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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented May 10, 2017. A pilot effort that has developed a centralized, web-based biospecimen locator that presents biospecimens collected and stored at participating Arizona hospitals and biospecimen banks, which are available for acquisition and use by researchers. Researchers may use this site to browse, search and request biospecimens to use in qualified studies. The development of the ABL was guided by the Arizona Biospecimen Consortium (ABC), a consortium of hospitals and medical centers in the Phoenix area, and is now being piloted by this Consortium under the direction of ABRC. You may browse by type (cells, fluid, molecular, tissue) or disease. Common data elements decided by the ABC Standards Committee, based on data elements on the National Cancer Institute''s (NCI''s) Common Biorepository Model (CBM), are displayed. These describe the minimum set of data elements that the NCI determined were most important for a researcher to see about a biospecimen. The ABL currently does not display information on whether or not clinical data is available to accompany the biospecimens. However, a requester has the ability to solicit clinical data in the request. Once a request is approved, the biospecimen provider will contact the requester to discuss the request (and the requester''s questions) before finalizing the invoice and shipment. The ABL is available to the public to browse. In order to request biospecimens from the ABL, the researcher will be required to submit the requested required information. Upon submission of the information, shipment of the requested biospecimen(s) will be dependent on the scientific and institutional review approval. Account required. Registration is open to everyone., documented September 2, 2016. Database for defining official rat gene symbols. It includes rat gene symbols from three major sources: the Rat Genome Database (RGD), Ensembl, and NCBI-Gene. All rat symbols are compared with official symbols from orthologous human genes as specified by the Human Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC). Based on the outcome of the comparisons, a rat gene symbol may be selected. Rat symbols that do not match a human ortholog undergo a strict procedure of comparisons between the different rat gene sources as well as with the Mouse Genome Database (MGD). For each rat gene this procedure results in an unambiguous gene designation. The designation is presented as a status level that accompanies every rat gene symbol suggested in the database. The status level describes both how a rat symbol was selected, and its validity. Rat Gene Symbol Tracker approves rat gene symbols by an automatic procedure. The rat genes are presented with links to RGD, Ensembl, NCBI Gene, MGI and HGNC. RGST ensures that each acclaimed rat gene symbol is unique and follows the guidelines given by the RGNC. To each symbol a status level associated, describing the gene naming process.
Proper citation: Rat Gene Symbol Tracker (RRID:SCR_003261) Copy
Web server based on the Enhancer Identification (EI) method, to determine the chromosomal location and functional characteristics of distant regulatory elements (REs) in higher eukaryotic genomes. The server uses gene co-expression data, comparative genomics, and combinatorics of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) to find TFBS-association signatures that can be used for discriminating specific regulatory functions. DiRE's unique feature is the detection of REs outside of proximal promoter regions, as it takes advantage of the full gene locus to conduct the search. DiRE can predict common REs for any set of input genes for which the user has prior knowledge of co-expression, co-function, or other biologically meaningful grouping. The server predicts function-specific REs consisting of clusters of specifically-associated TFBSs, and it also scores the association of individual TFs with the biological function shared by the group of input genes. Its integration with the Array2BIO server allows users to start their analysis with raw microarray expression data.
Proper citation: Distant Regulatory Elements (RRID:SCR_003058) Copy
http://epilepsy.uni-freiburg.de/database
A comprehensive database for human surface and intracranial EEG data that is suitable for a broad range of applications e.g. of time series analyses of brain activity. Currently, the EU database contains annotated EEG datasets from more than 200 patients with epilepsy, 50 of them with intracranial recordings with up to 122 channels. Each dataset provides EEG data for a continuous recording time of at least 96 hours (4 days) at a sample rate of up to 2500 Hz. Clinical patient information and MR imaging data supplement the EEG data. The total duration of EEG recordings included execeeds 30000 hours. The database is composed of different modalities: Binary files with EEG recording / MR imaging data and Relational database for supplementary meta data.
