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. 2013 Nov;10(11):1063-7.
doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2697.

The need for transparency and good practices in the qPCR literature

Stephen A Bustin  1 , Vladimir Benes, Jeremy Garson, Jan Hellemans, Jim Huggett, Mikael Kubista, Reinhold Mueller, Tania Nolan, Michael W Pfaffl, Gregory Shipley, Carl T Wittwer, Peter Schjerling, Philip J Day, Mónica Abreu, Begoña Aguado, Jean-François Beaulieu, Anneleen Beckers, Sara Bogaert, John A Browne, Fernando Carrasco-Ramiro, Liesbeth Ceelen, Kate Ciborowski, Pieter Cornillie, Stephanie Coulon, Ann Cuypers, Sara De Brouwer, Leentje De Ceuninck, Jurgen De Craene, Hélène De Naeyer, Ward De Spiegelaere, Kato Deckers, Annelies Dheedene, Kaat Durinck, Margarida Ferreira-Teixeira, Annelies Fieuw, Jack M Gallup, Sandra Gonzalo-Flores, Karen Goossens, Femke Heindryckx, Elizabeth Herring, Hans Hoenicka, Laura Icardi, Rolf Jaggi, Farzad Javad, Michael Karampelias, Frederick Kibenge, Molly Kibenge, Candy Kumps, Irina Lambertz, Tim Lammens, Amelia Markey, Peter Messiaen, Evelien Mets, Sofia Morais, Alberto Mudarra-Rubio, Justine Nakiwala, Hilde Nelis, Pal A Olsvik, Claudina Pérez-Novo, Michelle Plusquin, Tony Remans, Ali Rihani, Paulo Rodrigues-Santos, Pieter Rondou, Rebecca Sanders, Katharina Schmidt-Bleek, Kerstin Skovgaard, Karen Smeets, Laura Tabera, Stefan Toegel, Tim Van Acker, Wim Van den Broeck, Joni Van der Meulen, Mireille Van Gele, Gert Van Peer, Mario Van Poucke, Nadine Van Roy, Sarah Vergult, Joris Wauman, Marina Tshuikina-Wiklander, Erik Willems, Sara Zaccara, Fjoralba Zeka, Jo Vandesompele
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The need for transparency and good practices in the qPCR literature

Stephen A Bustin et al. Nat Methods. 2013 Nov.

Abstract

Two surveys of over 1,700 publications whose authors use quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) reveal a lack of transparent and comprehensive reporting of essential technical information. Reporting standards are significantly improved in publications that cite the Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments (MIQE) guidelines, although such publications are still vastly outnumbered by those that do not.

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