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http://www.wanprc.org/

Center that aims to provide an environment to support biomedical research directed towards human health issues and nonhuman primate health and biology. To meet this mission, the WaNPRC supports biomedical research activities, professional research staff, specifically bred and maintained nonhuman primate colonies, and dedicated facilities and equipment required for nonhuman primate research protocols.

Proper citation: Washington National Primate Research Center (RRID:SCR_002761) Copy   

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http://www.hms.harvard.edu/NEPRC/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 12,2023. A U.S. Regional Primate Research Center that focuses on AIDS, cancer, neuropsychiatric disorders, drug addiction, and neurodegenerative disease. The Division of Primate Resources provides researchers with the services and facilities to support biomedical research. It offers a broad spectrum of services ranging from analysis of tissue specimens to partnership investigations with leading biomedical research institutions. Outside investigators have access to tissue specimens, organs, blood, skeletal structures, and viral specimens. Services include veterinary services, animals and animal care, surgical and radiographic services, timed mating, biocontainment, pathology services, and professional and technical expertise. Additional diagnostic and research services at NEPRC include testing for antiviral antibodies, DNA cloning, and DNA sequencing. The colony of nine species includes rhesus macaques and other Old World monkeys and New World species including the common marmoset and squirrel monkey. Other species can be obtained. Animals with exceptional characteristics (specific-pathogen-free, timed pregnancy, surgically altered, etc.) can be made available if needed. Scientists wishing to conduct research at the center must have projects reviewed and approved by the center animal allocation committee.

Proper citation: New England National Primate Research Center (RRID:SCR_002887) Copy   

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http://cytoscape.org

Software platform for complex network analysis and visualization. Used for visualization of molecular interaction networks and biological pathways and integrating these networks with annotations, gene expression profiles and other state data.

Proper citation: Cytoscape (RRID:SCR_003032) Copy   

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http://www.i2b2cictr.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on February 08, 2013. A two year Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) supplement that set up a SHRINE (Shared Health Research Informatics NEtwork) network to create an information exchange environment that successfully shared 4.2M deidentified patient records. The network successfully linked i2b2 sites at UW, UCSF, UC Davis and Harvard Catalyst. Recombinant Data Corporation was actively involved in this implementation. This is a collaborative information exchange pilot project to adapt and extend data discovery tools and processes to enhance research design and retrospective data study capabilities for clinical translational investigators. The novel approach of this project will be to incrementally build a common technical, semantic and appropriately secure and governed distributed system in close partnership with active researchers at three large and geographically distributed academic medical centers. This collaboration will extend the Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) software architecture developed by the Harvard based National Center for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) to support multi-institution data query capabilities. The anticipated outcome of this two-year project is to make high-level anonymized descriptive characteristics of population-level data discoverable for research design, hypothesis generation and retrospective data studies.

Proper citation: i2b2 Cross-Institutional Clinical Translational Research project (RRID:SCR_003367) Copy   

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http://bio3d.colorado.edu/imod

A free, cross-platform set of image processing, modeling and display programs used for tomographic reconstruction and for 3D reconstruction of EM serial sections and optical sections. The package contains tools for assembling and aligning data within multiple types and sizes of image stacks, viewing 3-D data from any orientation, and modeling and display of the image files. IMOD 4.1.8 Is Now Available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X

Proper citation: IMOD (RRID:SCR_003297) Copy   

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http://www.rrrc.us/

Supplies biomedical investigators with rat models, embryonic stem cells, related reagents, and protocols they require for their research. In addition to repository, cryostorage and distribution functions, RRRC can facilitate acquisition of rat strains from other international repositories as well as provide consultation and technical training to investigators using rat models.

Proper citation: Rat Resource and Research Center (RRID:SCR_002044) Copy   

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http://www.pharmabase.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 25, 2015. Open content cheminformatics database linking physiology with pharmacology, it targets the action and use of pharmacological compounds in modifying protein function, while revealing molecular relationships and linking out to related databases and sites. Pharmabase has been developed as a research tool, a resource for students, and an ongoing interactive forum on the use of pharmacological compounds in cellular research. It has several navigational routes, including a graphics browser (shows graphics of cell types and pathways) and membrane transport, which also illustrates the diversity of mechanisms that are covered. Users have access to detailed compound records with interactive features, and a form to send comments to the editor. Investigators are encouraged to alert the editors to mistakes, omissions or new compound information available from their reading and research.

