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http://cvrl.ioo.ucl.ac.uk/index.htm

The Colour & Vision Research laboratory and database are based at the Institute of Ophthalmology, which is part of University College London. The Institute and CVRL are both closely associated with Moorfields Eye Hospital. The Institute is next door to Moorfields Eye Hospital near Old Street tube station (see directions). At the Colour & Vision Research laboratory, we investigate normal and clinical human visual perception. Our research focuses on questions about colour perception, light and dark adaptation, night-time vision, and the temporal and spatial properties of vision. Our primary goal is to understand the nature of the mechanisms that underlie visual perception, and to understand how those mechanism malfunction in clinical cases. More details about our research can be found by looking at the publications of members of the laboratory. The CVRL database, first set up in 1995, provides an annotated library of downloadable standard data sets relevant to colour and vision research. The focus of this site is primarily scientific and technical, but some introductory background information is also provided. A consistent set of functions for modeling colour vision based on the Stockman & Sharpe cone fundamentals and on our more recent luminous efficiency measurements are summarized under the category CVRL functions. These functions are tabulated in 0.1, 1 and 5 nm steps and can be returned as csv, xml, or tabular data or as dynamic plots. The Stockman & Sharpe cone fundamentals are the basis of a CIE proposal for physiologically-relevant colour matching functions. These functions, which are indentical to the CVRL functions, are summarized under the category CIE 2007 functions. The CIE functions are also tabulated in 0.1, 1 and 5 nm steps, and can also be returned as csv, xml, or tabular data or as dynamic plots. Significant additions to the database are the individual colour matching measurements made by Stiles & Burch. These have been compiled and cross-checked with the help of Boris Oicherman, Alexander Logvinenko, and Abhijit Sarkar from hard copies of the original data provided by Pat Trezona and Mike Webster. They can be obtained as Excel files and are available for both 2 and 10 colour matches. Other data sets, which are provided as csv files, include cone fundamentals, colour matching functions, chromaticity coordinates, prereceptoral filter density spectra, photopigment spectra, and CIE standards. Many of these data sets can also be viewed as dynamic plots. Sponsors: CVRL is funded by BBSRC The Wellcome Trust, Fight for Sight, National Eye Institute, and NIH.

Proper citation: Colour and Vision Research Laboratory (RRID:SCR_000770) Copy   

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http://scicrunch.org/Aging

Portal devoted to aging relevant scientific data and resources.

Proper citation: Aging Portal (RRID:SCR_000496) Copy   

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http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/project/239F234A-6BF7-4E28-8964-E882BAA8EB77

Project aiming to establish a range of new technologies to enable the synthesis of a range of chemicals from sugar beet pulp (SBP) in a cost-effective and sustainable manner. The chemical and pharmaceutical industries are currently reliant on petrochemical derived intermediates for the synthesis of a wide range of valuable products. Decreasing petrochemical reserves and concerns over costs and greenhouse gas emissions are driving the search for renewable sources of organic synthons. The UK is self-sufficient in the production of SBP which is a by-product of sugar beet production (8 million tonnes grown per year) and processing. The ability to convert SBP into chemicals and pharmaceutical intermediates will therefore have significant economic and environmental benefits. SBP is rich in carbohydrate (nearly 80% by weight) which is made up of roughly equal proportions of 2 biological polymers; cellulose and pectin. To be cost-effective it will be necessary to find uses for each of these substances. The consortium will develop a biorefinery approach for the selective breakdown of both polymers, purification of the breakdown compounds and their use to synthesize a range of added value products such as speciality chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biodegradable polymers. It is already known that cellulose can be broken down into hexose sugars and fermented to ethanol for use in biofuels. The focus is on the release of galacturonic acid and arabinose (from pectin) and their conversion, by chemical or enzymatic means, into added value products. Synthetic Biology methods will also be explored to test the feasibility of metabolically engineering microbial cells to simultaneously breakdown the polymeric feed material and synthesize a desired product, such as aromatic compounds, in a single integrated process. In conducting this research the consortium will adopt a holistic, systems-led, approach to biorefinery design and operation. Computer-based modelling tools will be used to assess the efficiency of raw material, water and energy utilization. Economic and Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) approaches will then be employed to identify the most cost-effective and environmentally benign product and process combinations. The project is supported by a range of industrial partners from raw material producer to intermediate technology providers and end-user chemical and pharmaceutical companies. This is crucial in providing business and socio-economic insights regarding the adoption of renewable resources into their current product portfolios. The company partners will also provide the material and equipment resources for the large-scale verification of project outcomes and their ultimate transition into commercial manufacture. The Intellectual Property (IP) expected to be generated by the consortium will most likely be related to new biocatalysts, synthetic routes, USD devices and modelling software. The data is accessible programmatically using one of three application programming interfaces GtR, GtR-2 and CERIF.

