About
Oligomics exists because too many good primers only live in one person's notebook.
Every molecular biology lab has the same problem: primers get designed, used once, and then forgotten — filed away in a spreadsheet, a lab notebook, or an email thread nobody can search. Months later, someone else in the same lab redesigns the same primer from scratch, because there was no easy way to know it already existed.
Oligomics was built to fix that. Instead of gene search, primer design, and results living in separate tools and separate notebooks, they live in one shared workspace — searchable by anyone in your lab, at any time.
We start from NCBI's own gene and transcript records, so you're always designing against accurate, current data. From there, primer design, storage, and sharing all happen in the same place, with PCR and gel results logged against the primers that produced them — so the library reflects what actually works, not just what was designed.
The goal is simple: a working primer should only ever need to be found once per lab.
From the creator
Founder of Oligomics
I'm Tom, the founder of Oligomics.
Oligomics came out of a frustration with PCR: pulling primers from the literature and finding they were inaccurate. They didn't work, or they matched the wrong gene entirely. With transcript variants it got worse, a primer would happily bind to a variant I wasn't confident was actually expressed in the tissue or cell type I was studying, and there was no quick way to check.
[What you want Oligomics to be for other labs, and what kind of feedback or users you're hoping to hear from at this stage.]
