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From the November/December 2012 Issue

uAnalyze: Web-Based High-Resolution DNA Melting Analysis with Comparison to Thermodynamic Predictions

By Zachary L. Dwight, Robert Palais, Carl T. Wittwer

uAnalyze^SM is a web-based tool for analyzing high-resolution melting data of PCR products. PCR product sequence is input by the user and recursive nearest neighbor thermodynamic calculations used to predict a melting curve similar to uMELT (http://www.dna.utah.edu/umelt/umelt.html). Unprocessed melting data are input directly from LightScanner-96, LS32, or HR-1 data files or via a generic format for other instruments. A fluorescence discriminator identifies low intensity samples to prevent analysis of data that cannot be adequately normalized. Temperature regions that define fluorescence background are initialized by prediction and optionally adjusted by the user. Background is removed either as an exponential or by linear baseline extrapolation.

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