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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://songbirdtranscriptome.net/

Database containing cDNA clone information of the brains of songbirds. These clones are annotated with behavioral information, as well as links to information of homologous genes of other species. The database includes over 91,000 zebra finch brain cDNAs (2009) sequenced by Duke, ESTIMA, and Rockefeller research groups. The project is a collaborative effort of the Jarvis Laboratory of Duke University, Duke Bioinformatics, and The Genomics group of RIKEN, with Erich D. Jarvis as P.I. and Kazuhiro Wada as Co-P.I. Microarrays with the cDNAs in this database are available at Duke http://mgm.duke.edu/genome/dna_micro/core/spotted.htm and through the NIH Neurosciences Microarray Consortium http://arrayconsortium.tgen.org/np2/public/overview.jsp

Proper citation: Songbird Brain Transcriptome Database (RRID:SCR_006182) Copy   

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http://galaxyproject.org/

Open, web-based platform providing bioinformatics tools and services for data intensive genomic research. Platform may be used as a service or installed locally to perform, reproduce, and share complete analyses. Galaxy automatically tracks and manages data provenance and provides support for capturing the context and intent of computational methods. Galaxy Community has created Galaxy instances in many different forms and for many different applications including Galaxy servers, cloud services that support Galaxy instances, and virtual machines and containers that can be easily deployed for your own server.The Galaxy team is a part of BX at Penn State, and the Biology and Mathematics and Computer Science departments at Emory University.Training Infrastructure as a Service (TIaaS) is a service offered by some UseGalaxy servers to specifically support training use cases.

Proper citation: Galaxy (RRID:SCR_006281) Copy   

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http://divvy.ucsd.edu/

Software application for performing unsupervised machine learning and visualization with a focus on the clustering (separating data into groups) and dimensionality reduction (finding low dimensional structure in high dimensional data) subfields of machine learning. For visualization we provide support for both the whole dataset (e.g. a scatter plot) and points (e.g. transforming a particular point into an image). * Endlessly extensible. Every clusterer, reducer, point visualizer and dataset visualizer in Divvy is a plugin. We''ve provided a few big ones (K-means, PCA, scatter plot, &c.) and we''re hoping the community will use our plugin protocol to build many more. Each plugin defines its own UI, so your algorithm can look and behave the way that you want it to without top-down constraints. * Have lots of cores? Divvy is both task and data parallel. No longer will you be waiting for one algorithm to complete before you start another. Start as many as you want and keep using the UI. Only started one? With data parallelism we''ll still push your new MacBook Pro to 800% CPU utilization. * Part of your workflow: Export your clusterings and reductions to .csv and your visualizations to .png. Use your Matlab or R data with our Matlab/R to Divvy export tools available at http://github.com/jmlewis/divvy.

Proper citation: Divvy (RRID:SCR_006336) Copy   

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http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/archives/2002/neuroinformatics.html

This resource''s long-term goal is to develop informatics methodologies and tools that will increase the creativity and productivity of neuroscience investigators, as they work together to use shared human brain mapping data to generate and test ideas far beyond those pursued by the data''s originators. This resource currently has four major projects supporting this goal: * Database tools: The goal of the NeuroServ project is to provide neuroscience researchers with automated information management tools that reduce the effort required to manage, analyze, query, view, and share their imaging data. It currently manages both structural magnetic resonance image (MRI) datasets and diffusion tensor image (DTI) datasets. NeuroServ is fully web-enabled: data entry, query, processing, reporting, and administrative functions are performed by qualified users through a web browser. It can be used as a local laboratory repository, to share data on the web, or to support a large distributed consortium. NeuroServ is based on an industrial-quality query middleware engine MRALD. NeuroServ includes a specialized neuroimaging schema and over 40 custom Java Server Pages supporting data entry, query, and reporting to help manage and explore stored images. NeuroServ is written in Java for platform independence; it also utilizes several open source components * Data sharing: DataQuest is a collaborative forum to facilitate the sharing of neuroimaging data within the neuroscience community. By publishing summaries of existing datasets, DataQuest enables researchers to: # Discover what data is available for collaborative research # Advertise your data to other researchers for potential collaborations # Discover which researchers may have the data you need # Discover which researchers are interested in your data. * Image quality: The approach to assessing the inherent quality of an image is to measure how distorted the image is. Using what are referred to as no-reference or blind metrics, one can measure the degree to which an image is distorted. * Content-based image retrieval: NIRV (NeuroImagery Retrieval & Visualization) is a work environment for advanced querying over imagery. NIRV will have a Java-based front-end for users to issue queries, run processing algorithms, review results, visualize imagery and assess image quality. NIRV interacts with an image repository such as NeuroServ. Users can also register images and will soon be able to filter searches based on image quality.

