Table 1

Comparison of the siRNA_profile program and five other siRNA design programs


siRNA_profile
Deqor
Ambion
siDesign
EMBOSS
SiDirect

Number of hits
6 (4)
4(1)
3(0)
2(2)
6(4)
9(7)
Average GE%*
10.4
14.8
21.1
13.0
21.6
14.8
Median%*
10.2
13.1
26.9
13.0
16.1
14.9
Minimum GE%*
5.4
10.3
8.1
12.6
6.7
5.8
Maximum GE%*
15.1
22.8
28.3
13.3
54.1
32.2

197 nt human CyclophilinB sequence and data of known siRNA efficacies [8] were used for siRNA design program comparison. Number of hits that were not selected by any of five other programs is shown in brackets (). * Gene expression (GE) % of the baseline

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