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FMBIO^® STaRCall™

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STaRCall™ is the software program that genotypes gel electrophoresis data for the Hitachi FMBIO^® system. Sizes from the FMBIO^® Analysis Software are imported into STaRCall, similar to the process used on GS/GT software on the CE platform. This program is similar in process to Genotyper^®.

Allelic ladders are used to size the fragments from adjacent lanes; the closer the ladders are to the samples being run, the more precise the sizing. Where Genotyper^® has a bin set associated with its macros, STaRCall™ has STR look-up tables maintained in Microsoft Excel. Optical density units are used to quantitate the fragments as the data is reviewed.

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