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http://www.broadinstitute.org/

Biomedical and genomic research center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Nonprofit research organization under the name Broad Institute Inc., and is partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the five Harvard teaching hospitals. Dedicated to advance understanding of biology and treatment of human disease to improve human health.

Proper citation: Broad Institute (RRID:SCR_007073) Copy   

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http://lincs.hms.harvard.edu/db/

Database that contains all publicly available HMS LINCS datasets and information for each dataset about experimental reagents and experimental and data analysis protocols. Experimental reagents include small molecule perturbagens, cells, antibodies, and proteins.

Proper citation: HMS LINCS Database (RRID:SCR_006454) Copy   

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https://www.broadinstitute.org/ccle/

A collaborative project between the Broad Institute and the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research and its Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, with the goal of conducting a detailed genetic and pharmacologic characterization of a large panel of human cancer models. The CCLE also works to develop integrated computational analyses that link distinct pharmacologic vulnerabilities to genomic patterns and to translate cell line integrative genomics into cancer patient stratification. The CCLE provides public access to genomic data, analysis and visualization for about 1000 cell lines.

Proper citation: Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (RRID:SCR_013836) Copy   

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http://life.ccs.miami.edu/life/

LIFE search engine contains data generated from LINCS Pilot Phase, to integrate LINCS content leveraging semantic knowledge model and common LINCS metadata standards. LIFE makes LINCS content discoverable and includes aggregate results linked to Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute and other LINCS centers, who provide more information including experimental conditions and raw data. Please visit LINCS Data Portal.

Proper citation: LINCS Information Framework (RRID:SCR_003937) Copy   

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https://cellarium.ai

Software platform to annotate cell types.

Proper citation: Cellarium (RRID:SCR_025438) Copy   

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http://www.bioinformatics.org/go2msig/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on April 24, 2020. Software tool as automated Gene Ontology based multi species gene set generator for gene set enrichment analysis. Used to generate gene sets required for Gene Set Enrichment Analysis for almost any organism for which GO term association data exists.
Gene set collections can be automatically created for wide variety of species.

Proper citation: GO2MSIG (RRID:SCR_018359) Copy   

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http://www.broad.mit.edu/mpg/grail/

A tool to examine relationships between genes in different disease associated loci. Given several genomic regions or SNPs associated with a particular phenotype or disease, GRAIL looks for similarities in the published scientific text among the associated genes. As input, users can upload either (1) SNPs that have emerged from a genome-wide association study or (2) genomic regions that have emerged from a linkage scan or are associated common or rare copy number variants. SNPs should be listed according to their rs#''s and must be listed in HapMap. Genomic Regions are specified by a user-defined identifier, the chromosome that it is located on, and the start and end base-pair positions for the region. Grail can take two sets of inputs - Query regions and Seed regions. Seed regions are definitely associated SNPs or genomic regions, and Query regions are those regions that the user is attempting to evaluate agains them. In many applications the two sets are identical. Based on textual relationships between genes, GRAIL assigns a p-value to each region suggesting its degree of functional connectivity, and picks the best candidate gene. GRAIL is developed by Soumya Raychaudhuri in the labs of David Altshuler and Mark Daly at the Center for Human Genetic Research of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and the Broad Institute. GRAIL is described in manuscript, currently in preparation.

Proper citation: Gene Relationships Across Implicated Loci (RRID:SCR_008537) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/scientific-community/science/programs/cancer/ultrasome

An efficient methodology for detecting and delineating gains and losses of chromosomal material in DNA copy-number data.

Proper citation: Ultrasome (RRID:SCR_008465) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/cancer/cga/invex/

A permutation-based method (written in Python) for ascertaining genes with a somatic mutation distribution showing evidence of positive selection for non-silent mutations.

Proper citation: InVEx (RRID:SCR_008734) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/cancer/cga/mutsig

Software that analyzes lists of mutations discovered in DNA sequencing, to identify genes that were mutated more often than expected by chance given background mutation processes.

Proper citation: MutSig (RRID:SCR_010779) Copy   

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https://www.broadinstitute.org/scientific-community/science/programs/genome-sequencing-and-analysis/computational-rd/computational-

Software tool as whole genome shotgun assembler that can generate high quality genome assemblies using short reads (~100bp) such as those produced by the new generation of sequencers.

Proper citation: ALLPATHS-LG (RRID:SCR_010742) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/science/programs/genome-biology/computational-rd/computational-research-and-development

A software for genome assembly, and is specifically designed to analyze long Sanger-chemistry reads.

