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  1. Last 7 days
    1. Over the last 25 years, shotgun metagenomic sequencing1 and associated computational methods have developed as robust, efficient ways to study the taxonomic composition

      Read to figure out benefits compared to marker genes profiling such as 16S?

    1. MetaPhlAn 4 relies on ~5.1M unique clade-specific marker genes identified from ~1M microbial genomes (~236,600 references and 771,500 metagenomic assembled genomes) spanning 26,970 species-level genome bins

      This same dataset might be handy to find and parse for better universal marker genes across phyla or all bacteria?

  2. Nov 2024
    1. Template Buffer should be at 1X inthe final reaction

      effectively, 0.5 ul of the tempalate buffer per 20 ul reaction

  3. Oct 2024
    1. not compatible with real-time PCR due to the presence of unnatural nucleotides in their sequence

      This is an unfounded argument ; Inosine bases are perfectly fine to use in qPCR primers

    1. removal of sequences containing nonsense mutations was found to be a valuable filter in addition to flowgram-based denoising

      stop codons and frameshifts

    1. 1.8 uL diluted ROX per 20 uL

      Note that 20 ul reaction is equivalent to 10 ul of the master mix..

  4. Sep 2024
    1. We found a distinctive wheel-shaped arrangement of the cells

      Is this arrangement dependent on the 100 kb collapse or the UMAP dimensionality reduction algorithm used?

    2. Studying gene–gene correlations on a local scale, we observed the expected high correlations between the expression profiles of genes residing in the same operon

      How did you chose these few operons/ this chromosomal region for this analysis?

    3. Principal component analysis (PCA) at the gene level

      read up: why PCA pattern differs from UMAP?

    4. Two-dimensional projection by uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) of LB-grown E. coli

      why UMAP vs other dimensionality reduction methods? - read methods?

    1. Degenerate consensual pairs of rpoB primers called Univ_rpoB_F_deg (forward primer) and Univ_rpoB_R_deg (reverse primer) were manually designed from clustalW alignments

      How small was this alignment that you manually design primers?

    2. we constructed a reference database including ~ 45000 sequences; this database is available from the FROGS website (http://frogs.toulouse.inra.fr/).

      Does database have full rpoB or only 434 bp region?

    1. In many cases, such variations reflect differences in the essentiality of genes. Genes with higher connectivity are often more essential for the reproductive success of a cell or organism

      This assumption will not hold true for auxiallary genes or genes not in the core genome but still contribute to essential functions conditional to certain circumstances? for example: antibiotic resistance genes?

    1. poses challenges for many classical methods, such as parametric statistical tests (for example, Student’s t-test and ANOVA) and measures of correlation, including Spearman’s rank correlation, often leading to completely unacceptable false discovery rates above 90%
    2. We recommend that these methods replace OTU-based approaches for all applications, except when it is necessary to combine sequence data that were generated using different technologies (that is, Illumina sequencing and 454 pyrosequencing) or with different primer sets, when mapping to a common reference database of full-length sequences is often still needed
    1. If rearrangement events and horizontal transfers are rare for the 16S rRNA gene, as is widely believed to be the case, then its true gene tree is likely to be a good approximation to the true phylogenetic tree based on vertically inherited traits, assuming that the latter tree can be meaningfully defined

      Is this really true? If so, it must be true for every gene right?

    2. If an environmental sequence is annotated as belonging to a taxon which is defined by traits, then this is a prediction which can always be checked in principle

      taxonomy by phenotype~?

    1. The diversity of bacteria can also be accessed by using COI, rpoB, cpn60 (encodes for chaperonin protein), tuf (elongation factor), RIF (Replication initiation factor), and gnd (Gluconate-6-phosphate dehydrogenase) gene as barcode
    1. The origin of the rain is not clear. Rain often is attributed to delayed PCR onset [3] or partial PCR inhibition in individual droplets [4]. However, it could also be a consequence of damaged positive droplets with corresponding reduced fluorescence, or damaged negative droplets with increased background fluorescence, or a mixture of both [5].
    1. we found that the clouds can become more compact and produce substantially less rain upon: (i) reducing the ramp rate to 1 °C/sec in every PCR step (Fig. 10a), (ii) increasing the annealing/extension time to 2 minutes (up from 1 minute; Fig. 10b), and (iii) increasing the number of cycles to 50 (Fig. 10c)28
    1. Trans-splicing ribozymes can, in principle, target every uridine residue of a substrate RNA, but the target sites need to be accessible.

      Can RNA folding prediction tools be used to predict accessibility?

