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Hi everyone, To those who are studying gene differential expression by using RNA-seq, can you share with me the protocol you follow for validation of candidates genes by RT-qPCR. I mean the PCR...
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Hi again, I know most people, expert bioinformaticians, use DESeq and EdgeR packages in RBioconductor to analyze differential expression from RNA-Seq data… Unfortunatelly, I'm experimentalist and...
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Hi everyone, Experimentalist trying to get introduced to some basic bioinformatics, I've recently started to use R Bioconductor, but getting quite lost yet.I'm would like to use this new skills to...
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Hi everyone, I've used MAUVE before to work with a set of bacterial genomes and had no problems. Progressive alignment was performed by using genbank (.gbk) files as input and I obtained a nice...
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Hello every one. Hope you can help me. The task seems to be rather easy. I have a set of bacterial draft genomes in .gbk format and I want to used them as input into KEGG Automatic Annotation...
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I'm trying iPath 2.0, but I found some inconsistencies. It is supposed to use the KEEG database and my organisms is contained in this database, and I'm using a set of orthologous groups that have...
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