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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/

Non-profit academic organization for research and services in bioinformatics. Provides freely available data from life science experiments, performs basic research in computational biology, and offers user training programme, manages databases of biological data including nucleic acid, protein sequences, and macromolecular structures. Part of EMBL.

Proper citation: European Bioinformatics Institute (RRID:SCR_004727) Copy   

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http://www.openphacts.org/

Project that developed an open access discovery platform, called Open Pharmacological Space (OPS), via a semantic web approach, integrating pharmacological data from a variety of information resources and tools and services to question this integrated data to support pharmacological research. The project is based upon the assimilation of data already stored as triples, in the form subject-predicate-object. The software and data are available for download and local installation, under an open source and open access model. Tools and services are provided to query and visualize this data, and a sustainability plan will be in place, continuing the operation of the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform after the project funding ends. Throughout the project, a series of recommendations will be developed in conjunction with the community, building on open standards, to ensure wide applicability of the approaches used for integration of data.

Proper citation: Open PHACTS (RRID:SCR_005050) Copy   

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http://www.bioperl.org

BioPerl is a community effort to produce Perl code which is useful in biology. This toolkit of perl modules is useful in building bioinformatics solutions in Perl. It is built in an object-oriented manner so that many modules depend on each other to achieve a task. The collection of modules in the bioperl-live repository consist of the core of the functionality of bioperl. Additionally auxiliary modules for creating graphical interfaces (bioperl-gui), persistent storage in RDMBS (bioperl-db), running and parsing the results from hundreds of bioinformatics applications (Run package), software to automate bioinformatic analyses (bioperl-pipeline) are all available as Git modules in our repository. The BioPerl toolkit provides a library of hundreds of routines for processing sequence, annotation, alignment, and sequence analysis reports. It often serves as a bridge between different computational biology applications assisting the user to construct analysis pipelines. This chapter illustrates how BioPerl facilitates tasks such as writing scripts summarizing information from BLAST reports or extracting key annotation details from a GenBank sequence record. BioPerl includes modules written by Sohel Merchant of the GO Consortium for parsing and manipulating OBO ontologies. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: BioPerl (RRID:SCR_002989) Copy   

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http://www.biocatalogue.org/

Crowd-curated catalog of life sciences Web services with over 2400 service entries, thereby enabling users (people and programs) to discover and use these services easily. It provides a platform with several (standardized) interfaces and a suite of tools for registration of services by the community of users as well as empowers the community to extend and enhance the system. BioCatalogue provides a centralized biological web services market place which is accessible to the world as it is searchable and indexable to search engines. Additionally, it provides a quality of service standard for biological web services thereby enabling services to be classified and checked for availability, reliability and other quality measures. Primary goals: * Provide a single registration point for Web Service providers and a single search site for scientists and developers. * Providers, Expert curators and Users will provide oversight, monitor the catalog and provide high quality annotations for services. * BioCatalogue is a place where the community can find contacts and meet the experts and maintainers of these services.

Proper citation: Biocatalogue - The Life Science Web Services Registry (RRID:SCR_001679) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/

Public archive providing a comprehensive record of the world''''s nucleotide sequencing information, covering raw sequencing data, sequence assembly information and functional annotation. All submitted data, once public, will be exchanged with the NCBI and DDBJ as part of the INSDC data exchange agreement. The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) captures and presents information relating to experimental workflows that are based around nucleotide sequencing. A typical workflow includes the isolation and preparation of material for sequencing, a run of a sequencing machine in which sequencing data are produced and a subsequent bioinformatic analysis pipeline. ENA records this information in a data model that covers input information (sample, experimental setup, machine configuration), output machine data (sequence traces, reads and quality scores) and interpreted information (assembly, mapping, functional annotation). Data arrive at ENA from a variety of sources including submissions of raw data, assembled sequences and annotation from small-scale sequencing efforts, data provision from the major European sequencing centers and routine and comprehensive exchange with their partners in the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC). Provision of nucleotide sequence data to ENA or its INSDC partners has become a central and mandatory step in the dissemination of research findings to the scientific community. ENA works with publishers of scientific literature and funding bodies to ensure compliance with these principles and to provide optimal submission systems and data access tools that work seamlessly with the published literature. ENA is made up of a number of distinct databases that includes the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (Embl-Bank), the newly established Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and the Trace Archive. The main tool for downloading ENA data is the ENA Browser, which is available through REST URLs for easy programmatic use. All ENA data are available through the ENA Browser. Note: EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (EMBL-Bank) is entirely included within this resource.

Proper citation: European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) (RRID:SCR_006515) Copy   

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http://drcat.sourceforge.net/

Data resource catalog that collates metadata on bioinformatics Web-based data resources including databases, ontologies, taxonomies and catalogues. An entry includes information such as resource identifier(s), name, description and URL. ''''Query'''' lines are defined for each resource that describe what type(s) of data are available, in what format, how (by what identifier) the data can be retrieved and from where (URL). DRCAT was developed to provide more extensive data integration for EMBOSS, but it has many applications beyond EMBOSS. DRCAT entries (including ''''Query'''' lines) are annotated with terms from the EDAM ontology of common bioinformatics concepts.

