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http://www.biosino.org/bodyfluid/

A database of bodily fluid proteome data. It contains information on proteins from humanplasma/serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, synovial fluid, nipple aspirate fluid, tear fluid, seminal fluid, human milk, and amniotic fluid. Our body fluid protein database, Sys-BodyFluid, contains 11 body fluid proteomes, including plasma/serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, synovial fluid, nipple aspirate fluid, tear fluid, seminal fluid, human milk, and amniotic fluid. Over 10,000 proteins are included in the Sys-BodyFluid. These body fluid proteome data come from 50 peer-review publications of different laboratories all over the world. Protein annotation are provided including protein description, Gene ontology, Domain information, Protein sequence and involved pathway. User can access the proteome data by protein name, protein accession number, sequence similarity. In addition, user could perform query cross different body fluids to get more comprehensive understanding. The difference and similarity between these 11 body fluids are also analyzed. Thus , the Sys-BodyFluid database could serve as a reference database for body fluid research and disease proteomics. plasm, serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, synovial fluid, nipple aspirate fluid, tear fluid, seminal fluid, human milk, and amniotic fluid, protein, proteomics

Proper citation: Sys-BodyFluid (RRID:SCR_005335) Copy   

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http://www.labspaces.net/DNA

Hi. I''m genegeek (aka Catherine Anderson). I realized during my PostDoc that I preferred learning and explaining new results to doing science so I started a non-traditional career of teaching and outreach. I''ll be using this space to explore public perception of genetics and other cool molecular biology stuff. I hope to add to the great discussions re: new science discoveries and general understanding of genetics. I''ve been running an outreach program and enjoy talking to non-experts about their opinions and understanding. I hope my enthusiasm for the topics can come through the screen. My posts are presented as opinion and commentary and do not represent the views of LabSpaces Productions, LLC, my employer, or my educational institution.

Proper citation: Daring Nucleic Adventures - genegeek (RRID:SCR_005215) Copy   

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http://www.knockoutmouse.org/

Database of the international consortium working together to mutate all protein-coding genes in the mouse using a combination of gene trapping and gene targeting in C57BL/6 mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. Detailed information on targeted genes is available. The IKMC includes the following programs: * Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP) (USA) ** CSD, a collaborative team at the Children''''s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the University of California at Davis School of Veterinary Medicine , led by Pieter deJong, Ph.D., CHORI, along with K. C. Kent Lloyd, D.V.M., Ph.D., UC Davis; and Allan Bradley, Ph.D. FRS, and William Skarnes, Ph.D., at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. ** Regeneron, a team at the VelociGene division of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., led by David Valenzuela, Ph.D. and George D. Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D. * European Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis Program (EUCOMM) (Europe) * North American Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis Project (NorCOMM) (Canada) * Texas A&M Institute for Genomic Medicine (TIGM) (USA) Products (vectors, mice, ES cell lines) may be ordered from the above programs.

Proper citation: International Knockout Mouse Consortium (RRID:SCR_005574) Copy   

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http://swissregulon.unibas.ch/fcgi/sr/swissregulon

A database of genome-wide annotations of regulatory sites. The predictions are based on Bayesian probabilistic analysis of a combination of input information including: * Experimentally determined binding sites reported in the literature. * Known sequence-specificities of transcription factors. * ChIP-chip and ChIP-seq data. * Alignments of orthologous non-coding regions. Predictions were made using the PhyloGibbs, MotEvo, IRUS and ISMARA algorithms developed in their group, depending on the data available for each organism. Annotations can be viewed in a Gbrowse genome browser and can also be downloaded in flat file format.

Proper citation: SwissRegulon (RRID:SCR_005333) Copy   

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http://www.einstein.yu.edu/centers/ictr/

Patient-derived specimens are essential to research in genomics, proteomics, and biomarkers. We provide banking for biological fluid and tissue specimens as well as human DNA and RNA. We provide secure archival sample storage as well as clinically-annotated specimen biobanks for defined research projects. The core serves the human research blood and tissue banking needs of clinical and translational researchers. Samples can be banked by an individual PI or by a consortium of investigators. All samples are tracked and archived using a secure tracking database, the Einstein-Montefiore Bio-Repository Databank (EM-BRED), http://informatics30.aecom.yu.edu/em-bred/default.aspx. EM-BRED provides qualified investigators with a solution to securely link patient specimens to clinical and pathological data. It consists of a user-friendly query engine that allows for comprehensive specimen search, and ultimately to build clinical annotations of relevance. The facility works under the best practices set out by NCI and ISBER (2006) for collection, storage, and retrieval of human biological materials for research.

