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http://www.chernobyltissuebank.com/

The CTB (Chernobyl Tissue Bank) is an international cooperation that collects, stores and disseminates biological samples from tumors and normal tissues from patients for whom the aetiology of their disease is known - exposure to radioiodine in childhood following the accident at the Chernobyl power plant. The main objective of this project is to provide a research resource for both ongoing and future studies of the health consequences of the Chernobyl accident. It seeks to maximize the amount of information obtained from small pieces of tumor by providing multiple aliquots of RNA and DNA extracted from well documented pathological specimens to a number of researchers world-wide and to conserve this valuable material for future generations of scientists. It exists to promote collaborative, rather than competitive, research on a limited biological resource. Tissue is collected to an approved standard operating procedure (SOP) and is snap frozen; the presence or absence of tumor is verified by frozen section. A representative paraffin block is also obtained for each case. Where appropriate, we also collect fresh and paraffin-embedded tissue from loco-regional metastases. Currently we do not issue tissue but provide extracted nucleic acid, paraffin sections and sections from tissue microarrays from this material. The project is coordinated from Imperial College, London and works with Institutes in the Russian Federation (the Medical Radiological Research Centre in Obninsk) and Ukraine (the Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism in Kiev) to support local scientists and clinicians to manage and run a tissue bank for those patients who have developed thyroid tumors following exposure to radiation from the Chernobyl accident. Belarus was also initially included in the project, but is currently suspended for political reasons.

Proper citation: Chernobyl Tissue Bank (RRID:SCR_010662) Copy   

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http://abacas.sourceforge.net

Software that contiguates (align, order, orientate), visualizes and designs primers to close gaps on shotgun assembled contigs based on a reference sequence. ABACAS finds alignment positions and identifies syntenies of assembled contigs against the reference, then generates a pseudomolecule taking overlapping contigs and gaps into account.

Proper citation: ABACAS (RRID:SCR_015852) Copy   

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http://ki.se/en/meb/twingene-and-genomeeutwin

In collaboration with GenomeEUtwin, the TwinGene project investigates the importance of quantitative trait loci and environmental factors for cardiovascular disease. It is well known that genetic factors are of considerable importance for some familial lipid syndromes and that Type A Behavior pattern and increased lipid levels infer increased risk for cardiovascular disease. It is furthermore known that genetic factors are of importance levels of blood lipid biomarkers. The interplay of genetic and environmental effects for these risk factors in a normal population is less well understood and virtually unknown for the elderly. In the TwinGene project twins born before 1958 are contacted to participate. Health and medication data are collected from self-reported questionnaires, and blood sampling material is mailed to the subject who then contacts a local health care center for blood sampling and a health check-up. In the simple health check-up, height, weight, circumference of waist and hip, and blood pressure are measured. Blood is sampled for DNA extraction, serum collection and clinical chemistry tests of C-reactive protein, total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL and LDL cholesterol, apolipo��protein A1 and B, glucose and HbA1C. The TwinGene cohort contains more than 10000 of the expected final number of 16000 individuals. Molecular genetic techniques are being used to identify Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs) for cardiovascular disease and biomarkers in the TwinGene participants. Genome-wide linkage and association studies are ongoing. DZ twins have been genome-scanned with 1000 STS markers and a subset of 300 MZ twins have been genome-scanned with Illumina 317K SNP platform. Association of positional candidate SNPs arising from these genomscans are planned. The TwinGene project is associated with the large European collaboration denoted GenomEUtwin (www.genomeutwin.org, see below) which since 2002 has aimed at gathering genetic data on twins in Europe and setting up the infrastructure needed to enable pooling of data and joint analyses. It has been the funding source for obtaining the genome scan data. Types of samples: * EDTA whole blood * DNA * Serum Number of sample donors: 12 044 (sample collection completed)

Proper citation: KI Biobank - TwinGene (RRID:SCR_006006) Copy   

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http://hcsquared.eu/home

HC2 is an EU funded project that aims to promote, support and help define future lines of research in Human Computer Confluence (HCC). HCC is the study of the intersection of HCI, Cognitive Neuroscience, VR/AR, Presence, Pervasive Computing and how they can enable new forms of sensing, perception, interaction and understanding. In a sense it is the study of the disappearing interface. HCC, Human-Computer Confluence, is an ambitious research program studying how the emerging symbiotic relation between humans and computing devices can enable radically new forms of sensing, perception, interaction, and understanding. The horizontal character of HCC makes it a fascinating and fertile interdisciplinary field, but it can also compromise its growth, with researchers scattered across disciplines and groups worldwide. To address this we are building a community of HCC researchers. There are lots of ways you can join in. Add your name to the HCC Players Map, take advantage of our Exchange Program to work with colleagues at your favorite lab, sign up for our Summer School or just follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to see what''s happening. In order to foster interdisciplinary research and promote HCC research we have set up an Exchange Program. Students that wish to apply for financial support from our Exchange Program should follow the steps provided. The Exchange Program is open to all graduate students (Masters and PhD). A maximum of 500 Euro support will be provided per student.

