Welcome to Visual OMP Help

 

With Visual OMP, you can visualize, analyze and design probes, primers, targets and custom assays.  Just click the topics below to get started.  You'll find more information to help you use Visual OMP in the Help Contents.

 

         How to use Help

When you need to access help, simply press "F1" and the help file will appear with the assistance on the current item.  After the help system appears, you can navigate through the Table of Contents or Glossary to help answer any additional questions.

 

 

  Tutorials

 

If you haven’t used Visual OMP before and would like a quick tour, click this link:

• Quick Tutorial

 

If you are comfortable with Visual OMP and would like to view a tutorial specifically addressing Probe and Primer design, please select from below:

• Single and Multiplex Probe and Primer Design

 

A specific Tutorial on how to design Beacon Probes and Beacon Probe Pairs is available:

• Beacon Probe and Beacon Probe Pair Design

 

   Learning about Visual OMP

 

If you need help with a specific task, please click an appropriate link below.

 

• Introducing the Visual OMP Application

• Entering information into Visual OMP  

• Running an experiment

• Viewing experiment results

 

   Videos about Visual OMP

 

On the Visual OMP support website several videos about the software can be found.  There is a 1 hour introductory video on Visual OMP 4 and there are 3 application specific videos: one about Probe-Pairs, one about Single and Multiplex PCRs and one about TaqMan.