Proper citation: Pharmabase - an open content cheminformatics resource linking physiology with pharmacology (RRID:SCR_002462) Copy   

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http://www.loni.usc.edu/Software/LOVE

A versatile 1D, 2D and 3D data viewer geared for cross-platform visualization of stereotactic brain data. It is a 3-D viewer that allows volumetric data display and manipulation of axial, sagittal and coronal views. It reads Analyze, Raw-binary and NetCDF volumetric data, as well as, Multi-Contour Files (MCF), LWO/LWS surfaces, atlas hierarchical brain-region labelings ( Brain Trees). It is a portable Java-based software, which only requires a Java interpreter and a 64 MB of RAM memory to run on any computer architecture. LONI_Viz allows the user to interactively overlay and browse through several data volumes, zoom in and out in the axial, sagittal and coronal views, and reports the intensities and the stereo-tactic voxel and world coordinates of the data. Expert users can use LONI_Viz to delineate structures of interest, e.g., sulcal curves, on the 3 cardinal projections of the data. These curves then may be use to reconstruct surfaces representing the topological boundaries of cortical and sub-cortical regions of interest. The 3D features of the package include a SurfaceViewer and a full real-time VolumeRenderer. These allow the user to view the relative positions of different anatomical or functional regions which are not co-planar in any of the axial, sagittal or coronal 2D projection planes. The interactive part of LONI_Viz features a region drawing module used for manual delineation of regions of interest. A series of 2D contours describing the boundary of a region in projection planes (axial, sagittal or coronal) could be used to reconstruct the surface-representation of the 3D outer shell of the region. The latter could then be resliced in directions complementary to the drawing-direction and these complementary contours could be loaded in all tree cardinal views. In addition the surface object could be displayed using the SurfaceViewer. A pre-loading data crop and sub-sampling module allows the user to load and view practically data of any size. This is especially important when viewing cryotome, histological or stained data-sets which may reach 1GB (109 bytes) in size. The user could overlay several pre-registered volumes, change intensity colors and ranges and the inter-volume opacities to visually inspect similarities and differences between the different subjects/modalities. Several image-processing aids provide histogram plotting, image-smoothing, etc. Specific Features: * Region description DataBase * Moleculo-genetic database * Brain anatomical data viewer * BrainMapper tool * Surface (LightWave objects/scenes) and Volume rendering tools * Interactive Contour Drawing tool Implementation Issues: * Applet vs. Application - the software is available as both an applet and a standalone application. The former could be used to browse data from within the LONI database, however, it imposes restrictions on file-size, Internet connection and network-bandwidth and client/server file access. The later requires a local install and configuration of the LONI_Viz software * Extendable object-oriented code (Java), computer architecture independent * Complete online software documentation is available at http://www.loni.ucla.edu/LONI_Viz and a Java-Class documentation is available at http://www.loni.ucla.edu/~dinov/LONI_Vis.dir/doc/LONI_Viz_Java_Docs.html

Proper citation: LONI Visualization Tool (RRID:SCR_000765) Copy   

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http://www.loni.usc.edu/Software/Pipeline

A free workflow application primarily aimed at neuroimaging researchers that allows users to easily describe their executables in a graphical user interface (ie. create a module) and connect them together to create complex analyses all without having to code a single line in a scripting language. The Pipeline Client runs on your PC/Mac/Linux computer upon which you can create sophisticated processing workflows using a variety of commonly available executable tools (e.g. FSL, AIR, FreeSurfer, AFNI, Diffusion Toolkit, etc). The Distributed Pipeline Server can be installed on your Linux cluster and you can submit processing jobs directly to your own compute systems. Once you����??ve created a module for use in the LONI Pipeline, you can save it into your personal library and reuse it in other workflows you create by simply dragging and dropping it in. Because the LONI Pipeline is written in Java, you can work in whatever operating system suits you best. If there are tools that you need that can only work on another operating system, you can install a Pipeline server on that computer and connect from your client to do processing and analysis remotely.

Proper citation: LONI Pipeline Processing Environment (RRID:SCR_001161) Copy   

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http://www.itk.org

Open source, cross platform library that provides developers with extensive suite of software tools for image analysis. Developed through extreme programming methodologies, ITK builds on proven, spatially oriented architecture for processing, segmentation, and registration of scientific images in two, three, or more dimensions.

