Many scientists find themselves puzzled by primers – navigating endless options of purification, yield scales, and design parameters. This “primer puzzle” leads to frustration and a valuable time wasted comparing choices. Inconsistent quality and long delivery times only add to the issue.
Eurofins Genomics solves this puzzle by providing smart defaults and rapid delivery without sacrificing quality.
Too many choices and too little time: The primer ordering issue
Ordering PCR primers often requires a surprising array of decisions and presents researchers with challenges such as:
- Overwhelming options
Too many purification method options can make it difficult to decide what’s best for a qPCR primer? Standard desalting or HPLC purification? What scale? This overabundance can lead to paralysis-by-analysis – time wasted browsing competitor websites. - Long delivery and quality concerns
After laborious custom primer configuration, long delivery times or inconsistent quality and concentration of PCR primers can delay experiments.
The primer puzzle now has a solution that tackles these issues head-on by providing smart defaults, high quality, consistency, and fast delivery.
Smart defaults: Predefined PCR primer specifications
Eurofins Genomics’ qPCR primers use predefined specifications and smart default settings developed by our qPCR experts to deliver excellent performance with minimal effort.
Our smart defaults offer:
- Optimised design parameters
The default primer design follows best-practice criteria, i.e. length, GC content, Tm, that have been proven to work very well for PCR and qPCR. Ideal for most assays without the need to adjust the parameters. - High purity guaranteed
Each primer is synthesised to >80% full-length purity by default, ensuring specific amplification and robust PCR results. - Built-in quality check
Every PCR primer includes a QC report with MALDI-TOF mass spec data, verifying the primer’s identity and length for each batch. What you order is exactly what you get.
These smart defaults let researchers start experiments faster and with confidence. While modification options for the primers remain available, e.g. addition of modifications or different purification methods, for most qPCR needs, the default settings hit the sweet spot.
Quality and consistency: Primers that are trusted
Quality assurance is a cornerstone of our PCR Primers. Every primer is produced in an ISO 13485-certified process- a medical-grade quality standard. Each primer’s identity and length are verified by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, and the guaranteed >80% purity ensures strong PCR performance with high sensitivity.
Since the production process is ISO-certified and each PCR primer batch is verified, researchers can use these primers even for critical applications like diagnostics. Consistency is key for qPCR, and using a reliable, quality-checked primer source removes one more variable from experiments.
Simplify the qPCR workflow
This approach streamlines the part of the qPCR workflow that used to cause the most issues. Researchers can rely on our fast, high-quality, and easy-to-use PCR primers to significantly boost productivity. Spend less time ordering and more time running experiments, analysing data, and planning the next research steps.
Consider giving these smart-default primers a try to solve your own primer puzzle.
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Quality and consistency: Primers that are trusted
Quality assurance is a cornerstone of our PCR Primers. Every primer is produced in an ISO 13485-certified process- a medical-grade quality standard. Each primer’s identity and length are verified by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, and the guaranteed >80% purity ensures strong PCR performance with high sensitivity.
Since the production process is ISO-certified and each PCR primer batch is verified, researchers can use these primers even for critical applications like diagnostics. Consistency is key for qPCR, and using a reliable, quality-checked primer source removes one more variable from experiments.
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