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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2002
Applicants:
Roger Taylor, San Diego, CA (US);
Alan Ridgeway Orr, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Roger Taylor, San Diego, CA (US);
Alan Ridgeway Orr, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Stratagene California, La Jolla, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to baseline subtraction algorithms developed to reduce tube-to-tube and cycle-to-cycle variabilities during real time PCR amplification. Particularly, the invention relates to algorithms for determining the threshold cycle for the first reliable detection of the amplified nucleic acid product. The invention also relates to computer programs comprising the algorithm and methods and/systems implementing the algorithm.