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Custom LNA Oligonucleotide Design and Applications

Guidelines for designing your own Custom LNA Oligonucleotides

The high affinity of an LNA-enhanced oligonucleotide to its complementary sequence results in dramatically improved specificity and sensitivity when compared with traditional DNA or RNA oligos. When designing LNA oligos, incorporation of LNA in a sequence strongly affects the properties of the oligonucleotide, so you must take great care to find the right design for your experimental purpose.

Design guidelines

  • Design options
    • Design your own LNA oligo
    • Let us design your LNA oligo
  • Tm prediction
    • Two models for Tm prediction
    • Recommended use of the models
    • Assumptions and limitations of the models
  • Labels and modifications
    • Dyes
    • Attachment chemistry/linkers
    • Quenchers
    • Modified bases
    • Phosphorylation
    • Backbone modification
  • Purification and delivery options
    • Purification options
    • Delivery

Custom LNA Fish

  • Custom LNA Fish
    • Benefits of LNA-enhanced FISH probes
    • Let us design LNA FISH probes for you
    • LNA FISH probe design guidelines

SNP Detection

  • SNP Detection
    • Discriminate closely related sequences with sensitivity and specificity
    • LNA probes are superior to DNA probes for SNP detection
    • Allele-specific LNA primers improve SNP detection
    • Coverage and design guidelines