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http://aps.unmc.edu/AP/main.php

Database and data analysis system dedicated to glossary, nomenclature, classification, information search, prediction, design, and statistics of Antimicrobial peptides and beyond. The peptide data stored in the APD were gleaned from the literature (PubMed, PDB, Google, and Swiss-Prot) manually in the past several years. Peptides will be registered into this database if: # they are from natural sources (bacteria, protozoa, fungi, plants, and animals); # their antimicrobial activities are demonstrated (MIC

Proper citation: APD (RRID:SCR_006606) Copy   

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http://www.mechanobio.info/

Portal that deals with the process of mechanotransduction, providing in-depth, regularly updated reviews on the mechanics of cellular and molecular function. Each review is written by scientists and subsequently peer reviewed by experts in the field to ensure the content is accurate, reliable and up to date. Each review emphasizes the functional and mechanical aspects of a process, rather than the genetic aspects, with the aim of making this resource accessible to a wider audience. MBInfo is an ideal resource for scientists working in alternative fields, individuals working in industries where products are based on biological principles or students seeking a reliable introduction to a given cellular process. Each topic is written in a pyramid structure. The top of the pyramid is represented by an overview page, providing a basic description of a given function or process. These pages target a broad spectrum of readers and assume only a basic understanding of biology. Further down the pyramid, the reader will encounter the steps involved in the process described and functional modules that address specific mechanical aspects. These pages outline the protein complexes involved and the mechanisms by which they achieve the given process or function. These pages assume the readers have a more in-depth knowledge of scientific terms and principles. For every topic, a series of graphics and/or animations are available. These supplement the reviews, clarify information and guide the reader through complex processes pictorially. This makes MBInfo an ideal teaching resource, whether in the classroom or for clients trying to understand your product. All images and text are copyright protected and are for personal use only. Current Topics include: * Cellular Structures in Mechanosensing and Cell Motility * Methods in the Study of Mechanobiology * Nuclear Mechanotransduction Almost 100 stand alone Glossary Terms are now available. These include short definitions or summaries of proteins and processes that relate to broader topics discussed within the site. Browse an extensive range of figures, tables and videos in our resources section. New quizzes and other interactive content can also be found.

Proper citation: MBInfo (RRID:SCR_006768) Copy   

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http://cellfinder.de/

Database of mapped validated gene and protein expression, phenotype and images related to cell types. The data allow characterization and comparison of cell types and can be browsed by using the body browser and by searching for cells or genes. All cells are related to more complex systems such as tissues, organs and organisms and arranged according to their position in development. CellFinder provides long-term data storage for validated and curated primary research data and provides additional expert-validation through relevant information extracted from text. Operated under the Open Source/Access model, community and scientific networking applications will allow users to store and retrieve their data and to explore cells and their interactions on singular and complex resolution levels. The involvement of stem cell registries and banks will allow direct access to selected cells. The set up the stem cell data repository will involve three lines of action: * the acquisition of scientific data and contents * the standardized description of this data, its organization with the help of ontologies and technical implementation * the integration of existing sources/logistics and to ensure sustainable long-term operation

Proper citation: CellFinder (RRID:SCR_006598) Copy   

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http://bar.utoronto.ca/welcome.htm

Web-based tools for working with functional genomics and other data, including Gene Expression and Protein Tools, Molecular Markers and Mapping Tools, and Other Genomic Tools. Most are designed with the plant (mainly Arabidopsis) researcher in mind, but a couple of them can be useful to the wider research community, e.g. Mouse eFP Browser or BlastDigester. The associated paper for most tools is available.

Proper citation: BAR (RRID:SCR_006748) Copy   

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http://www.peptideresource.com/

A guide to peptide-related research and products including custom peptide suppliers, peptide synthesis reagent suppliers that provide resins, coupling reagents, and protected amino acids as well as biologically active peptides and substrates, peptide synthesizers for solution or solid phase peptide synthesis, peptide sequence analysis services, software to calculate the chemical or biochemical properties of peptides, including the prediction of antigenicity or difficult-to-synthesize sequences. There is an additional section on Proteomics Tools for the identification of proteins from peptide sequences determined by mass spectrometry. The site also contains a set of links to educational materials about peptide related research topics.

