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http://www.demogr.mpg.de/databases/ktdb/

A database that includes data on death counts and population counts classified by sex, age, year of birth, and calendar year for more than 30 countries. This database was established for estimating the death rates at the highest ages (above age 80). The core set of data in the database was assembled, tested for quality, and converted into cohort mortality histories by V��in�� Kannisto, the former United Nations advisor on demographic and social statistics. Comparable materials on England and Wales, was made available by A. Roger Thatcher, the former Director of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys and Registrar-General of England and Wales (Kannisto, 1994). The Kannisto-Thatcher database was computerized under the supervision of James W. Vaupel at the Aging Research Unit of the Centre for Health and Social Policy at Odense University Medical School in 1993. Currently, the database is maintained by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany.

Proper citation: Kannisto-Thatcher Database on Old Age Mortality (RRID:SCR_008936) Copy   

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http://www.brc.riken.go.jp/lab/cell/english/

Not yet vetted by NIF curator

Proper citation: Riken BRC Cell Bank (RRID:SCR_010553) Copy   

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http://bis.zju.edu.cn/DaTo/

A biological database and software tool catalog based on text mined and human annotated url mentions in PubMed abstracts. Data are annotated as to the author''''s country of origin and url status is checked.

Proper citation: DaTo (RRID:SCR_010280) Copy   

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http://www.nordgen.org/index.php/en/content/view/full/467

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 18,2023.

Proper citation: Nordic Genetic Resource Centre (Plants) (RRID:SCR_010529) Copy   

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http://www.citeab.com/

Citation-ranked antibody search engine that provides a simple way to find antibodies that work. They use the number of citations as a transparent method to rank antibodies. Nobody can pay to be ranked higher. They are always looking for more commercial and academic antibodies to make CiteAb better. There is no charge to list.

Proper citation: CiteAb (RRID:SCR_009653) Copy   

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https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/

Database to advance the availability and use of public health data for science and policy making that includes data from all weekly notifiable disease reports for the United States dating back to 1888. Additional U.S. and international data will be released twice yearly.

Proper citation: Project Tycho (RRID:SCR_010489) Copy   

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http://obomap.bioontology.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVCE, documented September 2, 2016. Service that determines the Suspected Overlap Among OBO Foundry Candidate Ontologies.

Proper citation: PROTOTYPE - Suspected Overlap Among OBO Foundry Candidate Ontologies (RRID:SCR_008834) Copy   

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http://edboyden.org/05.09.boyden.html

Laser tool that enables neurons to be optically silenced by pulses of yellow light, the light-activated chloride pump halorhodopsin (Halo), in a paper entitled Multiple-color optical activation, silencing, and desynchronization of neural activity, with single-spike temporal resolution. Temporally precise, noninvasive control of activity in well-defined neuronal populations is a long-sought goal of systems neuroscience. We adapted for this purpose the naturally occurring algal protein Channelrhodopsin-2, a rapidly gated light-sensitive cation channel, by using lentiviral gene delivery in combination with high-speed optical switching to photostimulate mammalian neurons. We demonstrate reliable, millisecond-timescale control of neuronal spiking, as well as control of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission. This technology allows the use of light to alter neural processing at the level of single spikes and synaptic events, yielding a widely applicable tool for neuroscientists and biomedical engineers. The quest to determine how precise neural activity patterns mediate computation, behavior, and pathology would be greatly aided by a set of tools for reliably activating and inactivating genetically targeted neurons, in a temporally precise and rapidly reversible fashion. Having earlier adapted a light-activated cation channel, 1channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2), for allowing neurons to be stimulated by blue light, we searched for a complementary tool that would enable optical neuronal inhibition, driven by light of a second color. Here we report that targeting the 1codon-optimized form of the light-driven chloride pump halorhodopsin from the archaebacterium Natronomas pharaonis (hereafter abbreviated Halo) to genetically-specified neurons enables them to be silenced reliably, and reversibly, by millisecond-timescale pulses of yellow light. We show that trains of yellow and blue light pulses can drive high-fidelity sequences of hyperpolarizations and depolarizations in neurons simultaneously expressing yellow light-driven Halo and blue light-driven ChR2, allowing for the first time manipulations of neural synchrony without perturbation of other parameters such as spiking rates. The Halo/ChR2 system thus constitutes a powerful toolbox for multichannel photoinhibition and photostimulation of virally or transgenically targeted neural circuits without need for exogenous chemicals, enabling systematic analysis and engineering of the brain, and quantitative bioengineering of excitable cells.

Proper citation: Channelrhodopsin-2 enables optical activation of neurons (RRID:SCR_008833) Copy   

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http://www.functionalneurogenesis.com/blog/

A blog focusing on the function of adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus, including discussion of scientific research papers, methods and protocols, and other trends or observations about the field.

