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http://projects.tcag.ca/xenodup/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 16, 2013. It contains information about segmental duplications in the genomes of chimpanzee, mouse, and rat. The criteria used to identify regions of segmental duplication are: * Sequence identity of at least 90% * Sequence length of at least 5 kb * Not be entirely composed of repetitive elements. BACKGROUND: The high quality of the mouse genome draft sequence and its associated annotations are an invaluable biological resource. Identifying recent duplications in the mouse genome, especially in regions containing genes, may highlight important events in recent murine evolution. In addition, detecting recent sequence duplications can reveal potentially problematic regions of the genome assembly. We use BLAST-based computational heuristics to identify large (>/= 5 kb) and recent (>/= 90% sequence identity) segmental duplications in the mouse genome sequence. Here we present a database of recently duplicated regions of the mouse genome found in the mouse genome sequencing consortium (MGSC) February 2002 and February 2003 assemblies. RESULTS: We determined that 33.6 Mb of 2,695 Mb (1.2%) of sequence from the February 2003 mouse genome sequence assembly is involved in recent segmental duplications, which is less than that observed in the human genome (around 3.5-5%). From this dataset, 8.9 Mb (26%) of the duplication content consisted of "unmapped" chromosome sequence. Moreover, we suspect that an additional 18.5 Mb of sequence is involved in duplication artifacts arising from sequence misassignment errors in this genome assembly. By searching for genes that are located within these regions, we identified 675 genes that mapped to duplicated regions of the mouse genome. Sixteen of these genes appear to have been duplicated independently in the human genome. From our dataset we further characterized a 42 kb recent segmental duplication of Mater, a maternal-effect gene essential for embryogenesis in mice. CONCLUSION: Our results provide an initial analysis of the recently duplicated sequence and gene content of the mouse genome. Many of these duplicated loci, as well as regions identified to be involved in potential sequence misassignment errors, will require further mapping and sequencing to achieve accuracy. A Genome Browser database was set up to display the identified duplication content presented in this work. This data will also be relevant to the growing number of investigators who use the draft genome sequence for experimental design and analysis. The segmental duplication data and summary statistics are available for download and can also be visualized in a genome browser in the GBrowse section. Selected annotation tracks (except the segmental duplication track) have also been obtained from UCSC and loaded into the genome browser. Detailed information (e.g. overlapping genes, overlapping clones, detailed alignment) can be obtained by clicking on a duplication cluster in GBrowse. Both keyword search and BLAT search are available. Analyses based on previous genome assemblies can be found in the Previous Analyses section. Recent Developments The Non-Human Genome Segmental Duplication Database is continually updated including the archived copies of the analysis of all previous genome assemblies and will include all new species as they become available. Acknowledgments We thank The Centre for Applied Genomics at the Hospital for Sick Children (HSC) as well as collaborators worldwide. Supported by Genome Canada the Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Scholar Program (to S.W.S.) and the HSC Foundation.

Proper citation: Non-Human Genome Segmental Duplication Database (RRID:SCR_000470) Copy   

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http://braintechsci.blogspot.com/index.html

Blog about brain technology and science news that covers topics such as high-resolution brain imaging, brain maps API and whole-brain atlases.

Proper citation: BrainTechSci. (RRID:SCR_000113) Copy   

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/

A database of organized information related to human medical genetics, such as attributes of conditions with a genetic contribution.

Proper citation: MedGen (RRID:SCR_000111) Copy   

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http://www.wriwindber.org/wriwindber/Platforms/TissueBanking.aspx

Under the direction of Stella Somiari, Ph.D., the tissue bank at Windber Research Institute acquires and banks large numbers of high quality and well annotated normal and diseased tissue specimens. These specimens are obtained from fully informed and consented donors using Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved protocols and are accompanied by detailed clinical, family history and demographic information. The tissue bank has established Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for tissue acquisition, handling, processing, packaging and shipping. All collaborators at participating clinics/medical centers utilize these procedures to ensure that the integrity of the specimen is maintained. Tissue types in our collection include plasma, serum, tissue embedded in optimum cutting temperature (OCT), formalin fixed paraffin embedded, and flash frozen. We also isolate and bank tissue derived products such as DNA, RNA and protein for research. Very stringent SOPs are in place for the process of extraction of these tissue-derived products and for quality control/quality assurance (QA/QC). The WRI tissue bank currently has 5 isothermal freezers each with the capacity to store 36,000 specimens. For all specimens obtained from surgical procedures, routine histology is performed to obtain representative Hematoxylin and Eosin (H & E) stained sections for imaging/archiving. All H & E sections are imaged on the Trestle SL-50 imaging system and these images are available online to designated collaborative sites. A certified pathologist verifies all tissue specimens and WRI has telepathology capabilities, which can also be utilized for pathology verification when a second pathologist opinion is required to confirm specimen diagnosis. Other uses of the telepathology capabilities include the verification of Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) sections (by pathologist) to ensure the correct areas are captured for research. The telepathology system at WRI is the Trestle Corporation's Medmicro system, which permits the pathologist to remotely view, navigate and share images at sub-micron resolution over standard internet connections in real-time.

