Nucleic acid Melting Curve Analysis is a powerful method to
investigate the interaction of double stranded nucleic acids. The MBmca package
provides data sets and lightweight utilities for nucleic acid melting curve
analysis and presentation on microbead surfaces. However, the function of the
package can also be used for the analysis of reactions in solution (e.g., qPCR).
Methods include melting curve data pre-processing (smooth, normalize, rotate,
background subtraction), data inspection (comparison of multiplex melting
curves) with location parameters (mean, median), deviation parameters (standard
of the melting peaks including the second derivative. The second derivative
melting peaks is implemented as parameter to further characterize the melting
behavior. Plot functions to illustrate data quality, smoothed curves and
derivatives are available too.
Details
Package:
MBmca
Type:
Package
Version:
0.0.3-4
Date:
2014-08-17
License: GPL (>= 2)
Author(s)
Stefan Roediger <stefan_roediger@gmx.de>
References
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