The iGEM DNA Kit Plate Instructions say that there is only 2-3ng of DNA per well, which is already miniprepped and in plasmids. Then it says that "there is not enough DNA in each well to perform anything but transformations".
Couldn't PCR be performed on an amount of DNA that small, given appropriate primers? Is transformation truly the only thing that could be done with that DNA? If PCR could be done on the DNA, why might they suggest otherwise?