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http://www.kidneycenter.pitt.edu/cores/model_organisms.html

Core that uses the yeast S. cerevisiae and the zebrafish D. rerio to dissect fundamental aspects of kidney development and protein structure and function.

Proper citation: Pittsburgh Center for Kidney Research Model Organisms (RRID:SCR_015288) Copy   

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http://www.norc.uab.edu/corefacilities/animalmodels

Core that provides specialized expertise in the use of animal models and instrumentation to facilitate animal research related to nutrition and obesity.

Proper citation: University of Alabama at Birmingham Nutrition and Obesity Research Center Animal Models Core (RRID:SCR_015466) Copy   

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http://zfrhmaps.tch.harvard.edu/cemh/CoreB.htm

Zebrafish core facility which generates and maintains transgenic and mutant fish lines for hematology research. It also provides expertise and training in model production, study design, and fish production for research.

Proper citation: Boston Children's Hospital Center of Excellence in Molecular Hematology Zebrafish Core (RRID:SCR_015355) Copy   

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http://zfrhmaps.tch.harvard.edu/cemh/CoreC.htm

Core facility for basic and translational stem cell research. The core's areas of expertise include human pluripotent stem cell biology, cGMP cell manufacturing, reprogramming, genome editing, genotyping, laboratory automation, chemical screening, and imaging/image analysis.

Proper citation: Boston Children's Hospital Center of Excellence in Molecular Hematology Stem Cell Engineering and Analysis Core (RRID:SCR_015352) Copy   

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http://appris.bioinfo.cnio.es/

A database that houses annotations of human splice isoforms. It adds reliable protein structural and functional data and information from cross-species conservation. A visual representation of the annotations for each gene allows users to easily identify functional changes brought about by splicing events. In addition to collecting, integrating and analyzing reliable predictions of the effect of splicing events, it also selects a single reference sequence for each gene, termed the principal isoform, based on the annotations of structure, function and conservation for each transcript.

Proper citation: APPRIS (RRID:SCR_012019) Copy   

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http://polya.umdnj.edu/

A database of mRNA polyadenylation sites. PolyA_DB version 1 contains human and mouse poly(A) sites that are mapped by cDNA/EST sequences. PolyA_DB version 2 contains poly(A) sites in human, mouse, rat, chicken and zebrafish that are mapped by cDNA/EST and Trace sequences. Sequence alignments between orthologous sites are available. PolyA_SVM predicts poly(A) sites using 15 cis elements identified for human poly(A) sites.

Proper citation: PolyA DB (RRID:SCR_007867) Copy   

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http://www.chibi.ubc.ca/Gemma

Resource for reuse, sharing and meta-analysis of expression profiling data. Database and set of tools for meta analysis, reuse and sharing of genomics data. Targeted at analysis of gene expression profiles. Users can search, access and visualize coexpression and differential expression results.

Proper citation: Gemma (RRID:SCR_008007) Copy   

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http://corefacilities.case.edu/animal.php

A set of core facilities of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine which allows users to create and analyze in vivo animal models. The various facilities provide animal care, transgenic models, imaging, irradiation, and phenotyping for research concerning such topics as cancer, metabolic processes, and behavior. In vivo animals provided include mice, zebrafish, and rodents.

Proper citation: CWRU In Vivo Animal Facilities (RRID:SCR_014209) Copy   

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http://zcre.org.uk/Welcome.html

ZCre is a consortium of researchers who have a shared interest in developing Cre/lox based tools for use in the zebrafish model organism. ZCre plans to generate 15 or more tissue specific ERT2CreERT2 driver lines to be expressed in either differentiated cell types or precursor/stem cells, as well as 20 or more lines based upon multilox technology. One set of multilox transgenes will allow long-term permanent labelling of individual cells for lineage tracing and other applications. Another set will allow perturbation of single pathways within individual cells (PathM lines). In order to make these lines ZCre has developed a three-way cloning system using Gateway technology (Invitrogen). Once constructs are made they will be deposited at Addgene.org. Transgenic lines will be available from ZCre or from regional stock centers as requested.

Proper citation: ZCre (RRID:SCR_000815) Copy   

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http://zfishbook.org/

Collection of revertible protein trap gene-breaking transposon (GBT) insertional mutants in zebrafish with active or cryopreserved lines from initially identified lines. Open to community-wide contributions including expression and functional annotation and represents world-wide central hub for information on how to obtain these lines from diverse members of International Zebrafish Protein Trap Consortium (IZPTC) and integration within other zebrafish community databases including Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN), Ensembl and National Center for Biotechnology Information. Registration allows users to save their favorite lines for easy access, request lines from Mayo Clinic catalog, contribute to line annotation with appropriate credit, and puts them on optional mailing list for future zfishbook newletters and updates.

