Furthermore each pattern can have up to three distinct segments, separated by variable inter-segment regions, and you can control the overall similarity required for a match as well as defining residues which must be 100% conserved.Ī common usage of this function is storing a library of primers. You can use subsequences with complex patterns for the search as this function uses a powerful nomenclature (similar to Prosite’s) for creating patterns. This function allows you to keep a library of sequence patterns of either nucleic acid or proteins. Subsequence searching allows you to find any significant region with a consensus sequence, in your sequence. Limitations: You can only analyze a pair of primers. Including recommended Tm for the annealing stage of the PCR.īenefits: highly detailed output about primers and product When to use: When you need detailed output about a pair of primers and their product. Pct G+C: 46.7 Tm: 77.8 deg C 5' -GGTCCACTTCGTATGCTGGT- 3' (primer 1) Primer 2: score 20, mismatches 0, lower strand 1592 to 1573 The 3' end of the primer binds within the product primer 1: score 20, mismatches 0, upper strand 1055 to 1074 Major product size: 538 bp Product details:
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(iv) Click OK to see the full statistics on the primers and product. (iii) Click APPLY and see your primers detailed statistics. Note you will need to have pasted them into an external application. (ii) Copy and paste your two sequences in the two boxes. (i) Open your sequence and go to PRIMERS > Test PCR Primer Pairs For example secondary structure, what size the product will be and even the most ideal Tm for your PCR run. This function is fairly easy to use and gives a large amount of detail about your primers. Limitations: Your primer sequences need to be in a file already. When to use: When you need to find many primers over a large sequenceīenefits: Easy to visualize a great quantity of primers against a template You can use the Editor view for a sequence level representation of the primer aligned against the template. You can switch to the Map view to show a graphical overview of all your primers and where they are located on the sequence. The resulting alignment will show your primers aligned against the template. – If you suspect your primers may not be a perfect match then reduce SCORE THRESHOLD until your primer aligns. (iv) Change the drop down menu to Sequence Confirmation then change these parameters:
(i) Open the template file and go to ANALYZE > ALIGN TO REFERENCE If you want to quickly align a large set of primers against a template sequence, then as long as each primer is in a separate MacVector file, or a multi sequence fasta file then you can use Sequence Confirmation in the Align to Reference function:
Limitations: You can only find a single primer. When to use: When you need to find a single primer very quickly and do not need to store the results
(ii) Enter your primer sequence in the FIND box and click FIND. (i) open up your sequence and use the menu option EDIT > FIND or use the key combination CMD – F However, it is very powerful and in most cases you do not need to change anything as the default settings will work for the majority of cases. The Find dialog (see below) is a little daunting to look at first (in fact due to recent user feedback we will hiding most of the functionality in the next release). It also allows you to state which end of the sequence to start from and in which direction to scan the sequence (not necessarily obvious!). This allows you to find any sequence, whether it binds to the complementary strand, it is reversed or both. There are many ways to do this in MacVector, depending on what your requirements are Using the Find dialogįor quickly finding a single primer in a sequence the Find dialog is the first point of call. A common request, especially in our recent survey, is to align existing primer sequences against a template sequence.