virus copy number - how to calculate from mass (Oct/30/2008 )
I am doing some endpoint titration PCRs using purified virus stocks. If I know the mass in pg of the assay's LOD and the MW of the virus. How do I calculate the number of copies this represents?
Thanks from a numbers-challenged molecular biologist
-molbiol1-
the same as you do for any chemistry calculation where you want to find the number of moles:
n=mass/MW
-bob1-