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http://hcc.musc.edu/research/resources/biorepository/

The Hollings Cancer Center Tissue Biorepository & Research Pathology Services Shared Resource provides investigators with a centralized infrastructure that promotes biomedical research involving the use and study of human biospecimens. The shared resource is comprised of four integrated components: Biospecimens and data bank, Laser Capture Microdissection, Tissue Microarray, and Research Pathology Services. These components, along with extensive staff expertise, offer a comprehensive means by which researchers can utilize valuable human biospecimens and cutting edge technology to support basic, translational and clinical research. Services: * Biospecimen and Data Bank ** Collecting, processing, and banking of tissue, saliva, urine, blood, plasma, serum, and other tissue derivatives; including those for protocol driven studies ** Retrieval of banked specimens linked to clinicopathologic data, while maintaining patient confidentiality, for research use ** Quality control of collected tissue by the Tissue Biorepository Director, a trained pathologist: verification of diseased state and assessment of tumor purity, etc ** Quality control of DNA/RNA/protein isolated from collected tissue using the Agilent Bioanalyzer * Laser Capture Microdissection ** Identification, localization, and microdissection of targeted cell populations (from human and animal tissue sources) ** Extraction of DNA/RNA/protein from microdissected samples. ** Quality analysis and quality control of isolated nucleic acid using Agilent Bioanalyzer * Tissue Microarray ** Create custom and standard TMAs ** Consultation and technical support in the construction and analyses of TMA * Research Pathology Services ** Macrodissection of tissue prior to isolation of DNA/RNA/protein to increase tumor purity ** Immunohistochemistry and In-situ hybridization ** Quantitative image analysis on conventional and TMA sections, including tissue scoring, Ki-67 labeling index, microvascular density counting, and tissue microarray scoring, etc. * Bio-molecular Assessment ** Cellular DNA, RNA and protein prepared by the Tissue Repository from banked specimens or any other biomolecules submitted by investigators can be qualitatively assessed by Agilent Bioanalyzer, prior to use for downstream applications such as microarray and/or qRT-PCR analysis

Proper citation: Hollings Cancer Center Tissue Biorepository and Research Pathology Services Shared Resource (RRID:SCR_004626) Copy   

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http://www.bumc.bu.edu/cardiovascularproteomics/cpctools/strap/

Software program that automatically annotates a protein list with information that helps in the meaningful interpretation of data from mass spectrometry and other techniques. It takes protein lists as input, in the form of plain text files, protXML files (usually from the TPP), or Dat files from MASCOT search results. From this, it generates protein annotation tables, and a variety of GO charts to aid individual and differential analysis of proteomics data. It downloads information from mainly the Uniprot and EBI QuickGO databases. STRAP requires Windows XP or higher with at least version 3.5 of the Microsoft .NET Framework installed. Platform: Windows compatible

Proper citation: STRAP (RRID:SCR_005675) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/blast2/index.html

It is used to compare a novel sequence with those contained in nucleotide and protein databases by aligning the novel sequence with previously characterized genes.

Proper citation: Washington University Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (RRID:SCR_008285) Copy   

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http://www.ibbl.lu/

An independent, not-for-profit biobanking and biotechnology foundation designed to facilitate new, high quality medical research. The IBBL collects, stores, and analyzes biological samples and associated data, which are then made available to research organizations investigating new treatments for diseases. It houses a biospecimen collection and biorepository that contains high quality tissues and maintains quality control of the specimens and the clinical data associated with the tissue samples, while maintaining biobanking ethical standards. It also provides biorefinery analyses and research services that can make analytes from tissues (e.g. DNA, RNA and protein), maintains technology for high throughput gene sequencing and gene expression, and conducts biospecimen research. An informatics platform maintains the clinical and biospecimens data in a secure fashion for additional analysis. Samples are collected by IBBL personnel from hospitals in a targeted manner. The IBBL collaborates with research and health organizations in North America, Europe and the Middle East, and with the major international biobanking societies.

