PREMIER Biosoft International today releases version 5.10 of Beacon Designer.

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(Free-Press-Release.com) April 27, 2006 -- With the release of Beacon Designer Version 5.10, PREMIER Biosoft International has taken a step further in making a comprehensive, sophisticated and powerful qPCR oligo design tool available to thousands of labs all over the world," says Kay Brown, V.P. Business Development and Marketing. "We are particularly pleased with the biologist designed user interface and comprehensive support for multiplexing."

Beacon Designer can design SYBR� Green primers, TaqMan� probes, LNA spiked TaqMan� probes, FRET probes or molecular beacons for real time qRT-PCR and NASBA� assays. Beacon Designer also enables the design of compatible probes for proven SYBR� Green assays, resulting in cost saving.

The most notable feature of Beacon Designer is the use of innovative and sophisticated algorithms to ensure assay success. Primers are designed avoiding regions of significant homology, identified by automatically interpreting BLAST search results. Primer efficiency is enhanced by designing them in template-structure-free regions. For multiplexing, Beacon Designer screens millions of primer probe combinations to design primer probe sets for single tube multiplex reactions. Whether the need is to incorporate well-proven sets for some of the templates, or include reference or housekeeping genes for normalization purposes in the assay, Beacon Designer is fully equipped.
For details, please visit: http://www.premierbiosoft.com/molecular_beacons/index.html

About PREMIER Biosoft International:
Founded in 1994, the company is a group of computer scientists and molecular biologists dedicated to producing cutting edge intuitive software for the molecular biologist. The goal of the company is to study the most recent innovations in molecular biology and translate them into software products that aid biologists. Additional information about PREMIER Biosoft International can be found at http://www.PremierBiosoft.com

Contact:

Kay Brown
PREMIER Biosoft International
650-856-2703
http://www.PremierBiosoft.com