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Table 3 MELTING error margin for sodium equivalence formulae

From: MELTING, a flexible platform to predict the melting temperatures of nucleic acids

MELTING 4

Approximative formula

Sodium equivalence formula

Error percentage

wet91 [4]

none

66.86

MELTING 5

Approximative formula

Sodium equivalence formula

Error percentage

wetdna91 [4]

ahs01 [15]

3.5

wetdna91 [4]

mit96 [37]

3.6

wetdna91 [4]

pey00 [38]

3.4

  1. Error margin in percents between experimental melting temperatures and temperatures computed with each sodium and magnesium equivalence formula implemented by MELTING.