What are the best programs and methods to computationally dock RNA onto proteins?

We have used DOT to dock DNA to proteins but increasingly need to examine computational models for RNA docking onto proteins. Would appreciate advice and examples where this has proven successful.

10 November 2019 7,823 4 View

What is the best way to make antibodies against DNA and DNA-RNA hybrids?

We are examining structures of non-B-DNA such as DNA or DNA-RNA G quadruplex and would like to test if these occur in cells using antibodies. I know some G guadruplex antobides exist but we are...

08 September 2018 6,384 7 View

What are rigorous assays to measure the impact of a given enzyme and its inctivation on mutation rates, patterns, and signatures?

I am intersted in measuring the impact of specific enzymes and their inactivating mutations on genome instability and on the mutation burden in human cells and cancers. I want experiment ways to...

06 July 2018 2,257 0 View

Are scientific meetings a net expense that should be limited or do they save research time and money?

Many institutions are limiting travel and meeting attendance with the idea of saving money. Yet, I think meetings always save research money for me. I find that when I attend meetings the...

10 November 2017 2,132 4 View

What are the best ways to detect dsDNA in the cytoplasm?

re there specific stains and fluorescent methods to detect dsDNA in the cytoplasm of cells? Are these quantitative? What are the best controls and methods to validate dsDNA in cytoplasm?

09 October 2017 5,217 1 View

Given the issues with journal impact factors, would it be helpful to have some type of author-based metrics or impact factors or not?

Since the use of journal impact factors as frequently used to evaluate researh quality has been criticised for many reaons, might it be useful to devise mertics based upon a given author's impact....

11 December 2016 1,925 3 View

'What methods have you found to be effective for increasing your lab's productivity?

07 August 2016 6,071 2 View

How can we best teach students to answer questions where they have not learned the answer?

We largely teach students and then ask them questions that we taught them how to answer. In science and many other areas of life, one wishes to address and answer questions where you have not...

06 July 2016 6,509 2 View

What do you see as the major contributions that will come from cry-electron miscopy in the next decade?

11 December 2015 8,615 0 View

What are good ways to efficiently measure methane binding?

We are working on enzyme engineering to convert methane to alcohols. As part of this process we wish to measure methane binding to various enzymes and would benefit from suggestions as to what has...

31 December 2014 9,321 4 View

what is the simplest definition of ion exchange capacity

What this unit identifies for the ion exchange capacity ca. 0.92 meq. g-1. I am a newcomer in the membrane area. I just started. I highly appreciate your help

08 May 2021 0 0 View

what is the simplest definition of ion exchange capacity

What this unit identifies for the ion exchange capacity ca. 0.92 meq. g-1. I am a newcomer in the membrane area. I just started. I highly appreciate your help

08 May 2021 0 0 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

How the parameters (such as Mw, Chemical bonds, polymer bland and so on) affect the mechanic property of polymer (such as storage, loss modulus) ?

Anyone can recommend any books on such topics? Thanks in advance.

02 March 2021 8,457 2 View

Why almost every element would be metallized in sufficiently high pressure and low temperature?

(This statement is from wikipedia, BTW). What is so special about metallic bond that is limiting high-P low-T state of a matter (as long as individual atoms exist, not white dwarf of neutron star...

02 March 2021 3,309 2 View

How Relativistic effects is one reason for lanthanide contraction?

The Lanthanide contraction which is the decrease in ionic radii of the elements in the lanthanide series from atomic number 57, lanthanum, to 71, lutetium, is due to poor shielding of the 4f...

01 March 2021 2,272 4 View

Ester cleavage conditions?

Hi all, I need to cleave the ester in Ethyl 2-amino-1H-imidazole-5-carboxylate to make the carboxylic acid and retrieve the product from solution to use in downstream applications of linking to...

01 March 2021 8,766 3 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View