What thickness need for ITO to use as conductive layer?

I want to do RF sputtering of ITO on glass substrate using magnetron sputtering. what thickness do i need to make it good conductive layer to use it for PSC. Moreover, whats about thickness of...

01 March 2021 395 3 View

Are protein samples in SDS compatible with ELISA?

I have used an AllPrep DNA/RNA/Protein Mini Kit QIAGEN kit to extract RNA and protein from my samples. At the end of the protein purification, I resuspend my protein in 5% SDS. Will these samples...

28 February 2021 7,370 3 View

Special issue on PLS-SEM in Mathematics. Are you interested?

21 February 2021 5,601 3 View

How to calculate the TCID50 when the highest CPE is 50% or less?

I am doing TCID50 to measure progeny virus and some treatments protected the cells in a way that the highest CPE observed is 50% or less. How should I do the titre calculation in that case? Thank you!

16 February 2021 8,768 1 View

Which drug is better to modify blood pressure in awake monkey, if I provide it in the food or drink reward?

I need to modify the blood pressure in a monkey while is awake in the recording chamber, and I am planing on provide a drug for that in the food or water used for reward... any advise? Thank you

08 February 2021 9,900 1 View

Why stop the reaction in ice for the fluorescent probe FDA (fluorescein diacetate)?

Hi, In literature I noticed that who stains haemocytes with FDA for 30 min then stop the reaction in ice while this does not apply for 15 min incubation time (or maybe authors did not write this...

08 February 2021 3,366 3 View

How to make Fast Green FCF from powder?

Hi everyone We need Fast Green to electroporate plasmid into mice embryos, therefore we simply need it to see some color in the liquid we are electroporating so that electroporation is more...

07 February 2021 1,671 2 View

Why do high doses of humic substances inhibit the growth of corn roots? Is there a toxicity effect?

Length, volume, surface area and dry mass of corn roots treated with humic substances increased up to 13 liters per hectare and decreased with higher doses.

02 February 2021 2,190 4 View

Using a nucleosil c18 column, i get no negative peaks in real time and two negative peaks in post run.Software problem?

Simadzu, lc solutions

02 February 2021 1,969 2 View

Any ideas on fast and easy way to stain mucus on intact cell layer?

Dear RG community, We are looking for a fast and easy way to stain mucus on a cell layer that allows for macroscopic visualization of mucus distrubution. Our epithelium is grown in conventional...

31 January 2021 6,790 2 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View

Can I use FLEXBAR to detect and remove barcodes out of my short reads without demultiplexing ?

Hello, I have demultiplexed my short reads and I have removed the Illumina adapter left in the sequences and now I need to remove the barcodes used by the sequencing centre from my reads. I have...

22 February 2021 9,873 3 View

Qiime2- No reads passed the filter. How to set the trunc value?

Hi, I am working on some 16S sequencing data, and seems some of them are low quality. I am not sure how to set the trunc value in dada2. qiime dada2 denoise-paired \ --i-demultiplexed-seqs...

30 January 2021 6,213 3 View

How do I get ConsistencyDupSNP.sh file required for genotype consistency quality control step of genotyping data obtained from GSA 24 v2.0 ?

Genotyping data is from Illumina Global screening array 24 v 2.0 and ConsistencyDupSNP.sh file contains list of pair of duplicated SNPs in GSA24 v 2.0.

18 December 2020 1,966 3 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

Format Mothur database to run through dada2?

I am looking to run illumina miseq data through dada2, but the limited identification of this gene means there are no pre-build databases. I have a database built in MOTHUR format, does anyone...

30 November 2020 8,228 3 View

How do I transform the "Transcripts" into the "Gene symbol"?

I downloaded the expression matrix data "GSE143416_Brain_data_TPM.txt.gz" of GSE143416 from Gene expression omnibus ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi). However, the first column of...

30 November 2020 1,304 3 View

How do you design heterogeneity spacers for primers in amplicon metagenomic studies?

Adding heterogeneity spacers to primers used for Illumina based amplicon studies has proven to improve read quality by increasing bp diversity on the flow cell during sequencing. I have seen two...

01 November 2020 9,071 3 View

Illumina vs. BGI/MGI, MGISEQ-T7 vs. NovaSeq 6000, which to choose?

I am looking for opinions/recommendations of NGS Platforms (Illumina vs. BGI/MGI) from people that had opportunity to work on both hardware: MGISEQ-T7 and NovaSeq 6000 or analyze data from both....

04 October 2020 8,125 1 View

Is it possible that a IncX and IncF plasmid fused?

I recently performed plasmid extraction and nanopore sequencing. I have found what looks like a plasmid with replicon types IncX and IncF. Even with spAdes, canu, unicycler (illumina and nanopore...

29 September 2020 7,778 2 View