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http://vano.cellexplorer.org/

VANO is a Volume image object AnNOtation System for 3D multicolor image stacks, developed by Hanchuan Peng, Fuhui Long, and Gene Myers. VANO provides a well-coordinated way to annotate hundreds or thousands of 3D image objects. It combines 3D views of images and spread sheet neatly, and is just easy to manage 3D segmented image objects. It also lets you incorporate your segmentation priors, and lets you edit your segmentation results! This system has been used in building the first digital nuclei atlases of C. elegans at the post-embryonic stage (joint work with Stuart Kim lab, Stanford Univ), the single-neuron level fruit fly neuronal atlas of late embryos (with Chris Doe lab, Univ of Oregon, HHMI), and the compartment-level of digital map(s) of adult fruit fly brains (several labs at Janelia Farm, HHMI). VANO is cross-platform software. Currently the downloadable versions are for Windows (XP and Vista) and Mac (Intel-chip based, Leopard or Tiger OS). If you need VANO for different systems (such as 64bit or 32bit, Redhat Linux, Ubuntu, etc), you can either compile the software, or send an email to pengh (at) janelia.hhmi.org. VANO is Open-Source. You can download both the source code files and pre-complied versions at the Software Downloads page.

Proper citation: Volume image object AnNOtation System (RRID:SCR_003393) Copy   

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http://www.loni.usc.edu/BIRN/Projects/Mouse/

Animal model data primarily focused on mice including high resolution MRI, light and electron microscopic data from normal and genetically modified mice. It also has atlases, and the Mouse BIRN Atlasing Toolkit (MBAT) which provides a 3D visual interface to spatially registered distributed brain data acquired across scales. The goal of the Mouse BIRN is to help scientists utilize model organism databases for analyzing experimental data. Mouse BIRN has ended. The next phase of this project is the Mouse Connectome Project (https://www.nitrc.org/projects/mcp/). The Mouse BIRN testbeds initially focused on mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases. Mouse BIRN testbed partners provide multi-modal, multi-scale reference image data of the mouse brain as well as genetic and genomic information linking genotype and brain phenotype. Researchers across six groups are pooling and analyzing multi-scale structural and functional data and integrating it with genomic and gene expression data acquired from the mouse brain. These correlated multi-scale analyses of data are providing a comprehensive basis upon which to interpret signals from the whole brain relative to the tissue and cellular alterations characteristic of the modeled disorder. BIRN's infrastructure is providing the collaborative tools to enable researchers with unique expertise and knowledge of the mouse an opportunity to work together on research relevant to pre-clinical mouse models of neurological disease. The Mouse BIRN also maintains a collaborative Web Wiki, which contains announcements, an FAQ, and much more.

Proper citation: Mouse Biomedical Informatics Research Network (RRID:SCR_003392) Copy   

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http://www.well.ox.ac.uk/

An international leader in genetics, genomics and structural biology, and research institute of the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford, whose objective is to extend our understanding on how genetic inheritance makes us who we are in order to gain a clearer insight into mechanisms of health and disease. Looking across all three billion letters of the human genetic code, they aim to pinpoint variant spellings and discover how they increase or decrease an individual's risk of falling ill. They collaborate with research teams across the world on a number of large-scale studies in these areas.

Proper citation: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (RRID:SCR_003307) Copy   

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http://www.nematodes.org/

Nematode & Neglected Genomics (at) The Blaxter Lab is a nematode related portal including databases and services. Resources include genomic and transcriptomic databases for nematodes and other metazoan phyla and freely downloadable software tools for expressed sequence tag analysis, DNA barcode analysis and phylogenomics. Major categories include: * GenePool * 959 Nematode Genomes * Teaching * Research Projects * Bioinformatics Software Tools * Lab Personnel * Lab Wiki * Genomics Databases * NEMBASE4 * Tardigrada: Hypsibius dujardini * Earthworm: Lumbricus rubellus * MolluscDB * ArthropodDB * other Neglected Genomes

Proper citation: nematodes.org (RRID:SCR_003267) Copy   

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http://protege.stanford.edu

Protege is a free, open-source platform that provides a growing user community with a suite of tools to construct domain models and knowledge-based applications with ontologies. At its core, Protege implements a rich set of knowledge-modeling structures and actions that support the creation, visualization, and manipulation of ontologies in various representation formats. Protege can be customized to provide domain-friendly support for creating knowledge models and entering data. Further, Protege can be extended by way of a plug-in architecture and a Java-based Application Programming Interface (API) for building knowledge-based tools and applications. An ontology describes the concepts and relationships that are important in a particular domain, providing a vocabulary for that domain as well as a computerized specification of the meaning of terms used in the vocabulary. Ontologies range from taxonomies and classifications, database schemas, to fully axiomatized theories. In recent years, ontologies have been adopted in many business and scientific communities as a way to share, reuse and process domain knowledge. Ontologies are now central to many applications such as scientific knowledge portals, information management and integration systems, electronic commerce, and semantic web services. The Protege platform supports two main ways of modeling ontologies: * The Protege-Frames editor enables users to build and populate ontologies that are frame-based, in accordance with the Open Knowledge Base Connectivity protocol (OKBC). In this model, an ontology consists of a set of classes organized in a subsumption hierarchy to represent a domain's salient concepts, a set of slots associated to classes to describe their properties and relationships, and a set of instances of those classes - individual exemplars of the concepts that hold specific values for their properties. * The Protege-OWL editor enables users to build ontologies for the Semantic Web, in particular in the W3C's Web Ontology Language (OWL). An OWL ontology may include descriptions of classes, properties and their instances. Given such an ontology, the OWL formal semantics specifies how to derive its logical consequences, i.e. facts not literally present in the ontology, but entailed by the semantics. These entailments may be based on a single document or multiple distributed documents that have been combined using defined OWL mechanisms (see the OWL Web Ontology Language Guide). Protege is based on Java, is extensible, and provides a plug-and-play environment that makes it a flexible base for rapid prototyping and application development.