Proper citation: Peptide Resource Page: Your Complete Guide to Peptide Research and Suppliers (RRID:SCR_006676) Copy   

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http://ailun.stanford.edu/

Re-annotated gene expression / proteomics data from GEO by relating all probe IDs to Entrez Gene IDs once every three months, enabling you to find data from GEO, and compare them from different platforms and species. Platform Annotations adds the latest annotations to any uploaded probe / gene ID list file. Platform Comparison compares any two platforms to find corresponding probes mapping to the same gene. Cross-species mapping maps platform annotations to other species. Gene Search finds deposited platforms and samples in GEO that contain a list of genes. GPL ID Search finds the GPL ID (GEO platform ID) for your array. You can also download the latest annotations files for all arrays and their comprehensive universal gene identifier table, which relates all types of gene / protein / clone identifiers to Entrez Gene IDs for all species. Note: The database was last updated on 4/30/2011. They have successfully mapped 54932732 individual probes from 385099 GEO samples measuring 3519 GEO platforms across 217 species.

Proper citation: Array Information Library Universal Navigator (RRID:SCR_006967) Copy   

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

Open source database system and analysis tools for molecular interaction data. All interactions are derived from literature curation or direct user submissions. Direct user submissions of molecular interaction data are encouraged, which may be deposited prior to publication in a peer-reviewed journal. The IntAct Database contains (Jun. 2014): * 447368 Interactions * 33021 experiments * 12698 publications * 82745 Interactors IntAct provides a two-tiered view of the interaction data. The search interface allows the user to iteratively develop complex queries, exploiting the detailed annotation with hierarchical controlled vocabularies. Results are provided at any stage in a simplified, tabular view. Specialized views then allows "zooming in" on the full annotation of interactions, interactors and their properties. IntAct source code and data are freely available.

Proper citation: IntAct (RRID:SCR_006944) Copy   

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http://pga.mgh.harvard.edu/primerbank/

Database of human and mouse primer pairs for gene expression analysis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and quantitative PCR (qPCR). A total of 306,800 primers covering most known human and mouse genes can be accessed from the PrimerBank database, together with information on these primers such as T(m), location on the transcript and amplicon size. For each gene, at least one primer pair has been designed and in many cases alternative primer pairs exist. Primers have been designed to work under the same PCR conditions, thus facilitating high-throughput QPCR. All primers in PrimerBank were carefully designed to ensure gene specificity. All experimental validation data for mouse primers are available from PrimerBank. You can submit your primers. They will be added to the database once they are properly QCd.

Proper citation: PrimerBank (RRID:SCR_006898) Copy   

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http://yetfasco.ccbr.utoronto.ca/

Collection of all available transcription factor (TF) specificities for the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in Position Frequency Matrix (PFM) or Position Weight Matrix (PWM) formats. The specificities are evaluated for quality using several metrics. With this website, you can scan sequences with the motifs to find where potential binding sites lie, inspect precomputed genome-wide binding sites, find which TFs have similar motifs to one you have found, and download the collection of motifs. Submissions are welcome.

Proper citation: YeTFaSCo (RRID:SCR_006893) Copy   

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http://genome.ucsc.edu/ENCODE

Encyclopedia of DNA elements consisting of list of functional elements in human genome, including elements that act at protein and RNA levels, and regulatory elements that control cells and circumstances in which gene is active. Enables scientific and medical communities to interpret role of human genome in biology and disease. Provides identification of common cell types to facilitate integrative analysis and new experimental technologies based on high-throughput sequencing. Genome Browser containing ENCODE and Epigenomics Roadmap data. Data are available for entire human genome.

