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http://primegens.org/

A Web-based Tool for High-throughput Primer and Probe Design. The program has its different utilities available on its web server. A standalone version is also available. Algorithms: * SSPD - Sequence Specific Primer Design: to design primers for each of the specific sequences given by the user in the query input file against any alternate potential hybridization with any of the sequences given in the database input file. * PSPD - Probe Specific Primer Design: to design primers it selects the gene-specific fragments (probes) to design primer pairs for their PCR amplification. * FSPD Fragment Specific Primer Design: primer design algorithm used when there is a very long query sequence for which multiple primers are required for its amplification. * Check Binding Specificity * Probe Design Only: Probe design algorithm could be used to find sequence-specific probes, which doesn''t show any blast hit against database. Such probe design has been used for targeted sequencing like agilent sure-select technology with next-generation sequencing.

Proper citation: PRIMEGENS (RRID:SCR_005474) Copy   

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http://gds.nih.gov/

NIH established expectations for sharing data obtained through NIH-funded genome-wide association studies (GWAS) with the implementation of the GWAS Policy. Information and resources related to the GWAS Policy can be found on this website.

Proper citation: Genomic Datasharing (RRID:SCR_005233) Copy   

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http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/index.shtml

Software ultrafast memory efficient tool for aligning sequencing reads. Bowtie is short read aligner.

Proper citation: Bowtie (RRID:SCR_005476) Copy   

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http://www.bioportfolio.com/

BioPortfolio is a leading news, information and knowledge resource covering the global life science industries impacted on by biotechnology. The site aims to provide the lay person, the researcher and the management executive with a single location to source core information on specific bio-related topics, to collate relevant data associated with each topic and to point the user to relevant knowledge resources. We publish up to the minute news (see biotechnology news categories) and regularly update content across our information databases. BioPortfolio promotes and sells market research and management reports from 30+ publishers. In addition our unique corporate database lists 40,000+ companies and organizations. BioPortfolio aims to bring together high quality information about marketed drugs - medication and relevant clinical trials, research papers and recent news from PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, and DailyMed. Additionally, resources include biotech, pharma and medical job listings. When the BioPortfolio site was launched in February 1997 the company aimed to provide a global free-to-use resource with defined aims and mission statement: to meet the increasing demand of consumers, scientists, investors, commerce and government for timely, accurate and commercially useful information and intelligence on biotechnology companies, technologies and products world-wide. Driven by the success of the site we have made major investments and improvements to enhance our content and to apply the latest web technologies to improve functionality and site utility. We believe this unique depth and breadth of content is supporting individuals, organizations and policy-makers to become more aware of the role of biotechnology on the global economy. With 97,000 users visiting the site more than once per month we are confident that we are providing information our users need. We hope you the users find the site of value for both personal and professional reasons. Please enjoy this free resource and email your comments!

Proper citation: BioPortfolio (RRID:SCR_005230) Copy   

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http://variant.bioinfo.cipf.es/

Analysis tool that can report the functional properties of any variant in all the human, mouse or rat genes (and soon new model organisms will be added) and the corresponding neighborhoods. Also other non-coding extra-genic regions, such as miRNAs are included in the analysis. It not only reports the obvious functional effects in the coding regions but also analyzes noncoding SNVs situated both within the gene and in the neighborhood that could affect different regulatory motifs, splicing signals, and other structural elements. These include: Jaspar regulatory motifs, miRNA targets, splice sites, exonic splicing silencers, calculations of selective pressures on the particular polymorphic positions, etc. Software analysis pipelines used in the analysis of NGS data are highly modular, heterogeneous, and rapidly evolving. VARIANT can easily be incorporated into a NGS resequencing pipeline either as a CLI or invoked a webservice. It inputs data directly from the most widely used programs for SNV detection., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: VARIANT (RRID:SCR_005194) Copy   

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https://www.rostlab.org/services/snpdbe/

A database to fill the annotation gap left by the high cost of experimental testing for functional significance of protein variants. It joins related bits of knowledge, currently distributed throughout various databases, into a consistent, easily accessible, and updatable resource. It currently covers over 155,000 protein sequences which come from more than 2,600 organisms. Overall more than one million single amino acid substitutions (SAASs) are referenced consisting of natural variants, SAASs from mutagenesis experiments and sequencing conflicts. SNPdbe offers the following pieces of information (if available) on each SAAS: * Experimentally derived functional and structural impact * Predicted functional effect * Associated disease * Average heterozygosity * Experimental evidence of the nsSNP * Evolutionary conservation of wildtype and mutant amino acid * Link-outs to external databases A convenient webinterface to query SAASs on the following levels is offered: * Protein and gene identifiers and keywords * Disease keywords * Protein sequence on different sequence identity thresholds * Variant identifier (dbSNP rs, SwissVar, PMD) or specific mutant like XposY and specified sequence They offer the possibility to submit protein sequences along with experimentally substantiated mutations in order to predict their functional effect and inclusion into our database.

