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http://dictybase.org/

Model organism database for the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum that provides the biomedical research community with integrated, high quality data and tools for Dictyostelium discoideum and related species. dictyBase houses the complete genome sequence, ESTs, and the entire body of literature relevant to Dictyostelium. This information is curated to provide accurate gene models and functional annotations, with the goal of fully annotating the genome to provide a ''''reference genome'''' in the Amoebozoa clade. They highlight several new features in the present update: (i) new annotations; (ii) improved interface with web 2.0 functionality; (iii) the initial steps towards a genome portal for the Amoebozoa; (iv) ortholog display; and (v) the complete integration of the Dicty Stock Center with dictyBase. The Dicty Stock Center currently holds over 1500 strains targeting over 930 different genes. There are over 100 different distinct amoebozoan species. In addition, the collection contains nearly 600 plasmids and other materials such as antibodies and cDNA libraries. The strain collection includes: * strain catalog * natural isolates * MNNG chemical mutants * tester strains for parasexual genetics * auxotroph strains * null mutants * GFP-labeled strains for cell biology * plasmid catalog The Dicty Stock Center can accept Dictyostelium strains, plasmids, and other materials relevant for research using Dictyostelium such as antibodies and cDNA or genomic libraries.

Proper citation: Dictyostelium discoideum genome database (RRID:SCR_006643) Copy   

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http://www.dpvweb.net/

DPVweb provides a central source of information about viruses, viroids and satellites of plants, fungi and protozoa. Comprehensive taxonomic information, including brief descriptions of each family and genus, and classified lists of virus sequences are provided. The database also holds detailed, curated, information for all sequences of viruses, viroids and satellites of plants, fungi and protozoa that are complete or that contain at least one complete gene. For comparative purposes, it also contains a single representative sequence of all other fully sequenced virus species with an RNA or single-stranded DNA genome. The start and end positions of each feature (gene, non-translated region and the like) have been recorded and checked for accuracy. As far as possible, nomenclature for genes and proteins are standardized within genera and families. Sequences of features (either as DNA or amino acid sequences) can be directly downloaded from the website in FASTA format. The sequence information can also be accessed via client software for PC computers (freely downloadable from the website) that enable users to make an easy selection of sequences and features of a chosen virus for further analyses. The public sequence databases contain vast amounts of data on virus genomes but accessing and comparing the data, except for relatively small sets of related viruses can be very time consuming. The procedure is made difficult because some of the sequences on these databases are incorrectly named, poorly annotated or redundant. The NCBI Reference Sequence project (1) provides a comprehensive, integrated, non-redundant set of sequences, including genomic DNA, transcript (RNA) and protein products, for major research organisms. This now includes curated information for a single sequence of each fully sequenced virus species. While this is a welcome development, it can only deal with complete sequences. An important feature of DPV is the opportunity to access genes (and other features) of multiple sequences quickly and accurately. Thus, for example, it is easy to obtain the nucleotide or amino acid sequences of all the available accessions of the coat protein gene of a given virus species or for a group of viruses. To increase its usefulness further, DPVweb also contains a single representative sequence of all other fully sequenced virus species with an RNA or single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) genome. Sponsors: This site is supported by the Association of Applied Biologists and the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, People''s Republic of China.

Proper citation: Descriptions of Plant Viruses (RRID:SCR_006656) Copy   

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http://cole-trapnell-lab.github.io/cufflinks/cuffmerge/

Software tool for transcriptome assembly and differential expression analysis for RNA-Seq. Includes script called cuffmerge that can be used to merge together several Cufflinks assemblies. It also handles running Cuffcompare as well as automatically filtering a number of transfrags that are likely to be artifacts. If the researcher has a reference GTF file, the researcher can provide it to the script to more effectively merge novel isoforms and maximize overall assembly quality.

Proper citation: Cufflinks (RRID:SCR_014597) Copy   

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http://rast.nmpdr.org

A SEED-quality automated service that annotates complete or nearly complete bacterial and archaeal genomes across the entire phylogenetic tree. RAST can also be used to analyze draft genomes.

Proper citation: RAST Server (RRID:SCR_014606) Copy   

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http://www.vicbioinformatics.com/software.prokka.shtml

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on February 28,2023. Software tool for the rapid annotation of prokaryotic genomes. It produces GFF3, GBK and SQN files that are ready for editing in Sequin and ultimately submitted to Genbank/DDJB/ENA. A typical 4 Mbp genome can be fully annotated in less than 10 minutes on a quad-core computer, and scales well to 32 core SMP systems., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: Prokka (RRID:SCR_014732) Copy   

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http://www.sailing.cs.cmu.edu/main/?page_id=511

Automatic software program for profiling spatial gene expression patterns from Fly embryo ISH images. It utilizes image-based genome-scale profiling of whole-body mRNA patterns.

Proper citation: SPEX2 (RRID:SCR_014923) Copy   

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https://dogma.ccbb.utexas.edu/

Web-based annotation tool for plant chloroplasts and animal mitochondrial genomes. DOGMA allows the use of BLAST searches against a custom database, and conservation of basepairing in the secondary structure of animal mitochondrial tRNAs to identify and annotate genes.

