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http://sciblogs.co.nz/

Sciblogs brings together the best science bloggers in the country (New Zealand) on one website, creating a hub for scientific analysis and discussion and facilitating reader interaction. The website is for scientists who want to reach out to a general audience to explain their science and how it relates to society. Some Sciblog contributors spend most of their time in the lab or buried in research. Others are authors or entrepreneurs. All of them know what they are talking about and have an interest in engaging in discussion on the big science-related issues facing society. Over time more bloggers will be added to the Sciblogs roster. If you would like to inquire about hosting a blog on Sciblogs contact us. You can easily keep an eye on new Sciblogs posts by subscribing via RSS or email or by following our Twitter feed. Alternatively, there is a Facebook page as well as a Facebook group feel free to join in! Categories: * Science * Agriculture * Technology * Health and Medicine * Environment and Ecology * Science and Society

Proper citation: Sciblogs (RRID:SCR_005219) Copy   

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http://www.hematology.org/Publications/Videos/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on August 18, 2016. ASH's video library includes a number of films produced on various topics, including ASH''s history and award winners, Society programs such as the Clinical Research Training Institute, and a trailer and clips from the hematology documentary Blood Detectives, which aired on Discovery Health. These videos were created for educational purposes, and we encourage members of the hematology community to share them with others.

Proper citation: ASH Video Library (RRID:SCR_005777) Copy   

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http://microrna.osu.edu/.UCbase4

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 16, 2013. UCbase & miRfunc is a database of (i) human, mouse and rat microRNAs and (ii) Ultraconserved elements providing information about function, expression and correlation between these classes of non-coding RNAs and the disorders related to their aberrant expression. The genomics interface allows the user to explore where whole-genome collections of miRNAs and UCRs are located with respect to annotation sets such as band, disorders and known genes. The Blast interface provides a web tool for matching miRNAs/UCRs elements against any given sequence and providing specific functional information on the results. 481 Ultraconserved sequences (UCRs) longer than 200 bases were discovered in the genomes of human, mouse and rat. These are DNA sequences showing 100 percent identity among the human, mouse and rat genomes. UCRs are frequently located at genomic regions involved in cancer, differentially expressed in human leukemias and carcinomas and in some instances regulated by microRNAs (miRNAs), the most extensively studied category of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). Here we present the first database which links UCRs and miRNAs with the related human disorders and genomic properties.

Proper citation: UCbase & miRfunc: Ultraconserved Sequences and miRNA Funciton Database (RRID:SCR_005771) Copy   

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http://www.dbs.ifi.lmu.de/~bundschu/LHGDN.html

A text mining derived database with focus on extracting and classifying gene-disease associations with respect to several biomolecular conditions. It uses a machine learning based algorithm to extract semantic gene-disease relations from a textual source of interest. The semantic gene-disease relations were extracted with F-measures of 78. More specifically, the textual source utilized here originates from Entrez Gene''''s GeneRIF (Gene Reference Into Function) database (Mitchell, et al., 2003). LHGDN was created based on a GeneRIF version from March 31st, 2009, consisting of 414241 phrases. These phrases were further restricted to the organism Homo sapiens, which resulted in a total of 178004 phrases. We benchmark our approach on two different tasks. The first task is the identification of semantic relations between diseases and treatments. The available data set consists of manually annotated PubMed abstracts. The second task is the identification of relations between genes and diseases from a set of concise phrases, so-called GeneRIF (Gene Reference Into Function) phrases. In our experimental setting, we do not assume that the entities are given, as is often the case in previous relation extraction work. Rather the extraction of the entities is solved as a subproblem. Compared with other state-of-the-art approaches, we achieve very competitive results on both data sets. To demonstrate the scalability of our solution, we apply our approach to the complete human GeneRIF database. The resulting gene-disease network contains 34758 semantic associations between 4939 genes and 1745 diseases. The gene-disease network is publicly available as a machine-readable RDF graph. We extend the framework of Conditional Random Fields towards the annotation of semantic relations from text and apply it to the biomedical domain. Our approach is based on a rich set of textual features and achieves a performance that is competitive to leading approaches. The model is quite general and can be extended to handle arbitrary biological entities and relation types. The resulting gene-disease network shows that the GeneRIF database provides a rich knowledge source for text mining.