Proper citation: Einstein-Montefiore Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Biorepository (RRID:SCR_005297) Copy   

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http://wishart.biology.ualberta.ca/polysearch/index.htm

A web-based tool that supports more than 50 different classes of queries against nearly a dozen different types of text, scientific abstract or bioinformatic databases. The typical query supported by PolySearch is Given X, find all Y''s where X or Y can be diseases, tissues, cell compartments, gene/protein names, SNPs, mutations, drugs and metabolites. PolySearch also exploits a variety of techniques in text mining and information retrieval to identify, highlight and rank informative abstracts, paragraphs or sentences.

Proper citation: PolySearch (RRID:SCR_005291) Copy   

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http://www.jax.org/grc/index.html

Donate a strain to The Jackson Laboratory Repository. Why donate a strain? * Donating reduces your costs of maintaining strains, lab personnel, shipping and resources. * Each donated strain is cryopreserved, protecting against accidental loss and genetic contamination. * Each donated strain is rederived to a high health status and may be resupplied to donors (up to 3 breeder pairs as long as we have live mice available) * Donating fulfills NIH obligations to share mice. How strain donation works: Strains are submitted by investigators for distribution to the scientific community. All repository strains are cryopreserved. All strains are evaluated monthly by the Genetic Resource Committee (GRC). The GRC is made up of staff scientists and resource managers from The Jackson Laboratory. The GRC recommends which strains are most appropriate to include in the Repository. You will be notified by email after your strain has been reviewed. Donation evaluation criteria * Importance of its current use for research, publication history, and current demand * Importance of its anticipated or potential future use * Difficulty of maintenance relative to scientific value * Existence and reliability of other resources that would ensure its survival * Difficulty of re-creating the strain relative to the time and effort required for its importation and preservation

Proper citation: Donate a strain to The Jackson Laboratory Repository (RRID:SCR_005567) Copy   

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http://katahdin.mssm.edu/kismeth/revpage.pl

A web-based tool for bisulfite sequencing analysis that was designed to be used with plants, since it considers potential cytosine methylation in any sequence context (CG, CHG, and CHH). It provides a tool for the design of bisulfite primers as well as several tools for the analysis of the bisulfite sequencing results. Kismeth is not limited to data from plants, as it can be used with data from any species.

Proper citation: Kismeth (RRID:SCR_005444) Copy   

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http://ssd.rbvi.ucsf.edu/

The SSD has been developed to address the need for resources and tools for understanding large sets of superpositions in order to understand evolutionary relationships and to make predictions of function. We have therefore created the Structure Superposition Database (SSD) for accessing, viewing and understanding large sets of structure superposition data. It contains the results of pairwise, all-by-all superpositions of a representative set of 115 (beta/alpha) barrel structures (TIM barrels). The initial implementation of the SSD contains the results of pairwise, all-by-all superpositions of a representative set of 115 (/alpha)8 barrel structures (TIM barrels). Future plans call for extending the database to include representative structure superpositions for many additional folds. The SSD can be browsed with a user interface module developed as an extension to Chimera, an extensible molecular modeling program. Features of the user interface module facilitate viewing multiple superpositions together.

Proper citation: Structure Superposition Database (RRID:SCR_005236) Copy   

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http://neurosphere.wordpress.com/

This blog belongs to me, Dave J Hayes PhD, a Neuroscientist at the University of Ottawa''s Institute of Mental Health Research. My research focuses on the neuroscience of motivation and emotion particularly regarding how brains and people respond to aversive and rewarding things in their environment. A neurosphere is a free-floating group of neural stem cells which can multiply, outside of their natural environment, and retain the ability to differentiate into functional brain cells. I don''t work on neurospheres. However, i like the metaphor of a group of people coming together, outside of their natural environment, through their interest in all things neuro which, incidentally, is everything. The sphere of human thought.

Proper citation: neurosphere (RRID:SCR_005478) Copy   

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http://transpogene.tau.ac.il/

A publicly available database of Transposed elements (TEs) which are located within protein-coding genes of 7 organisms: human, mouse, chicken, zebrafish, fruilt fly, nematode and sea squirt. Using TranspoGene the user can learn about the many aspects of the effect these TEs have on their hosting genes, such as: exonization events (including alternative splicing-related data), insertion of TEs into introns, exons, and promoters, specific location of the TE over the gene, evolutionary divergence of the TE from its consensus sequence and involvement in diseases. TranspoGene database is quickly searchable through its website, enables many kinds of searches and is available for download. TranspoGene contains information regarding specific type and family of the TEs, genomic and mRNA location, sequence, supporting transcript accession and alignment to the TE consensus sequence. The database also contains host gene specific data: gene name, genomic location, Swiss-Prot and RefSeq accessions, diseases associated with the gene and splicing pattern. The TranspoGene and microTranspoGene databases can be used by researchers interested in the effect of TE insertion on the eukaryotic transcriptome.