Proper citation: HC2: Human-Computer Confluence (RRID:SCR_005549) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/compneur-srv/LGICdb/

Database providing access to information about transmembrane proteins that exist under different conformations, with three primary subfamilies: the cys-loop superfamily, the ATP gated channels superfamily, and the glutamate activated cationic channels superfamily. Due to the lack of evolutionary relationship, these three superfamilies are treated separately. It currently contains 554 entries of ligand-activated ion channel subunits. In this database one may find: the nucleic and proteic sequences of the subunits. Multiple sequence alignments can be generated, and some phylogenetic studies of the superfamilies are provided. Additionally, the atomic coordinates of subunits, or portion of subunits, are provided when available. Redundancy is kept to a minimum, i.e. one entry per gene. Each entry in the database has been manually constructed and checked by a researcher of the field in order to reduce the inaccuracies to a minimum. NOTE: This database is not actively maintained anymore. People should not consider it as an up-to-date trustable resource. For any new work, they should consider using alternative sources, such as UniProt, Ensembl, Protein Databank etc.

Proper citation: Ligand-Gated Ion Channel Database (RRID:SCR_002418) Copy   

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http://www.genes2cognition.org/db/Search

Database of protein complexes, protocols, mouse lines, and other research products generated from the Genes to Cognition project, a project focused on understanding molecular complexes involved in synaptic transmission in the brain.

Proper citation: Genes to Cognition Database (RRID:SCR_002735) Copy   

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http://tomcat.esat.kuleuven.be/txtgate/

TXTGate is a literature index database and is part of an experimental platform to evaluate (combinations of) information extraction and indexing from a variety of biological annotation databases. It is designed towards the summarization and analysis of groups of genes based on text. By means of tailored vocabularies, selected textual fields and MedLine abstracts of LocusLink and SGD are indexed. Subclustering and links to external resources allow for an in-depth analysis of the resulting term profiles. You need to be registered in order to use the TXTGate application. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: TXTGate (RRID:SCR_005812) Copy   

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http://www.informatics.jax.org/home/recombinase

Curated data about all recombinase-containing transgenes and knock-ins developed in mice providing a comprehensive resource delineating known activity patterns and allows users to find relevant mouse resources for their studies.

Proper citation: Recombinase (cre) Activity (RRID:SCR_006585) Copy   

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http://athina.biol.uoa.gr/PRED-CLASS/

A system of cascading neural networks that classifies any protein, given its amino acid sequence alone, into one of four possible classes: membrane, globular, fibrous, mixed.

Proper citation: PRED-CLASS (RRID:SCR_006216) Copy   

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http://degradome.uniovi.es

A database of human, chimpanzee, mouse, and rat proteases and protease inhibitors, as well as as the growing number of hereditary diseases caused by mutations in protease genes. Analysis of the human and mouse genomes has allowed us to annotate 581 human, 580 chimpanzee, 667 mouse, and 655 rat protease genes. Proteases are classified in five different classes according to their mechanism of catalysis. Proteases are a diverse and important group of enzymes representing >2% of the human, chimpanzee, mouse and rat genomes. This group of enzymes is implicated in numerous physiological processes. The importance of proteases is illustrated by the existence of 99 different hereditary diseases due to mutations in protease genes. Furthermore, proteases have been implicated in multiple human pathologies, including vascular diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, neurodegenerative processes, and cancer. During the last ten years, our laboratory has identified and characterized more than 60 human protease genes. Due to the importance of proteolytic enzymes in human physiology and pathology, we have recently introduced the concept of Degradome, as the complete repertoire of proteases expressed by a tissue or organism. Thanks to the recent completion of the human, chimpanzee, mouse, and rat genome sequencing projects, we were able to analyze and compare for the first time the complete protease repertoire in those mammalian organisms, as well as the complement of protease inhibitor genes. This webpage also contains the Supplementary Material of Human and mouse proteases: a comparative genomic approach Nat Rev Genet (2003) 4: 544-558, Genome sequence of the brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution Nature (2004) 428: 493-521, A genomic analysis of rat proteases and protease inhibitors Genome Res. (2004) 14: 609-622, and Comparative genomic analysis of human and chimpanzee proteases Genomics (2005) 86: 638-647.

Proper citation: Mammalian Degradome Database (RRID:SCR_007624) Copy   

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https://biofam.github.io/MOFA2/

Software framework for unsupervised integration of multi-omics data sets. Used for discovering principal sources of variation in multi omics data sets.

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https://github.com/DiltheyLab/HLA-LA

Software implements new graph alignment model for human leukocyte antigen, based on projection of linear alignments onto variation graph. Enables accurate HLA type inference from whole genome and whole exome Illumina data; from long-read Oxford Nanopore and Pacific Biosciences data and from genome assemblies.

Proper citation: HLA-LA (RRID:SCR_022283) Copy   

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https://github.com/farkkilab/tribus

Software tool for cell type based analysis of multiplexed imaging data. Interactive knowledge-based classifier for multiplexed images and proteomic datasets that avoids hard-set thresholds and manual labeling. Recovers fine-grained cell types, matching the gold standard annotations by human experts, can target ambiguous populations and discover phenotypically distinct cell subtypes.

Proper citation: TRIBUS (RRID:SCR_027367) Copy   

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https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=APIS

Software R package to assign offspring to their parents without any prior information other than offspring and parental genotypes, and user-defined, acceptable error rate among assigned offspring. Auto-adaptive parentage inference software that tolerates missing parents.

Proper citation: APIS (RRID:SCR_025445) Copy   

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