PMID- 33352459 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210616 LR - 20210616 IS - 1618-0984 (Electronic) IS - 0723-2020 (Linking) VI - 44 IP - 1 DP - 2021 Jan TI - Gene-PROBER - a tool to design polynucleotide probes for targeting microbial genes. PG - 126173 LID - S0723-2020(20)30128-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.syapm.2020.126173 [doi] AB - Recent developments in fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) methods allow the detection and visualization of the genes/genomic regions of bacteria, archaea and infecting viruses at the single cell level. These methods use mixtures of polynucleotides as probes to specifically detect the target of interest. Gene-PROBER enables the design of polynucleotide mixtures for targeting genes or genomic regions in microorganisms. It has four workflows, depending on the availability of non-target sequences and the choice of probe synthesis, either by chemical synthesis or by PCR. It outputs polynucleotides that are spread along the target sequence and have similar melting properties. Therefore, such a polynucleotide mixture can be used as a single probe, in a single hybridization reaction. Gene-PROBER is a freely available web service that can be accessed at http://gene-prober.icbm.de/, and is implemented in the R language using the Shiny package. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. FAU - Moraru, Cristina AU - Moraru C AD - Department of the Biology of Geological Processes, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany. Electronic address: liliana.cristina.moraru@uni-oldenburg.de. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20201207 PL - Germany TA - Syst Appl Microbiol JT - Systematic and applied microbiology JID - 8306133 RN - 0 (Oligonucleotide Probes) RN - 0 (Polynucleotides) SB - IM MH - Archaea/genetics MH - Bacteria/genetics MH - Bacterial Typing Techniques MH - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence MH - Internet MH - Nucleic Acid Hybridization MH - Oligonucleotide Probes/*chemistry MH - Polynucleotides/chemistry MH - *Software OTO - NOTNLM OT - Direct-geneFISH OT - Gene detection OT - GeneFISH OT - Polynucleotide probe design EDAT- 2020/12/23 06:00 MHDA- 2021/06/17 06:00 CRDT- 2020/12/22 20:11 PHST- 2020/10/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/11/06 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/11/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/12/23 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/06/17 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/12/22 20:11 [entrez] AID - S0723-2020(20)30128-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.syapm.2020.126173 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Syst Appl Microbiol. 2021 Jan;44(1):126173. doi: 10.1016/j.syapm.2020.126173. Epub 2020 Dec 7.