Can I use the CHARMM GUI input files for Gromacs in HPC?

Good day everyone! I am a Biochemistry undergraduate in the Philippines and to be very honest, we have no background in bioinformatics since we really focused on wet lab techniques + theory. Due...

15 February 2021 3,422 4 View

Cause of slow bromophenol blue migration and smearing while running SDS PAGE?

While running gels for western blotting, I am currently getting, what seems to be, the blue dye from my sample buffer migrating more slowly in sample lanes leaving blue streaks. These transfer to...

08 February 2021 5,317 3 View

Same sample, significantly different trace for DMF vs. THF for cyclic voltammetry?

Dear reader, I've been having trouble with my cyclic voltammetry recently, but I then had a break through and managed to get apparently "clean" results using dry, deoxygenated THF and/or DMF,...

06 January 2021 4,312 3 View

Can I use GROMACS for field-theoretic simulation of copolymers?

I need to know if I can use GROMACS instead of LAMMPS for my undergraduate thesis wherein I will generate phase diagrams of copolymers using FTS. Thank you so much!

22 November 2020 3,725 3 View

How to quantify lncRNA/miRNA in ribosomal depleted RNA-seq?

I did some ribosomally depleted RNA-seq in rat brain. Does anyone have recommendations on how to quantify/compare small RNA expression between samples? I have used RNA STAR to map reads back to...

11 November 2020 5,331 1 View

What are some essential steps when using THF for cyclic voltammetry?

I'm new to electrochem/cyclic voltammetry. I'm interested in measuring cyclic voltammograms of organic semiconductors in organic solvents, specifically, THF. I know that in principle I should be...

09 November 2020 2,298 4 View

At what stage of development do animals develop sentient?

I'm trying to find out in the development between being an embryo and an adult animal does the animal become phenomenally conscious? I'm especially looking for recommendations for articles on the...

30 August 2020 3,815 3 View

How to depolarize cultured primary neurons with KCl without them dying?

14 August 2020 1,488 8 View

Recommendations on model enveloped viruses that are easy and safe to propagate?

Hi everyone, We are synthesizing a virucidal material that will kill SARS-CoV-2 on contact. In these preliminary stages, we want to use enveloped surrogate viruses that are the easiest to...

08 August 2020 6,731 4 View

Where can I purchase fluorescent silica nanoparticles?

Hi all, I want to purchase fluorescent silica nanoparticles (with and without a functional group to make it hydrophobic) in powder form. A variety of size options would be key. Preferably, if you...

04 August 2020 7,440 6 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

Your thoughts on the spherical densiometer to estimate relative species canopy cover?

Hi biologists and biogeomorphologists, I want to characterize vegetation plots on a transect that follows a successionnal gradient from a river bed to a mature forest. Ecologically, I am...

26 February 2021 5,720 2 View

Stress/strain tensors decomposition ???

25 February 2021 6,760 1 View

Bayesian decision trees and bayesian regression trees in Python and/or R?

I am looking for implementation of bayesian decision trees and bayesian regression trees in Python and/or R.. Do you know if the existing libraries support this

23 February 2021 6,689 3 View

How to assure whether a regression tree overfit or not by seeing bias-variance value of the model?

Lets consider a regression tree in which variance is 1.1065*e-10 and bias is 2.962e-13. Also the model RMSE on training set is 1.5e-5 and on training set is 1.2950e-5. Is the model is overfit or...

22 February 2021 7,755 2 View

Are cloud points able to identify tree species?

Hello Dears My goal is to classify dense forest tree species using drone images. Is it possible to classify dense cloud points? If yes, in what way and in what software? Thankful

15 February 2021 3,475 3 View

What is/are the best ML classifier(s) for Sentinel2 images?

Hi I am trying to segment a sentinel2 image. At this stage, I want to run a binary classifier that assigns each pixel to either farm or non-farm pixel. For this purpose, I have 4 10m bands...

15 February 2021 3,596 9 View

How to choose the Hidden Layers Number and RBM Size in a DBN network?

Hello, When using a Deep Belief network (DBN) for images classification, how could we choose the number of hidden layers (number of Restricted Boltzmann Machines) and nodes (RBM size) in a hidden...

09 February 2021 4,618 5 View

Is there any similarity index between two time series?

Hi We have two time series dataset. For example mean daily temperature from two stations. Each of them have 30 data for a month. T1={ t1 , t2 ,... , t30 } T2={ t1 , t2 ,... , t30 } Now we want to...

06 February 2021 6,434 7 View

Matrix based scientific data analysis: extrapolating to matrices of sets?

Data sets, when structured, can be put in vector form (v(1)...v(n)), adding time dependency it's v(i, t) for i=1...n and t=1...T. Then we have a matrix of terms v(i, j)... Matrices are important,...

30 January 2021 9,295 6 View