by Bala on November 4, 2008

If you're one of the proud owners of an Ipod touch or an Iphone then there some great apps available for academics that makes life a bit easier. Molecules is an application that allows you to view PDB structure files, yes it's (read on...)

by Bala on September 22, 2008

Last week, Nick talked about about SDS-PAGE. Today I am going to tell you about tweak that will improve your SDS-PAGE protein gels. It involves using Bis-Tris gel buffers. Although Bis-Tris adds a considerable cost to the (read on...)

by Bala on June 20, 2008

If you've been interested in the Folding at Home project, but wanted to play a much more active role then your wait is over. Join Fold It! Protein structure prediction: As described above, knowing the structure of a protein is (read on...)

by Bala on June 12, 2008

When you need to see the "big picture" in molecular biology then you need to take a look at the whole genome of the organism that are interested in. From what I've seen, most people don't do this; the general workplan that I've (read on...)

by Bala on April 2, 2008

For identifying positive clones from a plasmid cloning procedure, the routine of performing a mini-prep and then checking the putative clones by restriction digestion is most commonly used. Of course, if you need to screen a (read on...)

by Bala on March 4, 2008

Google reader is one the weapons available in an academic's arsenal to combat information overload in the Internet era. Part of research involves keeping oneself informed of the development happening in one's own field as well (read on...)