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At present the scoring system is very simple. To begin with, all 21 mers ending with a 'C' are found and given a default score of 1. Potential target sequences are discarded if they contain a contiguous set of 4+ A/T's or 3+ C/G's. A single point is added to the score of a potential target sequence for each of the following attributes: