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http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Tracula

Software tool developed for automatically reconstructing a set of major white matter pathways in the brain from diffusion weighted images using probabilistic tractography. This method utilizes prior information on the anatomy of the pathways from a set of training subjects. By incorporating this prior knowledge in the reconstruction procedure, our method obviates the need for manual intervention with the tract solutions at a later stage and thus facilitates the application of tractography to large studies. The trac-all script is used to preprocess raw diffusion data (correcting for eddy current distortion and B0 field inhomogenities), register them to common spaces, model and reconstruct major white matter pathways (included in the atlas) without any manual intervention. trac-all may be used to execute all the above steps or parts of it depending on the dataset and user''''s preference for analyzing diffusion data. Alternatively, scripts exist to execute chunks of each processing pipeline, and individual commands may be run to execute a single processing step. To explore all the options in running trac-all please refer to the trac-all wiki. In order to use this script to reconstruct tracts in Diffusion images, all the subjects in the dataset must have Freesurfer Recons.

Proper citation: TRACULA (RRID:SCR_013152) Copy   

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http://narayanahospitals.com/cellsofhope/

Narayana Hrudayalaya Tissue Bank and Stem Cell Research Center (NHTB-SCRC) is a joint venture between Rotary Bangalore Health City (RBHC) and Narayana Hrudayalaya. Our mission is to create awareness on Cord Blood Banking among the masses. Our vision is to make sure that every pregnant mother in India is able to afford to bank her child''s cord blood and cord tissue in a novel form of ������??Biological Insurance������??. The center would also assist in research and development of newer stem cell therapies. These goals are met while ensuring patient safety and well being by maintaining compliance with ICMR guidelines, Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) guidelines, strict confidentiality and adherence to ethical standards. The private cord blood bank would store cord-blood and cord tissue derived stem cells for the exclusive use of clients who would pay for the cryo-storage, for a period of 21 years. These samples would be used for the child or its siblings anytime in the future, for therapy of various medical conditions. The public cord blood bank would enable us to collect cord blood from delivery and birthing centers, process these specimens, type their HLA signature and store them in ultra-low temperature conditions for use on prospective recipients. These recipients would have to be matched against their HLA signature with the stored stem cell concentrate. Patients with a disease treatable by stem cell therapy would have to have their HLA type known and they approach us for treatment. Such patients would be matched against our library of samples to identify a suitable match which would then be issued at a nominal cost. The cost of therapy would however be separate and informed to the patient before embarking on the treatment.

Proper citation: Narayana Hrudayalaya Tissue Bank and Stem Cell Research Center (RRID:SCR_010680) Copy   

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http://www.equator-network.org/

The EQUATOR Network is an international initiative that seeks to enhance reliability and value of medical research literature by promoting transparent and accurate reporting of research studies. This goal will be achieved through: raising awareness of the crucial importance of good reporting of research becoming the recognised global centre providing resources, education and training relating to the reporting of health research and use of reporting guidelines assisting in the development, dissemination and implementation of reporting guidelines monitoring the status of the quality of reporting across health research literature conducting research relating to the quality of reporting The EQUATOR Network Resource Centre provides up-to-date resources related to health research reporting mainly for: authors of research articles journal editors and peer reviewers reporting guideline developers Other users that benefit from the knowledge of principles of good research reporting include representatives of research funders, research ethics committee members, individuals and organisations involved in research education. The resources on our website are regularly updated (see the date of the last update at the foot of each page). Sponsor. Core programme funding for 2007 - 2013 NHS National Library for Health NHS National Institute for Health Research NHS National Knowledge Service UK Medical Research Council Canadian Institutes of Health Research Scottish Chief Scientist Office Pan American Health Organization

Proper citation: EQUATOR Network (RRID:SCR_012861) Copy   

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http://www.zymogenetics.com.

Founded in 1981, ZymoGenetics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutic proteins. ZymoGenetics is publicly traded (NASDAQ: ZGEN) and headquartered in Seattle, Washington in the historic Seattle City Light Steam Plant building. Our mission is to create novel protein drugs that will significantly help patients fight their diseases. We have contributed to the discovery or development of six recombinant protein products now marketed by other companies. Current programs target viral infection, cancer, inflammatory diseases and bleeding. Our first internally developed product, RECOTHROM Thrombin, topical (Recombinant), was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on January 17, 2008 for use as a topical hemostat to control moderate bleeding during surgical procedures and is now marketed in the United States. We have a promising pipeline of novel therapeutics, which we are developing on our own or in collaboration with partners.

