[32] In my book "Believing Is Seeing" I tried to emphasize the importance of reference in photography — to uncovering the relationship between a photograph and the world.
This year, CILIP's Information Services Group, which awards an annual prize for outstanding works of reference, has teamed up with the Youth Libraries Group to recognise the importance of reference books for children, too, with a shortlist featuring Tiny, The Invisible World of Microbes, Animalium, and the Greenaway-winning Shackleton's Journey, a recent triumph for Flying Eye Books.
The present study, designed to assess the effects of a small city located in an agricultural river basin watershed on sticklebacks living in an adjacent river, underlines the importance of reference selection.
When Kahneman and Tversky (1984) speak of the importance of reference points for utility maximization, they reconcile ordinal utility theory with the observation that judgment and evaluations are based on prior experiences.
This report clearly demonstrates the critical importance of reference gene validation for all experimental conditions regarding significance, interpretation, and experimental outcome when using the sensitivity and reliability of qRT-PCR for assessment of relative gene expression.
In summary, further validation of the quantitative accuracy of deep sequencing is warranted, reinforcing the importance of reference controls to identify any biases that may be introduced.
The importance of reference genes for plant qPCR analysis has been recently emphasized even though the identification of these genes is quite laborious [ 9, 10].
Recognizing the importance of reference genes in normalization of RT-qPCR data, various housekeeping genes have been evaluated for stable expression under specific conditions in various organisms.
The importance of reference genes specific to a particular experimental set-up for normalization of RT-qPCR data is well-recognized.
