MIQE & qPCR
How to apply the MIQE guidelines - a visual, interactive and practical qPCR guide
2nd edition published 26th July 2016
Editors:  Afif M. Abdel Nour & Michael W. Pfaffl
ISBN 9783000488061
Free download via iTunes  https://itunes.apple.com/book/miqe-qpcr/id993276375?mt=11
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MIQE & qPCR Preface:   The qPCR and dPCR MIQE guidelines – A success story!
(Editorial for 2nd edition published in July 2016)

The MIQE guidelines and the resulting scientific validity will be supported by more and more researchers, biological journals, academic and commercial institutions. Today in July 2016 we count more than 4600 citations for the MIQE guideline applied in qPCR and around160 citations for the digital PCR (dPCR) MIQE guideline (measured by Google Scholar). Hence the qPCR and dPCR MIQE guidelines are a worldwide full success story which will be driven forward by the scientific community, e.g. MIQE.Gene-Quantification.info

The present second edition of the MIQE & qPCR iBook should help to spread this MIQE idea even further in any laboratory worldwide and beyond in the scientists’ workflow and minds. It should clearly show how to apply the guidelines and serve as a handy, visual, interactive and practical guide. For now in the first year after publication of the first edition we could count more than 1200 downloads of the MIQE & qPCR iBook from more than 30 countries. Our goal for the second edition is to update the existing content by new chapters, and to improve this fancy interactive tool, interfacing scientific publications with educating pictures, videos and scientific talks. We implemented multiple new chapters, describing the significance of the reverse transcription reaction, why PCR assay validation is so important for high sensitivity and good reproducibility, and one reviewing chapter about the necessity of performing quality control at all levels in the qPCR workflow. In summary we are proud to present a selection of international highly recognized authors from the academic field as well from industrial research presenting their latest applications. Described qPCR / dPCR methods and applications are linked to the MIQE context and show it on the basis of educational questionnaires or interactive ‘how to do’ instruction sheets. The at-hand MIQE & qPCR iBook should deliver the MIQE guidelines directly to the researcher and help to solve the daily problems in the molecular biology laboratory using quantitative PCR, digital PCR, single-cell qPCR, microRNA applications or any comparable techniques using PCR.

We hope you like our explanatory, interactive and educational iBook concept, showing the advantages of the MIQE guidelines in an easy and understandable way, and to guarantee the successful qPCR or dPCR application at the lab bench.

The editors
Afif M. Abdel Nour & Michael W. Pfaffl