Please note: the program had to be recovered from backup, since the original site at fgg.eur.nl was shut down unexpectedly. If you see any unexpected behavior, please notify the athor immediately at jeltje at mbari.edu. We will take immediate action.
Many thanks to UC Santa Cruz for being the new host of PCRSuite.
The original Primer3 program designs
primersets for one sequence and it allows you to change almost every
parameter. The PCR Suite has more stringent settings (to allow more
working primersets) and a smaller range of parameters (because you won't
change most of them anyway).
The suite consists of four programs:
| Overlapping_Primers | is for creating multiple overlapping PCR products in one sequence. |
| Genomic_Primers | designs primers around exons in genomic sequence. All you need is a GenBank file containing your gene. |
| SNP_Primers | designs primers around every SNP in a GenBank file. |
| cDNA_Primers | designs primers around open reading frames. Simply upload a GenBank file containing your genes. |
If you want to know more about using the PCR Suite, if something doesn't work,
or if you have comments or suggestions, please
email the
author.
If these programs have been useful to you, please cite:
The PCR Suite M.J. van Baren and P. Heutink. Bioinformatics. 2004 Mar 1;20:591-3
This software is based on the Primer3 program
developed by the Whitehead institute. The Primer3 core program used by
PCR Suite was developed by the Whitehead Institute and used "as is".
See the copyright notice and
disclaimer
for PCR Suite and the Whitehead's Primer3
The source code for PCR Suite is available
here.
A detailed description of how PCR Suite interacts with Primer3 can be found
here.