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http://www.cbil.upenn.edu/RAD

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, Documented on March 24, 2014. A resource for gene expression studies, storing highly curated MIAME-compliant studies (i.e. experiments) employing a variety of technologies such as filter arrays, 2-channel microarrays, Affymetrix chips, SAGE, MPSS and RT-PCR. Data were available for querying and downloading based on the MGED ontology, publications or genes. Both public and private studies (the latter viewable only by users having appropriate logins and permissions) were available from this website. Specific details on protocols, biomaterials, study designs, etc., are collected through a user-friendly suite of web annotation forms. Software has been developed to generate MAGE-ML documents to enable easy export of studies stored in RAD to any other database accepting data in this format. RAD is part of a more general Genomics Unified Schema (http://gusdb.org), which includes a richly annotated gene index (http://allgenes.org), thus providing a platform that integrates genomic and transcriptomic data from multiple organisms. NOTE: Due to changes in technology and funding, the RAD website is no longer available. RAD as a schema is still very much active and incorporated in the GUS (Genomics Unified Schema) database system used by CBIL (EuPathDB, Beta Cell Genomics) and others. The schema for RAD can be viewed along with the other GUS namespaces through our Schema Browser.

Proper citation: RNA Abundance Database (RRID:SCR_002771) Copy   

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http://www.cisreg.ca/

This portal leads to the numerous Wasserman Lab online software tools available for use. The following are list of active Software tools available: - ConSite: Transcription factor binding site detection using phylogenetic footprinting - dbMTN: Multiple Tissue Northern Blot Comparison Tool - Gene Set Builder: A tool for collation, curation and distribution of sets of genes - The Gene Characterization Index: a bioinformatics method for scoring the extent to which a protein-encoding gene is functionally described - JASPAR: Transcription Factor Binding Profile Database - MSCAN: Algorithm that detects clusters of transcription factor binding sites in genomic sequences - NHRscan: A computational predictor of nuclear hormone receptor binding sites - oPOSSUM: Web-based analysis of over-represented transcription factor binding sites - ORCA: Transcription factor binding site detection using phylogenetic footprinting (alternative to ConSite) - OrthoSeq: Alignment of DNA sequences - PAZAR: An open-access system for the collection and dissemination of regulatory sequence annotation - Phylofoot: Tools for phylogenetic footprinting - RAVEN: Regulatory analysis of Variation in ENhancers - SAGE2Splice: A tool that uses unmapped SAGE tags to predict novel splice junctions in the genome - TFBS: Perl modules for transcription factor binding site detection and analysis - TFCat: TFCat is a catalog of mouse and human TFs based on a reliable core collection of annotations obtained by expert review of the scientific literature. - TFe: An online encyclopedic collection of well-studied transcription factor proteins in the human, mouse, and rat genomes - Ulysses: Protein Interactions Conserved Across Evolution

Proper citation: Wasserman Lab Online Software Tools (RRID:SCR_002892) Copy   

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http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/

A physiologic and molecular look at drug addiction involving many factors including: basic neurobiology, a scientific examination of drug action in the brain, the role of genetics in addiction, and ethical considerations. Designed to be used by students, teachers and members of the public, the materials meet selected US education standards for science and health. Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by changes in the brain which result in a compulsive desire to use a drug. A combination of many factors including genetics, environment and behavior influence a person's addiction risk, making it an incredibly complicated disease. The new science of addiction considers all of these factors - from biology to family - to unravel the complexities of the addicted brain. * Natural Reward Pathways Exist in the Brain: The reward pathway is responsible for driving our feelings of motivation, reward and behavior. * Drugs Alter the Brain's Reward Pathway: Drugs work over time to change the reward pathway and affect the entire brain, resulting in addiction. * Genetics Is An Important Factor In Addiction: Genetic susceptibility to addiction is the result of the interaction of many genes. * Timing and Circumstances Influence Addiction: If you use drugs when you are an adolescent, you are more likely to develop lifetime addiction. An individual's social environment also influences addiction risk. * Challenges and Issues in Addiction: Addiction impacts society with many ethical, legal and social issues.

