microarray primer design

[Gary Williams, Tel 01223 494522]

Microarrays typically use oligos of about 50 to 60 bp in length.

The maximum length of an oligo that can be found by the primer3 program
is 35.
This limit is governed by the maximum oligo size for which primer3's
melting-temperature is valid.

Gary

Thomas Keller wrote:
> 
> I've always designed primers one at a time. Usually with the very
> excellent program Oligo (W. Rychlik).
> I've got eprimer3/primer3 working but I'm not sure how to use it to
> find hybridization oligos for use with microarrays.
> I'd be grateful for suggestions, since I've got about 1,300 oligos to
> design.
> Thanks,
> Tom K.

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