How to start a bioinformatic analysis of bisulfite sequencing data?

I'm just learning how to perform an analysis of methylation patterns using bisulfite sequencing data, but I have some questions: 1. What database I can use for obtain bisulfite sequencing...

10 May 2020 1,116 1 View

How to start working with epigenetic data in cancer bioinformatics?

I want to study the relationship between different epigenetic factors and the different types of cancer using existing records in epigenetic and / or oncological databases, but, as a...

28 March 2020 4,376 8 View

How do you assess children online?

The actual health crisis has changed our lives and also affected the research projects of many. I was wondering if there was a way of assessing preschool children online. I know the best way is...

26 March 2020 8,699 7 View

Dealing with next-gen SSR Microsatellite data from target enrichment experiment?

Hi All, we have a bioinformatics challenge and we would love any help this community can offer. We have data from a target-enrichment experiment that was supposed to capture certain...

09 January 2020 930 3 View

How can I associate an expression matrix from refine.bio datasets with its metadata?

Hi! I've been using the refine.bio website to download normalized transcriptome data; each downloaded dataset consists in a compressed directory with an expression matrix in .tsv format, its...

04 December 2019 3,635 2 View

What happens to energy prices to the final consumer by integrating renewable energy into the energy matrix of a country?

What happens to energy prices to the final consumer by integrating renewable energy into the energy matrix of a country? Do they increase, decrease, stay the same?

16 November 2019 9,316 6 View

Someone using Kraken2 for metagenomics analysis has had problems to build the plant library?

09 October 2019 9,136 4 View

Have any use the cyromazine like treatment for elasmobranchs?

In looking for a different treatment for small crustaceans that parasites sharks and rays

09 October 2019 2,898 1 View

Can someone help me with clustering DGE datasets?

Hello, I'm a biologist interested in machine learning application in genomic data; specifically, I'm trying to apply clustering techniques to differential gene expression data. I started by...

31 August 2019 8,880 9 View

I'm evaluating microbial communities distribution in different substrates with PRIMER 6, using MDS. What is the best transformation to do?

03 August 2019 7,517 6 View

What species (or genus even) of crab is this (bivalve using hermit type)?

Two weeks ago I found a peculiar crab in the intertidal zone in SW Florida. when found, the crab was not utilizing a shell. It was similar shaped to porcelain crabs found in our area, but with...

17 January 2021 1,620 4 View

Carboniferous shark teeth - ID help?

Dear everyone! I am looking for some help regarding the identification of two Carboniferous shark teeth from Hungary. See the pic attached. I'd go for Bransonellidae family for A, and Falcatidae...

21 December 2020 1,226 4 View

Hybodontiformes - last survivors?

Hello Everyone, I just ran into the work of Boisvert et al., 2019, in which I found fig. 4.2 a bit confusing. It shows, that Hybodontiformes (pale green) survived till the Miocene, however, as...

13 December 2020 5,180 3 View

Can anyone tell me the name of these parasites which I got from a marine fish?

I got these parasites from eye and intestine of a marine fish. Thank you.

09 December 2020 7,752 2 View

How long can water sample containing "heavy metal" be conserved until further analysis?

Hello everyone, I am actually dealing with heavy metal in shark meat and vertebrae, water and sediment. I intend to collect these samples for one year before to process to the appropriate...

26 August 2020 7,498 7 View

Someone recommend to use CFSE to stain parasites as Trypanosoma or Leishmania species to detect cells infection?

I have seen that some groups use CSFE to stain some parasite species before infect cells to detect percetage of infected cells. Could I use CSFE to stain Trypanosoma cruzi and measure infection in...

15 August 2020 1,898 2 View

What is the best method to get a good appearance or view or photo for Leishmania parasite????

i need an easiest technique for Fluorescent stain used with Fluorescent Microscope .

14 July 2020 3,551 3 View

How can I hide nodes with posterior probability under 0.5 in BEAST phylogenetic tree visualization?

06 July 2020 1,376 6 View

Do female sandbar sharks school?

I am looking for literature regarding sexual segregation in sandbar sharks (carcharhinus plumbeus). I was told once that males school but females are solitary, and I cannot find a reference...

07 May 2020 2,537 2 View

Can anyone tell me which species (or higher taxon) this is?

We found this small, maybe parasitic, crustacean in the North Sea offshore. The posterior body part is missing, but it looks quite characteristic. There is double-hooked rostrum, 2 antennae...

08 April 2020 6,842 9 View