The MIQE Revolution: implementation of standards for the reporting of quantitative PCR studies

• Main Author: Duncan Ayers
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IJCTO 2014-03-01
• Series: International Journal of Cancer Therapy and Oncology
• Subjects: qPCR; MIQE; Guidelines; Standardisation
• Online Access: http://ijcto.org/index.php/IJCTO/article/view/66

<p>The discovery of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) a few decades ago initiated a global impact on the entirety of the medical and life sciences research spheres. Nowadays, essentially all laboratories focusing on such vital research employ in-house PCR techniques on a near-daily basis, due to the wide spectrum of applications which PCR technology can adopt itself to. Unfortunately, ubiquitously available and affordable technologies, such as RT-qPCR, do have a major passive drawback: inter-laboratory reproducibility. Variations in the routine methodologies implemented by individual laboratories can inevitably lead to severe lapse of data robustness and reliability for publication in peer-reviewed journals. In order to address this pressing issue, a consortium of eminent research group leaders in the field of RT-qPCR technology decided to propose a distinct set of standardized guidelines for the reporting of RT-qPCR study results, known as the Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real Time PCR Experiments (MIQE), which were published in early 2009.² This concept is very much similar to the one leading to the development of the Minimum Information for Microarray Experimets (MIAME) guidelines for reporting of microarray-based studies. In order to address this pressing issue, a consortium of eminent research group leaders in the field of RT-qPCR technology decided to propose a distinct set of standardized guidelines for the reporting of RT-qPCR study results, known as the Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real Time PCR Experiments (MIQE), which were published in early 2009. This concept is very much similar to the one leading to the development of the Minimum Information for Microarray Experimets (MIAME) guidelines for reporting of microarray-based studies.</p><p>-------------------</p><p><strong>Cite this article as:</strong> Ayers D. The MIQE Revolution: Implementation of standards for the reporting of quantitative PCR studies. Int J Cancer Ther Oncol 2014; 2(2):02026. <strong>DOI: 10.14319/ijcto.0202.6</strong></p>