    2. In this assay, the mRNA is incubated with trans-splicing ribozymes that carry a randomized internal guide sequence (IGS). This enables the ribozyme population to splice on every accessible site on the mRNA. The sites at which trans-splicing occurred were identified by RT-PCR, cloning, and sequencing

      This might be a way to test for accessibility of the site for splicing from a secondary structure point of view?

    1. we performed RT-qPCR on the high-performing RENDR design, split site 15. We observed a 93-fold increase in the abundance of spliced mRNA in cells expressing both RENDR and RNA input compared to control cells lacking the RNA input

      This split site 15 from Fig 2 was used in the RAM paper as well (RAM = Ribozyme addressable memory)

      • 15 corresponds to: (IGS / 6 bp + P1_loop_01 / 9 bp)
    2. RENDR variants sensing different RNA inputs from RFP

      These are all based on splice site 15 from fig 2. This should have been explicitly mentioned :😞

    3. best design delivers a 93-fold dynamic range of splicing with RENDR controlling fluorescent protein production in response to an RNA input

      wasn't the dynamic range much higher (10^4 fold?!) when we checked with qPCR?

    1. P1_loop_03 TAGTTACCTTT

      Why was this T>G mutation used here?

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    1. P1_loop_03 TAGTTACCTTT

      Look for the reasoning for this T>G substitution

    2. AAATAGCAATATTTACCTTTGGGTCA

      WT P1 loop and IGS annotated here

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    1. adjustments must be made in the IGS to allow the formation of a stable P10 helix

      How can you adjust the IGS when there are two constrains on it from both P1 and P10?

  5. Aug 2024
    1. Here is the information you may need in order to complete page 2 of the Form I-983:

      If your employer is Rice University, here's the E-verify info -

      Employer's Name as Listed in E-Verify: Rice University Rice's E-Verify ID: 698729

    1. Quantification of native and barcoded 16S rRNA in E. coli expressing each cat-RNA using RT-qPCR.

      explain what normalized RNA copies means

    1. We demonstrate here that bulk protein content partitions to wastewater solids. Using a combination of western blotting, ELISA, and mass spectrometry, we identify a robust repertoire of intact human antibodies, predominantly secreted IgA

      Wastewater has a lot of junk that could bind to the sandwich ELISA non-specifically.

      To validate this, I was wondering if there would be a good negative control antigen binder that you could look for - for example, some Ebola antibodies that you won't expect to be in this wastewater?

    1. used model strains Escherichia coli (E. coli) K12 MG1655 as donors and recipients along with the IncPα model conjugative plasmid RP4

      Does this effect still matter if using an auxotrophic donor such as MFD-pir?

    1. However, it is unknown whether PFASs affect the HGT of bacterial antibiotic resistance.

      This is a very poor rationale for why it should be studied. There are many things that are unknown, that does not mean they are worth knowing

    1. At all stop signs, cyclists must stop and yield the right-of-way to other vehicles and pedestrians already at the intersection. RUPD will ticket cyclists for right-of-way violations at intersections.

      So if there is no other entities, the bikes don't need to stop? Could this be regarded as a Yield sign instead?

    2. Registration helps RUPD to identify owners of lost, stolen or impounded bicycles and to disseminate safety information

      Have there been any examples or recovering stolen bicycles by RUPD yet?

    1. Bacteria isolated from humans and livestock are much more likely to have duplicated antibiotic resistance genes

      Is this controlled for other factors? Such as more bacteria being isolated from these environments than others?

    1. Recipient community cells were sorted from the same samples using the same conditions, including both colorless recipient and green fluorescent transconjugal cells

      Would classifying the non-uptaking community as "recipients" rather than the initial starting community cause confusion?

    2. Plasmid transfer was detected both in abundant and rare taxa of the initial recipient community

      were there any OTUs that did not appear in the initial recipient community at detectable levels??

    1. Venn diagram of the number of genera identified in recipient and the corresponding transconjugant pool in the non-pharmaceutical control

      The transconjugant pool has genera that don't overlap with the recipient pool. How do you explain this?

    2. Conjugation events were visualized by a confocal laser scanning microscope

      Why didn't you quantify from the flow cytometry runs?

    1. applied saliva from P- and NP-caterpillars to plant wounds and then assayed for a subset of the plant-defense genes including PIN2, TD2, and AspPI and the defense protein PPO

      How did you chose this subset?

    1. development of a flow cytometry optimized GFP variant, gfpmut3 (Cormack et al., 1996), which is still extensively used for monitoring the fate of plasmids in natural environments.

      what about the variant causes it to be optimized for flow cyt?

