Thanks, that does look as if it will do what I want.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Kent" <[email protected]>
To: "Gregory Dougherty" <[email protected]>
Cc: "genome" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 3:37:06 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Genome] Segmentation Fault running gfServer

I see - if you're looking for primer cross-hybe in any serious way,  the 
in-silico PCR tools are just not the right ones for the job.   Greg Schuler's 
ePCR would be a better starting point.


On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Gregory Dougherty wrote:

> I'm validating already created primers.  One of the things I'm doing is 
> telling the users if their primers will target anything else in the genome.  
> Since a 20 base primer with, oh, an A to T mismatch at position 10 is still 
> going to bind quite adequately, I need to be able to find those situations 
> before they bite my users.  (IOW, one of the main purposes of the program I'm 
> working on is to warn the users when their primer pair is also going to bind 
> and amplify someplace else.  For that I need to find less than perfect 
> matches.)
> 
> Other than setting MACHTYPE to x86_64, is there anything I need to do to make 
> sure it all compiles 64 bit?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Kent" <[email protected]>
> To: "Gregory Dougherty" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "genome" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 2:57:33 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [Genome] Segmentation Fault running gfServer
> 
> Try it on a larger machine, and make sure you're runing a version compiled 
> with 64 bit.
> 
> You are pushing the envelope here Greg.   
> 
> _Why_ do you need to have less of the 3' end match perfectly?  Are you 
> amplifying non-human DNA with human primers?  
> 
> On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Gregory Dougherty wrote:
> 
>> On a server w/ 8 GB of RAM I tried running gfServer with a stepSize of 1, 
>> tileSize of 11, on hg18.  I got a Segmentation Fault.  Running it with 
>> stepSize of 2 works, and on a 4GB machine the stepSize of 2 generates a "not 
>> enough memory" error rather than a segfault.
>> 
>> Is this a known problem?  The machine is x86_64, running Linux.
>> 
>> TIA,
>> 
>> Greg
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