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http://med.brown.edu/neurology/brainbank/index.html

A tissue resource center which facilitates research into the relationship between Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders such as strokes and mental illnesses. Most donations have been obtained from Alzheimer's patients. Normal controls are available, many of which are from subjects with close relatives with Alzheimer's. The Brown BTRC also supports a collection of brain tumor cases that were harvested from patients who underwent surgery and who were enrolled in a clinical trial for the development of new treatments for brain cancer.

Proper citation: Brown Brain Tissue Resource Center (RRID:SCR_005392) Copy   

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http://tmbeta-genome.cbrc.jp/annotation/

A collection of amino acid sequences for all the completed genomes and the annotated trans beta-barrel membrane proteins (TMBs) using different discrimination algorithms. For each genome, the calculations have been performed with statistical methods and machine learning techniques and the results are accumulated in the database. TMBETA-GENOME has the feasibility of selecting the organism from the three kingdoms of life, archaea, bacteria and eukaryote. Further, users have the option to select any of the methods or their combinations, and display the results with/without amino acid sequence information.

Proper citation: TMBETA-GENOME- Annotation of Beta-Barrel Membrane Proteins in Genomic Sequences (RRID:SCR_005538) Copy   

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http://www.biosino.org/bodyfluid/

A database of bodily fluid proteome data. It contains information on proteins from humanplasma/serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, synovial fluid, nipple aspirate fluid, tear fluid, seminal fluid, human milk, and amniotic fluid. Our body fluid protein database, Sys-BodyFluid, contains 11 body fluid proteomes, including plasma/serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, synovial fluid, nipple aspirate fluid, tear fluid, seminal fluid, human milk, and amniotic fluid. Over 10,000 proteins are included in the Sys-BodyFluid. These body fluid proteome data come from 50 peer-review publications of different laboratories all over the world. Protein annotation are provided including protein description, Gene ontology, Domain information, Protein sequence and involved pathway. User can access the proteome data by protein name, protein accession number, sequence similarity. In addition, user could perform query cross different body fluids to get more comprehensive understanding. The difference and similarity between these 11 body fluids are also analyzed. Thus , the Sys-BodyFluid database could serve as a reference database for body fluid research and disease proteomics. plasm, serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, synovial fluid, nipple aspirate fluid, tear fluid, seminal fluid, human milk, and amniotic fluid, protein, proteomics

Proper citation: Sys-BodyFluid (RRID:SCR_005335) Copy   

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http://www.knockoutmouse.org/

Database of the international consortium working together to mutate all protein-coding genes in the mouse using a combination of gene trapping and gene targeting in C57BL/6 mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. Detailed information on targeted genes is available. The IKMC includes the following programs: * Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP) (USA) ** CSD, a collaborative team at the Children''''s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the University of California at Davis School of Veterinary Medicine , led by Pieter deJong, Ph.D., CHORI, along with K. C. Kent Lloyd, D.V.M., Ph.D., UC Davis; and Allan Bradley, Ph.D. FRS, and William Skarnes, Ph.D., at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. ** Regeneron, a team at the VelociGene division of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., led by David Valenzuela, Ph.D. and George D. Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D. * European Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis Program (EUCOMM) (Europe) * North American Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis Project (NorCOMM) (Canada) * Texas A&M Institute for Genomic Medicine (TIGM) (USA) Products (vectors, mice, ES cell lines) may be ordered from the above programs.

Proper citation: International Knockout Mouse Consortium (RRID:SCR_005574) Copy   

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http://swissregulon.unibas.ch/fcgi/sr/swissregulon

A database of genome-wide annotations of regulatory sites. The predictions are based on Bayesian probabilistic analysis of a combination of input information including: * Experimentally determined binding sites reported in the literature. * Known sequence-specificities of transcription factors. * ChIP-chip and ChIP-seq data. * Alignments of orthologous non-coding regions. Predictions were made using the PhyloGibbs, MotEvo, IRUS and ISMARA algorithms developed in their group, depending on the data available for each organism. Annotations can be viewed in a Gbrowse genome browser and can also be downloaded in flat file format.

