Who is the best provider of agarose (quality vs price) for analysis of PCR products?

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Nadine A. Gund

Try the agrose from "Roth" (--> Neeo Quality) . The Low melting agarose and other special agarose are from "Biozym".

All the best, Nadine

Roger S Rowlett

We buy whatever is cheapest. It all melts fine in the chaotropic reagents used in the gel purification kits.

Haitham E. M. Zaki

This actually depends on the purpose of the PCR. Is it to study the expression? or for example to check the size of the bands like in SSR.

François W. Paradis

We use 2% agarose gel electrophoresis in TBE buffer to check PCR products of different sizes ranging from 90 bps up to 350 bps. Our brand does not dissolve well and we can not get rid of some filamentous contaminants even after boiling for an extended period of time. Thank you for your answers, it is appreciated.