Proper citation: Zymo Genetics (RRID:SCR_008602) Copy   

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http://www.augusta.edu/research/animal/

The Medical College of Georgia Animal Behavior Center has considerable experience testing the short-term memory and attention capabilities of non-human primates. Testing programs are available to MCG faculty on a collaborative basis, and they are available for contractual agreements with pharmaceutical companies and other external research programs. Delayed-response testing is a well-established means of examining neurochemical, neuroanatomical and therapeutic aspects of ATD, ADHD and schizophrenia. Behavioral paradigms at the Animal Behavior Center are designed around an automated delayed-response task assessing the function of mnemonic and attention processes. Particularly significant is the fact that each paradigm differs regarding the relative emphasis on these two different, yet interdependent, cognitive constructs. The Animal Behavior Center also is experienced in stereotaxic implantation of intracranial electrodes and cannulas in rodents and non-human primates. The basic approaches and procedures of the Animal Behavior Center include: - Delayed Matching-to-Sample (DMTS) - DMTS With a Distractor During the Delay Interval - DMTS With a Titrated Delay Interval

Proper citation: Medical College of Georgia Animal Behavior Center (RRID:SCR_008049) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/inia19/

Primate brain atlas created from over 100 structural MR scans of 19 rhesus macaque animals. The atlas currently comprises high-resolution T1-weighted average MR images with and without skull stripping, tissue probability maps, and a detailed parcellation map based on the NeuroMaps atlas.

Proper citation: INIA19 Primate Brain Atlas (RRID:SCR_009498) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/graphtools/

A set of MATLAB scripts for analysis of networks derived from neuroimaging data. Some of these scripts are entirely original, while some are adapted (or just copied) from the Brain Connectivity Toolbox (https://sites.google.com/a/brain-connectivity-toolbox.net/bct) The source code is available via git: git clone ssh://user

Proper citation: Graphtools (RRID:SCR_009490) Copy   

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http://www.ra-map.com/p/about-project.html

RA MAP is a public-private collaborative project into early Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Our goal is to: identify the key predictors of clinical response and remission in RA patients, and identify those individuals at high risk of developing RA. By understanding the human immune system in RA through the study of biological samples from RA patients we plan to develop an ''immunological toolkit'' measuring the immune status of healthy individuals and patients.

Proper citation: RA MAP (RRID:SCR_010492) Copy   

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http://www.omicsdi.org/

Portal for dataset discovery across a heterogeneous, distributed group of transcriptomics, genomics, proteomics and metabolomics data resources. These resources span eight repositories in three continents and six organisations, including both open and controlled access data resources.

Proper citation: Omics Discovery Index (RRID:SCR_010494) Copy   

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http://subread.sourceforge.net/

Software package for high-performance read alignment, quantification and mutation discovery.General purpose read aligner which can be used to map both genomic DNA-seq reads and RNA-seq reads. Subread aligner as fast, accurate and scalable read mapping by seed-and-vote.These programs were also implemented in Bioconductor R package Rsubread.

Proper citation: Subread (RRID:SCR_009803) Copy   

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http://www.ini.uzh.ch/~acardona/trakem2.html

An ImageJ plugin for morphological data mining, three-dimensional modeling and image stitching, registration, editing and annotation. Two independent modalities exist: either XML-based projects, working directly with the file system, or database-based projects, working on top of a local or remote PostgreSQL database. What can you do with it? * Semantic segmentation editor: order segmentations in tree hierarchies, whose template is exportable for reuse in other, comparable projects. * Model, visualize and export 3D. * Work from your laptop on your huge, remote image storage. * Work with an endless number of images, limited only by the hard drive capacity. Dozens of formats supported thanks to LOCI Bioformats and ImageJ. * Import stacks and even entire grids (montages) of images, automatically stitch them together and homogenize their histograms for best montaging quality. * Add layers conveniently. A layer represents, for example, one 50 nm section (for TEM) or a confocal section. Each layer has its own Z coordinate and thickness, and contains images, labels, areas, nodes of 3d skeletons, profiles... * Insert layer sets into layers: so your electron microscopy serial sections can live inside your optical microscopy sections. * Run any ImageJ plugin on any image. * Measure everything: areas, volumes, pixel intensities, etc. using both built-in data structures and segmentation types, and standard ImageJ ROIs. And with double dissectors! * Visualize RGB color channels changing the opacity of each on the fly, non-destructively. * Annotate images non-destructively with floating text labels, which you can rotate/scale on the fly and display in any color. * Montage/register/stitch/blend images manually with transparencies, semiautomatically, or fully automatically within and across sections, with translation, rigid, similarity and affine models with automatically extracted SIFT features. * Correct the lens distortion present in the images, like those generated in transmission electron microscopy. * Add alpha masks to images using ROIs, for example to split images in two or more parts, or to remove the borders of an image or collection of images. * Model neuronal arbors with 3D skeletons (with areas or radiuses), and synapses with connectors. * Undo all steps. And much more...

