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A primer is a short synthetic oligonucleotide which is used in many molecular techniques from PCR to DNA sequencing. These primers are designed to have a sequence which is the reverse complement of a region of template or target DNA to which we wish the primer to anneal.
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Betsy, C.J., Siva, C. (2023). Bioinformatics Tools and Techniques. In: Fisheries Biotechnology and Bioinformatics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6991-3_22
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