Proper citation: New Science of Addiction: Genetics and the Brain (RRID:SCR_002770) Copy   

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http://www.genscript.com

Commercial organization which provides life science services and products to researchers. They specialize in gene synthesis, peptide, protein, antibody and preclinical drug development service.

Proper citation: GenScript (RRID:SCR_002891) Copy   

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http://www.genedb.org/Homepage

Database of genomes at various stages of completion, from early access to partial genomes with automatic annotation through to complete genomes with extensive manual curation. Its primary goals are: 1) to provide reliable access to the latest sequence data and annotation/curation for the whole range of organisms sequenced by the Pathogen group, and 2) to develop the website and other tools to aid the community in accessing and obtaining the maximum value from these data.

Proper citation: GeneDB (RRID:SCR_002774) Copy   

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http://www.lajollaneuroscience.org/

Our NINDS Center Core Grant supports centralized resources and facilities shared by investigators with existing NINDS-funded research projects. Our Center is composed of three research cores, each of which will enrich the effectiveness of ongoing research, and promote new research directions. The three Core facilities support Electrophysiology, Neuropathology / Histology, and High-Throughput/High-Content Chemical and Genomic Library screening. By making these important Core Services available to the local Neuroscience community, the La Jolla Neurosciences Program hopes to promote the study of how the nervous system works and develop treatments for nervous system diseases. The cores and their services are available to La Jolla neuroscientists. Core services are available to NINDS-supported neuroscience projects from local investigators as well as young neuroscientists prior to obtaining their first NIH-funded grant. * Electrophysiology: SBMRI Electrophysiology ** The Electrophysiology Core consists of the Sanford-Burnham Electrophysiology Facility. This facility can perform patch-clamp intracellular and extracellular field recordings on a range of material including cultured cells and brain slices. The Sanford-Burnham facility emphasizes electrophysiological analysis of cultured cells and the detailed electrical properties of channels, receptors and recombinant proteins expressed in Xenopus oocytes or mammalian cells. * Neuropathology: UCSD Neuropathology ** The Neuropathology laboratory applies immunocytochemistry, neurochemistry, molecular genetics, transgenic models of disease, and imaging by scanning laser confocal microscopy to analysis of neurological disease in animal models. * Chemical Library Screening: SBIMR Assay Development, SBIMR Chemical Library Screening, SBIMR Cheminformatics, SBIMR High-content Screening ** The Chemical Library Screening core offers high-throughput screening (HTS) of biochemical and cell-based array using traditional HTS readouts and automated microscopy for high-content screening (HCS)> These facilities also offer array development and screening, as well as cheminformatics and medicinal chemistry., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 15,2026.

Proper citation: La Jolla Interdisciplinary Neurosciences Center (RRID:SCR_002772) Copy   

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http://www.med.unc.edu/ngrrc

Material resource that provides germ-free and selectively colonized rodents to requesting investigators. Germ-free rodents are axenic, with no detectible bacteria, yeast, molds, parasites or viruses (except retroviruses).

Proper citation: National Gnotobiotic Rodent Resource Center (RRID:SCR_002768) Copy   

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http://www.macaque.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented May 10, 2017. A pilot effort that has developed a centralized, web-based biospecimen locator that presents biospecimens collected and stored at participating Arizona hospitals and biospecimen banks, which are available for acquisition and use by researchers. Researchers may use this site to browse, search and request biospecimens to use in qualified studies. The development of the ABL was guided by the Arizona Biospecimen Consortium (ABC), a consortium of hospitals and medical centers in the Phoenix area, and is now being piloted by this Consortium under the direction of ABRC. You may browse by type (cells, fluid, molecular, tissue) or disease. Common data elements decided by the ABC Standards Committee, based on data elements on the National Cancer Institute''s (NCI''s) Common Biorepository Model (CBM), are displayed. These describe the minimum set of data elements that the NCI determined were most important for a researcher to see about a biospecimen. The ABL currently does not display information on whether or not clinical data is available to accompany the biospecimens. However, a requester has the ability to solicit clinical data in the request. Once a request is approved, the biospecimen provider will contact the requester to discuss the request (and the requester''s questions) before finalizing the invoice and shipment. The ABL is available to the public to browse. In order to request biospecimens from the ABL, the researcher will be required to submit the requested required information. Upon submission of the information, shipment of the requested biospecimen(s) will be dependent on the scientific and institutional review approval. Account required. Registration is open to everyone.. Documented on June 8, 2020.Macaque genomic and proteomic resources and how they are providing important new dimensions to research using macaque models of infectious disease. The research encompasses a number of viruses that pose global threats to human health, including influenza, HIV, and SARS-associated coronavirus. By combining macaque infection models with gene expression and protein abundance profiling, they are uncovering exciting new insights into the multitude of molecular and cellular events that occur in response to virus infection. A better understanding of these events may provide the basis for innovative antiviral therapies and improvements to vaccine development strategies.

