Hi, I'm about to update the epcr package but its homepage[1] says:
The e-PCR suite of tools has been retired. Please consider using PrimerBLAST[2] as an alternative if you are interested in designing PCR primers or identifying target sequences for your primers. For more information, see "Electronic-PCR (e-PCR) is retiring, use Primer-BLAST instead"[3] at the NCBI Insights blog. Please excuse my ignorance but I know nothing about primer design at all. I somehow suspect that the command line tool e-PCR should now be replaced by a web tool (or am I missing something? I can not find something inside the blast package which looks like a command line replacement). Currently epcr has a popcon which is somehow "medium" in our Debian Med package set - so there is some relevant user base that is using a discontinued / replaced tool. What do you think? Kind regards Andreas. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/epcr/ [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/primer-blast/index.cgi [3] https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2017/06/28/e-pcr-is-retiring-use-primer-blast -- http://fam-tille.de