Nucleic acid methods are the techniques used to study nucleic acids (DNA and RNA).
- Purification
- Phenol-chloroform extraction
- minicolumn purification
- RNA extraction
- Boom method
- Quantification
- Abundance in weight: spectroscopic quantification
- Absolute abundance in number: Q-PCR
- high-throughput relative abundance DNA microarray
- high-throughput absolute abundance SAGE
- Size: Gel electrophoresis
- Synthesis
- De novo: Oligonucleotide synthesis
- Amplification: PCR
- Kinetics
- Dual polarization interferometry
- QCM-D
- Other
- Nucleic acid simulations
- DNA sequencing
- Bisulfite sequencing
- Expression cloning
- Southern blot
- Northern blot
- Sucrose gradient centrifugation
- Radioactivity in biological research
- Lab-on-a-chip
- Nuclear run-on assay
- Fluorescent in situ hybridization
- several Bioinformatics methods, such as RNA structure prediction
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