Version 7 of Beacon Designer has support for Scorpions assays, making it the only product to include comprehensive support for all the popular qPCR chemistries
Premier Biosoft International has announced the release of Beacon Designer 7.0, calling it the most comprehensive desktop tool for designing real-time PCR assays.
Version 7.0 includes support for designing Scorpions primers and probes.
Scorpions are new diagnostic tools for the specific detection of PCR products in real-time.
Scorpions are reported to perform better under fast cycling conditions, making the technology ideal in numerous applications such as environmental analysis, viral load testing and pharmacogenomics.
"With the release of Beacon Designer Version 7, Premier Biosoft International has further expanded the supported chemistries of what was already the most comprehensive real time PCR oligo design tool available", says Kay Brown, VP business development and marketing.
" It is the tool of choice in labs worldwide.
"We are proud to have organisations such as NIH, FDA, CDC, USDA, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Unilever as our customers".
Beacon Designer designs oligos for SYBR green, TaqMan, LNA spiked TaqMan, MethyLight, molecular beacon, Nasba and Fret assays.
Beacon Designer also enables the design of compatible probes for proven SYBR green assays, resulting in cost savings.
Beacon Designer uses innovative and sophisticated algorithms to ensure assay success.
Primers are designed avoiding regions of significant homology, identified by automatically interpreting Blast search results.
Primer efficiency is enhanced by designing them in template-structure-free regions.
For multiplexing, Beacon Designer screens millions of primer probe combinations to design primer probe sets for single tube multiplex reactions.
Whether the need is to incorporate well-proven sets for some of the templates, or include reference or housekeeping genes for normalisation purposes in the assay, Beacon Designer is fully equipped.