Proper citation: SNPdbe (RRID:SCR_005190) Copy   

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http://microbesonline.org/

MicrobesOnline is designed specifically to facilitate comparative studies on prokaryotic genomes. It is an entry point for operon, regulons, cis-regulatory and network predictions based on comparative analysis of genomes. The portal includes over 1000 complete genomes of bacteria, archaea and fungi and thousands of expression microarrays from diverse organisms ranging from model organisms such as Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae to environmental microbes such as Desulfovibrio vulgaris and Shewanella oneidensis. To assist in annotating genes and in reconstructing their evolutionary history, MicrobesOnline includes a comparative genome browser based on phylogenetic trees for every gene family as well as a species tree. To identify co-regulated genes, MicrobesOnline can search for genes based on their expression profile, and provides tools for identifying regulatory motifs and seeing if they are conserved. MicrobesOnline also includes fast phylogenetic profile searches, comparative views of metabolic pathways, operon predictions, a workbench for sequence analysis and integration with RegTransBase and other microbial genome resources. The next update of MicrobesOnline will contain significant new functionality, including comparative analysis of metagenomic sequence data. Programmatic access to the database, along with source code and documentation, is available at http://microbesonline.org/programmers.html.

Proper citation: MicrobesOnline (RRID:SCR_005507) Copy   

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http://www.hca-vision.com/product_spot.html

Software package for analysis of microarray images. Microarray spot detection and characterization software package which extracts numerical information from cDNA microarrays., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: SPOT (RRID:SCR_005623) Copy   

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http://slicer.org/

A free, open source software package for visualization and image analysis including registration, segmentation, and quantification of medical image data. Slicer provides a graphical user interface to a powerful set of tools so they can be used by end-user clinicians and researchers alike. 3D Slicer is natively designed to be available on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux and Mac Os X. Slicer is based on VTK (http://public.kitware.com/vtk) and has a modular architecture for easy addition of new functionality. It uses an XML-based file format called MRML - Medical Reality Markup Language which can be used as an interchange format among medical imaging applications. Slicer is primarily written in C++ and Tcl.

Proper citation: 3D Slicer (RRID:SCR_005619) Copy   

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http://brainstars.org

BrainStars (or B*) is a quantitative expression database of the adult mouse brain. The database has genome-wide expression profile at 51 adult mouse CNS regions. For 51 CNS regions, slices (0.5-mm thick) of mouse brain were cut on a Mouse Brain Matrix, frozen, and the specific regions were punched out bilaterally with a microdissecting needle (gauge 0.5 mm) under a stereomicroscope. For each region, we took samples every 4 hours, starting at ZT0 (Zeitgaber time 0; the time of lights on), for 24 hours (6 time-point samples for each region), and we pooled the samples from the different time points. We independently sampled each region twice (n=2). These samples were purified their RNA, and measured with Affymetrix GeneChip Mouse Genome 430 2.0 arrays. Expression values were then summarized with the RMA method. After several analysis with the expression data, the data and analysis results were stored in the BrainStars database. The database has a REST-like Web API interface for accessing from your Web applications. This document shows how to access the database via our Web API.

Proper citation: BrainStars (RRID:SCR_005810) Copy   

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http://corneliu.henegar.info/FunCluster.htm

FunCluster is a genomic data analysis algorithm which performs functional analysis of gene expression data obtained from cDNA microarray experiments. Besides automated functional annotation of gene expression data, FunCluster functional analysis aims to detect co-regulated biological processes through a specially designed clustering procedure involving biological annotations and gene expression data. FunCluster''''s functional analysis relies on Gene Ontology and KEGG annotations and is currently available for three organisms: Homo Sapiens, Mus Musculus and Saccharomyces Cerevisiae. FunCluster is provided as a standalone R package, which can be run on any operating system for which an R environment implementation is available (Windows, Mac OS, various flavors of Linux and Unix). Download it from the FunCluster website, or from the worldwide mirrors of CRAN. FunCluster is provided freely under the GNU General Public License 2.0. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: FunCluster (RRID:SCR_005774) Copy   

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http://vibez.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/

An imaging and image analysis framework for virtual colocalization studies in larval zebrafish brains, currently available for 72hpf, 48hpf and 96hpf old larvae. ViBE-Z contains a database with precisely aligned gene expression patterns (1����m^3 resolution), an anatomical atlas, and a software. This software creates high-quality data sets by fusing multiple confocal microscopic image stacks, and aligns these data sets to the standard larva. The ViBE-Z database and atlas are stored in HDF5 file format. They are freely available for download. ViBE-Z provides a software that automatically maps gene expression data with cellular resolution to a 3D standard larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) brain. ViBE-Z enhances the data quality through fusion and attenuation correction of multiple confocal microscope stacks per specimen and uses a fluorescent stain of cell nuclei for image registration. It automatically detects 14 predefined anatomical landmarks for aligning new data with the reference brain. ViBE-Z performs colocalization analysis in expression databases for anatomical domains or subdomains defined by any specific pattern. The ViBE-Z database, atlas and software are provided via a web interface.

