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http://cnas.ucr.edu/guppy/

A project that observes the processes of adaptive evolution in nature, and tests evolutionary hypotheses, by studying populations of guppies on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. Darwin thought that evolution by natural selection occurred very slowly, over hundreds if not thousands of years. Evolutionary biologists now know that evolutionary changes in species can happen very quickly, over a relatively few generations. The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) program, is funding a 5-year study by 13 biologists from colleges, universities, and research institutions throughout the United States and Canada, to study the relationship of adaptive evolution and environmental circumstances. The Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) is an excellent species for these purposes because: * It matures rapidly (one generation = 3-4 months) * It inhabits different ecological environments that can be easily manipulated On Trinidad, guppies live in streams, or portions of streams, that can differ in the species of predators that the guppies have to contend with. Some streams are high-predation environments, others low-predation. Different predation environments are often right next to one another, separated by a waterfall (which neither guppies nor predators can cross). Guppies from high-predation environments experience much higher mortality rates than do guppies in low-predation environments. High mortality is associated with the following characteristics, all of which have a genetic basis: * Earlier maturity * Greater investment of resources in reproduction * More and smaller offspring. We have found that mortality rates can be manipulated by: * Transplanting guppies from high-predation localities into sites from which they and their predators had previously been excluded by natural waterfalls, thus lowering mortality rates; * Introducing predators into low-predation sites, thus increasing mortality rates. Such experiments have shown that species evolve as predicted by theory. We have also found that evolution by natural selection can be remarkably fast, on the order of four to seven orders of magnitude faster than had been inferred from the fossil record.

Proper citation: Guppy Project (RRID:SCR_006255) Copy   

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https://dna.dbi.udel.edu/

Provides genomics and molecular biology services for University of Delaware research groups and outside users.Supports genomic research through established expertise with genomics technologies.

Proper citation: University of Delaware Sequencing and Genotyping Center Core Facility (RRID:SCR_012230) Copy   

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http://www.scienceexchange.com/facilities/genomics-core-facility-brown

Provides genomics and proteomics equipment to researchers at Brown University and to entire Rhode Island research community, as well as assistance with experimental design, trouble shooting, and data analysis. Offers Affymetrix microarray and Illumina NextGeneration services to academic community and external customers.

Proper citation: Brown University Genomics Core Facility (RRID:SCR_012217) Copy   

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http://www.scienceexchange.com/facilities/nnin-nano-research-facility-wustl

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 15,2024. Nano Research Facility (NRF) at Washington University in St. Louis is a NNIN nodal facility supported by the National Science Foundation. It cultivates an open, shared research, and education environment that brings researchers across disciplines together, particularly in the emerging area of nanomaterials with applications in the energy, environment, and biomedical fields. The mission is to be a resource to the scientific and technical community for the advancement of nanoscience and nanotechnology in a safe and environmentally benign manner. NRF includes a micro- and nano-fabrication lab (clean room), surface characterization lab, particle technology lab, and imaging lab with a focus on bio-imaging. NRF provides unique technical expertise in: Knowledge-based synthesis of nanostructured materials Particle instrumentation tools for toxicity studies Non-invasive imaging modalities for biological applications Clean Energy Applications Energy and Environmental nanotechology Environmental Health and Safety As a member of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), supported by the National Science Foundation, NRF is available to both academic and industrial users nation-wide and across the globe.

Proper citation: WUSTL NNIN - Nano Research Facility (RRID:SCR_012674) Copy   

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https://rockd.org/

Map database allows to record your geological observations and uses your location to provide spatially informed suggestions for nearby geologic units, time intervals, and fossils.

Proper citation: rockd (RRID:SCR_024431) Copy   

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http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/core-repository

Core repository and one of the world's most unique and important collections of scientific samples from the deep sea. Sediment cores from every major ocean and sea are archived at the Core Repository. The collection contains approximately 72,000 meters of core composed of 9,700 piston cores; 7,000 trigger weight cores; and 2,000 other cores such as box, kasten, and large diameter gravity cores. They also hold 4,000 dredge and grab samples, including a large collection of manganese nodules, many of which were recovered by submersibles. Over 100,000 residues are stored and are available for sampling where core material is expended. In addition to physical samples, a database of the Lamont core collection has been maintained for nearly 50 years and contains information on the geographic location of each collection site, core length, mineralogy and paleontology, lithology, and structure, and more recently, the full text of megascopic descriptions. Samples from cores and dredges, as well as descriptions of cores and dredges (including digital images and other cruise information), are provided to scientific investigators upon request. Materials for educational purposes and museum displays may also be made available in limited quantities when requests are adequately justified. Various services and data analyses, including core archiving, carbonate analyses, grain size analyses, and RGB line scan imaging, GRAPE, P-wave velocity and magnetic susceptibility runs, can also be provided at cost. The Repository operates a number of labs and instruments dedicated to making fundamental measurements on material entering the repository including several non-destructive methods. Instruments for conducting and/or assisting with analyses of deep-sea sediments include a GeoTek Multi-Sensor Core Logger, a UIC coulometer, a Micromeritics sedigraph, Vane Shear, X-radiograph, Sonic Sifter, freeze dryer, as well as a variety of microscopes, sieves, and sampling tools. They also make these instruments available to the scientific community for conducting analyses of deep-sea sediments. If you are interested in borrowing any field equipment, please contact the Repository Curator.

