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. 2019 Apr 26;7:e6801. doi: 10.7717/peerj.6801

Table 1. Comparison of bioinformatics tools for LAMP primer design.

Feature Software
PrimerExplorer 5.0 MorphoCatcher LAMP Designer 1.15 GLAPD
Platform Web Web, Linux Windows, Macintosh Linux
Command line No Yes No Yes
License Free Academic free Commercial Free
Target selection tool No Yes No No
Primer selection tool Yes Noa Yes Yes
Loop primer design Yes Yesa Yes Yes
Specific design Yes Yesa No Yes
Common design Yes Yesa No Yes
Multiplex set design No No Yes No
Self-dimerization test Yes Yesa Yes Yes
BLAST test No No Yes No

Notes.

a

These features were specified considering that MorphoCatcher uses the primer selection tool of PrimerExplorer.