Proper citation: Literature-derived human gene-disease network (RRID:SCR_005653) Copy   

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http://bigg.ucsd.edu/

A knowledgebase of Biochemically, Genetically and Genomically structured genome-scale metabolic network reconstructions. BiGG integrates several published genome-scale metabolic networks into one resource with standard nomenclature which allows components to be compared across different organisms. BiGG can be used to browse model content, visualize metabolic pathway maps, and export SBML files of the models for further analysis by external software packages. Users may follow links from BiGG to several external databases to obtain additional information on genes, proteins, reactions, metabolites and citations of interest.

Proper citation: BiGG Database (RRID:SCR_005809) Copy   

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http://the_brain.bwh.harvard.edu/uniprobe/

Database that hosts experimental data from universal protein binding microarray (PBM) experiments (Berger et al., 2006) and their accompanying statistical analyses from prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, malarial parasites, yeast, worms, mouse, and human. It provides a centralized resource for accessing comprehensive data on the preferences of proteins for all possible sequence variants ("words") of length k ("k-mers"), as well as position weight matrix (PWM) and graphical sequence logo representations of the k-mer data. The database's web tools include a text-based search, a function for assessing motif similarity between user-entered data and database PWMs, and a function for locating putative binding sites along user-entered nucleotide sequences.

Proper citation: UniPROBE (RRID:SCR_005803) Copy   

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http://edwardslab.bmcb.georgetown.edu/downloads/

The Peptide Sequence Database contains putative peptide sequences from human, mouse, rat, and zebrafish. Compressed to eliminate redundancy, these are about 40 fold smaller than a brute force enumeration. Current and old releases are available for download. Each species'' peptide sequence database comprises peptide sequence data from releveant species specific UniGene and IPI clusters, plus all sequences from their consituent EST, mRNA and protein sequence databases, namely RefSeq proteins and mRNAs, UniProt''s SwissProt and TrEMBL, GenBank mRNA, ESTs, and high-throughput cDNAs, HInv-DB, VEGA, EMBL, IPI protein sequences, plus the enumeration of all combinations of UniProt sequence variants, Met loss PTM, and signal peptide cleavages. The README file contains some information about the non amino-acid symbols O (digest site corresponding to a protein N- or C-terminus) and J (no digest sequence join) used in these peptide sequence databases and information about how to configure various search engines to use them. Some search engines handle (very) long sequences badly and in some cases must be patched to use these peptide sequence databases. All search engines supported by the PepArML meta-search engine can (or can be patched to) successfully search these peptide sequence databases.

Proper citation: Peptide Sequence Database (RRID:SCR_005764) Copy   

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http://mutationassessor.org/

A web server that predicts the functional impact of amino-acid substitutions in proteins, such as mutations discovered in cancer or nonsynonymous polymorphisms. The functional impact is assessed based on evolutionary conservation of the affected amino acid in protein homologs. The method has been validated on a large set (51k) of disease associated (OMIM) and polymorphic variants., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: MutationAssessor (RRID:SCR_005762) Copy   

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http://h-invitational.jp/varygene/

It consists of a Genome Browser, an LD Search System, and the VaryGene 2 system. The Generic Genome Browser is a combination of database and interactive Web page for manipulating and displaying annotations on genomes, while LDSearchSystem is a search system for linkage disequilibrium (LD) bins. VaryGene 2 is a system to search, display, and download our research results on human polymorphism based on publicly available data and annotations of transcripts presented by H-InvDB. VaryGene 2 provides information about single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), deletion-insertion polymorphisms (DIPs), short tandem repeats (STRs), single amino acid repeats (SARs), structural variation (or copy number variations: CNVs), and their relations to the genome, transcripts, and functional domains. Users can search by polymorphisms, transcripts, STRs/SARs, and CNVs.

