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http://sourceforge.net/projects/cova/

A variant annotation and comparison tool for next-generation sequencing. It annotates the effects of variants on genes and compares those among multiple samples, which helps to pinpoint causal variation(s) relating to phenotype.

Proper citation: COVA (RRID:SCR_005175) Copy   

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http://bmda.cs.unibas.ch/HivHaploTyper/

Software for reconstructing haplotypes from next-generation sequencing data., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: PredictHaplo (RRID:SCR_005207) Copy   

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/qure/

A software program for viral quasispecies reconstruction, specifically developed to analyze long read (>100 bp) next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. The software performs alignments of sequence fragments against a reference genome, finds an optimal division of the genome into sliding windows based on coverage and diversity and attempts to reconstruct all the individual sequences of the viral quasispecies--along with their prevalence--using a heuristic algorithm, which matches multinomial distributions of distinct viral variants overlapping across the genome division. QuRe comes with a built-in Poisson error correction method and a post-reconstruction probabilistic clustering, both parameterized on given error rates in homopolymeric and non-homopolymeric regions.

Proper citation: QuRe (RRID:SCR_005209) Copy   

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http://bioinfo.mc.vanderbilt.edu/VirusFinder/

Software tool for efficient and accurate detection of viruses and their integration sites in host genomes through next generation sequencing data. Specifically, it detects virus infection, co-infection with multiple viruses, virus integration sites in host genomes, as well as mutations in the virus genomes. It also facilitates virus discovery by reporting novel contigs, long sequences assembled from short reads that map neither to the host genome nor to the genomes of known viruses. VirusFinder 2 works with both paired-end and single-end data, unlike the previous 1.x versions that accepted only paired-end reads. The types of NGS data that VirusFinder 2 can deal with include whole genome sequencing (WGS), whole transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq), targeted sequencing data such as whole exome sequencing (WES) and ultra-deep amplicon sequencing.

Proper citation: VirusFinder (RRID:SCR_005205) Copy   

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http://rnaexpress.org/

Software designed as a user friendly solution to extract and annotate biologically important transcripts from next generation RNA sequencing data.

Proper citation: RNA-eXpress (RRID:SCR_005167) Copy   

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http://scienceblogs.com/channel/jobs/?utm_source=globalChannel&utm_medium=link

ScienceBlogs posts about Jobs.

Proper citation: ScienceBlogs: Jobs (RRID:SCR_005200) Copy   

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http://tbgri.in/

Tropical Botanic Garden & Research Institute (TBGRI) is an autonomous Institute established by the Government of Kerala on 17th November 1979 and registered on 23rd November 1979 under the Travancore-Cochin Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Registration Act, 1955. It functions under the umbrella of the Science, Technology and Environment Department, Government of Kerala. Prof. A. Abraham, a visionary and a great Botanist, conceived the idea of establishing a Botanic Garden and Research Institute to study and conserve the rare and vanishing wild plant genetic resources of the country. Kinded by the spirit of his concept, the Government of Kerala took a far sighted decision resulting in the establishment of Tropical Botanic Garden & Research Institute (TBGRI) as an autonomous organization at Thiruvananthapuram, the capital City of Kerala. In the beginning, the Institute functioned at Thiruvananthapuram city on a rented duplex building. Thanks to the Forests & Wildlife Department, the land for establishment of the garden was allotted in 1983 and the foundation stone was laid on 27th May 1983 by the then Chief Minister, Shri K. Karunakaran. The then Education Minister, the late C. H. Mohammed Koya laid the foundation stone for the construction of the Visiting Scientists'' Guest House. The meeting was presided over by the Minister for Forests, Shri K. P. Noorudeen. With the recruitment of a skeletal scientific and technical staff, the Institute made a modest beginning. Biotechnology and Taxonomy were the two subjects considered to have immediate relevance to the development of the garden. While taxonomists prepared a flora of the garden documenting the native plant wealth before mass introduction and face lift which subsequently followed, the bio-technologists mass multiplied plants of commercial importance, especially orchids for cultivation and distribution to the public. The Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG), Kew played an exemplary and significant role in shaping and design of garden lay out of TBGRI in its formative stages. RBG, Kew not only lent its best men to train our technical staff in gardening and landscaping but also generously supplied books and living plants as gifts to enrich the respective collections. Undoubtedly, the continuing support of RBG, Kew is of special mention in the development of the Garden.