Proper citation: DOGMA (RRID:SCR_015060) Copy   

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http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/orcae/

Online genome annotation tool for validating and correcting gene annotations. OrcAE is community-driven and can be edited by account-holders in the research community.

Proper citation: Online Resource for Community Annotation of Eukaryotes (RRID:SCR_014989) Copy   

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http://www.mybiosoftware.com/seaview-4-2-12-sequence-alignment-phylogenetic-tree-building.html

Graphical user interface for multiple sequence alignment and molecular phylogeny. SeaView also generates phylogenetic trees.

Proper citation: SeaView (RRID:SCR_015059) Copy   

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http://www.stavroX.com

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on June 29,2023. Software tool for the analysis of cross-linking/mass spectrometry datasets using MS-cleavable cross-linkers. MeroX is specialized for MS/MS-cleavable cross linking reagents and identifies the specific fragmentation products of the cleavable cross links.

Proper citation: MeroX (RRID:SCR_014956) Copy   

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http://busco.ezlab.org/

Software tool to quantitatively measure genome assembly and annotation completeness based on evolutionarily informed expectations of gene content.

Proper citation: BUSCO (RRID:SCR_015008) Copy   

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http://ccb.jhu.edu/software/hisat2/index.shtml

Graph-based alignment of next generation sequencing reads to a population of genomes.

Proper citation: HISAT2 (RRID:SCR_015530) Copy   

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https://bioconductor.org/packages//2.11/bioc/html/gprege.html

Software R package for Gaussian Process Ranking and Estimation of Gene Expression time-series. The software fits two Gaussian processes (GPs) with an radial basis function (RBF) (+ noise diagonal) kernel on each profile. One GP kernel is initialized wih a short lengthscale hyperparameter, signal variance as the observed variance and a zero noise variance. It is optimized via scaled conjugate gradients (netlab). A second GP has fixed hyperparameters: zero inverse-width, zero signal variance and noise variance as the observed variance. The log-ratio of marginal likelihoods of the two hypotheses acts as a score of differential expression for the profile. Comparison via receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC curves) is performed against Bayesian hierarchical model for the analysis of time-series (BATS) (Angelini et.al, 2007).

Proper citation: gprege (RRID:SCR_001324) Copy   

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/kanalyze/

A Java toolkit designed to convert DNA and RNA sequences into k-mers.

Proper citation: KAnalyze (RRID:SCR_001323) Copy   

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http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/beadarray.html

Software package to read bead-level data (raw TIFFs and text files) output by BeadScan as well as bead-summary data from BeadStudio. Methods for quality assessment and low-level analysis are provided.

Proper citation: beadarray (RRID:SCR_001314) Copy   

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http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/macat.html

Software library that contains functions to investigate links between differential gene expression and the chromosomal localization of the genes. It is motivated by the common observation of phenomena involving large chromosomal regions in tumor cells. MACAT is the implementation of a statistical approach for identifying significantly differentially expressed chromosome regions.

Proper citation: MACAT (RRID:SCR_001350) Copy   

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http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/lapmix.html

Software to identify differentially expressed genes. A hierarchical Bayesian approach is used, and the hyperparameters are estimated using empirical Bayes.

Proper citation: lapmix (RRID:SCR_001347) Copy   

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http://www.bioinf.jku.at/software/farms/farms.html

Software using a model-based technique for summarizing high-density oligonucleotide array data at probe level for Affymetrix GeneChips. It is based on a factor analysis model for which a Bayesian maximum a posteriori method optimizes the model parameters under the assumption of Gaussian measurement noise.

Proper citation: FARMS (RRID:SCR_001344) Copy   

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https://bioconductor.org/packages//2.11/bioc/html/bridge.html

Software package to test for differentially expressed genes with microarray data. It can be used with both cDNA microarrays or Affymetrix chip. The packge fits a robust Bayesian hierarchical model for testing for differential expression. Outliers are modeled explicitly using a $t$-distribution. The model includes an exchangeable prior for the variances which allow different variances for the genes but still shrink extreme empirical variances. The model can be used for testing for differentially expressed genes among multiple samples, and can distinguish between the different possible patterns of differential expression when there are three or more samples. Parameter estimation is carried out using a novel version of Markov Chain Monte Carlo that is appropriate when the model puts mass on subspaces of the full parameter space.

Proper citation: bridge (RRID:SCR_001343) Copy   

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http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/vsn.html

Software package that implements a method for normalizing microarray intensities, both between colours within array, and between arrays. The method uses a robust variant of the maximum-likelihood estimator for the stochastic model of microarray data described in the references. The model incorporates data calibration (a.k.a. normalization), a model for the dependence of the variance on the mean intensity, and a variance stabilizing data transformation. Differences between transformed intensities are analogous to normalized log-ratios. However, in contrast to the latter, their variance is independent of the mean, and they are usually more sensitive and specific in detecting differential transcription.

Proper citation: vsn (RRID:SCR_001459) Copy   

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