This is the Windows app named simulate_pcr whose latest release can be downloaded as simulate_PCR-v1.2.tar.gz. It can be run online in the free hosting provider OnWorks for workstations.
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simulate_pcr
DESCRIPTION:
Assessing primer specificity and predicting both desired and off-target amplification products is an essential step for robust PCR assay design. This script predicts potential polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplicons in a large sequence database such as NCBI nt from either singleplex or a large multiplexed set of primers, allowing degenerate primer and probe bases, with target mismatch tolerance and amplicon length range to be set by the user. The PCR amplicon simulation code also annotates amplicons with gene information automatically downloaded from NCBI, and optionally it can predict whether there are also TaqMan/Luminex probe matches within predicted amplicons. It is an open source command line Perl script called simulate_PCR.pl that calls the BLAST (Altschul, et al., 1990) programs makeblastdb, blastn, and blastdbcmd, and the NCBI efetch utility (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi).This is an application that can also be fetched from https://sourceforge.net/projects/simulatepcr/. It has been hosted in OnWorks in order to be run online in an easiest way from one of our free Operative Systems.