Proper citation: Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg (RRID:SCR_004211) Copy   

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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biobank/physicalbloom

The UCL/UCLH Biobank for Studying Health and Disease has been primarily established to support the Research Programme and scientific needs, of the Pathology Department UCLH & the UCL Cancer Institute. The establishment of the core programme enables a centralised approach to the management and integration of all research groups working within these institutions, providing appropriate structure and support. The biobank has policies and guidelines to guarantee compliance with HTA legislation and to ensure quality standards will be maintained. The biobank stores normal and pathological specimens, surplus to diagnostic requirements, from relevant tissues and bodily fluids, as well as human tissue used in xenograft experiments. Stored tissues include; snap-frozen or cryopreserved tissue, formalin-fixed tissue, paraffin-embedded tissues, and slides prepared for histological examination. Tissues include resection specimens obtained surgically or by needle core biopsy. Bodily fluids include; whole blood, serum, plasma, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, milk, saliva and buccal smears and cytological specimens such as sputum and cervical smears. Fine needle aspirates obtained from tissues and bodily cavities (eg. pleura and peritoneum) are also collected. Where appropriate the biobank also stores separated cells, protein, DNA and RNA isolated from collected tissues and bodily fluids described above. Some of the tissue and aspirated samples are stored in the diagnostic archive.

Proper citation: UCL/UCLH Biobank for Studying Health and Disease (RRID:SCR_004610) Copy   

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https://github.com/lufuhao/AutoEVM

Software tool as Autorun Evidence Modeler. Requires EVidenceModeler (aka EVM) software which combines ab into gene predictions and protein and transcript alignments into weighted consensus gene structures.

Proper citation: AutoEVM (RRID:SCR_017556) Copy   

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http://hollow.sourceforge.net/

HOLLOW facilitates the production of surface images of proteins. HOLLOW is a portable command-line utility written in Python 2.4-2.7; it does not have any other dependencies (although running under the PyPy JIT interpreter, it runs much faster). The input is a PDB file. The output is a PDB file of dummy water atoms that forms a cast of the voids and channels of a protein. HOLLOW generates a surface from a cast of the protein surface. HOLLOW fills the interior spaces of a protein structure with dummy atoms defined on an overlapping grid. The surface generated by these dummy atoms can be shown to reproduce the surface of the protein at the ideal limit. The use of the surface of the dummy atoms allows us to focus on a specific piece of the interior surface. Simply by deleting dummy atoms, the interior surface can be trimmed to produce a custom portion of the interior space. For advanced coloring of the surface, the B-factor of the dummy atoms can be calculated as the average of the B-factor of the protein atoms surrounding the dummy atoms. This allows various colorings of the surface to be conveyed through the B-factor field of the PDB files. The volume filling representation facilitated by HOLLOW is meant to complement other programs that identify voids, pockets and channels, such as SPHGEN and CASTp, which identify binding sites but cannot produce output that can be rendered in standard molecular graphics software. HOLLOW can be used to help render these binding pockets.

Proper citation: HOLLOW (RRID:SCR_005729) Copy   

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http://www.pondr.com/

Web tool to predict order and disorder from amino acid sequence. Used to predict of natural disordered regions in proteins.

Proper citation: PONDR (RRID:SCR_023691) Copy   

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https://fuzdrop.bio.unipd.it/predictor

Web tool to predict probability of proteins to undergo liquid-liquid phase separation.Used to perform sequence based identification of both droplet promoting regions and of aggregation promoting regions within droplets. Used to predict droplet promoting regions and proteins, which can spontaneously phase separate.

Proper citation: FuzDrop (RRID:SCR_023675) Copy   

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https://simtk.org/home/rna-viz-proto

A software application for animating and visualising RNA and other macromolecular structures. Users are able to use their intuition to interactively refold RNA structures and produce morphs from one structure to another. It allow researchers to explore and manipulate molecular structures Imported from BiositeMaps registry, to better understand structure:function relationships, folding pathways, and molecular motion.

Proper citation: ToRNADo (RRID:SCR_002706) Copy   

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http://lab.rockefeller.edu/chait/

Biomedical technology research center that develops cutting-edge mass spectrometric tools for analyzing peptides and proteins. It makes its software tools developed for data analysis freely available.