    1. This corresponds to more sequences than sorted transconjugants for most samples (Supplementary Table 1), providing an adequate picture of the observed plasmid transfer range.

      # of final reads / # of Tc sorted > 1 is that they mean

    2. gate for only particles of bacterial size

      How do you determine where the "bacterial" sized particles should appear?

      Set a gate for bacterial size on a bivariate SSC-A vs FSC-A plot for events of bacterial size by including the donor strain and excluding all events caused by a sterile pyrophosphate buffer control. Source: Klumper, 2018 Spring protocol handbook

  6. Jul 2024
    1. ll label_() functions return a "labelling" function, i.e. a function that takes a vector x and returns a character vector of length(x) giving a label for each input value.

      This function when called seems to return an expression rather than a character vector.

      Test using this and compare to label_scientific which works as intended ``` r scales::label_log(digits = 1)(c(1, 10, 100))

      > expression(10^0, 10^1, 10^2)

      scales::label_scientific(digits = 1)(c(1, 10, 100))

      > [1] "1e+00" "1e+01" "1e+02"

      ```

      <sup>Created on 2024-07-31 with reprex v2.1.0</sup>

    1. human cells could serve as an orthogonal system for studying PopZ condensation outside of the context of its Caulobacter binding clients

      Wouldn't using a gamma-proteobacteria like E. coli be easier?

    1. to improve the accuracy of taxonomic assignment at the species level for full-length 16S rRNA sequences, we manually curated the three databases and removed the sequences that did not have a species name

      So these sequences won't be classified anymore?

    1. for example, Vandeputte et al. (2017) measured total-community abundance using flow cytometry

      how did you measure abundance properly without noise from particulates?

    1. However, the abundance of one species may not influence the abundance of another; the area may contain both tigers and ladybugs, and the migration of several ladybugs into the area would not be expected to affect the number of tigers. The assumption of true independence can not hold in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) experiments because the sequencing instruments can deliver reads only up to the capacity of the instrument.

      good example, compositional data

    1. Its -best_hit_overhang parameter, H, controls when an HSP is considered short enough to be filtered due to presence of another HSP

      Does this parameter help return a single/best match when blasting against a custom database?

    1. echo "AATGTACTAT" | tr 'ATCGatcg' 'TAGCtagc' | rev

      More thorough version is to account for all the IUPAC degenerate DNA codes like this bash echo sequence | tr '[ATUGCYRSWKMBDHVNatugcyrswkmbdhvn]' '[TAACGRYSWMKVHDBNtaacgryswmkvhdbn]' |rev

    1. Assume your fragment of interest is mysequence and the adapter is ADAPTER. The reads may look like this:

      5' adapter example -g

    1. up to 90 days before your current OPT employment authorization expires, and within 60 days of the date your designated school official (DSO) enters the recommendation for OPT into your Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) record.

      I guess it means dso enters the recommendation for STEM OPT into the SEVIS record?

    1. dadasnake wrapper eases DADA2 use and deployment on computing clusters without the overhead of larger pipelines with DADA2 such as QIIME 2

      [dadasnake vs Qiime2] on clusters

      Where does this overhead come from?

    1. Despite its utility, man is not always the answer. Sometimes grepping the help prompt for a term is all one needs.

      Good idea!

  7. Jun 2024
    1. "IAM & admin" -> "Service Accounts".

      To navigate here: Credentials (left menu) -> Service Accounts -> Manage service accounts

  8. May 2024
    1. In Linux, port numbers below 1024 are reserved for well-known services and can only be bound to by root. Although you can use a port within a 1-1024 range for the SSH service to avoid issues with port allocation in the future, it is recommended to choose a port above 1024.

      why recommended above 1024?

    1. translocation occurred from an IncF plasmid into a cryptic conjugative plasmid showing how cryptic conjugative plasmids are a significant concern because they can capture and disperse ARGs from the vast gene pool in the environments

      Why only cryptic? Any conjugative plasmid can do the same?

    1. The sensitivity of the assay is estimated to be 90% as 10% of the influenza A H5 subtype sequences in GISAID and NCBI have single nucleotide polymorphisms in the primer and probe regions.

      This change might cover that additional 10%? - AGTGGKTAYGCTGCRGAC (note the Y in the middle is bolded there) instead of having a C in that position

      Source: Mike Nute/Treangan lab @Rice

      Btw in that boems paper they report their assay as 90% sensitive. I’m fairly sure that the C in that position is what is causing that 10% loss, so they may have chosen not to make that a Y for some very good reason because all the other ambiguous bases are based on much lower frequency variants, so I would suspect they tried a Y there somehow.

