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Can someone suggest a good textbook or other online material for metagenomics?

Next year I will start teaching metagenomics to master students (mainly focused on bioinformatics). Can anyone recommend a text book related to this topic? I am also interested in other related...

05 June 2019 1,370 16 View

How to delete a gene in Lactobacillus paracasei?

Hi, I would like to perform gene disruption in Lactobacillus paracasei. Could you provide a protocol or suggest a grup which is able to perform this kind of analysis? Thank you

07 August 2018 4,356 1 View

Is it possible to perform hierarchical clustering of a very large number of features?

I am checking different methods to perform hierarchical clustering with a very large number of elements (between 100,000 and 500,000). I have tried many different software like MeV, Cluster, etc....

10 November 2015 7,580 4 View

Can anyone suggest a software to compare microbial genome characteristics?

I am comparing a large number of microbial genomes obtained from a complex microbial community. I performed the main functional annotations for the genes (COG, KEGG, Pfam) and I would perform a...

01 February 2015 9,918 1 View

Which is the best kit (or protocol) to remove ribosomal RNA from total RNA before metatranscriptomic analysis?

We are planning a metatranscriptomic analysis on a microbial community obtained from bioreactors, but we need to remove as much rRNA as possible in order to maximize the number of reads on mRNA....

05 June 2014 3,672 5 View

Has anyone obtained worse assembly results using metavelvet than using velvet?

We are performing trial shotgun assemblies of 80 millions paired-end sequences illumina reads obtained from a bioreactor microbial community. After removing contigs shorter than 1kbp, the assembly...

03 April 2014 7,391 1 View

Can someone suggest primers for 16S rDNA genes matching both Archea and Bacteria?

I am planning analysis on a complex microbial community containing high number of species of bacteria and archaea using 16 rDNA sequencing. On previous experiments I have used two different...

01 February 2014 8,774 8 View

Bowtie and bwa, problems with very large databases - can anyone help?

I am trying to align short reads DNA sequences on a reference database comprising all the prokaryotic genomes reported at the ncbi. Unfortunately I noticed that both BOWTIE and BWA have a maximum...

11 December 2013 4,517 4 View

Assembly of metagenomics shotgun sequences obtained with the Proton sequencer

Does someone have assembled short reads obtained from shotgun sequencing (Proton sequencer) of complex microbial communities? Which is the best tool for assembly of these reads (not-paired-end)?...

08 September 2013 6,967 4 View

Which is the best tool for operon prediction in bacteria?

I am analyzing a bacterial genome recently sequenced in our group. After gene finding and annotation I would have a rough overview of its operon structure using a bioinformatic software. Can...

08 September 2013 3,518 1 View

Does the pressure(-600 mmHg) affects pH?

When I conducted the degassing experiment using decompression under anaerobic condition(and I used ferrous based chelating agent), the oxidized ferric were observerd. So, could you tell me the...

03 March 2021 4,892 5 View

What is the best way to keep an anaerobic chamber anoxic in the absence of hydrogen?

I'm a graduate student who works with an anaerobe, so I often work in an anaerobic chamber. I've been working on an assay that involves the steady-state of the quinone/ quinol pool. Anoxic...

03 March 2021 2,971 1 View

How to repeat an operation on an atom selection for multiple times in PyMol?

Hi, I am trying to construct a multi-layer fibril structure from a single layer in PyMol by translating the layer along the fibril axis. For now, I am able to use the Translate command in PyMol...

02 March 2021 4,569 4 View

How to define and get results (stresses) for certain points of a model in abaqus, using python? When the size of the model changes?

I want to do a parameter study of a aixsymmetric cylinder in Abaqus. I want to create several jobs where I get the stresses for 3 different points in my model. These points are defined. I wrote a...

01 March 2021 10,078 1 View

Which is suitable for use with Python? MySQL or SQL Server?

Which is suitable for use with Python? MySQL or SQL Server? What is your suggestion?

01 March 2021 3,422 3 View

Anyone that can help with details in phosphopeptides enrichment?

Anyone know the amount of protein before enzymatic digestion for phosphopeptides enrichment of serume sample in Ti-IMAC? Has anyone ever use Ti-IMAC(the material is from Chinese company named...

28 February 2021 7,310 3 View

Can anyone provide the Support vector regression code structure of LIBSVM MATLAB or python ?

Please, if Gaussian Parameter optimization is possible in this code structure

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How to modify Johnson cook equation in ABAQUS?

I wanted to add an extra parameter to the existing Johnson cook equation in the ABAQUS simulation. How to add those extra parameters. Ref: A modified Johnson-Cook material model with strain...

28 February 2021 4,841 3 View

What is the difference between genotype and haplotype data in the ped format?

Hi everybody In the ped format for genotype, alleles of any SNP are represented by two columns (one for each allele, separated by a space). Is a column sufficient for the haplotype to...

27 February 2021 1,965 1 View

No module named 'tensorflow.keras.backend.tensorflow_backend' ?

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25 February 2021 6,673 2 View

Abhijeet Singh

Hi Stefano Campanaro

When do you think this position is expected to start?

Stefano Campanaro

One will start in September, the other one probably in October-November. If you are interested or if you know colleagues interested in the positions please send your CV ([email protected]).

We are still looking for someone to be hired as postdoc with basic expertise in metabolic flux balance plus knowledge of python or R or matlab! Unfortunately the first candidate we selected cannot accept the position! Contact us writing at [email protected] or [email protected]