SeqBench

A Sequence Workbench for Cloning, CRISPR & Primer Design

From PCR primers and clone assembly to CRISPR guides and plasmid maps.
All in one browser workbench.

The SeqBench workbench

SeqStudio — a real, editable sequence & plasmid editor

Type or paste DNA and edit it directly — every annotated feature remaps live as you insert, delete, or replace bases, even across a circular plasmid's origin. Restriction digests, a virtual gel, auto-annotation, undo/redo, multi-document tabs, and GenBank / SnapGene import & export — all running locally in your browser.

  • Live restriction digest & virtual gel
  • Auto-annotation & feature editing
  • GenBank / SnapGene import & export

Analysis & design

FASTA/FASTQ Stats

Summarise and validate FASTA or FASTQ: counts, N50, GC, quality.

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Gene ID Mapper

Convert gene symbols, Ensembl, Entrez GeneID, RefSeq and UniProt accessions in batch, and find cross-species orthologs.

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Prime Editing Studio

Design SpCas9 pegRNAs for any substitution, insertion, deletion or small replacement — spacer, PBS sweep, RTT and 3' extension, PE3 nicking guides, plus twinPE dual-pegRNA design for large edits — all in the browser.

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siRNA / shRNA / ASO Designer

Design knockdown reagents against an mRNA — Reynolds/Ui-Tei-scored siRNAs with ready shRNA cassettes, or 5-10-5 ASO gapmers screened for known liabilities.

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KASP / ARMS Primer Designer

Design KASP/ARMS SNP-genotyping primers — two allele-specific forward primers with FAM/HEX tails and an engineered ARMS secondary mismatch, plus a common reverse primer.

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Gel Troubleshooter

Diagnose gel problems (no bands, smearing, wrong size, primer-dimer, degradation) with a fully deterministic symptom guide that links to the right SeqBench tools.

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Base Editing Designer

Find CBE (C→T) or ABE (A→G) base-editing gRNAs that place your target base in the editor's activity window, with bystander flags and amino-acid consequences.

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Gene Explorer

Search a gene and get its exon/CDS structure, a druggability/disease/drug/trial/paper dossier, and a GTEx + Human Protein Atlas expression fingerprint — all in one page.

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Functional Enrichment

Test a gene list for enriched GO terms and Reactome pathways with hypergeometric p-values and BH-FDR correction.

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PCR Plate Planner

Lay out PCR reactions on a 96-well plate and export a runnable Opentrons protocol or Echo picklist.

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Alignment & visualization

MSA Viewer

Align several DNA or protein sequences and view a colored alignment with a consensus.

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Variant Comparator

Align a query to a reference and list substitutions, insertions and deletions with effects.

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Sanger Trace Viewer

View an .ab1 / .abi Sanger chromatogram, read the base calls and export the trace.

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Sanger vs Reference

Align a Sanger read to a reference and get a pass / needs-review verification report.

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Sequencing Read-Back Verification

Align many NGS/Nanopore/Sanger reads to a reference with minimap2, call multi-read consensus variants, and build a corrected consensus sequence.

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Volcano Plot

Plot log2 fold-change vs. significance from a DESeq2/edgeR/limma table, with draggable thresholds.

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Clustered Expression Heatmap

Cluster and visualize a gene x sample expression matrix with row/column dendrograms.

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HGVS Converter

Convert an HGVS c. variant to genomic (g.) coordinates and predict its protein (p.) effect, via a real, live Ensembl exon map.

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Variant Annotator

Look up a variant by rsID, chrom:pos:ref:alt, or HGVS and get its ClinVar significance, gnomAD allele frequencies, and CADD/SIFT/PolyPhen2/REVEL scores in one card.

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SeqStudio

Type or paste a sequence and edit it directly — every feature remaps live as you insert, delete, or replace bases, with undo/redo and GenBank import/export.

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FASTQ QC Report

Per-base quality, GC and length distributions, duplication levels, overrepresented sequences and adapter content, each with a warn/fail verdict.

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Learn more

New to a technique? Read the step-by-step guides, look up constants in the reference tables (codon table, restriction enzymes, IUPAC codes, and more), or open SeqBench-GPT for multi-step cloning and CRISPR design in plain language.