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http://openconnectomeproject.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 9, 2023. Connectomes repository to facilitate the analysis of connectome data by providing a unified front for connectomics research. With a focus on Electron Microscopy (EM) data and various forms of Magnetic Resonance (MR) data, the project aims to make state-of-the-art neuroscience open to anybody with computer access, regardless of knowledge, training, background, etc. Open science means open to view, play, analyze, contribute, anything. Access to high resolution neuroanatomical images that can be used to explore connectomes and programmatic access to this data for human and machine annotation are provided, with a long-term goal of reconstructing the neural circuits comprising an entire brain. This project aims to bring the most state-of-the-art scientific data in the world to the hands of anybody with internet access, so collectively, we can begin to unravel connectomes. Services: * Data Hosting - Their Bruster (brain-cluster) is large enough to store nearly any modern connectome data set. Contact them to make your data available to others for any purpose, including gaining access to state-of-the-art analysis and machine vision pipelines. * Web Viewing - Collaborative Annotation Toolkit for Massive Amounts of Image Data (CATMAID) is designed to navigate, share and collaboratively annotate massive image data sets of biological specimens. The interface is inspired by Google Maps, enhanced to allow the exploration of 3D image data. View the fork of the code or go directly to view the data. * Volume Cutout Service - RESTful API that enables you to select any arbitrary volume of the 3d database (3ddb), and receive a link to download an HDF5 file (for matlab, C, C++, or C#) or a NumPy pickle (for python). Use some other programming language? Just let them know. * Annotation Database - Spatially co-registered volumetric annotations are compactly stored for efficient queries such as: find all synapses, or which neurons synapse onto this one. Create your own annotations or browse others. *Sample Downloads - In addition to being able to select arbitrary downloads from the datasets, they have also collected a few choice volumes of interest. * Volume Viewer - A web and GPU enabled stand-alone app for viewing volumes at arbitrary cutting planes and zoom levels. The code and program can be downloaded. * Machine Vision Pipeline - They are building a machine vision pipeline that pulls volumes from the 3ddb and outputs neural circuits. - a work in progress. As soon as we have a stable version, it will be released. * Mr. Cap - The Magnetic Resonance Connectome Automated Pipeline (Mr. Cap) is built on JIST/MIPAV for high-throughput estimation of connectomes from diffusion and structural imaging data. * Graph Invariant Computation - Upload your graphs or streamlines, and download some invariants. * iPad App - WholeSlide is an iPad app that accesses utilizes our open data and API to serve images on the go.

Proper citation: Open Connectome Project (RRID:SCR_004232) Copy   

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http://www.picsl.upenn.edu/ANTS/

Software package designed to enable researchers with advanced tools for brain and image mapping. Many of the ANTS registration tools are diffeomorphic*, but deformation (elastic and BSpline) transformations are available. Unique components of ANTS include multivariate similarity metrics, landmark guidance, the ability to use label images to guide the mapping and both greedy and space-time optimal implementations of diffeomorphisms. The symmetric normalization (SyN) strategy is a part of the ANTS toolkit as is directly manipulated free form deformation (DMFFD). *Diffeomorphism: a differentiable map with differentiable inverse. In general, these maps are generated by integrating a time-dependent velocity field. ANTS Applications: * Gray matter morphometry based on the jacobian and/or cortical thickness. * Group and single-subject optimal templates. * Multivariate DT + T1 brain templates and group studies. * Longitudinal brain mapping -- special similarity metric options. * Neonatal and pediatric brain segmentation. * Pediatric brain mapping. * T1 brain mapping guided by tractography and connectivity. * Diffusion tensor registration based on scalar or connectivity data. * Brain mapping in the presence of lesions. * Lung and pulmonary tree registration. * User-guided hippocampus labeling, also of sub-fields. * Group studies and statistical analysis of cortical thickness, white matter volume, diffusion tensor-derived metrics such as fractional anisotropy and mean diffusion.

