A high-throughput primer design and specificity-checking platform

I've stopped to update it, and now re-write it using Python3 (and a Flask app, see PrimerServer2). It might not be faster, but definitely easier to install and use!!!

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Zhu T, Liang CZ, Meng ZG, Li YY, Wu YY, Guo SD* and Zhang R* (2017). PrimerServer: a high-throughput primer design and specificity-checking platform. bioRxiv 181941

PrimerServer was proposed to design genome-wide specific PCR primers. It uses candidate primers produced by Primer3, uses BLAST and nucleotide thermodynamics to search for possible amplicons and filters out specific primers for each site. By using multiple threads, it runs very fast, ~0.4s per site in our case study for more than 10000 sites.