Proper citation: Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (RRID:SCR_005162) Copy   

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http://unoseq.sourceforge.net/

A Java library to analyze next generation sequencing data and especially perform expression profiling in organisms where no well-annotated reference genome exists.

Proper citation: UnoSeq (RRID:SCR_005116) Copy   

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http://polygenic.jobamatic.com/a/jobs/find-jobs

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 29, 2016. Featured Job Postings from the Web. Polygenic Pathways Jobs Job Site includes the latest jobs from polygenic.jobamatic.com. Post a job - only $5 for 100 days.

Proper citation: Polygenic Pathways Jobs (RRID:SCR_005237) Copy   

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http://gds.nih.gov/

NIH established expectations for sharing data obtained through NIH-funded genome-wide association studies (GWAS) with the implementation of the GWAS Policy. Information and resources related to the GWAS Policy can be found on this website.

Proper citation: Genomic Datasharing (RRID:SCR_005233) Copy   

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http://www.kavlifoundation.org/

The Kavli Foundation, based in Oxnard, California, is dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of humanity, promoting public understanding of scientific research, and supporting scientists and their work. The Foundation''s mission is implemented through an international program of research institutes, professorships, symposia and other initiatives in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience, neuroscience and theoretical physics. The Foundation is also a founding partner of the Kavli Prizes, which recognize scientists for their seminal advances in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. To date, The Kavli Foundation has made grants to establish Kavli Institutes on the campuses of the University of California Santa Barbara, Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Yale University, Cornell University, the University of California San Diego, Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Peking University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harvard University, the University of Cambridge and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. In addition to the Kavli Institutes, six Kavli professorships have been established: two at the University of California Santa Barbara, one at University of California Los Angeles, one at the University of California Irvine, one at Columbia University, and one at the California Institute of Technology. The Kavli Futures Symposia a series of high quality scientific symposia on topics of emerging importance in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. The Frontiers of Science symposia bring together some of the very best young scientists across many disciplines to share and discuss exciting advances and opportunities in their fields. Videos and feature pieces have been created for teachers and students. This includes video interviews with acclaimed researchers Eric Kandel, M.D. and Edvard and May-Britt Moser, a video introduction and panel discussion on neuroscience, feature stories, written science overview, institute profiles and other materials. The Kavli Foundation is a private foundation qualified under IRC Section 501 (c) (3).

Proper citation: Kavli Foundation (RRID:SCR_005113) Copy   

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http://www.laskerfoundation.org/index.htm

The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation and its programs are dedicated to the support of biomedical research toward conquering disease, improving human health and extending life. The Foundation''s mission is to foster the prevention and treatment of disease and disabilities by honoring excellence in basic and clinical science, by educating the public, and by advocating for support of medical research. The Lasker Awards The Lasker Foundation''s Awards Program recognizes the contributions of scientists, physicians, and public servants who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure or prevention of human disease. Other Programs Although the Lasker Foundation is not a grant-giving organization, it does support select initiatives that raise awareness of medical discoveries and their benefits to human health, and that increase support for the medical science enterprise. These initiatives have included study groups, Congressional briefings, innovative web-based programs, educational forums, and scholarly studies.

