comprehensive primer test, the melting temperature calculation for standard and degenerate oligonucleotides including LNA and other modifications, PCR efficiency, dimers detection and dilution and resuspension calculator
*IUPAC DNA degenerate code is an extended vocabulary of 15 letters which allows
the description of ambiguous DNA code. Each letter represents a combination of one
or several nucleotides:
B=(C,G,T),
D=(A,G,T), H=(A,C,T),
K=(G,T), M=(A,C),
N=(A,C,G,T), R=(A,G),
S=(G,C), V=(A,C,G),
W=(A,T), Y=(C,T).
U=Uracil; I=Inosine.
LNA: dA=E,
dC=F, dG=J,
dT=L.
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