qpcR: An R package for sigmoidal model selection in quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis

Abstract

Summary: The qpcR library is an add-on to the free R statistical environment performing sigmoidal model selection in real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) data analysis. Additionally, the package implements the most commonly used algorithms for real-time PCR data analysis and is capable of extensive statistical comparison for the selection and evaluation of the different models based on several measures of goodness of fit. © The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.