Is there any free geographic information system (GIS) software to map epidemiology of a disease and its features on a country map?

08 September 2016 8,433 7 View

What is best way to correlate real time PCR values with biochemical features?

Hello everyone I would like to ask question about situations where gene expression values are used to correlate with clinical features of samples under investigation. For example, in an...

31 December 2014 3,972 5 View

Has anyone used the spike-in for circulating microRNA?

I would like to know if there is anyone who has worked specifically with QIAGEN cel-miR 39 spike-in using the QIAGEN miRneasy mini kit.

04 May 2014 9,391 3 View

Why am I getting aqueous phase contamination with Trizol?

I am using the QIAGEN miRNeasy kit for total RNA isolation from tissue and serum samples as per manual instructions. However, I am facing issues with the phenol contamination and the 260/230...

04 May 2014 206 7 View

Can anyone advise me on codon usage analysis, ENC vs GC3 values?

In codon usage studies, it is observed that a correlation between ENC and GC3 values is plotted as a curve following Wright's, 1990 method and hypothesis. However, what should be the case when a...

11 December 2013 699 1 View

Rights of students enrolled in Universities and Research Institutes?

I would like to have your opinions on rights of students when they are enrolled in different degree programs considering following case as an example: 1. A student is studying for his/her higher...

08 September 2013 9,197 9 View

Why is the polynomial trend line inverted?

I am trying to perform the correspondence analysis between the set of values of GC3 and ENC, given in the attached Microsoft Excel sheet. The problem is that I have applied trend line (polynomial)...

07 August 2013 6,048 2 View

Could anyone please tell me if is there any tool/server available for miRNA target prediction in user specified genomes?

There are several target prediction tools but they are limited in terms of options that we can select humans, mouse etc genomes. What if the genome sequence of any other organism, which is not...

06 July 2013 9,876 2 View

COX protein isolation from Blood/serum

Hello everyone Could anyone please tell me is it possible to isolate COX protein from serum or whole blood samples for western blotting?

02 March 2013 8,362 2 View

Annotation of viral genomes

Please suggest a reliable free software/server for annotation of newly sequenced viral genomes

01 February 2013 2,232 7 View

What is your perception on using visual analysis or quantitative approaches to evaluate data from single-case research designs (n of 1 trials)?

Results of single-case research designs (i.e., n-of-1 trials) are often evaluated by visually inspecting the time-series graph and computing quantitative indices. A question our research team is...

03 March 2021 687 1 View

How do I increase the yield of my PCR product?

Hello, We would like to increase the yield of our PCR product. We are running a series of PCR reactions that is targeting ~1.1kb sequence. We begin each reaction with ~400pg of template DNA...

02 March 2021 4,029 3 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

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Does anyone have the experience of using Taq Man probes in the QIAGEN Rotar- Gene qPCR machine?

01 March 2021 5,311 1 View

MiRNA qpcr problem?

Dear All, mirna primer showing some problem in the melting curve? any idea why? As attached is the melting curve. The forward sequence is obtained from miRBase and reverse primer is universal.

28 February 2021 5,008 4 View

Runs of nucleotides in Sanger sequencing?

I performed site directed mutagenesis, transformation, and then I sent out plasmids for Sanger sequencing and found out that there is extension of DNA just before the stop codon. I am not sure...

27 February 2021 547 3 View

Can thermal cycler machines be problematic during PCR?

Hi, my question is about the heating of thermal cycler machines and I hope some of you had experienced a similar thing previously. There are two thermal cycler machines in the lab(BioRad) and for...

26 February 2021 4,777 4 View

Calculating volume of DNA required from DNA concentration?

Hi I am a bit confused. They are asking me to find out the volume of DNA required in ul (a total of 30-100 ng for genomic DNA) from the DNA concentration in the nanodrop reading which was 404.8...

26 February 2021 5,029 2 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View