Proper citation: SwissRegulon (RRID:SCR_005333) Copy   

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http://www.einstein.yu.edu/centers/ictr/

Patient-derived specimens are essential to research in genomics, proteomics, and biomarkers. We provide banking for biological fluid and tissue specimens as well as human DNA and RNA. We provide secure archival sample storage as well as clinically-annotated specimen biobanks for defined research projects. The core serves the human research blood and tissue banking needs of clinical and translational researchers. Samples can be banked by an individual PI or by a consortium of investigators. All samples are tracked and archived using a secure tracking database, the Einstein-Montefiore Bio-Repository Databank (EM-BRED), http://informatics30.aecom.yu.edu/em-bred/default.aspx. EM-BRED provides qualified investigators with a solution to securely link patient specimens to clinical and pathological data. It consists of a user-friendly query engine that allows for comprehensive specimen search, and ultimately to build clinical annotations of relevance. The facility works under the best practices set out by NCI and ISBER (2006) for collection, storage, and retrieval of human biological materials for research.

Proper citation: Einstein-Montefiore Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Biorepository (RRID:SCR_005297) Copy   

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http://wishart.biology.ualberta.ca/polysearch/index.htm

A web-based tool that supports more than 50 different classes of queries against nearly a dozen different types of text, scientific abstract or bioinformatic databases. The typical query supported by PolySearch is Given X, find all Y''s where X or Y can be diseases, tissues, cell compartments, gene/protein names, SNPs, mutations, drugs and metabolites. PolySearch also exploits a variety of techniques in text mining and information retrieval to identify, highlight and rank informative abstracts, paragraphs or sentences.

Proper citation: PolySearch (RRID:SCR_005291) Copy   

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http://www.jax.org/grc/index.html

Donate a strain to The Jackson Laboratory Repository. Why donate a strain? * Donating reduces your costs of maintaining strains, lab personnel, shipping and resources. * Each donated strain is cryopreserved, protecting against accidental loss and genetic contamination. * Each donated strain is rederived to a high health status and may be resupplied to donors (up to 3 breeder pairs as long as we have live mice available) * Donating fulfills NIH obligations to share mice. How strain donation works: Strains are submitted by investigators for distribution to the scientific community. All repository strains are cryopreserved. All strains are evaluated monthly by the Genetic Resource Committee (GRC). The GRC is made up of staff scientists and resource managers from The Jackson Laboratory. The GRC recommends which strains are most appropriate to include in the Repository. You will be notified by email after your strain has been reviewed. Donation evaluation criteria * Importance of its current use for research, publication history, and current demand * Importance of its anticipated or potential future use * Difficulty of maintenance relative to scientific value * Existence and reliability of other resources that would ensure its survival * Difficulty of re-creating the strain relative to the time and effort required for its importation and preservation

Proper citation: Donate a strain to The Jackson Laboratory Repository (RRID:SCR_005567) Copy   

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http://katahdin.mssm.edu/kismeth/revpage.pl

A web-based tool for bisulfite sequencing analysis that was designed to be used with plants, since it considers potential cytosine methylation in any sequence context (CG, CHG, and CHH). It provides a tool for the design of bisulfite primers as well as several tools for the analysis of the bisulfite sequencing results. Kismeth is not limited to data from plants, as it can be used with data from any species.

Proper citation: Kismeth (RRID:SCR_005444) Copy   

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http://ssd.rbvi.ucsf.edu/

The SSD has been developed to address the need for resources and tools for understanding large sets of superpositions in order to understand evolutionary relationships and to make predictions of function. We have therefore created the Structure Superposition Database (SSD) for accessing, viewing and understanding large sets of structure superposition data. It contains the results of pairwise, all-by-all superpositions of a representative set of 115 (beta/alpha) barrel structures (TIM barrels). The initial implementation of the SSD contains the results of pairwise, all-by-all superpositions of a representative set of 115 (/alpha)8 barrel structures (TIM barrels). Future plans call for extending the database to include representative structure superpositions for many additional folds. The SSD can be browsed with a user interface module developed as an extension to Chimera, an extensible molecular modeling program. Features of the user interface module facilitate viewing multiple superpositions together.

