Released on = April 27, 2006, 3:24 am

Press Release Author = PREMIER Biosoft International

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = PREMIER Biosoft International today releases version 5.10 of
Beacon Designer with advanced support for multiplexing, crucial for diagnostic assay
development. Beacon Designer is their oligo design tool for real time qRT-PCR and is
the only tool available that supports most of the popular qPCR chemistries.


Press Release Body = \"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



Web Site = http://www.premierbiosoft.com

Contact Details = Kay Brown
PREMIER Biosoft International
3786, Corina Way
Palo Alto, CA
94303-4504
Phone: 650-856-2703
support@premierbiosoft.com

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