Proper citation: Bio-derived Feedstocks for Sustainable UK-Based Manufacture of Chemicals and Pharmaceutical Intermediates (RRID:SCR_000490) Copy   

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http://www.yandell-lab.org/software/index.html

Sequenced genomes contain a treasure trove of information about how genes function and evolve. Getting at this information, however, is challenging and requires novel approaches that combine computer science and experimental molecular biology. My lab works at the intersection of both domains, and research in our group can be summarized as follows: generate hypotheses concerning gene function and evolution by computational means, and then test these hypotheses at the bench. This is easier said than done, as serious barriers still exist to using sequenced genomes and their annotations as starting points for experimental work. Some of these barriers lie in the computational domain, others in the experimental. Though challenging, overcoming these barriers offers exciting training opportunities in both computer science and molecular genetics, especially for those seeking a future at the intersection of both fields. Ongoing projects in the lab are centered on genome annotation and comparative genomics; exploring the relationships between sequence variation and human disease; and high-throughput biological image analysis. Current software tools available: VAAST (the Variant Annotation, Analysis & Search Tool) is a probabilistic search tool for identifying damaged genes and their disease-causing variants in personal genome sequences. VAAST builds upon existing amino acid substitution (AAS) and aggregative approaches to variant prioritization, combining elements of both into a single unified likelihood-framework that allows users to identify damaged genes and deleterious variants with greater accuracy, and in an easy-to-use fashion. VAAST can score both coding and non-coding variants, evaluating the cumulative impact of both types of variants simultaneously. VAAST can identify rare variants causing rare genetic diseases, and it can also use both rare and common variants to identify genes responsible for common diseases. VAAST thus has a much greater scope of use than any existing methodology. MAKER 2 (updated 01-16-2012) MAKER is a portable and easily configurable genome annotation pipeline. It's purpose is to allow smaller eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomeprojects to independently annotate their genomes and to create genome databases. MAKER identifies repeats, aligns ESTs and proteins to a genome, produces ab-initio gene predictions and automatically synthesizes these data into gene annotations having evidence-based quality values. MAKER is also easily trainable: outputs of preliminary runs can be used to automatically retrain its gene prediction algorithm, producing higher quality gene-models on seusequent runs. MAKER's inputs are minimal and its ouputs can be directly loaded into a GMOD database. They can also be viewed in the Apollo genome browser; this feature of MAKER provides an easy means to annotate, view and edit individual contigs and BACs without the overhead of a database. MAKER should prove especially useful for emerging model organism projects with minimal bioinformatics expertise and computer resources. RepeatRunner RepeatRunner is a CGL-based program that integrates RepeatMasker with BLASTX to provide a comprehensive means of identifying repetitive elements. Because RepeatMasker identifies repeats by means of similarity to a nucleotide library of known repeats, it often fails to identify highly divergent repeats and divergent portions of repeats, especially near repeat edges. To remedy this problem, RepeatRunner uses BLASTX to search a database of repeat encoded proteins (reverse transcriptases, gag, env, etc...). Because protein homologies can be detected across larger phylogenetic distances than nucleotide similarities, this BLASTX search allows RepeatRunner to identify divergent protein coding portions of retro-elements and retro-viruses not detected by RepeatMasker. RepeatRunner merges its BLASTX and RepeatMasker results to produce a single, comprehensive XML-based output. It also masks the input sequence appropriately. In practice RepeatRunner has been shown to greatly improve the efficacy of repeat identifcation. RepeatRunner can also be used in conjunction with PILER-DF - a program designed to identify novel repeats - and RepeatMasker to produce a comprehensive system for repeat identification, characterization, and masking in the newly sequenced genomes. CGL CGL is a software library designed to facilitate the use of genome annotations as substrates for computation and experimentation; we call it CGL, an acronym for Comparitive Genomics Library, and pronounce it Seagull. The purpose of CGL is to provide an informatics infrastructure for a laboratory, department, or research institute engaged in the large-scale analysis of genomes and their annotations.

