What's new in Beacon Designer 8.13
Jun 18, 2014
- Latest changes to the genomic databases at the NCBI-BLAST along with fixes to reported problems are accommodated.
New in Beacon Designer 8.12 (Dec 3, 2013)
- The latest changes at the NCBI BLAST, including latest genomic databases and fixes to reported problems are also accommodated.
- The upgrade offers compatibility with Mavericks, Mac OS X 10.9.
New in Beacon Designer 7.92 (Dec 15, 2011)
- The upgrade offers compatibility with Lion, Mac OS X 10.7.
- The latest changes at the NCBI BLAST, including latest genomic databases and fixes to reported problems are also accommodated.
New in Beacon Designer 7.90 (Jun 17, 2010)
- Beacon Designer now supports HRMA primer design for all mutation types including deletions, insertions, substitutions and mixed mutations, along with SNPs. The program reports amplicons and their melting temperatures for both the wild as well as the mutant alleles.
- Multiplex assays are now supported for five sequences fully utilizing all the five real time PCR cycler channels. Additionally, the oligos designed for the five sequences are checked by the program for cross hybridization and their multiplexing ability.
- Assays designed can now be sorted on either primer or probe rating. If the search results are sorted on the basis of primer rating, the assay with the best sense/anti-sense rating is displayed. Similarly, if the search results are sorted taking into consideration the probe rating, the assay with best rated probe is displayed.
- Projects created in Beacon Designer can be exported in a zipped format for easy collaboration.
New in Beacon Designer 7.60 (Aug 3, 2009)
- The upgrade accommodates the changes at the NCBI BLAST server, the latest databases available for BLAST and fixes to reported problems.
New in Beacon Designer 7.51 (Nov 13, 2008)
- The upgrade includes fixes to reported problems.
New in Beacon Designer 7.50 (Sep 19, 2008)
- Given a primer sequence, Beacon Designer can now design a compatible probe and primer, enabling the use of pre-designed, pre-tested oligos.
- Amongst a host of other improvements, Beacon Designer now boasts of a new improved Scorpion design module. The thermodynamic values are so chosen to give you improved scorpion design results. For the TaqMan and SYBR Green modules, the set of design parameters are now so chosen that they greatly improve the success of an assay.
- The new export functionality enables you to export the oligos designed along with the template from the “sequences view” pane making it easier to manipulate the design to better meet your experimental needs.
- Support for all the genomic databases available at NCBI is also updated.