[Analysis of SSR information in EST resource of sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua) and development of EST-SSR marker].

Objective: To study the distribution frequency and characteristics of nucleotide repeat of 94 923 ESTs for developing microsatellite primers, providing a theoretical basis and technical support for appropriate conservation and application of sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua).

Method: EST-SSR detection was performed using Perl program MISA. Gene Ontology (GO) annotations were formatted for input into the GOSlim program and the output was parsed to count the occurrence of each GO category.