Does PCR once standardized using rat liver differ for another animal? And if yes why is that so?

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What is difference between In-line transmission (%) and Total transmission (%) value of optically transparent Ceramics?

I am working on transparent/translucent zirconia-based ceramics. In many papers, I have seen that they are reporting both In-line transmission (%) & Total transmission (%) value of...

20 February 2021 9,405 6 View

Access to supercomputer resources in India?

Hello everyone, I want to perform some gaussian calculations and want to use Materials studio for my research work. Can anyone guide me how to get access to supercomputer resources in India for...

15 February 2021 8,264 3 View

Do we have any empirical model to model the combined effect of carbonation and chloride attack in concrete concerning climate change?

Do we have any empirical model to model the combined effect of carbonation and chloride attack in concrete concerning time-dependent temperature, relative humidity and concentration of carbon dioxide?

08 February 2021 4,277 1 View

Can I use video interview excerpts from others in public domain (YouTube, Vimeo, etc) for my empirical analysis?

Dear community, I am currently writing my master's dissertation. As a part of the method, I have to include views (interview) of experts for the empirical analysis. The problem is I have not...

31 January 2021 3,438 3 View

Does AMBER or CHARMM force field parameters have coarsed grained side chain parameters?

I need to coarse grain the side chain with a single atom. However, what force field parameters do I have to use. Does AMBER or CHARMM have any parameters and partial charges for coarse-grained...

31 January 2021 7,091 3 View

Where can I read the force field parameters of amino acids and protein ?

I am a beginner in the field of molecular dynamics and biochemistry. I need the parameters such as van der Waal radii, partial charge of each amino acid. How do I read directly the parameters from...

20 January 2021 3,541 3 View

Can anyone clarify what is the difference between 'R' software statistics and SPSS Statistics?

I recently learned few things about 'R' programming language. It is open source / free platform in many aspects. R helps to descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, multivariate...

17 January 2021 1,089 20 View

Does anyone know what is the minimum variables required for standard deviation? and why large datasets is considered as reliable data?

For Descriptive statistics, we usually find out mean, median and mode as well as standard errors and standard deviation. Almost in research articles, I can see mean with standard deviation only....

10 January 2021 4,913 3 View

For mineral / compound characterization studies like FTIR, SEM, XRD, how many replicates should be taken for data analysis?

If we do some spectroscopy technique for only one sample, is it enough for data analysis or we have to do multiple samples from each treatment for getting authenticate results to publish in...

09 January 2021 5,896 2 View

What is the use of Carbon and Proton NMR Spectrum in Peptide Analysis?

Am in Peptide / Protein Research, may i know what useful analytical information we are getting from 13C & 1H NMR spectroscopy analysis? Somebody getting NMR for smaller proteins, any useful...

05 January 2021 1,196 7 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

Why do the PCR bands from the cDNA templates (extraction from the cell after transfection) show different size from the band of the plasmid template?

After transfection with the plasmid ( linearized ) and subcloning of the cell lines, RNA was extracted from the cell and then reverse transcripted to cDNA. When PCR reactions were run to verify...

25 February 2021 5,712 3 View