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http://www.nescent.org/

The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) is a nonprofit science center dedicated to cross-disciplinary research in evolution. NESCent promotes the synthesis of information, concepts and knowledge to address significant, emerging, or novel questions in evolutionary science and its applications. NESCent achieves this by supporting research and education across disciplinary, institutional, geographic, and demographic boundaries. Synthetic research in evolutionary science takes many forms but includes integrating novel data sets and models to address important problems within a discipline, developing new analytical approaches and tools, and combining methods and perspectives from multiple disciplines to answer and even create new fundamental scientific questions. NESCent facilitates such synthetic research by providing an environment for fertile interactions among scientists. Our Science and Synthesis program sponsors postdoctoral fellows and sabbatical scholars as resident scientists, and two kinds of meetings, working groups and catalysis meetings. Catalysis meetings provide a novel mechanism for bringing together diverse research communities and cultures to identify common interests, while working groups provide an opportunity for scientists to work together intensively on fundamental synthetic questions over a several-year period. These activities are community driven through our application process and evaluated by an external advisory board. Our Informatics program provides state of the art informatics tools to visiting and in-house scientists and aims to take the lead in assembling novel databases and developing new analytical tools for evolutionary biology. Finally it is sponsoring a major initiative to provide a digital data repository for work in evolutionary biology. NESCent''s Education and Outreach group communicates the results of evolutionary biology research to the general public and scientific community, provides outreach to groups who are underrepresented in evolutionary biology and works to improve evolution education.

Proper citation: NESCent - National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (RRID:SCR_005911) Copy   

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https://datadryad.org

International, curated, digital repository that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Particularly data for which no specialized repository exists. Provides the infrastructure for, and promotes the re-use of, data underlying the scholarly literature. Governed by a nonprofit membership organization. Membership is open to any stakeholder organization, including but not limited to journals, scientific societies, publishers, research institutions, libraries, and funding organizations. Most data are associated with peer-reviewed articles, although data associated with non-peer reviewed publications from reputable academic sources, such as dissertations, are also accepted. Used to validate published findings, explore new analysis methodologies, repurpose data for research questions unanticipated by the original authors, and perform synthetic studies.UC system is member organization of Dryad general subject data repository.

Proper citation: Dryad Digital Repository (RRID:SCR_005910) Copy   

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http://martinos.org/mne/

Software suite for processing magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography data. Open source Python software for exploring, visualizing, and analyzing human neurophysiological data including MEG, EEG, sEEG, ECoG . Implements all functionality of MNE Matlab tools in Python and extends capabilities of MNE Matlab tools to, e.g., frequency-domain and time-frequency analyses and non-parametric statistics.

Proper citation: MNE software (RRID:SCR_005972) Copy   

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http://media.marine-geo.org/

A collection of high-quality images and videos for education and outreach from the Integrated Earth Data Applications Facility. Albums include: Ridge2000, MARGINS, GeoMapApp, GeoPRISMS, Antarctic and Southern Ocean, Global Multi-Resolution Topography. To contribute your media to Media Bank, you are asked to supply metadata with each image/video supplied.

Proper citation: Marine Geosciences Data System MediaBank (RRID:SCR_006875) Copy   

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http://bio.math.berkeley.edu/eXpress/index.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented January 29, 2018.
From website: "Note that the eXpress software is also no longer being developed. We recommend you use kallisto instead." Kallisto can be found at http://pachterlab.github.io/kallisto/.

Software for streaming quantification for high-throughput DNA/RNA sequencing.
Can be used in any application where abundances of target sequences need to be estimated from short reads sequenced from them.

Proper citation: eXpress (RRID:SCR_006873) Copy   

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http://rankprop.gs.washington.edu/svm-fold/

This web server makes predictions of family, superfamily and fold level classifications of proteins based on the Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) hierarchy using the Support Vector Machine (SVM) learning algorithm. SVM-FOLD detects subtle protein sequence similarities by learning from all available annotated proteins, as well as utilizing potential hits as identified by PSI-BLAST. Predictions of classes of proteins that do not have any known example with a significant pairwise PSI-BLAST E-value can still be found using SVMs.

