What are the pretrained-language-model that is obviously better than BERT and RoBERTa?

19 January 2021 602 2 View

Can I design an aptamer that can sense microbial activity?

I am trying to design a boron nitride based biosensor that can sense the abnormality of microbial activities on fish skin. I am very curious that is it possible to have such an aptamer that can...

23 September 2020 6,352 4 View

Can I build a stable cell line for CO-IP?

I want to know two protein interactions via CO-IP, and one of the proteins has several different mutations. I need to transfect all these mutations into HEK293T cells for doing Co-IP every time,...

03 September 2020 342 3 View

Based on transformer, how to improve the text generation results?

If I do not pretrain the text generation model like BART, how to improve the result based on transformer like tensor2tensor? What are the improvement ideas for transformer in text generation task?

18 August 2020 7,265 3 View

Are there any deep models that are better than BERT-CRF in NER task?

Named entity recognition (NER) is task that mark tags of the input text sequence. BERT-CRF is a good NER model. I want to find a better NER model. Or I want to improve the BERT-CRF model. What...

18 August 2020 7,070 2 View

What are the effects of gender of performer on animal?

I remember a paper studied the effects of gender of handler on animal (mouse?) showing that male handler has more negative effects on animal (for example, causing animal anxious) compared to...

05 August 2020 4,131 1 View

Question of pretraining text-generation task, it seems that pretraining is not work for a small model?

My task is to generate keywords from sentences. I pretrain a text-generation model. I mask the sentences' tokens and predict the whole sentences' tokens. Pretraining batch_size = 8 and step =...

28 July 2020 5,675 1 View

How to tackle endogenous problems with "truncated" data structure?

When I want to estimate educational return, I run a regression like: ln(wage)=beta1+beta2*education+other control variables+u In order to tackle the endogenous problems induced by potential...

21 June 2020 2,244 1 View

What is the principle of Unsupervised Data Augmentation (UDA)? Why does UDA work?

UDA(https://github.com/google-research/uda) could achieve good accuracy by only 20 training data on text classification. But I find it is hard to reproduce the result on my own dataset. So I...

05 June 2020 1,486 2 View

What are the simplest methods for the label noise problem?

If I have enough low quality data from unsupervised methods or rule-based methods. Do you think removing the wrong data predicted by trained model is a simple but effective method?

02 June 2020 4,078 3 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

Does anyone have a recommendation for yeast reporter gene plasmid/protocol?

Hi, could anyone recommend a plasmid and/or protocol for reporter gene assay in S. cerevisiae? I want to assess the effect of growth conditions on a transcription factor, so I want to clone it`s...

01 March 2021 210 1 View

Does RNAiMAX transfection reagent work in serum free medium?

I diluted siRNA and RNAiMAX in opti-MEM and added to the cells which they were in the growth medium. Is it a right way? or should I culture cells in the opti-MEM medium for a while and not in...

26 February 2021 10,041 3 View

What is the best surface to culture cells isolated from a skin biopsy?

Hello, recently I am having some difficulties with maintaining the cell culture of primary cells isolated from a skin biopsy (normal and malignant). The coating of culture plates with Matrigel (a...

26 February 2021 6,151 2 View

How do I transfect a large plasmid into PC12 cells with nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor?

I have a large 16 kb plasmid, which I need to transfect into PC12 cells. Lipofectamin 2000 didn't work and with GFP alone the transfection rate is very low. I also tried the neon invitrogen...

25 February 2021 6,635 5 View

Kinetics of Enzyme production in Recombinant E Coli?

Hello, I am trying to find kinetic information (such as rate of enzyme production etc.) on the expression of taq polymerase in E-Coli after inserting a recombinant plasmid. Any help would be...

12 February 2021 1,386 3 View

Has anyone tried eBioscience Foxp3 / Transcription Factor Staining Buffer Set with TdTomato+ cells?

Hi all, I stained tdTomato+ cells (PBMCs and Jurkats) with eBioscience Foxp3 / Transcription Factor Staining Buffer Set for the foxp3 and I completely lost the signal of tdTomato. I tried to fix...

10 February 2021 5,863 2 View

How long can you store Matrigel-coated Transwell inserts?

Hi, everyone! I was planning to do an invasion assay today and thus coated my inserts yesterday, but unfortunately, due to certain circumstances, I cannot proceed. The next time that I can do the...

09 February 2021 8,771 3 View

Meniscus formation matrigel?

Hey guys, I am currently doing tube formation assay on matrigel coated coverslips, and i wonder if there is any possibility to get rid of the meniscus formation? I have only a small part of the...

09 February 2021 6,979 3 View

How could a transcriptional factor purified as inclusion bodies (by using urea) exhibit a ratio 260/280>1?

I am working with a very unstable transcriptional factor. I use DNAse in the lysis buffer and I purify it as inclusion bodies, by using urea and 1M NaCl. After purification, I buffer exchange the...

05 February 2021 2,530 3 View