Proper citation: Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (RRID:SCR_001149) Copy   

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https://skyline.gs.washington.edu/labkey/project/home/software/Skyline/begin.view

Software tool as Windows client application for targeted proteomics method creation and quantitative data analysis. Open source document editor for creating and analyzing targeted proteomics experiments. Used for large scale quantitative mass spectrometry studies in life sciences.

Proper citation: Skyline (RRID:SCR_014080) Copy   

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

A filter which allows the Laplace-Beltrami operator to determine surface harmonics in terms of PointData at each vertex. It determines the requested N most significant harmonics of a surface.

Proper citation: Laplace Beltrami Filter on QuadEdge Meshes (RRID:SCR_014133) Copy   

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http://www.primate.wisc.edu/

Research center aimed towards increasing understanding of basic primate biology and improving human health and quality of life. Its goals include helping discover treatments, preventative measures and cures for human disease; gathering knowledge of primate biology and ecosystems; providing resources to scientists world wide; and collecting and disseminating research to the larger scientific community and public.

Proper citation: Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (RRID:SCR_012987) Copy   

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http://www.kojak-ms.org/

Software tool for identification of cross-linked peptides from mass spectra. Used for analysis of chemically cross-linked protein complexes. Used to analyze both novel and existing data sets.

Proper citation: Kojak (RRID:SCR_021028) Copy   

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http://www.bioinformatics.ucla.edu/ASAP2

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on 8/12/13. An expanded version of the Alternative Splicing Annotation Project (ASAP) database with a new interface and integration of comparative features using UCSC BLASTZ multiple alignments. It supports 9 vertebrate species, 4 insects, and nematodes, and provides with extensive alternative splicing analysis and their splicing variants. As for human alternative splicing data, newly added EST libraries were classified and included into previous tissue and cancer classification, and lists of tissue and cancer (normal) specific alternatively spliced genes are re-calculated and updated. They have created a novel orthologous exon and intron databases and their splice variants based on multiple alignment among several species. These orthologous exon and intron database can give more comprehensive homologous gene information than protein similarity based method. Furthermore, splice junction and exon identity among species can be valuable resources to elucidate species-specific genes. ASAP II database can be easily integrated with pygr (unpublished, the Python Graph Database Framework for Bioinformatics) and its powerful features such as graph query, multi-genome alignment query and etc. ASAP II can be searched by several different criteria such as gene symbol, gene name and ID (UniGene, GenBank etc.). The web interface provides 7 different kinds of views: (I) user query, UniGene annotation, orthologous genes and genome browsers; (II) genome alignment; (III) exons and orthologous exons; (IV) introns and orthologous introns; (V) alternative splicing; (IV) isoform and protein sequences; (VII) tissue and cancer vs. normal specificity. ASAP II shows genome alignments of isoforms, exons, and introns in UCSC-like genome browser. All alternative splicing relationships with supporting evidence information, types of alternative splicing patterns, and inclusion rate for skipped exons are listed in separate tables. Users can also search human data for tissue- and cancer-specific splice forms at the bottom of the gene summary page. The p-values for tissue-specificity as log-odds (LOD) scores, and highlight the results for LOD >= 3 and at least 3 EST sequences are all also reported.

Proper citation: Alternative Splicing Annotation Project II Database (RRID:SCR_000322) Copy   

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http://mus.well.ox.ac.uk/gscandb/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 23,2022. Database / display tool of genome scans, with a web interface that lets the user view the data. It does not perform any analyses - these must be done by other software, and the results uploaded into it. The basic features of GSCANDB are: * Parallel viewing of scans for multiple phenotypes. * Parallel analyses of the same scan data. * Genome-wide views of genome scans * Chromosomal region views, with zooming * Gene and SNP Annotation is shown at high zoom levels * Haplotype block structure viewing * The positions of known Trait Loci can be overlayed and queried. * Links to Ensembl, MGI, NCBI, UCSC and other genome data browsers. In GSCANDB, a genome scan has a wide definition, including not only the usual statistical genetic measures of association between genetic variation at a series of loci and variation in a phenotype, but any quantitative measure that varies along the genome. This includes for example competitive genome hybridization data and some kinds of gene expression measurements.

