Please I am a doctoral student, does any one has Primer 7 and XLstat softwares and the keys? Please I need them to analyze my environmental data?

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FDC and FRC cell populations in mouse spleen?

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Can anyone please suggest where I can find a reference for ReaxFF parameters for PTFE(Teflon) suitable for use in LAMMPS?

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Are the topics below viable research in plant biotechnology?

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Should the Ice 1h crystalline structure be lost during equilibration process in LAMMPS?

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Running a Kruskal-Wallis test on a large sample with a likert scale on excel?

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What is the relationship between pressure vacuum and pore water emptying?

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Any explaination for change signs and significant level of control variables in regression?

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What is the best way to keep an anaerobic chamber anoxic in the absence of hydrogen?

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Good sites to recruit survey participants on a grad school student budget?

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How to calculate the annealing temperature of a primer pair?

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MiRNA qpcr problem?

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Calculating volume of DNA required from DNA concentration?

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Randolph B Caldwell

If software licenses are not available through your school, then I would suggest using free versions. There are plenty out there. For example:

https://www.sas.com/en_us/software/university-edition.html