Abstract
SUMMARY: The Plant Small RNA Maker Site (P-SAMS) is a web tool for the simple and automated design of artificial miRNAs (amiRNAs) and synthetic trans-acting small interfering RNAs (syn-tasiRNAs) for efficient and specific targeted gene silencing in plants. P-SAMS includes two applications, P-SAMS amiRNA Designer and P-SAMS syn-tasiRNA Designer. The navigation through both applications is wizard-assisted, and the job runtime is relatively short. Both applications output the sequence of designed small RNA(s), and the sequence of the two oligonucleotides required for cloning into 'B/c' compatible vectors. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The P-SAMS website is available at http://p-sams.carringtonlab.org. CONTACT: acarbonell@ibmcp.upv.es or nfahlgren@danforthcenter.org.