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http://www.teenmentalhealth.org/images/resources/CAPN_11Item_KADS.pdf

A psychological self-rating scale developed by Dalhousie University professor of psychiatry Stan Kutcher, to assess the level of depression in adolescents. While there are some variations, the 11-item version of the KADS is the most commonly used and most thoroughly verified for efficacy in monitoring outcomes in adolescents who are receiving treatment for major depressive disorder. Its items are worded using standard and colloquial terminology, and responses are scored on a simple 4 choice scale. There are ten questions about depression symptom frequency that the patient rates on a straight 4 point scale according to the following choices: hardly ever, much of the time, most of the time, all the time, and one question relating to the severity of suicidal ideation. Scores on the test range from 0 to 33. Unlike some rating scales, there is no threshold for sub-clinical presentation, or ranges for mild, moderate, and severe symptoms. Higher scores simply indicate more severe current depression symptoms. (Adapted from Wikipedia)

Proper citation: Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale (RRID:SCR_003687) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) toolbox area provides a comprehensive range of tools for the field of bioinformatics. These are subdivided into categories in the left menu for convenience. EBI has developed a large number of very useful bioinformatics tools. A few examples include: - Similarity & Homology - the BLAST or FASTA programs can be used to look for sequence similarity and infer homology. - Protein Functional Analysis - InterProScan can be used to search for motifs in your protein sequence. - Proteomic Services NEW - UniProt DAS server allows researchers to show their research results in the context of UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot annotation. - Sequence Analysis - ClustalW2 a sequence alignment tool. - Structural Analysis - MSDfold can be used to query your protein structure and compare it to those in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). - Web Services - provide programmatic access to the various databases and retrieval/analysis services EBI provides. - Tools Miscellaneous - Expression Profiler a set of tools for clustering, analysis and visualization of gene expression and other genomic data. Sponsors: This resource is sponsored by EBI.

Proper citation: Toolbox at the European Bioinformatics Institute (RRID:SCR_002872) Copy   

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http://psychology-tools.com/cast/

Assessment test developed by the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, for assessing the severity of autism spectrum symptoms in children. This assessment is usually used with children aged from 4-11 years of age.

Proper citation: Childhood Autism Spectrum Test (RRID:SCR_003322) Copy   

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http://www.fresno.ucsf.edu/pediatrics/downloads/edinburghscale.pdf

A 10 item assessment scale developed to identify women who have postpartum depression (PPD). Items of the scale correspond to various clinical depression symptoms, such as guilt feeling, sleep disturbance, low energy, anhedonia, and suicidal ideation. Overall assessment is done by total score, which is determined by adding together the scores for each of the 10 items. Higher scores indicate more depressive symptoms. The EPDS may be used within 8 weeks postpartum and it also can be applied for depression screening during pregnancy. (Adapted from Wikipedia) Scoring: * 0-9 Not Likely to Have Depression * 10-30 Likely to Have Depression

Proper citation: Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (RRID:SCR_003685) Copy   

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http://www.biostat.wustl.edu/~adrc/cdrpgm/

A numeric scale used to quantify the severity of symptoms of dementia (i.e. its stage). Using a structured-interview protocol, a qualified health professional assesses a patient's cognitive and functional performance in six areas: memory, orientation, judgment and problem solving, community affairs, home and hobbies, and personal care. Scores in each of these are combined to obtain a composite score ranging from 0 through 3. (Adapted from Wikipedia)

Proper citation: Clinical Dementia Rating (RRID:SCR_003678) Copy   

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http://www.brain-connectivity-toolbox.net

A large selection of complex network measures in Matlab that are increasingly used to characterize structural and functional brain connectivity datasets. Several people have contributed to the toolbox, and if you wish to contribute with a new function or set of functions, please contact Olaf Sporns. All efforts have been made to avoid errors, but users are strongly urged to independently verify the accuracy and suitability of toolbox functions for the chosen application. Please report bugs or substantial improvements.

Proper citation: Brain Connectivity Toolbox (RRID:SCR_004841) Copy   

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http://www.mindupload.org/index.php?tab=2&sub=0

A database-based neuron simulation tool. An innovative approach to large-scale, biologically plausible, neural-network simulation library. Based on data structures and methods directly coded into database, information flow implying separation of data representing neurons, conceived to share load on multiple machines and calibrating operational load on each machine.

