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Examining cost-effectiveness is also important, as practitioners are constantly asked to do more with less, and patients face the threat of cuts in essential services in order to trim budgets.
Working from a trim novel by Tom Perrotta, Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor don't squander their resources on crowds or parades or elaborate spoofs of ceremony, the way most political satires tend to do.
In addition to extending the primer adapter, the 3'-5' exonuclease activity of Klenow should trim 3' polyTs in excess of the 18 bps complementary to the adapter, and allow fill in of the appropriate complementary bases (Fig 1).
A lower limit of detection was previously defined using our platform by developing a negative control threshold in order to assign a confidence level to such signal or noise queries [ 6 ] . Briefly, this threshold was determined by taking the mean signal of bacterial negative control probes mentioned above (minus a 10% trim to account for weak cross hybridization of high expressers or for true hybridization to sequences not in the database) and adding three standard deviations (99.
Another approach would be to trim the outliers from the distribution and estimate the standard error of the mean of the trimmed data set, assuming that the outliers can be identified and the underlying distribution is normal.