How to find out or construct(?) the right priors from data of previous experiment to use in a bayesian glm?

I have the following equation, Eating choice (Yes/No)~ Box type (A/B/C). So the question is whether a certain box type affects eating choice in groups of dogs. The eating choice of each member in...

10 February 2021 6,024 9 View

What are the ways to test the knowledge level of agricultural labourer about their day to day work?

what kind of test can I do for testing the level of knowledge about their daily operation?

03 February 2021 7,583 10 View

How to take XRD of colloidal Ag NPs?

I have synthesized silver nanoparticles using sodium citrate as reducing agent. I have carried out XRD characterization by drop coating colloidal solution on the glass substrate ( since yield in...

27 January 2021 1,416 3 View

Why the bandgap of CH3NH3PbCl3 films are different for spin-coating method and electrospinning method?

The observed bandgaps are 3.8 eV and 3.4 eV for spin-coated and electrospun films, respectively. What are the possible reasons?

08 January 2021 5,646 6 View

Why monoethanol amine is used as flocculant?

I want to know the reaction mechanism of monoethanol amine used as flocculating agent for rerefining used lubricating oil. Here I have attached one research paper where MEA (monoethanolamine) is...

01 January 2021 5,681 2 View

Problem with GST-fusion protein elution- Can anyone help?

18 December 2020 4,559 6 View

How can I determine metal concentration of Used lubricating oil by AAS?

I am a junior research fellow in the department of Chemical Engineering, Nit Durgapur. I want to know that how can I determine various metal such as Fe, Cr, Mg, Mn, Pb concentration present in...

15 December 2020 9,887 3 View

Regarding the O 1s XPS pf phyllosilciates, the peak near 531 belongs to Oxygen vacancy sites or O bonded to the Si from the silicate tetrahedra?

In O 1s spectra, usually the peak near 531 eV belongs to oxygen vacancy sites in oxides, however, in silicates, these peaks are often reported to originate from O-Si. I am confused if the intense...

10 December 2020 9,496 2 View

What is the mol. weight of GFP-11 tag?

Hi, I am trying to find out the mol. weight of GFP 11 because it is tagged to my protein of interest which is 17kDa. GFP 11 has been tagged with my protein of interest while GFP 1-10 is tagged...

09 December 2020 1,863 1 View

CFD steady state simulation not converging even after large number of iterations for multiphase flow?

Dear All, I have been working on multiphase flow through a complex geometry having porosity 0.25. I have patched it with oil and high-salinity brine. At the inlet I am flowing low-salinity brine....

04 December 2020 4,506 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

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

When making a phylogenetic tree, do I need to concatenate the chromosome and the plasmids for my reference?

This is such a basic question but I come from a non-bioinfo group so I keep getting different answers. I was wondering if when making a phylogenetic tree whether you have to concatenate the...

14 January 2021 2,492 2 View

How can I build one phylogenetic tree for an arthropod community when I had known their scientific names?

I am working on the phylogenetic analysis for communities of plants and arthropods. A standardized protocol of building phylogenetic tree for plant species list that was widely used in studies....

29 December 2020 181 3 View

Are phylogenetic independent contrasts still used in biology?

I have a regression equation in which I am curious if the amount of scatter around the regression line is driven by phylogeny. I know there is a lot of phylogenetic signal because Pascal's lambda...

22 December 2020 937 1 View

Could anybody provide insights the best tools to create a custom database for taxonomy assignment of metagenomic data?

I am interested in the different tools that can be used to create custom databases for targeted sequencing and how to trim the databases based on the amplicon size? Also, should custom databases...

02 December 2020 3,105 3 View

How can I get Genbank accession code given the scientific names?

Hello! I now have a complete list of about 23k plant species that I want to check if Genbank has the sequencing data for a phylogenetic analysis later, and I am really new to the topic. Is...

02 November 2020 4,450 3 View

Can you recommend me tree databases?

Hi. I have slight experience in searching phylogenetic trees, normaly I use TreeBASE or Dryad but some papers that I found doesn't have the resulting trees in these databases or there are genetic...

26 October 2020 582 3 View

When drawing a phylogenetic tree with somatic mutations(SNPs), what is the role of tree simulation process?

Hello, I am working on drawing a phylogenetic tree with samples sharing some somatic mutations. The basic process of my work is similar to this article. Population dynamics of normal human blood...

14 October 2020 8,078 4 View