Matthew Bates

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Why don't Archea cause infectious diseases?

Plenty of Bacteria and Eukarya cause infectous diseases in humans and animals, so why not the Archea as well? Not really happy with any of the hyptheses I've found: 1) Evolution or...

01 January 2018 4,619 7 View

Can you infer viral genome copy number from NGS data?

My view is that this is highly problematic. cDNA generation (for RNA viruses) and other amplification steps during the various library prep methods for different platforms would surely completely...

10 October 2017 3,616 3 View

Is it permissible to perform regression analysis on weighted datasets?

When you have population data that enables you to weight your sample data to adjust for recruitment biases, I have noticed that if you run a multivariate regression analysis on the weighted data,...

04 April 2014 9,289 32 View

Is there a point of care diagnostic test that can differentiate between bacterial and viral respiratory infections with some degree of accuracy?

I suppose the test would ideally 'rule in' bacterial infections with some degree of accuracy.

07 July 2013 1,896 39 View

How to extract viral DNA from Urine?

I've read in several places that the Qiagen RNA kit is the best one to use for extracting viral DNA from urine. Anyone had any experience of this or can explain why this is so?

12 December 2012 7,319 3 View