Proper citation: EPILEPSIE database (RRID:SCR_003179) Copy
Database of polymorphisms and mutations of the human mitochondrial DNA. It reports published and unpublished data on human mitochondrial DNA variation. All data is curated by hand. If you would like to submit published articles to be included in mitomap, please send them the citation and a pdf.
Proper citation: MITOMAP - A human mitochondrial genome database (RRID:SCR_002996) Copy
http://www.depressiontools.org/
Online instrument that estimates whether a biomarker predicting outcome of depression treatment is likely to be clinically significant.
Proper citation: DepressionTools.org Clinical Significance Calculator (RRID:SCR_003873) Copy
http://www.promptprostate.com/
The MRC and Cancer Funders'' Forum (now National Cancer Research Institute, NCRI) established two cancer collaboratives in 2002, ProMPT and the Southern Collaborative. Their purpose was to increase the critical mass of basic and translational cancer researchers working on prostate cancer. The Collaboratives have both been successful in raising external grant income over the past 5 or 6 years and the current funding is very much geared around infrastructure to help with bio-marker development. This includes the establishment of biorepositories and tissue collections together with appropriate epidemiological and clinical information. The ProMPT collaborative is organized by Professor David Neal, Chair of Surgical Oncology in Cambridge. The other institutions include the Universities of Bristol, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheffield and York. The collaborative is very much working on translational aspects of prostate cancer research and has available to it a wide range of models. The Bristol group is working on epidemiological aspects and IGF, the Manchester group is working on stem cells, the Newcastle group is focused on target identification and validation and new drug development. Sheffield is working on model systems, bone metastasis and angiogenesis, York''s expertise is stem cells, structural biology and prostate specific gene targeting., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.
Proper citation: ProMPT - Prostate Cancer Mechanisms of Progression and Treatment (RRID:SCR_004160) Copy
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented May 10, 2017. A pilot effort that has developed a centralized, web-based biospecimen locator that presents biospecimens collected and stored at participating Arizona hospitals and biospecimen banks, which are available for acquisition and use by researchers. Researchers may use this site to browse, search and request biospecimens to use in qualified studies. The development of the ABL was guided by the Arizona Biospecimen Consortium (ABC), a consortium of hospitals and medical centers in the Phoenix area, and is now being piloted by this Consortium under the direction of ABRC. You may browse by type (cells, fluid, molecular, tissue) or disease. Common data elements decided by the ABC Standards Committee, based on data elements on the National Cancer Institute''s (NCI''s) Common Biorepository Model (CBM), are displayed. These describe the minimum set of data elements that the NCI determined were most important for a researcher to see about a biospecimen. The ABL currently does not display information on whether or not clinical data is available to accompany the biospecimens. However, a requester has the ability to solicit clinical data in the request. Once a request is approved, the biospecimen provider will contact the requester to discuss the request (and the requester''s questions) before finalizing the invoice and shipment. The ABL is available to the public to browse. In order to request biospecimens from the ABL, the researcher will be required to submit the requested required information. Upon submission of the information, shipment of the requested biospecimen(s) will be dependent on the scientific and institutional review approval. Account required. Registration is open to everyone.
Proper citation: Arizona Biospecimen Locator (RRID:SCR_004151) Copy
http://www.ataxia.org/research/ataxia-tissue-donation.aspx
A website where users can find information on donating tissue for ataxia research.
Proper citation: NAF Ataxia Tissue Donation (RRID:SCR_003893) Copy
http://exac.broadinstitute.org/
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 9, 2023. An aggregated data platform for genome sequencing data created by a coalition of investigators seeking to aggregate and harmonize exome sequencing data from a variety of large-scale sequencing projects, and to make summary data available for the wider scientific community. The data set provided on this website spans 61,486 unrelated individuals sequenced as part of various disease-specific and population genetic studies. They have removed individuals affected by severe pediatric disease, so this data set should serve as a useful reference set of allele frequencies for severe disease studies. All of the raw data from these projects have been reprocessed through the same pipeline, and jointly variant-called to increase consistency across projects. They ask that you not publish global (genome-wide) analyses of these data until after the ExAC flagship paper has been published, estimated to be in early 2015. If you''re uncertain which category your analyses fall into, please email them. The aggregation and release of summary data from the exomes collected by the Exome Aggregation Consortium has been approved by the Partners IRB (protocol 2013P001477, Genomic approaches to gene discovery in rare neuromuscular diseases).