    1. Do not exceed 5,000 copies of target/μl of the final ddPCR reaction mix

      1e5 targets per 20 ul reaction well. Sounds a little high no for 20,000 droplets, I would estimate a total of 2,000 copies to keep the avg 0.1 copies per droplet?

    2. Do not heat inactivate at greater than 65°C

      heh, why? Older enzymes have 80C inactivation temps..

    3. Many assays will perform well regardless of which NEBuffer is used or the amountof 1x digest reaction loaded into ddPCR

      contradicts the above point about max 2 ul template / 22 ul rxn but ok..

    4. Restriction Digestion

      See notes in this section for restriction digestion tips

    1. we compared the sensitivity of qPCR, HRM and dPCR in detecting the allele A from two pools of bulk beet DNA composed of 90 biennial + 10 annual plants (B1) and 99 biennial + 1 annual plant (B2), respectively

      Read about probe design - One probe per allele?

    1. Samples must be received by 3 pm ET Wednesday

      Which means, samples should be submitted by 3 pm Tuesday to Genewiz dropbox. - Remember that it takes 30 mins to fill the Amplicon EZ form and 15 mins to do the qubit and dilutions too

      There could be some delays in shipping, so it is best to have it picked up on Monday if timeline is urgent

    2. low TE (<0.1 mM EDTA)

      IDTE buffer from IDT should work

      IDTE (10 mM Tris, 0.1 mM EDTA). Source: IDT

    3. We recommend using a dsDNA quantification assay such as Qubit or PicoGreen. Note that the NanoDrop cannot distinguish between dsDNA and ssDNA (oligos and dNTPs) and may cause you to overestimate the amount of dsDNA in your samples.

      Is nanodrop ok to use then after size selection with mag beads?

    1. HTML Options

      This was not intuitive but these options go under this section shown below and this Posit community page was very helpful format: html: ..

    1. You can use inline R code (see Section 3.1) anywhere in an Rmd document, including the YAML metadata section. This means some YAML metadata can be dynamically generated with inline R code, such as the document title

      Does this apply to .qmd documents?

    1. buffers with high salt
      • Cutsmart has 50 mM KoAc, 10 mM MgoAc
      • Buffer 2.1 has 50 mM NaCl, 10 mM MgCl2
      • Buffer 3.1 has 100 mM NaCl, 10 mM MgCl2
    2. Dilute the restriction enzyme using the recommendeddiluent buffer

      Did you mean reaction buffer? Because diluent is different from the reaction buffer. For HindIII this is diluent B

    3. DNA fragmentation by restriction digestion prior to dropletgeneration enables optimal accuracy by separating tandemgene copies, reducing sample viscosity, and improving templateaccessibility for input samples >66 ng per well

      NEB says

      Digestion is recommended whenever DNA input is greater than 75 ng Source

      NEB says that biorad recommends these enzymes: AluI, CviQI, HaeIII, HindIII-HF, MseI

      More guidelines

      • Assemble ddPCR reactions at room temperature, this allows the restriction enzyme to digest the gDNA during the reaction set-up period
      • Prepare reaction mixes as you would for a standard ddPCR reaction. Add 0.5–1 μL of each restriction enzyme (5–20 units, depending on enzyme concentration) to the reaction mixture
      • After set-up, simply continue droplet generation as normal
      • Restriction enzyme will be inactivated during first PCR denaturation step
    1. Diluent Buffers (A, B or C) are recommended for making dilutions of restriction endonucleases. When necessary, we recommend diluting enzymes just prior to use and suggest that the final concentration of diluted enzymes be at least 1,000 units/ml

      How is the diluent better than the reaction buffer?

    1. The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person witha gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way,too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government wheneverthat government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed

      Is this questioning the monopoly of violence of the govt?

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    1. The sample can be periodically mixed by pipetting/vortexing/shaking to ensure thesbeadex particles remain in suspension. This mixing may increase the efficiency ofthe binding/washing

      I noticed that the suspension is still brown enough without mixing for 5 mins

    1. Size optimized Low settling rates for automation applications

      avoids the need for agitation during binding/elution steps

    1. cell pellet suspended in 20 μl of Lyse and Go PCR Reagent (Thermo Scientific)

      Does this kind of lysis bias the community to easy lysers? - I'm currently just heating 95C, 10 m for lysis and worry about the same. Will switch to not pelleting cells, adding a lysis buffer and proceeding into a mag bead based DNARNA extraction kit (Maxwell)

      The more recent method used by Klumper paper, 2022 uses a proper extraction kit but also acquires more cells -

      A minimum of 50,000 cells were acquired in all sorting runs.The sorted transconjugant and recipient cells were lysed and DNA extractions were performed using the DNeasy Powersoil Pro Kit. Source: Wang, Yue, et al. "Non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals promote conjugative plasmid transfer at a community-wide level." Microbiome 10.1 (2022): 124.


