PCR primers and probes design command lines
If necessary for an individual control for the PCR primers or probes design for
each sequence individually, you can find “Quick PCR Commands Help” at
menu bar – Help:
General PCR primer options you can find – “Ctrl-K”
- Ends Nucleotide Composition: you can choose
with 5’ or 3’ ends is most preferable for all primers or probe. Minimal
size is 2 letter (maximum – primer length), “5’-nn-3’”
is any, “5’-sww-3’” – all variants for 5’-(C/G)(A/T)(A/T)-3’”.
You can type one or more variants with space between them and with the same length.
- Primer’s Tm Optimisation: allow automatically
design best primer for current Tm (in practise - FastPCR select primer length from
18 to 28 bases).
- C >> T bisulphite conversion: bisulphite
modified genome sequence, design of specific PCR primers for in silico bisulphite
conversion for both strands - only cytosines not followed by guanidine (CpG methylation)
will be replaced by thymines:
5’aaaCGaagtCCg 5’aaaCGaagtTTg
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3’tttGCttCaggC 3’tttGCttTaggC
- Primer quality (amplification efficiency):
this abstract value of the ‘primer quality’ describes thus the level
of primer/PCR successfulness; this value varies from 100% for the “perfect
or ideal” to 0% for the "worst" primer. A “perfect” primer has
a wider range of executable temperatures. A program is select the best primer with
optimal range of executable temperature, which allowed to design qualified primers
(probe) for any target sequences with any CG and repeat contents. Primer Quality
Control: help eliminate “weak” primers.
- Linguistic Complexity Control the complexity
values were converted to a percentage value, in which 100% means maximal ‘vocabulary
richness’ of a sequence. The ‘primer quality’ values of 80 and
higher allow for the rapid choice of the best PCR primer pair combination. No adverse
effects, due to the modification of the reaction buffer, sourced thermostable polymerases
or variations in annealing temperature, have been observed on the reproducibility
of PCR amplification using FastPCR-designed primers.