Primer design
- 1. 1. PCR primer design
• Local software
Primer premier5, Oligo 6.1
• Web-based design
Primer3
(Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome
Research)
- 11. Principles for primer design
• Base composition
• Length
• Repeated and self-complementary seq.
• Cross dimer
• Tm
• 3’ Termini
• Priming sites
(From Molecular cloning 3, 8.14)