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First, thank you! This is so cool! Question for you -- are these types of methods used in labs already? It seems the false positive issue could be overcome if

First, thank you! This is so cool! Question for you -- are these types of methods used in labs already? It seems the false positive issue could be overcome if you just re-test anything that is positive separately, wouldn't that work?

pwoolf 7y ago
Welcome, I enjoy it too. And yes, multiplex designs are used in quite a few lab settings. Quality control in factory settings and all over the place in bioinformatics. And yes, you can overcome the false positives by retesting. The nice thing about nonadaptive designs is that in most cases you don't need to re-test because the right answer just falls out. If you do need to retest, the design flags that too. Yay for math!