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http://www.tnp.pitt.edu/pages/donationfrm_mb.htm

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on March 19,2024. Brain tissue donation is a valuable contribution to mental health research. It enables scientists to investigate how the normal brain works, and how the brain is disturbed when it is affected by schizophrenia, depression, bipolar (manic depressive) disease or other related disorders. The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh has established a brain tissue bank to which brain tissue can be donated at no expense. The gift of brain tissue enables scientists to conduct research designed to understand causes, to develop new treatments, and ultimately to find cures for diseases that affect the brain. Brain tissue donation is a gift that makes it possible for researchers to study various types of mental disorders. Donations of brain tissue from individuals without these disorders are also needed to establish comparisons with brain samples from individuals who have these disorders. Any legally competent adult or guardian may indicate during life their interest in donating brain tissue after death. Next-of-kin either of healthy individuals or of those with psychiatric disorders may give consent to donate brain tissue following the death of a loved one. Brain tissue is removed during autopsy at a morgue or hospital and is transported to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for examination and study.

Proper citation: University of Pittsburgh Brain Tissue Donation Program (RRID:SCR_005028) Copy   

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http://www.rls.org/

Non-profit organization providing the latest information about Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS). Its goals are to increase awareness, improve treatments, and through research, find a cure for RLS, a condition which severely affects the lives of millions of individuals. By educating healthcare providers about RLS symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment, the RLS Foundation helps patients receive the quality care they both need and deserve. In recent years the Foundation has provided information to healthcare providers at many exhibit meetings, including the American Academy of Neurology, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. The Foundation continually strives to be the most reputable source of information on RLS. Their renowned Medical Advisory Board, composed of leading RLS experts from all over the world, has written several publications on the diagnosis and treatment of RLS. These include our comprehensive RLS Medical Bulletin, their patient brochure, and their brochures on special topics including concerns for surgery, depression, pregnancy, and children. The Foundation has taken giant strides to further RLS research, funding grants for 27 research projects. Among the most distinguished research projects the Foundation has put its resources behind is the ongoing Stanford Epidemiology Project. Although it is still underway, the Foundation recognizes that the highly anticipated results of the Stanford Epidemiology Project, including the creation of a world standard questionnaire used to accurately diagnose RLS, could be spectacular. Eventually this questionnaire may help researchers understand the health consequences of RLS and identify other conditions and diseases that are associated with or exacerbated by RLS. In addition, the RLS Foundation helped fund a study led by Dr. David Rye and deCODE Genetics in Iceland which recently announced the discovery of a gene for RLS.

Proper citation: RLS Foundation (RRID:SCR_005144) Copy   

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https://adrc.mc.duke.edu/index.php/research/brain-bank

A research repository of human brains with neurological disorders and normal controls, recruited through the Autopsy and Brain Donation Program coordinator. The Kathleen Price Bryan Brain Bank contains brains from patients with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Huntington's disease, Muscular Dystrophy, and other neurological and dementing disorders. The brain tissue is subjected to a detailed neuropathological evaluation and then stored as fixed and frozen hemispheres, paraffin blocks and histological slides. After receipt of an IRB approved request, tissue is supplied to investigators at Duke University, major medical centers and pharmaceutical companies across the United States and worldwide.

Proper citation: Duke University Kathleen Price Bryan Brain Bank (RRID:SCR_005022) Copy   

