AmplifX 1.5.3

AmplifX
Test, manage and design your primers for PCR.
The main purpose of AmplifX is to search through a collection of primers, such as any molecular biologist has in his refrigerators, to find those which can be use to amplify a fragment into a target sequence, for example, and particularly, to design strategies to screen recombinant clones by PCR. Some information is associated with each primer; some automaticelly computed by AmplifX (like TM, Quality, length) and others given by the user (name, comments,...) This allows general aspects of primer management (sequences and real tubes). AmplifX can also design new primers.

Last update
07/10/08: AmplifX 1.5.0

Modification of primer list format (automatically updated when open with AmplifX 1.5.0 or superior).
To work on a shared primer collection into a team or a lab, the best way is to use the same primer list file into the local network. To help working in this way, now, AmplifX manages a locking system that allow only the first user to write into the primer list and save changes. The other users can only read the file and must « save as... » if they make some changes. After the first user close the file, the lock is destroyed and one other user can reload the modified primer list and make its own changes.
A new column « Owner » is especially useful in the context of shared primer list. Its entry is made easier by a scrolling menu.
Heights and widths of the columns of the primer list and size and position of the main window are restored at each launching of AmplifX.
To each new added primer, an id is automatically created (it can be changed by hand, of course). The program analyses previous ids and increment them: they can be constructed with any prefix and a number possibly formatted with a constant number of digits: example Pr0001, Pr000。