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https://sites.google.com/site/functionalconnectivitytoolbox/

MATLAB toolbox for performing functional connectivity analyses includes many of the most commonly-used approaches researchers have utilized to date for the identification of condition-dependent functional interactions between fMRI time-series obtained from two or more brain regions. The approaches are either bivariate or multivariate methods defined in time or frequency domains that emphasize distinct features of relationships among the time-series.

Proper citation: Functional Connectivity Toolbox (RRID:SCR_006394) Copy   

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http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/archives/2002/neuroinformatics.html

This resource''s long-term goal is to develop informatics methodologies and tools that will increase the creativity and productivity of neuroscience investigators, as they work together to use shared human brain mapping data to generate and test ideas far beyond those pursued by the data''s originators. This resource currently has four major projects supporting this goal: * Database tools: The goal of the NeuroServ project is to provide neuroscience researchers with automated information management tools that reduce the effort required to manage, analyze, query, view, and share their imaging data. It currently manages both structural magnetic resonance image (MRI) datasets and diffusion tensor image (DTI) datasets. NeuroServ is fully web-enabled: data entry, query, processing, reporting, and administrative functions are performed by qualified users through a web browser. It can be used as a local laboratory repository, to share data on the web, or to support a large distributed consortium. NeuroServ is based on an industrial-quality query middleware engine MRALD. NeuroServ includes a specialized neuroimaging schema and over 40 custom Java Server Pages supporting data entry, query, and reporting to help manage and explore stored images. NeuroServ is written in Java for platform independence; it also utilizes several open source components * Data sharing: DataQuest is a collaborative forum to facilitate the sharing of neuroimaging data within the neuroscience community. By publishing summaries of existing datasets, DataQuest enables researchers to: # Discover what data is available for collaborative research # Advertise your data to other researchers for potential collaborations # Discover which researchers may have the data you need # Discover which researchers are interested in your data. * Image quality: The approach to assessing the inherent quality of an image is to measure how distorted the image is. Using what are referred to as no-reference or blind metrics, one can measure the degree to which an image is distorted. * Content-based image retrieval: NIRV (NeuroImagery Retrieval & Visualization) is a work environment for advanced querying over imagery. NIRV will have a Java-based front-end for users to issue queries, run processing algorithms, review results, visualize imagery and assess image quality. NIRV interacts with an image repository such as NeuroServ. Users can also register images and will soon be able to filter searches based on image quality.

Proper citation: MITRE Neuroinformatics (RRID:SCR_006508) Copy   

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http://wiki.chasmsoftware.org/index.php/Main_Page

CHASM is a method that predicts the functional significance of somatic missense mutations observed in the genomes of cancer cells, allowing mutations to be prioritized in subsequent functional studies, based on the probability that they give the cells a selective survival advantage. SNV-Box is a database of pre-computed features of all possible amino acid substitutions at every position of the annotated human exome. Users can rapidly retrieve features for a given protein amino acid substitution for use in machine learning.

Proper citation: CHASM/SNV-Box (RRID:SCR_006445) Copy   

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http://flybase.org/

Database of Drosophila genetic and genomic information with information about stock collections and fly genetic tools. Gene Ontology (GO) terms are used to describe three attributes of wild-type gene products: their molecular function, the biological processes in which they play a role, and their subcellular location. Additionally, FlyBase accepts data submissions. FlyBase can be searched for genes, alleles, aberrations and other genetic objects, phenotypes, sequences, stocks, images and movies, controlled terms, and Drosophila researchers using the tools available from the "Tools" drop-down menu in the Navigation bar.