Proper citation: VarySysDB (RRID:SCR_005880) Copy   

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http://indel.bioinfo.sdu.edu.cn/gridsphere/gridsphere

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVCE, documented September 2, 2016. Indel Flanking Region Database is an online resource for indels and the flanking regions of proteins in SCOP superfamilies, including amino acid sequences, lengths, locations, secondary structure constitutions, hydrophilicity / hydrophobicity, domain information, 3D structures and so on. It aims at providing a comprehensive dataset for analyzing the qualities of amino acid insertion/deletions(indels), substitutions and the relationship between them. The indels were obtained through the pairwise alignment of homologous structures in SCOP superfamilies. The IndelFR database contains 2,925,017 indels with flanking regions extracted from 373,402 structural alignment pairs of 12,573 non-redundant domains from 1053 superfamilies. IndelFR has already been used for molecular evolution studies and may help to promote future functional studies of indels and their flanking regions.

Proper citation: IndelFR - Indel Flanking Region Database (RRID:SCR_006050) Copy   

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http://www.utrome.org

This database is intended as a comprehensive resource for UTR (Untranslated Region) biology in C. elegans. The database provides detailed information on UTR structures for all protein-coding mRNAs, and includes annotations extracted from other databases (such as WormBase and PicTar) as well as new annotations generated as part of the NYU UTRome project (including preliminary characterization of UTR clones, USTs (UTR sequence tags), curated sequences, and computational and experimental analysis of functional elements). Examples of functional elements within UTRs include predicted and validated microRNA (miRNA) binding sites (responsible for post-transcriptional gene regulation), putative consensus signals for polyA addition, and predicted secondary structures (which may influence the biological activity of UTRs). The UTRome project is part of the ModEncode Consortium, an NIH initiative to characterize at a genomic scale functional sequence elements encoded in the worm (C. elegans) and fly (D. melanogaster) genomes. UTRs are important portions of mRNAs required for post-transcriptional regulation by interacting with proteins or non-coding RNAs (e.g. microRNAs). To study the role of UTRs we are building a UTR database for C. elegans.

Proper citation: UTRome.org (RRID:SCR_005878) Copy   

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http://webclu.bio.wzw.tum.de/profcom/

Profiling of Complex Functionality (ProfCom) is a web-based tool for the functional interpretation of a gene list that was identified to be related by experiments. A trait which makes ProfCom a unique tool is an ability to profile enrichments of not only available Gene Ontology (GO) terms but also of complex function. A complex function is constructed as Boolean combination of available GO terms. The complex functions inferred by ProfCom are more specific in comparison to single terms and describe more accurately the functional role of genes. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: ProfCom - Profiling of complex functionality (RRID:SCR_005797) Copy   

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http://roar.eprints.org/

Listing of institutional repositories for depositing preprints of published materials with the aim of promoting the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. Open access to research maximizes research access and thereby also research impact, making research more productive and effective. Repository Types: * Research Institutional or Departmental * Research Multi-institution Repository * Research Cross-Institutional * e-Journal/Publication * e-Theses * Database/A&I Index * Research Data * Open and Linked Data * Learning and Teaching Objects * Demonstration * Web Observatory * Other Repository Software: * ARNO * Bepress * CDS Invenio * ContentDM by OCLC * DIGIBIB * DigiTool * DiVA * DoKS * DSpace * EDOC * EPrints * Equella * ETD-db * Fedora ** Fez * Greenstone * HAL * i-Tor * IntraLibrary * Keystone DLS * MiTOS * MyCoRe * Open Journal System * Open Repository * OPUS (Open Publications System) * Other softwares (various) * PMB Services * SBCAT * SciX * SobekCM * WIKINDX * Zentity

Proper citation: ROAR (RRID:SCR_005951) Copy   

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http://estbioinfo.stat.ub.es/apli/serbgov131/index.php

SerbGO is a web-based tool intended to assist researchers determine which microarray tools for gene expression analysis which make use of the GO ontologies are best suited to their projects. SerbGO is a bidirectional application. The user can ask for some features by checking on the Query Form to get the appropriate tools for their interests. The user can also compare tools to check which features are implemented in each one. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: SerbGO (RRID:SCR_005798) Copy   

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http://www.youtube.com/user/NIGMS/

YouTube videos provided by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).