Proper citation: ANTS - Advanced Normalization ToolS (RRID:SCR_004757) Copy   

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http://bmsr.usc.edu/software/adapt/

Software tool as plug-in developed for ImageJ/FIJI platform to automatically detect and analyse cell migration and morphodynamics. Provides whole cell analysis of multiple cells, while also returning data on individual membrane protrusion events.

Proper citation: ADAPT (RRID:SCR_006769) Copy   

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http://www.bmu.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/software/

Suite of programs developed for fMRI analysis in a Virtual Pipeline Laboratory facilitates combining program modules from different software packages into processing pipelines to create analysis solutions which are not possible with a single software package alone. Current pipelines include fMRI analysis, statistical testing based on randomization methods and fractal spectral analysis. Pipelines are continually being added. The software is mostly written in C. This fMRI analysis package supports batch processing and comprises the following general functions at the first level of individual image analysis: movement correction (interpolation and regression), time series modeling, data resampling in the wavelet domain, hypothesis testing at voxel and cluster levels. Additionally, there is code for second level analysis - group and factorial or ANOVA mapping - after co-registration of voxel statistic maps from individual images in a standard space. The main point of difference from other fMRI analysis packages is the emphasis throughout on the use of data resampling (permutation or randomization) as a basis for inference on individual, group and factorial test statistics at voxel and cluster levels of resolution.

Proper citation: Cambridge Brain Activation (RRID:SCR_007109) Copy   

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https://ida.loni.usc.edu/login.jsp

Archive used for archiving, searching, sharing, tracking and disseminating neuroimaging and related clinical data. IDA is utilized for dozens of neuroimaging research projects across North America and Europe and accommodates MRI, PET, MRA, DTI and other imaging modalities.

Proper citation: LONI Image and Data Archive (RRID:SCR_007283) Copy   

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http://nsr.bioeng.washington.edu/

Database of physiological, pharmacological, and pathological information on humans and other organisms and integration through computational modeling. Models include everything from diagrammatic schema, suggesting relationships among elements composing a system, to fully quantitative, computational models describing the behavior of physiological systems and an organism''s response to environmental change. Each mathematical model is an internally self-consistent summary of available information, and thereby defines a working hypothesis about how a system operates. Predictions from such models are subject to test, with new results leading to new models.BR /> A Tool developed for the NSR Physiome project is JSim, an open source, free software. JSim is a Java-based simulation system for building quantitative numeric models and analyzing them with respect to experimental reference data. JSim''s primary focus is in physiology and biomedicine, however its computational engine is quite general and applicable to a wide range of scientific domains. JSim models may intermix ODEs, PDEs, implicit equations, integrals, summations, discrete events and procedural code as appropriate. JSim''s model compiler can automatically insert conversion factors for compatible physical units as well as detect and reject unit unbalanced equations. JSim also imports the SBML and CellML model archival formats. All JSim models are open source. Goals of the Physiome Project: - To develop and database observations of physiological phenomenon and interpret these in terms of mechanism (a fundamentally reductionist goal). - To integrate experimental information into quantitative descriptions of the functioning of humans and other organisms (modern integrative biology glued together via modeling). - To disseminate experimental data and integrative models for teaching and research. - To foster collaboration amongst investigators worldwide, to speed up the discovery of how biological systems work. - To determine the most effective targets (molecules or systems) for therapy, either pharmaceutic or genomic. - To provide information for the design of tissue-engineered, biocompatible implants.

Proper citation: NSR Physiome Project (RRID:SCR_007379) Copy   

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https://bams1.org/

Knowledge management system designed to handle neurobiological information at different levels of organization of vertebrate nervous system. Database and repository for information about neural circuitry, storing and analyzing data concerned with nomenclature, taxonomy, axonal connections, and neuronal cell types. Handles data and metadata collated from original literature, or inserted by scientists that is associated to four levels of organization of vertebrate nervous system. Data about expressed molecules, neuron types and classes, brain regions, and networks of brain regions.