Proper citation: Functional Neurogenesis (RRID:SCR_008830) Copy   

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http://pingstudy.ucsd.edu/

A large multi-site pediatric MRI and genetics data resource to facilitate studies of the genomic landscape of the developing human brain. It includes information about the developing mental and emotional functions of the children to understand the genetic basis of individual differences in brain structure and connectivity, cognition, and personality. Investigators on the project are studying 1400 children between the ages of 3 and 20 years so that links between genetic variation and developing patterns of brain connectivity can be examined. Investigators interested in the effects of a particular gene will be able to search the database for any brain areas or connections between areas that differ as a function of variation in a particular gene, and also to determine if the genes appear to affect the course of brain development at some point during childhood. A data exploration tool has been created for mapping and analyzing MRI data sets collected for PING and related developmental studies. Approved investigators will be able to view raw image sets and derived 3D brain maps of MRI and DTI data, conduct hypothesis testing, and graph brain area measures as they change across the time course of development. PING Cores * Coordinating Core: Functions include project management, screening of participants and maintaining the database * Neuroimaging Core: applying a standardized high-resolution structural MRI protocol involving 3-D T1-weighted scans, a T2-weighted volume, and a set of diffusion-weighted scans with multiple b values and diffusion directions, scans to estimate MRI relaxation rates, and gradient echo EPI scans for resting state fMRI. Importantly, adaptive motion compensation, using ����??PROMO����??, a novel real-time motion correction algorithm will be used. Specific PING protocols for each scanner manufacturer: ** PING MRI Protocol - GE ** PING MRI Protocol - Philips ** PING MRI Protocol - Siemens * Assessment Core: Cognitive assessments for the PING project are conducted using the NIH Toolbox for Cognition. * Genomics Core: functions as a central repository for receipt of saliva samples collected for each study participant. Once received, samples are catalogued, maintained, and DNA is extracted using state-of-the-field laboratory techniques. Ultimately, genome-wide genotyping is performed on the extracted DNA using the Illumina Human660W-Quad BeadChip. PING involves 10 sites throughout the country including UCSD, University of Hawaii, Scripps Genomics, UCLA, UC Davis, Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins, Sacker Institute/Cornell University, University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard, and Yale. Families who may want to participate in the study, or others who want to know more about it, may email questions to ping (at) ucsd.edu.

Proper citation: Pediatric Imaging Neurocognition and Genetics (RRID:SCR_008953) Copy   

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http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/opdlisting/oopd/index.cfm

Database of Orphan Drug Product designations. Searches may be run by entering the product name, orphan designation, and dates. Results can be displayed as a condensed list, detailed list, or an Excel spreadsheet.

Proper citation: Search Orphan Drug Designations and Approvals (RRID:SCR_010256) Copy   

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http://wiki.wholebraincatalog.org/wiki/Dangerous_Ideas

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE This is the website for a weekly social event called Dangerous Ideas, to promote more cross talk and cross pollination of ideas. There is a list of links to interesting new tools and technologies in the realm of computation and science. We'll be experimenting with webcasting this so others who can't physically join us can share in seeing what we think is cool. Its a completely open event-- anyone is welcome to join in, but should be prepared to present!

Proper citation: Dangerous Ideas (RRID:SCR_010531) Copy   

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http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/animaldrugsatfda/index.cfm?gb=1

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 23,2022. Database of approved veterinary drugs run by the FDA.

Proper citation: AnimalDrugsatFDA (RRID:SCR_010257) Copy   

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http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsletter/2006/march/science-genetic.cfm

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 22, 2016. The NIEHS Genetic Alterations in Cancer (GAC) knowledgebase is a comprehensive collection of data compiled from studies reported in the published literature on genetic alterations in tumors associated with exposure to specific chemical, physical, or biological agents that can be linked to genes implicated in the development of cancers. GAC provides access to data from peer reviewed journals for hundreds of studies of gene mutations, loss of heterozygosity, and/or chromosome changes in tumors from humans, mice, or rats. Results are summarized in tables and graphic profiles that show the incidence (percent) of tumors with alterations in each gene that has been studied. Detailed data tables display results for each subject studied in the cited reference and the reference ID is hyperlinked to its PubMed abstract for more information. A mutation spectrum for individual genes and links to gene information from The Cancer Genome Anatomy Project and the Rat Genome Database are also provided.

Proper citation: Genetic Alterations in Cancer (RRID:SCR_010533) Copy   

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http://brainslab.wordpress.com/

I''m studying how the brain works on various levels; this blog chronicles some of my informal notes along the way. I previously went to Vassar College, majoring in Neuroscience and Behavior with a minor in Math. Now I work at a biology lab in Maryland. I appreciate any feedback that you may have, good or bad. You can email me at amckenz at g mail dot com. What I write on here is obviously my opinion. Everything on the site is filed under a Creative Commons License v. 3.0. That means that you can copy and re-publish this stuff anywhere without my permission. Thanks for reading. Essay titles include: * A Loss of Agency Following Use of ADHD Medications in College Aged Adults * An Evolutionary Account of the Environmentally Programmed Stress Response * Changes in protein structure of myelin sheaths throughout vertebrate evolution * Effect of Glucocorticoids on the Attenuation in Neurogenesis due to Sleep Deprivation * Insulin sensitivity and age-related memory changes due to caloric restriction * Is Neurogenesis in the Hippocampus Linked to Depression? * Novelty-Seeking and Associative Learning of Chemotaxis in C. Elegans * The Effects of D2 Receptors on the Inverted U-Shape Response Curve to Psychostimulants * Three Applications of Optogenetics The author has included some tricks and illusions from around the web that reveal fascinating facets of our thought processes including: The Checker, Sensory Homonculus Picture, A Blindspot Demonstration, A Ball in a Box, Iterated Choices, The Max Plank Institute for Biological Cybernetics, The Motion Aftereffect Illusion, The Phi Phenomenon, The Common Fate Phenomenon, A Double Face, The Troxler Effect