Proper citation: ARACHNE (RRID:SCR_000351) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/cancer/cga/contest

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on August 8,2025. A software tool (and method) for estimating the amount of cross-sample contamination in next generation sequencing data.

Proper citation: ContEst (RRID:SCR_000595) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/genome_bio/siphy/

Software that implements rigorous statistical tests to detect bases under selection from a multiple alignment data. It takes full advantage of deeply sequenced phylogenies to estimate both unlikely substitution patterns as well as slowdowns or accelerations in mutation rates. It can be applied as an Hidden Markov Model (HMM), in sliding windows, or to specific regions.

Proper citation: SiPhy (RRID:SCR_000564) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/science/programs/genome-biology/computational-rd/vaal-manual

A polymorphism discovery algorithm for short reads. To run it, you provide reads (and quality scores) from a "sample genome" as input, along with a vector sequence to trim from the reads, and a reference sequence for a related genome to compare to. VAAL produces as output a an assembly for the sample genome, together with a mask showing which bases are "trusted". It then deduces from that a list of differences between the sample and related genomes. Alternatively, it can be provided as input read data for two sample genomes, together with a reference sequence for a related genome. In this case, VAAL produces assemblies for each of the sample genomes, and compares them to each other, thereby deducing a list of differences between them. VAAL has been tested on bacteria, using single lanes of 36 bp unpaired reads from the Illumina platform. Note: This software package is no longer supported and information on this page is provided for archival purposes only.

Proper citation: VAAL (RRID:SCR_001184) Copy   

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http://www.aspgd.org/

Database of genetic and molecular biological information about the filamentous fungi of the genus Aspergillus including information about genes and proteins of Aspergillus nidulans and Aspergillus fumigatus; descriptions and classifications of their biological roles, molecular functions, and subcellular localizations; gene, protein, and chromosome sequence information; tools for analysis and comparison of sequences; and links to literature information; as well as a multispecies comparative genomics browser tool (Sybil) for exploration of orthology and synteny across multiple sequenced Sgenus species. Also available are Gene Ontology (GO) and community resources. Based on the Candida Genome Database, the Aspergillus Genome Database is a resource for genomic sequence data and gene and protein information for Aspergilli. Among its many species, the genus contains an excellent model organism (A. nidulans, or its teleomorph Emericella nidulans), an important pathogen of the immunocompromised (A. fumigatus), an agriculturally important toxin producer (A. flavus), and two species used in industrial processes (A. niger and A. oryzae). Search options allow you to: *Search AspGD database using keywords. *Find chromosomal features that match specific properties or annotations. *Find AspGD web pages using keywords located on the page. *Find information on one gene from many databases. *Search for keywords related to a phenotype (e.g., conidiation), an allele (such as veA1), or an experimental condition (e.g., light). Analysis and Tools allow you to: *Find similarities between a sequence of interest and Aspergillus DNA or protein sequences. *Display and analyze an Aspergillus sequence (or other sequence) in many ways. *Navigate the chromosomes set. View nucleotide and protein sequence. *Find short DNA/protein sequence matches in Aspergillus. *Design sequencing and PCR primers for Aspergillus or other input sequences. *Display the restriction map for a Aspergillus or other input sequence. *Find similarities between a sequence of interest and fungal nucleotide or protein sequences. AspGD welcomes data submissions.

Proper citation: ASPGD (RRID:SCR_002047) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/igv/

A high-performance visualization tool for interactive exploration of large, integrated genomic datasets.

Proper citation: Integrative Genomics Viewer (RRID:SCR_011793) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/mpg/magenta/

A computational tool that tests for enrichment of genetic associations in predefined biological processes or sets of functionally related genes, using genome-wide genetic data as input.

Proper citation: MAGENTA (RRID:SCR_003422) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/cancer/cga/absolute

Software to estimate purity / ploidy, and from that compute absolute copy-number and mutation multiplicities. When DNA is extracted from an admixed population of cancer and normal cells, the information on absolute copy number per cancer cell is lost in the mixing. The purpose of ABSOLUTE is to re-extract these data from the mixed DNA population. This process begins by generation of segmented copy number data, which is input to the ABSOLUTE algorithm together with pre-computed models of recurrent cancer karyotypes and, optionally, allelic fraction values for somatic point mutations. The output of ABSOLUTE then provides re-extracted information on the absolute cellular copy number of local DNA segments and, for point mutations, the number of mutated alleles.

Proper citation: ABSOLUTE (RRID:SCR_005198) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/cancer/cga/indelocator

A software tool for calling short indels in next generation sequencing data.

Proper citation: Indelocator (RRID:SCR_005258) Copy   

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