If you use plexus in your research, please cite the tools and resources it depends on.
Primer3 Untergasser, A., Cutcutache, I., Koressaar, T., Ye, J., Faircloth, B.C., Remm, M., & Rozen, S.G. (2012). Primer3 — new capabilities and interfaces. Nucleic Acids Research, 40(15), e115. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gks596
Koressaar, T., & Remm, M. (2007). Enhancements and modifications of primer design program Primer3. Bioinformatics, 23(10), 1289-1291. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btm091
SantaLucia (1998) Nearest-Neighbor Model SantaLucia, J. (1998). A unified view of polymer, dumbbell, and oligonucleotide DNA nearest-neighbor thermodynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95(4), 1460-1465. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.95.4.1460
Johnston et al. (2019) Johnston, A.D., Lu, J., Ru, K., Korbie, D., & Trau, M. (2019). PrimerROC: accurate condition-independent dimer prediction using nearest neighbor base stacking. Scientific Reports, 9, 9218. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45599-2
NCBI BLAST Altschul, S.F., Gish, W., Miller, W., Myers, E.W., & Lipman, D.J. (1990). Basic local alignment search tool. Journal of Molecular Biology, 215(3), 403-410. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-2836(05)80360-2
Biopython Cock, P.J., Antao, T., Chang, J.T., Chapman, B.A., Cox, C.J., Dalke, A., Friedberg, I., Hamelryck, T., Kauff, F., Wilczynski, B., & de Hoon, M.J. (2009). Biopython: freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology and bioinformatics. Bioinformatics, 25(11), 1422-1423. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp163
HTSlib / SAMtools Danecek, P., Bonfield, J.K., Liddle, J., Marshall, J., Ober, V., Pollard, M.O., Whitwham, A., Keane, T., McCarthy, S.A., Davies, R.M., & Li, H. (2021). Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools. GigaScience, 10(2), giab008. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giab008
gnomAD Karczewski, K.J., Francioli, L.C., Tiao, G., Cummings, B.B., Alfoldi, J., Wang, Q., Collins, R.L., Laricchia, K.M., Ganna, A., Birnbaum, D.P., et al. (2020). The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans. Nature, 581(7809), 434-443. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2308-7