Table 1:

Detection limits for most common protein stains.

Stain	Detection limit (ng per gel band)	References
Coomassie	30–100	[24, 25]
Colloidal Coomassie	1–16	[24, 26]
Silver stain	0.5–1	[27, 28]
DiGE (Cy2/Cy3/Cy5)	0.025	[29]