PRIMERS

NAME

primers − Simple version of primer3 to pick PCR primers

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

primers is a command line program from EMBOSS (“the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite”). It is part of the "Nucleic:Primers" command group(s).

OPTIONS

Input section
−sequence seqall

The sequence from which to choose primers. The sequence must be presented 5' −> 3'

Additional section
−targetregion range

If one or more Targets is specified then a legal primer pair must flank at least one of them. A Target might be a simple sequence repeat site (for example a CA repeat) or a single−base−pair polymorphism. The value should be a space−separated list of <start>,<end> pairs where <start> is the index of the first base of a Target, and <end> is the last E.g. 50,51 requires primers to surround the 2 bases at positions 50 and 51.

−minsize integer

Minimum acceptable length of a primer. Must be greater than 0 and less than or equal to MAX−SIZE. Default value: 18

−maxsize integer

Maximum acceptable length (in bases) of a primer. Currently this parameter cannot be larger than 35. This limit is governed by the maximum oligo size for which Primer3's melting−temperature is valid. Default value: 27

−maxdifftm float

Maximum acceptable (unsigned) difference between the melting temperatures of the forward and reverse primers. Default value: 100.0

Output section
−explainflag boolean

If this flag is non−0, produce LEFT−EXPLAIN and RIGHT−EXPLAIN, output, which are intended to provide information on the number of primer pairs that Primer3 examined, and statistics on the number discarded for various reasons. Default value: N

−numreturn integer

The maximum number of primer pairs to return. Primer pairs returned are sorted by their 'quality', in other words by the value of the objective function (where a lower number indicates a better primer pair). Caution: setting this parameter to a large value will increase running time. Default value: 5

−outfile outfile

BUGS

Bugs can be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking system (http://bugs.debian.org/emboss), or directly to the EMBOSS developers (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93650&atid=605031).

SEE ALSO

primers is fully documented via the tfm(1) system.

AUTHOR

Debian Med Packaging Team <debian−med−packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>

Wrote the script used to autogenerate this manual page.

COPYRIGHT

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