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http://www.smpdb.ca/

An interactive, visual database containing more than 350 small molecule pathways found in humans. More than 2/3 of these pathways (>280) are not found in any other pathway database. SMPDB is designed specifically to support pathway elucidation and pathway discovery in metabolomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and systems biology. It is able to do so, in part, by providing exquisitely detailed, fully searchable, hyperlinked diagrams of human metabolic pathways, metabolic disease pathways, metabolite signaling pathways and drug-action pathways. All SMPDB pathways include information on the relevant organs, subcellular compartments, protein cofactors, protein locations, metabolite locations, chemical structures and protein quaternary structures. Each small molecule is hyperlinked to detailed descriptions contained in the HMDB or DrugBank and each protein or enzyme complex is hyperlinked to UniProt. All SMPDB pathways are accompanied with detailed descriptions and references, providing an overview of the pathway, condition or processes depicted in each diagram. The database is easily browsed and supports full text, sequence and chemical structure searching. Users may query SMPDB with lists of metabolite names, drug names, genes / protein names, SwissProt IDs, GenBank IDs, Affymetrix IDs or Agilent microarray IDs. These queries will produce lists of matching pathways and highlight the matching molecules on each of the pathway diagrams. Gene, metabolite and protein concentration data can also be visualized through SMPDB''s mapping interface. All of SMPDB''s images, image maps, descriptions and tables are downloadable.

Proper citation: Small Molecule Pathway Database (RRID:SCR_004844) Copy   

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

Public bibliographic database that provides access to citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. PubMed citations and abstracts include fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. Provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to other NCBI molecular biology resources. Publishers of journals can submit their citations to NCBI and then provide access to full-text of articles at journal web sites using LinkOut.

Proper citation: PubMed (RRID:SCR_004846) Copy   

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http://science.kqed.org/quest/

An award-winning multimedia science and environment series created by KQED, San Francisco, the public media station serving Northern California. Launched in February 2007, by the end of its fourth season (in September 2010), QUEST had reached approximately 36 million viewers and listeners through its traditional TV and radio broadcasts and its growing Web audience. QUEST''s ultimate aim is to raise science literacy in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, inspiring audiences to discover and explore science and environment issues for themselves. Every season, KQED''s QUEST produces: * half-hour television episodes episodes that air weekly, exploring the cutting-edge work of Northern California scientists and researchers (QUEST airs Wednesdays 7:30pm on KQED Public Television 9); * weekly radio reports covering urban environmental issues which often include multimedia slide shows, and interactive online maps (QUEST airs Mondays 6:30am and 8:30am on KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM); * Educational resources, for use by formal and informal educators; QUEST also provides professional development for science educators to support multimedia and technology integration in science classrooms and programs; * 20 six-minute stories for its new web only series, Science on the SPOT, which takes a fresh, fast and curious look at science with stories about albino redwoods, the science of fog and banana slugs, to name a few. (launched in 2010); * A daily science blog written by Northern California scientists, QUEST producers and science enthusiasts; * Exclusive web extras, featuring extended interviews with scientists; Flickr photos, and science hikes. Formal and informal Educators who would like to become involved withthe educational outreach program should contact: ScienceEd (at) kqed.org.

Proper citation: QUEST (RRID:SCR_005210) Copy   

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https://www.lawsonresearch.com/clinical_research/brain_tumour_bank.htm

To aid researchers, the Brain Tumour Tissue Bank, located located in London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ontario, Canada has been collecting human brain tumor specimens and matching clinical data for neuro-oncology research in Canada and internationally since its establishment in 1991. A wide variety of primary and secondary brain tumors, spinal tumors, peritumors and normal brain tissues are available for molecular, protein, enzyme and immunohistochemical studies. Interested researchers can review the information provided at the website and can contact the tissue bank for information about what is currently available. In order to complete a request, an application must be completed.

Proper citation: Lawson Brain Tumour Tissue Bank (RRID:SCR_004881) Copy   

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http://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/

The only national patient waiting list and an online database system, called UNet, that links all of the professionals involved in the donation and transplantation system for the collection, storage, analysis, and publication of all OPTN data pertaining to the patient waiting list, organ matching, and transplants. The system contains data regarding every organ donation and transplant event occurring in the U.S. since October 1, 1987. UNet is a fail-safe, 24/7, secure Internet-based transplant information database created to enable the nation''''s organ transplant institutions to: * register patients for transplants * match donated organs to waiting patients * manage the time-sensitive, life-critical data of all patients, before and after their transplants Data reports are available by type: National Data, Regional Data, State Data, Center Data, Build Advanced Report, and Annual Report Data. UNet is being used right now by all of the nation''''s organ transplant programs, organ procurement organizations, and histocompatibility (tissue typing) laboratories working cooperatively to efficiently share a limited number of donated organs among thousands of patients.

