Integrated
DNA Technologies (IDT), the world leader in oligonucleotide synthesis, provides
a number of free oligo design and analysis tools via its online SciTools suite
(
www.idtdna.com/scitools). These
software applications determine the properties of any oligo sequence entered,
as well as mediating the intelligent design of assay conditions, all at the
click of a button. The suite is easy to use and makes it simple to add each
optimized oligo to an ongoing order list ready for purchase. The SciTools suite
includes IDT's customized ‘OligoAnalyzer', ‘PrimerQuest' and ‘RealTime PCR'
design tools, as well as a dilution calculator, a resuspension calculator and
an application for analyzing oligonucleotide secondary structures.
IDT's
OligoAnalyzer calculates the physical properties of any DNA or RNA sequence,
including those containing methylated, locked and phosphorylated bases. The
tool provides important information for reaction optimization such as oligo
melting temperature range, GC content, length, molecular weight, optical
density and extinction coefficient. In addition, users can easily utilize mFold
to investigate the existence of reaction-inhibiting secondary structures. To
avoid potential off-target effects and explore oligo specificity, each sequence
can be directly compared with all known nucleotide sequences using a link to
the NCBI BLAST database.
For
PCR and qPCR assay planning, SciTools offers two specialized analysis options.
PrimerQuest lets the user specify the stretch of sequence to be amplified,
along with the desired reaction conditions and the positional sequence
constraints the primers need to operate under. The program then identifies
primer pairs optimized to these specifications, favoring those pairs that
reduce the chances of unwanted primer-dimer formation. For users of IDT's
PrimeTime qPCR System, SciTools includes a highly flexible RealTime PCR design
tool, specifically developed to simplify the design of qPCR experiments. Users
provide a specific gene sequence or reference database accession number and the
system automatically generates several optimized primer sets and probe
sequences, spanning different exons where possible. As
with all sequences analyzed using SciTools, a chosen selection of oligos can be
quickly and simply transferred to an order list ready for purchase.
For
more information on IDT's products please visit www.idtdna.com.
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