In your opinion, what are the basic skills necessary to a bioinformatician?

Inside the Computer Science and Biology fields.

01 February 2013 9,528 9 View

What is a good definition for "critical genes"?

For example: Genes responsible to nitrogen fixation in Rhizobia, genes responsible for photosynthesis in A. thaliana etc. They are classified as critical genes, right?

31 December 2012 1,098 2 View

It's possible to have two substrate binding protein domains in a single ABC transporter?

I have found it in a bacteria genome during an analysis in slilico. Thanks, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

11 December 2012 2,446 4 View

How to use order as profile level in STAMP?

I have my metagenome uploaded in MG-Rast. How can I download the data and use "order" (level) in STAMP to run statistical analysis?

11 December 2012 1,830 0 View

How to compute differences among 2 entire and closed genomes?

I have 2 genomes fully assembled and annotated. (9Mb. each, aprox.) I want to do a basic analysis to discover difference (%). Nothing so complex, maybe align these 2 genomes and discover the...

10 November 2012 9,881 11 View

How to validate a hypothetical protein?

If I have a hypothetical protein in my genome sequence (bacterial genome sequence) and I want to do a lab study (not silico analysis) to validate this protein, what are the basics steps to goal?...

10 November 2012 8,187 2 View

Using STAMP to analyze metagenome data uploaded in MG-Rast.

I have 3 file types downloaded from MR-Rast. (1) *.FNA, (2)*.TXT, (3)*.RMA. How can I import to STAMP to analyze my data? I know its necessary a Profile and a Metadata archive in STAMP. How can...

10 November 2012 2,535 4 View

What is the difference between "sn-glycerol-3-phosphate" and "glycerol-3-phosphate"??

What means this "sn" means?

08 September 2012 6,414 9 View

What is the better way to express difference between two data tables?

Bar Graph? Pizza Graph? No graph? I have two data tables, but the numbers it's too similar between both, a LITTLE difference occurs in my data. I want to show this for the public. Show can i...

08 September 2012 9,479 5 View

Are ABC transporter sequences usually organized in cluster in genome?

In my genome I always found ABC transporters organized as side by side genes. Is it a pattern for ATP-binding cassette transporters?

07 August 2012 1,605 3 View

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

MGL tools

20 June 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

24 March 2021 0 0 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

02 March 2021 0 0 View

Arena simulation - how do i model the following model in ARENA (see description) (new to ARENA)?

Hello, I'm fairly new to ARENA and I have the following problem: I have two queues in which, in each queue, a different order type arrives (both having an arrival rate of exponential 10). Order...

02 March 2021 2,431 3 View

How to repeat an operation on an atom selection for multiple times in PyMol?

Hi, I am trying to construct a multi-layer fibril structure from a single layer in PyMol by translating the layer along the fibril axis. For now, I am able to use the Translate command in PyMol...

02 March 2021 4,569 4 View

How to calculate average trend in maximum annual NDVI from MODIS?

I am wanting to calculate the average trend in maximum annual NDVI in Iceland from 2010-2020 using MODIS MYD13Q1 V6. How would I do this? I have currently inserted the NDVI bands from the MODIS...

02 March 2021 752 2 View

Why does two different bioinformatics tools for the same proteins show different subcellular localizations?

During a computational analysis, I found that for a protein of a plant, two different subcellular localizations are seen using CELLO and WoLF PSORT. For example, in CELLO, it identified the...

01 March 2021 6,729 2 View

What is the most suitable server for predicting protein structures in bacteria?

I have used the i-Tasser several times, however it has been unavailable for several days. I tried the swiss-model, but the output was not very pleasant due to the model used. Is there any other...

28 February 2021 4,521 3 View