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http://www.neuroanatomy.ca/

The WEB ATLAS contains photographs of dissected brains showing important structures. The diagrams folder contains drawings showing functionally important parts of the brain as well as drawings of dissections adapted from C.G. Smith. We are particularly pleased to make Nan Cheney''s medical illustrations of the brain and the head available. The STROKE MODEL portion of the website has syndromes associated with strokes of different vessels of the brain as well as extensive diagrams and tables about the vessels of the brain. The 3D RECONSTRUCTIONS featured on this website were made from MRI scans through the brain - where indicated the source material was from the NIH Visible Human Project. The website will also contain material important for the neuroanatomy labs for med students at UBC. Weekly quizzes will help you keep up with studying the material, the podcasts will help you review material presented in the labs, and the weekly wikis will help you share information with your peers.

Proper citation: Neuroanatomy at UBC (RRID:SCR_008744) Copy   

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http://meme.nbcr.net/meme/cgi-bin/gomo.cgi

Gene Ontology for Motifs (GOMO) is an alignment- and threshold-free comparative genomics approach for assigning functional roles to DNA regulatory motifs from DNA sequence. The algorithm detects associations between a user-specified DNA regulatory motif (expressed as a position weight matrix; PWM) and Gene Ontology terms. The original method for predicting the roles of transcription factors (TFs starts with a PWM motif describing the DNA-binding affinity of the TF. GOMO uses the PWM to score the promoter region of each gene in the genome for its likelihood to be bound by the TF. The resulting ''''affinity'''' scores are then used to test each term in the Gene Ontology for association with high-scoring genes. The algorithm was subsequently extended to leverage conserved signals using multiple, related species in a comparative approach, which greatly improves the resulting annotations. Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: GOMO - Gene Ontology for Motifs (RRID:SCR_008864) Copy   

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http://www.textpresso.org/

An information extracting and processing package for biological literature that can be used online or installed locally via a downloadable software package, http://www.textpresso.org/downloads.html Textpresso's two major elements are (1) access to full text, so that entire articles can be searched, and (2) introduction of categories of biological concepts and classes that relate two objects (e.g., association, regulation, etc.) or describe one (e.g., methods, etc). A search engine enables the user to search for one or a combination of these categories and/or keywords within an entire literature. The Textpresso project serves the biological and biomedical research community by providing: * Full text literature searches of model organism research and subject-specific articles at individual sites. Major elements of these search engines are (1) access to full text, so that the entire content of articles can be searched, and (2) search capabilities using categories of biological concepts and classes that relate two objects (e.g., association, regulation, etc.) or identify one (e.g., cell, gene, allele, etc). The search engines are flexible, enabling users to query the entire literature using keywords, one or more categories or a combination of keywords and categories. * Text classification and mining of biomedical literature for database curation. They help database curators to identify and extract biological entities and facts from the full text of research articles. Examples of entity identification and extraction include new allele and gene names and human disease gene orthologs; examples of fact identification and extraction include sentence retrieval for curating gene-gene regulation, Gene Ontology (GO) cellular components and GO molecular function annotations. In addition they classify papers according to curation needs. They employ a variety of methods such as hidden Markov models, support vector machines, conditional random fields and pattern matches. Our collaborators include WormBase, FlyBase, SGD, TAIR, dictyBase and the Neuroscience Information Framework. They are looking forward to collaborating with more model organism databases and projects. * Linking biological entities in PDF and online journal articles to online databases. They have established a journal article mark-up pipeline that links select content of Genetics journal articles to model organism databases such as WormBase and SGD. The entity markup pipeline links over nine classes of objects including genes, proteins, alleles, phenotypes, and anatomical terms to the appropriate page at each database. The first article published with online and PDF-embedded hyperlinks to WormBase appeared in the September 2009 issue of Genetics. As of January 2011, we have processed around 70 articles, to be continued indefinitely. Extension of this pipeline to other journals and model organism databases is planned. Textpresso is useful as a search engine for researchers as well as a curation tool. It was developed as a part of WormBase and is used extensively by C. elegans curators. Textpresso has currently been implemented for 24 different literatures, among them Neuroscience, and can readily be extended to other corpora of text.

