PREMIER Biosoft International announces the release of a free edition of Beacon Designer.

September 15, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News
Palo Alto, California—September 15, 2007, PREMIER Biosoft International today announced the release of a free edition of Beacon Designer, a web-based real time PCR evaluation tool for SYBR® Green primers and TaqMan® primer/probe sets. It analyzes primers and probes for all important characteristics including hairpins, dimers, runs and repeats and calculates the Tm, GC% and length. The full version includes design support for all the popular real time PCR chemistries and is used in the laboratories around the world.

With this release, PREMIER Biosoft has added yet another tool to its lineup of free tools which already include NetPrimer, a popular primer analysis program and MutaPrimer, a desktop tool to design primers for Stratagene's QuikChange® site directed mutagenesis kits.

"Beacon Designer free edition is a token of our appreciation towards the scientific community and the researchers who have long supported our products and have made them a part of their research." says Kay Brown, V.P. Business Development and Marketing.

To access the free edition, please visit: http://www.premierbiosoft.com/qpcr/index.html

About PREMIER Biosoft International:
Founded in 1994, the company is a group of computer scientists and molecular biologists dedicated to producing cutting edge intuitive software for the molecular biologist. The goal of the company is to study the most recent innovations in molecular biology and translate them into software products that aid biologists. Additional information about PREMIER Biosoft International can be found at http://www.PremierBiosoft.com

Contact:
Arun Apte
PREMIER Biosoft International
650-856-2703
http://www.PremierBiosoft.com