Proper citation: ENCODE (RRID:SCR_006793) Copy   

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http://www.thesgc.org/

Charity registered in United Kingdom whose mission is to accelerate research in new areas of human biology and drug discovery.Not for profit, public-private partnership that carries out basic science of relevance to drug discovery whose core mandate is to determine 3D structures on large scale and cost effectively targeting human proteins of biomedical importance and proteins from human parasites that represent potential drug targets.

Proper citation: Structural Genomics Consortium (RRID:SCR_003890) Copy   

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http://www.pharma-planta.net/

Consortium to develop efficient and safe strategies for the production of clinical-grade protein pharmaceuticals in plants, and to define the procedures needed for the production of these proteins in compliance with the strict regulatory standards that govern the manufacture of all pharmaceuticals. Ultimately the consortium aimed to take a candidate product all the way through the development pipeline culminating in a phase I human clinical trial. The consortium has a wide range of expertise spanning the areas of molecular biology, plant biology, immunology, recombinant protein expression technology, vaccinology, and plant biotechnology. The objectives listed at the beginning of the Pharma-Planta project are as follows: # To produce a recombinant pharmaceutical molecule in transgenic plants, which will be developed through all regulatory requirements, GMP (good manufacturing practice) standards and pre-clinical toxicity testing. This will then be evaluated in Phase I human clinical trials. # To develop robust risk assessment practices for recombinant pharmaceutical molecules produced in plants, based on health and environmental impact, working with regulatory authorities within the EU as well as public groups to ensure that the production systems are as safe and as acceptable as possible, and that they comply with all biosafety regulations. # To define and carry out a coordinated program for securing and managing intellectual property that will facilitate the availability of high priority plant-derived recombinant pharmaceuticals to the poor in developing countries while simultaneously allowing the products to be developed commercially in Europe and North America. # To develop and refine new strategies for the expression of recombinant pharmaceuticals in plants, which can be used on a generic basis for molecules that are normally expressed poorly. # To develop and generate transgenic plants expressing a second generation of recombinant molecules that will be used in future clinical trials. In 2011 they reached their benchmark for success launching a phase I clinical study of an antibody that neutralizes HIV, produced in and isolated from tobacco plants. This antibody could one day become an inexpensive component of a microbicide used to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. The project has also spun off many additional technologies that are being adopted by researchers all over the world, and has resulted in more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Proper citation: Pharma-Planta Consortium (RRID:SCR_003880) Copy   

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

The European resource for the collection, organization and dissemination of data on biological macromolecular structures. In collaboration with the other worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) partners - the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) and BioMagResBank (BMRB) in the USA and the Protein Data Bank of Japan (PDBj) - they work to collate, maintain and provide access to the global repository of macromolecular structure data. The main objectives of the work at PDBe are: * to provide an integrated resource of high-quality macromolecular structures and related data and make it available to the biomedical community via intuitive user interfaces. * to maintain in-house expertise in all the major structure-determination techniques (X-ray, NMR and EM) in order to stay abreast of technical and methodological developments in these fields, and to work with the community on issues of mutual interest (such as data representation, harvesting, formats and standards, or validation of structural data). * to provide high-quality deposition and annotation facilities for structural data as one of the wwPDB deposition sites. Several sophisticated tools are also available for the structural analysis of macromolecules.

Proper citation: PDBe - Protein Data Bank in Europe (RRID:SCR_004312) Copy   

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http://www.wholecellkb.org/

A collection of free, open-source model organism databases designed specifically to enable comprehensive, dynamic simulations of entire cells and organisms. WholeCellKB provides comprehensive, quantitative descriptions of individual species including: * Their subcellular organization, * Their chromosome sequences, * The essentiality, location, length, direction, and homologs of each gene, * The organization and promoter of each transcription unit, * The expression and degradation rate of each RNA gene product, * The specific folding and maturation pathway of each RNA and protein species including the localization, N-terminal cleavage, signal sequence, prosthetic groups, disulfide bonds, and chaperone interactions of each protein species, * The subunit composition of each macromolecular complex, * Their genetic code, * The binding sites and footprint of every DNA-binding protein, * The structure, charge, and hydrophobicity of every metabolite, * The stoichiometry, catalysis, coenzymes, energetics, and kinetics of every chemical reaction, * The regulatory strength of each transcription factor on each promoter, * Their chemical composition, and * The composition of its typical SP-4 laboratory growth medium. WholeCellKB currently contains a single database of Mycoplasma genitalium, an extremely small gram-positive bacterium and common human pathogen. This database is the most comprehensive description of any single organism to date, and was used to develop the first whole-cell computational model. Users can download the WholeCellKB source code and content to create and customize - including the content, data model, and user interface - their own model organism database.

