"Array Designer makes probe and oligomer design smooth and easy ... a job that would previously take me all day now takes 2-3 hours. I can spend the rest of my time on my bike." -Dr. Milton Friedman

“With Array Designer, I was amazed at how easy it was to design primers for sequences from a cDNA library. I cloned the gene in a week. The homology avoidance algorithm works incredibly well, it made the probes so specific and my experiment a big success!" - Dr. Greg Khitrov, Gene Array Resource Center, The Rockefeller University, New York

“The primer selection process can be reduced from weeks to days” - HMS Beagle- Full Review

"...very useful tool for custom designing both cDNA and oligo arrays"- The Scientist- Full Review

"The software is very user friendly and easy to use. Moreover, the support is very efficient and we always get a quick and useful answer to our requests. The quality of a certain number of designed oligos has been successfully double checked. We are actually very happy with Array Designer and it does totally address our concerns." - Dr. Mark Daukandt, Eurogentec, Seraing, Belgium

We are very satisfied with the software and the LNA probes we designed using Beacon Designer are working wonderfully." -Dr. Steven M. Short, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga.

"I used Beacon Designer for designing new assays. I found it simple to use and it met my expectations well. The performance was great and I obtained good results. The design options were exhaustive, saving my time." Meritxell Espino Guarch, IDIBELL-CGMM, Spain.

"I found that designing primers using Beacon Designer software has saved me many hours of analyzing potential primers. The program is very user friendly and the layout of the reports allowed all relevant information to be located easily." - Ms. Stacey Lynch, Department of Veterinary Science, Melbourne University, Australia.

"I have used Beacon Designer to design several different SYBR Green primers, and they worked out very well. I am impressed with the product." - Dr. Par Towb, Department of Biological Sciences, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States.

"I have found Beacon Designer a robust and sound program which might be really helpful in designing molecular beacons and other oligos for real-time PCR". - Dr. Miro Tel, IMEM, Russia

"From several software packages that I have tested Beacon Designer is probably the best" .- Dr. Ivan Bendezu, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Ireland.

"I have been able to test 10 different primer-pairs designed for use with SYBR Green by Beacon Designer 4. They all work very well and I am very happy with the results!" Mr. Benjamin Edvinsson, Karolinska University, Sweden.

"Beacon Designer is easy to learn and eliminates costly guesswork" -Jeremy Pierce, Science, vol. 294, page 2381, (2001)

"I like Beacon Designer 2, it does both Beacons and TaqMan probes and is pretty intuitive."- Justin T Brown Phd, Cenetron Diagnostics, USA

"I have used Beacon Designer on multiple sequences and have found that the program designs optimal molecular beacons and primer pairs. The molecular beacons and primer pairs it designed produced excellent results in real-time PCR experiments on the Bio-Rad's iCycler iQ Detection System." -Larissa Tan, Bio-Rad® Laboratories, Hercules, California

"...fast and accurate ...tool for the design of molecular beacons and primer pairs" The Scientist- Full Review

"To me, the best program to design TaqMan probes is Beacon Designer. I'm very happy to use it because it is fast and easy and the probes and primers I use are working really fine."- Milena Pariali, Italy

"We are using Beacon Designer 2 and love it!"- Daniel Inderbitzin

"I have forwarded design requests from US customer to Paris, and those customers have responded very positively about the success of their experiments"- Dr. Alex Amiet, Applications Manager, Genomic Tools, Proligo, LLC USA

"Word of mouth has it that the Beacon Designer software our group uses gives the best results. All the groups are now flocking to our lab to use our copy. What a nuisance! I wish they would spring for their own copy"- Shelley Zhang, Univ. of Louisville, Baxter Bl

"The program is easy to use and I enjoyed using it...Thank you very much for your very good product"- Dr. Irina Bogdarina

"Beacon Designer 2 was incredibly straight forward to use. The product worked great and the beacon I designed appears to work perfectly"- Freddie Peyerl, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, US

"The program works well. We have designed primers from this software FAM-TAMRA labeled and they work well. this software could state the optimal temp for pcr reactions"- Anthony Bais, Austrailia

"We love your program - it has saved time in that we don't have to use 3 or 4 different programs to determine how well the probes we have designed will bind to other sequences. And it has saved money because I don't have to purchase several expensive labeled probes to test which one will work the best. With Beacon Designer 2, we can design specific probes efficiently and with the multiplex function save even more time and feel confident about the results. Certainly, Beacon Designer 2 will be able to design effective probes for detection of single base pair differences"- Dr. Gale Newman, Dept. Micro, Biochem, Immuno Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

"The easy to use interface of Beacon Designer saved me a lot of time. I especially like the ability to design alternative assays and be able to pick the one that fits my needs the best"- Dr. Benjamin Edvinsson, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

"I found the program was extremely user friendly and fast. I am very happy with the quality of the results, much better than any other program that I tested"- Dr. Ourania Kosti, Department of Molecular Endocrinology, Division of General and Developmental Medicine, Barts and the London, Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK.

