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  • KrispyKareme2
    Junior Member
    • Mar 2011
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    Making 10 nM dilutions from base pairs and ng/ul

    So I have a DNA sample that's 330 base pairs in size with a concentration of 51 ng/ul. Can anyone walk me through how to make a 10 nm dilution?
  • TonyBrooks
    Senior Member
    • Jun 2009
    • 303

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    Originally posted by KrispyKareme2 View Post
    So I have a DNA sample that's 330 base pairs in size with a concentration of 51 ng/ul. Can anyone walk me through how to make a 10 nm dilution?
    Current concentration can be worked out as follows

    (ng/µL * 10^6) / 649 * bp)

    649 is an estimate of the molecular weight of a double stranded base pair, so molecular weight of your DNA should be 214170 g/mol if the length is 330bp. The 10^6 is a conversion parameter as you need to convert between grams, nanograms, litres, microlitres, molar and nonomolars in the equation.

    Your sample has an ~concentration of 238nM.
    You can then work out your dilution from that, e.g. 2.1µL of sample plus 47.9µL of EB would give you 50µL of 10nM stock

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    • SciencePrimer
      Junior Member
      • Jul 2013
      • 1

      #3
      This calculator will take concentration in ng/ul and template length and calculate the dilution required to make stock nM solutions:

      Converting concentrations from ng/μl to nM is a common task in molecular biology labs. The need arises because quantification methods for DNA typically measure the mass per volume of nucleotides in a sample. But, many techniques (including DNA sequencing) require a known number of molecules (moles or nanomoles) to be added. As a result, we often have to convert a concentration

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      • microgirl123
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        • Jun 2012
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        Hi Andrew!

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