Proper citation: Lasker Foundation (RRID:SCR_005114) Copy   

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http://bioinformatics.wistar.upenn.edu/isoformex

Software that estimates transcript expression levels and gene expression levels from mRNA-Seq data. Technically speaking, IsoformEx parses bowtie alignment files in a project directory (e.g. ~yourid/isoformex/xxx, where xxx is the project name) and generates two files: (1) xxx/xxx_transcript_1.txt: expression levels of all transcripts, (2) xxx/xxx_gene_1.txt: expression levels of all genes.

Proper citation: IsoformEx (RRID:SCR_005235) Copy   

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http://www.bioportfolio.com/

BioPortfolio is a leading news, information and knowledge resource covering the global life science industries impacted on by biotechnology. The site aims to provide the lay person, the researcher and the management executive with a single location to source core information on specific bio-related topics, to collate relevant data associated with each topic and to point the user to relevant knowledge resources. We publish up to the minute news (see biotechnology news categories) and regularly update content across our information databases. BioPortfolio promotes and sells market research and management reports from 30+ publishers. In addition our unique corporate database lists 40,000+ companies and organizations. BioPortfolio aims to bring together high quality information about marketed drugs - medication and relevant clinical trials, research papers and recent news from PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, and DailyMed. Additionally, resources include biotech, pharma and medical job listings. When the BioPortfolio site was launched in February 1997 the company aimed to provide a global free-to-use resource with defined aims and mission statement: to meet the increasing demand of consumers, scientists, investors, commerce and government for timely, accurate and commercially useful information and intelligence on biotechnology companies, technologies and products world-wide. Driven by the success of the site we have made major investments and improvements to enhance our content and to apply the latest web technologies to improve functionality and site utility. We believe this unique depth and breadth of content is supporting individuals, organizations and policy-makers to become more aware of the role of biotechnology on the global economy. With 97,000 users visiting the site more than once per month we are confident that we are providing information our users need. We hope you the users find the site of value for both personal and professional reasons. Please enjoy this free resource and email your comments!

Proper citation: BioPortfolio (RRID:SCR_005230) Copy   

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http://code.google.com/p/aldex/

RNA-seq tool that uses the Dirichlet distribution and a transformation to identify genes that exhibit small within-condition and large between-condition variance.

Proper citation: aldex (RRID:SCR_005110) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/cancer/cga/absolute

Software to estimate purity / ploidy, and from that compute absolute copy-number and mutation multiplicities. When DNA is extracted from an admixed population of cancer and normal cells, the information on absolute copy number per cancer cell is lost in the mixing. The purpose of ABSOLUTE is to re-extract these data from the mixed DNA population. This process begins by generation of segmented copy number data, which is input to the ABSOLUTE algorithm together with pre-computed models of recurrent cancer karyotypes and, optionally, allelic fraction values for somatic point mutations. The output of ABSOLUTE then provides re-extracted information on the absolute cellular copy number of local DNA segments and, for point mutations, the number of mutated alleles.

Proper citation: ABSOLUTE (RRID:SCR_005198) Copy   

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http://variant.bioinfo.cipf.es/

Analysis tool that can report the functional properties of any variant in all the human, mouse or rat genes (and soon new model organisms will be added) and the corresponding neighborhoods. Also other non-coding extra-genic regions, such as miRNAs are included in the analysis. It not only reports the obvious functional effects in the coding regions but also analyzes noncoding SNVs situated both within the gene and in the neighborhood that could affect different regulatory motifs, splicing signals, and other structural elements. These include: Jaspar regulatory motifs, miRNA targets, splice sites, exonic splicing silencers, calculations of selective pressures on the particular polymorphic positions, etc. Software analysis pipelines used in the analysis of NGS data are highly modular, heterogeneous, and rapidly evolving. VARIANT can easily be incorporated into a NGS resequencing pipeline either as a CLI or invoked a webservice. It inputs data directly from the most widely used programs for SNV detection., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: VARIANT (RRID:SCR_005194) Copy   

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https://www.rostlab.org/services/snpdbe/