Proper citation: FlyBase (RRID:SCR_006549) Copy   

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https://simtk.org/home/foldvillin

An archive of hundreds of all-atom, explicit solvent molecular dynamics simulations that were performed on a set of nine unfolded conformations of a variant of the villin headpiece subdomain (HP-35 NleNle). It includes scripts for accessing the archive of villin trajectories as well as a VMD plug-in for viewing the trajectories. In addition, all starting structures used in the trajectories are also provided. The simulations were generated using a distributed computing method utilizing the symmetric multiprocessing paradigm for individual nodes of the Folding_at_home distributed computing network. The villin trajectories in the archive are divided into two projects: PROJ3036 and PROJ3037. PROJ3036 contains trajectories starting from nine non-folded configurations. PROJ3037 contains trajectories starting from the native (folded) state. Runs 0 through 8 (in PROJ3036) correspond to starting configurations 0 through 8 discussed in the paper in J. Mol. Biol. (2007) 374(3):806-816 (see the publications tab for a full reference), whereas RUN9 uses the same starting configuration as RUN8. Each run contains 100 trajectories (named clone 0-99), each with the same starting configuration but different random velocities. Trajectories vary in their length of time and are subdivided into frames, also known as a generation. Each frame contains around 400 configurational snapshots, or timepoints, of the trajectory, with the last configurational snapshot of frame i corresponding to the first configurational snapshot of generation i+1. The goal is to allow researchers to analyze and benefit from the many trajectories produced through the simulations.

Proper citation: Molecular Simulation Trajectories Archive of a Villin Variant (RRID:SCR_002704) Copy   

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http://www.gramene.org

Curated, open-source, integrated data resource for comparative functional genomics in crops and model plant species to facilitate the study of cross-species comparisons using information generated from projects supported by public funds. It currently hosts annotated whole genomes in over two dozen plant species and partial assemblies for almost a dozen wild rice species in the Ensembl browser, genetic and physical maps with genes, ESTs and QTLs locations, genetic diversity data sets, structure-function analysis of proteins, plant pathways databases (BioCyc and Plant Reactome platforms), and descriptions of phenotypic traits and mutations. The web-based displays for phenotypes include the Genes and Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) modules. Sequence based relationships are displayed in the Genomes module using the genome browser adapted from Ensembl, in the Maps module using the comparative map viewer (CMap) from GMOD, and in the Proteins module displays. BLAST is used to search for similar sequences. Literature supporting all the above data is organized in the Literature database. In addition, Gramene now hosts a variety of web services including a Distributed Annotation Server (DAS), BLAST and a public MySQL database. Twice a year, Gramene releases a major build of the database and makes interim releases to correct errors or to make important updates to software and/or data. Additionally you can access Gramene through an FTP site.

Proper citation: Gramene (RRID:SCR_002829) Copy   

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http://lamp.icsi.berkeley.edu/lamp/

A software package for the inference of locus-specific ancestry in recently admixed populations. LAMP-LD takes the genotypes of admixed individuals as well as reference haplotype panels approximating the mixing ancestral populations, and outputs the estimated number of alleles from each ancestry in each locus for each individual. The LAMP-LD package also includes the program LAMP-HAP, which processes haplotype data when high-quality phasing is available, and utilizes trio nuclear family designs to improve estimation accuracy. LAMP-LD is based on a window-based processing combined within a hierarchical Hidden Markov Model. It can process 2,3 or 5 mixing populations, and its short per-sample processing time makes it suitable for analyzing large datasets of dense SNP panels. The original program LAMP does not use the LD and therefore is not as accurate, but it is useful in cases where the SNP density is not high enough or when the ancestral haplotypes are unkown.

Proper citation: Local Ancestry in adMixed Populations (RRID:SCR_001258) Copy   

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https://3dvcell.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, confirmed by curator 11/21/2018; Community of researchers attempting to build a comprehensive virtual cell model. The 3DVC will do for cell biology what the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) does for particle physics, but through a virtual rather than physical resource. It will bring together collaborators around a shared infrastructure to advance the field through efficient groundbreaking science and technology, the results of which will be broadly disseminated to an audience ranging from K12 to professionals. The 3DVC is committed to open science, yet strives for sustainability through new business models that leverages that open content.

