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Transitioning your assay from quantitative PCR to droplet digital PCR
28 Mar 2022In this application note, Bio-Rad discusses migrating assays from real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) to Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR). These two PCR methods determine the concentration of sample DNA using fundamentally different approaches and a bridging study between the two methods presents data demonstrating the differences and similarities to consider.
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