Proper citation: NIGMS - YouTube (RRID:SCR_005678) Copy   

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http://tolweb.org/tree/

A collection of information about biodiversity compiled collaboratively by hundreds of expert and amateur contributors. Its goal is to contain a page with pictures, text, and other information for every species and for each group of organisms, living or extinct. Connections between Tree of Life web pages follow phylogenetic branching patterns between groups of organisms, so visitors can browse the hierarchy of life and learn about phylogeny and evolution as well as the characteristics of individual groups.

Proper citation: Tree of Life Web Project (RRID:SCR_005673) Copy   

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http://gopubmed.org/web/gopubmed/

A web server which allows users to explore PubMed search results with the Gene Ontology, a hierarchically structured vocabulary for molecular biology. GoPubMed submits a user''''s keywords to PubMed, retrieves the abstracts, detects Gene Ontology terms in the abstracts, displays the subset of Gene Ontology relevant to the original query, and allows the user to browse through the ontology displaying associated papers and their GO annotation. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: GoPubMed (RRID:SCR_005823) Copy   

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http://agbase.msstate.edu/cgi-bin/tools/goslimviewer_select.pl

Service to summarize the GO function associated with a data set using prepared GO Slim sets. The input is a tab separated list of gene product IDs and GO IDs.

Proper citation: GOSlimViewer (RRID:SCR_005665) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/expressionprofiler/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVCE, documented September 2, 2016. The EP:GO browser is built into EBI's Expression Profiler, a set of tools for clustering, analysis and visualization of gene expression and other genomic data. With it, you can search for GO terms and identify gene associations for a node, with or without associated subnodes, for the organism of your choice.

Proper citation: Expression Profiler (RRID:SCR_005821) Copy   

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http://nmr.cmbi.ru.nl/NRG-CING/HTML/index.html

NRG-CING presents a complete validation report for all 9,000+ wwPDB NMR entries including remediated experimental data such as chemical shifts from BMRB and restraints from NRG . These CING reports are compiled from internal analyses and those by CCPN, DSSP, PROCHECK-NMR/Aqua, ShiftX, Talos+, Vasco, Wattos, and WHAT_CHECK. The NRG-CING website is a collection of CING reports that has been pre-calculated for all PDB files solved by NMR. (See website for more information on CING.) In case the underlying experimental data is available, these have been cleaned up and made syntactically and semantically correct and homogeneous. For many macromolecular NMR ensembles from the Protein Data Bank (PDB) the experiment-based restraint lists used in the structure calculation are accessible, while other experimental data, mainly chemical shift values, are often available from the BioMagResBank. Assessment of the quality of the structural result is paramount to their usage and a combined, integrated repository of both input data and structural results greatly facilitates such an analysis. In addition, the accuracy and precision of the coordinates in these macromolecular NMR ensembles can be improved by recalculations using the available experimental data and present-day software with improved protocols and force fields. Such efforts, however, generally fail on over half of all deposited structures due to the syntactic and semantic heterogeneity of the data and the wide variety of formats used for their deposition. We have combined the cleaned-up restraints information from the NMR Restraints Grid (NRG) database with available chemical shifts from the BioMagResBank in the weekly updated NRG-CING database. Eleven programs, in addition to CING itself, have been included in the NRG-CING production pipeline to arrive at validation reports that list for each entry the potential inconsistencies between the coordinates and the available restraint and chemical shift data. The longitudinal validation of this data yielded a set of indicators that can be used to judge the quality of every macromolecular structure solved with NMR. The cleaned up NMR experimental datasets and the validation reports are freely available.

Proper citation: NRG-CING (RRID:SCR_006079) Copy   

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