Hello,
>I am designing primers for PCR to amplify a region in the p24 regio of
>the HIV Gag protein. Is there a program in GCG that will
>allow me to test my primers against known HIV sequences to make sure I
>will not be amplifying other regions of the virus?
There is nothing specific in GCG right now but I think that searching the
database sequences GE:HIV* (HIV sequences in GenEmbl) with FASTA for homology
to your primers might be worth trying if there isn't anything better at hand...
Fred
Frederic PLEWNIAK
Laboratoire de Genetique Moleculaire des Eucaryotes
11 rue Humann
67085 Strasbourg FRANCE