Proper citation: Textpresso (RRID:SCR_008737) Copy   

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http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site

Open tools to support data management for biological light microscopy produced by a multi-site collaborative effort among academic laboratories and a number of commercial entities. Designed to interact with existing commercial software, all OME formats and software are free, and all OME source code is available under the GNU General public license or through commercial license from Glencoe Software. OME is developed as a joint project between research-active laboratories at the Dundee, NIA Baltimore, and Harvard Medical School and LOCI. In addition, OME has active collaborations with many imaging and informatics groups. While many other applications could use OME''s architecture and design, their specific implementation is focused on biological and biomedical imaging. Those interested in applying OME''s technology to other applications should contact the developers. OME work is divided into several different standards and software projects: * Bio-Formats: A Java-based library for reading and writing over 90 microscopy file formats. * OMERO Software: The Java-based OMERO software project, which currently includes tools for storing, visualizing, managing, and annotating microscopic images and metadata. * OME-XML & OME-TIFF: The OME-XML and OME-TIFF file format specifications, which are open file formats for sharing microscope image data. * OME Server: This was the original OME server project which has now ended and is a legacy product. It implements image-based analysis of cellular dynamics and image-based screening of cellular localization or phenotypes, and included a fully developed version of the 2003 version of OME-XML Schema language.

Proper citation: OME - Open Microscopy Environment (RRID:SCR_008849) Copy   

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

Software to: view dicom files and assemble them into 3D volumes. View and convert between Analyze, Nifti, and Interfile. Classify and organize dicoms and 3D volumes using metadata. Search and report on a collection of scans.

Proper citation: DIAMOND (RRID:SCR_009457) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/cbs-tools/

A fully automated processing pipeline for cortical analysis of structural MR images at a resolution of up to 400������m, including skull stripping, whole brain segmentation, cortical extraction, surface inflation and mapping, as well as dedicated tools for profile estimation across the cortical thickness. The tools are released as a set of plug-ins for the MIPAV software package and the JIST pipeline environment. They are therefore cross-platform and compatible with a wide variety of file formats.

Proper citation: CBS High-Res Brain Processing Tools (RRID:SCR_009452) Copy   

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

An open-source C++-based application that allows automatic as well as user-interactive segmentation of the Corpus Callosum. Via a Qt-based graphical user interface, CCSeg also performs semi-automatic segmentation.

Proper citation: CCSeg - Corpus Callosum Segmentation (RRID:SCR_009453) Copy   

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http://crezoo.crt-dresden.de/crezoo/

Database of helpful set of CreERT2 driver lines expressing in various regions of the developing and adult zebrafish. The lines have been generated via the insertion of a mCherry-T2A-CreERT2 in a gene trap approach or by using promoter fragments driving CreERT2. You can search the list of all transgenic lines or single entries by insertions (gene) or expression patterns (anatomy/region). In most cases the CreERT2 expression profile using in situ hybridization at 24 hpf and 48 hpf is shown, but also additional information (e.g. mCherry or CreERT2 expression at adult stages, transactivation of a Cre-dependent reporter line) is displayed. Currently, not all insertions have been mapped to a genomic location but the database will be regularly updated adding newly generated insertions and mapping information. Your help in improving and broadening the database by giving your opinion or knowledge of expression patterns is highly appreciated.

Proper citation: CreZoo (RRID:SCR_008919) Copy   

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http://clipserve.clip.ubc.ca/topfind

An integrated knowledgebase focused on protein termini, their formation by proteases and functional implications. It contains information about the processing and the processing state of proteins and functional implications thereof derived from research literature, contributions by the scientific community and biological databases. It lists more than 120,000 N- and C-termini and almost 10,000 cleavages. TopFIND is a resource for comprehensive coverage of protein N- and C-termini discovered by all available in silico, in vitro as well as in vivo methodologies. It makes use of existing knowledge by seamless integration of data from UniProt and MEROPS and provides access to new data from community submission and manual literature curating. It renders modifications of protein termini, such as acetylation and citrulination, easily accessible and searchable and provides the means to identify and analyse extend and distribution of terminal modifications across a protein. The data is presented to the user with a strong emphasis on the relation to curated background information and underlying evidence that led to the observation of a terminus, its modification or proteolytic cleavage. In brief the protein information, its domain structure, protein termini, terminus modifications and proteolytic processing of and by other proteins is listed. All information is accompanied by metadata like its original source, method of identification, confidence measurement or related publication. A positional cross correlation evaluation matches termini and cleavage sites with protein features (such as amino acid variants) and domains to highlight potential effects and dependencies in a unique way. Also, a network view of all proteins showing their functional dependency as protease, substrate or protease inhibitor tied in with protein interactions is provided for the easy evaluation of network wide effects. A powerful yet user friendly filtering mechanism allows the presented data to be filtered based on parameters like methodology used, in vivo relevance, confidence or data source (e.g. limited to a single laboratory or publication). This provides means to assess physiological relevant data and to deduce functional information and hypotheses relevant to the bench scientist. TopFIND PROVIDES: * Integration of protein termini with proteolytic processing and protein features * Displays proteases and substrates within their protease web including detailed evidence information * Fully supports the Human Proteome Project through search by chromosome location CONTRIBUTE * Submit your N- or C-termini datasets * Contribute information on protein cleavages * Provide detailed experimental description, sample information and raw data

Proper citation: TopFIND (RRID:SCR_008918) Copy   

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http://www.pdbj.org/

PDBj (Protein Data Bank Japan) maintains a centralized PDB archive of macromolecular structures and provides integrated tools, in collaboration with the RCSB, the BMRB in USA and the PDBe in EU.

