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http://www.openarchives.org/ore/

Initiative which defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources. The intent of the effort is to develop standards that generalize across all web-based information including the increasing popular social networks of web 2.0. The goal of these standards is to expose the rich content in these aggregations (sometimes called compound digital objects, they may combine distributed resources with multiple media types including text, images, data, and video) to applications that support authoring, deposit, exchange, visualization, reuse, and preservation. The specific aim of the ORE effort is to promote (through creation or endorsement) effective and consistent mechanisms which: facilitate discovery of compound digital objects; reference (or link to) these objects (as well as parts thereof); obtain a variety of disseminations of these objects; aggregate and disaggregate objects; and enable processing of objects by automated agents.

Proper citation: Open Archives Initiative - Object Reuse and Exchange Initiative (RRID:SCR_006982) Copy   

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http://studyforrest.org

An MRI data repository that holds a set of 7 Tesla images and behavioral metadata. Multi-faceted brain image archive with behavioral measurements. For each participant a number of different scans and auxiliary recordings have been obtained. In addition, several types of minimally preprocessed data are also provided. The full description of the data release is available in a dedicated publication. This project invites anyone to participate in a decentralized effort to explore the opportunities of open science in neuroimaging by documenting how much (scientific) value can be generated out of a single data release by publication of scientific findings derived from a dataset, algorithms and methods evaluated on this dataset, and/or extensions of this dataset by acquisition and integration of new data.

Proper citation: studyforrest.org (RRID:SCR_003112) Copy   

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http://protege.stanford.edu

Protege is a free, open-source platform that provides a growing user community with a suite of tools to construct domain models and knowledge-based applications with ontologies. At its core, Protege implements a rich set of knowledge-modeling structures and actions that support the creation, visualization, and manipulation of ontologies in various representation formats. Protege can be customized to provide domain-friendly support for creating knowledge models and entering data. Further, Protege can be extended by way of a plug-in architecture and a Java-based Application Programming Interface (API) for building knowledge-based tools and applications. An ontology describes the concepts and relationships that are important in a particular domain, providing a vocabulary for that domain as well as a computerized specification of the meaning of terms used in the vocabulary. Ontologies range from taxonomies and classifications, database schemas, to fully axiomatized theories. In recent years, ontologies have been adopted in many business and scientific communities as a way to share, reuse and process domain knowledge. Ontologies are now central to many applications such as scientific knowledge portals, information management and integration systems, electronic commerce, and semantic web services. The Protege platform supports two main ways of modeling ontologies: * The Protege-Frames editor enables users to build and populate ontologies that are frame-based, in accordance with the Open Knowledge Base Connectivity protocol (OKBC). In this model, an ontology consists of a set of classes organized in a subsumption hierarchy to represent a domain's salient concepts, a set of slots associated to classes to describe their properties and relationships, and a set of instances of those classes - individual exemplars of the concepts that hold specific values for their properties. * The Protege-OWL editor enables users to build ontologies for the Semantic Web, in particular in the W3C's Web Ontology Language (OWL). An OWL ontology may include descriptions of classes, properties and their instances. Given such an ontology, the OWL formal semantics specifies how to derive its logical consequences, i.e. facts not literally present in the ontology, but entailed by the semantics. These entailments may be based on a single document or multiple distributed documents that have been combined using defined OWL mechanisms (see the OWL Web Ontology Language Guide). Protege is based on Java, is extensible, and provides a plug-and-play environment that makes it a flexible base for rapid prototyping and application development.

Proper citation: Protege (RRID:SCR_003299) Copy   

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http://bodb.usc.edu/bodb/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 4, 2023. BODB offers a way to document computational models of brain function by linking each model to Brain Operating Principles (BOPs), related brain regions, Summaries of Simulation Results (SSRs)and Summaries of Experimental Data (SEDs) used either to design or to test the model. Tools are provided to search for related models and to compare their coverage of SEDs. This allows automatic benchmarking of a model against a cluster of models addressing similar BOPs or SEDs or brain regions. Tools allow display of brain imaging results against a human brain applet; a new tool will link data to a macaque brain applet.

Proper citation: Brain Operation Database (RRID:SCR_003050) Copy   

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http://krasnow1.gmu.edu/CENlab/software.html

Stochastic reaction-diffusion simulator in Java which is used for simulating neuronal signaling pathways.