Proper citation: Brain Architecture Management System (RRID:SCR_007251) Copy   

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

Software package to perform Granger mediation analysis for time series. Includes single level GMA model and two-level GMA model, for time series with hierarchically nested structure.

Proper citation: GMA (RRID:SCR_009212) Copy   

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http://ric.uthscsa.edu/mango/

A viewer for medical research images that provides analysis tools and a user interface to navigate image volumes. There are three versions of Mango, each geared for a different platform: * Mango ? Desktop ? Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux * webMango ? Browser ? Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer * iMango ? Mobile ? Apple iPad Key Features: * Built-in support for DICOM, NIFTI, Analyze, and NEMA-DES formats * Customizable: Create plugins, custom filters, color tables, file formats, and atlases * ROI Editing: Threshold and component-based tools for painting and tracing ROIs * Surface Rendering: Interactive surface models supporting cut planes and overlays * Image Registration: Semi-automatic image coregistration and manual transform editing * Image Stacking: Threshold and transparency-based image overlay stacking * Analysis: Histogram, cross-section, time-series analysis, image and ROI statistics * Processing: Kernel and rank filtering, arithmetic/logic image and ROI calculators

Proper citation: Mango (RRID:SCR_009603) Copy   

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http://itools.loni.usc.edu/

An infrastructure for managing of diverse computational biology resources - data, software tools and web-services. The iTools design, implementation and meta-data content reflect the broad NCBC needs and expertise (www.NCBCs.org).

Proper citation: iTools (RRID:SCR_009626) Copy   

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http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~abarmpou/lab/fanDTasia/

A Java applet tool for DT-MRI processing. It opens Diffusion-Weighted MRI datasets from user's computer and performs very efficient tensor field estimation using parallel threaded processing on user's browser. No installation is required. It runs on any operating system that supports Java (Windows, Mac, Linux,...). The estimated tensor field is guaranteed to be positive definite second order or higher order and is saved in user's local disc. MATLAB functions are also provided to open the tensor fields for your convenience in case you need to perform further processing. The fanDTasia Java applet provides also vector field visualization for 2nd and 4th-order tensors, as well as calculation of various anisotropic maps. Another useful feature is 3D fiber tracking (DTI-based) which is also shown using 3d graphics on the user's browser.

Proper citation: fanDTasia Java Applet: DT-MRI Processing (RRID:SCR_009624) Copy   

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http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~jbm/jip/

Software toolkit for analysis of rodent and non-human primate fMRI data. The toolkit consists of binary executables, highly portable open-source c code, and image resources that enable 1) Automated registration based upon mutual information (affine, non-linear warps), with flexible control and visualization of each step; 2) visualization of 4-dimensional data using either mosaic or tri-planar display of the z/slice dimension, and integration of a general linear model for graphical display of time series analysis; 3) A simple and flexible 1st-order GLM for fMRI time series analysis, a 1st-order GLM analysis for PET data within the SRTM framework, plus a 2nd-order GLM analysis following the Worsley 2002 scheme, and 4) MRI templates to place your rodent and non-human primate data into standardized spaces.

Proper citation: JIP Analysis Toolkit (RRID:SCR_009588) Copy   

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http://econnectome.umn.edu/

An open-source MATLAB software package for imaging brain functional connectivity from electrophysiological signals. It provides interactive graphical interfaces for EEG/ECoG/MEG preprocessing, source estimation, connectivity analysis and visualization. Connectivity from EEG/ECoG/MEG can be mapped over sensor and source domains. This package is designed for use by researchers in neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, clinical neurophysiology, neurology and other disciplines. The graphical interface-based platform requires little programming knowledge or experience with MATLAB. eConnectome is developed by the Biomedical Functional Imaging and Neuroengineering Laboratory at the University of Minnesota, directed by Dr. Bin He. The visualization module is jointly developed with Drs. Fabio Babiloni and Laura Astolfi at the University of Rome La Sapienza.

