Return from ASM

Just got back from the ASM meeting in Orlando, FL. The meeting was good - amazing things being done with full genome comparisons, plus microarray gene expression analyses. Anyway, just a few notes here:

1) A new software package called CLC that is definately worth investigating. [http://www.clcbio.com/]

2) A product called Perfect Match® PCR Enhancer from Statagene. Here is the manual.

See an article by De Milito et al. 1995. I also found this comment in a molecular biology group:

"[Perfect match is] Tetramethyl Ammonium Chloride. It costs about $30 for 500 gms from Fisher, and stinks to high heaven.I titrated it between 10 uM (micromolar) and 1 nanomolar leaving allother conditions the same."

This is not verified information.

Cheers,
Stefan