Can anyone help me with interpreting the results of a protein sequence analyzed with Delta-blast and blast-p?

I used blastp and DELTA-BLAST algorithms for the same protein sequence, but I am confused with the results. Putative conserved domains have been detected by blastp, but nothing has been detected...

03 April 2014 7,763 2 View

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09 October 2013 7,160 1 View

The order of loop refinement in protein modeling.

I am working with modeller and I would like to know the order of loop refinement (for example starting with loop3, then loop1 and then loop2) has any effects on the final model?

03 April 2013 3,396 1 View

How to determine the best simulation time for molecular dynamic in GROMACS?

I made a model for my protein using Modeller with template having 46% identity. Now I want to use Gromacs for energy minimization and molecular dynamics simulation. I see different simulation time...

01 February 2013 2,168 2 View

Why a mutant with single amino acid mutation dose not express in E.coli (BL 21 pLysS strain)?

I have a problem with expression of a mutant protein in E.coli (BL 21 pLysS strain). Recently I could expressed the native and two other mutants from this protein in the same host by pET26. Only...

10 November 2012 9,154 7 View

What is your perception on using visual analysis or quantitative approaches to evaluate data from single-case research designs (n of 1 trials)?

Results of single-case research designs (i.e., n-of-1 trials) are often evaluated by visually inspecting the time-series graph and computing quantitative indices. A question our research team is...

03 March 2021 687 1 View

In PRIMER, is it possible to downweight certain taxa in multivariate community datasets to reflect uncertainty around identification??

I have a dataset with about 80 different species. As usual, some species are very easy to identify with certainty whereas others are more difficult, which means that I am less certain of my...

03 March 2021 8,066 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

How to calculate BREQ 3 questionnaire?

how to calculate BEHAVIOURAL REGULATION IN EXERCISE QUESTIONNAIRE BREQ 3 ,which contain 24 questions and each question has 5 answers (0- Strongly disagree , 1-disagree, 2- Neither agree nor...

02 March 2021 811 3 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

I am interested in medicinal chemistry field, which books are highly recommended to learn from?

I am at the beginner level in drug design and drug discovery, and I am interested to learn more about this field. Which books are highly recommended to start from and gives me all essential...

02 March 2021 8,437 2 View

Please suggest a good text book for "Research Methodology in Life Sciences". Which book would be good for PhD Scholars?

Please provide Book Title and author name

02 March 2021 9,059 3 View

Could any one guide me, to write research proposal for grant? ?

We have one plant, the local people using this for controlling blood sugar, the toxicity and antidiabetic activity of the plant is not reported yet, please guide from whag should be the process ?...

02 March 2021 2,300 1 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 calculate the annealing temperature of a primer pair?

I have to amplify a gene and my primers just reached. The Tm for Forward primer is 64.2, and that of reverse primer is 65.5. Can some one suggest how to get the best annealing temperature? Thanks...

01 March 2021 360 7 View