Package: openPrimeR Title: Multiplex PCR Primer Design and Analysis Version: 1.35.0 Authors@R: c(person("Matthias", "Döring", email = "matthias-doering@gmx.de", role = c("aut", "cre")), person("Nico", "Pfeifer", email = "pfeifer@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de", role = c("aut")) ) Description: An implementation of methods for designing, evaluating, and comparing primer sets for multiplex PCR. Primers are designed by solving a set cover problem such that the number of covered template sequences is maximized with the smallest possible set of primers. To guarantee that high-quality primers are generated, only primers fulfilling constraints on their physicochemical properties are selected. A Shiny app providing a user interface for the functionalities of this package is provided by the 'openPrimeRui' package. Depends: R (>= 4.0.0) License: GPL-2 Encoding: UTF-8 RoxygenNote: 7.3.2 Imports: Biostrings (>= 2.38.4), pwalign, XML (>= 3.98-1.4), scales (>= 0.4.0), reshape2 (>= 1.4.1), seqinr (>= 3.3-3), IRanges (>= 2.4.8), GenomicRanges (>= 1.22.4), ggplot2 (>= 2.1.0), plyr (>= 1.8.4), dplyr (>= 0.5.0), stringdist (>= 0.9.4.1), stringr (>= 1.0.0), RColorBrewer (>= 1.1-2), DECIPHER (>= 1.16.1), lpSolveAPI (>= 5.5.2.0-17), digest (>= 0.6.9), Hmisc (>= 3.17-4), ape (>= 3.5), BiocGenerics (>= 0.16.1), S4Vectors (>= 0.8.11), foreach (>= 1.4.3), magrittr (>= 1.5), uniqtag (>= 1.0), openxlsx (>= 4.0.17), grid (>= 3.1.0), grDevices (>= 3.1.0), stats (>= 3.1.0), utils (>= 3.1.0), methods (>= 3.1.0) Suggests: testthat (>= 1.0.2), knitr (>= 1.13), rmarkdown (>= 1.0), devtools (>= 1.12.0), doParallel (>= 1.0.10), pander (>= 0.6.0), learnr (>= 0.9) SystemRequirements: MAFFT (>= 7.305), OligoArrayAux (>= 3.8), ViennaRNA (>= 2.4.1), MELTING (>= 5.1.1), Pandoc (>= 1.12.3) biocViews: Software, Technology, Coverage, MultipleComparison VignetteBuilder: knitr Collate: 'AnalysisStats.R' 'Comparison.R' 'Data.R' 'templates.R' 'primers.R' 'IO.R' 'IO_view.R' 'Input.R' 'Ippolito.R' 'Output.R' 'Plots.R' 'PrimerDesign.R' 'PrimerEvaluation.R' 'RefCoverage.R' 'Scoring.R' 'SettingsDoc.R' 'TemplatesDoc.R' 'Tiller.R' 'ambiguity.R' 'check_stop_codons.R' 'con_annealing_temperature.R' 'con_dimerization.R' 'con_gc_clamp.R' 'con_gc_ratio.R' 'con_melting_temperature.R' 'con_primer_coverage.R' 'con_primer_efficiency.R' 'con_primer_secondary_structures.R' 'con_repeats.R' 'con_runs.R' 'con_template_secondary_structures.R' 'constraints.R' 'constraints_eval.R' 'errors.R' 'filters.R' 'helper_functions.R' 'initialize_primers.R' 'initialize_primers_tree.R' 'openPrimeR.R' 'optimization_ILP.R' 'optimization_algo.R' 'optimization_global.R' 'optimization_greedy.R' 'plots_comparison.R' 'settings.R' 'plots_constraints.R' 'plots_coverage.R' 'plots_filtering.R' 'primer_significance.R' 'startApp.R' 'zzz.R' Config/pak/sysreqs: cmake make libicu-dev libuv1-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev Repository: https://bioc.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-04-28 12:46:25 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/bioc/openPrimeR RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 54d9897bf652d4f36e6efc9584ceb04c8ee9957d NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-07-04 09:48:26 UTC; root Author: Matthias Döring [aut, cre], Nico Pfeifer [aut] Maintainer: Matthias Döring