Proper citation: Lamont-Doherty Core Repository (RRID:SCR_002216) Copy   

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http://lrc.geo.umn.edu/laccore/

Archive of almost 20,000 meters of high quality sediment cores from large and small expeditions to lakes all around the world. LacCore advocates for, coordinates, and facilitates core-based research on Earth's continents through collaborative support for logistics, field and laboratory, and data and sample curation and dissemination. They provide a wide variety of fee-based analytical services, as well as offer training and instrument time to lab visitors. They also develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for local training and adoption by individuals at other labs.

Proper citation: National Lacustrine Core Facility (RRID:SCR_002215) Copy   

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http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/fungi/fgi/

Produces and analyzes sequence data from fungal organisms that are important to medicine, agriculture and industry. The FGI is a partnership between the Broad Institute and the wider fungal research community, with the selection of target genomes governed by a steering committee of fungal scientists. Organisms are selected for sequencing as part of a cohesive strategy that considers the value of data from each organism, given their role in basic research, health, agriculture and industry, as well as their value in comparative genomics.

Proper citation: Fungal Genome Initiative (RRID:SCR_003169) Copy   

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http://www.sgn.cornell.edu/bulk/input.pl?modeunigene

Allows users to download Unigene or BAC information using a list of identifiers or complete datasets with FTP., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: Sol Genomics Network - Bulk download (RRID:SCR_007161) Copy   

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http://www.nber.org/papers/h0038

A dataset to advance the study of life-cycle interactions of biomedical and socioeconomic factors in the aging process. The EI project has assembled a variety of large datasets covering the life histories of approximately 39,616 white male volunteers (drawn from a random sample of 331 companies) who served in the Union Army (UA), and of about 6,000 African-American veterans from 51 randomly selected United States Colored Troops companies (USCT). Their military records were linked to pension and medical records that detailed the soldiers������?? health status and socioeconomic and family characteristics. Each soldier was searched for in the US decennial census for the years in which they were most likely to be found alive (1850, 1860, 1880, 1900, 1910). In addition, a sample consisting of 70,000 men examined for service in the Union Army between September 1864 and April 1865 has been assembled and linked only to census records. These records will be useful for life-cycle comparisons of those accepted and rejected for service. Military Data: The military service and wartime medical histories of the UA and USCT men were collected from the Union Army and United States Colored Troops military service records, carded medical records, and other wartime documents. Pension Data: Wherever possible, the UA and USCT samples have been linked to pension records, including surgeon''''s certificates. About 70% of men in the Union Army sample have a pension. These records provide the bulk of the socioeconomic and demographic information on these men from the late 1800s through the early 1900s, including family structure and employment information. In addition, the surgeon''''s certificates provide rich medical histories, with an average of 5 examinations per linked recruit for the UA, and about 2.5 exams per USCT recruit. Census Data: Both early and late-age familial and socioeconomic information is collected from the manuscript schedules of the federal censuses of 1850, 1860, 1870 (incomplete), 1880, 1900, and 1910. Data Availability: All of the datasets (Military Union Army; linked Census; Surgeon''''s Certificates; Examination Records, and supporting ecological and environmental variables) are publicly available from ICPSR. In addition, copies on CD-ROM may be obtained from the CPE, which also maintains an interactive Internet Data Archive and Documentation Library, which can be accessed on the Project Website. * Dates of Study: 1850-1910 * Study Features: Longitudinal, Minority Oversamples * Sample Size: ** Union Army: 35,747 ** Colored Troops: 6,187 ** Examination Sample: 70,800 ICPSR Link: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/06836

Proper citation: Early Indicators of Later Work Levels Disease and Death (EI) - Union Army Samples Public Health and Ecological Datasets (RRID:SCR_008921) Copy   

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http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/~TeleNature/bibe/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 15, 2013. A facility to help novices and experts find information about plants and animals in digital collections. The objectives of the Project are to facilitate access to online flora and fauna by both novices and experts through enhanced indexing, searching, and visualization techniques. Specific search facility and content will be added to help users with different levels of domain knowledge identify species based on the augmentation of professionally developed taxonomic treatments or species descriptions. This is a novel use of taxonomic descriptions.