Proper citation: TrakEM2 (RRID:SCR_008954) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/gretna/

A graph theoretical network analysis toolbox which allows researchers to perform comprehensive analysis on the topology of brain connectome by integrating the most of network measures studied in current neuroscience field.

Proper citation: GRETNA (RRID:SCR_009487) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/gcva_pca/

A platform for any Principal Component Analysis (PCA)-based analysis on functional neuroimaging data (PET and fMRI). Includes: * Ordinal Trend Canonical Variance Analysis for parametric designs (C. Habeck et al. A New Approach to Spatial Covariance Modeling of Functional Brain Imaging Data: Ordinal Trend Analysis. Neural Computation 2005; 17: 1602-1645) * Partial Least Squares for any design matrix * Subprofile Scaling Model for cross-sectional designs (JR. Moeller, Strother SC. A regional covariance approach to the analysis of functional patterns in positron emission tomographic data.J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 1991 Mar;11(2):A121-35.)

Proper citation: Generalized Covariance Analysis (RRID:SCR_009488) Copy   

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

Decoders and encoders written in Java for the AFNI, ANALYZE, DICOM, ECAT, GE, MINC, NIFTI and other neuroimaging file formats.The plugins use Java Image I/O interfaces to read and write metadata and image data and can read and write AFNI, ANALYZE 7.5, DICOM, ECAT 7.2, GE 5.0, INTERFILE (including hrrt), MINC, NIFTI, and UCLA PACS file formats. All source code is provided and usage examples are included.

Proper citation: LONI Java Image I/O Plugins (RRID:SCR_008277) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/gamma_suite/

GAMMA suite is an open-source cross-platform data mining software package designed to analyze neuroimaging data. A neuroimaging study often focuses on biomarker detection and classification. We designed and implemented a Bayesian, multivariate, nonparametric suite of algorithms for analyzing neuroimaging data. The GAMMA suite can be used for brain morphometric analysis, lesion-deficit analysis, and functional MR data analysis.

Proper citation: GAMMA (RRID:SCR_009484) Copy   

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http://www.ornl.gov/

A multiprogram science and technology laboratory managed for the U.S. Department of Energy by UT-Battelle, LLC, to deliver scientific discoveries and technical breakthroughs that will accelerate the development and deployment of solutions in clean energy and global security, and in doing so create economic opportunity for the nation. Scientists and engineers at ORNL conduct basic and applied research and development to create scientific knowledge and technological solutions that increase the availability of clean, abundant energy and restore and protect the environment; and contribute to national security. ORNL also performs other work for the Department of Energy, including isotope production, information management, and technical program management, and provides research and technical assistance to other organizations.

Proper citation: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (RRID:SCR_011475) Copy   

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http://ecvam.jrc.it/

ECVAM was created by a Communication from the Commission to the Council and the Parliament in October 1991*, pointing to a requirement in Directive 86/609/EEC** on the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes, which requires that the Commission and the Member States should actively support the development, validation and acceptance of methods which could reduce, refine or replace the use of laboratory animals: Article 7.2: An experiment shall not be performed if another scientifically satisfactory method of obtaining the result sought, not entailing the use of an animal, is reasonably and practicably available. Article 23: The Commission and Member States should encourage research into the development and validation of alternative techniques which could provide the same level of information as that obtained in experiments using animals, but which involve fewer animals or which entail less painful procedures, and shall take such other steps as they consider appropriate to encourage research in this field. ECVAM has been established in 1992 as a unit of the Environment Institute, part of the Joint Research Centre, and has been transferred to, at that time, newly formed Institute for Health and Consumer Protection in Ispra, Italy in 1998 of which ECVAM is still part of. Duties of ECVAM As defined in the Communication of the European Commission to Council and the European Parliament in October 1991*: 1. To coordinate the validation of alternative test methods at the European Union level. 2. To act as a focal point for the exchange of information on the development of alternative test methods. 3. To set up, maintain and manage a data base on alternative procedures. 4. To promote dialogue between legislators, industries, biomedical scientists, consumer organisations and animal welfare groups, with a view to the development, validation and international recognition of alternative test methods. Moreover, ECVAM should help to expand the JRC''s role in prenormative research. ECVAM thus seeks to promote the scientific and regulatory acceptance of alternative methods which are of importance to the biosciences, through research, new test development and validation, and the establishment of specialised databases, with the aim of contributing to the replacement, reduction and refinement of laboratory animal precedures (in accordance with the 3Rs concept of Russell & Burch***) Due to the political sensitivity of its duties, ECVAM, uniquely at the JRC, has its own Scientific Advisory Committee (ESAC) with participation from all Member States, relevant industrial associations, academic toxicology, the animal welfare movement, as well as other Commission services with interest in the alternatives topic area. The Validation Process Validation is the process by which the reliability and relevance of a procedure are established for a specific purpose. In 1995, based upon experience gained during several recent large-scale validation studies, and in consultation with various international experts (including members of ERGATT), ECVAM published recommendations concerning the practical and logistical aspects of validating alternative test methods (ECVAM workshop report 5). Five main stages in the evolution of new test methods were identified: test development; prevalidation; validation (involving a formal interlaboratory study with the testing of coded chemicals); independent assessment; and progression toward regulatory acceptance. ECVAM has implemented a prevalidation scheme, which includes three main phases: protocol refinement, protocol transfer, and protocol performance. The objective of the prevalidation process is to ensure that any method included in a formal validation study adequately fulfills the criteria defined for inclusion in such a study, so that financial and human resources are used more efficiently, and so that there is a greater likelihood that the expectations of those in the scientific, regulatory and animal welfare communities, who seek the replacement of current animal tests by relevant and reliable alternative methods, will be met. In 2004, ECVAM has published the Modular Approach to the ECVAM Principles on Test Validity (select from the top-menu bar the sector Publications followed by ECVAM Selected Articles) that makes the validation process more flexible, by breaking down the various steps in validation into indipendent modules, and defining for each module the information needed for assessing test validity. Collaborations ECVAMs activities are undertaken in collaboration with numerous laboratories and organisations in the EU Member States, and all over the world. ECVAM also works in close collaboration with other Commission services, such as DG Environment, DG Enterprise, DG Research and DG Health and Consumer Protection. Sponsor. This is a Five years project funded by DG RTD that aims to develop a testing strategy to improve the prediction of oral acute toxicity using non-animals based systems.