Proper citation: Yandell Lab Portal (RRID:SCR_000807) Copy   

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https://www.openbiosystems.com/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025. Open Biosystems offers products that span Genomics, RNAi and Antibodies. Building on the rapid sharing model that is at the core of the Human Genome Project, Open Biosystems collaborates with some of the most innovative life science investigators working today. We partner with them to bring to market new productsthey have often pioneered the new resources in their own lab, and we prepare it for widespread use and then provide access to the research community. Delivery of genetic content is our most recent technological breakthrough. Recently, we brought to market the Tranz-vector system, the safest human-based lentiviral delivery technology. Further supplementing our already strong line of RNA interference (RNAi) and complementary DNA (cDNA) products, this technology provides investigators with superior delivery capabilities for high-quality cellular screening. The combination or our unique Tranz-vector system and whole genome RNAi and cDNA content enables our customers to perform drug target validation on a large scale. With our genomics resources, Open Biosystems provides the content investigators utilize to unlock the functions of human genes and their relationships to normal and disease development. We offer the most complete gene library in the industry. This novel library consists of several full length cDNA and open reading frame collections. Most prominently among these is the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC), the industry's gold standard gene catalog. The discovery of RNA interference has revolutionized the way investigators approach the studies of gene expression, regulation and interactions, particularly as it relates to drug development. Our collaboration with Drs. Greg Hannon (CSHL) and Steve Elledge (Harvard) has led the way in the evolution of the short hairpin RNA (shRNA) technologies to provide the life science community with whole genome resources for human, mouse and rat with a multitude of technology and delivery advantages.

Proper citation: Open Biosystems (RRID:SCR_000808) Copy   

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http://www.sciencemedicine-edu.org

SUPREP MODEL LEARNING is a standardized credit earning academic exchange program that enables a student from any third world countries or technologically deficient institutions around the world, to attend and earn credits from the best traditional recognized accredited institutions globally, in which the credits earned are transferred to the home institution or SUPREP agency for aggregation towards successful graduation. :The goal of this program is to facilitate bringing students from the third world to reputable undergraduate and graduate neuroscience programs. Additionally, this program also aims t o grant Third World Neuroscience students Academic exchange programs worldwide.

Proper citation: Syndicated Universities Preparatory Research Educational Program (RRID:SCR_000768) Copy   

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http://www.cmelist.com/cdnlist.htm

Annotated list of online CME (continuing medical education) with links to, and descriptions of, Web Sites offering courses and CME credit specifically aimed at Canadian physicians. All Canadian Online CME offering MainPro-M1 credit includes an online group discussion format. You must participate in these discussions as well as go though the didactic material to earn credit.

Proper citation: Canadian Online CME Sites (RRID:SCR_000683) Copy   

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http://edwards.sdsu.edu/scaffold_builder/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 6,2023. Tool designed to generate scaffolds (super contigs of sequences joined by N-bases) using the homology provided by a closely related reference sequence. Scaffold_builder is an advanced wrapper for Nucmer, written in Python that resolves several situations that may arise when mapping contigs to the reference genome.

Proper citation: Scaffold builder (RRID:SCR_000556) Copy   

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http://www.ia.unc.edu/dev/download/mriwatcher/index.htm

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 23, 2016. A visualization tool for MRI images which handles several formats (.gipl,.mha,.hdr). It uses integrated coupled cursors to show the differences between images. It can load an overlay image and make screenshots.

Proper citation: MRI Watcher (RRID:SCR_000710) Copy   

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http://ctri.nic.in/Clinicaltrials/login.php

Free, online public record system for registration of clinical trials being conducted in India. Initiated as a voluntary measure, trial registration in the CTRI has been made mandatory by the Drugs Controller General (India) (DCGI) (http://www.cdsco.nic.in/). Moreover, Editors of Biomedical Journals of 11 major journals of India declared that only registered trials would be considered for publication. Today, any researcher who plans to conduct a trial involving human participants, of any intervention such as drugs, surgical procedures, preventive measures, lifestyle modifications, devices, educational or behavioral treatment, rehabilitation strategies as well as trials being conducted in the purview of the Department of AYUSH (http://indianmedicine.nic.in/) is expected to register the trial in the CTRI before enrollment of the first participant. Trial registration involves public declaration and identification of trial investigators, sponsors, interventions, patient population etc before the enrollment of the first patient. Submission of Ethics approval and DCGI approval (if applicable) is essential for trial registration in the CTRI. Multi-country trials, where India is a participating country, which have been registered in an international registry, are also expected to be registered in the CTRI. In the CTRI, details of Indian investigators, trial sites, Indian target sample size and date of enrollment are captured. After a trial is registered, trialists are expected to regularly update the trial status or other aspects as the case may be. After a trial is registered, all updates and changes will be recorded and available for public display. The CTRI is working with the WHO ICTRP to ensure that results of all trials registered with the CTRI are adequately reported and publicly available.

Proper citation: Clinical Trials Registry - India (RRID:SCR_000679) Copy   

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https://code.google.com/p/bamseek/

A Large File Viewer for BAM and SAM alignment files.

