About

Contact

For feedback, bug reports and requests for new species or features, email us at carringtonlabwebadmin@danforthcenter.org.

Authors

P-SAMS was conceived by Noah Fahlgren, Alberto Carbonell, James C. Carrington.
Noah Fahlgren developed the P-SAMS software.
Steve Hill developed the P-SAMS web application.
Alberto Carbonell and Noah Fahlgren wrote the website content.

Methods

Cloning protocol.
Compatible vectors.

Software

P-SAMS software is open-source and is available here.

How to cite

If using P-SAMS please cite:
Fahlgren, N, Hill ST, Carrington JC, Carbonell A (2016) P-SAMS: a web site for plant artificial microRNA and synthetic trans-acting small interfering RNA design. Bioinformatics 32: 157-158. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv534

If using AtMIR390a- or AtTAS1c-based B/c vectors please cite:
Carbonell A, Takeda A, Fahlgren N, Johnson SC, Cuperus JT, Carrington JC (2014) New generation of artificial microRNA and synthetic trans-acting small interfering RNA vectors for efficient gene silencing in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 165: 15–29. doi: 10.1104/pp.113.234989

If using OsMIR390-based B/c vectors please cite:
Carbonell A., Fahlgren N, Mitchell S, Cox Jr KL, Reilly KC, Mockler TC, Carrington JC (2015) Highly specific gene silencing in a monocot species by artificial microRNAs derived from chimeric MIRNA precursors. The Plant Journal 82: 1061-1075. doi: 10.1111/tpj.12835

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (MCB-0956526, MCB-1231726) and National Institutes of Health (AI043288) to James C. Carrington, and fellowship from the United States Department of Agriculture (National Institute of Food and Agriculture, 2012-67012-19899) to Noah Fahlgren. We thank the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility for web development and hosting services and the Carrington lab members for useful suggestions and beta-testing.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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