Proper citation: MITRE Neuroinformatics (RRID:SCR_006508) Copy   

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http://wiki.chasmsoftware.org/index.php/Main_Page

CHASM is a method that predicts the functional significance of somatic missense mutations observed in the genomes of cancer cells, allowing mutations to be prioritized in subsequent functional studies, based on the probability that they give the cells a selective survival advantage. SNV-Box is a database of pre-computed features of all possible amino acid substitutions at every position of the annotated human exome. Users can rapidly retrieve features for a given protein amino acid substitution for use in machine learning.

Proper citation: CHASM/SNV-Box (RRID:SCR_006445) Copy   

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https://sites.google.com/site/functionalconnectivitytoolbox/

MATLAB toolbox for performing functional connectivity analyses includes many of the most commonly-used approaches researchers have utilized to date for the identification of condition-dependent functional interactions between fMRI time-series obtained from two or more brain regions. The approaches are either bivariate or multivariate methods defined in time or frequency domains that emphasize distinct features of relationships among the time-series.

Proper citation: Functional Connectivity Toolbox (RRID:SCR_006394) Copy   

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https://github.com/slowkoni/rfmix

Software tool for local ancestry and admixture inference. Discriminative Modeling Approach for Rapid and Robust Local-Ancestry Inference.

Proper citation: RFMix (RRID:SCR_027030) Copy   

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http://paleobiodb.org/

A non-governmental, non-profit public database for paleontological data providing researchers and the public with information about the entire fossil record. It has been organized and operated by a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, international group of paleobiological researchers. Its purpose is to provide global, collection-based occurrence and taxonomic data for organisms of all geological ages, as well data services to allow easy access to data for independent development of analytical tools, visualization software, and applications of all types. The Database's broader goal is to encourage and enable data-driven collaborative efforts that address large-scale paleobiological questions. Paleontological data files are accepted for upload. However, PaleoBioDB needs some basic data types to be included in order to perform an upload. The Application Programming Interface (API) gives scientists, students, and developers programmatic access to taxonomic, spatial, and temporal data contained within the database.

Proper citation: Paleobiology Database (RRID:SCR_003798) Copy   

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http://fold.it/

Foldit is a revolutionary new multiplayer online computer game that engages non-scientists in solving hard prediction problems, enabling you to contribute to important scientific research. Foldit players interact with protein structures using direct manipulation tools and user-friendly versions of algorithms from the Rosetta structure prediction methodology, while they compete and collaborate to optimize the computed energy. Here are the basic principles to keep in mind when folding proteins. Your score on each protein is based on how well you do with these three things: # Pack the protein: The smaller the protein, the better. More precisely, you want to avoid empty spaces (voids) in the structure of the protein where water molecules can get inside. So you want the atoms in the protein to be as close together as possible. Certain structures, such as sheets, will even connect together with hydrogen bonds if you line them up right and get them close together. This is also good. Key word: Compact. # Hide the hydrophobics: Hydrophobics are the sidechains that don't want to be touching water, just like oil or wax. Since most proteins float around in water, you want to keep the hydrophobics (orange sidechains) surrounded by as many atoms as possible so the water won't get to them. The other side of this rule is that hydrophilics (blue sidechains) do want to be touching water, so they should be exposed as much as possible. Key word: Buried. # Clear the clashes: Two atoms can't occupy the same space at the same time. If you've folded a protein so two sidechains are too close together, your score will go down a lot. This is represented by a red spiky ball (clash) where the two sidechains are intersecting. If there are clashes, you know something is wrong with your protein. So make sure everything is far enough apart. Key word: Apart. The current series of Science Puzzles, the Grand Challenges, are meant to generate the evidence needed to prove that human protein folders can be more effective than computers at certain aspects of protein structure prediction. That's what all the puzzles in Foldit are about right now: predicting the structure of a protein based on its amino acid sequence. The three rules mentioned above describe the characteristics of correct protein structures.

