title: Explanatory chapter: nucleic acid concentration determination.
abstract: This protocol describes a method for determining the concentration of a nucleic acid sample.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: skolitz@mit.edu.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kolitz
authors.forename: Jon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lorsch
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded / Q000032:analysis; D009696:Nucleic Acids / Q000032:analysis*; D013053:Spectrophotometry / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded; D009696:Nucleic Acids
keywords: Absorbance value determination; Beer's law; NanoDrop spectrophotometer; Nucleic acid; Spectrophotometer; single-stranded DNA