Proper citation: Windber Tissue Bank (RRID:SCR_000509) Copy   

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http://www.nactem.ac.uk/biolexicon/

A large-scale English terminological database that contains over 2.2.M lexical entries (3.3M semantic relations), terminological variants and rich linguistic information (subcategorization frames) which supports text mining systems. It is primarily intended to support text mining and information retrieval in the biomedical domain. The BioLexicon provides specific information to help determine the relevant facts to be extracted. BioLexicon is available in a relational database format (MySQL dump format) and it adheres to the EAGLES/ISO standards for lexical resources.

Proper citation: BioLexicon (RRID:SCR_000589) Copy   

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http://www.proglycprot.org/

Manually curated, comprehensive repository of experimentally characterized bacterial glycoproteins and archaeal glycoproteins, generated from an exhaustive literature search. This is the focused effort to provide concise relevant information derived from rapidly expanding literature on prokaryotic glycoproteins, their glycosylating enzyme(s), glycosylation linked genes, and genomic context thereof, in a cross-referenced manner. The database is arranged into two sections namely, ProCGP and ProUGP. ProCGP is the main section containing characterized prokaryotic glycoproteins, defined as entries with at least one experimentally known glycosylated residue (glycosite). Whereas, ProUGP is the supplementary section, presenting uncharacterized prokaryotic glycoproteins, defined as entries with experimentally identified glycosylation but unidentified glycosites. The ProGlycProt has been developed with to aid and advance the emerging scientific interests in understanding the mechanisms, implications, and novelties of protein glycosylation in prokaryotes that include many pathogenic as well as economically important bacterial species. The website supports a dedicated structure gallery of homology models and crystal structures of characterized glycoproteins in addition to two new tools developed in view of emerging information about prokaryotic sequons (conserved sequences of amino acids around glycosites) that are never or rarely seen in eukaryotic glycoproteins. ProGlycProt provides an extensive compilation of experimentally identified glycosites (334) and glycoproteins (340) of prokaryotes that could serve as an information resource for research and technology applications in glycobiology. A general data update policy is once in three months. Existing entries are updated in real-time.

Proper citation: ProGlycProt (RRID:SCR_000622) Copy   

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http://pmrc.med.mssm.edu:9090/QTL/jsp/qtlhome.jsp

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 23,2022. A database used for high throughput mapping of genes to QTL and comparative genome analysis between different humans, mice, and rats. This database is designed for the analysis of larger sets of data using genome-scale experimental approaches, and to organize information from various websites and publications.

Proper citation: QTL Matchmaker (RRID:SCR_000741) Copy   

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https://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/nar/database/summary/148

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 22, 2016. A website that provides access to a database, nomenclature, fac sheets, downloadable slides, and other information regarding RB1 gene mutations.

Proper citation: Retinoblastoma Genetics (RRID:SCR_000742) Copy   

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http://neuroamer.wordpress.com/

Neuroamer is a researcher-oriented blog about neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychology. It is an attempt to fill the space between journal articles and pop science journalism.

Proper citation: Neuroamer (RRID:SCR_000624) Copy   

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http://genome-www.stanford.edu/vectordb/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on April 28,2023. A database with information about a variety of vectors, including phage, plasmid, phagemid, phasmid, cosmid, virus and YAC vectors. It also contains information on drosophilia, C. elegans, yeast and drosophilia vectors, including vector functions, hosts and copy number.

Proper citation: VectorDB- Molecular Biology Vector Sequence Database (RRID:SCR_000745) Copy   

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http://cbcsrv.watson.ibm.com/phylopythia.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 1, 2023. Data analysis service for accurate phylogenetic classification of variable-length DNA fragments.