Proper citation: zfishbook (RRID:SCR_006896) Copy   

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http://www.sbpdiscovery.org/technology/sr/Pages/LaJolla_AnimalFacility.aspx

Animal facility that provides housing for specific pathogen free rodents, frogs, and zebrafish. The facility also has trained animal care technicians provide expertise in animal husbandry, transgenic and knockout mouse breeding colony maintenance and assistance with routine technical procedures.

Proper citation: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Animal Facility (RRID:SCR_014849) Copy   

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http://ccb.jhu.edu/software/glimmerhmm/

A gene finder based on a Generalized Hidden Markov Model (GHMM). Although the gene finder conforms to the overall mathematical framework of a GHMM, additionally it incorporates splice site models adapted from the GeneSplicer program and a decision tree adapted from GlimmerM. It also utilizes Interpolated Markov Models for the coding and noncoding models . Currently, GlimmerHMM's GHMM structure includes introns of each phase, intergenic regions, and four types of exons (initial, internal, final, and single).

Proper citation: GlimmerHMM (RRID:SCR_002654) Copy   

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http://edwardslab.bmcb.georgetown.edu/

The Edwards lab conducts research in various aspects of computational biology and bioinformatics, particularly proteomics and mass spectrometry informatics and DNA and protein based signatures for pathogen detection. Some tools provided by Edwards Lab are the PepArML Meta-Search Engine, PeptideMapper Web-Service, Peptide Sequence Databases, Rapid Microorganism Identification Database (RMIDb), and GlycoPeptideSearch. Our primary area of research is the analysis of mass spectrometry experiments for proteomics. Proteomics, the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the expressed proteins of a cell, makes it possible to detect and compare the protein abundance profiles of different samples. Proteins observed to be under or over expressed in disease samples can lead to diagnostic markers or drug targets. The observation of mutated or alternatively spliced protein isoforms may provide domain experts with clues to the mechanisms by which a disease operates. The detection of proteins by mass spectrometry can even signal the presence of airborne microorganisms, such as anthrax, in the detect-to-protect time-frame. Recent research has focused on the discovery of novel peptides in proteomics datasets, improving the sensitivity and specificity of peptide identification using spectral matching with hidden Markov models, and unsupervised machine-learning based peptide identification result combining. Outside of proteomics, we work on computational tools for the design of highly specific oligonucleotides useful for pathogen signatures and PCR assay design. Recent research has focused on precomputing all human oligos of length 20 that are unique up to 4 string edits; and all bacterial 20-mer oligos that are species specific up to 4 string edits.

Proper citation: Edwards Lab (RRID:SCR_008860) Copy   

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http://akt.ucsf.edu/EGAN/

Exploratory Gene Association Networks (EGAN) is a software tool that allows a bench biologist to visualize and interpret the results of high-throughput exploratory assays in an interactive hypergraph of genes, relationships (protein-protein interactions, literature co-occurrence, etc.) and meta-data (annotation, signaling pathways, etc.). EGAN provides comprehensive, automated calculation of meta-data coincidence (over-representation, enrichment) for user- and assay-defined gene lists, and provides direct links to web resources and literature (NCBI Entrez Gene, PubMed, KEGG, Gene Ontology, iHOP, Google, etc.). EGAN functions as a module for exploratory investigation of analysis results from multiple high-throughput assay technologies, including but not limited to: * Transcriptomics via expression microarrays or RNA-Seq * Genomics via SNP GWAS or array CGH * Proteomics via MS/MS peptide identifications * Epigenomics via DNA methylation, ChIP-on-Chip or ChIP-Seq * In-silico analysis of sequences or literature EGAN has been built using Cytoscape libraries for graph visualization and layout, and is comparable to DAVID, GSEA, Ingenuity IPA and Ariadne Pathway Studio. There are pre-collated EGAN networks available for human (Homo sapiens), mouse (Mus musculus), rat (Rattus norvegicus), chicken (Gallus gallus), zebrafish (Danio rerio), fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), nematode (Caenorhabditis elegans), mouse-ear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), rice (Oryza sativa) and brewer's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). There is now an EGAN module available for GenePattern (human-only). Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible

Proper citation: EGAN: Exploratory Gene Association Networks (RRID:SCR_008856) Copy   

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http://www.webgestalt.org/

Web based gene set analysis toolkit designed for functional genomic, proteomic, and large-scale genetic studies from which large number of gene lists (e.g. differentially expressed gene sets, co-expressed gene sets etc) are continuously generated. WebGestalt incorporates information from different public resources and provides a way for biologists to make sense out of gene lists. This version of WebGestalt supports eight organisms, including human, mouse, rat, worm, fly, yeast, dog, and zebrafish.

