Pejvak Moghimi

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Should I include censored data into my Log-rank test of Kaplan-Meier curves in JMP?

I am disecting my Kaplan-Meier curves, of four different phenotypes of C. elegans, into first 8 days and last 20 days, in order to analyse in which period there is significant difference in the...

03 March 2016 799 6 View

Which database can I use for synteny analysis of a large collection of bacterial species?

I need to do a synteny analysis of 250 genes, belonging to bacterial species from across the whole kingdom, all of which are part of the same superfamily (of genes). Xbase is currently down, the...

08 August 2015 547 5 View

Is it wrong to use 16s rRNA sequences of strains other than the one you want to include in your phylogenetic tree?

Hi everyone. I am trying to create a phylogenetic tree, however NCBI lacks 16s rRNA sequences for some of the strains I am looking for although it does provide sequences for the other strains of...

08 August 2015 8,805 7 View

Why do E.coli cells, unable to metabolise maltose, turn white on MacConkey agar that is supplied with maltose?

I would like to know what is causing the red colour. Thank you.

03 March 2015 8,823 4 View

Is there a solid molecular understanding of why dipoildy might have been essential for the evolution of multicellularity?

It has been hypothesised, that our observations of the comparison between lower plants and higher plants, for example, might suggest that evolution of diploidy may have been the necessary...

02 February 2015 6,257 8 View

Why are biological membranes amenable to sucrose density gradient centrifugation, but proteins are not?

Basically 2 characteristics of proteins that makes it not viable to centrifuge using density gradient.

12 December 2014 562 4 View

What is a good introductory book on game theory with an evolutionary biology overlay?

I am looking for a book that is introductory in terms of mathematics, yet does not hesitate to go into detail after a nice introduction, while advanced on the evolutionary aspect. Thank you.

12 December 2014 5,214 15 View

What is the best introductory book on thermodynamics for biologists?

I am looking to study molecular biology from s statistical thermodynamics point of view.

12 December 2014 5,699 3 View

Could quantum entanglement be explained via quantum tunnelling of information?

More precisely through quantum tunnelling of information via the time dimension.

09 September 2014 4,226 2 View

Is parallel computing, using CUDA, limited to certain softwares/programming platforms?

Hi all, I would like to establish parallel computing by using the GPU of my M2000 Nvidia graphics card. I was wondering if this works for all the softwares, in my case bioinformatics softwares...

01 January 1970 5,638 12 View