What is the role of cut-off wavelength in fluorescence measurement?

I am using the filter pair of 480/535 and trying to measure fluorescence. The instrument that I am using is Spectramax M2. The Cut-off filter for this pair is showing 530nm in this machine. So...

27 May 2020 691 3 View

How to quantify protein content in an enzyme having a unit of 1000 U/ml?

I am trying to quantify the protein in terms of mg/ml by BCA assay with an activity of 1000 u/ml.

23 December 2019 4,389 4 View

How to repeat an operation on an atom selection for multiple times in PyMol?

Hi, I am trying to construct a multi-layer fibril structure from a single layer in PyMol by translating the layer along the fibril axis. For now, I am able to use the Translate command in PyMol...

02 March 2021 4,569 4 View

How to remove the residual PDMS on the silicon mold?

Incompletely cross-linked pdms are difficult to remove.

01 March 2021 798 3 View

Which polarizers are usually used to measure the birefringence of zebrafish muscles?

I already found several publications on that topic, however, the specifications for the used filters are often missing. Some more specific information than "fish is placed between to polarizing...

23 February 2021 1,934 1 View

What are the potential shell well and atomic solvation parameters for the boron atom?

I have a protein-ligand docking project. The ligand contains boron atoms that are not detected by Autodock software. To solve this problem, it is necessary to introduce the boron atom to...

19 February 2021 1,236 1 View

How to calculate the Atomic Polar Tensor using DFT ?

Dear friends, I am a beginner at DFT calculation. I have done a structure optimization using DFT- B3LYP/6-31G*, Nevertheless, I don't know How to calculate the Atomic Polar Tensor (APT) in...

17 February 2021 9,082 3 View

Can bio-decomposer be a successful alternative to reduce residue burning?

To maintain the proper crop plan most of the times there is not enough time to make the field ready for the next crop. In this particular context , can bio-decompser be a solution? What about...

16 February 2021 7,068 24 View

What are backpropagation formulas for residual neural networks?

14 February 2021 4,194 3 View

Charmm/GROMACS Residue 'ZN' not found in residue topology database?

I am trying to do some MD simulations of a protein with zinc ions. I am trying to use a charmm forcefield (I have tried 2017 and 2021) and Gromacs. I get an error when doing pdb2gmx Residue 'ZN'...

12 February 2021 9,367 2 View

How to Remove different version of atom from pdb Crystal Structure for Docking Preparation?

I am new to Docking and MD, and currently try to catch on it. I try one of the webserver for docking, but unfortunately not working. it says " Your PDB contains multiple forms of the same residue...

08 February 2021 7,426 3 View

Is there any difference between "SEP" as a non standard residue and phohophorylated serine?

I am trying to run a molecular dynamics simulation for a ligand that contains a "SEP" residue. also, I am preparing my files using Charmm-GUI using charmm36 ff, but it says that it will rename my...

31 January 2021 6,321 1 View