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+Primer3 is a widely used program for designing PCR primers. Primer3
+can also design hybridization probes and sequencing primers. PCR is
+used for many different goals. Consequently, primer3 has many
+different input parameters that you control and that tell primer3
+exactly what characteristics make good primers for your goals.
+
+For details and citation:
+Steve Rozen and Helen J. Skaletsky (2000) Primer3 on the WWW for
+general users and for biologist programmers. In: Krawetz S, Misener S
+(eds) Bioinformatics Methods and Protocols: Methods in Molecular
+Biology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 365-386