On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Jennifer Jackson <jen@bx.psu.edu> wrote:
Hello Peter,
If these are standard length PCR primers, then UCSC's In-Silico PCR tool would be an option. It is a varient of BLAT and the source is available from Kent Informatics. Here is a UCSC link to the online version (send Jim Kent an email for a copy):
http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgPcr?command=start
A wrapper could be made for your own instance or just use it command-line before loading data. If this is not what you had in mind, please let us know,
Best,
Jen
Thanks Jen, If I've understood the purpose of the UCSC's In-Silico PCR tool it is for predicting the PCR product of a given primer pair and genome sequence. That's now quite what I have in mind - more like EMBOSS' primersearch - but I'm sure would be useful at some point. Peter