Proper citation: ExAc (RRID:SCR_004068) Copy
http://www.uab.edu/medicine/tcbf/tpsf-sidebar
The Tissue Procurement Shared Facility (TPSF) of the Comprehensive Cancer Center operates as a prospective service to collect, from UAB associated hospitals, normal, malignant, benign, and diseased fresh human tissues and fluids which are then preserved appropriate to protocol. The TPSF can provide normal, malignant, benign, or diseased remnant human tissues and/or fluids from surgical resections, autopsies, or clinical procedures for IRB-approved researchers. The preservation can include fresh storage in media or saline, snap-frozen storage in liquid nitrogen, freezing in OCT for frozen section preparation, or preservation in a fixative of choice. The TPSF can also provide procurement of control tissues including uninvolved tissues or matched tissues from patients with benign disease processes. The histology laboratory can provide paraffin blocks and/or stained or unstained slides. In addition, investigators can obtain access to rare tissues through the national Cooperative Human Tissue Network (CHTN). Although the facility operates as a prospective service specializing in the preparation of samples to protocol, limited banked frozen and paraffin-embedded samples may be available. Investigators are required to complete an application and provide a copy of their IRB approval as well as a brief description of the project for which the requested samples will be utilized. Samples are provided for research purposes only. Processing fees are to offset processing costs and should be included in all grant applications.
Proper citation: UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center Tissue Procurement Shared Facility (RRID:SCR_004222) Copy
A registry of stem cell lines that provides a searchable database that includes published and validated unpublished information on human embryonic (hESC) and disease-specific induced pluripotent (iPS) stem cell lines. The Registry will include information on cell lines from non-profit institutions, academic centers, stem cell banks and industry based in the United States and abroad. The International Stem Cell Registry is developed in partnership with and funded by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. The work of the registry is made possible by the MLSC and important collaborators, including the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
Proper citation: International Stem Cell Registry (RRID:SCR_003653) Copy
http://www.georgiacancer.org/res-tissue.php
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 17, 2013.
The Georgia Cancer Specimen and Tissue Bank is committed to a safe and reliable supply of tissue and cell products for research purposes. Work has begun already to build the state tumor bank initiative with operating sites in several locations through the state. We are confident that our results will yield a strong program that will benefit all Georgians and contribute to significant advances in cancer research and knowledge.
Proper citation: Biorepository Alliance of Georgia for Oncology (RRID:SCR_004184) Copy
http://genomequebec.mcgill.ca/PReMod
Database that describes more than 100,000 computational predicted transcriptional regulatory modules within the human genome. These modules represent the regulatory potential for 229 transcription factors families and are the first genome-wide / transcription factor-wide collection of predicted regulatory modules for the human genome. The algorithm used involves two steps: (i) Identification and scoring of putative transcription factor binding sites using 481 TRANSFAC 7.2 position weight matrices (PWMs) for vertebrate transcription factors. To this end, each non-coding position of the human genome was evaluated for its similarity to each PWM using a log-likelihood ratio score with a local GC-parameterized third-order Markov background model. Corresponding orthologous positions in mouse and rat genomes were evaluated similarly and a weighted average of the human, mouse, and rat log-likelihood scores at aligned positions (based on a Multiz (Blanchette et al. 2004) genome-wide alignment of these three species) was used to define the matrix score for each genomic position and each PWM. (ii) Detection of clustered putative binding sites. To assign a module score to a given region, the five transcription factors with the highest total scoring hits are identified, and a p-value is assigned to the total score observed of the top 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 factors. The p-value computation takes into consideration the number of factors involved (1 to 5), their total binding site scores, and the length and GC content of the region under evaluation. Users can retrieve all information for a given region, a given PWM, a given gene and so on. Several options are given for textual output or visualization of the data.
