What is the maximum number of reads per one run with NGS?

Does anybody know how many reads are usually generated with Illumina NextSeq? For sequencing plasmid library (100-150 bp per read), for example.

27 September 2020 799 2 View

Hello dear researchers, how do you remove the black foil from the vine nursery?

Hello, how do you remove the black foil from the vine nursery? Attached picture in the file. is there machine way or by hand?

04 September 2020 3,566 2 View

Glioblastoma GL-261 cell line not growing s.c?

Hi has anyone had experiance of GL-261 not growing subcutaneously? I have inoculated 10e6 cells in C57BL/6J female mice and the tumors became palpable after a week cca but have subsequently...

19 February 2020 7,543 2 View

Microplastic extraction from fish guts using soluble filters?

Hi there, I want to isolate microplastic particles from fish guts and water samples. My initial idea was to extract guts from selected specimens and then dissolve the whole guts using 10% KOH...

12 February 2020 4,467 8 View

Why are my glucose levels decreasing very rapidly?

Hello, I'm conducting an IPGTT experiment on WT and KO mice (mice which we have shown to have improved glucose tolerance) and I have a serious issue of glucose levels plummeting after 30-60min....

28 September 2018 962 4 View

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10 December 2015 1,475 1 View

How can I calculate deflection of steel fiber reinforced concrete beams?

How can I calculate deflection of SFRC beams (ordinary and high strength)? Is there ACI or other proposals?

11 May 2015 4,977 14 View

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I need approximately 100 meters of ceramic cord (0,5mm). I need it for attaching extensometer to the tensile specimen when conducting tensile test at elevated temperatures.

10 November 2014 4,572 3 View

What is the best bacterial vector for large inserts (around 50 kb)?

Is it possible to insert 50 Kb of DNA to a bacterial vector and successfully maintain and amplify it in bacteria? If so, what would be the best vector?

12 January 2014 8,832 2 View

Where could I find complete interviews of some convicted Western jihadists?

I am NOT looking for studies on the subject, but actual interviews.

01 January 1970 5,977 2 View

What are the values needed for gabor filter's parameter for cifar10 data?

Hi, I implemented a code to gabor filter cifar10 data but the images after being filtered and stacked are not clear like the original images. I think the problem is in the way I am using the...

03 March 2021 6,317 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

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 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

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

Is it necessary to report effect size (ES) in statistics of biomedical research given that we already report p values routinely?

Pls share your thoughts

01 March 2021 7,330 4 View

Which reagent is best among 'Dimethylglyoxime" and "Dithiothreitol" for spectroscopic determination of Nickel ?

What I think is Dithiothreitol. As it is water-soluble and does not form a precipitate. But, the thing is it contains sulphur which is quite hazardous to aquatic animals.

01 March 2021 8,374 4 View

Anybody with an idea on how do design specific primers for detecting tomato resistance genes tm-1, TM-2 and Tm2^2?

I am trying to identify these 3 genes among some tomato cultivar collections and after aligning some sequences from NCBI, I couldn't find unique sequences to target for specific primers. There...

28 February 2021 606 3 View

What is the ideal efficiency for a qPCR?

hello everyone, I need to do standard curves for my qPCR, what is the ideal efficiency range? I tried a primer (Mglu2 receptor) that gave an efficiency of 90.2%. Is it accepted?

28 February 2021 1,254 3 View

MiRNA qpcr problem?

Dear All, mirna primer showing some problem in the melting curve? any idea why? As attached is the melting curve. The forward sequence is obtained from miRBase and reverse primer is universal.

28 February 2021 5,008 4 View