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Subtle Grammatical Usage Notes aka Common mistakes when writing scientific papers and grants. Usage Alternate / Alternative Alternate means `every other...

Standard Microbiological Practices aka the approximately Ten Commandments of Microbiology 1 Thou shalt always include a media blank Otherwise you may contaminate...

Science Quotations The price of a metaphor is eternal vigilance. ...

Isolation of total RNA Reagents Materials Use filter tips, and designate all solutions, reagents and plastics as RNA only. Keep separate from other general stocks...

Commonly Used Plasmids plasmid markers origin host ref description pCA24N CamR Kitagawa2005 ASKA collection vector pKD...

References for Whole Genome Sequencing NCBI Short Read Archive (SRA) Documentation http://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/sra.cgi?cmd show f doc m doc s doc...

Characteristics of the E. coli Genome The Origin of DNA Replication ( oriC ) is not at position zero (0...

This information is a stub to be added into a reworked NGS protocol as an alternative. Follows the duplex seq method developed by the Loeb lab This protocol is for...

Isolation of Total RNA Materials and Reagents Use filter tips. Keep all solutions, reagents and plastics to be used for RNA work separate from general supplies. Solutions...

Isolation of Total RNA from Plant Material Plant tissues can be tough (roots), impenetrably waxy, or contain large amounts of RNase activity (leaves). Flash freezing...

Animations Saves a series of generated images to GIF, Flash, video, HTML, or PDF (LaTeX) formats. Installation install.packages(`animation`) library(animation)...

Quantitative PCR (qPCR) Quantitative PCR (qPCR) is a tool routinely used for the quantitation of target nucleic acid sequences. If it is your first time performing...

Publicly Archiving Data These locations can give you accession numbers for data that may not be easily communicated as supplementary information for a research report...

Working with Vibrio natriegens (Vmax) Vibrio natriegens has the fastest doubling time of any known organism and has the potential to shorten experimental timelines...

Working with Serratia marcescens Serratia marcescens is a gram negative pathogenic bacteria known for its distinctive red pigmentation. While it is not found in...

Working with Pseuodmonas syringae (PSY) Pseudomonas syringae (PSY) comprises many species of bacteria that live on or within different plant species, as noted...

Using APE If APE is not currently installed on this computer, search APE plasmid on google, and download the software for the appropriate system. APE can open the...

Read trimming with trimmomatic Download and Install Download the `binary` version of trimmomatic from the lab. It`s helpful to a create a shortcut so that you...

TGY Medium 1.5L Component 7.5 g Pancreatic digest of casein 7.5 g Yeast Extract 1.5g Glucose 1.5 g K2HPO4 24g Agar...