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Documentation

Short, scannable guides — the goal is to get you to a working primer panel in your inbox, not to fill out a textbook.

Getting started

What Primer Architect is, who it's for, and how to design your first panel.

Amplicon sequencing 101

What targeted/amplicon sequencing actually is, how primer panels differ from tiling schemes, and when to use each.

The 4-step wizard

Walkthrough of the design wizard: reference genome → target sequence → base range → scheme parameters.

Reference genomes

The 12 curated assemblies Primer Architect ships with, what's coming, and how to upload your own.

Specificity checks

Off-target and variant-aware checks on the results screen — what each one does, when to use it, and how to tune the budget.

Lab automation exports

How to plug Primer Architect output into Opentrons, Hamilton, and Echo workflows.