Proper citation: SVM-fold: Protein Fold Prediction (RRID:SCR_006834) Copy   

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http://www.compneurosci.com/CoSMo2012/

This unique summer school focuses on computational techniques integrating the multi-disciplinary nature of sensory-motor neuroscience through combined empirical-theoretical teaching modules and a focus on the use of databases of movement data (NSF CRCNS). Major breakthroughs in brain research have been achieved through computational models. The goal of the Summer School in Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience is to provide cross-disciplinary training in mathematical modelling techniques relevant to understanding brain function, dysfunction and treatment. In a unique approach bridging experimental research, clinical pathology and computer simulations, students will learn how to translate ideas and empirical findings into mathematical models. Students will gain a profound understanding of the brain''s working principles and diseases using advanced modelling techniques in hands-on simulations of models during tutored sessions by making use of data / model sharing. This summer school aims at propelling promising students into world-class researchers. Dates: August 5-19, 2012 Location: Northwestern University Chicago (Evanston campus), Illinois, USA Deadlines: * April 22, 2012: Application due, including letters of reference (extended!!!) * May 1, 2012: Notification of acceptance * May 20, 2012: Attendance confirmation of applicants and registration payment This summer school is directed at graduate students and post-doctoral fellows from multi-disciplinary backgrounds, including Life Sciences, Psychology, Computer Science, Mathematics and Engineering. We will also accept highly motivated outstanding under-graduate students. There are no formal prerequisites, but basic knowledge in calculus, linear algebra, neuroscience and the Matlab simulation environment is expected. Enrollment will be limited to 40 participants.

Proper citation: Summer School in Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience (RRID:SCR_006894) Copy   

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http://www.softpedia.com/get/Science-CAD/DynGO.shtml

DynGO is a client-server application that provides several advanced functionalities in addition to the standard browsing capability. DynGO allows users to conduct batch retrieval of GO annotations for a list of genes and gene products, and semantic retrieval of genes and gene products sharing similar GO annotations (which requires more disk and memory to handle the semantic retrieval). The result are shown in an association tree organized according to GO hierarchies and supported with many dynamic display options such as sorting tree nodes or changing orientation of the tree. For GO curators and frequent GO users, DynGO provides fast and convenient access to GO annotation data. DynGO is generally applicable to any data set where the records are annotated with GO terms, as illustrated by two examples. Requirements: Java Platform: Windows compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: DynGO (RRID:SCR_007009) Copy   

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http://rankprop.gs.washington.edu/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented May 10, 2017. A pilot effort that has developed a centralized, web-based biospecimen locator that presents biospecimens collected and stored at participating Arizona hospitals and biospecimen banks, which are available for acquisition and use by researchers. Researchers may use this site to browse, search and request biospecimens to use in qualified studies. The development of the ABL was guided by the Arizona Biospecimen Consortium (ABC), a consortium of hospitals and medical centers in the Phoenix area, and is now being piloted by this Consortium under the direction of ABRC. You may browse by type (cells, fluid, molecular, tissue) or disease. Common data elements decided by the ABC Standards Committee, based on data elements on the National Cancer Institute''s (NCI''s) Common Biorepository Model (CBM), are displayed. These describe the minimum set of data elements that the NCI determined were most important for a researcher to see about a biospecimen. The ABL currently does not display information on whether or not clinical data is available to accompany the biospecimens. However, a requester has the ability to solicit clinical data in the request. Once a request is approved, the biospecimen provider will contact the requester to discuss the request (and the requester''s questions) before finalizing the invoice and shipment. The ABL is available to the public to browse. In order to request biospecimens from the ABL, the researcher will be required to submit the requested required information. Upon submission of the information, shipment of the requested biospecimen(s) will be dependent on the scientific and institutional review approval. Account required. Registration is open to everyone.. Documented on May,18,2020. Ranking algorithm that exploits global network structure of similarity relationships among proteins in database by performing diffusion operation on protein similarity network with weighted edges. Source code and web server for searching non-redundant protein database. Web server ranks proteins found in NRDB40 (from PairsDB) against query sequence of amino acids using Rankprop algorithm.

