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https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/software

Software application that finds skews in ancestry that are potentially associated with disease genes in recently mixed populations like African Americans. It can be downloaded for either UNIX or Linux.

Proper citation: Ancestrymap (RRID:SCR_004353) Copy   

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http://htrc.uchicago.edu/biospecimen_bank.php

Biospecimen banking (BSB) involves collecting, processing, storing and distributing of human or animal tissues and body fluids of molecular grade. Human tissues and body fluids are banked in compliance with IRB approved protocols without compromising the diagnostic process and maintaining donor confidentiality (HIPAA compliant). Investigator-driven biobanking initiatives are of paramount importance at the University. The BSB provides investigators with the infrastructure to establish organ-specific biobanks in a centralized location. This arrangement allows for minimal duplication of costs, as well as establishing a working template for all tissue collections. The BSB has grown exponentially, and has a strong team of experienced personnel banking tissues for clinical trials, investigator-driven projects, and future biospecimen-based research. In addition, the BSB now collects and stores saliva, urine, blood, plasma, serum, and derivatives. The BSB is a complex process, requiring multiple interacting systems to ensure the scientific quality of procured tissue, and body fluids, patient confidentiality, adherence to good clinical practices, and regulated disbursement of biospecimens to approved investigators. They are also aware that policies, HIPAA guidelines, and federal and state tissue procurement regulations may change, and will be fully compliant with all new regulations.

Proper citation: University of Chicago Human Tissue Resource Center Biospecimen Banking (RRID:SCR_004418) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/mpg/ricopili/

Ricopili is a tool for visualizing regions of interest in select GWAS data sets. How it works Choose a data set and enter a genomic location or a gene name in the form below. A .pdf plot will be generated, as well as a text file with single SNP results. You can also specify the following options: * Clumping: Independent regions will be colored differently, to highlight LD. If you request more than one clump, be sure to have at least one SNP passing the specified p-value-threshold (for performance reasons.) * SNP: SNPs in the region are colored by LD to this index SNP. * Anonymity: Frequency information is from HapMap to protect anonymity. * NHGRI results: Results from the NHGRI GWAS catalog will be included in the plot. Finally, please note that this tool is in development (it was released on September 19th, 2011) and should be considered beta. In particular, our development server is not equipped for high traffic. If the server fails to respond to your request, please try again at a later time.

Proper citation: Ricopili (RRID:SCR_004496) Copy   

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

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on June 28,2022. A network of several university centers in Germany that classifies neurological and psychiatric disorders neuropathologically and collects and provides brain tissue for research. The aim and task of the Brain-Net are: the collection of clinically and neuropathologically well-characterized brain tissue samples; the standardization of neuropathological diagnoses according to internationally accepted criteria; and providing a basis for future research projects using genetic, epidemiological, biometric and other issues to neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Proper citation: Brain-Net (RRID:SCR_005017) Copy   

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http://www.dsitissuebank.org

Donor Services of Indiana (DSI) in Fort Wayne is the nonprofit tissue bank established to provide high-quality human tissue and eye tissue for transplant to patients in our region, and for use in medical research. The program depends on contributions made by generous people who have consented to donation after the death of a family member. Bone, tendons, skin grafts and heart valves can significantly improve the quality of life for transplant recipients by preventing amputation, restoring mobility, relieving pain and sometimes saving lives. DSI adheres to the strict guidelines of the American Association of Tissue Banks and is widely recognized for its leadership in tissue banking. Transplant tissue provided by DSI is from regional donors evaluated and procured by our clinical staff, tested under our rigorous protocols, and distributed, tracked and followed by our professionals. DSI provides tissues back to the community from which they came and is equipped to deliver needed tissues on an urgent basis for medical emergencies, surgeries and procedures.

Proper citation: Donor Services of Indiana (RRID:SCR_004838) Copy   

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http://amphoranet.pitgroup.org/

Webserver implementation of the AMPHORA2 workflow for phylogenetic analysis of metagenomic shotgun sequencing data. It is capable of assigning a probability-weighted taxonomic group for each phylogenetic marker gene found in the input metagenomic sample.

Proper citation: AmphoraNet (RRID:SCR_005009) Copy   

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http://mltreemap.org/

Data analysis service that analyzes DNA sequences and determines their most likely phylogenetic origin. Its main use is in metagenomics projects, where DNA is isolated directly from natural environments and sequenced (the organisms from which the DNA originates are often entirely undescribed). It will search such sequences for suitable marker genes, and will use maximum likelihood analysis to place them in the ''''Tree of Life''''. This placement is more reliable than simply assessing the closest relative of a sequence using BLAST. More importantly, MLTreeMap decides not only who is the closest relative of your query sequence, but also how deep in the tree of life it probably branched off. Additionally, MLTreeMap searches the sequences for genes, which are coding for key enzymes of important functional pathways, such as RuBisCo, methane monooxygenase or nitrogenase. In case of a positive hit, MLTreeMap uses maximum likelihood analysis to place them in the respective ''''gene-family tree''''.