Proper citation: PhyloPythia (RRID:SCR_000540) Copy   

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http://www.feinsteininstitute.org/Feinstein/Biorepository

The Biorepository was designed to collect, process, and distribute large numbers of high quality research specimens quickly and efficiently. The data that is collected is primarily human DNA from whole blood along with other human specimen types. The data are collected, processed, stored and later distributed to support a large number of research studies. Biobanking of other specimen types include cells, RNA, serum, plasma and tissue. The Biorepository serves as a storage facility for tracking specimen inventory using bar code technologies. The Biorepository also conducts most operations using modern laboratory automation and robotics, an efficient way to avoid processing errors inherent in the handling of larger numbers of specimens.

Proper citation: Feinstein Biorepository (RRID:SCR_000535) Copy   

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http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/

Retraction Watch is a blog of retractions in the scientific literature. It is maintained by Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky and has been operating since August 2010.

Proper citation: RetractionWatch.com (RRID:SCR_000654) Copy   

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http://neurosciencenews.com/neuroscience-topics/neuroscience-videos/

Neuroscience News provides "Neuroscience Videos" and corresponding articles.

Proper citation: Neuroscience News: Neuroscience Videos (RRID:SCR_000530) Copy   

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http://cancer.osu.edu/research/cancerresearch/sharedresources/ltb/Pages/index.aspx

The OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center Leukemia Tissue Bank Shared Resource (LTBSR) facilitates the successful translation of basic leukemia research to the clinical setting via an extensive repository of tissue samples and accompanying pathologic, cytogenetic and clinical data for ready correlation of clinical and biological results. The LTBSR, which is an NCI-sponsored biorepository, has more than 40,000 vials of cryopreserved viable cells and 13,000 vials of matched frozen plasma and/or serum samples from more than 4,000 patients treated for leukemia and other malignancies. Committed to furthering translational research efforts for OSUCCC - James members and the cancer research community, the LTBSR provides investigators with training and technical support as well as procurement, processing, storage, retrieval and distribution of clinical research materials. In many cases, the LTBSR serves as the central processing lab for multi-site trials in which the principal investigator is an OSUCCC - James member. The LTBSR's goals are to: * Provide a central collection, processing and a state-of-the-art repository for samples collected from leukemia patients treated on OSUCCC - James protocols, and * Provide materials to investigators involved in collaborative studies with OSU, who examine relevant cellular and molecular properties of leukemia and correlate these properties with clinical or population-based outcomes.

Proper citation: Ohio State Leukemia Tissue Bank (RRID:SCR_000529) Copy   

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http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/19/3806.long

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 26, 2016. A data environment for computational research in comparative and functional genomics, designed to address issues of consistency, reproducibility, scalability and accessibility., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: CoGenT++ (RRID:SCR_000249) Copy   

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https://researchcores.partners.org/tbr/about

A repository which provides specimen acquisition, processing and storage services, and access to archived frozen tissue specimens to the BWH/MGH/DFCI research community.

Proper citation: BWH Partners Tissue and Blood Repository (RRID:SCR_000125) Copy   

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dbSTS/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, as of October 1, 2013; however, the site is still accessible. NCBI resource that contains sequence and mapping data on short genomic landmark sequences or Sequence Tagged Sites. STS sequences are incorporated into the STS Division of GenBank. The dbSTS database offers a route for submission of STS sequences to GenBank. It is designed especially for the submission of large batches of STS sequences.

Proper citation: dbSTS (RRID:SCR_000400) Copy   

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http://apoptoproteomics.uio.no/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on July 31,2025. A database of resources on cancer processes such as cell death. It is a subset of a larger database on cancer proteomics that focuses on anti-cancer drugs and cancer types in addition to cancer processes. It utilizes scientific articles from PubMed, UniProt and other resources along with information such as author information, sample types and useful hyperlinks.

Proper citation: Cell Death Proteomics Database (RRID:SCR_000200) Copy   

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https://bams1.org/connectomes/standard_rat.php, https://bams1.org/connectomes/custom_rat.php

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 9,2022. Database of information about brain region circuitry, it collates data from the literature on tract tracing studies and provides tools for analysis and visualization of connectivity between brain regions., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: BAMS Connectivity (RRID:SCR_000561) Copy   

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