Proper citation: Rankprop - Protein Ranking by Network Propagation (RRID:SCR_007159) Copy   

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http://krasnow1.gmu.edu/cn3/index3.html

Multidisciplinary research team devoted to the study of basic neuroscience with a specific interest in the description and generation of dendritic morphology, and in its effect on neuronal electrophysiology. In the long term, they seek to create large-scale, anatomically plausible neural networks to model entire portions of a mammalian brain (such as a hippocampal slice, or a cortical column). Achievements by the CNG include the development of software for the quantitative analysis of dendritic morphology, the implementation of computational models to simulate neuronal structure, and the synthesis of anatomically accurate, large scale neuronal assemblies in virtual reality. Based on biologically plausible rules and biophysical determinants, they have designed stochastic models that can generate realistic virtual neurons. Quantitative morphological analysis indicates that virtual neurons are statistically compatible with the real data that the model parameters are measured from. Virtual neurons can be generated within an appropriate anatomical context if a system level description of the surrounding tissue is included in the model. In order to simulate anatomically realistic neural networks, axons must be grown as well as dendrites. They have developed a navigation strategy for virtual axons in a voxel substrate.

Proper citation: Computational Neuroanatomy Group (RRID:SCR_007150) Copy   

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http://opm.phar.umich.edu/

Database that provides a collection of transmembrane, monotopic and peripheral proteins from the Protein Data Bank whose spatial arrangements in the lipid bilayer have been calculated theoretically and compared with experimental data. The database allows analysis, sorting and searching of membrane proteins based on their structural classification, species, destination membrane, numbers of transmembrane segments and subunits, numbers of secondary structures and the calculated hydrophobic thickness or tilt angle with respect to the bilayer normal.

Proper citation: Orientations of Proteins in Membranes database (RRID:SCR_011961) Copy   

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http://www.internano.org/

Database and knowledge base of techniques for processing nanoscale materials, devices, and structures that includes step-by-step descriptions, images, notes on methodology and environmental variables, and associated references and patent information. The purpose of the Process Database is to facilitate the sharing of appropriate process knowledge across laboratories.The processes included here have been previously published or patented

Proper citation: InterNano Process Database (RRID:SCR_013719) Copy   

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http://www.datamonkey.org/

Web-based suite of phylogenetic analysis tools for use in evolutionary biology. Web application for comparative analysis of sequence alignments using statistical models. Used for analyzing evolutionary signatures in sequence data. Datamonkey 2.0 provides curated collection of methods for interrogating coding-sequence alignments for imprints of natural selection, packaged as a responsive (i.e. can be viewed on tablet and mobile devices), fully interactive, and API-enabled web application.

Proper citation: Datamonkey (RRID:SCR_010278) Copy   

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http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/InterNano

A custom-built terminology to describe the nanomanufacturing enterprise.

Proper citation: InterNano Nanomanufacturing Taxonomy (RRID:SCR_010346) Copy   

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http://www.aoncadis.org

A repository and data management services for Arctic research data. Data include long-term observational timeseries, local, regional, and system-scale research from many diverse domains.

Proper citation: ACADIS Gateway (RRID:SCR_010473) Copy   

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http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/software.html

392 phylogeny software packages and 54 free web servers describing all known software for inferring phylogenies (evolutionary trees). Submissions are welcome. Programs are listed by methods available, by computer systems on which they work, cross-referenced by method and by computer system, by ones which analyze particular kinds of data, to show the most recent listings, or to show ones most recently changed.

Proper citation: Phylogeny Programs (RRID:SCR_010797) Copy   

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http://www.arabidopsis.org

Database of genetic and molecular biology data for the model higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Data available includes the complete genome sequence along with gene structure, gene product information, metabolism, gene expression, DNA and seed stocks, genome maps, genetic and physical markers, publications, and information about the Arabidopsis research community. Gene product function data is updated every two weeks from the latest published research literature and community data submissions. Gene structures are updated 1-2 times per year using computational and manual methods as well as community submissions of new and updated genes. TAIR also provides extensive linkouts from data pages to other Arabidopsis resources. The data can be searched, viewed and analyzed. Datasets can also be downloaded. Pages on news, job postings, conference announcements, Arabidopsis lab protocols, and useful links are provided.