Proper citation: eConnectome (RRID:SCR_009618) Copy   

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http://www.columbia.edu/~dx2103/brainimagescope.html

Software package for processing diffusion tensor imaging data. The following functions are included: 1. Converting imaging data in DICOME format to ANALYZE format 2. Extracting binary brain mask for quick scalp-removing 3. Correcting eddy-current induced distortion 4. Optimized tensor estimation based on noisy diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) data 5. Scalp removal using a brain mask image 6. Corregistering imaging data and generating deformation field for mapping images from individual spaces to a template or target space 7. Spatial Normalization and Warping DTI 8. Fiber tracking 9. Clustering fiber tracts 10. Identifying brain ventricles and generating binary masks for the baseline and DW imaging data 11. Deriving diffusion anisotropy indices (DAIs) and principal directions (PD) and the corresponding color-coded PD-map.

Proper citation: DTI BrainImageScope (RRID:SCR_009559) Copy   

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

A lightweight framework for setting up dependency-driven processing pipelines. The tool is essentially a configurable shell script (sh/bash), which can be included in other scripts and primarily provides a small number of utility functions for dependency checking and NFS-safe file locking for cluster processing.

Proper citation: Lightweight Data Pipeline (RRID:SCR_014135) Copy   

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

A collection of methods for comparing the performance of different image algorithms. These methods generate quantitative scores that measure divergences to a standard.

Proper citation: SCORE (RRID:SCR_014165) Copy   

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http://enigma.ini.usc.edu/protocols/dti-protocols/

Pipeline which provides tools to extract whole-brain average and regional measurements from DTI images including FA, AD, RD and MD. Protocols for preprocessing, ENIGMA-DTI processing (skeletonization and ROI extraction), and GWAS analysis are available. Software tools used for each process are listed within the protocols.

Proper citation: ENIGMA-DTI Pipeline (RRID:SCR_014649) Copy   

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http://nipy.org

Community site to make brain imaging research easier that aims to build software that is clearly written, clearly explained, a good fit for the underlying ideas, and a natural home for collaboration.

Proper citation: Neuroimaging in Python (RRID:SCR_013141) Copy   

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http://ligand-expo.rutgers.edu/

An integrated data resource for finding chemical and structural information about small molecules bound to proteins and nucleic acids within the structure entries of the Protein Data Bank. Tools are provided to search the PDB dictionary for chemical components, to identify structure entries containing particular small molecules, and to download the 3D structures of the small molecule components in the PDB entry. A sketch tool is also provided for building new chemical definitions from reported PDB chemical components.

Proper citation: Ligand Expo (RRID:SCR_006636) Copy   

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http://www.nb.uw.edu/

Biomedical technology research center that provides state-of-the-art surface analysis expertise, instrumentation, experimental protocols, and data analysis methods to address surface-related biomedical problems. NESAC/BIO develops and applies surface science methodologies that produce a full understanding of the surface composition, structure, spatial distribution, and orientation of biomaterials and adsorbed biomolecules. The NESAC/BIO program identifies areas where surface science must evolve to keep pace with the growth in biochemical knowledge and biomaterial fabrication technology, and develops instrumentation, experimental protocols, and data analysis methods to achieve this evolution. NESAC/BIO provides state-of-the-art surface analysis tools to researchers in the biomedical community. You can gain access to the NESAC/BIO facilities in one of the following ways: * Collaborative: Propose a project to collaborate on with NESAC/BIO. The project should be rewarding for both groups, and the results should reflect the utility of surface analysis for biomedical research * Service: Ask NESAC/BIO to analyze your biomaterial specimens. The spectra obtained from the analyses will be interpreted for you. * Training: Visit the University of Washington to receive training in surface analysis and personally run experiments for your individual research projects. These experiments should have a high probability for yielding useful information and should not involve the development of new ESCA techniques or methodologies.

Proper citation: National ESCA and Surface Analysis Center for Biomedical Problems (RRID:SCR_001430) Copy   

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