Simple bulk readout of digital nucleic acid quantification assays

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn 2015, Issue 103, 2015, Pages

  Morinishi, Leanna S ^a   Blainey, Paul ^b  

^a BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital assay; Emulsion; Issue 103; MDA; Microdroplets; Microfluidics; Molecular biology; Nucleic acids; PCR; Single cell; Single molecule; Whole genome amplification

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; NUCLEIC ACID; VIRUS DNA;

BIOASSAY; CHEMISTRY; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; LAB ON A CHIP; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DNA, VIRAL; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84942898300     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/52925     Document Type: Article

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