Is there an open source tool the measures the GRAVY index of a peptide incorporating the PTMs and unusual amino acids (e.g. hydroxyproline)?

Right now, I am using ProtParam to compute GRAVY index of peptides. However, some of my peptides are post-translationally modified, and contains unusual amino acids. I assume that ProtParam does...

29 January 2021 8,300 4 View

What do you mean by 'excitation' of a plasma wave? What is the physical significance of this 'excitation'? Why is it necessary?

I have read numerous research papers on various mechanisms of excitation of surface plasma wave. But why do we need to excite a wave? Is it necessary? Can't the wave propagate without being excited?

25 January 2021 3,790 3 View

What is the difference between research summaries and abstracts? Can an abstract be contained in a research summary?

Some articles confuse the two subjects. I need to find out if they can be used interchangeably. If not, what is the difference between the two?

13 January 2021 847 3 View

How long does the peptide cleavage cocktail last before it gets expired?

The cleavage cocktail is composed of Phenol/thioanisole/water/TFA/triisopropylsilane. I only prepare 10 mL cocktail per peptide but can the activity of the cocktail prepared at 100 mL last for a week?

10 January 2021 7,424 3 View

How to present and discuss results, when methodology is not data-based?

Dear Everyone! I'd ask you opinion about a problem, which is returning in my "softer" research field. Time to time I work on research projects, which do not have available data and/or the data...

29 December 2020 7,637 6 View

Do anyone know a lab in Mexico where dielectric properties of solids and liquid can be measured?

I mean those kits that can be connected to vector network analyzers in order to find out permittivity and permeabilitty of solid and liquid from around 1 to 10 or 30 GHz

25 November 2020 852 1 View

How would you describe the most relevant research questions and directions in urban air pollution, if I'm specially interested in transportation?

I am relatively new to this field, my research interests are smart cities, shared mobility, transport service integration. We have data about CO, NO2, O3, PM10 from several cities. I would like to...

11 November 2020 9,099 4 View

How relevant is the Area under curve (AUC) in ROC being different from .50?

I analyze the psychometric qualities of a screening instrument to predict depression after stroke using ROC analysis. In this context, I read several papers which report an AUC without a p-value...

12 October 2020 6,557 4 View

How do you guys measure the rate of protein translation for a specific protein?

I am trying to think about a way to measure the protein translation rate for a single and specific protein that I am interested in. I've been thinking that Ribo-seq might be a good idea for this...

07 September 2020 9,054 3 View

Determination of Lipid A in Salmonella?

Im working with a S. typhimurium strain. Until now when i wanted to have a look at the amount of Lipid A present in the cells, i did silverstainings with proteinaseK treated whole cell samples....

26 August 2020 9,455 1 View

What SPSS analysis should I run with one IV (with two levels) and two DVs?

Hi, I am trying to figure out which test would be most appropriate to run for the following question: Is there a difference in task blood pressure between smokers and non-smokers? There are two...

01 March 2021 8,235 2 View

How to perform statistical analysis of coefficients extracted from transform techniques?

I am studying the potential of DCT and FFT coefficients extracted from a signal to classify the different objects that emit the signal. I applied the Shapiro-Wilk to confirm that data was not...

01 March 2021 8,079 2 View

Mediation path analysis - Can I run two seperate models?

I am wanting to run a serial mediation model with 2 x IVs, 2 x MVs, and 3 DPs (all continuous). Is it problematic to run 2 different models for each IV, keeping the MVs and DPs the same in each...

27 February 2021 5,681 3 View

SEM or Multiple Regression for an analysis without Latent Variables?

Hello, I have three hypothesis to test, all with the same IV. I am testing if the effect of the IV on the first DV is mediated by awe. I am then measuring whether the effect of the IV on a...

26 February 2021 8,399 5 View

Can I run spearman's correlation on non monotonic data? Is it advisable?

Hi all, I am running a partial correlation analysis on mood data. I want to see if there is a correlation between scores on a novel hypomanic mood scale and existing measures of hypomania - the...

25 February 2021 1,619 3 View

How to handle studies which report perfect effect sizes in a meta-analysis using Pearson's r?

I'm in the process of updating a meta-analysis and in one of the new studies, effect sizes are reported as Tau-U. Two of the effect sizes are reported as Tau-U = 1.00. I am using Andy Field's...

24 February 2021 2,265 3 View

Are there lab markers/pens resistant to Roti-Histol?

Hi, I'm looking for a pen/marker to write on the smooth, transparent (non-frosted) part of microscopy slides which does not get washed away by alcohols and most importantly Roti-Histol. I want to...

24 February 2021 9,902 5 View

Interpretation of Goodman - Kruskal Gamma squared?

Dear colleages, Eta squared is dominantly used in reflecting the explaining power the same manner as a squared partial correlation coefficient (R2p ) from multiple linear regression: as the...

22 February 2021 7,801 3 View

Why anti-CD20 or other antibodies are not used to label target cells in flow cytometry t-cell cytotoxicity assay?

New to the field of cell therapy. Why fluorescent-labeled antibodies to target cell antigens are not used for determining target cell count by flow cytometry in cytotoxicity assay (eg car-t)? Cell...

21 February 2021 3,278 3 View

How do I group questions of SPSS under one variable for Spearman's r?

12 February 2021 5,379 5 View