      Thermo discontinued lyse n go. alternatives? - check Microlysis from gelcompany

    2. centrifuged at 10 000 g for 30 min to collect the cell pellets

      That's quite long..

    1. Keep sorted transconjugants in 30% glycerol at 4C

      Why glycerol?

    2. 3 mL pyrophosphate buffer

      Pyrophosphate buffer: 50 mM Na 4O 7 P2 , 0.05% Tween 80; adjust pH to 8.0. Sterilize by autoclaving.

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  9. Apr 2024
    1. making our analyses available through a Shiny app and R package

      Could be a good activity to cover in a statistics class!

    1. Mix thoroughly and incubate for 5 minutes with periodic shaking

      How essential is this periodic shaking? OmegaBiotek's similar protocol doesn't have this

      1. Pipet up and down 5-10 times or vortex for 30 seconds.
      2. Let sit at room temperature for 5 minutes. source: Manual for Mag-Bind® TotalPure NGS
    1. Any Wanna Get Away or Wanna Get Away Plus funds will be forfeited

      only

      If you don’t cancel your reservation at least 10 minutes before the flight’s original scheduled departure time

    2. No change fees. We never charge a fee to change your flight

      for all southwest fares, including the cheapest Wanna get away

    1. replaced the Taq polymerase used for primary amplification of the unique molecular identifier (UMI) tagged templates with a proofreading polymerase (Supplementary Fig. 16). This increased the percentage of error-free reads nearly four-fold, which greatly improves our ability to resolve full-length 16S rRNA ASVs (FL-ASVs) from low abundant taxa because at least two identical sequences are required to resolve an FL-ASV

      Phusion polymerase. Tested on ZymoBIOMICS Microbial Community DNA Standard

    2. 1391r primer48 as it has better coverage of the known bacterial diversity

      Figure out how much this is better by

    3. Dueholm, M. S. et al. Generation of comprehensive ecosystem-specific reference databases with species-level resolution by high-throughput full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing and automated taxonomy assignment (AutoTax). mBio 11, e01557–20 (2020).

      why ecosystem specific databases vs general ones?

    1. if your treatments are ordered, don't compare each mean with each other mean (multiple comparisons), instead do one test for trend to ask if the outcome is linearly related with treatment number

      How do you do hypothesis testing for trends for an ordered categorical variable?

      Could you convert x to numbers (1,2,3) and run a linear regression y ~ x? or even categorical ordered variables can be linearly regressed?

    1. e are typically not terribly concerned with Type 1 error because werarely believe that it is possible for the null hypothesis to be strictly true.

      What is this assumption based on?

    1. new avenues for studying ARG transfer (Karimi et al., 2015; Li et al., 2018) (Figure 2C). Microfluidic chips equipped with delayed imaging, coupled with fluorescence technology, enable real-time observation of community changes and tracking of the transfer dynamics of ARGs
    1. Scott Banta “Engineering of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans forBioelectrocatalysis Applications”

      Great talk! held my interest for quite long Isobutyric acid made instead of intended isobutanol,..

    2. Akihiro Okamoto “Decoding Extracellular Electron Transfer: A NewGlimpse into In-VivoEnzyme Dynamics

      Very interesting idea : sl 13 - Liposome enters cells and grabs some outer membrane stuff including cytochromes that can do EET - Electron source: by X-ray striking an internal TiO2 nanoparticle! -> EET -> generate ROS -> cure a tumour!?

    3. Biki Kundu

      part notes on the web version - https://naismet2024.rice.edu/program/

    1. 10:20AM Biki Kundu

      Excellent story. Worth emulating, Ask for a video recording!

    1. lmer(heartrate ~ depth + duration + (1|bird), data = penguins)

      Use this stats.stackexchange thread to understand the notation of the hierarchial / mixed effect mode

  10. Mar 2024
    1. quarto publish gh-pages document.qmd

      Explore tokens to minimize the number of ssh passphrase asked by this command!

    1. A bracketed sequence of inlines, as one would use to begin a link, will be treated as a Span with attributes if it is followed immediately by attributes: [This is *some text*]{.class key="val"}
    1. A nice and easy way to report results of an ANOVA in R is with the report() function from the {report} package:
    1. out-width Width of the plot in the output document, which can be different from its physical fig-width, i.e., plots can be scaled in the output document.

      fig-width reference

    1. There are a number of ways to include dynamic variables within documents rendered by Quarto

      Can this work within the yaml header as well? - Would be relevant to the question raised by this thread

    1. This preparation includes fragments from the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and VP1 (ORF1-ORF2 junction) regions.

      of which strain of Norovirus?

