Limits of performance of quantitative polymerase chain reaction systems

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 688-695

  Vikalo, Haris ^a   Hassibi, Babak ^b   Hassibi, Arjang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cramer Rao lower bound; Quantitative polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

AMPLICONS; BIOCHEMICAL NOISE; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; COPY NUMBER; CRAMER RAO LOWER BOUND; DNA MOLECULES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GENOMICS; MEAN SQUARE ESTIMATION; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIMULATION STUDIES; STATISTICAL APPROACH; TARGET MOLECULE; THERMAL CYCLE;

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; DNA; ESTIMATION; GENES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MOLECULES; POLYMERIZATION; TARGETS;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77649304507     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2009.2037088     Document Type: Article

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