Validation of kinetics similarity in qPCR

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1395-1406

  Bar, Tzachi ^a   Kubista, Mikael ^b,c   Tichopad, Ales ^c,d  

^a Labonnet Ltd   (Israel)

^b TATAA Biocenter   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TAQ POLYMERASE;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; KINETICS OUTLIER DETECTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; RNA ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; KINETICS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA;

EID: 84857840695     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr778     Document Type: Article

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