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BLAST SEARCH QUESTION - (Oct/20/2006 )

When you do a BLAST search on pcr primers are you supposed to search for the primer sequence itself or the region on the gene that the primer is complementary to?

thanks

-BioDude1-

QUOTE (BioDude1 @ Oct 20 2006, 10:15 AM)
When you do a BLAST search on pcr primers are you supposed to search for the primer sequence itself or the region on the gene that the primer is complementary to?

thanks


if i understand your question correctly then, you select the 'short nearly exact matches' option from the list of BLAST programs, then paste your primer sequence as query.
cheers!

-nifT-