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We therefore wrote the program Fur for Finding Unique genomic Regions.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Fur takes as input a sample of target sequences and a sample of closely related neighbors. It returns the regions present in all targets and absent from all neighbors. The recently published program genmap can also be used for this purpose and we compared it to fur. When analyzing a sample of 33 genomes representing the major phylogroups of E.coli, fur was 40 times faster than genmap but used three times more memory. On the other hand, genmap yielded three times more markers, but they were less accurate when tested in silico on a sample of 237 E.coli genomes. We also designed phylogroup-specific PCR primers based on the markers proposed by genmap and fur, and tested them by analyzing their virtual amplicons in GenBank. Finally, we used fur to design primers specific to a Lactobacillus species, and found excellent sensitivity and specificity in vitro.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Fur sources and documentation are available from https:\/\/github.com\/evolbioinf\/fur. The compiled software is posted as a docker container at https:\/\/hub.docker.com\/r\/haubold\/fox.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btab059","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,26]],"date-time":"2021-01-26T12:12:09Z","timestamp":1611663129000},"page":"2081-2087","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["<tt>Fur<\/tt>: Find unique genomic regions for diagnostic PCR"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"37","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9442-4012","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bernhard","family":"Haubold","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology , Pl\u00f6n, Germany"}]},{"given":"Fabian","family":"Kl\u00f6tzl","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology , Pl\u00f6n, Germany"}]},{"given":"Lars","family":"Hellberg","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Molecular Infection Diagnostics, Euroimmun Medizinische Labordiagnostika , L\u00fcbeck, Germany"}]},{"given":"Daniel","family":"Thompson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Molecular Infection Diagnostics, Euroimmun Medizinische Labordiagnostika , L\u00fcbeck, Germany"}]},{"given":"Markus","family":"Cavalar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Molecular Infection Diagnostics, Euroimmun Medizinische Labordiagnostika , L\u00fcbeck, Germany"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023061310294463900_btab059-B1","first-page":"e000192","article-title":"Clermontyping: an easy-to-use and accurate in silico method for Escherichia genus strain phylotyping","volume":"4","author":"Beghain","year":"2018","journal-title":"Microb. 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