Proper citation: National Resource for the Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Biological Macromolecules (RRID:SCR_009007) Copy   

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http://amp.pharm.mssm.edu/X2K/

Software tool to produce inferred networks of transcription factors, proteins, and kinases predicted to regulate the expression of the inputted gene list by combining transcription factor enrichment analysis, protein-protein interaction network expansion, with kinase enrichment analysis. It provides the results as tables and interactive vector graphic figures.

Proper citation: eXpression2Kinases (RRID:SCR_016307) Copy   

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/batchentrez

Software program for loading numbers of genome records. Allows the retrieval of a large number of nucleotide sequences or protein sequences, in a batch mode, by importing a file containing a list of the desired GI or accession numbers.

Proper citation: Batch Entrez (RRID:SCR_016634) Copy   

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http://www.bondxray.org/software/aline.html

Software interactive perl/tk application which can read common sequence alignment formats which the user can then alter, embellish, markup etc to produce the kind of sequence figure commonly found in biochemical articles. Extensible WYSIWYG protein sequence alignment editor for publication quality figures.

Proper citation: Aline (RRID:SCR_016886) Copy   

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http://emboss.sourceforge.net/apps/cvs/embassy/index.html#DOMAINATRIX

Software for protein domain search. It is a part of Embassy software package.

Proper citation: DOMAINATRIX (RRID:SCR_016084) Copy   

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https://github.com/eduardporta/e-Driver

Software tool to identify cancer driver genes based on linear annotations of biological regions such as protein domains.Uses information on three-dimensional structures of mutated proteins to identify specific structural features. Then algorithm analyzes whether these features are enriched in cancer somatic mutations and are candidate driver genes.

Proper citation: e-Driver (RRID:SCR_002674) Copy   

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https://sites.google.com/a/blueprint.org/trades/

With Trajectory Directed Ensemble Sampling (TraDES) create large ensembles of high-quality protein structures quickly, ranging from near-native to partially unfolded to intrinsically unfolded. TraDES is a system for directly controlling and sampling protein conformational space. TraDES has been previously used for measuring the vastness of protein conformational space and testing the hypothesis of a brute force solution to the protein folding problem. Over 10 Billion protein structures have been produced by TraDES software in previous distributed computing experiments. The package is comprised of binary executable programs and accessory programs and scripts as well as protein structure data files that map out protein conformational space in a probabilistic way. The main programs are: * trades - generates protein structures following the Trajectory Distribution (see below) * seq2trj - makes Trajectory Distributions from sequences for sampling * str2tr - makes Trajectory Distributions from 3D structures for sampling Trajectory Distributions - Controlling the Sampling of Conformational Space The concept of the trajectory distribution may be new to many protein scientists. A trajectory distribution is simply a map of available conformational space at an amino acid residue. NMR scientists are the primary users of the TraDES package.

Proper citation: TraDES (RRID:SCR_006142) Copy   

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http://mapman.gabipd.org/web/guest/mapman

Software tool that displays large genomics datasets (e.g. gene expression data from Arabidopsis Affymetrix arrays) onto diagrams of metabolic pathways or other biological processes.

Proper citation: MapMan (RRID:SCR_003543) Copy   

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http://gpcr.usc.edu/#nogo

A protein family specific platform that works closely with the GPCR community to determine the high resolution structure and function of GPCRs. Structures are available in the glutamate, secretin, frizzled/TAS2, adhesion, and rhodopsin branches of the protein phylogenetic tree. Users can access a list of protein structure targets and completed protein structures.

Proper citation: GPCR Network (RRID:SCR_014286) Copy   

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http://www.matrixscience.com/server.html

A software package and server used to identify and characterize proteins from primary sequence databases using mass spectrometry data. Mascot integrates peptide mass fingerprinting, sequence querying, and MS/MS ion searching in order to search for proteins in databases like SwissProt, NCBInr, EMBL EST divisions, contaminants, and cRAP. If a license is purchased, users may: search data sets that exceed the 1200 spectrum limit of the free version; set up automated, high throughput work; add and edit proteins and quantification methods; and search a preferred collection of sequence databases. The software package works with instruments from AB Sciex, Agilent, Bruker, Jeol, Shimadzu, Thermo Scientific, and Waters.

Proper citation: Mascot (RRID:SCR_014322) Copy   

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