MutScreener: Design primers for mutation screening (by PCR-direct sequencing)

 

 Workflow Diagram                                                                                                 

Two types of resequencing, four kinds of input data :

    ►Exon-centered resequencing

                 If you have only mRNA IDs (Genbank accession or gi numbers) or mRNA sequences, please select this one!

                Attention: Human genome sequence only!

                 If you have a feature table for exon annotation generated by DNannotator, please select this one!

                 If you have the exon and flanking sequences downloaded from UCSC , please select this one!

Track 3 is preferred if the gene is annotated on UCSC map, as the promoter region sequence can be extracted there too.  Otherwise, user may need to manually define & extract promoter region sequence.

    Resequencing across the genomic regions

                 If you need to design assays to screen continuous gDNA sequence, regardless of exon/intron structure, please select this one!

After Primers were designed, you may check the design by mapping the primers back to gDNA sequence:


Authors: Fengxia Yao, Ruifang Zhang, Zanhua Zhu, Chunyu Liu