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We have developed a method, which fulfills this requirement and conduct primer design for sequences including regions of given promoter CpG islands.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: The developed method has been implemented using the C and JAVA programming languages. The primer design results were tested in the PCR experiments of 96 selected human DNA sequences containing CpG islands in the promoter regions. The results indicate that this method is efficient and reliable for designing sequence-specific primers.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: The sequence-specific primer design for DNA meth-ylated sequences including CpG islands has been integrated into the second version of PRIMEGENS as one of the primer design features. 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