Technical notes
Technical notes
Practical guides from our molecular biologists on setting up, running and checking Bandit panels in your laboratory.
- Setup and verificationRead
Checking Panel Performance in Your Laboratory
A practical outline for checking how a Bandit panel performs on your own instruments, sample types and workflow before routine use.
- HandlingRead
Storing and Handling Bandit qPCR Panels
How to store, thaw, mix and set up Bandit panels, master mixes and positive controls so every run starts from reagents in good condition.
- OrderingRead
Complete Kits, À La Carte and Ready-2-Test: Choosing a Kit Format
The difference between a complete kit, panel-only and master-mix-only orders, and Ready-2-Test pre-mixed tubes, and how to choose between them.
- InstrumentsRead
Running Bandit Biosystems Panels on Your qPCR Instrument
Practical setup tips for running four-dye multiplex panels on Bio-Rad CFX, Roche LightCycler 480 and Applied Biosystems QuantStudio and 7500 instruments.
- Panel designRead
How to Read a Tube and Dye Layout
What the tube and dye layout on a multiplex qPCR product page tells you, using the Canine Enteric Pathogen panel as a worked example.
- ControlsRead
Internal and Positive Controls in Multiplex qPCR
The difference between internal, positive and no-template controls, and how each one helps a laboratory trust a multiplex qPCR result.
- TargetsRead
Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Women's Health Research Panels
A guide to the resistance gene families in our women's health and antibiotic resistance panels, and what gene detection can and cannot tell you.
- Custom assaysRead
Custom Assay Development: From Target List to Finished Kit
How a Bandit Biosystems custom qPCR project runs, what to send us to get started, and typical timelines.
- NGSRead
RhinoSeq™: DNA Library Prep in 20 to 40 Minutes
How RhinoSeq™ builds Illumina-ready DNA libraries in a single tube from as little as 10 ng of DNA, and how to choose kit and index sizes.
Posters and earlier notes
- NGSRead
Understanding NGS Library Complexity: Sources of Sequencing Errors and Limits of Detection
How library complexity affects error rates and detection limits in next-generation sequencing. Originally published by SeqOnce Biosciences.
- PosterRead
RhinoSeq™ ASHG 2019 poster
A 12-minute, single-tube, nanogram-input library prep for multiple NGS applications.
- PosterRead
RhinoSeq™ ABRF 2019 poster
Workflow and library quality results for RhinoSeq™.
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