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The main cost isn't per sample, it's the amount of time the machine takes to sequence enough fragments of RNA to achieve statistical significance. If you combin
by tlb 7y ago
The main cost isn't per sample, it's the amount of time the machine takes to sequence enough fragments of RNA to achieve statistical significance. If you combine samples and want to not miss anything, you need to run it for longer.
- voidmain 7y agoRealtime PCR isn't sequencing. It increases the concentration of the targeted sequence exponentially, so it "should" take only logarithmically more temperature cycles to handle a smaller concentration of virus . If that is actually a big contributor to the testing cost, it would make the log in my analysis into a log^2.