Proper citation: WholeCellKB (RRID:SCR_004104) Copy   

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http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/biochem/faculty/truant/truantlab.htm

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on March 21, 2013. Laboratory portal of Ray Truant, PhD. It provides an image gallery and videos.

Proper citation: Ray Truant Lab (RRID:SCR_004301) Copy   

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http://noble.gs.washington.edu/proj/philius/

Web server that predicts protein transmembrane topology and signal peptides. Hidden Markov models (HMM) have been successfully applied to the tasks of transmembrane protein topology prediction and signal peptide prediction. They expand upon this work by making use of the more powerful class of dynamic Bayesian networks (DBN). Their model, Philius, is inspired by a previously published HMM, Phobius, and combines a signal peptide sub-model with a transmembrane sub-model. They introduce a two-stage DBN decoder which combines the power of posterior decoding with the grammar constraints of Viterbi-style decoding. Philius also provides protein type, segment, and topology confidence metrics to aid in the interpretation of the predictions.

Proper citation: Philius (RRID:SCR_004625) Copy   

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http://www.proteopedia.org/

Free, collaborative 3D, interactive encyclopedia of proteins and other molecules, it collects, organizes and disseminates structural and functional knowledge about protein, RNA, DNA, and other macromolecules, and their assemblies and interactions with small molecules, in a manner that is relevant and broadly accessible to students and scientists. With a free user account, users can edit pages in Proteopedia. Click on the green links to change the 3D image or click and drag the molecules. Categories include Diseases & Related Topics, Enzymes, Gene Expression & Replication, Metabolism, Signaling & Transport, Structural Biology and Miscellaneous. Currently, Proteopedia has 93,912 articles (pages), and 2,366 registered users (May 2013). Among other pages, Proteopedia contains one page (or article) for every entry in the World Wide Protein Data Bank. Proteopedia is updated weekly with new entries shortly after they are released by the Protein Data Bank. Most of these pages, which are titled with a four-character PDB identification code, are seeded automatically to include a default view of the asymmetric unit, the abstract of the publication, green links to sites and ligands, and molecule-specific links to other viewers and databases. When you go to a random page, you nearly always get one of these automatically-seeded, PDB-code-titled pages (click Random Page in the navigation box at the upper left), because of their abundance. In addition to one article about each entry in the Protein Data Bank (PDB identification code-titled articles), there are articles titled with the name of a molecule or a subject, instead of a PDB identification code. Some of these articles that have substantial content are listed at Topic Pages, or you can browse a complete list of articles not titled with a PDB identification code. There are also articles About Macromolecular Structure.

Proper citation: Proteopedia - Life in 3D (RRID:SCR_004647) Copy   

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http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi

Web search tool to find regions of similarity between biological sequences. Program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates statistical significance. Used for identifying homologous sequences.

Proper citation: NCBI BLAST (RRID:SCR_004870) Copy   

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http://www.pantherdb.org/

System that classifies genes by their functions, using published scientific experimental evidence and evolutionary relationships to predict function even in absence of direct experimental evidence. Orthologs view is curated orthology relationships between genes for human, mouse, rat, fish, worm, and fly., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: PANTHER (RRID:SCR_004869) Copy   

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http://www.Ablynx.com

A biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of Nanobodies, a novel class of antibody-derived therapeutic proteins based on single-domain antibody fragments, for a range of serious life-threatening human diseases including inflammation, hematology, oncology and pulmonary disease.

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