Proper citation: Structure Superposition Database (RRID:SCR_005236) Copy   

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http://neurosphere.wordpress.com/

This blog belongs to me, Dave J Hayes PhD, a Neuroscientist at the University of Ottawa''s Institute of Mental Health Research. My research focuses on the neuroscience of motivation and emotion particularly regarding how brains and people respond to aversive and rewarding things in their environment. A neurosphere is a free-floating group of neural stem cells which can multiply, outside of their natural environment, and retain the ability to differentiate into functional brain cells. I don''t work on neurospheres. However, i like the metaphor of a group of people coming together, outside of their natural environment, through their interest in all things neuro which, incidentally, is everything. The sphere of human thought.

Proper citation: neurosphere (RRID:SCR_005478) Copy   

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http://transpogene.tau.ac.il/

A publicly available database of Transposed elements (TEs) which are located within protein-coding genes of 7 organisms: human, mouse, chicken, zebrafish, fruilt fly, nematode and sea squirt. Using TranspoGene the user can learn about the many aspects of the effect these TEs have on their hosting genes, such as: exonization events (including alternative splicing-related data), insertion of TEs into introns, exons, and promoters, specific location of the TE over the gene, evolutionary divergence of the TE from its consensus sequence and involvement in diseases. TranspoGene database is quickly searchable through its website, enables many kinds of searches and is available for download. TranspoGene contains information regarding specific type and family of the TEs, genomic and mRNA location, sequence, supporting transcript accession and alignment to the TE consensus sequence. The database also contains host gene specific data: gene name, genomic location, Swiss-Prot and RefSeq accessions, diseases associated with the gene and splicing pattern. The TranspoGene and microTranspoGene databases can be used by researchers interested in the effect of TE insertion on the eukaryotic transcriptome.

Proper citation: TranspoGene (RRID:SCR_005634) Copy   

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http://fairbrother.biomed.brown.edu/spliceman/index.cgi

An online tool that takes a set of DNA sequences with point mutations and returns a ranked list to predict the effects of point mutations on pre-mRNA splicing. The current implementation includes 11 genomes: human, chimp, rhesus, mouse, rat, dog, cat, chicken, guinea pig, frog and zebrafish.

Proper citation: Spliceman (RRID:SCR_005354) Copy   

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http://plantta.jcvi.org/

The TIGR database is a collection of plant transcript sequences. Transcript assemblies are searchable using BLAST and accession number. The construction of plant transcript assemblies (TAs) is similar to the TIGR gene indices. The sequences that are used to build the plant TAs are expressed transcripts collected from dbEST (ESTs) and the NCBI GenBank nucleotide database (full length and partial cDNAs). "Virtual" transcript sequences derived from whole genome annotation projects are not included. All plant species for which more than 1,000 ESTs or cDNA sequences are available are included in this project. TAs are clustered and assembled using the TGICL tool (Pertea et al., 2003), Megablast (Zhang et al., 2000) and the CAP3 assembler (Huang and Madan, 1999). TGICL is a wrapper script which invokes Megablast and CAP3. Sequences are initially clustered based on an all-against-all comparisons using Megablast. The initial clusters are assembled to generate consensus sequences using CAP3. Assembly criteria include a 50 bp minimum match, 95% minimum identity in the overlap region and 20 bp maximum unmatched overhangs. Any EST/cDNA sequences that are not assembled into TAs are included as singletons. All singletons retain their GenBank accession numbers as identifiers. Plant TA identifiers are of the form TAnumber_taxonID, where number is a unique numerical identifier of the transcript assembly and taxonID represents the NCBI taxon id. In order to provide annotation for the TAs, each TA/singleton was aligned to the UniProt Uniref database. For release 1 TAs, a masked version of the Uniref90 database was used. For release 2 and onwards, a masked version of the UniRef100 database is used. Alignments were required to have at least 20% identity and 20% coverage. The annotation for the protein with the best alignment to each TA or singleton was used as the annotation for that sequence. Additionally, the relative orientation of each TA/singleton to the best matching protein sequence was used to determine the orientation of each TA/singleton. Some sequences did not have alignments to the protein database that met our quality criteria, and those sequences have neither annotation nor orientation assignments. The release number for the plant TAs refers to the release version for a particular species. For the initial build, all TA sets are of version 1. Subsequent TA updates for new releases will be carried out when the percentage increase of the EST and cDNA counts exceeds 10% of the previous release and when the increase contains more than 1,000 new sequences. New releases will also include additional plant species with more than 1,000 EST or cDNA sequences that have become publicly available.

