Webtools for PCR, qPCR, in silico PCR and oligonucleotides


PCR primer design, in silico PCR, oligonucleotide assembly and analyses

PCR tool provides comprehensive and professional facilities for designing primers for most PCR applications and their combinations: standard, multiplex, long distance, inverse, real-time, unique, group-specific, bisulphite modification assays, polymerase extension PCR multi-fragments assembly cloning (OE-PCR); and microarray design;
in silico (virtual) PCR or primers and probes search or in silico PCR against whole genome(s) or a list of chromosome - prediction of probable PCR products and search of potential mismatching location of the specified primers or probes;
comprehensive primer test, the melting temperature calculation for standard and degenerate oligonucleotides including LNA and other modifications, primer PCR efficiency, primer's linguistic complexity, and dilution and resuspension calculator;
analyzes different features of multiple primers simultaneously, the melting temperature, GC content, sequence linguistic complexity, primer PCR efficiency and molecular weight, the extiction coefficient, the optical density (OD);
primers (probes) are analyzed for all primer secondary structures including G-quadruplexes detection, hairpins, self-dimers and cross-dimers in primer pairs;
tool calculate Tm for primer dimers with mismatches for pure and mixed bases using averaged nearest neighbour thermodynamic parameters and for modifications (inosine, uridine, or LNA);
tool for identifying simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci by analysing the low complexity regions of input sequences;
tool for searching for similar sequences (or primers);
translates nucleotide (DNA/RNA) sequences to the corresponding peptide sequence in all six frames for standard and degenerate DNA and modifications (inosine, uridine);
polymerase chain assembly (PCA) or oligos assembly - created to automate the design oligonucleotide sets for long sequence assembly by ligase chain reaction (LCR) and PCR;
the program includes various bioinformatics tools for patterns analysis of sequences with GC:(G-C)/(G+C), AT:(A-T)/(A+T), CG-AT:(S-W)/(S+W), purine-pyrimidine (R-Y)/(R+Y) skews, CG% content and the melting temperature and considers linguistic sequence complexity profiles.


PrimerAnalyser

provides comprehensive analysis of sequence with standard and mixed bases, as well as DNA, RNA, methylated, locked and phosphorothioated bases; tool will calculate the physical properties of the sequence including length, CG content, melting temperature, molecular weight, the extiction coefficient, the optical density (OD), sequence linguistic complexity, primer PCR efficiency, self-dimers and G-quadruplexes detection.
The melting temperature calculations are based on nearest neighbour thermodynamic parameters for standard and degenerate oligonucleotides including LNA and other modifications. And provides a dilution and resuspension calculator for stocks.


PrimersList

Analyzes different features of multiple primers simultaneously, the melting temperature calculation for standard and degenerate oligonucleotides, GC content, primer PCR efficiency, sequence linguistic complexity, molecular weight, the extiction coefficient, the optical density (OD);
primers are analyzed for all primer secondary structures including G-quadruplexes detection, hairpins, self-dimers and cross-dimers in primer pairs;
the optimal temperature of annealing (Ta) calculation for all given primers.


PCR reaction setup calculators

PCR and qPCR reaction setup calculator; tool for planning PCR and qPCR reactions, mixing solutions.


Universal dilution and mixing two solutions calculator

Dilution calculator, applicable for mixing two solutions with various concentrations (molar or %, or other), as well as for various pH or mixing stock solution with solvent like water.


Comparison of primer design and oligonucleotide analysing tools versus other most popular on-line primer design and analysing packages.







The tools are written in Java with NetBeans IDE (Oracle) and require the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on a computer.

Note: Use only an older version of Java such as JRE 1.6 (programs do not work with the latest version of Java 1.7).

Note: If you don't see the Java Web Start application's Java Web Start button, Java application needs the Java Runtime Environment 6 Update 30 (JRE) or complete Java Development Kit (JDK) (Sun), can be downloaded from java.com), and you might need to enable the JavaScript interpreter in your browser so that the Deployment Toolkit script can function properly.

To determine which version of Java your web browser is using, please visit javatester or java.com.

Contact
Dr. Ruslan Kalendar


Reference apply to all Web Tools update, if you use it in your work please cite:
Kalendar R, Lee D, Schulman AH 2011. Java web tools for PCR, in silico PCR, and oligonucleotide assembly and analysis. Genomics, 98(2): 137-144.
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