Table 4.
Polymerases and mastermixes.
| Name | Company | Price/ reaction* |
|---|---|---|
| Platinum™ Taq DNA Polymerase | Fisher Scientific, Vienna, Austria | 1.34 € |
| TaqMan™ Fast Advanced Master Mix mq | Fisher Scientific, Vienna, Austria | 0.87 € |
| AmpliTaq Gold™ DNA Polymerase | Fisher Scientific, Vienna, Austria | 0.73 € |
| Maxima Hot Start PCR Master Mixm | Fisher Scientific, Vienna, Austria | 0.72 € |
| SsoAdvanced™ Universal Probes Supermix mq | Bio-Rad, Munich, Germany | 0.56 € |
| Maxima Probe/ROX qPCR Master Mix mq | Fisher Scientific, Vienna, Austria | 0.55 € |
| iTaq™ Universal Probes Supermix m,q | Bio-Rad, Munich, Germany | 0.49 € |
| Hot Start Taq DNA Polymerase | New England BioLabs, Frankfurt, Germany | 0.40 € |
| BioThermAB™ Hot Start Taq DNA Polymerase | BioAxis Genecraft, Cologne, Germany | 0.24 € |
| BioThermPlus™ DNA Polymerase | BioAxis Genecraft, Cologne, Germany | 0.23 € |
| BioThermBio™ Taq DNA Polymerase | BioAxis Genecraft, Cologne, Germany | 0.15 € |
mready-to- use-mastermix; qfor qPCR.
*
calculated from 2017 price lists for the largest package size without discounts or promotions. For standalone polymerases 1.5 U per reaction were used and prices calculated accordingly.