Proper citation: splitneuron (RRID:SCR_005001) Copy   

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http://disco.neuinfo.org

DISCO is an information integration approach designed to facilitate interoperation among Internet resources. It consists of a set of tools and services that allows resource providers who maintain information to share it with automated systems such as NIF. NIF is then able to harvest the information and keep those sets of information up-to-date. How is this accomplished? By using a series of files and/or scripts which are then placed in the root directory of the resource developer''s resource. (NIF can also host the files on its servers and crawl for changes there.) Once the files of the resource providers are in place, and DISCO is notified, the DISCO server can then recognize and consume the information shared, providing machine understandable information to NIF Integrator Servers (also known as Aggregators) about your resource. What can DISCO do for my resource? * Inform search engines about your resource and keep your NIF Registry resource description up-to-date. * Expose your data (semi-structured datasets or fields within your structured database) through NIF''s Data Federation you choose what data will be shared. * Create links from an NCBI database (e.g., PubMed, Protein, Nucleotide, etc.) to your data records in NIF using Entrez LinkOut. * Advertise your terminology or ontological information. * Share your resource''s news with the NIF community., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: DISCO (RRID:SCR_004586) Copy   

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http://www.yandell-lab.org/software/maker.html

Software genome annotation pipeline. Portable and easily configurable genome annotation pipeline. Used to allow smaller eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomeprojects to independently annotate their genomes and to create genome databases. MAKER identifies repeats, aligns ESTs and proteins to genome, produces ab-initio gene predictions and automatically synthesizes these data into gene annotations having evidence based quality values.

Proper citation: MAKER (RRID:SCR_005309) Copy   

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http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/software/alien_hunter/

Alien_hunter is an application for the prediction of putative Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) events with the implementation of Interpolated Variable Order Motifs (IVOMs). This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. An IVOM approach exploits compositional biases using variable order motif distributions and captures more reliably the local composition of a sequence compared to fixed-order methods. Optionally the predictions can be parsed into a 2-state 2nd order Hidden Markov Model (HMM), in a change-point detection framework, to optimize the localization of the boundaries of the predicted regions. The predictions (embl format) can be automatically loaded into the freely available Artemis genome viewer.

Proper citation: Alien hunter (RRID:SCR_004575) Copy   

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http://www.uni-bonn.de/~umt70e/soft.htm

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 5th,2023. Software application that calculates the sample size required for obtaining a prescribed power against a specified alternative for TDT. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

Proper citation: TDTPOWER (RRID:SCR_005021) Copy   

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http://www.gotaxexplorer.de/

The Functional Similarity Search Tool (FSST) has been implemented for comparing user defined sets of annotated entities. FSST supports the computation of functional similarity scores based on an individual ontology and of combined scores. Its multi-threaded Java implementation takes advantage of symmetric multi-processing computers, decreasing runtime considerably. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: FSST - Functional Similarity Search Tool (RRID:SCR_005819) Copy   

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http://ugene.unipro.ru/

A multiplatform open-source software to assist molecular biologists without much expertise in bioinformatics to manage, analyze and visualize their data. UGENE integrates widely used bioinformatics tools within a common user interface. The toolkit supports multiple biological data formats and allows the retrieval of data from remote data sources. It provides visualization modules for biological objects such as annotated genome sequences, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) assembly data, multiple sequence alignments, phylogenetic trees and 3D structures. Most of the integrated algorithms are tuned for maximum performance by the usage of multithreading and special processor instructions. UGENE includes a visual environment for creating reusable workflows that can be launched on local resources or in a High Performance Computing (HPC) environment. UGENE is written in C++ using the Qt framework. The built-in plugin system and structured UGENE API make it possible to extend the toolkit with new functionality.

Proper citation: Unipro UGENE (RRID:SCR_005579) Copy   

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http://www.biological-networks.org/p/outliers/

Software that performs a morphology-based approach for the automatic identification of outlier neurons based on neuronal tree structures. This tool was used by Zawadzki et al. (2012), who reported on and its application to the NeuroMorpho database. For the analysis, each neuron is represented by a feature vector composed of 20 measurements, which are projected into lower dimensional space with PCA. Bivariate kernel density estimation is then used to obtain a probability distribution for cells. Cells with high probabilities are understood as archetypes, while those with the small probabilities are classified as outliers. Further details about the method and its application in other domains can be found in Costa et al. (2009) and Echtermeyer et al. (2011). This version requires Matlab (Mathworks Inc, Natick, USA) and allows the user to apply the workflow using a graphical user interface.