Proper citation: TAIR (RRID:SCR_004618) Copy   

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http://www.aftol.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented Jan 13, 2022; To enhance the understanding of the evolution of the Kingdom Fungi, 1500+ species were sampled for eight gene loci across all major fungal clades, plus a subset of taxa for a suite of morphological and ultrastructural characters with resulting data: AFTOL Molecular Database (generated by WASABI - Web Accessible Sequence Analysis for Biological Inference), Blast search the AFTOL Database (generated by WASABI), AFTOL primers (generated by WASABI), AFTOL primers by species (generated by WASABI), AFTOL alignments, and the AFTOL Structural and Biochemical Database. Users may submit samples to the AFTOL project. AFTOL is a collaboration centered around four universities in the United States: Duke University (Francois Lutzoni and Rytas Vilgalys), Clark University (David Hibbett), Oregon State University (Joey Spatafora), and University of Minnesota (David McLaughlin). Participants throughout the world have donated vouchers, taxon samples, and gene sequences. The aim of the project is to reconstruct the fungal tree of life using all available data for eight loci (nuclear ribosomal DNA: LSU, SSU, ITS (including 5.8s, ITS1 and ITS2); RNA polymerase II: RPB1, RPB2; elongation factor 1-alpha; mitochondrial SSU rDNA, and mitochondrial ATP synthase protein subunit 6). A further objective of this study is to summarize and integrate current knowledge regarding fungal subcellular features within this new phylogenetic framework. The name of the bioinformatic package developed for AFTOL is WASABI which provides an efficient communication platform to facilitate the collection and dissemination of molecular data to (and from) the laboratories and participants. All molecular data can be viewed, downloaded, verified, and corrected by the participants of AFTOL. A central goal of the WASABI interface is to establish an automated analysis framework that includes basecalling of newly generated chromatograms, contig assembly, quality verification of sequences (including a local BLAST), sequence alignment, and congruence test. Gene sequences that pass all tests and are finally verified by their authors will undergo automated phylogenetic analysis on a regular schedule. Although all steps are initially carried out noninteractively, the users can verify and correct the results at any step and thus initiate the reanalysis of dependent data.

Proper citation: AFTOL (RRID:SCR_004650) Copy   

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http://www.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/neurogrid.html

A specialized hardware platform that will perform cortex-scale emulations while offering software-like flexibility. With sixteen 12x14 sq-mm chips (Neurocores) assembled on a 6.5x7.5 sq-in circuit board that can model a slab of cortex with up to 16x256x256 neurons - over a million! The chips are interconnected in a binary tree by 80M spike/sec links. An on-chip RAM (in each Neurocore) and an off-chip RAM (on a daughterboard, not shown) softwire vertical and horizontcal cortical connections, respectively. It provides an affordable option for brain simulations that uses analog computation to emulate ion-channel activity and uses digital communication to softwire synaptic connections. These technologies impose different constraints, because they operate in parallel and in serial, respectively. Analog computation constrains the number of distinct ion-channel populations that can be simulatedunlike digital computation, which simply takes longer to run bigger simulations. Digital communication constrains the number of synaptic connections that can be activated per secondunlike analog communication, which simply sums additional inputs onto the same wire. Working within these constraints, Neurogrid achieves its goal of simulating multiple cortical areas in real-time by making judicious choices.

Proper citation: Neurogrid (RRID:SCR_005024) Copy   

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http://bioinformatics.engineering.asu.edu/springs/Sprouts/index.html

SPROUTS is a database of predicted protein folding related data. It was designed to gather all the results from a study concerning the comparison between tools devoted to the prediction of stability changes upon point mutations. The second aim of this database is to offer simple and user-friendly tools to better visualize and analyze the results obtained. We are now able to propose three ways of visualization and analysis: the first one consists in getting raw Delta Delta G values in a table. The second one is a 2D graph representation of a computed stability score for each residue of a given sequence and for each tool. The last one is based on a Jmol applet (Jmol) with the possibility to represent the 3D structure of a given protein with symbols representing the information stored in the database. We assume that each visualization mode offers a different look on the data stored in the database and will suit to every scientists willing to query the database whether they are more used to handle 3D protein structure or 1D/2D sequence problems. Finally, the ultimate objective is to integrate these data and their analysis with other structural bioinformatic concepts in order to improve other methods that may be related to this concept. We are currently working at adding the information extracted from our other projects related to the prediction of protein folding nucleus in order to obtain a meta server devoted to the characterization of the folding core of proteins. As of today, this database has grown up and consists in more than 100 structures which have been computed for a total of around 16500 amino acids.

Proper citation: SPROUTS- Structural Prediction for Protein Folding Utility System (RRID:SCR_005118) Copy   

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