Proper citation: BAMseek (RRID:SCR_000672) Copy   

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http://www.flybrain.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 23,2022. Interactive database of Drosophila melanogaster nervous system. Used by drosophila neuroscience community and by other researchers studying arthropod brain structure.

Proper citation: FlyBrain (RRID:SCR_000706) Copy   

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https://nei.nih.gov/health/clinicalstudies/

An archived portal of clinical studies, both ongoing and completed, that have been conducted and supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI) since 1970. The portal covers corneal diseases, glaucoma, epidemiology, lens and cataract, retinal diseases, strabismus, amblyopia and visual processing.

Proper citation: NEI Clinical Studies (RRID:SCR_000546) Copy   

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http://fantom.gsc.riken.jp/

International collaborative research project and database of annotated mammalian genome. Used to improve estimates of total number of genes and their alternative transcript isoforms in both human and mouse. Consortium to assign functional annotations to full length cDNAs that were collected during Mouse Encyclopedia Project at RIKEN.

Proper citation: Functional Annotation of the Mammalian Genome (RRID:SCR_000788) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/cbinifti/

An I/O library for Matlab/Octave Matlab and Octave library for reading and writing Nifti-1 files. cbiNifti is intended to be a small, self-contained library that makes minimal assumptions about what Nifti files should look like and allow users easy access to the raw data. cbiNifti handles compressed file formats for reading and writing, using Unix pipes for compression and decompression. More information and code examples at: http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/staff/J.Larsson/software.html

Proper citation: cbiNifti: Matlab/Octave Nifti library (RRID:SCR_000860) Copy   

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http://www.megx.net

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 12,2023. Set of databases and tools that handle genomic and metagenomic sequences in their environmental contexts.Includes geographic information system to systematically store and analyse marine genomic and metagenomic data in conjunction with contextual information; environmental genome browser with fast search functionalities; database with precomputed analyses for selected complete genomes; database and tool to classify metagenomic fragments based on oligonucleotide signatures.

Proper citation: MeGX (RRID:SCR_000738) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/cabn/

Construct and analyse brain network is a brain network visualization tool, which can help researchers to visualize construct and analyse resting state functional brain networks from different levels in a quick, easy and flexible way. Entrance parameter of construct and analyse brain network is export parameters of dparsf software.It would be greatly appreciated if you have any suggestions about the package or manual.

Proper citation: BrainNetworkConstructionAnalysisPlatform (RRID:SCR_000854) Copy   

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http://www.w3.org/TR/hcls-swan/

The SWAN (Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine) ontology is an ontology for modeling scientific discourse and has been developed in the context of building a series of applications for biomedical researchers, as well as extensive discussions and collaborations with the larger bio-ontologies community. Developing cures for highly complex diseases, such as neurodegenerative disorders, requires extensive interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange of biomedical information in context. Our ability to exchange such information across sub-specialties today is limited by the current scientific knowledge ecosystem's inability to properly contextualize and integrate data and discourse in machine-interpretable form. This inherently limits the productivity of research and the progress toward cures for devastating diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. The SWAN ontology is organized in three types of modules: * basic: basic modules represent the ontology building blocks. They cover topics that are general enough to be included in every ontology distribution. The current basic modules are: ** collections ** provenance, authoring and versioning (PAV) ** discourse relationships ** FOAF (in OWL-DL) ** SKOS (in OWL-DL) ** qualifiers ** scientific discourse * extension: extensions modules are covering topics (a) that can be related only to some fields of science (b) for which there could be more than one implementation (c) for which a temporary solution has been provided and it is possible to forecast its substitution. The current extensions modules are: ** life science entities ** citations ** qualifiers extension modules * distribution: distributions are modules that are including all the basic modules and extensions necessary for serving a specific domain (i.e. the SWAN ontology for the Alzheimer knowledge base or the generic distribution that is not binded to any specific scientific domain). The current available distributions are: ** swan-scientific-discourse ** swan-alzheimer

Proper citation: Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine (SWAN) Ontology (RRID:SCR_000697) Copy   

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http://franklin.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu/

The mission of the Baylor College of Medicine - Shaw Laboratory is to apply methods of statistics and bioinformatics to the analysis of large scale genomic data. Our vision is data integration to reveal the underlying connections between genes and processes in order to cure disease and improve healthcare.

Proper citation: Baylor College of Medicine - Shaw Laboratory (RRID:SCR_000604) Copy   

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http://gdm.fmrp.usp.br/

Laboratory portal of the University of Sao Paulo Molecular Genetics and Bioinformatic Laboratory.

Proper citation: USP Molecular Genetics and Bioinformatics Laboratory (RRID:SCR_000605) Copy   

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