Proper citation: Macaque.org (RRID:SCR_002767) Copy   

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https://simtk.org/home/contrack

An algorithm for identifying pathways that are known to exist between two regions within DTI data of anisotropic tissue, e.g., muscle, brain, spinal cord. The ConTrack algorithms use knowledge of DTI scanning physics and apriori information about tissue architecture to identify the location of connections between two regions within the DTI data. Assuming a course of connection or pathway between these two regions is known to exist within the measured tissue, ConTrack can be used to estimate properties of these connections in-vivo.

Proper citation: ConTrack (RRID:SCR_002681) Copy   

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http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/sapFinder.html

An R software package, for detection of the variant peptides based on tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS)-based proteomics data. It automates (1) variation-associated database construction, (2) database searching, (3) post-processing, (4) HTML-based report generation in shotgun proteomics.

Proper citation: sapFinder (RRID:SCR_002685) Copy   

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https://simtk.org/home/simbody

This project is a SimTK Core toolset providing general multibody dynamics capability, i.e., the capability to solve Newton's 2nd law F=ma in any set of coordinates. The techniques of rigid body mechanics are used to provide results in Order(n) time for any set of n coordinates. This can be used for internal coordinate modeling of molecules, or for coarse-grained models based on larger chunks. It is also useful for large-scale mechanical models, such as neuromuscular models of human gait. Simbody is provided as an open source, object-oriented C++ API and delivers high-performance, accuracy-controlled science/engineering-quality results. Binaries of this software are bundled with other SimTK Core modules.

Proper citation: Simbody(tm): SimTK Multibody Dynamics Toolset (RRID:SCR_002684) Copy   

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http://www.cognitiveatlas.org/

Knowledge base (or ontology) that characterizes the state of current thought in cognitive science that captures knowledge from users with expertise in psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. There are two basic kinds of knowledge in the knowledge base. Terms provide definitions and properties for individual concepts and tasks. Assertions describe relations between terms in the same way that a sentence describes relations between parts of speech. The goal is to develop a knowledge base that will support annotation of data in databases, as well as supporting improved discourse in the community. It is open to all interested researchers. A fundamental feature of the knowledge base is the desire and ability to capture not just agreement but also disagreement regarding definitions and assertions. Thus, if you see a definition or assertion that you disagree with, then you can assert and describe your disagreement. The project is led by Russell Poldrack, Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology at the University of Texas at Austin in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Computational Biology (A. Toga, PI) and UCLA Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics (R. Bilder, PI). Most tasks used in cognitive psychology research are not identical across different laboratories or even within the same laboratory over time. A major advantage of anchoring cognitive ontologies to the measurement level is that the strategy for determining changes in task properties is easier than tracking changes in concept definitions and usage. The process is easier because task parameters are usually (if not always) operationalized objectively, offering a clear basis to judge divergence in methods. The process is also easier because most tasks are based on prior tasks, and thus can more readily be considered descendants in a phylogenetic sense.

Proper citation: Cognitive Atlas (RRID:SCR_002793) Copy   

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http://diseasome.eu

A disease / disorder relationships explorer and a sample of a map-oriented scientific work. It uses the Human Disease Network dataset and allows intuitive knowledge discovery by mapping its complexity. The Human Disease Network (official) dataset, a poster of the data and related book (Biology - The digital era, ISBN: 978-2-271-06779-1) are available. This kind of data has a network-like organization, and relations between elements are at least as important as the elements themselves. More data could be integrated to this prototype and could eventually bring closer phenotype and genotype. Results should be visual, but also printable. Creating posters can enhance collaborative work. It facilitates discussion and sharing of ideas about the data. This website initiative is an invitation to think about the benefits of networks exploration but above all it tries to outline future designs of scientific information systems.