Proper citation: TranspoGene (RRID:SCR_005634) Copy   

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http://blogs.nejm.org/now/

A blog produced by the NEJM publishing communications team about new and innovative content in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM.org). Our goal is to inform you about what''s new and provide some additional context to complement the content published in NEJM. Each week we post a piece under Insights about one of the latest research papers in NEJM, discussing its clinical significance, where it may lead us in practice and research, and often giving an editor''s thoughts about why it was important to publish. We pose questions to stimulate your thinking and discussion. The idea is to make it easy for you to give us your views on a particular topic and make the conversation accessible to other doctors and physicians-in-training. Posts contain links to the full article, which will be free to all visitors for a limited time. We also feature two posts from the Resident e-Bulletin each week, with an article summary, Clinical Pearls, and Morning Report Questions teaching points that many of you find so useful in your roles as teachers or trainees. The blog gives us a new way to distribute and store this educational information on the social web, again, inviting comment and discussion. You''ll also hear about new products and applications as we bring them out, such as new Interactive Medical Cases, or iPhone applications, like NEJM This Week and the Image Challenge. We link to videos on the NEJMvideo channel on YouTube, share our Twitter feed, and links to NEJM in the News, too. We''d like this to be an open forum, complementary to the core content of NEJM, engaging you in a new experience beyond the journal page in a more interactive community.

Proper citation: Now at NEJM (RRID:SCR_005239) Copy   

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http://www.ncats.nih.gov/research/reengineering/bridgs/bridgs.html

on a competitive basis, successful applicants receive access to NIH contractors who conduct preclinical studies at no cost to the investigator for the development of new therapeutic agents. In general, synthesis, formulation, pharmacokinetic and toxicology services in support of investigator-held Investigational New Drug (IND) applications to the Food and Drug Administration are available. Contract costs are supported by the NIH Common Fund and collaborating NIH Institutes and Centers. Access to contracts is based upon a peer-reviewed application process. The number of awards made will depend on the number of applications received, their scientific merit, and the availability of NIH funds. BrIDGs is not a complete drug development program or an unconditional commitment to develop a particular compound for the clinic. In some cases the program supports one or two key steps for preclinical development, while in other cases it assists with most of the development tasks needed to file an IND. The services provided by the program depend upon the stage of a given project and need for additional data. Once a project is approved, NIH staff work with principal investigators to develop a plan for the conduct of proposed studies. Contractors perform tasks approved by BrIDGs under the direction of NIH staff. Development proceeds sequentially in most cases and the start of one segment of the project (e.g., toxicology) may depend on satisfactory completion of preceding segments (e.g., formulation). Insurmountable difficulties in one segment may force the discontinuation of an entire project. BrIDGs supports projects proposed by academic institutions, not-for-profit organizations, and SBIR-eligible businesses. Foreign academic and non-profit institutions may also apply. Potential therapies for any disease or disorder may be submitted to BrIDGs. All proposed therapeutic agents should have demonstrated pharmacological activity in an appropriate in vivo disease model before applying.

Proper citation: Bridging Interventional Development Gaps (RRID:SCR_005635) Copy   

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http://fairbrother.biomed.brown.edu/spliceman/index.cgi

An online tool that takes a set of DNA sequences with point mutations and returns a ranked list to predict the effects of point mutations on pre-mRNA splicing. The current implementation includes 11 genomes: human, chimp, rhesus, mouse, rat, dog, cat, chicken, guinea pig, frog and zebrafish.

