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Melting temperature (Tm)

Nearest-neighbour thermodynamics (SantaLucia 1998 unified parameters) with salt correction (Owczarzy 2004). Valid for DNA duplexes; the value shown is for the sequence annealing to its perfect complement.

Reverse complement & translate

Handles IUPAC ambiguity codes. Translation uses the standard genetic code, frame 1 of the sequence as entered.

Bio calculator — OD, nmol, µg, resuspension

Extinction coefficient is computed by the nearest-neighbour method with hyperchromicity correction, so the conversion is sequence-specific rather than a generic 33 µg/OD rule of thumb.

Self-dimer, cross-dimer and hairpin screen

A complementarity screen, not a full thermodynamic folding prediction: it reports the longest and the most 3′-proximal complementary stretches, which is what usually causes primer-dimer artefacts. Treat it as a red flag detector, not as a Tm for the secondary structure.

Dye–quencher pair checker

Checks whether the dye emission falls inside the quencher's published absorbance range, and whether the dye clashes with a common detection channel. The numbers used are shown with the answer so you can check the reasoning rather than trust a verdict.

Primer, probe and sgRNA design are not on this page. Doing them properly needs specificity checking against a genome, and a tool that skips that step produces designs that look fine and fail at the bench. Ours are done by a person, free, from a gene symbol — start from a gene.