Evaluation of Palm PCRTM G1-12 System: a portable battery-operated PCR thermal cycler

摘要

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the basis of recombinant and other molecular biological techniques. Availability ofudcheap and robust PCR platforms enables the tests to be performed easily, even in resource constrained settings. Hereinudwe compared the efficacy of a portable thermal cycler ( Palm PCRTM G1-12 System) for rapid DNA amplification againstudthe standard Peltier-based thermal cycler using plasmid DNA and genomic DNA in single and multiplex PCR experiments.udOur study revealed that the Palm PCRTM G1-12 System could be a portable DNA amplification system to conduct variousudmolecular techniques, especially in places where resources are limited.