Is it justified to compare the free energy change of two reactions and conclude one is more favourable than the other?

Suppose we consider the binding of a ligand L to a metal M, M+L=ML and M+2L=ML2 . We compute the Gibbs free energy change for two reaction using DFT. But can we compare this two free energies to...

12 January 2021 5,893 4 View

How can i obtain electric displacement field in Piezoelectric bonded joint using Abaqus?

Mathematically, electric displacement is a vector quantity defined as {D}=([e]{E}+{P}), where {E} is local electric field, {P} is Polarization per unit volume and [e] is the third order tensor...

20 August 2020 4,789 1 View

How to calculate van der Waals radius theoretically?

I am trying to calculate van der Waals radius for silver atoms and ions. Could anyone explain the steps required to perform accurate calculations.

03 August 2020 2,574 3 View

How to align large plasmids (20Kb+) in Mac Vector?

I was trying to align 3 plasmids each around 20Kb in Mac Vector. I used the "Align to ref." tab followed by adding the sequences and then aligned them. However only a portion of each sequence is...

03 February 2020 2,635 1 View

Is it possible to choose a site for setting a well using only remote sensing techniques and data ?

If I have only Microwave and Optical remotely sensed data, is it possible to choose the site for availability of ground water for set a pump or well so that it will reduce the chances of fail...

05 December 2018 3,372 13 View

How to create checkpoint file in molecular dynamics simulation?

Basically I want to save coordinates and momentum of atoms after n time step so that I can restart my calculation in case of an error or exceeding wall time. My MD code is in Fortran.

19 June 2018 8,262 5 View

What if Sodium pyruvate is added in excess in DMEM cell culture media?

What happens if we accidentally add more (5 ml of 200 mM) sodium pyruvate to 500 ml DMEM cell culture media that already contains 110 mg/ml sodium pyruvate in it (from company)? How will it...

29 November 2017 6,582 2 View

What are the different approaches for seperate few layer graphene from graphite?

31 August 2017 1,378 4 View

Availability of Sugarcane yellow leaf virus antibody/antiserum from any private firm?

Dear all...is there any information regarding availability of Sugarcane yellow leaf virus antibody/antiserum. previously i use to procure from AC, Diagnostics, USA but now they have discontinued...

24 January 2017 4,333 3 View

Is h index a good metric of a researcher's credibility?

Higher h index demands larger uniformity in citation pattern. Therefore, a researcher with lesser citations may get a higher h index only due to larger uniformity in the total citations.

05 June 2016 1,360 4 View

How do I increase the yield of my PCR product?

Hello, We would like to increase the yield of our PCR product. We are running a series of PCR reactions that is targeting ~1.1kb sequence. We begin each reaction with ~400pg of template DNA...

02 March 2021 4,029 3 View

Research on Supply Chain Management in Indian context?

Hi, I am planning to apply for the PhD degree in the Supply Chain Mgt. with specific area of "Cold Storage warehouses" during Pandemics and wars. Where lock downs and shut downs are frequent....

02 March 2021 285 2 View

PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

So, I have been trying to run a pACYC PCR which will be used later on for a Gibson Assembly. However the PCR is not working. I have already tried gradient PCR and changing extension time; however...

02 March 2021 1,146 2 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

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Does anyone have the experience of using Taq Man probes in the QIAGEN Rotar- Gene qPCR machine?

01 March 2021 5,311 1 View

MiRNA qpcr problem?

Dear All, mirna primer showing some problem in the melting curve? any idea why? As attached is the melting curve. The forward sequence is obtained from miRBase and reverse primer is universal.

28 February 2021 5,008 4 View

Runs of nucleotides in Sanger sequencing?

I performed site directed mutagenesis, transformation, and then I sent out plasmids for Sanger sequencing and found out that there is extension of DNA just before the stop codon. I am not sure...

27 February 2021 547 3 View

Can thermal cycler machines be problematic during PCR?

Hi, my question is about the heating of thermal cycler machines and I hope some of you had experienced a similar thing previously. There are two thermal cycler machines in the lab(BioRad) and for...

26 February 2021 4,777 4 View

Calculating volume of DNA required from DNA concentration?

Hi I am a bit confused. They are asking me to find out the volume of DNA required in ul (a total of 30-100 ng for genomic DNA) from the DNA concentration in the nanodrop reading which was 404.8...

26 February 2021 5,029 2 View