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 PCR Pooling

PCR Pooling is a tool to enable COVID-19 mass testing

Our software improves the throughput by up to 8x of rtPCR tests by providing instructions on how to mix multiple patient samples and using combinatorics to quickly identify the infected patients in a large batch Increase your current testing capacity by up to 8x with no new hardware or materials

Test patients in pools Rather than testing patient samples independently, PCR Pooling provides lab technicians with a protocol detailing how to mix patient samples into pools. Testing the pools (instead of patients independently) makes it possible to quickly and reliably infer which patients are healthy and infected, using mathematical tools.

The conventional method of independent sample screening creates a bottleneck where samples are queued until a well (or slot) in a PCR machine becomes available. PCR Pooling widens this bottleneck through informed mixing of patient samples into pools.