PrimeMate

by Jim Kent

Ideal Tm

This program finds a PCR primer pair with no hairpins, or self annealing properties close to a given temperature.

The basic input format is

outside-sequence(inside-sequence...inside-sequence)outside-sequence

Example input would be:

gagagctcaaccaccaaaggacatcgaaaag(gc...ag)gtagctggggaaattggaatcaaacaagaagagct
TGG AGA AAG ACT TTC GCC AAT AG(G GTA AG)C ATG TGA TCA GCG AAC GTC
acagtgctcaacgtcggatccggaaaac()aagatcaagtcacttttactgttgccgactctttgcctgttgtcta

You can include as much or as little of the inside sequence as you want. The program doesn't look at anything inside the parenthesis. The input can span multiple lines.