Proper citation: 3DVC (RRID:SCR_001377) Copy   

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http://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2180-9-S1-S1

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on June 10, 2016. A consortium that created universal descriptors to describe functionally similar gene products and their attributes across all organisms. In 2004, the PAMGO interest group joined the GO consortium to extend the GO to include terms describing various processes related to microbe-host interactions. The organization uses a controlled vocabulary to set a process in place to describe plant associated microbes and their interactions with their plant-hosts. These higher order terms can describe gene products of all types of symbionts (e.g. parasites, commensals, and mutualists), including prokaryotes and eukaryotes that associate with plant or animal hosts. This initiative is a multi-institutional collaborative effort to pool information and research in: the bacteria Dickeya dadantii, Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato and Agrobacterium tumefaciens, the fungus Magnaporthe grisea, the oomycetes Phytophthora sojae and Phytophthora ramorum, and the nematode Meloidogyne hapla.

Proper citation: PAMGO (RRID:SCR_000022) Copy   

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http://www.uwyo.edu/buerkle/software/bamova/

Software that implements a Bayesian Analysis of Molecular Variance and different likelihood models for three different types of molecular data (including two models for high throughput sequence data).

Proper citation: bamova (RRID:SCR_000510) Copy   

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http://www.stanford.edu/group/Urchin/contents.html

Laboratory modules designed for high school students covering sea urchin embryology including fertilization and development.

Proper citation: Sea Urchin Embryology (RRID:SCR_000460) Copy   

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http://www.cs.utah.edu/~miriah/pathline/Overview.html

Software visualization tool for comparative functional genomics that supports analysis of three types of biological data at once: functional data such as gene activity measurements; pathway data that presents a series of reactions within a cellular process; and phylogenetic data describing ancestral relationships between species. The design of Pathline includes two new visual encoding techniques. The first is an encoding of a linearized metabolic pathway representation that provides appropriate topological information and supports the comparison of quantitative data along the pathway. The second is a curvemap, a matrix layout of temporal expression data for enhanced perception of trends in gene and cell activity levels across multiple species.

Proper citation: Pathline (RRID:SCR_000635) Copy   

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http://www.loni.usc.edu/Software/LOVE

A versatile 1D, 2D and 3D data viewer geared for cross-platform visualization of stereotactic brain data. It is a 3-D viewer that allows volumetric data display and manipulation of axial, sagittal and coronal views. It reads Analyze, Raw-binary and NetCDF volumetric data, as well as, Multi-Contour Files (MCF), LWO/LWS surfaces, atlas hierarchical brain-region labelings ( Brain Trees). It is a portable Java-based software, which only requires a Java interpreter and a 64 MB of RAM memory to run on any computer architecture. LONI_Viz allows the user to interactively overlay and browse through several data volumes, zoom in and out in the axial, sagittal and coronal views, and reports the intensities and the stereo-tactic voxel and world coordinates of the data. Expert users can use LONI_Viz to delineate structures of interest, e.g., sulcal curves, on the 3 cardinal projections of the data. These curves then may be use to reconstruct surfaces representing the topological boundaries of cortical and sub-cortical regions of interest. The 3D features of the package include a SurfaceViewer and a full real-time VolumeRenderer. These allow the user to view the relative positions of different anatomical or functional regions which are not co-planar in any of the axial, sagittal or coronal 2D projection planes. The interactive part of LONI_Viz features a region drawing module used for manual delineation of regions of interest. A series of 2D contours describing the boundary of a region in projection planes (axial, sagittal or coronal) could be used to reconstruct the surface-representation of the 3D outer shell of the region. The latter could then be resliced in directions complementary to the drawing-direction and these complementary contours could be loaded in all tree cardinal views. In addition the surface object could be displayed using the SurfaceViewer. A pre-loading data crop and sub-sampling module allows the user to load and view practically data of any size. This is especially important when viewing cryotome, histological or stained data-sets which may reach 1GB (109 bytes) in size. The user could overlay several pre-registered volumes, change intensity colors and ranges and the inter-volume opacities to visually inspect similarities and differences between the different subjects/modalities. Several image-processing aids provide histogram plotting, image-smoothing, etc. Specific Features: * Region description DataBase * Moleculo-genetic database * Brain anatomical data viewer * BrainMapper tool * Surface (LightWave objects/scenes) and Volume rendering tools * Interactive Contour Drawing tool Implementation Issues: * Applet vs. Application - the software is available as both an applet and a standalone application. The former could be used to browse data from within the LONI database, however, it imposes restrictions on file-size, Internet connection and network-bandwidth and client/server file access. The later requires a local install and configuration of the LONI_Viz software * Extendable object-oriented code (Java), computer architecture independent * Complete online software documentation is available at http://www.loni.ucla.edu/LONI_Viz and a Java-Class documentation is available at http://www.loni.ucla.edu/~dinov/LONI_Vis.dir/doc/LONI_Viz_Java_Docs.html

