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US 2018/0163252 A1Published application
Square wave thermal cycling
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorAdam Steel
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Abstract
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and systems for analysis of melting temperatures, and particularly to analysis of duplex nucleic acids.
Claims21
1-14. (canceled)
A system for determining the melting temperature of a duplex nucleic acid molecule, said system comprising:
- a programmable thermal cycling apparatus;
- a detector;
- and
- a program for square wave thermal cycling, said program comprising instructions for:
- subjecting a solution comprising a double-stranded nucleic acid molecule to a square wave temperature gradient, said gradient comprising a range of temperatures that causes at least one transition of said double-stranded nucleic acid molecule to a single-stranded nucleic acid molecules;
- and
- detecting said at least one transition over the course of said square wave temperature gradient.
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23-46. (canceled)
A system for determining the melting temperature of a duplex nucleic acid molecule, the system comprising:
- a programmable thermal cycling apparatus;
- a detector;
- and
- a program for square wave thermal cycling, the program comprising instructions for:
- subjecting a solution comprising single-stranded nucleic acid molecules to a square wave temperature gradient, the gradient comprising a range of temperatures that causes at least one transition of the single-stranded nucleic acid molecules to double-stranded nucleic acid molecules;
- and
- detecting the at least one transition over the course of the square wave temperature gradient.
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