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May 8 |
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Are there more descriptive ways of naming genes and gene interactions? @AlexStone: there are pathways that can be given a nice name, e.g. genome.jp/kegg/pathway.html -- but even then there will be more functions to the pathway than what can be encapsulated in the name |
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May 2 |
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Do marine deep sea life forms exhibit circadian rhythms? If so, what entrains them? very interesting question. just a pointer: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… plankton migrates between 100 and 1000 meters of depth, so there are regular signals communicated downwards |
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Apr 16 |
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Software for counting fly eggs here's another image analysis package that may do what you want fiji.sc/Fiji |
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Apr 8 |
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Confusion related to a term probe-by-background interaction cross-posted with BioStar: biostars.org/p/68510 |
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Mar 8 |
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Combining gene expression data from two species Sometimes you have a strain-specific gene duplication, which you probably want to exclude to keep things simple. So you can check for each species if there's more than one gene associated with an ODB6_OG_ID, and remove those. |
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Feb 27 |
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Specific enzyme for C. elegans what is your actual question? |
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Feb 26 |
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What is benjamini please don't cross-post with BioStars without acknowledging it in your question -- biostars.org/p/64888 |
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Feb 19 |
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What are some alternatives to Charles Darwin evolution except creationism? So you're asking for alternatives to "species evolve/change during time"? Then they must be unchanging, created ex nihilo. |
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Feb 19 |
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What are some alternatives to Charles Darwin evolution except creationism? What do you mean by "Charles Darwin evolution"? We certainly know much more than Darwin did in his day, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_evolutionary_thought |
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Feb 7 |
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What is the mechanism behind ventilatory acclimatization? not a complete answer, just a comment: $CO_2 + H_2O$ <--> $H_2CO_3$. This is going on all the time (e.g. in a soda bottle) without the need for an enzyme. |
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Jan 23 |
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Is copy number variation dynamic? the answer to this question depends on the scale you're looking at: individual cells? tissues? organisms? tumors? |
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Nov 29 |
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What is a good list of unsolved protein structures? You can also filter for different protein model databases like "ProteinModelPortal" to get rid of proteins that can be modelled based on homology. |
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Nov 22 |
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How can I compare rates of evolution for two sets of proteins? @terdon: if you want to compute ka/ks ratios, you need to look at the nucleotide sequences, no? |
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Nov 22 |
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How can I compare rates of evolution for two sets of proteins? The eggNOG database also contains alignments for protein families, but these are on the amino acid level. So you would still somehow have to go back to a nucleotide alignment, which I'm not quite sure how to do. :-/ Might be a good question to ask on BioStar with its larger bioinf audience. |
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Nov 22 |
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How can I compare rates of evolution for two sets of proteins? are you working on species that have already been sequenced (for which you might info in databases), or do you have novel sequencing data? |
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Nov 20 |
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Why do living organisms replicate itself or procreate Yes, reproduction is part of the definition of life. However, this doesn't mean that a sterile animal doesn't live. |
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Nov 20 |
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Multiple sequence alignment - how to align everything to 1 gene sequence? Which kind of result do you want to have? One alignment with three sequences, or two pair-wise alignments? If the former, what would you do if one of the 1000bp sequences causes a gap in the reference sequence? |
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Oct 19 |
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What is the difference between orthologs, paralogs and homologs? Another pet peeve: homology is qualitative, not quantitative. So saying "significant homology" or "weak homology" is just wrong. |
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Oct 17 |
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Is Homo sapiens the only species capable of prioritization? Good point! too bad the other members of our genus are extinct. |
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Oct 3 |
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Are there any substance that are more dangerous at low dose than at higher dose? I agree, but my answer is true to his original question |
