Expression Cassette Designer — design a single-gene expression cassette

Paste a protein sequence and pick a host to get a codon-optimized transcription unit with a selection marker — as a linear cassette or a complete circular plasmid.

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How it works

From a protein sequence and a host to a finished cassette, five stages annotate each step in this entry.

  1. 01

    Enter protein & host

    Paste an amino-acid sequence and choose one of 14 host organisms.

  2. 02

    Codon optimization

    The CDS is codon-optimized for the host and scored for CAI, GC, and rare codons.

  3. 03

    Part selection

    Promoter, RBS, and terminator are picked per host, each with a cited source.

  4. 04

    Cassette assembly

    A transcription unit is assembled with a selection marker — linear or circular.

  5. 05

    Export & cite

    Download FASTA/GenBank, copy the sequence, and save the run to your workspace.

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What it does

14 host organisms

Bacteria, yeast, filamentous fungi, mammalian, insect, plant, and cell-free systems.

Codon optimization report

CAI before→after, GC content, rare codons, and constraint checks for the chosen host.

Traceable parts

Every promoter, RBS, and terminator carries a literature source with a verified flag.

Linear or circular

A cassette with a selection marker, or a full plasmid built on a host backbone.

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Input

Enter a protein sequence, choose a host, then design the cassette.

The organism the cassette is expressed in. Promoters, RBS, terminators, and markers are filtered per host.

The coding sequence is reverse-translated and codon-optimized for the chosen host.

Linear gives a transcription unit plus a selection cassette; circular builds a complete plasmid on a host backbone.

Leave on "auto" to use the host-recommended marker.

N- or C-terminal tags such as nuclear localization, secretion, or membrane anchors. Secretion signals are chosen automatically by the engine.

Runs against the live engine.
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Design progress

Watch the design advance stage by stage.

Waiting for input
    05

    Result

    The assembled cassette with part selection, codon report, feature map, primers, and traceable sources.

    06

    Workspace

    Save this run to your workspace

    Each saved run becomes a reproducible entry with an Entry ID you can cite in your methods. Hand off the chosen parts to Multi-gene Assembly to build a larger construct.

    Run a design first, then save it here.