ODP is a system designed to manage probe design processes. Via deployment on PC cluster, it has been demonstrated that ODP can accelerate calculation for dimmer, energy filter, hamming distance, self-complementary, etc. by at least 10 times. This is achieved by dividing up a design job into several subjobs and getting software agents (KOOPAgents) distributed on various PCs to execute the jobs.

1. Laboratory administrator can easily submit and track design jobs
2. Time taken to design oligos can be reduced by making use of existing PC setup
3. Users can remotely share results via the web
4. Automatic maintenance of public databases
5. Rapid setup within 3 months

• Gene List Management
• Allow adding, removing of genes
• Tracking of GeneName, Accession Number, Definition, etc. for genes

• Probe Design
• Design algorithms can be setup on a group of servers for execution
• Design jobs can be stopped temporarily and resumed as and when necessary
• Genes for probe design can be checked if they belong to a protein family

• Probe Selection
• User friendly GUI for probe selection of candidates that satisfy design criteria
• Constraints for selection include HD, CM, location, SC, Dimer and TM
• Search functionality for accession number, gene number, gene name, species, etc.
• Plate mapping interfaces to ease mapping of DNA samples on 96 wells plates

• Gene Homology
• Allow input of a genelist of an organism to search for similar genes from other organisms
• Uses information from NCBI databases, e.g. LocusLink that can be imported

• Gene Ontology
• Uses a MYSQL database that contains NCBI GO data and Splicing variant data