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http://www.med.upenn.edu/cndr/biosamples-brainbank.html

A brain and tissue bank that contains human brain samples from patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and other related neurodegenerative dementias and movement disorders. This brain bank serves as a resource for scientists and researchers, providing access to tissue samples for further research. While priority is given to University of Pennsylvania researchers, this bank will provide requests to researchers not associated with the University of Pennsylvania. This tissue bank accepts donations from those seeing a University of Pennsylvania physician or collaborator.

Proper citation: University of Pennslyvania Brain Bank (RRID:SCR_008820) Copy   

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http://www.nimh.nih.gov/educational-resources/brains-inner-workings/the-brains-inner-workings-activities-for-grades-9-through-12.shtml

This comprehensive free collection of multimedia resources and inquiry-based activities tied to the National Science Education Standards help teachers and students learn about the structure, function and cognitive aspects of the human brain. The packet includes a teacher's manual, student manual, DVD of videos, and a CDROM of accompanying materials.

Proper citation: Brain's Inner Workings: Activities for Grades 9 through 12 (RRID:SCR_008842) Copy   

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http://www.muschealth.com/multimedia/Podcasts/index.aspx?type=main

The MUSChealth.com Podcast Library, featuring podcasts on a variety of topics related to your health and our services here at MUSC. These medical podcasts are hosted by MUSC faculty, physicians and special guests and are produced and directed by Linda Austin, M.D. Current topics include: * Academics and Education * Aging, Geriatrics and Caregiving * Alcohol and Drug Dependency * Allergies and Asthma * Ashley River Tower * Bones, Joints, Muscles and Spine * Cancer * Children''s Health * Cosmetic Surgery * Dental * Dermatology/Skin Problems * Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism * Digestive Health * ENT: Ear, Nose and Throat * Executive Health * Eye Health * General Health and Wellness * Heart and Vascular Health * Hospice * Kohl''s Take a Minute for Kids * Lungs and Breathing * Men''s Health * Mental Health * MUSC News and Events * Neurological Health * Organ Transplant * Osteoporosis * Pregnancy - Week by Week * Pregnancy and Childbirth * Radiology * Research and Clinical Trials * SC Health, Leadership and Policy * Sports Medicine * Stroke * Urology * Weight Loss Surgery Follow-up * Weight Management * Women''s Health

Proper citation: MUSC Health Podcast Library (RRID:SCR_008827) Copy   

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http://www.cbtrus.org/

Voluntary, non-profit organization dedicated to collecting and disseminating statistical data. Resource for gathering and disseminating epidemiologic data on all primary benign and malignant brain and other CNS tumors.

Proper citation: Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States (RRID:SCR_008748) Copy   

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http://www.ucl.ac.uk/tapb/

We aim to facilitate the pathway for access, storage, use and transfer of human organs, cells and tissue between clinical centers within UCL Partners, academic groups in UCL, other universities, hospitals, medical researcher and biotechnology companies, to enhance the ability for researchers to access the materials they need. Alongside this, researchers will be able to exchange information and access guides on regulatory, ethics and practical issues concerning access, transfer and use of this type of material. These guides will be video and documents format, based on talks at organized events given by experts in the relevant fields. All of this information will be accessible on a website that seeks to link groups within UCL and attract attention from the wider world through social media and expansion of existing contacts. Our vision is to develop a centralized human tissue provision and utilization service for academic and commercial researchers UCL has the highest concentration of biomedical researchers in Europe. As part of this, UCL has numerous licensed biobanks and is associated with many research intensive hospitals in North London. The role of a biobank is to prepare and hold human tissue samples in for use by medical researchers to help delivery new treatments. Hospitals can also provide human tissue for research by utilizing waste human tissue taken as part of surgery or diagnostic procedures, but is normally incinerated. The researchers using the human tissue could be working within academic laboratories in UK universities and institutions or as part of commercial companies. Researchers currently cannot easily access human tissue to meet the demands of their research, often due to the long ethical, regulatory and contractual processes. However, with the enormous UCL biobanking and research Hospital resources, UCL could be a leading academic institution in providing human tissue for medical research within the UK and internationally. Our vision is to develop a centralized human tissue provision and utilization service for academic and commercial researchers. This relies on creating an overarching infrastructure, to consolidate information on disparate human tissue resources around UCL, and (where possible) gain centralized ethical and regulatory and contractual approval for use of the tissue. Funding the infrastructure will rely on a cost recovery model for a per sample basis. As a result the time needed to obtain tissue for research will be dramatically reduced, whilst providing a simple costing model for obtaining human tissue. This will make human tissue procurement much more efficient for end users.