Proper citation: PDBj - Protein Data Bank Japan (RRID:SCR_008912) Copy   

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http://www.mmpc.org

Center mission is to advance medical and biological research by providing the scientific community with standardized, high quality metabolic and physiologic phenotyping services for mouse models of diabetes, diabetic complications, obesity and related disorders.

Proper citation: National Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Centers (RRID:SCR_008997) Copy   

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http://www.biomatik.com/

An Antibody supplier, Core facility

Proper citation: Biomatik (RRID:SCR_008944) Copy   

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https://www.beckmancoulter.com/

An Organization portal, Material service resource, Antibody supplier, Instrument supplier

Proper citation: Beckman Coulter (RRID:SCR_008940) Copy   

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http://www.hapsample.org/

Web application for simulating SNP genotypes for case-control and affected-child trio studies by resampling from Phase I/II HapMap SNP data. The user provides a list of SNPs to be genotyped, along with a disease model file that describes causal SNPs and their effect sizes. The simulation tool is appropriate for candidate regions or whole-genome scans. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

Proper citation: HAP-SAMPLE (RRID:SCR_009234) Copy   

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

A FSL package for the comprehensive management of large-scale multi-site fMRI projects, including data storage, retrieval, calibration, analysis, multi-modal integration, and quality control.

Proper citation: FBIRN Image Processing Scripts (RRID:SCR_009471) Copy   

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https://www.coursera.org/

An open course site where you can take the World''s Best Courses, Online, For Free. We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students. Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in. Our Courses Classes offered on Coursera are designed to help you master the material. When you take one of our classes, you will watch lectures taught by world-class professors, learn at your own pace, test your knowledge, and reinforce concepts through interactive exercises. When you join one of our classes, you''ll also join a global community of thousands of students learning alongside you. We know that your life is busy, and that you have many commitments on your time. Thus, our courses are designed based on sound pedagogical foundations, to help you master new concepts quickly and effectively. Key ideas include mastery learning, to make sure that you have multiple attempts to demonstrate your new knowledge; using interactivity, to ensure student engagement and to assist long-term retention; and providing frequent feedback, so that you can monitor your own progress, and know when you''ve really mastered the material. We offer courses in a wide range of topics, spanning the Humanities, Medicine, Biology, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, Computer Science, and many others. Whether you''re looking to improve your resume, advance your career, or just learn more and expand your knowledge, we hope there will be multiple courses that you find interesting.

Proper citation: Coursera (RRID:SCR_008931) Copy   

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

This code registers linearly and non-linearly Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Images (DW-MRIs) by extending FLIRT (linear registration of 3D scalar volumes) and FNIRT (non-linear registration of 3D scalar volumes) in the FMRIB Software Library (FSL) to work with 4D volumes. The basis for registering DW-MRIs is the concept of Angular Interpolation (Tao, X., Miller, J. V., 2006. A method forregistering diffusion weighted magnetic resonance images. In: MICCAI. Vol. 9. pp. 594?602), which is implemented and extended to non-linear registration, based on the FLIRT and FNIRT models in FSL. See http://www.frontiersin.org/Brain_Imaging_Methods/10.3389/fnins.2013.00041/abstract. The code does not overwrite FLIRT, FNIRT or any of the FSL C++ code. It is added as FLIRT4D, FNIRT4D and supporting cost functions. The makefiles will however be overwritten to compile the new code, without affecting any version of FSL.

Proper citation: DW-MRI registration in FSL (RRID:SCR_009461) Copy   

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

Tool to assist site staff with curation of data dictionary, data item, and subject item files for preparation to uploading and sharing data with DbGaP resource.

Proper citation: DbGaP Cleaner (RRID:SCR_009462) Copy   

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http://hymenopteragenome.org/beebase/

Gene sequences and genomes of Bombus terrestris, Bombus impatiens, Apis mellifera and three of its pathogens, that are discoverable and analyzed via genome browsers, blast search, and apollo annotation tool. The genomes of two additional species, Apis dorsata and A. florea are currently under analysis and will soon be incorporated.BeeBase is an archive and will not be updated. The most up-to-date bee genome data is now available through the navigation bar on the HGD Home page.

Proper citation: BeeBase (RRID:SCR_008966) Copy   

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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Pharmacology

Pharmacology is a wikibook covering topics within pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences.

Proper citation: Pharmacology (RRID:SCR_009017) Copy   

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