Proper citation: DRCAT Resource Catalogue (RRID:SCR_005931) Copy   

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http://www.mged.org/Workgroups/MAGE/mage-ml.html

A language / data exchange format designed to describe and communicate information about microarray based experiments that is based on XML and can describe microarray designs, microarray manufacturing information, microarray experiment setup and execution information, gene expression data and data analysis results. MAGE-ML has been automatically derived from Microarray Gene Expression Object Model (MAGE-OM), which is developed and described using the Unified Modelling Language (UML) -- a standard language for describing object models. Descriptions using UML have an advantage over direct XML document type definitions (DTDs), in many respects. First they use graphical representation depicting the relationships between different entities in a way which is much easier to follow than DTDs. Second, the UML diagrams are primarily meant for humans, while DTDs are meant for computers. Therefore MAGE-OM should be considered as the primary model, and MAGE-ML will be explained by providing simplified fragments of MAGE-OM, rather then XML DTD or XML Schema. (from the description by Ugis Sarkans) The field of gene expression experiments has several distinct technologies that a standard must include. These include single vs. dual channel experiments, cDNA vs. oligonucleotides. Because of these different technologies and different types of gene expression experiments, it is not expected that all aspects of the standard will be used by all organizations. Given the massive amount of data associated with a single set of experiments, it is felt that Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the best way to describe the data. The use of a Document Type Definition (DTD) allows a well-defined tag set, a vocabulary, to describe the domain of gene expression experiments. It also has the virtue of compressing very well so that files in an XML format compress to ten percent of their original size. XML is now widely accepted as a data exchange format across multiple platforms.

Proper citation: MicroArray and Gene Expression Markup Language (RRID:SCR_003023) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) toolbox area provides a comprehensive range of tools for the field of bioinformatics. These are subdivided into categories in the left menu for convenience. EBI has developed a large number of very useful bioinformatics tools. A few examples include: - Similarity & Homology - the BLAST or FASTA programs can be used to look for sequence similarity and infer homology. - Protein Functional Analysis - InterProScan can be used to search for motifs in your protein sequence. - Proteomic Services NEW - UniProt DAS server allows researchers to show their research results in the context of UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot annotation. - Sequence Analysis - ClustalW2 a sequence alignment tool. - Structural Analysis - MSDfold can be used to query your protein structure and compare it to those in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). - Web Services - provide programmatic access to the various databases and retrieval/analysis services EBI provides. - Tools Miscellaneous - Expression Profiler a set of tools for clustering, analysis and visualization of gene expression and other genomic data. Sponsors: This resource is sponsored by EBI.

Proper citation: Toolbox at the European Bioinformatics Institute (RRID:SCR_002872) Copy   

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http://edamontology.org/

An ontology of bioinformatics operations (tool, application, or workflow functions), types of data including identifiers, topics (application domains), and data formats. The applications of EDAM are within organizing tools and data, finding suitable tools in catalogues, and integrating them into complex applications or workflows. Semantic annotations with EDAM are applicable to diverse entities such as for example Web services, databases, programmatic libraries, standalone tools and toolkits, interactive applications, data schemas, data sets, or publications within bioinformatics. Annotation with EDAM may also contribute to data provenance, and EDAM terms and synonyms can be used in text mining. EDAM - and in particular the EDAM Data sub-ontology - serves also as a markup vocabulary for bioinformatics data on the Semantic Web.

Proper citation: EDAM Ontology (RRID:SCR_006620) Copy   

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http://orchem.sourceforge.net

OrChem is an extension for the Oracle 11G database that adds registration and indexing of chemical structures to support fast substructure and similarity searching. The cheminformatics functionality is provided by the Chemistry Development Kit. OrChem provides similarity searching with response times in the order of seconds for databases with millions of compounds, depending on a given similarity cut-off. For substructure searching, it can make use of multiple processor cores on today''s powerful database servers to provide fast response times in equally large data sets. OrChem is an Oracle chemistry plug-in using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK). The CDK is an open source Java library for Chemoinformatics and Bioinformatics. OrChem is maintained by the chemoinformatics and metabolism team of the European Bioinformatics Institute. Oracle Data cartridges extend the capabilities of the Oracle server. For chemistry various commercial cartridges exist that facilitate searching and analyzing chemical data. OrChem also provides functionality like this, but is not a cartridge. It doesn''t need Oracle''s extensibility architecture because its Java components run as Java stored procedures inside the Oracle standard JVM (Aurora). OrChem is suitable for Oracle 11G and onwards. Starting with Oracle 11g release 1 (11.1) there is a just-in-time(JIT) compiler for Oracle JVM environment. A JIT compiler for Oracle JVM enables much faster execution because it manages the invalidation, recompilation, and storage of code without an external mechanism. This new Oracle feature makes Java classes perform better than before.

Proper citation: OrChem (RRID:SCR_008865) Copy   

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