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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-