Current Protocols Launches Current Protocols Essential Laboratory Techniques

Current Protocols Essential Laboratory Techniques (CPET) provides every researcher with the skills and understanding of fundamental laboratory procedures needed to ensure greater success at the bench. CPET takes the novice researcher from very basic skills like weight and volume measurement, through reagent preparation and the use of routine instrumentation, and finally into advanced topics such as real-time PCR and bioinformatics. In addition CPET:

• Teaches new investigators how to formulate basic research questions and plan the experiments needed to answer them
• Describes solution chemistry and preparation
• Covers basic laboratory safety
• Provides instruction on the care and use of common equipment such as pH meters, spectrophotometers, centrifuges, and microscopes
• Teaches how to manage information from lab notebooks, images, and literature references, as well as manuscript preparation
• Details modern bioinformatics techniques
• Provides practical guides to outsourcing tasks such as sequencing and oligonucleotide synthesis