What are the pretrained-language-model that is obviously better than BERT and RoBERTa?

19 January 2021 602 2 View

Can I design an aptamer that can sense microbial activity?

I am trying to design a boron nitride based biosensor that can sense the abnormality of microbial activities on fish skin. I am very curious that is it possible to have such an aptamer that can...

23 September 2020 6,352 4 View

Can I build a stable cell line for CO-IP?

I want to know two protein interactions via CO-IP, and one of the proteins has several different mutations. I need to transfect all these mutations into HEK293T cells for doing Co-IP every time,...

03 September 2020 342 3 View

Based on transformer, how to improve the text generation results?

If I do not pretrain the text generation model like BART, how to improve the result based on transformer like tensor2tensor? What are the improvement ideas for transformer in text generation task?

18 August 2020 7,265 3 View

Are there any deep models that are better than BERT-CRF in NER task?

Named entity recognition (NER) is task that mark tags of the input text sequence. BERT-CRF is a good NER model. I want to find a better NER model. Or I want to improve the BERT-CRF model. What...

18 August 2020 7,070 2 View

What are the effects of gender of performer on animal?

I remember a paper studied the effects of gender of handler on animal (mouse?) showing that male handler has more negative effects on animal (for example, causing animal anxious) compared to...

05 August 2020 4,131 1 View

Question of pretraining text-generation task, it seems that pretraining is not work for a small model?

My task is to generate keywords from sentences. I pretrain a text-generation model. I mask the sentences' tokens and predict the whole sentences' tokens. Pretraining batch_size = 8 and step =...

28 July 2020 5,675 1 View

How to tackle endogenous problems with "truncated" data structure?

When I want to estimate educational return, I run a regression like: ln(wage)=beta1+beta2*education+other control variables+u In order to tackle the endogenous problems induced by potential...

21 June 2020 2,244 1 View

What is the principle of Unsupervised Data Augmentation (UDA)? Why does UDA work?

UDA(https://github.com/google-research/uda) could achieve good accuracy by only 20 training data on text classification. But I find it is hard to reproduce the result on my own dataset. So I...

05 June 2020 1,486 2 View

What are the simplest methods for the label noise problem?

If I have enough low quality data from unsupervised methods or rule-based methods. Do you think removing the wrong data predicted by trained model is a simple but effective method?

02 June 2020 4,078 3 View

In PRIMER, is it possible to downweight certain taxa in multivariate community datasets to reflect uncertainty around identification??

I have a dataset with about 80 different species. As usual, some species are very easy to identify with certainty whereas others are more difficult, which means that I am less certain of my...

03 March 2021 8,066 4 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

PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

So, I have been trying to run a pACYC PCR which will be used later on for a Gibson Assembly. However the PCR is not working. I have already tried gradient PCR and changing extension time; however...

02 March 2021 1,146 2 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 calculate the annealing temperature of a primer pair?

I have to amplify a gene and my primers just reached. The Tm for Forward primer is 64.2, and that of reverse primer is 65.5. Can some one suggest how to get the best annealing temperature? Thanks...

01 March 2021 360 7 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

Anybody with an idea on how do design specific primers for detecting tomato resistance genes tm-1, TM-2 and Tm2^2?

I am trying to identify these 3 genes among some tomato cultivar collections and after aligning some sequences from NCBI, I couldn't find unique sequences to target for specific primers. There...

28 February 2021 606 3 View

What is the ideal efficiency for a qPCR?

hello everyone, I need to do standard curves for my qPCR, what is the ideal efficiency range? I tried a primer (Mglu2 receptor) that gave an efficiency of 90.2%. Is it accepted?

28 February 2021 1,254 3 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