Table 3.

Summary of Commercially Available Handheld Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Systems

Company	Item	Weight, kg	Footprint, cm2
Chai	Open quantitative PCRa	4	28.0 × 24.0
Ubiquitome	Freedom 4b	Not available	10.2 × 20.3
Ubiquitome	Liberty 16c	3.2	21.2 × 11.0
Amplyus	miniPCRb	0.45	12.7 × 5.1
Biomeme	Franklinb	0.91	About the size of a soda can

Abbreviation: PCR, polymerase chain reaction.

^aProduct information is from https://www.chaibio.com/openqpcr.

^bProduct information is from Reference 35.

^cProduct information is from https://insights.ubiquitomebio.com/liberty16-personal-qpcr- machine.