Proper citation: PReMod (RRID:SCR_003403) Copy
http://aging.ucsd.edu/news.php
A list of articles published related to aging produced by the Center for Healthy Aging, Stein Institute for Research on Aging.
Proper citation: Stein Institute for Research on Aging News (RRID:SCR_003760) Copy
A biorepository for HIV-infected human biospecimens from a wide spectrum of HIV-related or associated diseases, including cancer, and from appropriate HIV-negative controls. The ACSR has formalin-fixed paraffin embedded biospecimens, fresh frozen biospecimens, malignant cell suspensions, fine needle aspirates, and cell lines from patients with HIV-related malignancies. It also contains serum, plasma, urine, bone marrow, cervical and anal specimens, saliva, semen, and multi-site autopsy speicmens from patients with HIV-related malignancies including those who have participated in clinical trials. The ACSR has an associated databank that contains prognostic, staging, outcome and treatment data on patients from whom tissues were obtained. The ACSR database contains more than 300,000 individual biospecimens with associated clinical information. Biospecimens are entered into the ACSR database by processing type, disease category, and number of cases defined by disease category.
Proper citation: AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (RRID:SCR_004216) Copy
http://www.ovcare.ca/research/gynaecologic_tissue_bank/
The OvCaRe Tissue Bank is housed within the Vancouver General Hospital Department of Pathology and the British Columbia Cancer Agency. This bank contains tumour samples from over 1100 patients. The tissue samples in the bank are collected from consenting patients within 30 minutes of surgical excision and stored in a variety of forms, including snap frozen, formalin fixed, and as live cells. As of 2007, serum, plasma, and buffy coat are also being collected for every case within the tissue bank. In addition to providing research material for OvCaRe researchers, the OvCaRe Tumour Bank is more active than any other tumour bank in sending samples to research collaborators and has already contributed to 43 national and international research projects. This and other tissue banks provide the foundation for translational research in medicine. In order for these samples to be used by current technologies such as Illumina whole transcriptome sequencing, the samples must be of extremely high quality. We have currently sent a selection of our samples to The Cancer Genome Atlas Project for analysis and were told by researchers there that our samples were among the best quality that they had encountered around the world. Serum Bank The OvCaRe serum bank is located at the British Columbia Cancer Agency. This bank contains over 10,000 serum samples that have been submitted for CA-125 testing as well as samples collected from patients who have consented to have their tumours submitted to the OvCaRe Tumour Bank. Like the tumour bank, these resources are available to collaborating researchers. Ovarian Cancer Tissue Microarrays The ovarian cancer tissue microarray facility from all available early ovarian cancer cases in the province for the period 1984-2000 (541 samples) was created by Dr. Blake Gilks and is the largest tissue microarray of early ovarian cancer samples. This population based series was generated in the Genetic Pathology Evaluation Center (GPEC), a laboratory supported by a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Unit Grant and is being used by over 20 different local and international collaborative studies. Two other ovarian cancer tissue microarrays are also built and are available to interested collaborators. All samples in the tissue microarray are linked to clinical outcomes at the Cheryl Brown Ovarian Cancer Outcomes Unit.
Proper citation: British Columbia Gynaecologic Tissue Bank (RRID:SCR_004171) Copy
A web-based tool to support meta-analysis of multiple gene-expression data sets, as well as to enable integration of data sets from gene expression and metabolomics experiments. INMEX contains three functional modules. The data preparation module supports flexible data processing, annotation and visualization of individual data sets. The statistical analysis module allows researchers to combine multiple data sets based on P-values, effect sizes, rank orders and other features. The significant genes can be examined in functional analysis module for enriched Gene Ontology terms or Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways, or expression profile visualization. INMEX has built-in support for common gene/metabolite identifiers (IDs), as well as 45 popular microarray platforms for human, mouse and rat. Complex operations are performed through a user-friendly web interface in a step-by-step manner.