    1. (Cog1F and Cog1R for GI viruses; Cog2F and Cog2R for GII viruses) (27), and 200 nM each probe (Ring 1E, FAM-TGG ACA GGR GAY CGC-MGBNFQ, where FAM is 6-carboxyfluorescein and MGBNFQ is minor groove binder and nonfluorescent quencher

      Ring 1E requires MGB for best performance since it has a low Tm otherwise

    1. Callouts are an excellent way to draw extra attention to certain concepts, or to more clearly indicate that certain content is supplemental or applicable to only some scenarios.
    1. This item type can also be adapted to fit many types of unusual items.

      report

    1. When a desired DNA is present at low concentrations relative to nearly identical undesired DNAs, LNAs can block amplification of unwanted DNAs

      I don’t understand what they mean by blocker? Doesn’t the stuff also get extended like primers or cleaved like probes?

    1. Ensuring that each amplicon is only copied by its “correct” SuperSelective primer
    2. shorter foot lengths, though lowering the equilibrium abundance of foot hybrids, resulting in longer delays before the threshold cycle is achieved, lead to enhanced selectivity

      Why don't you show selectivity directly with the difference in Cq for same concentration of target and non-target sequence?

    1. Although single-color ddPCR assays have been already utilized to assess SNVs at low VAFs24, it is required to design two different allele-specific primers to detect one SNV (wild-type and mutation-specific assays)

      The two different allele-specific primers are required to compete with each other?

    2. SuperSelective primers, which enable the amplification of SNVs in the presence of an excess of the corresponding wild-type target

      See Fig 1A in ref 13

      Vargas, D. Y., Kramer, F. R., Tyagi, S. & Marras, S. A. E. Multiplex real-time PCR assays that measure the abundance of extremely rare mutations associated with cancer. PLoS ONE 11, e0156546 (2016).

      imgur

    1. All reference sequences (ABCC9 and SNV wt assays) were located in copy-number-neutral regions. Sequence details are available upon request.

      Why won't you just put them here?

    1. SNP PI3Kca_E545K

      How many nucleotides is this?

    2. An RMD assay comprises a single set of primers plus two competitive probes (each probe with a different fluorophore), one detecting the wild-type allele, and one detecting the variant allele.

      RMD = Rare mutant detection

    3. Drop Off (DOF) Determines absolute quantification of targets for assays designed to detect non-wild type sequences, such as indels and genome edits. The experiment type isdesigned to support an assay strategy where one probe counts all alleles andone “drop-off” probe sits on top of a predicted cut site.

      Is this better/more robust than detecting each allele with a different probe? - ie) using direct quantification of individual variants?

    4. Tm enhancers for probes are recommended for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and rare mutation detection assays in order to keep the background fluorescence to a minimum. Shorter probes discriminate better between single base differences in the target amplicon(s)

      Does higher T annealing mean lower background? Or is there something else that relate Tm enhancers to background fluor - Could be to improve discrimination between the WT and the SNP variant?

    1. Relative expression level measured by RNA QASeq in four clinical FFPE tumor tissue samples and three normal placenta FFPE samples

      LS : how are they able to detect 3 orders of magnitude difference? Won't the high abundance one hog most of the reads? - I guess the read depth should be 10 to 100x higher than the range you want to span?

    2. 10 ng Human PBMC gDNA from the same healthy donor was used per experiment, corresponding to 2,790 haploid copies

      How was this determined?

    1. Windows 10 has a built-in calibration tool that you can use to fix various display issues associated with your monitor.

      the one called "calibrate display colour" doesn't do this?

    2. experiment with different screen resolutions within Windows 10 Settings until you get to one that looks the way you want.

      This is hard.. most other of the resolutions in the drop down list give you blank screen space at the sides or too large content. - There needs to be a customization of the resolution to arbitrary values while maintaining the aspect ratio. I assume something like this would be possible in a linux system through the commandline?

    1. You need to turn off overscan, either on the TV or in the graphics card settings.

      Look for overscan in settings Question

      Sharp Aquos 26D44 connected to my new computer via a VGA cable and it displays fine. However, now that I've tried it with a DVI to HDMI cable it cuts off the edges of the desktop

    1. or changes between two files on disk

      I assume they have to be in the same repo?