Proper citation: LONI Visualization Tool (RRID:SCR_000765) Copy   

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http://megasoftware.net/

Software integrated tool for conducting automatic and manual sequence alignment, inferring phylogenetic trees, mining web based databases, estimating rates of molecular evolution, and testing evolutionary hypotheses. Used for comparative analysis of DNA and protein sequences to infer molecular evolutionary patterns of genes, genomes, and species over time. MEGA version 4 expands on existing facilities for editing DNA sequence data from autosequencers, mining Web-databases, performing automatic and manual sequence alignment, analyzing sequence alignments to estimate evolutionary distances, inferring phylogenetic trees, and testing evolutionary hypotheses. MEGA version 6 enables inference of timetrees, as it implements RelTime method for estimating divergence times for all branching points in phylogeny.

Proper citation: MEGA (RRID:SCR_000667) Copy   

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http://zoobank.org/

A database of scientific names in zoology. ZooBank is an online, open-access, community-generated registry for zoological nomenclature. It serves as a service to taxonomists, biologists, and the global diversity informatics community. It is the Official Register of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN).

Proper citation: ZooBank (RRID:SCR_000901) Copy   

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http://wings-workflows.org

A software application which assists scientists with designing computational experiments. WINGS is a semantic workflow system which incorporates semantic constraints about datasets and workflow components into its workflow representations. The workflow system has an open modular design and can be easily integrated with other existing workflow systems and execution frameworks to extend them with semantic reasoning capabilities. WINGS also allows users to express high-level descriptions of their analysis goals, and assists them by automatically and systematically generating possible workflows that are consistent with that request. In cases where privacy or off-line use are important, WINGS can submit workflows in a scripted format for execution in the local host. It uses Pegasus or OODT as the execution engine for large-scale distributed workflow execution.

Proper citation: WINGS (RRID:SCR_013997) Copy   

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http://animatlab.com/

A software tool that combines biomechanical simulation and biologically realistic neural networks to create realistic models of, and perform tests on, biomechanical workings. AnimatLab was primarily designed to model and test the operation of neural circuits that might produce behavior patterns observed in an intact animal. Users can create an animalistic or robotic body and place it in a virtual environment with physics that are accurate and realistic. Users can then design a nervous system that controls the behavior of the body within the physically realistic environment. Various models for different types of actions, builds, and movements are available.

Proper citation: AnimatLab (RRID:SCR_014252) Copy   

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http://neurodata.io/

Project portal dedicated to understand animal and machine intelligence and repository of data and tools. Suite of tools to analyze and graph imaging data. Image and data repository for large, publicly available neuro-specific data files and images. Contains tools for analytics, databases, cloud computing, and Web-services applied to both big neuroimages and big neurographs.

Proper citation: neurodata (RRID:SCR_014264) Copy   

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http://fatcat.burnham.org/

Web server for flexible protein structure comparison. Structure alignment is formulated as the aligned fragment pairs chaining process allowing at most t twists, and the flexible structure alignment is transformed into a rigid structure alignment when t is forced to be 0., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: FATCAT (RRID:SCR_014631) Copy   

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http://cellorganizer.org

Image analysis software that learns modular models of things such as cell shape, nuclear shape, vesicular organelle distribution and microtubule distribution directly from 2D or 3D images and can produce specific instances of cell geometries without the need to create them by hand or to segment microscope images. These geometries can be combined with biochemical models to perform spatially realistic cell simulations if used in conjunction with MCell.

Proper citation: CellOrganizer (RRID:SCR_014828) Copy   

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