Proper citation: Diseasome (RRID:SCR_002792) Copy   

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http://andestools.sourceforge.net/

Software library and a suite of applications, written in Perl and R, for deep sequencing statistical analyses.

Proper citation: ANDES (RRID:SCR_002791) Copy   

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https://rnaidesigner.lifetechnologies.com/rnaiexpress/

A free tool to design effective RNAi molecules that includes the following target design options: Stealth RNAi siRNA, siRNA, miR RNAi, shRNA, siRNA to Stealth RNAi siRNA, and siRNA to shRNA.

Proper citation: BLOCK-iT RNAi Designer (RRID:SCR_002794) Copy   

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http://www.dana.org

A private philanthropy with principal interests in brain science, immunology, and education. The portal provides general information about the brain and current brain research, links to validated sites related brain disorders, education resources and lesson plans, and support for the training of in-school arts specialists. The Dana Foundation science and health grants support brain research in neuroscience and immunology and their interrelationship in human health and disease. The grant sections include brain and immuno-imaging, clinical neuroscience research, human immunology and neuroimmunology. The Foundation also occasionally sponsors workshops and forums for working scientists, as well as offering funding for selected young researchers to continue their education or to attend seminars and workshops elsewhere.

Proper citation: Dana Foundation (RRID:SCR_002789) Copy   

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http://www.unibas.ch/

Public university in Basel, Switzerland that offers degree programs in theology, law, medicine, humanities and social sciences, science, psychology, and business and economics.

Proper citation: University of Basel; Basel; Switzerland (RRID:SCR_002699) Copy   

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http://www.flymine.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 14,2026. Integrated database of genomic, expression and protein data for Drosophila, Anopheles, C. elegans and other organisms. You can run flexible queries, export results and analyze lists of data. FlyMine presents data in categories, with each providing information on a particular type of data (for example Gene Expression or Protein Interactions). Template queries, as well as the QueryBuilder itself, allow you to perform searches that span data from more than one category. Advanced users can use a flexible query interface to construct their own data mining queries across the multiple integrated data sources, to modify existing template queries or to create your own template queries. Access our FlyMine data via our Application Programming Interface (API). We provide client libraries in the following languages: Perl, Python, Ruby and & Java API

Proper citation: FlyMine (RRID:SCR_002694) Copy   

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http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge engine that to make all systematic knowledge computable. Although, this is not a specific neuroscience related resource, the computational and math element will be helpful. Wolfram Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. It aims to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. It's goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries. Wolfram Alpha aims to also bring expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of peoplespanning all professions and education levels. It's goal is to accept completely free-form input, and to serve as a knowledge engine that generates powerful results and presents them with maximum clarity. Lastly, Wolfram Alpha is an ambitious, long-term intellectual endeavor that it intends to deliver increasing capabilities over the years and decades to come. With a world-class team and participation from top outside experts in countless fields, it's goal is to create something that will stand as a major milestone of 21st century intellectual achievement. As of now, Wolfram Alpha contains 10+ trillion pieces of data, 50,000+ types of algorithms and models, and linguistic capabilities for 1000+ domains. Built with Mathematicawhich is itself the result of more than 20 years of development at Wolfram ResearchWolfram Alpha's core code base now exceeds 5 million lines of symbolic Mathematica code. Running on supercomputer-class compute clusters, Wolfram Alpha makes extensive use of the latest generation of web and parallel computing technologies, including webMathematica and gridMathematica. Its knowledge base and capabilities already span a great many domains, and its underlying framework has the power and flexibility to support ready extension to essentially any domain that is based on systematic knowledge.

Proper citation: Wolfram Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine (RRID:SCR_002693) Copy   

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http://cbb.sjtu.edu.cn/~ccwei/pub/software/CTF/CTF.php

Conditional random field (CRF) based transcription factor binding site (TFBS) finding system. The underlying CRF model can integrate features of different sources.

Proper citation: CTF (RRID:SCR_002692) Copy   

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