Hello all,
I have been tasked with finding primers for fungal organisms with sequenced genomes. So, these are the steps I followed:
1) got the accession numbers for the sequenced genome
2) put the details in Primer-Blast and for primer-pair specificity, selected
(i) genome (reference assembly from selected organism)
(ii) put in the organism for the one mentioned earlier, i.e. organism whose accession # was given in the query field
All well and good. I get a list of primers, I select one pair and now I want to check in the whole assembled genome whether this primer pair will hit the specific organism from which I had earlier "created" the primer pair. So I do a Blast search for it, but I get a message -
"resulted in an empty database " (or something similar)
That is super confusing to me. If the primer was selected from said genome, should it not have given "hits" in the same genome? If no, how will I know when I run the qPCR that it will detect the said organism in a mixed sample?
Am I missing something very basic here?
Thanks for any insights
I have been tasked with finding primers for fungal organisms with sequenced genomes. So, these are the steps I followed:
1) got the accession numbers for the sequenced genome
2) put the details in Primer-Blast and for primer-pair specificity, selected
(i) genome (reference assembly from selected organism)
(ii) put in the organism for the one mentioned earlier, i.e. organism whose accession # was given in the query field
All well and good. I get a list of primers, I select one pair and now I want to check in the whole assembled genome whether this primer pair will hit the specific organism from which I had earlier "created" the primer pair. So I do a Blast search for it, but I get a message -
"resulted in an empty database " (or something similar)
That is super confusing to me. If the primer was selected from said genome, should it not have given "hits" in the same genome? If no, how will I know when I run the qPCR that it will detect the said organism in a mixed sample?
Am I missing something very basic here?
Thanks for any insights
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