Proper citation: WTCHG Genome Scan Viewer (RRID:SCR_001635) Copy   

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http://www.isi.edu/projects/bioscholar/overview

Knowledge management and engineering system software for experimental biomedical scientists permitting a single scientific worker (at the level of a graduate student or postdoctoral worker) to design, construct and manage a shared knowledge repository for a research group derived on a local store of PDF files. Usability is especially emphasized within a laboratory so that this software could provide support to experimental scientists attempting to construct a personalized representation of their own knowledge on a medium scale. The BioScholar system uses a graphical interface to create experimental designs based on the experimental variables in the system. The design is then analyzed to construct a tabular input form based on the data flow. They call this methodology "Knowledge Engineering from Experimental Design" or "KEfED". The approach is domain-independent but domain-specific modules reasoning can be constructed to generate interpretations from the observational data represented in the KEfED model. The application is available for download as platform-specific installers including Linux, Unix, Mac OS, and Windows. The installer will install an application that will run the BioScholar server. This server uses Jetty as its integrated web server.

Proper citation: Bioscholar (RRID:SCR_001380) Copy   

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http://ecocyc.org/

Database for the bacterium Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655, the EcoCyc project performs literature-based curation of the entire genome, and of transcriptional regulation, transporters, and metabolic pathways. The long-term goal of the project is to describe the molecular catalog of the E. coli cell, as well as the functions of each of its molecular parts, to facilitate a system-level understanding of E. coli. EcoCyc is an electronic reference source for E. coli biologists, and for biologists who work with related microorganisms.

Proper citation: EcoCyc (RRID:SCR_002433) Copy   

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http://biositemaps.ncbcs.org/rds/search.html

Resource Discovery System is a web-accessible and searchable inventory of biomedical research resources. Powered by the Resource Discovery System (RDS) that includes a standards-based informatics infrastructure * Biositemaps Information Model * Biomedical Resource Ontology Extensions * Web Services distributed web-accessible inventory framework * Biositemap Resource Editor * Resource Discovery System Source code and project documentation to be made available on an open-source basis. Contributing institutions: University of Pittsburgh, University of Michigan, Stanford University, Oregon Health & Science University, University of Texas Houston. Duke University, Emory University, University of California Davis, University of California San Diego, National Institutes of Health, Inventory Resources Working Group Members

Proper citation: Resource Discovery System (RRID:SCR_005554) Copy   

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http://ccb.loni.usc.edu/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on August 31, 2022. Center focused on the development of computational biological atlases of different populations, subjects, modalities, and spatio-temporal scales with 3 types of resources: (1) Stand-alone computational software tools (image and volume processing, analysis, visualization, graphical workflow environments). (2) Infrastructure Resources (Databases, computational Grid, services). (3) Web-services (web-accessible resources for processing, validation and exploration of multimodal/multichannel data including clinical data, imaging data, genetics data and phenotypic data). The CCB develops novel mathematical, computational, and engineering approaches to map biological form and function in health and disease. CCB computational tools integrate neuroimaging, genetic, clinical, and other relevant data to enable the detailed exploration of distinct spatial and temporal biological characteristics. Generalizable mathematical approaches are developed and deployed using Grid computing to create practical biological atlases that describe spatiotemporal change in biological systems. The efforts of CCB make possible discovery-oriented science and the accumulation of new biological knowledge. The Center has been divided into cores organized as follows: - Core 1 is focused on mathematical and computational research. Core 2 is involved in the development of tools to be used by Core 3. Core 3 is composed of the driving biological projects; Mapping Genomic Function, Mapping Biological Structure, and Mapping Brain Phenotype. - Cores 4 - 7 provide the infrastructure for joint structure within the Center as well as the development of new approaches and procedures to augment the research and development of Cores 1-3. These cores are: (4)Infrastructure and Resources, (5) Education and Training, (6) Dissemination, and (7) Administration and Management. The main focus of the CCB is on the brain, and specifically on neuroimaging. This area has a long tradition of sophisticated mathematical and computational techniques. Nevertheless, new developments in related areas of mathematics and computational science have emerged in recent years, some from related application areas such as Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, and Image Processing, as well as from Computational Mathematics and the Computational Sciences. We are confident that many of these ideas can be applied beneficially to neuroimaging.

Proper citation: Center for Computational Biology at UCLA (RRID:SCR_000334) Copy   

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