Can the PCR fail to amplify high loads of target?

Hello, I did the PCR (long-range, target ~5 Kb) that is shown in the attached file. The lanes are: 1. ladder 2. target (plasmid purified from E. coli after transfection), 50 ng/uL corresponding to...

01 February 2020 3,375 3 View

Is it possible to get the list of bacteriophages against a given species of bacteria?

Hello, from this website (http://phage.org/names/2000/) it is possible to determine the genera targeted by a family of bacteriophages, for instance the phage species DS96 , H24 , M35 , P3 , P9 ,...

06 July 2019 6,924 7 View

How to calculate the phase of a split CDS?

I am trying generate a custom general feature format (GFF) file but I need to calculate the phase of the Coding Sequence (CDS) for split ORFs, that is ORFs that have multiple CDS; for instance I...

09 October 2018 2,753 0 View

BWA-MEM memory use is really 5 GB?

07 August 2018 6,581 0 View

Where can I publish code?

Hello, is there a journal that publishes computer code for bioinformatics purposes but it is not so much high end (no Oxford or Nature class to be clear). The code I have written is not mind...

02 March 2018 3,695 0 View

Set up of Ligation mediated PCR (LM-PCR)

Dear all, I am working at using ligation-mediated PCR (LM-PCR) to amplify DNA of unknown origin; at the moment I am testing the system using amplicons, which should have the terminal adenine at...

04 May 2017 8,592 3 View

How to set up a ligation mediated PCR?

03 April 2017 304 14 View

What journals in the medical/microbiology area allow to publish without asking fees but also fulfil the open-access requirements of the universities?

10 November 2016 8,485 3 View

Are the any works on the structure of mRNA obtained by NMR or X-ray?

06 July 2016 9,375 2 View

What is the actual size of a DNA nucleotide?

06 July 2016 9,815 0 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 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

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

What is your perception on using visual analysis or quantitative approaches to evaluate data from single-case research designs (n of 1 trials)?

Results of single-case research designs (i.e., n-of-1 trials) are often evaluated by visually inspecting the time-series graph and computing quantitative indices. A question our research team is...

03 March 2021 687 1 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

Do we need to write protocol for a second study of a systematic review that has been registered and published?

I have conducted and published a systematic review and meta-analysis research with the topic related to public health and health pomotion (protocol was registed in PROSPERO). Now we want to...

03 March 2021 8,920 3 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View

How do I increase the yield of my PCR product?

Hello, We would like to increase the yield of our PCR product. We are running a series of PCR reactions that is targeting ~1.1kb sequence. We begin each reaction with ~400pg of template DNA...

02 March 2021 4,029 3 View

Do I need to do linear regression before running mediation analysis using PROCESS MACRO by Hayes ?

I just wanted to check if I need to run a linear regression separately if I am using PROCESS MACRO to run mediation analysis. Thank you.

02 March 2021 4,359 3 View

How to quantitative analize the data of TNBS assay for gelatin?

Estemeed colleagues, I found some issues regarding the quantification of the data for TNBS assay. There are different protocols on how to perform that but it is clear to me the "fil rouge" that...

02 March 2021 2,616 1 View