Semi-Nonquantitative ???

[Brian A. Hollander]

My understanding of semi-quantitative, admittedly without any specific 
reference, is that it refers to relative amounts. As an example, one does 
a western blot of three separate treatments and uses a densitometer to 
get an O.D. You now have 3 O.D. values that can tell you which treatment, 
if any, alters the level of the protein the wetern was designed to look 
for. In fact you have a rough idea of by how much the protein level is 
altered (ie. by the O.D. values). However you have no quatitative data 
on the protein in terms of absolute amounts. Thus these data yeild 
semi-quantitative information. Again, this is only how I've interpreted 
the phrase in various papers and others may be more informed on this than I. 

BAH

On 6 Feb 1995, Joanne Ownbey wrote:

> jordan at mbcrr.harvard.edu (Rob Jordan) wrote:
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> Sounds like partial sunny or partial cloudy to me. ;-)
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