Proper citation: Foldit (RRID:SCR_003788) Copy   

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http://virome.diagcomputing.org/#view=home

A web-application designed for scientific exploration of metagenome sequence data collected from viral assemblages occurring within a number of different environmental contexts. The VIROME informatics pipeline focuses on the classification of predicted open-reading frames (ORFs) from viral metagenomes. The portal allows you to submit your viral metagenome to be processed through the VIROME analysis pipeline, and enable you to investigate your data via the VIROME user interface., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: VIROME (RRID:SCR_004362) 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://vamps.mbl.edu/overview.php

A publicly-accessible website to measure and visualize similarities and differences between molecular profiles of complex microbial communities. The project includes visualization tools such as heat maps that simultaneously compare the taxonomic distributions of multiple datasets and 3-D charts of the frequency distributions of 16S rRNA tags. Analytical tools include Chao diversity estimates and rarefaction curves. As a service to the community, researchers have the opportunity to upload their own data to the site for private viewing with the full range of data and analysis tools. Public data can be downloaded for further analysis locally.

Proper citation: VAMPS (RRID:SCR_004483) 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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https://zenodo.org/records/11095105

Software label transfer tool for single-cell RNA sequencing analysis. Scalable, Interpretable Modeling for Single-cell RNA-seq data classification.

Proper citation: SIMS (RRID:SCR_025787) Copy   

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http://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2180-9-S1-S1

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on June 10, 2016. A consortium that created universal descriptors to describe functionally similar gene products and their attributes across all organisms. In 2004, the PAMGO interest group joined the GO consortium to extend the GO to include terms describing various processes related to microbe-host interactions. The organization uses a controlled vocabulary to set a process in place to describe plant associated microbes and their interactions with their plant-hosts. These higher order terms can describe gene products of all types of symbionts (e.g. parasites, commensals, and mutualists), including prokaryotes and eukaryotes that associate with plant or animal hosts. This initiative is a multi-institutional collaborative effort to pool information and research in: the bacteria Dickeya dadantii, Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato and Agrobacterium tumefaciens, the fungus Magnaporthe grisea, the oomycetes Phytophthora sojae and Phytophthora ramorum, and the nematode Meloidogyne hapla.

Proper citation: PAMGO (RRID:SCR_000022) Copy   

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http://www.stanford.edu/group/Urchin/contents.html

Laboratory modules designed for high school students covering sea urchin embryology including fertilization and development.

Proper citation: Sea Urchin Embryology (RRID:SCR_000460) Copy   

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http://www.uwyo.edu/buerkle/software/bamova/

Software that implements a Bayesian Analysis of Molecular Variance and different likelihood models for three different types of molecular data (including two models for high throughput sequence data).

Proper citation: bamova (RRID:SCR_000510) Copy   

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http://www.cs.utah.edu/~miriah/pathline/Overview.html

Software visualization tool for comparative functional genomics that supports analysis of three types of biological data at once: functional data such as gene activity measurements; pathway data that presents a series of reactions within a cellular process; and phylogenetic data describing ancestral relationships between species. The design of Pathline includes two new visual encoding techniques. The first is an encoding of a linearized metabolic pathway representation that provides appropriate topological information and supports the comparison of quantitative data along the pathway. The second is a curvemap, a matrix layout of temporal expression data for enhanced perception of trends in gene and cell activity levels across multiple species.

Proper citation: Pathline (RRID:SCR_000635) Copy   

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http://zoobank.org/

A database of scientific names in zoology. ZooBank is an online, open-access, community-generated registry for zoological nomenclature. It serves as a service to taxonomists, biologists, and the global diversity informatics community. It is the Official Register of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN).

Proper citation: ZooBank (RRID:SCR_000901) Copy   

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