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Irena Zaretskaya
Researcher at National Institutes of Health
Publications - 3
Citations - 8223
Irena Zaretskaya is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Usability & In silico PCR. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 6305 citations.
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Primer-BLAST: A tool to design target-specific primers for polymerase chain reaction
TL;DR: A new software tool called Primer-BLAST is presented to alleviate the difficulty in designing target-specific primers and combines BLAST with a global alignment algorithm to ensure a full primer-target alignment and is sensitive enough to detect targets that have a significant number of mismatches to primers.
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NCBI BLAST: a better web interface
Mark D. Johnson,Irena Zaretskaya,Yan Raytselis,Yuri Merezhuk,Scott D. McGinnis,Thomas L. Madden +5 more
TL;DR: The public interface of BLAST at the NCBI website has recently been reengineered to improve usability and performance, and key new features include simplified search forms, improved navigation, and a list of recent BLAST results.
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BLAST: a more efficient report with usability improvements
Grzegorz M. Boratyn,Christiam Camacho,Peter Cooper,George Coulouris,Amelia Fong,Ning Ma,Thomas L. Madden,Wayne T. Matten,Scott D. McGinnis,Yuri Merezhuk,Yan Raytselis,Eric W. Sayers,Tao Tao,Jian Ye,Irena Zaretskaya +14 more
TL;DR: Improvements to the BLAST report are described, design decisions are discussed, other improvements to the search page and database documentation are described and plans for future development are outlined.