DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF AN INTERACTIVE WEB PORTAL FOR DESIGNED PRIMERS AND MOLECULAR DISEASE MARKERS

Background Bioinformatics being an interdisciplinary field that develops and improves on methods for storing, retrieving, organizing and analyzing biological data has a major activity in developing software tools to generate useful biological knowledge. Interactive web portal for various primers and molecular disease markers will bring together the now scattered information from diverse sources into a single user friendly interface in a uniform and organized format, with links to other related web resources and or tools. Objectives To develop and evaluate an interactive web portal for designed primers and molecular disease markers. Methods To achieve this; standard system development life cycle, different programming languages and utilities including; PHP, MYSQL, HTML, CSS, Apache web server, Javascript and AJAX are used to develop an interactive web portal and repository that allows users to sign up, upload and cite relevant proposals, search for and use already designed primers and molecular disease markers. Results A Web based growing repository and portal of designed primers and molecular disease markers. Conclusion Notably a database that acts as a repository of different designed primers is still unrepresented hence posing a challenge to scientists in their research work; despite the availability of various primer design tools. Currently, researchers would have to either design their own primers or alternatively search through papers and rely on primers designed by other scientists without relevant endorsement by knowledgeable experts. This repository aims at availing relevant authenticated primer details without starting design work from start.