Proper citation: Tissue Access for Patient Benefit (RRID:SCR_008853) Copy   

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http://mirtar.mbc.nctu.edu.tw/human/

An integrated web server for identifying miRNA-target interactions in human. The tool enables biologists easily to identify the biological functions and regulatory relationships between a group of known/putative miRNAs and protein coding genes. It also provides perspective of information on the miRNA targets on alternatively spliced transcripts.

Proper citation: miRTar (RRID:SCR_010851) Copy   

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http://compgenomics.utsa.edu/gene/gene_1.php

A Bayesian decision fusion algorithm for microRNA target prediction that combines the prediction of TargetScan, miRanda, PicTar, mirTarget, PITA, and DianamicroT. Users enter a Ref_seq ID for a query target gene and select a miRNA, which BCmicrO will use in its predictive algorithm. The prediction results can then be downloaded.

Proper citation: BCmicrO (RRID:SCR_010838) Copy   

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http://www.biobanks.se/medicalbiobank.htm

A biobank created from a cross-sectional population of a town in Sweden. The Medical Biobank is mainly based on three cohorts: The V��sterbotten intervention cohort, the MONICA-cohort, and the Mammary screening cohort. These sub-cohorts together are named Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study Cohort (North Health). These sub-cohorts together is named Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study Cohort (North Health). Originally, the V��sterbotten Intervention program (VIP) is a long-term project intended for health promotion of the population of V��sterbotten. All individuals 40, 50 and 60 years of age in the population of the county are invited for screening (approx. 254.000 inhabitants). They are asked to complete a questionnaire concerning various lifestyle factors including diet. They are also asked to donate a separate blood sample to the Medical Biobank for freeze storage for later research purposes. The project started in 1985 and the cohort covered in December 2002, 74,000 individuals, of whom 67,000 had donated blood samples. The material is supplemented with population based samples from a local mammary screening (44,000 sampling occasions, 25,700 unique individuals) and from the Northern Sweden MONICA Project (11,500 sampling occasions, 7,500 unique individuals). The total cohort contains at the moment 85.000 unique individuals with 130.000 sampling occasions. The VIP and MONICA cohorts are population based and the mammary screening cohort are nearly population based. Follow-up: * For the VIP-cohort a second sample (and questionnaire) is collected with a 10-year interval of the individuals within the cohort. * Repeated sampling was performed in the MONICA project in 1999 on individuals participating in 1986, 1990, and 1994. * From 1997 repeated screening has started within the mammary screening program with sampling every second year, in the age group 50-69 years within the county. Biobank content: * Life-Style Questionnaire: Every attending subject is asked to answer a questionnaire, which in the VIP and MONICA-projects includes questions about education, occupation/working conditions, daily habits including smoking, diet, etc and in the mammary screening cohort on reproductive conditions. The dietary questionnaire has been validated twice. The data from the questionnaires, as well as from results from the biobank, are kept in a database for future research purposes. The questionnaires in the VIP and the MONICA project are optically read. * Measurements: Blood Pressure, Anthropometry, Glucose Tolerance Test, Blood Lipids * Blood Samples: The attendants are asked for their willingness to donate a sample of 20-ml whole blood for future analyses. The sample is taken after 4 hours of fasting or in the morning after an over night fasting (most samples) in the VIP and MONICA cohorts. The 20-ml sample is divided into 10 subsamples consisting of 6 plasma, 2 leukocyte (buffy coat) and 2 erythrocyte samples. All material is frozen at -80 degrees C. The organization of the bank is elaborated with specially trained staff and an organization of transport-, storage- and security facilities. For DNA handling a specialized laboratory has been built up. * End-points: Mortality, Cancer events, Cardiovascular events, Other morbidity, Other registry-based follow-up * Registries: At regular intervals the cohort is scanned for incident myocardial infarctions (MI) and stroke utilizing the Northern Sweden MONICA registry and for cancer using the regional cancer registry. In the future the same procedure will be applied also on other registries e.g. diabetes, osteoporosis, dementia.

Proper citation: Medical Biobank (RRID:SCR_010748) Copy   

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http://www.integralife.com/

Commercial tissue bank for human tissues.

Proper citation: Integra Life Sciences (RRID:SCR_010741) Copy   

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http://opossum.cisreg.ca

A web-based system for the detection of over-represented conserved transcription factor binding sites and binding site combinations in sets of genes or sequences.

