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Quantification of Circular RNAs Using Digital Droplet PCR
Published on: September 16, 2022
CircPrime: a web-based platform for design of specific circular RNA primers
Fedor Sharko1,2,3, Golam Rbbani4, Prabhugouda Siriyappagouder4
1Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect 33/2, 119071, Moscow, Russia.
Background:
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are covalently closed-loop RNAs with critical regulatory roles in cells. Tens of thousands of circRNAs have been unveiled due to the recent advances in high throughput RNA sequencing technologies and bioinformatic tools development. At the same time, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) cross-validation for circRNAs predicted by bioinformatic tools remains an essential part of any circRNA study before publication.
Results:
Here, we present the CircPrime web-based platform, providing a user-friendly solution for DNA primer design and thermocycling conditions for circRNA identification with routine PCR methods.
Conclusions:
User-friendly CircPrime web platform ( http://circprime.elgene.net/ ) works with outputs of the most popular bioinformatic predictors of circRNAs to design specific circular RNA primers. CircPrime works with circRNA coordinates and any reference genome from the National Center for Biotechnology Information database).
