Selecting Novel Informative Primer-sets for e-DNA
A web tool for optimally choosing eDNA primer pairs to identify a set of taxa.
See SNIPe in action at https://snipe.dlougheed.com/!
The work done on SNIPe is part of a paper by Tournayre et al.; if you cite SNIPe right now, this is what should be cited:
Enhancing metabarcoding of freshwater biotic communities: A new online tool for primer selection and exploring data from 14 primer pairs.
Orianne Tournayre, Haolun Tian, David R. Lougheed, Matthew J.S. Windle, Sheldon Lambert, Jennipher Carter, Zhengxin Sun, Jeff Ridal, Yuxiang Wang, Brian F. Cumming, Shelley E. Arnott, Stephen C. Lougheed. (2024).
Environmental DNA, 6, e590. DOI: 10.1002/edn3.590
Note that the terms of the license DO NOT apply to anything under the ./datasets folder; for those files, all rights are reserved by their copyright holders.
The terms of the license also DO NOT apply to the SNIPe logo. The SNIPe logo is © Evelyn Lougheed 2024, all rights reserved, and used with permission in this application.
SNIPe (the program) is copyright © 2023-2024 David Lougheed (david.lougheed@gmail.com)
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First, ensure you have NodeJS 20+ installed.
Then, to get the tool set up in a development environment, the following should be sufficient:
npm install # install dependencies
npm run start # start the development server