Who can hep me to analyze WES data for runs of homozygosity?

Hello, we have performed a WES of a single human sample and I am interested to analyse the runs of homozygosity in this sample. Especially, I am interested to unterstand if segmental uniparental...

10 November 2018 7,445 2 View

Has someone experience using Lipofectamine Stem Transfection Reagent for transfection of human induced pulripotent stem cells (iPSC)?

Has someone experience using Lipofectamine Stem Transfection Reagent for transfection of human induced pulripotent stem cells (iPSC)?

06 July 2018 2,129 0 View

Which bioinformatic prediction tool could be used to predict the influence of indel mutations?

Hi everyone, which other prediction tools (in addition to Provean) could be used to predict the Impact of indel mutations? Thanks for your help! Andreas

06 July 2017 5,616 3 View

Is it possible to compare one sample with a control set of samples?

04 May 2017 7,165 2 View

What are the best fluorescence proteins for structured illumination microscopy?

Hello everyone, I want to do SIM with three different proteins in living cells. Therefore, I need three different fluorescence proteins with high photostability and high brightness? Could anyone...

02 March 2017 3,522 6 View

What is the definition of stable cell line?

02 March 2017 5,366 0 View

Is it possible to use two fluorescence protein tags to increase the brigthness?

Hello everyone, I want to do SIM with living cells and therefore I need fluorescence proteins with high brightness and high photostability. Therefore, I want to ask if someone has fused his/her...

02 March 2017 9,698 3 View

Experience with Bmt1 (restriction enzyme)?

Has anyone experiences with the retriction enzyme BmtI? Are there important specific points to know about this restriction enzyme?

09 October 2014 2,679 1 View

Is it necessary to put the QBI SP163 Enhancer directly upstream of the ATG?

I want to increase the expression of my proteins by inserting the QBI SP163 Enhancer (pcDNA4-Max System, Invitrogen) into another vector system. I want to know if I can add a restriction site (via...

04 May 2014 2,963 0 View

Can you answer my general questions about BiFC?

I am planing BiFC assays and before I want to start I have some general questions: What is the strongest BiFC system? At the moment I could not say anything about the strength of my...

04 May 2014 3,947 3 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

Research on Supply Chain Management in Indian context?

Hi, I am planning to apply for the PhD degree in the Supply Chain Mgt. with specific area of "Cold Storage warehouses" during Pandemics and wars. Where lock downs and shut downs are frequent....

02 March 2021 285 2 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

Ester cleavage conditions?

Hi all, I need to cleave the ester in Ethyl 2-amino-1H-imidazole-5-carboxylate to make the carboxylic acid and retrieve the product from solution to use in downstream applications of linking to...

01 March 2021 8,766 3 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

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

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

Could not amplify CD28 and CD3z ectodomain from cDNA of Jurkat Cells ?

For my experiments, I have to express ectodomains of human CD28 and CD3z. As a source, I extracted RNA from Jurkat cells and verified the quality of RNA on the gel. I, then, prepared cDNA using...

23 February 2021 7,051 4 View