How to compare means of continuous data with zero-inflation and skew?

I have two groups (unpaired) of plant biomass measurements and want to know whether there is a test that can be used to determine statistical significance where assumptions are not violated. The...

18 February 2021 1,258 4 View

Fluo 3-AM in pancreatic beta-cells?

Dear all, I'm trying to understand if a molecule of my interest (capable of inducing glucose-stimulated insulin secretion) determines an increase in intracellular calcium levels in the presence of...

16 February 2021 453 2 View

Are there commercially available fluorescence-tagged Influenza A virus?

30 November 2020 9,445 1 View

What tests for: 1. differences between continuous variables when grouped with different categorical ones; 2. significance of potential relationships?

Hello. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions in terms of what exploratory analysis to carry out for my dissertation with the following data. I measured N=26 participants pre and post an...

09 August 2020 5,256 5 View

Wavy looking bands In western blots?

Hello everybody, from some time, I keep having waving bands in the lower part of my gel, like the proteins are not running on a flat front. I cast my own gels and run them at 90V at the beginning...

26 May 2020 937 3 View

SURVEY - how people changed attitude toward green spaces & urban forests during the COVID19 quarantine?

https://vub.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5bSsVfI1g1VgI7j While shaking our society and turning our way of living upside down, the COVID19 pandemic is also putting the relation between nature...

15 May 2020 2,339 8 View

Direct Input of the Occupation Matrix?

I'm implementing the Occupation Matrix Control scheme (OMC) in VASP DFT+U calculations via direcct input of the Occupation Matrix. This requires an external input file (OCCMATRIX) containing the...

17 March 2020 1,921 1 View

Glycerol topology/structure for GROMOS87/Berger forcefield?

Hello all, I need the topology /structure file of the glycerol for the GROMOS87 forcefield. Is some repository available online or do someone know how can I derive them by myself (maybe some tool...

12 March 2020 8,858 2 View

How to interpret moderating effect in PLS?

I am running a Partial Least Squadre Path Modelling in R and I have a Moderating effect (explained by one scalar variable) between my exogenous x and my endogenous y. The only variable that...

25 February 2020 8,022 4 View

Recombinant protein for antibody neutralization?

I need to understand if an antibody I'm using is specific or not. The antibody is not validated. In immunoblotting, the antibody detects a prominent band at the right molecular weight and two...

29 April 2019 4,752 4 View

I want to performe MALDI-TOF MS for bacterial identification, I would appreciate it if anyone can tell me the matrix solution preparation protocol ?

based on what I've studied on multiple papers, for peptide and protein identification Alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (CHCA) is an appropriate matrix to use, I also know that the CHCA powder...

26 February 2021 6,799 3 View

Is it possible to elucidate the structure of melanin pigments with Cryo-electron microscopy?

Dear Colleagues Melanins are heterogeneous polymeric natural pigments and these pigments are widely distributed in nature from bacteria to humans. Today, although the structure of other organic...

18 January 2021 8,792 2 View

How to extract and purify disaccharide peptides and lactoyl peptides from Mycobacteria cell wall?

Recently, I try to obtain disaccharide peptides and lactoyl peptides from Mycobacterium Smegmatis, but I cannot succeed. My method is: Disaccharide peptides: The mycobacterial strains were...

12 January 2021 8,352 3 View

QTOF vs Orbitrap for CECs?

We considering purchase of Sciex QTOF and Thermo Exploris 120 MS for unknown compound screen (CECs), id, and quantification in water matrix, at low conc. etc. Which one would be most...

06 January 2021 4,931 1 View

Could anyone professional help me to solve this problem?

I have installed the software BRUKER Flexanalysis 3.4 on my computer successfully. But when I tried to import the MS data produced by BRUKER MALDI-TOF-MS, I met with an error described in the...

10 November 2020 8,205 1 View

Best way to add streptavidin onto flat surface?

I will be adding streptavidin onto the surface of a graphene coated glass slide; thereafter, I will be analyzing with a MALDI-TOF. I was wondering the best way to go about this? I was thinking of...

07 September 2020 5,902 4 View

Why do I get multiple peaks of my protein when measuring molecular weight using MALDI-TOF?

I have gotten the MALDI-TOF results of my protein (Gliadin from wheat) however it shows different peaks. What does it say about my protein? (see readings attached) I need to know the total...

27 July 2020 1,074 1 View

Flex analysis Maldi-TOF file error?

I am receiving an error message suggesting that the fid file might be the wrong format, when I try to import it into flex analysis. Is there anyway to solve this issue?

12 March 2020 8,707 3 View

Does anyone know about analysis of 3D mapping and depth profile for wooden object?

I have 1cm cubic size wood samples. inside of wood, there are S and S-organic, inorganic compounds randomly. I'd like to figure out the quantities of S distribution non-destructively. First, I...

20 February 2020 9,303 2 View

Which protons are exchangable in a protein expression in 100% D2O minimal media?

Hello, I have purified a protein in minial media with 100%D2O, what i wish to know is if this is completely deuterated? I have sent this for mass spec analysis maldi with the matrix acidified...

18 February 2020 8,370 3 View