New primer design tool to identify novel splice isoforms using the Splicist™ Library Panels

SAN CLEMENTE, CA - December, 2009 - Genofi announces the release of RefSplice™ primer design tool to assist in identifying novel splice variants using the Splicist™ Human Library Panels. This free web interface tool allows researchers to select experimental strategies and design primers utilizing alternative splice data from RefSeq, NCBI's non-redundant set of highly-curated reference sequences. The graphic user interface displays an aligned exon-map of all the splice variants for a given gene of interest, providing a comprehensive overview and allowing the user to directly select the exon sequences for primer design via Primer3.

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Splicist™ Human Universal Panel
Splicist™ Human Brain Panel
RefSplice™ primer design tool

The RefSplice primer design tool along with the parallel development of the Splicist Library Panels was funded by grant number R44HG003658 from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). The contents are solely the responsibility of Genofi and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NHGRI or the National Institute of Health (NIH).