Proper citation: Spliceman (RRID:SCR_005354) Copy   

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http://plantta.jcvi.org/

The TIGR database is a collection of plant transcript sequences. Transcript assemblies are searchable using BLAST and accession number. The construction of plant transcript assemblies (TAs) is similar to the TIGR gene indices. The sequences that are used to build the plant TAs are expressed transcripts collected from dbEST (ESTs) and the NCBI GenBank nucleotide database (full length and partial cDNAs). "Virtual" transcript sequences derived from whole genome annotation projects are not included. All plant species for which more than 1,000 ESTs or cDNA sequences are available are included in this project. TAs are clustered and assembled using the TGICL tool (Pertea et al., 2003), Megablast (Zhang et al., 2000) and the CAP3 assembler (Huang and Madan, 1999). TGICL is a wrapper script which invokes Megablast and CAP3. Sequences are initially clustered based on an all-against-all comparisons using Megablast. The initial clusters are assembled to generate consensus sequences using CAP3. Assembly criteria include a 50 bp minimum match, 95% minimum identity in the overlap region and 20 bp maximum unmatched overhangs. Any EST/cDNA sequences that are not assembled into TAs are included as singletons. All singletons retain their GenBank accession numbers as identifiers. Plant TA identifiers are of the form TAnumber_taxonID, where number is a unique numerical identifier of the transcript assembly and taxonID represents the NCBI taxon id. In order to provide annotation for the TAs, each TA/singleton was aligned to the UniProt Uniref database. For release 1 TAs, a masked version of the Uniref90 database was used. For release 2 and onwards, a masked version of the UniRef100 database is used. Alignments were required to have at least 20% identity and 20% coverage. The annotation for the protein with the best alignment to each TA or singleton was used as the annotation for that sequence. Additionally, the relative orientation of each TA/singleton to the best matching protein sequence was used to determine the orientation of each TA/singleton. Some sequences did not have alignments to the protein database that met our quality criteria, and those sequences have neither annotation nor orientation assignments. The release number for the plant TAs refers to the release version for a particular species. For the initial build, all TA sets are of version 1. Subsequent TA updates for new releases will be carried out when the percentage increase of the EST and cDNA counts exceeds 10% of the previous release and when the increase contains more than 1,000 new sequences. New releases will also include additional plant species with more than 1,000 EST or cDNA sequences that have become publicly available.

Proper citation: TIGR Plant Transcript Assembly database (RRID:SCR_005470) Copy   

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http://ogremk5.wordpress.com/

Science, Technology, Education, Government, and anti-woo. Cassandra had the gift of seeing the future, but the curse of having no one believe her.

Proper citation: Cassandras Tears (RRID:SCR_005229) Copy   

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http://www.wanprc.org/primate-resources/pathology-tissue-program/

A comparative pathology unit offering pathology support, training programs, and a Tissue Distribution Program (TDP). The TDP provides a wide variety of nonhuman primate tissues to investigative groups within and outside the Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC). Tissue and pathology services (ACVP board certified Veterinary Pathologists), full histology services (including immunohistochemistry and frozen sectioning), and protocol development consultation are available. The Pathology and Tissue Program is an integration of comparative pathology activities occurring at the Washington National Primate Research Center and those occurring within the University of Washington Department of Comparative Medicine ((DCM). Using this model, Washington National Primate Research Center pathologists provide routine pathology support for Washington National Primate Research Center animals, with ancillary support, expertise, and guidance provided by DCM pathologists and mission-dedicated technicians and laboratories. This integrated comparative pathology unit also provides an excellent training opportunity for students such as those enrolled in the Department of Comparative Medicine post-doctoral training program, which offers training in laboratory animal medicine and comparative pathology. A particularly important function of this comparative pathology unit is support of the Tissue Distribution Program. The TDP provides a wide variety of nonhuman primate tissues to investigative groups within and outside the WaNPRC. This program is an extremely valuable method of conserving the nonhuman primate resource. NHP tissues and biological materials are collected in preparation for RNA/DNA isolation, cell culture, immunohistochemistry/histology, anatomic dissection, and cell sorting. Capabilities of the TDP include, but are not limited to flash frozen preservation, sterile preparation, perfusion, technical surgical dissections, and OCT embedding. In conjunction with the Histology and Imaging core of the University of Washington DCM, research capabilities post-collection include in situ hybridization, confocal and fluorescent microscopy, live cell imaging (DeltaVision), and whole slide scanning with image analysis (Visiopharm, Nikon Elements, and Image Pro). Centralized coordination of nonhuman primate tissue requests with animal availability allows support for a large number of biomedical programs with significantly decreased impact on the animal resource.

Proper citation: WaNPRC Pathology and Tissue Program (RRID:SCR_005589) Copy   

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http://tabit.ucsd.edu/sdec/

A next-generation web-based application that aims to provide an integrated solution for both visualization and analysis of deep-sequencing data, along with simple access to public datasets.

Proper citation: Systems Transcriptional Activity Reconstruction (RRID:SCR_005622) Copy   

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http://www.youtube.com/user/sfnvideo

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is a nonprofit membership organization of scientists and physicians who study the brain and nervous system. SFNVideo - YouTube are videos uploaded to YouTube by the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). Since inception in 1969, the Society has grown from 500 members to more than 41,000. Today, SfN is the world''s largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to advancing understanding of the brain and nervous system.

Proper citation: sfnvideo - YouTube (RRID:SCR_005463) Copy   

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http://www.gene-regulation.com/pub/databases.html#transfac

Manually curated database of eukaryotic transcription factors, their genomic binding sites and DNA binding profiles. Used to predict potential transcription factor binding sites.

Proper citation: TRANSFAC (RRID:SCR_005620) Copy   

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