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At Frontage, we routinely perform accurate, precise, and ultrasensitive quantification ddPCR assays for DNA and RNA to support several applications, including pharmacokinetics (e.g., DNA, mRNA, and oligonucleotide drugs), pharmacodynamics (e.g., gene expression analysis), pharmacogenomics (e.g., mutations and DNA copy number variation), safety (e.g., viral shedding, biodistribution, etc.) and microbial quantification.
ddPCR (droplet digital PCR) is a digital PCR method based on water-oil emulsion droplet technology. A small (~22 μL) reaction mix is fractionated into ~20,000 droplets, such that the vast majority of droplets contain either zero or one copy of the template. PCR amplification occurs in each individual droplet during a standard PCR reaction. After the reaction, each droplet is analyzed to determine whether amplification of the template occurred, and the result is then converted to the template copy number in the original reaction mix using a Poisson Distribution Analysis. ddPCR results thus provide direct quantifications of templates as standard curves are not needed.
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