The assessment of the performance of molecular assays would benefit from quantifying the resolution of molecular concentration — a new metric that we propose and evaluate here.
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We thank M. Tirlea and M. Sklar of the Stanford Statistics Group for helpful discussions. This work was supported by the Chan–Zuckerberg Biohub investigator program, the National Institutes of Health (NIH, OT2OD025342) and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University.
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Wilson, B.D., Eisenstein, M. & Soh, H.T. Comparing assays via the resolution of molecular concentration. Nat. Biomed. Eng 6, 227–231 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-021-00832-8
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