qPCR Data Analysis: Unlocking the Secret to Successful Results
Jan Hellemans and Jo Vandesompele
from: PCR Troubleshooting and Optimization: The Essential Guide (Edited by: Suzanne Kennedy and Nick Oswald). Caister Academic Press, U.K. (2011)
Abstract
Real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) is the gold standard for fast, accurate, sensitive and cost-efficient gene expression analysis. Despite its conceptual simplicity and ease of use, the multi-step qPCR workflow contains many potential pitfalls. An intelligent experiment design and setup, high quality reagents and assays, quality controls in each step of the workflow, proper quantification models and appropriate bio-statistical analyses pave the way to successful gene expression results. This chapter will cover all data analysis aspects from the evaluation of pilot studies and quality controls, through universally applicable quantification models and bio-statistics, to the reporting of experiment results read more ...