Proper citation: DONE: Detection of Outlier NEurons (RRID:SCR_005299) Copy   

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http://www.kickstarter.com/

Kickstarter is the world''s largest funding platform for creative projects. Every week, tens of thousands of amazing people pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music, film, art, technology, design, food, publishing and other creative fields. A new form of commerce and patronage. This is not about investment or lending. Project creators keep 100% ownership and control over their work. Instead, they offer products and experiences that are unique to each project. All or nothing funding. On Kickstarter, a project must reach its funding goal before time runs out or no money changes hands. Why? It protects everyone involved. Creators aren''t expected to develop their project without necessary funds, and it allows anyone to test concepts without risk. Each and every project is the independent creation of someone like you. Projects are big and small, serious and whimsical, traditional and experimental. They''re inspiring, entertaining and unbelievably diverse. We hope you agree... Welcome to Kickstarter!

Proper citation: Kickstarter (RRID:SCR_004246) Copy   

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http://genetics.agrsci.dk/~bg/popgen/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 11, 2023. Software application that calculates a number of different genetic identities, phylogeny reconstructing measures, and distance reconstructing measures (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

Proper citation: POPDIST (RRID:SCR_004904) Copy   

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http://cbl.uh.edu/ORION/research/software

ORION is our neuron reconstruction software package developed for the morphological reconstruction of neurons from confocal and multiphoton microscopy data. It accepts raw neuron stack data as input and it is capable of reconstructing the neuron structure, visualizing the output, and exporting the reconstruction in a variety of formats. We are developing tools that will enable Neuroscientists to explore single neuron function via sophisticated image analysis. Advanced optical imaging can produce both structural and functional data and is at the forefront of experimentally exploring the fast, small-scale dynamics of living neurons. Further, compartmental modeling of neuronal function enables rapid testing of hypotheses and estimating experimentally inaccessible parameters. Combining these two techniques will afford unprecedented capabilities in the study of single neuron function. Our software utility bridges the two Neuroscience techniques by rapidly, accurately, and robustly generating, from structural image data, a cylindrical morphology model suitable for simulating neuronal function.

Proper citation: ORION Software (RRID:SCR_004389) Copy   

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https://ccg.murdoch.edu.au/yabi/login/?next=/yabi/

A web-based analytical environment framework for bioinformatics applications that can be customized for a diverse range of -omics applications. The software system is adaptable to a range of both pluggable execution and data backends in an open source implementation. Enabling seamless and transparent access to heterogenous HPC environments at its core, it then provides an analysis workflow environment that can create and reuse workflows as well as manage large amounts of both raw and processed data in a secure and flexible way across geographically distributed compute resources. Yabi can be used via a web-based environment to drag-and-drop tools to create sophisticated workflows. It can also be accessed through the Yabi command line which is designed for users that are more comfortable with writing scripts or for enabling external workflow environments to leverage the features in Yabi. Configuring tools can be a significant overhead in workflow environments. Yabi greatly simplifies this task by enabling system administrators to configure as well as manage running tools via a web-based environment and without the need to write or edit software programs or scripts.

Proper citation: Yabi (RRID:SCR_005359) Copy   

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https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00014001

The NIMH-funded Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) Study was a nationwide public health-focused clinical trial that compared the effectiveness of older (first available in the 1950s) and newer (available since the 1990s) antipsychotic medications used to treat schizophrenia. These newer medications, known as atypical antipsychotics, cost roughly 10 times as much as the older medications. CATIE is the largest, longest, and most comprehensive independent trial ever done to examine existing therapies for this disease. Schizophrenia is a brain disorder characterized by hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking. The course of schizophrenia is variable, but usually is recurrent and chronic, often causing severe disability. Previous studies have shown that taking antipsychotic medications consistently is far more effective than taking no medicine and that the drugs are necessary to manage the disease. The aim of the CATIE study was to determine which medications provide the best treatment for schizophrenia. Additional information may be found by following the links, http://www.nimh.nih.gov/trials/practical/catie/index.shtml, http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00014001?order=1

Proper citation: CATIE - Clinical Antipsychotic Trials in Intervention Effectiveness (RRID:SCR_005615) Copy   

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http://www.neuroskills.com/

A topical portal and providers of brain injury rehabilitation services. Resources * Pharmacology Guide * Glossary of Brain Injury Terms * Brain Injury Research Articles * Common Brain Injury Assessment Tools / Rating Scale * Certified Continuing Education Courses * Links to Resource Sites

Proper citation: Centre for Neuro Skills (RRID:SCR_006106) Copy   

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