Proper citation: Brains Lab (RRID:SCR_010534) Copy   

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

An effort to provide a set of quasi-probabilistic atlases for established functional ROIs in the human neuroimaging literature. Many atlases exist for various anatomical parcellation schemes, such as the Brodmann areas, the structural atlases, tissue segmentation atlases, etc. To date, however, there is no atlas for so-called functional ROIs. Such fROIs are typically associated with an anatomical label of some kind (e.g. the _fusiform_ face area), but these labels are only approximate and can be misleading inasmuch as fROIs are not constrained by anatomical landmarks, whether cytoarchitectonic or based on sulcal and gyral landmarks. The goal of this project is to provide quasi-probabilistic atlases for fROIs that are based on published coordinates in the neuroimaging literature. This is an open-ended enterprise and the atlas can grow as needed. Members of the neuroscience and neuroimaging community interested in contributing to the project are encouraged to do so.

Proper citation: Functional ROI Atlas (RRID:SCR_009481) Copy   

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http://www.hgvs.org/mutnomen/

Database of gene mutation nomenclature.

Proper citation: Nomenclature for the description of sequence variants (RRID:SCR_010261) Copy   

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http://www.omixon.com/blog/

We share commentaries, news and announcement that advance our goal of helping clinical labs to adopt next generation sequencing for the analysis of diagnostic gene targets.

Proper citation: Omixon blog (RRID:SCR_010020) Copy   

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http://www.med.nyu.edu/medicine/rheumatology/research/current-investigations/patient-registries-and-tissue-bank

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 22, 2016.

Proper citation: New York University Specialty Tissue Banks (RRID:SCR_010540) Copy   

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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NACDA/Pledge/all.jsp

A data set of cross-nationally comparable microdata samples for 15 Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) countries (Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, USA) based on the 1990 national population and housing censuses in countries of Europe and North America to study the social and economic conditions of older persons. These samples have been designed to allow research on a wide range of issues related to aging, as well as on other social phenomena. A common set of nomenclatures and classifications, derived on the basis of a study of census data comparability in Europe and North America, was adopted as a standard for recoding. This series was formerly called Dynamics of Population Aging in ECE Countries. The recommendations regarding the design and size of the samples drawn from the 1990 round of censuses envisaged: (1) drawing individual-based samples of about one million persons; (2) progressive oversampling with age in order to ensure sufficient representation of various categories of older people; and (3) retaining information on all persons co-residing in the sampled individual''''s dwelling unit. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania provided the entire population over age 50, while Finland sampled it with progressive over-sampling. Canada, Italy, Russia, Turkey, UK, and the US provided samples that had not been drawn specially for this project, and cover the entire population without over-sampling. Given its wide user base, the US 1990 PUMS was not recoded. Instead, PAU offers mapping modules, which recode the PUMS variables into the project''''s classifications, nomenclatures, and coding schemes. Because of the high sampling density, these data cover various small groups of older people; contain as much geographic detail as possible under each country''''s confidentiality requirements; include more extensive information on housing conditions than many other data sources; and provide information for a number of countries whose data were not accessible until recently. Data Availability: Eight of the fifteen participating countries have signed the standard data release agreement making their data available through NACDA/ICPSR (see links below). Hungary and Switzerland require a clearance to be obtained from their national statistical offices for the use of microdata, however the documents signed between the PAU and these countries include clauses stipulating that, in general, all scholars interested in social research will be granted access. Russia requested that certain provisions for archiving the microdata samples be removed from its data release arrangement. The PAU has an agreement with several British scholars to facilitate access to the 1991 UK data through collaborative arrangements. Statistics Canada and the Italian Institute of statistics (ISTAT) provide access to data from Canada and Italy, respectively. * Dates of Study: 1989-1992 * Study Features: International, Minority Oversamples * Sample Size: Approx. 1 million/country Links: * Bulgaria (1992), http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/02200 * Czech Republic (1991), http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/06857 * Estonia (1989), http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/06780 * Finland (1990), http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/06797 * Romania (1992), http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/06900 * Latvia (1989), http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/02572 * Lithuania (1989), http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/03952 * Turkey (1990), http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/03292 * U.S. (1990), http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/06219

Proper citation: Census Microdata Samples Project (RRID:SCR_008902) Copy   

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