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Because of the increasingly frequent occurrences of emerging epidemics and multidrug-resistant \u2018superbugs\u2019, a rapid diagnostic target identification process is needed.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: A new method that can identify uniquely conserved regions (UCRs) as candidate diagnostic targets for a selected group of organisms solely from their genomic sequences has been developed and successfully tested. Using a sequence-indexing algorithm to identify UCRs and a k -mer integer-mapping model for computational efficiency, this method has successfully identified UCRs within the bacteria domain for 15 test groups, including pathogenic, probiotic, commensal and extremophilic bacterial species or strains. Based on the identified UCRs, new diagnostic primer sets were designed, and their specificity and efficiency were tested by polymerase chain reaction amplifications from both pure isolates and samples containing mixed cultures.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: The UCRs identified for the 15 bacterial species are now freely available at http:\/\/ucr.synblex.com . The source code of the programs used in this study is accessible at http:\/\/ucr.synblex.com\/bacterialIdSourceCode.d.zip<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0yazhousun@synblex.com<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary Information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btu515","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,8,8]],"date-time":"2014-08-08T05:05:20Z","timestamp":1407474320000},"page":"3174-3180","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["A method for \n            <i>de novo<\/i>\n             nucleic acid diagnostic target discovery"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"30","author":[{"given":"Yeting","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, 2 Department of Research, Synblex LLC, 200 Innovation Blvd. State College, PA 16801 and 3 New Jersey Center for Science, Technology & Mathematics, Kean University, Union, NJ 07083, USA"},{"name":"1 Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, 2 Department of Research, Synblex LLC, 200 Innovation Blvd. State College, PA 16801 and 3 New Jersey Center for Science, Technology & Mathematics, Kean University, Union, NJ 07083, USA"}]},{"given":"Yazhou","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, 2 Department of Research, Synblex LLC, 200 Innovation Blvd. State College, PA 16801 and 3 New Jersey Center for Science, Technology & Mathematics, Kean University, Union, NJ 07083, USA"},{"name":"1 Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, 2 Department of Research, Synblex LLC, 200 Innovation Blvd. State College, PA 16801 and 3 New Jersey Center for Science, Technology & Mathematics, Kean University, Union, NJ 07083, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,8,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012711585983900_btu515-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1654","DOI":"10.1128\/jcm.30.7.1654-1660.1992","article-title":"Detection of Staphylococcus aureus by polymerase chain reaction amplification of the nuc gene","volume":"30","author":"Brakstad","year":"1992","journal-title":"J. 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