Proper citation: Biological Information Browsing Environment (RRID:SCR_008170) Copy   

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http://trex.biohpc.org/

T-REX is a free, platform-independent online tool that allows for an integrated, rapid, and more robust analysis of T-RFLP data. Despite increasing popularity and improvements in terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) and other microbial community fingerprinting techniques, there are still numerous obstacles that hamper the analysis of these datasets. Many steps are required to process raw data into a format ready for analysis and interpretation. These steps can be time-intensive, error-prone, and can introduce unwanted variability into the analysis. Accordingly, we developed T-REX, free, online software for the processing and analysis of T-RFLP data. Analysis of T-RFLP data generated from a multiple-factorial study was performed with T-REX. With this software, we were able to i) label raw data with attributes related to the experimental design of the samples, ii) determine a baseline threshold for identification of true peaks over noise, iii) align terminal restriction fragments (T-RFs) in all samples (i.e., bin T-RFs), iv) construct a two-way data matrix from labeled data and process the matrix in a variety of ways, v) produce several measures of data matrix complexity, including the distribution of variance between main and interaction effects and sample heterogeneity, and vi) analyze a data matrix with the additive main effects and multiplicative interaction (AMMI) model.

Proper citation: T-REX (RRID:SCR_010715) Copy   

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http://www.cravat.us/

A web-based application designed with an easy-to-use interface to facilitate the high-throughput assessment and prioritization of genes and missense alterations important for cancer tumorigenesis.

Proper citation: CRAVAT (RRID:SCR_012776) Copy   

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http://www.collectf.org/browse/home/

A database of experimentally-validate transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) in the Bacteria domain. CollecTF places special emphasis on providing a curation process that captures the experimental support for sites as reported by authors in peer-reviewed publications. Reported binding sites are mapped to NCBI RefSeq complete genome records. The database can be browsed by transcription factor families, NCBI taxonomy or experimental support, or through customized searches integrating these three elements.

Proper citation: CollecTF (RRID:SCR_014405) Copy   

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http://msub.csbio.unc.edu/

A custom genome browser which provides detailed answers to questions on the haplotype diversity and phylogenetic origin of the genetic variation underlying any genomic region of most laboratory strains of mice (both classical and wild-derived). Users can select a region of the genome and a set of laboratory strains and/or wild caught mice. The region is selected by specifying the start (e.g. 31200000 or 31200K or 31.2M), and end of the interval and the chromosome (i.e, autosome number and X chromosome). Samples can be selected by name or by entire set. Data sets include information on subspecific origin, heterozygosity regions, and haplotype coloring, among others.

Proper citation: Mouse Phylogeny Viewer (RRID:SCR_014071) Copy   

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https://www.jmu.edu/microscopy/index.shtml

Core provides instrumentation, resources, training, and consultation. Facility offers access to diverse range of light microscope and imaging systems,image analysis software and solutions, practical and theoretical training for faculty, students and classes,consultation on data acquisition, analysis, and presentation.

Proper citation: James Madison University Light Microscopy and Imaging Core Facility (RRID:SCR_021904) Copy   

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http://www.wwpdb.org/

Public global Protein Data Bank archive of macromolecular structural data overseen by organizations that act as deposition, data processing and distribution centers for PDB data. Members are: RCSB PDB (USA), PDBe (Europe) and PDBj (Japan), and BMRB (USA). This site provides information about services provided by individual member organizations and about projects undertaken by wwPDB. Data available via websites of its member organizations.

Proper citation: Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) (RRID:SCR_006555) Copy   

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http://arabidopsis.med.ohio-state.edu

An information resource of Arabidopsis promoter sequences, transcription factors and their target genes that contains three databases. *AtcisDB consists of approximately 33,000 upstream regions of annotated Arabidopsis genes (TAIR9 release) with a description of experimentally validated and predicted cis-regulatory elements. *AtTFDB contains information on approximately 1,770 transcription factors (TFs). These TFs are grouped into 50 families, based on the presence of conserved domains. *AtRegNet contains 11,355 direct interactions between TFs and target genes. They provide free download of Arabidopsis thaliana cis-regulatory database (AtcisDB) and transcription factor database (AtTFDB).

Proper citation: Arabidopsis Gene Regulatory Information Server (RRID:SCR_006928) Copy   

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http://www.agbase.msstate.edu/

A curated, open-source, web-accessible resource for functional analysis of agricultural plant and animal gene products. Our long-term goal is to serve the needs of the agricultural research communities by facilitating post-genome biology for agriculture researchers and for those researchers primarily using agricultural species as biomedical models. AgBase provides tools designed to assist with the analysis of proteomics data and tools to evaluate experimental datasets using the GO. Additional tools for sequence analysis are also provided. We use controlled vocabularies developed by the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium to describe molecular function, biological process, and cellular component for genes and gene products in agricultural species. AgBase will also accept annotations from any interested party in the research communities. AgBase develops freely available tools for functional analysis, including tools for using GO. We appreciate any and all questions, comments, and suggestions. AgBase uses the NCBI Blast program for searches for similar sequences. And the Taxonomy Browser allows users to find the NCBI defined taxon ID for or taxon name for different organisms.

Proper citation: AgBase (RRID:SCR_007547) Copy   

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http://www.biocheminfo.org/klotho/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 16, 2013. A database of biochemical compound information. All files are available for download, and all entries are cataloged by accession number. Klotho is part of a larger attempt to model biological processes, beginning with biochemistry.

Proper citation: Klotho: Biochemical Compounds Declarative Database (RRID:SCR_007714) Copy   

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