"Our success rate has been over 90% when we used the SYBR Green primers and TaqMan probes designed with Beacon Designer.- Dr. Michael Sheldon, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

"We have designed several primer/probe sets for reverse-transcription quantitative PCR using TaqMan. All have worked very well. We particularly like the way that the primers/probes are ‘scored’ as best, good or poor, it is much more convenient than other programs we have used. We also like the integrated BLAST feature. We are very satisfied customers and have recommended the product to our colleagues and collaborators". - Ms. Laura O'Hara, University of Cambridge, UK.

"I truly enjoyed the program over all these years (see ref. in Fetissov et all., Reg. Peptides 119:113-124, 2004)." - Dr. Serguei Fetissov, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

"I have been able to test the Primer Premier program and it has met most of my expectations. Primer Premier is user friendly and easy to use software program. It is quite diligently developed to offer a flexible GUI with the ability to choose various critical options for efficient & accurate primer designing. Also, with Primer Premier it is very easy to set user-defined parameters for various experimental conditions". - Dr. Ioana Dinu, Delta and Pine Land Co., US

"I am very impressed with the performance of your product.  I have used Primer Premier to design a range primer pairs for PCR, and have always gotten excellent results."- Dr. Paul R. Gill, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Uruguay

"Primer Premier 5 makes the oligo design for 30,000 year old Mammoth DNA no longer a mammoth task."-Dr. Anders Gotherstrom, Archaeological Research Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden

“We were frustrated because of low PCR product. We bought Primer Premier and had high yield from the very first nested PCR we did using the program.” -Dr. Patricia Commers, Vanderbilt University“rich functionality ... best value available”- HMS Beagle- Full Review

“Without the tedium of repeated wet laboratory experiments ...higher rates of success in molecular biology techniques with relative ease“ - Biotechnology Software and Internet Journal

"The program is great. I designed oligos from the program for primary and nested PCR, and the results turned out very well"- Irwin Flink, Ph.D.- Research Professor University of Arizona Health Sciences Center Tucson, AZ

"I found Primer Premier to be very easy to navigate and the tools offered were very valuable. I would recommend it to colleagues. It is one of the better primer design suites available"- Caroline Henderson

"Primer Premier is a wonderful program. It has paid for itself many times over. If we have a tough problem, we just go back to Primer Premier and 9 times out of 10 we have success. That is a pretty good rate"- David Towle, Mount Desert Island, Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, Maine

"I am a long time user of the Primer Premier 5, and I always used it with great success" -Stefan Hauptfleisch

"Premier Biosoft International can make good software. For me Primer Premier is the best oligo design program."- Dr. Rimantas Kodzius, Genome Science Laboratory, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) Itama,Japan

"It is easy to use, precise and quite general"- Elizabet Petkovski laboratoire CODGENE, Institut de Médecine Légale de rasbourg elizabet, France

"Yes, we are currently using Primer Premier and are getting excellent, i.e., consistent and repeatable, results using the primers designed with your software"- Dr. Dave Alexander, Nagoya City University, Japan

"I rely heavily on NetPrimer for screening primers, and I love it since I haven't had an unsuccessful PCR since I started using it."- Dr. Quentin Bremer, University of Winconsin, Madison

"It was the most useful primer analysis program that I worked with for more than two years"- Ulrike Schwarze, MD University of Washington, Seattle, WA

"To my knowledge, NetPrimer is the only primer analysis software that allows a quick scrutiny of tricky primers without needing to include a target sequence. This is a significant point...Your program has frequently shown up significant primer-primer interactions...and so netprimer was a great tool"- Matheson Bronwyn, Australia

" SimVector is just great. "- Dr. Etienne Boulter, University of North Carolina, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, USA.

"I found it to be the best program that I have used so far to produce publication quality vector graphics of eukaryotic nuclear gene models." Dr. Jeffrey Moseley, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford University, USA.

"I think SimVector is the best plasmid drawing tool in the market.". Dr. Farhad Vesuna, Johns Hopkins University, USA.

“I considered a number of plasmid programs and SimVector clearly was the best.”- Dr. Ed Perkins, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Duluth Medical Campus.

"...this package accommodates restriction enzyme-based cloning but also enables TA-based and Cre recombinase-based strategies."-The Scientist- Full Review

"I am impressed with SimVector and would like to introduce it to my company"- -William M. Rideout III,
Genpath Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Cambridge, MA

"TMA Foresight is an excellent program. The analysis which took me years to do manually, could now be completed in just one minute".- N. Makretsov MD PhD, Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, UK.