Proper citation: INMEX (RRID:SCR_004173) Copy
http://www.azcc.arizona.edu/research/shared-services/tacmass/tissue-acquisition
TACMASS collects, preserves, and banks biospecimens obtained from Arizona Cancer Center surgical patients who are seen by University Medical Center surgeons and oncologists. Biospecimens collected at the time of surgery include fresh surgical tissue, blood and urine. Serum, plasma and genomic DNA are harvested from the whole blood. AZCC Members and collaborators may request the use of banked biospecimens through TACMASS. The patient's surgeon or oncologist is responsible for consenting the patient for submission of surgical specimens to the AZCC BioRepository (IRB #06-0609-04, Setsuko Chambers, PI). The surgeon and the Department of Pathology attending physicians and residents are responsible for identifying appropriate tissue for banking that will not compromise pathological diagnosis. Tumor and/or normal adjacent tissue, identified by gross examination, that will not be needed for pathological diagnosis are preserved by fixing in formalin, snap freezing, and/or fixing in RNALater. Histological diagnosis is rendered on each piece of formalin-fixed and snap frozen tissue by Hematoxylin and Eosin staining (H&E). Everyone involved in submitting specimens to the Tumor Bank must maintain a current CITI Certification.
Proper citation: Arizona Cancer Center Tumor Bank (RRID:SCR_003544) Copy
http://www.cancer.duke.edu/modules/TissueProcurement29/index.php?id=1
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 16, 2013. Over 10,000 patient consents, 5,000 banking events, and 40,000 biospecimens have been processed to date with storage of both formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue and frozen tissue located within multiple freezers spanning temperatures in the range of -80 degrees to -180 degrees C depending on protocol requirements. Considerable effort continues to be expended to assure compliance with IRB, NIH and HIPAA best practices and guidelines on banking human tissues. The biorepository in place today is the result of the combined efforts of the Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) Breast SPORE, DCI Shared Resource for Tissue and Blood Procurement, and the Duke University School of Medicine Research Foundation (DUSOM-RF). The DCI and the School of Medicine Research Foundation (SOMRF) have funded the collection of frozen and fixed tissues, both malignant and benign, under an ?????????????????excess tissue????????????????? protocol that utilizes freshly excised tissue that is available for research after the needs of the pathologic workup are met. This program procures tissues from many anatomic sites including breast. Recently Duke''s Institute of Genome Science & Policy (IGSP), under the direction of Drs. Geoff Ginsburg and Tom Burke, initiated a blood collection program that spans several departments and institutes. The Breast SPORE blood collection program served as the pilot for this much larger effort. The Breast SPORE tissue and blood collection effort utilizes much of the same infrastructure and personnel that are also supported by the DCI, SOMRF, and IGSP.
Proper citation: DCI Tissue and Blood Procurement Shared Resource (RRID:SCR_004116) Copy
http://compbio.uthsc.edu/miRSNP/
Database of naturally occurring DNA variations in microRNA (miRNA) seed regions and miRNA target sites. MicroRNAs pair to the transcripts of protein-coding genes and cause translational repression or mRNA destabilization. SNPs and INDELs in miRNAs and their target sites may affect miRNA-mRNA interaction, and hence affect miRNA-mediated gene repression. The PolymiRTS database was created by scanning 3'UTRs of mRNAs in human and mouse for SNPs and INDELs in miRNA target sites. Then, the potential downstream effects of these polymorphisms on gene expression and higher-order phenotypes are identified. Specifically, genes containing PolymiRTSs, cis-acting expression QTLs, and physiological QTLs in mouse and the results of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of human traits and diseases are linked in the database. The PolymiRTS database also includes polymorphisms in target sites that have been supported by a variety of experimental methods and polymorphisms in miRNA seed regions.
Proper citation: PolymiRTS (RRID:SCR_003389) Copy
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