.\"     Title: OLIGOTM
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.\"      Date: 05/09/2008
.\"    Manual: Primer3 User Manuals
.\"    Source: oligotm 1.1.4
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.TH "OLIGOTM" "1" "05/09/2008" "oligotm 1.1.4" "Primer3 User Manuals"
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.SH "NAME"
oligotm \- Prints oligo's melting temperature on stdout
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP 8
\fBoligotm\fR [OPTIONS] {oligo}
.PP
where oligo is a DNA sequence of between 2 and 36 bases
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP

\fBoligotm\fR
prints the melting temperature of a given desoxyribooligonucleotide on the standard output\&. It is part of the oligotm library\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
\fB\-mv\fR \fImonovalent_conc\fR
.RS 4
Concentration of monovalent cations in mM, by default 50\ \&mM\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-dv\fR \fIdivalent_conc\fR
.RS 4
Concentration of divalent cations in mM, by default 0\ \&mM\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-n\fR \fIdNTP_conc\fR
.RS 4
Concentration of deoxynycleotide triphosphate in mM, by default 0\ \&mM\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-d\fR \fIdna_conc\fR
.RS 4
Concentration of DNA strands in nM, by default 50\ \&nM\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-tp\fR \fI[0|1]\fR
.RS 4
Specifies the table of thermodynamic parameters and the method of melting temperature calculation:
.sp
.RS 4
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\fI0\fR
Breslauer et al\&., 1986 and Rychlik et al\&., 1990 (used by primer3 up to and including release 1\&.1\&.0)\&. This is the default, but
\fInot\fR
the recommended value\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\fI1\fR
Use nearest neighbor parameter from SantaLucia 1998\&.
\fIThis is the recommended value\fR\&.
.RE
.RE
.PP
\fB\-sc\fR \fI[0\&.\&.2]\fR
.RS 4
Specifies salt correction formula for the melting temperature calculation:
.sp
.RS 4
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\fI0\fR
Schildkraut and Lifson 1965, used by primer3 up to and including release 1\&.1\&.0\&. This is the default, but
\fInot\fR
the recommended value\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\fI1\fR
SantaLucia 1998\&.
\fIThis is the recommended value\fR\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\fI1\fR
Owczarzy et al\&., 2004\&.
.RE
.RE
.PP
\fB\-i\fR
.RS 4
prints references to publications which were used for thermodynamic calculations\&.
.RE
.SH "REFERENCE"
.PP
Please cite Rozen, S\&., Skaletsky, H\&. "Primer3 on the WWW for general users and for biologist programmers\&." In S\&. Krawetz and S\&. Misener, eds\&. Bioinformatics Methods and Protocols in the series Methods in Molecular Biology\&. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2000, pages 365\-386\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP

\fBprimer3_core\fR(1)
\fBntdpal\fR(1)
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright \(co 1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2004,2006,2007,2008 Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Steve Rozen (http://jura.wi.mit.edu/rozen), Helen Skaletsky
.br
.PP
All rights reserved\&. On Debian\-based systems, please consult
\fI/usr/share/doc/primer3/copyright\fR
to read the licence of oligotm\&.
.PP
This manual page was written by Charles Plessy
<plessy@debian\&.org>
for the
Debian(TM)
system (but may be used by others)\&. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the same terms as oligotm itself\&.

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