I'm getting "Fatal error: Residue 'UNK' not found in residue topology database." how to rectify?

I've a new ligand and named it as 'UNK' in pdb file. While generating the ligand topology through GROMACS by following its protein-ligand tutorial. I'm getting this fatal error: " Residue 'UNK'...

01 January 2020 5,498 10 View

What should be the Protein concentration for assays?

for CAT activity, is there is any threshold regarding the concentration of protein in the enzyme has to be taken into consideration before doing the experiment.

07 March 2019 3,109 5 View

Why is in situ hybridisation preferred over immunohistochemistry in paraffin embedded mouse embryo sections?

I am trying to characterize early embryos and most literature I have read seems to prefer in situ hybridization over immunohistochemistry to study expression profiles of different proteins. Does...

13 November 2018 8,911 1 View

How can we perform the urease and nitrate tests for an alkalibacterium that grows only above pH 8?

The protocols available are optimised at ph 6.8 to 7.

07 September 2017 8,796 2 View

How to calculate Molarity ?

02 April 2017 7,315 8 View

Precipitation of DNA ?

For the precipitation of DNA during extraction protocol, which is preferred, among isopropanol and isoamylalcohol and what is the underlying reason to select it ?

01 January 1970 5,072 3 View

Preparation of Riboflavin solution for SOD activity

During the in-gel activity staining of SOD, Riboflavin is used in the concentration of 28-30micromolar. As per the literature/protocols, the preparation of the riboflavin solution is in 50mM...

01 January 1970 8,317 2 View

ROS assay quantification

I have done a ROS assay using DCFDA (Sigma #D688) in a lung cancer cell line by using a microplate reader at Ex/EM 480/530. I am looking to get the quantification of the data, is there any formula...

01 January 1970 3,567 3 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

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

Why the results when using wall thickness and when using shell conduction are different in ansys fluent?

Actually, I am running cfd simulation for a heat exchanger which has two fluids one hot and other one is cold fluid. there is a solid domain between them, which I removed and instead I have used...

01 March 2021 9,537 2 View

How to show arrows over the streamlines in CFD-post?

I follow this to make streamlines like the photos attached below: (software- CFD post-processing) First I plot the 2D streamline over a surface "streamline 1". them I plot a vector by the...

01 March 2021 8,668 3 View

Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS?

I need to model masonry and reinforced concrete minarets for my MSc thesis. Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS? (Or any other program for just...

01 March 2021 736 3 View

Can Virtual Servers (remote dekstop manager) run heavy ANSYS Fluent CFD simulation ?

I have a virtual machine. My host Pc specs are not that good thats why i went for virtual servers. so basically my host pc has 8gb of ram with nvidia quadro k2200 4Gb DDR5 GPU ,processor intel...

01 March 2021 8,415 1 View

How to increase mesh quality of a cfd model in ansys fluent?

How can one improve mesh skewness, orthogonality, aspect ratio?

28 February 2021 7,730 3 View

How can we simulate an hyperelastic-viscoelastic behavor with Ansys APDL?

I am working on modeling and simulation of biomecanical material behaviour, I have succeded on simulating skin using anisotropic hyperelastic material, on APDL and in our lab's finite element...

28 February 2021 552 3 View

Complex wave form in ANSYS?

Is there a way to input wave speed in a complex form on ANSYS? The wave speed I need to assign a material is 325(1+0.11i) however I have been unable to do this thus far. Failing that, is there...

27 February 2021 5,969 1 View