In article <DL0oFr.KpL at ebi.ac.uk>, bshomer at ebi.ac.uk (Benny Shomer) writes:
>Hsien-wei Peng (hwpeng at ibms.sinica.edu.tw) wrote:
>: Dear Netters,
>>: I am searching for a software for PCR primers design which works on
>windows
>: (3.1 or 95) or DOS. I would like a free one, but information about
>other
>: commercial products are also welcome. Thank for your answering in
>advance.
>>
>(Inspite of what is documented here, as far as I can recall, primer-mit is
>also available for PC's. It worths asking them, since this is an excellent
>program)
>>AC BC00158
>NAME PRIMER - MIT
>DOMAIN Oligomer design and synthesis
>DESCRIPTION PRIMER is a computer program for selecting PCR primer pairs to
>DESCRIPTION amplify specific regions of sequenced DNA. While PRIMER was
>DESCRIPTION specifically designed to select primers from cloned and
>DESCRIPTION sequenced genomic DNAs, many of the tests it performs
>are useful
>DESCRIPTION for selecting oligos for other types of experiments as
>well,
>DESCRIPTION including other PCR applications, oligo hybridization
>and
>DESCRIPTION dideoxy sequencing.
>AUTHOR Lincoln S., Daly M. and Lander E.
>RT -
>ADDRESS MIT Center for Genome Research
>ADDRESS Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
>ADDRESS Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
>02142,USA
>CONTACT primer at genome.wi.edu>SITE ftp anonymous genome.wi.edu
>SITE Directory /pub/primer.0.5
>SITE-CONTACT -
>OS Unix workstations including Sun SPARCStation
>OS and DEC DECStation systems
>LANGUAGE C
>VOLUME -
>COMMENTS PRIMER is available for free use for non-
>COMMENTS commercial purposes by basic research labs in
>COMMENTS both academia and industry, providing users
>COMMENTS register using the form supplied with the
>COMMENTS program.
>>>I hope this helps,
True, primer.0.5 is available as primer.exe and primer.hqx : which means PC
and Mac versions.
The FTP address is wrong in the file above it is : genome.wi.mit.edu
The entry will be corrected in the next release of the Biocat
Pat RT
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