Proper citation: WebGestalt: WEB-based GEne SeT AnaLysis Toolkit (RRID:SCR_006786) Copy   

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http://zebrafish.wi.mit.edu/rnai/

Community built zebrafish RNAi platform that contains plasmids, successfully targeted genes and shRNA sequences, and a forum for discussion. This is a true community platform with users who add data, modify entiries, request features and share using the discussion board.

Proper citation: Zebrafish RNAi Database (RRID:SCR_008965) Copy   

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http://phenomebrowser.net/

PhenomeNet is a cross-species phenotype similarity network. It contains the experimentally observed phenotypes of multiple species as well as the phenotypes of human diseases. PhenomeNet provides a measure of phenotypic similarity between the phenotypes it contains. The latest release (from 22 June 2012) contains 124,730 complex phenotype nodes taken from the yeast, fish, worm, fly, rat, slime mold and mouse model organism databases as well as human disease phenotypes from OMIM and OrphaNet. The network is a complete graph in which edge weights represent the degree of phenotypic similarity. Phenotypic similarity can be used to identify and prioritize candidate disease genes, find genes participating in the same pathway and orthologous genes between species. To compute phenotypic similarity between two sets of phenotypes, we use a weighted Jaccard index. First, phenotype ontologies are used to infer all the implications of a phenotype observation using several phenotype ontologies. As a second step, the information content of each phenotype is computed and used as a weight in the Jaccard index. Phenotypic similarity is useful in several ways. Phenotypic similarity between a phenotype resulting from a genetic mutation and a disease can be used to suggest candidate genes for a disease. Phenotypic similarity can also identify genes in a same pathway or orthologous genes. PhenomeNet uses the axioms in multiple species-dependent phenotype ontologies to infer equivalent and related phenotypes across species. For this purpose, phenotype ontologies and phenotype annotations are integrated in a single ontology, and automated reasoning is used to infer equivalences. Specifically, for every phenotype, PhenomeNet infers the related mammalian phenotype and uses the Mammalian Phenotype Ontology for computing phenotypic similarity. Tools: * PhenomeBLAST - A tool for cross-species alignments of phenotypes * PhenomeDrug - method for drug-repurposing

Proper citation: phenomeNET (RRID:SCR_006165) Copy   

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http://ctdbase.org/

A public database that enhances understanding of the effects of environmental chemicals on human health. Integrated GO data and a GO browser add functionality to CTD by allowing users to understand biological functions, processes and cellular locations that are the targets of chemical exposures. CTD includes curated data describing cross-species chemical–gene/protein interactions, chemical–disease and gene–disease associations to illuminate molecular mechanisms underlying variable susceptibility and environmentally influenced diseases. These data will also provide insights into complex chemical–gene and protein interaction networks.

Proper citation: Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) (RRID:SCR_006530) Copy   

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http://zfin.org/zf_info/anatomy/dict/sum.html

A structured controlled vocabulary of the anatomy and development of the Zebrafish (Danio rerio). It includes a list of structures, organized hierarchically into an ontology, with descriptions of each structure. The current version is being written by a consortium of researchers, each serving as an expert for a particular set of anatomical structures. Additional anatomical information derived from the current literature is provided by the ZFIN curation group. Development of a complete and uniform anatomical ontology for the zebrafish is vital to the success of zebrafish science. The anatomical ontology is necessary for: * Effective data dissemination and informatics. * A reference framework. * Interoperability.

Proper citation: Zebrafish Anatomical Ontology (RRID:SCR_005887) Copy   

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http://genenet2.uthsc.edu/geneinfoviz/search.php

GeneInfoViz is a web based tool for batch retrieval of gene function information, visualization of GO structure and construction of gene relation networks. It takes a input list of genes in the form of LocusLink ID, UniGeneID, gene symbol, or accession number and returns their functional genomic information. Based on the GO annotations of the given genes, GeneInfoViz allows users to visualize these genes in the DAG structure of GO, and construct a gene relation network at a selected level of the DAG. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: GeneInfoViz (RRID:SCR_005680) Copy   

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