Rapid DNA – a technology for rapid automated DNA profile analysis based on STR loci polymorphism

Abstract

Since the mid-1990s of the last century, DNA research has become synonymous with scientific progress in forensics. DNA profiling based on the analysis of STR loci polymorphism is considered the gold standard and constitutes an invaluable source of information, enabling, inter alia, the identification of suspects and wanted persons and the identification of corpses, including that based on kinship analysis. However, such analysis is laborious and time-consuming. To reduce this inconvenience, a technology described as rapid DNA has been developed.