Primer3 2.4.0 / Primer3-web 4.1.0 / Primer3Plus 2.5.0 – PCR Primer Design Tool

Primer3 2.4.0 / Primer3-web 4.1.0 / Primer3Plus 2.5.0

:: DESCRIPTION

Primer3 is a widely used program for designing PCR primers (PCR = “Polymerase Chain Reaction”). PCR is an essential and ubiquitous tool in genetics and molecular biology. Primer3 can also design hybridization probes and sequencing primers.

Primer3-web is the original web-interface to Primer3.

Primer3Plus is an updated, task-oriented web-interface to Primer3.

::DEVELOPER

developed at Whitehead_Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute by Steve Rozen and Helen Skaletsky.

:: SCREENSHOTS

:: REQUIREMENTS

    • Linux / Windows / Mac OsX

:: DOWNLOAD

Primer3

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Steve Rozen and Helen J. Skaletsky (2000)
Primer3 on the WWW for general users and for biologist programmers.
In: Krawetz S, Misener S (eds) Bioinformatics Methods and Protocols: Methods in Molecular Biology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 365-386