VIF very high, but correlation is low and coefficient is significant. Which one whould I choose?

Hello. I have a question whether if my coefficients (statistically significant) would be valid when VIFs are really high. In my model, there are independent variables(IV), moderating variables...

26 February 2021 956 13 View

How to clean up TEM grid with plasma cleaner?

I need to clean the hydrocarbon contamination on the carbon substrate of TEM grid. However, I heard that substrate could be broken by the powerful plasma. My substrate is pure carbon, with ~3nm,...

23 February 2021 3,262 5 View

Sb2Te3 thin film annealing and damage(break)?

21 January 2021 9,642 2 View

When comparing two very similar surveys taken over time, but with different sample size, what would be the best way to approach this problem?

Hi, I'm currently analysing a survey for a university course design, and some guidance would be very much appreciated. The students who are enrolled in a (year-long) course were given a link to...

08 December 2020 6,624 9 View

When analysing survey using Likert scale, is it okay to use Friedman's test?

Hi, I'm currently analysing a survey for a university course design, and some guidance would be very much appreciated. The students who are enrolled in a course were given a link to participate...

06 December 2020 6,060 2 View

Which time-serie model is good when using concatenate data?

I would like to make a model using sequence datasets. As I've searched that , many LSTM, RNN tutorials use long-sequential data such as weather in 1950-2020. However, my datasets are short...

24 November 2020 808 3 View

Could you answer some basic questions on CRISPR-cas9?

Hi, I would like to ask simple some questions related to CRISPR-Cas9 that I could not understand by reading some basic articles on it. I am not in that scientific field so my questions might be...

21 October 2020 2,439 2 View

How can I design resin column for test?

I'm interested in the research field of ion exchange resin. I want design about resin column with acryl for test. How do you usually design the diameter and length of small columns for test? I...

13 October 2020 3,443 2 View

How do you check the locations of brain-implanted cannulas?

Hello. I implanted single cannulas bilaterally into the brains of mice to infuse drugs. After behavior tests, what would be the simplese way to validate if the cannulas are in the target areas?...

18 September 2020 8,457 3 View

Why this HPLC data show negative peak?

Lysine was dissolved in mobile phase and injected in HPLC but there are two peaks. One for positive at 2.1 min and another for negative at 2.8 min? Contents of moilbe phase are ACN:Water:TFA =...

08 July 2020 2,695 13 View

Would fecal samples stored at -20C for over a year impact metagenomic analysis?

Dear All, I have access to some rodent fecal samples that have been stored at -20C instead of -80C. Anyone have experience with the impact of stowage condition on comparative metagenomic analysis...

01 March 2021 2,512 1 View

How do I check the quality of my viral RNA prior to metagenomic sequencing?

I am doing metagenomic sequencing without enrichment for an RNA virus. After my RNA is extracted from the blood I am doing library prep with the NEBNext Ultra directional RNA library prep kit for...

16 February 2021 5,101 2 View

Does DNA A-tailing survive after agarose gel electrophoresis and purification?

Hi everyone, I need to clone in pGEM-T vector the result of amplifying a metagenomic library by PCR with a high fidelity polymerase but I only want to clone the fragments of an specific size...

04 February 2021 6,051 8 View

How can I solve this problem with agarose gel DNA purification of bigger (1-4kb) fragments ?

Hi everyone, I perform a PCR + Restriction Digestion (single cut, same at both sides) over a metagenomic library. After that, I am trying to purifiy DNA fragments between 1-4kbp long from the...

24 January 2021 2,190 5 View

Could anybody provide insights the best tools to create a custom database for taxonomy assignment of metagenomic data?

I am interested in the different tools that can be used to create custom databases for targeted sequencing and how to trim the databases based on the amplicon size? Also, should custom databases...

02 December 2020 3,105 3 View

Does Shannon index represent largest diversity index when the individual belongs to different species and vice versa?

The shannon wiener index and Simpson indices include the measurement of community heterogeneity. Shannon wiener index bapplied information theory. The main measuring object of information theory...

22 October 2020 1,053 7 View

Is the first clean up necessary in Illumina MiSeq Library Preparation?

I'm trying to streamline my metagenomics protocols for my lab. I have previously followed the 16S protocol...

16 September 2020 5,234 6 View

How to use Vegan::capscale to calculate and plot distance based- redundancy analysis (db-RDA) and add correlation cut-offs in the results?

I have a dataset with relative abundances of Genomes against their COG-ids. It is a large data frame with 4214 rows (COG-ids) and 1313 columns...

13 September 2020 2,334 1 View

Regarding metagenomic contamination?

We have lab established culture setup of marine synechococcus PCC 7002 sp. and heterotrophic bacteria. Recently we did metagenomic analysis of it (sequencing was done by an outside reputed...

12 August 2020 187 11 View

How to find complete protein sequences (not partial) from NCBI database?

I want to generate a custom database of translated proteins involved in a particular process and then blast them against my predicted protein sequences from the metagenome . I have downloaded all...

12 July 2020 2,651 1 View