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Nice way to view primers amplicon on hg19

Hello,

I need to design primers for a large region of DNA, like 5000 bases. Then I have to create many primers with overlap! I can do it with primer3.

But now, I want a nice way to see all my amplicon aligned on my Sequence target.

Something like :

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yes, but I prefere a Graphics user interface .

And I m not sure that primer3 generate multiple primer.

well it would be easy to transform the primer3 output to a BED file using awk. Can you please provide a output, and name your input sequence using something like "SEQUENCE_ID=chr17:10100-10653"

It looks great. But What do you use to render BED file?

My sequence is the Intro of GJB2 of human in hg19 : 13:20763739-20766928

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Update: here is an example with XSLT+UCSC-Das-Server+awk generating a custom BED file for the UCSC:

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Use Geneious. It uses primer3 for primer design, nicely visualizes everything and trial version can be downloaded for free.

You could easily view this information using either the UCSC genome browser or IGV from Broad. At UCSC you can select the human genome and upload a BED file (or various other formats, there are some nice renderings allowing you to draw a thin line connecting the primers, color them, etc.) to view the results as a track. If you want to share the results with others, there's a way to do that as well. With IGV you can simply drop your BED file onto the IGV window and see it as a track.

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