A database to fill the annotation gap left by the high cost of experimental testing for functional significance of protein variants. It joins related bits of knowledge, currently distributed throughout various databases, into a consistent, easily accessible, and updatable resource. It currently covers over 155,000 protein sequences which come from more than 2,600 organisms. Overall more than one million single amino acid substitutions (SAASs) are referenced consisting of natural variants, SAASs from mutagenesis experiments and sequencing conflicts. SNPdbe offers the following pieces of information (if available) on each SAAS: * Experimentally derived functional and structural impact * Predicted functional effect * Associated disease * Average heterozygosity * Experimental evidence of the nsSNP * Evolutionary conservation of wildtype and mutant amino acid * Link-outs to external databases A convenient webinterface to query SAASs on the following levels is offered: * Protein and gene identifiers and keywords * Disease keywords * Protein sequence on different sequence identity thresholds * Variant identifier (dbSNP rs, SwissVar, PMD) or specific mutant like XposY and specified sequence They offer the possibility to submit protein sequences along with experimentally substantiated mutations in order to predict their functional effect and inclusion into our database.

Proper citation: SNPdbe (RRID:SCR_005190) Copy   

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http://ctsaconnect.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IS SERVICE. Documented on December 5th, 2022. Semantic framework to integrate information about research activities, clinical activities, and scientific resources to facilitate the production and consumption of Linked Open Data about investigators, physicians, biomedical research resources, services, and clinical activities. The goal is to enable software to consume data from multiple sources and allow the broadest possible representation of researchers'''' and clinicians'''' activities and research products. Current research tracking and networking systems rely largely on publications, but clinical encounters, reagents, techniques, specimens, model organisms, etc., are equally valuable for representing expertise. CTSAConnect will provide linkage between semantic representations of a wide range of clinical and research data using controlled vocabularies mapped to the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) as a bridge between the two subject areas. The data sources include data from Medicaid, hospital billing systems, CTSAShareCenter, and other CTSA resource data, eagle-i and VIVO. It allows institutions to leverage existing tools and data sources by making the information they contain more discoverable and easier to integrate. For instance, with the ISF, researchers can be characterized by organizational affiliations, grant and project participation, research resources that they have generated, and publications that they have (co)-authored. Clinicians can be characterized by training and credentials, by clinical research topic, and by the kinds of procedures and specialization that can be inferred from encounter data. LOD refers to data that has been given a specific Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), for the purpose of sharing and linking data and information on the Semantic Web. While a large amount of data is published as LOD, there remains a significant gap in the representation of research resources and clinical expertise. Researchers can be characterized by the organization to which they belong, the grants and research in which they have participated, the research topics and research resources (reagents, biospecimens, animal models) they have generated, as well as the publications they have (co)-authored. Clinician profiles on the other hand, can be defined by their credentials, clinical research topics, and the kinds of procedures and specialization that can be inferred from clinical encounter data. They believe that integrating and relating this diversity of information sources and platforms requires addressing the overlap between research resources and the attributes and activities of researchers and clinicians. CTSAconnect aims to promote integration and discovery of research activities, resources, and clinical expertise. To this end, they will publish their ontologies and LOD via their website, which will also illustrate repeatable methods and examples of how to extract, consume, and utilize this valuable new LOD using freely available tools like VIVO, eagle-i, and Google APIs. CTSAconnect is a collaboration between Oregon Health & Science University, Stony Brook University, Cornell University, Harvard University, University at Buffalo, and the University of Florida, and leverages the work of eagle-i (eagle-i.net), VIVO (vivoweb.org), and ShareCenter (ctsasharecenter.org).

Proper citation: CTSAconnect (RRID:SCR_005225) Copy   

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http://www.qcmg.org/bioinformatics/tiki-index.php

A single nucleotide variant caller optimised for identifying somatic variants in low cellularity cancer samples.

Proper citation: qSNP (RRID:SCR_005105) Copy   

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