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User group adopts new guidance for species-specific PCR assays and method naming
Summary
At the Council’s December user-group meeting, staff said they will add a vocabulary business rule to record species-specific PCR assay details (DNA source, target gene, primer/probe sequences) and standardize method names to include edition/year to align with ELAP and U.S. EPA guidance.
At the December user-group meeting of the California Water Quality Monitoring Council, database manager Tessa Foggitt said staff will add new vocabulary business rules to capture species-specific PCR assay details and to standardize how laboratory methods are named.
"It specifies the DNA source, which would either be mitochondrial, nuclear, or chloroplast," Foggitt said, adding that descriptions will include the forward and reverse primer sequences and probe sequence when…
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