Proper citation: oPOSSUM (RRID:SCR_010884) Copy   

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http://www.georgeinstitute.org/

An independent medical research institute dedicated to improving global health that conducts high impact research that targets preventable illnesses and injuries that are the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, including heart and kidney disease, stroke, diabetes, mental illness, falls and traffic crashes. (Adapted from Wikipedia)

Proper citation: George Institute for Global Health (RRID:SCR_011212) Copy   

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http://www.nichd.nih.gov/

A national institute that investigates human development throughout the entire life process, focusing on understanding developmental disabilities, including intellectual and developmental disabilities, and illuminating important events that occur during pregnancy. The NICHD conducts and supports laboratory research, clinical trials, and epidemiological studies that explore health processes; examines the impact of disabilities, diseases, and defects on the lives of individuals; and sponsors training programs for scientists, doctors, and researchers to ensure that NICHD research can continue. The Institute also supports research training across all its programs. In addition, an overarching responsibility of the NICHD is to disseminate information that emanates from Institute research programs to researchers, practitioners, other health care professionals, and the public.

Proper citation: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (RRID:SCR_011429) Copy   

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http://annmap.picr.man.ac.uk/

A genome browser that includes mappings between genomic features and Affymetrix microarrays. Associated with annmap is: * a Bioconductor package, annmap that provides programmatic access to the underlying MySQL database tables (which are freely available for download on this site) * xmapbridge, a Bioconductor package that outputs numeric data in a form suitable for presentation in the browser. This is supported by XMapBridge, a Java client that sits on the local desktop and performs the graph rendering for the browser.

Proper citation: Annmap (RRID:SCR_011783) Copy   

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http://tfclass.bioinf.med.uni-goettingen.de/tfclass

Database that classifies human transcription factors based on the characteristics of their DNA-binding domains. It comprises six levels (superclasses, classes, families, subfamilies, genera and factor species), two of which are optional (subfamilies and factor species). The full classification can also be obtained as html document and as ontology in obo-format., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: TFClass (RRID:SCR_012018) Copy   

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http://www.scienceexchange.com/facilities/bioseek

BioSeek is a drug discovery services company that applies human primary cell assays and predictive disease models to the discovery and development of human therapeutics and safer chemicals. BioSeek improves the success rate of drug discovery and development by integrating human biology from the earliest stages of drug discovery onward through its unique BioMAP??????? platform. Our mission is to accelerate drug compound validation and enable our clients to take safer and more effective products into the market.

Proper citation: BioSeek (RRID:SCR_012224) Copy   

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

Catalog of published genome-wide association studies. Genome-wide set of genetic variants in different individuals to see if any variant is associated with trait and disease. Database of genome-wide association study (GWAS) publications including only those attempting to assay single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Publications are organized from most to least recent date of publication. Studies are identified through weekly PubMed literature searches, daily NIH-distributed compilations of news and media reports, and occasional comparisons with an existing database of GWAS literature (HuGE Navigator). Works with HANCESTRO ancestry representation.

Proper citation: GWAS: Catalog of Published Genome-Wide Association Studies (RRID:SCR_012745) Copy   

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http://umcd.humanconnectomeproject.org

Web-based repository and analysis site for connectivity matrices that have been derived from neuroimaging data including different imaging modalities, subject groups, and studies. Users can analyze connectivity matrices that have been shared publicly and upload their own matrices to share or analyze privately.

Proper citation: USC Multimodal Connectivity Database (RRID:SCR_012809) Copy   

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http://www.imgt.org/

A high-quality integrated knowledge resource specialized in the immunoglobulins (IG) or antibodies, T cell receptors (TR), major histocompatibility complex (MHC) of human and other vertebrate species, and in the immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF), MHC superfamily (MhcSF) and related proteins of the immune system (RPI) of vertebrates and invertebrates, serving as the global reference in immunogenetics and immunoinformatics. IMGT provides a common access to sequence, genome and structure Immunogenetics data, based on the concepts of IMGT-ONTOLOGY and on the IMGT Scientific chart rules. IMGT works in close collaboration with EBI (Europe), DDBJ (Japan) and NCBI (USA). IMGT consists of sequence databases, genome database, structure database, and monoclonal antibodies database, Web resources and interactive tools.

Proper citation: IMGT - the international ImMunoGeneTics information system (RRID:SCR_012780) Copy   

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly

Database providing information on structure of assembled genomes, assembly names and other meta-data, statistical reports, and links to genomic sequence data. The Archive links the raw sequence information found in the Trace Archive with assembly information found in publicly available sequence repositories (GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ).

Proper citation: NCBI Assembly Archive Viewer (RRID:SCR_012917) Copy   

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http://mitobreak.portugene.com/cgi-bin/Mitobreak_home.cgi

Database with curated datasets of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) rearrangements. Users may submit new mtDNA rearrangements.

Proper citation: MitoBreak (RRID:SCR_012949) Copy   

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