Proper citation: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (RRID:SCR_004883) Copy   

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http://www.openphacts.org/

Project that developed an open access discovery platform, called Open Pharmacological Space (OPS), via a semantic web approach, integrating pharmacological data from a variety of information resources and tools and services to question this integrated data to support pharmacological research. The project is based upon the assimilation of data already stored as triples, in the form subject-predicate-object. The software and data are available for download and local installation, under an open source and open access model. Tools and services are provided to query and visualize this data, and a sustainability plan will be in place, continuing the operation of the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform after the project funding ends. Throughout the project, a series of recommendations will be developed in conjunction with the community, building on open standards, to ensure wide applicability of the approaches used for integration of data.

Proper citation: Open PHACTS (RRID:SCR_005050) Copy   

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http://www.hmpdacc.org/

Common repository for diverse human microbiome datsets and minimum reporting standards for Common Fund Human Microbiome Project.

Proper citation: HMP Data Analysis and Coordination Center (RRID:SCR_004919) Copy   

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http://vision.ucsf.edu/hortonlab/index.html

Devise better ways to prevent and treat vision loss due to amblyopia and strabismus, and to advance medical science by understanding the human visual system. Various Images, Videos and Talks related to the research are available. In the Laboratory for Visual Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco, we are seeking to discover how visual perception occurs in the human brain. The function of the visual system is to guide our behavior by providing an efficient means for the rapid assimilation of information from the environment. As we navigate through our surroundings, a continuous stream of light images impinges on our eyes. In the back of each eye a light-sensitive tissue, the retina, converts patterns of light energy into electrical discharges known as action potentials. These signals are conveyed along the axons of retinal ganglion cells to the lateral geniculate body, a relay nucleus in the thalamus. Most of the output of the lateral geniculate body is relayed directly to the primary visual cortex (striate cortex, V1), and then to surrounding visual association areas. To understand the function of the visual pathways, our research is focused on 5 major themes: * Organization of Primary Visual Cortex * Mapping of Extrastriate Visual Cortex * Amblyopia and Visual Development * Strabismus and Visual Suppression * The Human Visual Cortex

Proper citation: UCSF Laboratory for Visual Neuroscience (RRID:SCR_004913) Copy   

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http://bbmri-wiki.wikidot.com/start

The BBMRI Wiki is intended to help establish a standard vocabulary within the European BBMRI (Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure) project. This Wiki also facilitates the definition and updating of new terms as well as the Minimum Information About BIobank data Sharing: MIABIS. MIABIS represents the minimum information required to enable the exchange of biological samples and data between biobanks.

Proper citation: BBMRI Wiki (RRID:SCR_004994) Copy   

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/popset

Database containing a set of DNA sequences that have been collected to analyse the evolutionary relatedness of a population. The population could originate from different members of the same species, or from organisms from different species. Users may submit a Popset using Sequin.

