DNA pol quantification?

Currently, I'm working on a DNA pol activity test, one of the variables is DNA pol concentration in the PCR/LAMP assay. For LAMP I found a clear protocol for the DNA pol in weights. However, for...

01 January 2021 9,869 3 View

Vaccine, Adjuvant, and Drug Delivery System?

In terms of vaccine solution, the vaccine (ex: protein sub-unit based) is contained inside nanoparticles (ex: PLGA). Does the adjuvant inside the nanoparticle as well or act as a solvent that...

03 October 2020 4,500 4 View

Thrombin Fuction in Plasmid/Vector?

What is the function of thrombin in a plasmid? Does it help for screening, selection, or as a biomarker?

09 September 2020 1,555 3 View

Does international survey based researches needs approval in each country ethics commitee?

We plan a contingent valuation of ecosystem services. The study will be based on surveys. We want to apply it in fifteen different countries. Is it necessary to approve the project in ethics...

25 June 2020 8,099 3 View

What is the current importance of the popular legislative initiative for strengthening democracy?

The objective in formulating the questioning is the search to identify what is the feeling that the researchers have about the interactions between the strengthening of democracy through the...

12 June 2020 4,085 2 View

Can I Combine Data and Tree Information into One Tree in Mesquite?

Is it possible to enter two different types of information into Mesquite? I have two sets of species data: the divergence times (in millions of years) i.e. how old each species is and the...

22 March 2020 6,304 3 View

Does anyone know of a practical energy efficiency model for wireless sensor networks (WSN) or software that uses attributes of that model?

I have already found some reference authors who model some parts of the system, for example, sensor, transceivers, link, propagation space, the network itself and, sometimes, putting it all...

11 November 2019 2,111 3 View

What is the minimum level of energy that allows a near body device to be long term self-sustainable?

My concern is about Energy Efficiency Model for WBANs. In a wide sense, I'm looking for ways to model the whole network in terms of power and energy. How much average power is required to keep...

11 November 2019 5,053 4 View

Why Bluetooth, or more recently BLE, is today's dominant technology for communications on sensors and IoT devices?

Is that correct? Could you give a list of pros and cons when compared to a plethora of options? For instance, IR-UWB is simpler (hardware mainly) than narrowband options, although it works with...

11 November 2019 4,370 3 View

RNA-sequencing- High RIN but low DV200 on Tapestation?

I've recently sent off E. coli RNA samples for RNA-seq. The company we have used for sequencing have replied and said all samples failed QC due to degradation. I am looking at the Tapestation...

20 May 2019 8,093 3 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

Your thoughts on the spherical densiometer to estimate relative species canopy cover?

Hi biologists and biogeomorphologists, I want to characterize vegetation plots on a transect that follows a successionnal gradient from a river bed to a mature forest. Ecologically, I am...

26 February 2021 5,720 2 View

Stress/strain tensors decomposition ???

25 February 2021 6,760 1 View

Bayesian decision trees and bayesian regression trees in Python and/or R?

I am looking for implementation of bayesian decision trees and bayesian regression trees in Python and/or R.. Do you know if the existing libraries support this

23 February 2021 6,689 3 View

How to assure whether a regression tree overfit or not by seeing bias-variance value of the model?

Lets consider a regression tree in which variance is 1.1065*e-10 and bias is 2.962e-13. Also the model RMSE on training set is 1.5e-5 and on training set is 1.2950e-5. Is the model is overfit or...

22 February 2021 7,755 2 View

Are cloud points able to identify tree species?

Hello Dears My goal is to classify dense forest tree species using drone images. Is it possible to classify dense cloud points? If yes, in what way and in what software? Thankful

15 February 2021 3,475 3 View

Does the phylogenetic tree making tool IQTREE use evolutionary placement algorithm?

For my master thesis I am conducting a phylogenetic research and for this I'm using tools like MEGA, IQTREE, FigTree, etc to make a phylogenetic tree. I wanted to know if IQTREE integrates the...

14 February 2021 1,541 2 View

Is there an alternative to PGLS that considers phylogenetic signal when calculating the estimated value?

I have been working on a study trying to estimate body mass in mammals using a skeletal proxy in R. My dataset has high phylogenetic signal (Pagel's Lambda = 0.9) and I am interested in removing...

26 January 2021 6,997 3 View

Is aligning mitochondrial and nuclear sequences inconsequential?

Probably a silly question but I am a complete novice in molecular biology. I have decided to attempt a phylogenetic analysis. I have managed to create a phylogenetic tree but want to confirm...

19 January 2021 5,895 2 View

How can I make unsupervised clustering of trees species using algorithms like HAC, Kmeans... in R?

I am working on the development of multi-species volume allometric equation from diameter (DBH). I would like to form groups of species with the largest possible volume-diameter correlations by...

19 January 2021 5,752 5 View