Analysis of TaqMan Array Cards Data by an Assumption-Free Improvement of the maxRatio Algorithm Is More Accurate than the Cycle-Threshold Method

• Luigi Marongiu ,

  * E-mail: luigi.marongiu@ed.ac.uk

  Current address: The Roslin Institute and The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4720-7087

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• Eric Shain,

  Affiliation Grove Street Technology LLC, 459 Grove Street, Glencoe, Illinois, 60022, United States of America

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• Lydia Drumright,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom

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• Reidun Lillestøl,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom

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• Donald Somasunderam,

  Affiliation Public Health England, Clinical Microbiology and Public Health Laboratory, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 0QW, United Kingdom

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• Martin D. Curran

  Affiliation Public Health England, Clinical Microbiology and Public Health Laboratory, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 0QW, United Kingdom

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