Proper citation: ViBE-Z (RRID:SCR_005895) Copy   

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http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/ws/ws.php?entry=BLASTatlas

The BLASTatlas is a tool that is useful for mapping and visualizing whole genome homology of genes and proteins within a reference strain compared to other strains or species of one or more prokaryotic organisms using either blastp, blastn, tblastn, or blastx. DNA structural information is also included in the atlas to visualize the DNA chromosomal context of regions. Additional information can be added to these plots. The tool is SOAP compliant and WSDL (web services description language) files are available with programming examples available in Perl. The resolution is per-residue or per nucleotide depending on the regime of the blast search: For each annotation in the reference genome, the best hit in the database genome is found using one of the above algorithms. Each matching or mismatching residue/nucleotide of the best hit (based on BLAST score) is then mapped back to the genome sequence, using the coordinates provided in the annotations. By providing an interoperable method to carry out whole genome visualization of homology, this service offers bioinformaticians as well as biologists an easy-to-adopt workflow that can be directly called from the programming language of the user, hence enabling automation of repeated tasks. This tool can be relevant in many pangenomic as well as in metagenomic studies, by giving a quick overview of clusters of insertion sites, genomic islands and overall homology between a reference sequence and a data set.

Proper citation: BLASTatlas - Mapping of whole genome homology (RRID:SCR_005891) Copy   

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https://fairsharing.org/standards/

Catalogue to: 1, centralize community-developed bioscience standards, linking to policies, other portals, open access resources and lists of tools and databases implementing the standards; 2. develop and maintain a set of criteria for assessing the usability and popularity of the standards, also the interoperability and relations among them; 3. foster interoperability, addressing overlaps and duplication of efforts that hamper their wider uptake and interfere with the creation of standards-compliant systems. Research community, funding agencies, and journals participate in the development of reporting standards for the bioscience domain to ensure that shared experiments are reported with enough information to be comprehensible and (in principle) reproducible, compared or integrated. Similar trends in both the regulatory arena and commercial science. The BioSharing catalogue classifies standards into three types: * reporting requirements (minimal information checklists to report of the same core set of information) * terminological artifacts (such as controlled vocabularies and ontologies to describe the information) * exchange formats (to communicate the information) You can sort columns and browse the reporting guidelines content, or you can view all the standards, or reporting guidelines, or terminological artifacts or exchange formats only. Contribute and help build the catalogue.

Proper citation: FAIRSharing Catalogue of Standards (RRID:SCR_005926) Copy   

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http://great.stanford.edu/public/html/splash.php

Data analysis service that predicts functions of cis-regulatory regions identified by localized measurements of DNA binding events across an entire genome. Whereas previous methods took into account only binding proximal to genes, GREAT is able to properly incorporate distal binding sites and control for false positives using a binomial test over the input genomic regions. GREAT incorporates annotations from 20 ontologies and is available as a web application. The utility of GREAT extends to data generated for transcription-associated factors, open chromatin, localized epigenomic markers and similar functional data sets, and comparative genomics sets. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: GREAT: Genomic Regions Enrichment of Annotations Tool (RRID:SCR_005807) Copy   

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http://www.hormone.org/

A portal for hormone-related health information for the public, physicians, allied health professionals and the media. It serves as a resource for the public by promoting the prevention, treatment and cure of hormone-related conditions through outreach and education. It provides free educational materials, public forums, physician referral service, and media education campaigns. It offers a library of educational materials and programs covering a wide range of endocrine topics, including adrenal disorders, breast cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, stress, thyroid disease and cancer.

Proper citation: Hormone Health Network (RRID:SCR_005765) Copy   

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https://www.google.com/docs/about/

Authoring tool to create, share, and collaborate on the web with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more in real time. All your changes are saved automatically in Drive.

Proper citation: Google Docs (RRID:SCR_005886) Copy   

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http://manuals.bioinformatics.ucr.edu/home/R_BioCondManual#GOHyperGAll

To test a sample population of genes for overrepresentation of GO terms, the R/BioC function GOHyperGAll computes for all GO nodes a hypergeometric distribution test and returns the corresponding p-values. A subsequent filter function performs a GO Slim analysis using default or custom GO Slim categories. Basic knowledge about R and BioConductor is required for using this tool. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible, THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: GOHyperGAll (RRID:SCR_005766) Copy   

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https://gene-atlas.brainminds.jp/

Database of gene expression in the marmoset brain.Comparative anatomy of marmoset and mouse cortex from genomic expression. Atlas comparing brain of neonatal marmoset with mouse using in situ hybridization.

Proper citation: Expression Atlas of the Marmoset (RRID:SCR_005760) Copy   

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http://www.vectorbase.org

Bioinformatics Resource Center for invertebrate vectors. Provides web-based resources to scientific community conducting basic and applied research on organisms considered potential agents of biowarfare or bioterrorism or causing emerging or re-emerging diseases.

Proper citation: VectorBase (RRID:SCR_005917) Copy   

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