Creating standard curve - (Jul/23/2008 )

I have lyophilised sequence with OD260=70.2nM. I do not know how to count the copies to creat standard curve. Please help me. This is the first time I use Realtime PCR.

Hi,
to draw an accurate standard curve you can do as follows;
first you should convert the mass to molecules using the below formula (the amount of template should be expresseed in molecules):

Mass (grams) X avogadro's number
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average molecular weight of a base X template length

eg. if 0.8 pg of a synthetic 75-mer single stranded oligonucleotide is used , we'll have:

0.8 X 10^-12 X 6.023 X 10²³
___________________________________ = 2 X 10⁷ molecules (copies) of DNA
330 X 75

(for double stranded template you should use 660 instead of 330)
to generate a standard curve prepare seven 10-fold dilutios starting with 1X10⁷ copies and ending with 10 copies. most instruments have softwares that draw standard curve but you can use excel too (drawing the log template as x value and Ct as the y value).
if you are using semiquantitative real-time you can easily prepare 4 dilutions of 100, 80, 40 and 20 ug/ml of template DNA and draw a standard curve.