Table 2.
Price and performance rating.
| Performances |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Average performance | prfA Poisson | ΔprfA Poisson | prfA PCR-Stop | ΔprfA PCR-Stop | |
| Platinum™Taq DNA Polymerase | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| TaqMan™ Fast Advanced Master Mix | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| AmpliTaq Gold™ DNA Polymerase | 2 | 4.5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| Maxima Hot Start PCR Master Mix | 2 | 4.75 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| SsoAdvanced™ Universal Probes Supermix | 3 | 4.25 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| Maxima Probe/ROX qPCR Master Mix | 3 | 4.25 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| iTaq™ Universal Probes Supermix | 3 | 4.25 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Hot Start Taq DNA Polymerase | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| BioThermAB™ Hot Start Taq DNA Polymerase | 4 | 4.25 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| BioThermPlus™ DNA Polymerase | 4 | 2.5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| BioThermBio™ Taq DNA Polymerase | 5 | 2.25 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
Price categories (price [€] per reaction): 5: very inexpensive (< 0.20); 4: inexpensive (0.21 – 0.40); 3: medium-priced (0.41 - 0.60); 2: expensive (0.61 - 0.99); 1: very expensive (> 1.00).
Performance categories: 5: excellent; 4: good; 3: average; 2: fair; 1: poor.