How to Interpret Agarose Gel Data: The basics

How to Interpret Agarose Gel Data: The basics

This text introduces how to interpret an agarose gel to estimate the molecular weight and assess the purity of a nucleic acid sample.

Topics

  • agarose
  • gel
  • agarose gel
  • gel electrophoresis
  • DNA
  • DNA fragment
  • genomic DNA
  • DNA conformation
  • relaxed circular DNA
  • linear DNA
  • supercoiled DNA
  • DNA ladder
  • molecular weight
  • bp
  • ethidium bromide
  • DNA purity