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A comprehensive collection of experimentally validated primers for Polymerase Chain Reaction quantitation of murine transcript abundance

Athanasia Spandidos1,2, Xiaowei Wang1,2,3, Huajun Wang1,2, Stefan Dragnev1,2,4, Tara Thurber1,2 and Brian Seed1,2*

Author Affiliations

1 Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital. MA, USA

2 Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114-2790, USA

3 Division of Bioinformatics and Outcomes Research, Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, 4921 Parkview Place, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA

4 Idearc Media Corp, 1601 Trapelo Road, Waltham, MA 02451, USA

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BMC Genomics 2008, 9:633 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-633

Published: 24 December 2008

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Five representative examples of primer pairs that were successful throughout the validation procedure.

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Five representative examples of primer pairs that failed based on agarose gel analysis.

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Five representative examples of primer pairs that failed based on BLAST analysis.

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Information for mouse primer pairs from PrimerBank tested using QPCR.

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NCBI BLAST analysis of successfully sequenced PCR products.

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Validation of 96 PrimerBank primer pairs which had failed QPCR during the high-throughput validation procedure.

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Validation of 96 PrimerBank primer pairs which had failed QPCR during the high-throughput validation procedure.

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Analysis of technical replicate experiments.

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Analysis of individual primer pairs from technical replicate experiments.

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Frequency distributions of log normal data from five technical replicate tests.

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Comparison of pipetting variation between manual and robotic liquid transfer.

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Amplicons used for SYBR Green I sequence specificity experiments.

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SYBR Green I binding to dsDNA of increasing length and AT%.

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Amplification efficiency estimation from single reaction kinetics data.

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Amplification efficiency estimation using analytical and standard curve methods.

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One-way ANOVA test to determine if amplification efficiency varies significantly between different PrimerBank primer pairs.

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PrimerBank primer pair groups used for one-way ANOVA analysis.

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