Mango Taq
News from the Vendor Show:
A big PFTTTTTTTTTTT! for this innovation. Add some orange color and sell your polymerase as Mango Taq! It leaves an A overhang! Note to BioLine’s QC team: it leaves an A overhang because it doesn’t have proofreading ability so pehaps you should market is as a new and improved ” low-fidelity Taq for all your mutagenic needs!”
Verdict: I’ll stick with Taq Plus Precision from Stratagene.
Rumor mill: a favorite sales rep changes jobs……..goodbye and thanks! See you at the bar!
January 27th, 2006 at 7:44 am
Hi,
We know it leaves and A overhang due to lack of proofreading ability thanks !!! MangoTaq, ReddyMix, RedTaq etc etc are all gmiimicky names used by various companies to “posh up” their products. (Sigma went a bit too far with Red Taq Ready Mix me thinks though !)So, why should we not do the same ? You make out that we are claiming it is a high fidelity taq. If you read the product description, it will tell you that it is for routine applications and as such is as “low fidelity” as any other polymerase lacking proof reading ability.
Many Thanks for reading.
Bioline Sales Manager (UK)
January 28th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
Thanks for reading. I’m just amazed that people get paid to think up innovations such as MangoTaq, LyseBlue, etc. Unfortunately, the majority of innovations are neither innovative nor improvements. How many ways can you really make/market oligos or TAQfor example?
Meanwhile, I’m still waiting for some real innovation from anybody.
May 11th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Pehaps you should work on your proof-reading abilities. Mango taq works well for standard genotyping which we use. For large sample numbers, the addition of the dye to the PCR mix facilitates rapid movement from the PCR machine to running on a gel.