  11. Feb 2024
    1. This approach exploits the equivalence between confidence intervals and hypothesis tests, detailed in Section 12.2.
    2. we must add aes(y = ..density..)) to the call to geom_histogram, which rescales the histogram to have area 1 (just like a density function has). We can then add the density function using geom_function

      See note for current version from stackoverflow

      The dot-dot notation (..density..) was deprecated in ggplot2 3.4.0. Please use after_stat(density) instead for the aes(y = )

    1. The data on the 463 courses at UT Austin can be found in the evals data frame included in the moderndive package
    1. a digestion with Plasmid-Safe DNase (Lucigen, Madison, WI, USA) was performed to purify the extracted plasmid DNA

      Digest unwanted contaminating linear double-stranded DNA, without harming circular double-stranded DNA such as plasmids and fosmids. LGC Biosearchtech

    1. Incremental reveal Not limited to just bullet points... Use `. . .` syntax to indicate a break at an arbitrary location . . . ```{r} head(mtcars) ```

      quarto incremental reveal

    1. To start and end a video, you need to use ?start=<seconds> and ?end=<seconds> to define the starting and ending times. Something like this:https://www.youtube.com/embed/xxx6x67ws7?start=45&end=200

      Youtube, url with start and end

    1. 10,000 units

      100,00 U/ 200 U/ul = 50 ul => 50 reactions using 200 units = 1 ul/20 ul rxn.

    1. Any other educational assistance that is excludable from gross income (tax free),

      Can this be considered a definition of tax free?

    2. Your filing status is married filing separately.

      Cannot claim credit

    3. credits are based on the amount of adjusted qualified education expenses paid for the student in 2023 for academic periods beginning in 2023 or beginning in the first 3 months of 2024.

      paid FOR the student?

      Paid by whom if not the student themself?

    4. Qualified education expenses paid on behalf of the student by someone other than the student (such as a relative) are treated as paid by the student.

      Does Tuition paid for graduate students by the professor (from research grants) count as a third party?

    1. Scholarship - partially taxable. Amount spent on tuition and qualified education expenses (provide link) not taxable, the remainder is taxable ordinary income. Reported on 1098-T if from USA stipend is treated as a Scholarships
    1. You cannot claim a credit for education expenses paid with tax-free funds. You must reduce the amount of expenses paid with tax-free grants, scholarships and fellowships and other tax-free education help.

      What are tax-free funds? Are fellowship / tuition for grad students paid by faculty grants counted as tax free?

    1. a formal billing arrangement is an arrangement in which the institution: (1) bills only an employer or a governmental entity for education that the institution furnishes to a student

      Applicable for graduate students

    1. Asking questions

      add caveat on timing if you need urgent answer:

      Please note that when posting a question on the discussion board, the TA's will not jump in until 24 hours after posting to give others a chance to answer and earn credit. If you need an immediate answer, put an Urgent tag on your question and one of us will email you the response in a few hours.

    1. git log --oneline --graph --decorate --all

      show commits of git as a tree

      To show the last 2 commits use this! git log --oneline --graph --decorate --all HEAD~2..HEAD

    2. git config --global alias.tree 'log --oneline --graph --decorate --all'

      configuration to make a shortcut to show commits of git as a tree

    1. I use Bash shell .sh scripts in my Windows projects to automate Infrastructure as Code, then run these scripts using Windows Subsystem for Linux - WSL I need to make sure the line endings of my Bash scripts are in the Unix style LF or \n and not Windows CFLF or \r\n

      This is different from the typical use case within windows, for example using git bash

    1. . The gh-pages branch method is based on an old GitHub Pages publishing option. This branch is somewhat separate from the rest of the version control tree

      This might be useful to access/look at the rendered website as files for troubleshooting purposes

    1. 250 μl of sample was loaded into the first well of each row in a 96-well plate, and 10-fold serial dilutions were made using a multichannel pipette (Rainin, Emeryville, CA) by transferring 20 μl from column i into 180 μl of medium in column {i+1}, mixing 10 times, and repeating the process; pipette tips were changed between dilutions

      How important is changing tips between dilutions?

    1. However, none of these approaches combines the simplicity, low cost, dynamic range and versatility of simply diluting cells and then growing drops on solid media as first proposed in ref. 17.

      First reference to CFU method from 1938!?

    1. Pipet 100 μL of Starting Culture into Dilution 1. Discard tip. Do NOT pipette up and down. Vortex tube for 5-10 secs

      serial dilution method. Why should you not pipette up and down? Cells killed due to pipetting stress?

    1. The problem raised by the #barbarplot campaign is that bar plots are a poor summary of the distribution of data.

      This is when data is very far from being normally distributed right?

