| Tool name | Amplicon |
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| URL | http://sourceforge.net/projects/amplicon/ |
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| Important features | 1. Designs group specific PCR primers.
2. Allows the user to select regions that may be group-specific primer binding sites.
3. Amplicon can import aligned DNA sequences produced by ClustalW or ClustalX or aligned sequences in MEGA or fasta format. |
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| Citations | Jarman SN. Amplicon: software for designing PCR primers on aligned DNA sequences. Bioinformatics. 2004 Jul 10;20(10):1644-5. Epub 2004 Feb 12. PubMed
PMID: 14962918. |
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| Year of publication | 2004 |
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| Rank by usage frequency | 1 |
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| Comments | Features are written as claimed by the author. Not validated completely. |
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| Function | |
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| Category | Downloadable, Free |
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| Features | Designs group-specific PCR primer sets that amplify a DNA region from a given taxonomic group but do not amplify orthologous regions from other taxonomic groups. |
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| Description | For relational studies before intra/inter species members [primer design for closely related species]. |
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