Proper citation: NeuroRD (RRID:SCR_014769) Copy   

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https://bitbucket.org/dkessner/forqs

Software for forward-in-time population genetics simulation that tracks individual haplotype chunks as they recombine each generation. It also also models quantitative traits and selection on those traits.

Proper citation: forqs (RRID:SCR_000643) Copy   

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http://wiki.c2b2.columbia.edu/honiglab_public/index.php/Software:DelPhi

DelPhi provides numerical solutions to the Poisson-Boltzmann equation (both linear and nonlinear form) for molecules of arbitrary shape and charge distribution. The current version is fast, accurate, and can handle extremely high lattice dimensions. It also includes flexible features for assigning different dielectric constants to different regions of space and treating systems containing mixed salt solutions. DelPhi takes as input a coordinate file format of a molecule or equivalent data for geometrical objects and/or charge distributions and calculates the electrostatic potential in and around the system, using a finite difference solution to the Poisson-Boltzmann equation. DelPhi is a versatile electrostatics simulation program that can be used to investigate electrostatic fields in a variety of molecular systems. Features of DelPhi include solutions to mixtures of salts of different valence; solutions to different dielectric constants to different regions of space; and estimation of the best relaxation parameter at run time.

Proper citation: DelPhi (RRID:SCR_008669) Copy   

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http://bids.neuroimaging.io

Standard specification for organizing and describing outputs of neuroimaging experiments. Used to organize and describe neuroimaging and behavioral data by neuroscientific community as standard to organize and share data. BIDS prescribes file naming conventions and folder structure to store data in set of already existing file formats. Provides standardized templates to store associated metadata in form of Javascript Object Notation (JSON) and tab-separated value (TSV) files. Facilitates data sharing, metadata querying, and enables automatic data analysis pipelines. System to curate, aggregate, and annotate neuroimaging databases. Intended for magnetic resonance imaging data, magnetoencephalography data, electroencephalography data, and intracranial encephalography data.

Proper citation: Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDs) (RRID:SCR_016124) Copy   

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https://pdb-dev.wwpdb.org

Data repository for integrative/hybrid structural models of macromolecules and their assemblies. This includes atomistic models as well as multi-scale models consisting of different coarse-grained representations.

Proper citation: PDB-Dev (RRID:SCR_016185) Copy   

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https://picrust.github.io/picrust/

Software package to predict metagenome functional content from marker gene (e.g., 16S rRNA) surveys and full genomes. Used to predict which gene families are present and then combines gene families to estimate the composite metagenome.

Proper citation: PICRUSt (RRID:SCR_016855) Copy   

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https://web.njit.edu/~matveev/calc.html

A modeling tool for simulating intracellular calcium diffusion and buffering. CalC solves continuous reaction-diffusion PDEs describing the entry of calcium into a volume through point-like channels, and its diffusion, buffering and binding to calcium receptors. Its features include: being platform-independent; being operated by simple script; combinable with MATLAB; and providing real-time views. Demos and manuals are provided on the website.

Proper citation: CalC (RRID:SCR_014259) Copy   

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https://github.com/mandricigor/ScaffMatch

Software tool as scaffolding algorithm based on maximum weight matching able to produce high quality scaffolds from next generation sequencing data (reads and contigs). Able to handle reads with both short and long insert sizes.

Proper citation: ScaffMatch (RRID:SCR_017025) Copy   

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https://github.com/Kingsford-Group/kourami

Software graph guided assembly for novel human leukocyte antigen allele discovery. Graph guided assembly for HLA haplotypes covering typing exons using high coverage whole genome sequencing data.Implemented in Java and supported on Linux and Mac OS X.

Proper citation: Kourami (RRID:SCR_022280) Copy   

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https://github.com/mourisl/Rascaf

Software tool for scaffolding with RNA-seq read alignments. Used for improving genome assembly with RNA sequencing data.

Proper citation: Rascaf (RRID:SCR_022014) Copy   

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https://github.com/taborlab/FlowCal

Open source software tool for automatically converting flow cytometry data from arbitrary to calibrated units. Can be run using intuitive Microsoft Excel interface, or customizable Python scripts. Software accepts Flow Cytometry Standard (FCS) files as inputs and is compatible with different calibration particles, fluorescent probes, and cell types. Automatically gates data, calculates common statistics, and produces plots.

