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Main topics:

- ARB: a Short Introduction
- Glossary

Related topics:

- Primer Design/Search Parameters
- Primer Design/IUPAC codes

# Design Primers

- OCCURRENCE
- DESCRIPTION
- NOTES
- EXAMPLES
- WARNINGS
- BUGS

## OCCURRENCE

### ARB_NT/Probes/Design Primers

## DESCRIPTION

### Searches for primer pairs within the given physical and biological ranges

1. select a species (ARB_NT <INFO button>)
2. choose ARB_NT/Etc/Primer Design...
3. specify searchparameters
4. mark a result, it will be displayed in ARB_EDIT4

### INIT FROM SPECIES/GENE

This initializes the values left and right position and the primer distance with (hopefully) reasonable defaults.

## NOTES

### written by Wolfram Foerster 2001

## EXAMPLES

### None

## WARNINGS

### ARB will crash if you use Primer Design without taking care about the estimated memory needed (lower right corner).

## BUGS

### No bugs known