CsCl vs column kits

[Peter Myler]

On 30 Mar 1995, cynthia stryker wrote:

> We are still doing CsCl plasmid (&sometimes genomic) preps.  I'd 
> appreciate comments, + or -, on the various column kits available. 
> Thanks in advance.  Cindy at UNL
> 
> 
Cindy:

IMO, CsCl plasmid preps are a complete was of time - we have done one for 
years.  Any of the commericial kits is probably fine (we use Promega 
Wizard and QIAGEN kits) and there are many published miniprep methods 
(mostly based on alkaline lysis) which work just fine for digestion and 
sequencing and take 1/10 th of the time of CsCl preps. 

Peter

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