What is best sealant for PCR plates?

Hey lab folks, for PCR do you prefer disposable (plastic or metal, one time use like https://www.fishersci.com/shop/products/corning-sealing-mat-384-well-polypropylene-storage-plates/07202500) or...

08 September 2016 3,895 9 View

#Botanist friends: anyone ever had problems transporting leaves, seeds or soil while flying within continental US? What about shipping USPS?

06 July 2016 6,515 0 View

What DNA extraction protocol must be used for RADSeq next generation DNA sequencing (NGS), for plant tissue?

I am planning a potential RADSeq project (my first one). I've heard from some people that RADSeq requires quality DNA samples (very high molecular weight, very clean, high concentration)-...

02 March 2016 3,605 12 View

Which tissue homogenizer to use for plant cell disruption and DNA extraction (fastprep, miniG, beadbeater, retsch, precylls.. so many!)?

I am planning to purchase a cell disruptor/ homogenizer, probably the kind that shakes beads (steel, glass, or ceramic) at very high speeds, to break open plant leaf (and possibly wood or seeds)...

02 March 2016 5,545 14 View

What do you think about 'Peerage of Science'?

Just curious what other scientists think about the "fully open" and "peer review of peer review" website Peerage of Science. If you don't know about it, here are a few links explaining...

11 December 2013 7,982 3 View

What population genetic software should I to use to calculate allelic richness?

To my knowledge, the two most popular software packages for analyzing population genetic data (Arlequin and Genepop) do not calculate allelic richness, which is corrected for sample size. Fstat...

07 August 2013 2,956 10 View

What are some resources for postdocs who are currently funded for salary but would like to seek additional funding?

I would like to compile a list of grant opportunities that will be useful for myself and for other postdocs in ecology and evolutionary biology (non bio-medicine). I am specifically interested in...

07 August 2013 1,480 10 View

What is a valid statistical test for comparing samples taken from a population over time?

I would like to take temporal samples of DNA from a population over time to determine whether a decline in various measures of genetic diversity is occurring. For example, samples taken at time...

05 June 2013 7,117 10 View

MD MOE RMSD

How to calculate the RMSD values for a MD simulation using MOE?

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MD MOE RMSD

How to calculate the RMSD values for a MD simulation using MOE?

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fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

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fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

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fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

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fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

What is the most Operating System (OS) which can be INSTALL on Tiny hard devices like Raspberry Pi (RPi) hardware ?

I'm targeting to deploy a mesh network and manually configure MANET routing protocols. I'm preparing scenarios, architectures, and hard devices needed to do that. Are there some step-by-step...

03 March 2021 1,931 5 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View