Welcome to SSR Finder

The SSR Finder tool locates SSRs, designs primer pairs to amplify the regions containing the SSRs, and removes primer pairs that are not unique.

How to use it

It is easy to use, just follow the user help instructions contained in the included README file.

What Hardware and Software do you need?

SSR Finder consists of a series of Perl scripts and as such requires a Perl-compatible operation system to function. SSR Finder is been developed and tested on UNIX-based systems.

Other of functionality of SSR Finder requires the use of 2 other external applications: Primer3 and BLAST

  • Primer3 was developed at the Whitehead_Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute and can be found here: Primer3

  • NCBI BLAST can be found here: BLAST

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To download the software click on SSR Finder Source Package