Proper citation: TIGR Plant Transcript Assembly database (RRID:SCR_005470) Copy   

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http://scienceblogs.com/

From climate change to intelligent design, HIV/AIDS to stem cells, science education to space exploration, science is figuring prominently in our discussions of politics, religion, philosophy, business and the arts. New insights and discoveries in neuroscience, theoretical physics and genetics are revolutionizing our understanding of who are are, where we come from and where we''re heading. Launched in January 2006, ScienceBlogs is a portal to this global dialogue, a digital science salon featuring the leading bloggers from a wide array of scientific disciplines. Today, ScienceBlogs is the largest online community dedicated to science. We believe in providing our bloggers with the freedom to exercise their own editorial and creative instincts. We do not edit their work and we do not tell them what to write about. We have selected our 80+ bloggers based on their originality, insight, talent, and dedication and how we think they would contribute to the discussion at ScienceBlogs. Our role, as we see it, is to create and continue to improve this forum for discussion, and to ensure that the rich dialogue that takes place at ScienceBlogs resonates outside the blogosphere. ScienceBlogs is always interested in bringing new contributors into our community. If you''re interested in blogging with us, please fill out our application, and we''ll be in touch.

Proper citation: ScienceBlogs (RRID:SCR_005197) Copy   

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http://tabit.ucsd.edu/sdec/

A next-generation web-based application that aims to provide an integrated solution for both visualization and analysis of deep-sequencing data, along with simple access to public datasets.

Proper citation: Systems Transcriptional Activity Reconstruction (RRID:SCR_005622) Copy   

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http://www.gene-regulation.com/pub/databases.html#transfac

Manually curated database of eukaryotic transcription factors, their genomic binding sites and DNA binding profiles. Used to predict potential transcription factor binding sites.

Proper citation: TRANSFAC (RRID:SCR_005620) Copy   

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http://www.tigr.org/tdb/e2k1/plant.repeats

It assists in the compilation and identification of repeat sequences in plant genomes. All of the repetitive sequences in the database are coded for the convenience of future analyses. In plants, ploidy levels and repetitive sequences contribute significantly to genome size. A number of different repetitive sequences have been reported in the plant genome and these can be classified into super-classes, classes, and subclasses based on structure and sequence composition. The transposable element (TEs) super-class includes retrotransposons, transposons, and miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs). Other repetitive sequences are associated the centromere and telomere. Another super-class of repetitive sequences are rDNAs which encode the structural RNA components of ribosomes.

Proper citation: Plant Repeat Databases (RRID:SCR_005460) Copy   

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http://bigg.ucsd.edu/

A knowledgebase of Biochemically, Genetically and Genomically structured genome-scale metabolic network reconstructions. BiGG integrates several published genome-scale metabolic networks into one resource with standard nomenclature which allows components to be compared across different organisms. BiGG can be used to browse model content, visualize metabolic pathway maps, and export SBML files of the models for further analysis by external software packages. Users may follow links from BiGG to several external databases to obtain additional information on genes, proteins, reactions, metabolites and citations of interest.

Proper citation: BiGG Database (RRID:SCR_005809) Copy   

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http://the_brain.bwh.harvard.edu/uniprobe/

Database that hosts experimental data from universal protein binding microarray (PBM) experiments (Berger et al., 2006) and their accompanying statistical analyses from prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, malarial parasites, yeast, worms, mouse, and human. It provides a centralized resource for accessing comprehensive data on the preferences of proteins for all possible sequence variants ("words") of length k ("k-mers"), as well as position weight matrix (PWM) and graphical sequence logo representations of the k-mer data. The database's web tools include a text-based search, a function for assessing motif similarity between user-entered data and database PWMs, and a function for locating putative binding sites along user-entered nucleotide sequences.

Proper citation: UniPROBE (RRID:SCR_005803) Copy   

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