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Revised Selection Criteria For Candidate Restriction Enzymes In Genome Walking, Ali Taheri, Stephen J. Robinson, Isobel Parkin, Margaret Y. Gruber

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

A new method to improve the efficiency of flanking sequence identification by genome walking was developed based on an expanded, sequential list of criteria for selecting candidate enzymes, plus several other optimization steps. These criteria include: step (1) initially choosing the most appropriate restriction enzyme according to the average fragment size produced by each enzyme determined using in silico digestion of genomic DNA, step (2) evaluating the in silico frequency of fragment size distribution between individual chromosomes, step (3) selecting those enzymes that generate fragments with the majority between 100 bp and 3,000 bp, step (4) weighing the advantages and …