Table 2. Regions used for analysis of publically available primer design programs.
| Chromosome regions* | Number of primer regions generated by each program |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PrimerSuite | MethPrimer | Bisulfite Primer Seeker | Bisearch | Epidesigner | Bisprimer# | Kismeth | |
| chr10:23527732-23529409 | 216 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 6 |
| chr1:227635870-227637414 | 252 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 3 |
| chr8:38705060-38705524 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 4 |
| chr7:150736751-150738166 | 151 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 |
| chr1:238321957-238322843 | 15 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 |
| chr18:42589839-42591235 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 |
| chr8:140783597-140784422 | 20 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 3 |
| chr1:240753295-240754308 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 0 | 9 |
| chr1:119329995-119332779 | 866 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 11 |
| chr7:158629179-158630121 | 61 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
*All chromosomal regions extracted from human genome (hg18) for the original analysis.
#Bisprimer reported no primer pairs for any of the tested regions.