Choose your ideal PCR Polymerase
Jena Bioscience offers a range of high performance DNA polymerases. We've got something for you whether you're running routine PCR, screening reactions, high throughput assays or reactions that require higher accuracy. Click on the links below to see more about the individual polymerases:
| Enzyme | Efficiency / Yield | Specificity | Fidelity / Error rate | Application |
| Taq Polymerase Taq Pol (PCR-420) |
++ | ++ | 10-5 | Standard PCR / optimized for minimal by-product formation Routine and plate based PCR, automated pipetting |
| Hot Start Taq Polymerase Hot Start Core Kit Apta+ (PCR-215) |
++ | +++ | 10-5 | High specificity PCR / high sensitivity PCR High throughput PCR |
| Hot Start Pol Ab+ (PCR-423) | ++ | ++++ | 10-5 | High specificity PCR / high sensitivity PCR Diagnostic PCR |
| High Fidelity Polymerase High Fidelity Core Kit (PCR-234) |
+++ | ++ | 2 x 10-6 | High fidelity PCR / long range PCR (> 30 kb) Amplification of GC-rich / difficult templates |
| Pfu-X Core Kit (PCR-237) | +++ | +++ | 2 x 10-7 | High speed amplification with highest fidelity Amplification of difficult and long templates |
| Ultra DNA Pol (PCR-391) | +++ | +++ | n/a | Robust and fast PCR amplification of templates from difficult matrices |
Taq Polymerase is an affordable, versatile and robust polymerase for routine PCR applications (up to 4 kb fragment length). The enzyme works for most PCR reactions and primer-template combinations and the very robust enzyme-buffer system guarantees robust and reliable amplification.
Hot Start Polymerases are ideal for detection of low copy number templates. The polymerase activity is blocked at ambient temperature and switched on automatically at the onset of the initial denaturation, provide improved specificity and sensitivity.
Our HiFi Polymerases have 50x higher fidelity than Taq Polymerase and are specially designed for highly accurate and efficient amplification. They show excellent results with extremely long (up to 30 kb), GC-rich or other difficult templates.



