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primer3 release 1.0 (distribution 1.0.0)

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4. The name of the Whitehead Institute may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

We also request that use of this software be cited in publications as:

Rozen, S., Skaletsky, H. "Primer3 on the WWW for general users and for biologist programmers." In S. Krawetz and S. Misener, eds. Bioinformatics Methods and Protocols in the series Methods in Molecular Biology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2000, pages 365-386. Code available at http://fokker.wi.mit.edu/primer3/.

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