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Chien-Chang Wu

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PubMed2005

Constituents of the pericarp of Garcinia subelliptica.

A new benzophenone, garcinielliptone FA (1), and a new benzoylphloroglucinol, garcinielliptone FB (2), along with six known compounds, were isolated from the pericarp of Garcinia subelliptica. The structures and relative configurations of 1 and 2 were elucidated by spectroscopic methods and supported by computer-generated molecular modeling. Compound 2 exhibited cytotoxic activity against several human cancer cell lines.

Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic↗
PubMed2004

Primer design using genetic algorithm.

MOTIVATION: Before performing a polymerase chain reaction experiment, a pair of primers to clip the target DNA subsequence is required. However, this is a tedious task as too many constraints need to be satisfied. Various kinds of approaches for designing a primer have been proposed in the last few decades, but most of them do not have restriction sites on the designed primers and do not satisfy the specificity constraint. RESULTS: The proposed algorithm imitates nature's process of evolution and genetic operations on chromosomes in order to achieve optimal solutions, and is a best fit for DNA behavior. Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm can find a pair of primers that not only obeys the design properties but also has a specific restriction site and specificity. Gel electrophoresis verifies that the proposed method really can clip out the target sequence. AVAILABILITY: A public version of the software is available on request from the authors.

Algorithms↗