Proposal for a performance factor to characterize real-time PCR systems, evaluate premixed DNA-polymerases and assign minimal performance criteria for individual quantitative PCR runs

European Food Research and Technology

Volumn 231, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 727-732

  Köppel, René ^a   Zimmerli, Franziska ^a  

^a Official Food Control Authority of the Canton of Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Comparing; Multiplex; Performance; Real time quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

COMPARING; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MATHEMATICAL ALGORITHMS; MULTIPLEX; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE CRITERION; PERFORMANCE FACTORS; PREMIXED; QUANTITATIVE PCR; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; REAL-TIME PCR; REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE PCR; VALIDATION CRITERIA;

AMPLIFICATION; DNA; GENES; MULTIPLEXING;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955773497     PISSN: 14382377     EISSN: 14382385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00217-010-1330-7     Document Type: Article

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