Pick Your Custom DNA Primers As Fast As Overnight

Monday May 19, 2008

Custom DNA primers synthesis services are widely used mostly to generate new DNA fragments for cloning, to generate site-specific mutations or for genome analysis. With today’s technology, the process is reliable, fast and low cost. While it may take some time to plan out your cloning strategy and design your primers, once you are done with that, you will probably already have all the reagents and tools that you need to get started; the time-limiting factor to start your work will be most likely obtaining your primers. Therefore, delivery time is an important factor when you choose your primer synthesis service. It is best to search for a provider in your area; this should ensure that you will have your primers within one day from submission of your order. The online order form should be easy to complete and should include safeguards to ensure that no sequence errors have been input during submission of your order. Additional features to pay attention to are the maximum sequence length, the quantities scale (some service providers do not have many options and you may end up spending budget on large quantities that you don’t need), the basic purification method and additional purity options may be relevant to your work as well. All service providers charge extra for any additional purification beyond the basic method.

Amir Porat PhD
Scientist - Protein Chemistry
Prosci Incorporated

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Description	Primers are offered in two purities, Desalted only or Reverse-phase HPLC Purification for optimal purity and performance. Please inquire for labeled or blocked primers (Thiol, Biotin, C3 Blocker) more	Custom DNA Primers from Invitrogen are synthetic oligonucleotides made to order with your specified sequence for use in a variety of applications from PCR and sequencing to probes for gene detection... more	LC Sciences provides a unique new tool, OligoMix® for low cost, high throughput DNA synthesis serving diverse needs in genomics, proteomics, synthetic biology, drug discovery, and microarray applications... more	Midland has been a leader of synthetic DNA, RNA and oligonucleotides for more than 20 years. We pioneered the use of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for quality assurance, a procedure that has become the industry standard for the very best in oligonucleotide synthesis... more
Catalog Number	OLGO-ASY-9000	Request Info	COMS-1001	Request Info
Scale	Primers are offered in three sizes: Extra-Large Scale (245 nmol), Large Scale (35 nmol) and Small Scale (5 nmol).	0.01, 0.05, 0.2, 1.0, 10 µmol	Request Info	20 nmol, 50 nmol, 200 nmol, 1 µmol, 10 µmol, mg and gram quantities also available
Modifications	Request Info	3' & 5' Biotin, Phosphorylation 5' Amine, Aldehyde, HEX&trade, TET™ FAM™, Fluorescein, ROX, TAMRA, Cascade Blue ®, BODIPY®, Marina Blue™, Oregon...	Request Info	Over 250 modifications available 3', 5' and Internal 1000s of combination Will synthesisze most all commercially available modifications Self-made modifications - request information
Quantity	Request Info	Request Info	Up to 3,918 sequences/tube	Request Info
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