  12. Jan 2024
    1. a kanamycin resistance gene known to be expressed in both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria

      aphA-3 gene from Campylobacter coli. Ref 21, 25 ~ quoted

      A 1427-bp DNA fragment containing the kanamycin resistance gene, aphA-3, of plasmid pIP1433 from Campylobacter coli was inserted into a shuttle vector. Full expression of aphA-3 was obtained in Bacillus subtilis and in Escherichia coli.

    1. generally derives from variations in filtering out spurious and low-abundant sequences (e.g. Edgar, 2017; Prodan et al., 2020).

      DADA2 like ASV vs OTU?

      Applying different workflows on the same data will always demonstrate a certain level of variation among pipelines. These variations are usually most obvious in terms of the reported number of features.

    1. Since less alcohol is required for isopropanol precipitation, this is the preferred method for precipitating DNA from large volumes. In addition, isopropanol precipitation can be performed at room temperature, which minimizes co precipitation of salt that interferes with downstream applications
    1. Summary of the experimental setup

      Is there supplementary data in an intact mouse microbiome (without initial streptomycin treatment) for true in situ editing?

    2. Dashed line: Background fluorescence of cells before transduction.

      why not do a background subtraction?

    3. the P2-STF chimera encoded on a plasmid (p938)

      Why not the prophage genome?

    4. tail tip protein gpJ recognizes the LamB outer membrane porin and results in an irreversible binding of the phage to the cell surface

      Why irreversible? Covalent bond?

    5. Efficient conjugative delivery to different strains and species will thus likely require different specialized systems

      The same is true for phages as well

    1. Full length Illumina tagged primers used in study:

      27F (AGMGTTYGATYMTGGCTCAG) and ?R primer (GCTGCCTCCCGTAGGAGT) used

    Annotators

    1. using the FACS tosort for all three gates at highest speed by sorting for gain

      Note 19

      To be able to perform an efficient second purification sort, at least 20,000 presumptive transconjugants should be sorted in the first sort to account for a sufficient concentration of cells for the second run.

    Annotators

    1. why should researchers make websites? Because it is the easiest way to disseminate your work, your projects, who you are as a researcher, and to have more impact and outreach.

      Researchers should make websites to disseminate information better than journal publications

    1. One of the most useful features of Quarto reveal.js slides is absolute position, which allows you to specifically place elements on a slide.

      How do you get the exact position other than by iterative testing which is a pain due to the long render time of quarto (and no quick rendering such as infinite_moon_reader() that xaringan slides have

    1. using the FastStart High Fidelity PCR System

      Source: Sigma/Roche

      The FastStart™ High Fidelity PCR System is a blend of FastStart Taq DNA Polymerase and a thermostable proofreading protein, which is also chemically modified. This protein mediates proofreading activity, but carries no polymerase activity. Both proteins are inactive below +75 °C and are activated by heating to +95 °C for two minutes.

    1. 515F GTGCCAGCMGCCGCGGTAA Universal Turner et al. 1999

      Turner et al 1999 paper only worked with cyanobacteria right? How is this universal then?

    1. Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS).  From sorting cells for single cell genomics to identifying the host range of a plasmid; from detecting metabolically active cells in an environmental sample to studying colitogenic-driving intestinal bacteria, FACS can be used in a multitude of applications to study microbial communities (Rinke et al. 2014, Klumper et al. 2015, Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2008, Hatzenpichler et al. 2016, Palm et al. 2014).
    1. zygotically inducible

      Interesting choice of terms!

    2. we report on a new approach to quantify the fraction of a bacterial community that is able to receive and maintain an exogenous conjugal plasmid termed community permissiveness

      How is this term different from conjugation frequency?

    1. This pool best represents the cells that had the potential to receive the plasmid, compared with the initial wastewater community before mating, i.e. before the few rounds of division that occur on the filter during incubation

      Interesting. This accounts for any bias in growth on the filter + nutrient media

    1. Conjugation events were visualized by stereomicroscopy and quantified by automated image analysis

      Why didn't you use flow cytometry data for this?

    2. Filters were incubated for 48 h at 25 °C, before 72 h storage at 4 °C for GFP maturation.

      Why that long for GFP maturation?

    1. a shows the sorting of the initial soil bacterial recipient community

      fig2a/gate II and III show that red has much higher autofluorescence than green in soil recipient community!? - Gains could also be quite different contributing to this?

    2. (d) shows the enrichment of transconjugants after the first fast enrichment sorting step to over 80% transconjugal cells

      carryover seen in - - donor in II left - Soil particles in III left (and right too)?