Bio-Rad PrimePCR Assays for model organism genomes

Bio-Rad Laboratories has launched predesigned PrimePCR Assays for six of the most common model organism genomes used for gene expression analysis: rhesus monkey, zebrafish, yeast, cow, rabbit and pig.

Assay validation is one of the most important steps in qPCR but is sometimes overlooked because researchers may be unaware of its importance in generating accurate results. In addition, validating assays can be laborious and time-consuming, especially when assays do not work and need to be redesigned and reordered.

Bio-Rad’s assays are fully validated in wet labs or in silico using the same algorithms and design rules. Performance is assured and the raw validation data is available to users. Researchers can use the assays to follow industry best practices known as MIQE (minimum information for publication of quantitative real-time PCR experiments).

The assays are available in SYBR Green- and probe-based formats for a wide range of targets; as PreAmp assays for preamplification; and as control assays and templates. The company also added more than 1000 predesigned, wet-lab validated disease and pathway PrimePCR Panels for the rat genome to the existing library of 20,000 fully validated PrimePCR rat genome assays for qPCR.