How to blast a paired end fastq file?

Hello everyone, I have a paired end fastq file and I know that BLAST+ in command line, accepts fasta format. But I don't know how does it work for a paired end fastq file (I mean in two different...

04 May 2019 7,681 2 View

Someone has experience with conjugation between E. coli and Streptomyces?

01 January 1970 7,896 3 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

Can I express protein of plant origin in E. coli strain (M15) using pET28a vector systems? Are M15 strains and pET vector systems compatible?

Are E.coli strains M15 and pET28a vector systems compatible? Can I over-express my protein which is of plant origin. Previously I was using BL21 DE3 strains. Was confused to use M15 strains for...

10 February 2021 2,564 3 View

Is nr blast important?

Hello, I have designed a specific primer for my Gene, when I blast this primer, it just finds the mRNA of the gene, but in nr blast, I have found some CDSs that are not relevant to my Gene. Do...

05 February 2021 5,842 3 View

Flexibility of RNAseq?

When you use RNAseq I understand that it must follow certain conditions when you use it. One of them is the insertion of a polyA tail. The insertion of the polyA must include then...

05 February 2021 3,770 4 View

Multiple insertions with Q5 Site-directed mutagenesis?

03 February 2021 221 2 View

Apart from MOFA what other software is available for analysis of a multi-omic study?

Study bringing together genomics, proteomics etc together

02 February 2021 2,856 2 View

Is there any alternative to BUSCO for searching orthologues within genomes available?

I have a need to search for single-copy conservative orthologs within several plant genomes and used BUSCO tool for that. However, I found that the results produced by different versions on the...

29 January 2021 7,764 6 View

How are wild-type and mutant gene and protein isolations and analysis performed?

Considering that we hypothetically designed an experiment, we have an x gene, and we have the mutant version of this gene with a single nucleotide mutation in one of the exons. What kind of an...

22 January 2021 9,589 12 View

How to convert ng/ul of DNA concentration to pmol/ul ?

Dear researcher, After amplifying my target gene (1900bp) into the required cDNA by PCR,>cut specific gel bands and purify the gel and the concentration was 30ng/ul. Next, performed A-Tailing...

21 January 2021 2,671 3 View

Can use Unigenes from RNA sequences for overexpression studies (transformation) without requiring a specific plant genome?

Dear researchers: If the plant genome has not been released yet, can Unigenes from RNA sequences be used after BLAST and confirmed with known Arabidopsis genes for function/overexpression...

20 January 2021 5,557 2 View