Proper citation: MLTreeMap (RRID:SCR_004792) Copy   

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http://mutationassessor.org/

A web server that predicts the functional impact of amino-acid substitutions in proteins, such as mutations discovered in cancer or nonsynonymous polymorphisms. The functional impact is assessed based on evolutionary conservation of the affected amino acid in protein homologs. The method has been validated on a large set (51k) of disease associated (OMIM) and polymorphic variants., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: MutationAssessor (RRID:SCR_005762) Copy   

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http://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm-pathology/pathology-core-services/biospecimen-archive-research-core-barc/

Biospecimen repository of normal and diseased human material from a variety of tissues and conditions along with clinical annotation. Both frozen aliquots and paraffin embedded tissue are available. Biospecimens are available to qualified researchers with IRB approval. * Preliminary inquires please contact Cheryl Spencer at cheryl.spencer (at) bmc.org

Proper citation: Boston University Biospecimen Archive Research Core (RRID:SCR_005363) Copy   

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http://www.donatelifenm.org/

New Mexico Donor Services (NMDS) is committed to saving and improving lives, connecting one life to another through donation and transplantation. NMDS and New Mexico hospitals share responsibility to ensure that an individual''s decision to be a donor is followed or their family is given the option to donate organs and/or tissue. Hospitals identify potential donors, make timely referrals, and manage the patients to allow NMDS to evaluate the patient for donor suitability and check donor status on their driver''s license or ID. Organs are distributed to waiting recipients through the national organ transplant list maintained by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) based on medical factors such as blood type, size and tissue match. It is illegal to distribute organs based on wealth or celebrity status. Tissue is distributed based on patient need, medical criteria and availability.

Proper citation: NMDS - New Mexico Donor Services (RRID:SCR_005033) Copy   

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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://www.lifelineofohio.org/

An independent, non-profit organization, Lifeline of Ohio (LOOP), promotes and coordinates the donation of human organs and tissue for transplantation. Its mission is to educate and empower central and southeastern Ohioans about organ and tissue donation while also facilitating the donation process. Lifeline of Ohio, a Donate Life Organization, has been approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as the designated organ procurement organization (OPO) serving 37 Ohio counties along with Wood and Hancock counties in West Virginia. Accredited by both the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) and the American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB), Lifeline of Ohio provides services to 70 hospitals and the communities they serve through its procurement and tissue coordinators, and other professional staff.

Proper citation: Lifeline of Ohio (RRID:SCR_005027) Copy   

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http://agbase.msstate.edu/cgi-bin/tools/goslimviewer_select.pl

Service to summarize the GO function associated with a data set using prepared GO Slim sets. The input is a tab separated list of gene product IDs and GO IDs.

Proper citation: GOSlimViewer (RRID:SCR_005665) Copy   

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http://www.ontariotumourbank.ca/

The Ontario Tumour Bank is a province-wide biorepository and data bank focused on collection of tumor-related human biospecimens. It provides academic and industry cancer researchers with a diverse selection of high quality tumor-related specimens and data obtained directly by dedicated tumour bank staff, who follow a stringent set of procedures and ethical guidelines. The biospecimens and clinical data are an important resource for scientists engaged in translational research who are developing better diagnostic tools and new drug therapies. Researchers depend on the Ontario Tumour Bank to provide research biospecimens of high quality, diversity, and integrity. Operating at state-of-the-art hospitals and cancer centers across Ontario, the Ontario Tumour Bank coordinates the collection, storage, analysis, annotation, and distribution of tumor and peripheral blood samples. Working in collaboration with local pathologists, medical oncologists, surgeons and other hospital personnel, specially trained staff obtain patient consent, collect tissues and assemble comprehensive clinical information about each donor and the corresponding samples.

Proper citation: Ontario Tumour Bank (RRID:SCR_004732) Copy   

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http://sidirect2.rnai.jp/

siDirect 2.0 provides functional and off-target minimized siRNA design for mammalian RNAi. The previous version of our software designed functional siRNAs by considering the relationship between siRNA sequence and RNAi activity, and provided them along with the enumeration of potential off-target gene candidates by using a fast and sensitive homology search algorithm. In the new version, the siRNA design algorithm is extensively updated to eliminate off-target effects by reflecting our recent finding that the capability of siRNA to induce off-target effect is highly correlated to the thermodynamic stability, or the melting temperature (Tm), of the seed-target duplex, which is formed between the nucleotides positioned at 2-8 from the 5'' end of the siRNA guide strand and its target mRNA. Selection of siRNAs with lower seed-target duplex stabilities (benchmark Tm < 21.5 degrees C) followed by the elimination of unrelated transcripts with nearly perfect match should minimize the off-target effects. siDirect 2.0 provides functional, target-specific siRNA design with the updated algorithm which significantly reduces off-target silencing. When the candidate functional siRNAs could form seed-target duplexes with Tm values below 21.5 degrees C, and their 19-nt regions spanning positions 2-20 of both strands have at least two mismatches to any other non-targeted transcripts, siDirect 2.0 can design at least one qualified siRNA for > 94% of human mRNA sequences in RefSeq. Enter an accession number and retrieve sequence or Paste in a nucleotide sequence.

Proper citation: siDirect (RRID:SCR_004853) Copy   

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http://www.yeastgenome.org/cgi-bin/GO/goSlimMapper.pl

The GO Slim Mapper (aka GO Term Mapper) maps the specific, granular GO terms used to annotate a list of budding yeast gene products to corresponding more general parent GO slim terms. Uses the SGD GO Slim sets. Three GO Slim sets are available at SGD: * Macromolecular complex terms: protein complex terms from the Cellular Component ontology * Yeast GO-Slim: GO terms that represent the major Biological Processes, Molecular Functions, and Cellular Components in S. cerevisiae * Generic GO-Slim: broad, high level GO terms from the Biological Process and Cellular Component ontologies selected and maintained by the Gene Ontology Consortium (GOC) Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: SGD Gene Ontology Slim Mapper (RRID:SCR_005784) 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://blogs.wsj.com/health/

Health Blog offers news and analysis on health and the business of health. The blog is written by Katherine Hobson and includes contributions from staffers at The Wall Street Journal, WSJ.com and Dow Jones Newswires. A searchable interface allows the user to find topics of interest. Katherine Hobson has been writing about health and business for more than 15 years, including stints covering cancer, nutrition, exercise science, the U.S. economy and the U.K. beer industry.

Proper citation: Wall Street Journal Health Blog (RRID:SCR_004914) 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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