Description
Deepscan generates a list of partially overlapping QuikChange-based primers
aimed at constructing mutability landscapes using PCR. It iterates across
a DNA sequence, codon by codon and generates a primer pair that employs
the partially overlapping primer pair strategy (Xia et al., 2015 ).
Namely, the primers in a pair will have an user-defined overlap length
( e.g. 22 bp) centred around the codon to mutate and will have a 3’
overhand long enough to allow the region beyond the mutagenized codon to
anneal with the template above a given melting temperature, while taking
into account terminal GC clamp. The traditional Quikchange protocol (Agilent)
works poorly for codon mutants.
The serverside calculations use a Python 3 script obtainable from:
mutational scanning ).
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