The prisoners have told their stories to relatives using cellphones they kept with them as they were rounded up, shedding a bit of light on the militants' ideology and movements.
Cq values were used directly for stability calculations for BestKeeper or were transformed to relative quantities using delta-Cq method (geNorm, NormFinder).
Samples were concentrated to relative dryness using a rotary evaporator, and redissolved in 1 mL chloroform.
These data were transformed to relative quantities using the 2-ΔCt formula.
For the analysis of qPCR expression data Cp values were transformed to relative quantities using the comparative Cp method.
The advantage of SAGE is that it provides absolute quantification of transcripts compared to relative quantification using microarrays.
Besides, a stopping criterion related to relative residual is used to conveniently obtain the numerical solution with the desired accuracy.
The measured Ct values were converted to relative expression level using the ΔΔCt method.
