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Jim Huggett
LGC Group
UK
EMBL Course
Real-time PCR has been adopted as the gold standard for nucleic acid target quantification in genomics research and is increasingly used for clinical analysis. However, there are some applications, such as precise measurement of copy number variation, low-abundance sequence detection, detection of rare mutations, including distinguishing rare sequences in tumours, and low-level gene expression analysis, where real-time PCR shows limitations. Digital PCR overcomes those limitations by enabling researchers to directly quantify nucleic acids, without the need for a standard curve, and provides higher precision than real-time PCR.
Researchers entering the field of ddPCR.
This course will show you how to plan, perform, and analyse digital PCR experiments and how digital PCR can help your research to overcome the limitations of real-time PCR.
LGC Group
UK
National Institute of Biology
Slovenia
University Paris Descartes
France
Ghent Universit
Belgium
Ghent University
Belgium
LGC Group
UK
LGC Group
UK
Ghent University
Belgium
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Date: 27 - 29 Nov 2018
Location: EMBL Heidelberg