UMMS Affiliation
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology
Publication Date
2021-01-22
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology | Bioinformatics | Computational Biology | Computer Sciences | Nucleic Acids, Nucleotides, and Nucleosides
Abstract
PFRED a software application for the design, analysis, and visualization of antisense oligonucleotides and siRNA is described. The software provides an intuitive user-interface for scientists to design a library of siRNA or antisense oligonucleotides that target a specific gene of interest. Moreover, the tool facilitates the incorporation of various design criteria that have been shown to be important for stability and potency. PFRED has been made available as an open-source project so the code can be easily modified to address the future needs of the oligonucleotide research community. A compiled version is available for downloading at https://github.com/pfred/pfred-gui/releases/tag/v1.0 as a java Jar file. The source code and the links for downloading the precompiled version can be found at https://github.com/pfred.
Keywords
Small interfering RNA, Oligonucleotides, RNA interference, Antisense oligonucleotides, RNA structure, Sequence alignment, Sequence motif analysis, Single nucleotide polymorphisms
Rights and Permissions
Copyright: © 2021 Sciabola et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
DOI of Published Version
10.1371/journal.pone.0238753
Source
Sciabola S, Xi H, Cruz D, Cao Q, Lawrence C, Zhang T, Rotstein S, Hughes JD, Caffrey DR, Stanton RV. PFRED: A computational platform for siRNA and antisense oligonucleotides design. PLoS One. 2021 Jan 22;16(1):e0238753. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238753. PMID: 33481821; PMCID: PMC7822268. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
PloS one
Related Resources
PubMed ID
33481821
Repository Citation
Sciabola S, Xi H, Cruz D, Cao Q, Lawrence C, Zhang T, Rotstein S, Hughes JD, Caffrey DR, Stanton RV. (2021). PFRED: A computational platform for siRNA and antisense oligonucleotides design. Open Access Publications by UMMS Authors. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238753. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/4564
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