Shailesh Nair

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Can Fungi mineralize/generate bio available nutrients?

I am studying algae-associated symbionts and their ecological importance. I know that bacteria and archaea can contribute nutrients to the host. But can fungi (not fungi-associated...

13 May 2021 7,055 5 View

Regarding metagenomic contamination?

We have lab established culture setup of marine synechococcus PCC 7002 sp. and heterotrophic bacteria. Recently we did metagenomic analysis of it (sequencing was done by an outside reputed...

13 August 2020 308 11 View

How to find complete protein sequences (not partial) from NCBI database?

I want to generate a custom database of translated proteins involved in a particular process and then blast them against my predicted protein sequences from the metagenome . I have downloaded all...

13 July 2020 2,835 1 View

How efficient are prediction based tools in predicting metagenomic content (especially functions) using marker gene data?

Hi, I want to know how efficient are the new metagenomic content prediction tools such as PICRUSt and Piphillin in predicting functions and dynamics ( such as the presence of other genes) using...

07 April 2020 3,766 0 View

How to identify a particular gene/gene cluster of interest from a sequenced genome?

We have sequenced Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 genome. Already the same strain has been sequenced and annotated by many before. Whole-genome map is also available online. The gene of interest is...

18 March 2020 1,082 12 View

Which is the best/optimum preservative techniques for RNA preservation?

we want to carry out transcriptomics study of a mixed marine bacterial community. The experiment is designed as such that we have to preserve the samples for later transcriptomic studies...

27 February 2019 7,290 16 View