Figure 2.

Venn diagram showing distribution of target rodent parasite gene hits of all oligonucleotides. All oligonucleotides are 60 bases long and the GC content is targeted at 30% and the allowable deviation is 5% for overlapping oligonucleotides. Complementary oligonucleotides to each rodent malaria parasite species was calculated from the sum of all possible combinations, i.e. oligonucleotides specific to itself and those that can hybridize to itself and to other rodent malaria parasite species. (Legend: Pb = P. berghei specific oligonucleotides only; Pc = P. chabaudi specific olinucleotides only; Py = P. yoelii specific oligonucleotides only; Pbc = P. berghei &P. chabaudi specific oligonucleotides; Pby = P. berghei &P. yoelii specific oligonucleotides; Pcy = P. chabaudi &P. yoelii specific oligonucleotides; Pbcy = oligonucleotides specific to all 3 rodent parasite species)