Proper citation: European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (RRID:SCR_008504) Copy   

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http://eurobonet.pathobiology.eu/cd/

Integration objectives Training and education Standardisation in technology Share of material Web based sharing of information and communication Translational research Spreading excellence objectives Coordinated by Treviso Courses on bone pathology and molecular biology Standard Operation Protocols Web-based discussion forums Research objectives Work packages on: Cartilaginous Tumours (Leiden) Osteogenic Tumours (Munster) Giant Cell Tumours (Oxford) Ewing Sarcoma (Bologna)

Proper citation: Eurobonet (RRID:SCR_008503) Copy   

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http://ccr.coriell.org/Sections/Collections/CSCB/Default.aspx

Biospecimen repository that provides scientists with the opportunity to bank their pluripotent stem cell lines and develops in-house induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines for distribution. They have developed core capabilities to maintain, characterize, bank, and distribute important stem cell resources. The SCB performs extensive identification and characterization testing for all submitted human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) and mouse embryonic stem cell (mES) lines. The identification and quality control measures include karyotype analysis, microsatellite analysis for parental cell line identity matching, sterility testing, and assessment of viability after cryopreservation. Pluripotency characterizations performed by SCB vary depending upon the distributing repository. * NIGMS iPSCs: Surface antigen expression, Embryoid body formation, Pluritest Gene Expression assay * NINDS iPSCs: Surface antigen expression, Embryoid body formation * NIA mES: Surface antigen expression, Embryoid body formation, Transgene induction Each characterized human iPSC line and mES line released for distribution is provided with a Certificate of Analysis, which includes information regarding characterization and quality of the line, images and links to original publications. The human iPSCs distributed by Coriell are strictly for research purposes and cannot be used in human subjects. All terms described in the Material Transfer Agreement (NIGMS and NINDS Repositories) or Assurance Form (NIA Repository) for the stem cell line must be agreed to prior to using stem cell lines from Coriell.

Proper citation: Coriell Institute Stem Cell Biobank (RRID:SCR_008745) Copy   

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http://ctn.uwaterloo.ca/index.html

The Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience (CTN) was recently established at the University of Waterloo. The Centre is a growing research initiative of the University. The Centre consists of several labs focused on various areas of theoretical neuroscience (aka computational neuroscience). At present, the Centre consists of faculty members from Applied Mathematics, Biology, Psychology, Engineering, Philosophy, Statistics, Computer Science, and their students. The Centre has established a unique Graduate Program in theoretical neuroscience and hosts a regular academic colloquium series. The Centre also hosts the annual public Waterloo Brain Day lectures. The Centre is currently expanding, running searches for additional core faculty. The distinguished faculty of the Centre include two Canada Research Chairs and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In addition, the Centre has a number of student researchers, both graduate and undergraduate, and hosts postdocs and visiting researchers. The Centre also hosts a graduate program for students wishing to obtain an officially recognized specialization in theoretical neuroscience. Faculty at the Centre pursue work on purely theoretical questions regarding the foundational principles guiding the function of neural systems, as well as constructing detailed neurobiological models of specific brain areas.

Proper citation: Center for Theoretical Neuroscience; University of Waterloo (RRID:SCR_008747) Copy   

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