FBPP: Software to design PCR primers and probes for nucleic acid base detection method of foodborne pathogen

Abstract

Many foods have foodborne pathogens, and detection of it, is very important to serve safe supply of food, consequently reduce of foodborne diseases. Nucleic acid base detection method is one of the most rapid widely methods used in the detection of foodborne pathogens, it depends on the hybridizing between target sequence of the nucleic acid and oligonucleotide primers or probes complementary to the specific nucleic acid sequence of the targeted bacteria. Designing primers and probes for this method is a preliminary and critical step‏.‏ however, new bioinformatics tools are needed to automate, specific and improve the design sets to be used in Nucleic Acid base method. Thus, we developed Foodborne Pathogen primer prob design (FBPP), ‎an open-source Python-based application supported with SQL database for foodborne pathogen virulence factor, for (i) ‎ design primer /probe for detection purpose (ii) PCR & Gel electrophoreses Photo simulation (iii) check the specificity of primers / probe.