Proper citation: FlowCal (RRID:SCR_018140) Copy   

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https://github.com/katiasmirn/PERFect#perfect-permutation-filtering-package-in-r

Software R package as filtering test for microbiome data. Permutation filtering approach to address two unsolved problems in microbiome data processing: (i) define and quantify loss due to filtering by implementing thresholds and (ii) introduce and evaluate a permutation test for filtering loss to provide a measure of excessive filtering.

Proper citation: PERFect (RRID:SCR_024682) Copy   

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https://www.msu.edu/~brains/brains/human/index.html

A labeled three-dimensional atlas of the human brain created from MRI images. In conjunction are presented anatomically labeled stained sections that correspond to the three-dimensional MRI images. The stained sections are from a different brain than the one which was scanned for the MRI images. Also available the major anatomical features of the human hypothalamus, axial sections stained for cell bodies or for nerve fibers, at six rostro-caudal levels of the human brain stem; images and Quicktime movies. The MRI subject was a 22-year-old adult male. Differing techniques used to study the anatomy of the human brain all have their advantages and disadvantages. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows for the three-dimensional viewing of the brain and structures, precise spatial relationships and some differentiation between types of tissue, however, the image resolution is somewhat limited. Stained sections, on the other hand, offer excellent resolution and the ability to see individual nuclei (cell stain) or fiber tracts (myelin stain), however, there are often spatial distortions inherent in the staining process. The nomenclature used is from Paxinos G, and Watson C. 1998. The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, 4th ed. Academic Press. San Diego, CA. 256 pp

Proper citation: Human Brain Atlas (RRID:SCR_006131) Copy   

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http://www.autopack.org/

A specialized version of autoPack designed to pack biological components together. The current version is optimized to pack molecules into cells with biologically relevant interactions to populate massive cell models with atomic or near-atomic details. Components of the algorithm pack transmembrane proteins and lipids into bilayers, globular molecules into compartments defined by the bilayers (or as exteriors), and fibrous components like microtubules, actin, and DNA.

Proper citation: Cellpack (RRID:SCR_006831) Copy   

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https://github.com/compbiolabucf/omicsGAN

Software generative adversarial network to integrate two omics data and their interaction network to generate one synthetic data corresponding to each omics profile that can result in better phenotype prediction. Used to capture information from interaction network as well as two omics datasets and fuse them to generate synthetic data with better predictive signals.

Proper citation: OmicsGAN (RRID:SCR_022976) Copy   

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http://alchemy.sourceforge.net/

ALCHEMY is a genotype calling algorithm for Affymetrix and Illumina products which is not based on clustering methods. Features include explicit handling of reduced heterozygosity due to inbreeding and accurate results with small sample sizes. ALCHEMY is a method for automated calling of diploid genotypes from raw intensity data produced by various high-throughput multiplexed SNP genotyping methods. It has been developed for and tested on Affymetrix GeneChip Arrays, Illumina GoldenGate, and Illumina Infinium based assays. Primary motivations for ALCHEMY''s development was the lack of available genotype calling methods which can perform well in the absence of heterozygous samples (due to panels of inbred lines being genotyped) or provide accurate calls with small sample batches. ALCHEMY differs from other genotype calling methods in that genotype inference is based on a parametric Bayesian model of the raw intensity data rather than a generalized clustering approach and the model incorporates population genetic principles such as Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium adjusted for inbreeding levels. ALCHEMY can simultaneously estimate individual sample inbreeding coefficients from the data and use them to improve statistical inference of diploid genotypes at individual SNPs. The main documentation for ALCHEMY is maintained on the sourceforge-hosted MediaWiki system. Features * Population genetic model based SNP genotype calling * Simultaneous estimation of per-sample inbreeding coefficients, allele frequencies, and genotypes * Bayesian model provides posterior probabilities of genotype correctness as quality measures * Growing number of scripts and supporting programs for validation of genotypes against control data and output reformating needs * Multithreaded program for parallel execution on multi-CPU/core systems * Non-clustering based methods can handle small sample sets for empirical optimization of sample preparation techniques and accurate calling of SNPs missing genotype classes ALCHEMY is written in C and developed on the GNU/Linux platform. It should compile on any current GNU/Linux distribution with the development packages for the GNU Scientific Library (gsl) and other development packages for standard system libraries. It may also compile and run on Mac OS X if gsl is installed.

Proper citation: ALCHEMY (RRID:SCR_005761) Copy   

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