Proper citation: NCBI Popset (RRID:SCR_005049) Copy   

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http://tbgri.in/

Tropical Botanic Garden & Research Institute (TBGRI) is an autonomous Institute established by the Government of Kerala on 17th November 1979 and registered on 23rd November 1979 under the Travancore-Cochin Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Registration Act, 1955. It functions under the umbrella of the Science, Technology and Environment Department, Government of Kerala. Prof. A. Abraham, a visionary and a great Botanist, conceived the idea of establishing a Botanic Garden and Research Institute to study and conserve the rare and vanishing wild plant genetic resources of the country. Kinded by the spirit of his concept, the Government of Kerala took a far sighted decision resulting in the establishment of Tropical Botanic Garden & Research Institute (TBGRI) as an autonomous organization at Thiruvananthapuram, the capital City of Kerala. In the beginning, the Institute functioned at Thiruvananthapuram city on a rented duplex building. Thanks to the Forests & Wildlife Department, the land for establishment of the garden was allotted in 1983 and the foundation stone was laid on 27th May 1983 by the then Chief Minister, Shri K. Karunakaran. The then Education Minister, the late C. H. Mohammed Koya laid the foundation stone for the construction of the Visiting Scientists'' Guest House. The meeting was presided over by the Minister for Forests, Shri K. P. Noorudeen. With the recruitment of a skeletal scientific and technical staff, the Institute made a modest beginning. Biotechnology and Taxonomy were the two subjects considered to have immediate relevance to the development of the garden. While taxonomists prepared a flora of the garden documenting the native plant wealth before mass introduction and face lift which subsequently followed, the bio-technologists mass multiplied plants of commercial importance, especially orchids for cultivation and distribution to the public. The Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG), Kew played an exemplary and significant role in shaping and design of garden lay out of TBGRI in its formative stages. RBG, Kew not only lent its best men to train our technical staff in gardening and landscaping but also generously supplied books and living plants as gifts to enrich the respective collections. Undoubtedly, the continuing support of RBG, Kew is of special mention in the development of the Garden.

Proper citation: Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (RRID:SCR_005162) Copy   

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http://glioblastoma.alleninstitute.org/

Platform for exploring the anatomic and genetic basis of glioblastoma at the cellular and molecular levels that includes two interactive databases linked together by de-identified tumor specimen numbers to facilitate comparisons across data modalities: * The open public image database, here, providing in situ hybridization data mapping gene expression across the anatomic structures inherent in glioblastoma, as well as associated histological data suitable for neuropathological examination * A companion database (Ivy GAP Clinical and Genomic Database) offering detailed clinical, genomic, and expression array data sets that are designed to elucidate the pathways involved in glioblastoma development and progression. This database requires registration for access. The hope is that researchers all over the world will mine these data and identify trends, correlations, and interesting leads for further studies with significant translational and clinical outcomes. The Ivy Glioblastoma Atlas Project is a collaborative partnership between the Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation, the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the Ben and Catherine Ivy Center for Advanced Brain Tumor Treatment.

Proper citation: Ivy Glioblastoma Atlas Project (RRID:SCR_005044) Copy   

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http://www.neurosci.ucsd.edu/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 31, 2016. The Laboratory of Experimental Neuropathology is engaged in the study of neurodegenerative disease, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and the dementia of HIV encephalitis. It contains a large bank of materials available to fellow investigators including images, publications, and lab safety. Fellow Investigators and Collaborators may request materials from the brain bank. Technologies employed by the laboratory include immunocytochemistry, neurochemistry, molecular genetics, transgenic models of disease, and imaging by scanning laser confocal microscopy.

Proper citation: UCSD Experimental Neuropath Laboratory (RRID:SCR_004906) Copy   

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http://www.bri.ucla.edu

Portal touching on all aspects of neuroscience from molecules to the mind, from the laboratory bench to the patient's bedside. Members study the normal structure and workings of the nervous system, its development, its cognitive functions, its derangement by disease and injury, and the means of its repair and protection. Projects span traditional disciplinary boundaries, as do graduate and postdoctoral training programs. Its major achievement has been to foster and improve multidisciplinary collaborations which has increasingly permitted the identification of pathogenic mechanisms and the formulation of new therapeutic approaches.

Proper citation: Brain Research Institute (RRID:SCR_004988) Copy   

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http://unoseq.sourceforge.net/

A Java library to analyze next generation sequencing data and especially perform expression profiling in organisms where no well-annotated reference genome exists.

Proper citation: UnoSeq (RRID:SCR_005116) 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://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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