Open Access“Making it Real” Time
Author(s) -
Kent E. Vrana
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
biotechniques/biotechniques
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.617
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1940-9818
pISSN - 0736-6205
DOI - 10.2144/000114042
Subject(s) - polymerase chain reaction , real time polymerase chain reaction , computational biology , biology , genetics , gene
It has been 30 years since the first description of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)—corresponding, coincidentally, with the year of the first issue of BioTechniques. Ensuing decades have seen remarkable advances in this revolutionary technique. Central to these approaches was the creation of paradigms for monitoring the progress of PCR amplification in real time. One of these seminal reports appeared in BioTechniques in 1997, establishing the double-strand-specific dye SYBR Green as a workhorse tool for continuous monitoring of DNA amplification.