), DECIPHER(>= 1.16.1), lpSolveAPI (>= 5.5.2.0-17), digest (>= 0.6.9), Hmisc (>= 3.17-4), ape (>= 3.5), BiocGenerics(>= 0.16.1), S4Vectors(>= 0.8.11), foreach (>= 1.4.3), magrittr (>= 1.5), uniqtag (>= 1.0), openxlsx (>= 4.0.17), grid (>= 3.1.0), grDevices (>= 3.1.0), stats (>= 3.1.0), utils (>= 3.1.0), methods (>= 3.1.0)
System Requirements MAFFT (>= 7.305), OligoArrayAux (>= 3.8), ViennaRNA (>= 2.4.1), MELTING (>= 5.1.1), Pandoc (>= 1.12.3)
URL
See More
Suggests testthat (>= 1.0.2), knitr (>= 1.13), rmarkdown (>= 1.0), devtools (>= 1.12.0), doParallel (>= 1.0.10), pander (>= 0.6.0), learnr (>= 0.9)
Linking To
Enhances
Depends On Me
Imports Me
Suggests Me
Links To Me
Build Report Build Report

Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package openPrimeR_1.34.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) openPrimeR_1.34.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) openPrimeR_1.34.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) openPrimeR_1.34.0.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/openPrimeR
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/openPrimeR
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/openPrimeR/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/openPrimeR/
Package Downloads Report Download Stats