Proper citation: Protege (RRID:SCR_003299) Copy   

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http://www.genedata.com/products/expressionist/genomic-profiling.html

Software that provides data processing, analysis, management, and reporting of metabolomics, proteomics and biotherapeutics characterization studies based on mass spectrometry. It can process raw data from various MS instruments, serve MS processing, analysis and reporting needs, and ensure reproducibility and traceability of results.

Proper citation: Genedata Expressionist (RRID:SCR_003298) Copy   

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http://www.genome.gov/Glossary/

Glossary of Genetic Terms to help everyone understand the terms and concepts used in genetic research. In addition to definitions, specialists in the field of genetics share their descriptions of terms, and many terms include images, animation and links to related terms.

Proper citation: Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms (RRID:SCR_003215) Copy   

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http://edoctoring.ncl.ac.uk/Public_site/

Online educational tool that brings challenging clinical practice to your computer, providing medical education that is engaging, challenging and interactive. While there is no substitute for real-life direct contact with patients or colleagues, research has shown that interactive online education can be a highly effective and enjoyable method of learning many components of clinical medicine, including ethics, clinical management, epidemiology and communication skills. eDoctoring offers 25 simulated clinical cases, 15 interactive tutorials and a virtual library containing numerous articles, fast facts and video clips. Their learning material is arranged in the following content areas: * Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genetic Testing * Palliative and End-of-Life Care * Prostate Cancer Screening and Shared Decision-Making

Proper citation: eDoctoring (RRID:SCR_003336) Copy   

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http://phenome.jax.org/

Database enables integration of genomic and phenomic data by providing access to primary experimental data, data collection protocols and analysis tools. Data represent behavioral, morphological and physiological disease-related characteristics in naive mice and those exposed to drugs, environmental agents or other treatments. Collaborative standardized collection of measured data on laboratory mouse strains to characterize them in order to facilitate translational discoveries and to assist in selection of strains for experimental studies. Includes baseline phenotype data sets as well as studies of drug, diet, disease and aging effect., protocols, projects and publications, and SNP, variation and gene expression studies. Provides tools for online analysis. Data sets are voluntarily contributed by researchers from variety of institutions and settings, or retrieved by MPD staff from open public sources. MPD has three major types of strain-centric data sets: phenotype strain surveys, SNP and variation data, and gene expression strain surveys. MPD collects data on classical inbred strains as well as any fixed-genotype strains and derivatives that are openly acquirable by the research community. New panels include Collaborative Cross (CC) lines and Diversity Outbred (DO) populations. Phenotype data include measurements of behavior, hematology, bone mineral density, cholesterol levels, endocrine function, aging processes, addiction, neurosensory functions, and other biomedically relevant areas. Genotype data are primarily in the form of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). MPD curates data into a common framework by standardizing mouse strain nomenclature, standardizing units (SI where feasible), evaluating data (completeness, statistical power, quality), categorizing phenotype data and linking to ontologies, conforming to internal style guides for titles, tags, and descriptions, and creating comprehensive protocol documentation including environmental parameters of the test animals. These elements are critical for experimental reproducibility.

Proper citation: Mouse Phenome Database (MPD) (RRID:SCR_003212) Copy   

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http://www.emdataresource.org/

Portal for deposition and retrieval of cryo electron microscopy (3DEM) density maps, atomic models, and associated metadata. Global resource for 3 Dimensional Electron Microscopy structure data archiving and retrieval, news, events, software tools, data standards, validation methods.

Proper citation: EMDataResource.org (RRID:SCR_003207) Copy   

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http://www.sysbio.se/piano/

Software R-package for running gene set analysis using various statistical methods, from different gene level statistics and a wide range of gene-set collections. The Piano package contains functions for combining the results of multiple runs of gene set analyses.

Proper citation: Piano (RRID:SCR_003200) Copy   

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http://cumc.columbia.edu/dept/gsas/pharm/index.html

The spirit of the Department of Pharmacology is one of collaborative and synergistic science. As such, interests of the members of the Department span such diverse problems as the identification of molecular signals that determine whether a cell lives or dies to the discovery of new drugs that control cardiac rhythm in inherited and non-inherited heart disease. We at Columbia in general, and within the Department of Pharmacology in particular, are proud to be an integral part of the intellectual and cultural life of New York. In many ways the diversity of scientific interests within the Department reflect the diversity of the rich scientific environment of Columbia University and, in addition, the unique cultural and urban environment of New York City. Within the Graduate Programs in Mechanisms of Health and Disease, the Department of Pharmacology offers a Pharmacology and Molecular Signaling Program leading to the Ph.D. degree. Training is focused on both classical principles of pharmacology and more modern biophysical, genetic and computational approaches to the development of new and more specific therapeutic agents to manage human disease. The interdisciplinary training program in the molecular and genetic basis of cardiac arrhythmias is designed to provide training to post doctoral fellows with either M.D. or Ph.D. degrees to enable them to become independent researchers and leaders in the field as we enter a period of post genomic medical science. The overall aim of the program is to train researchers who will be well-grounded in molecular and cellular biology, but who also are trained in cardiovascular systems physiology/pharmacology in order to integrate the cellular and subcellular mechanisms (genotype) with the basis of human disease expressed at the systems level (phenotype).

Proper citation: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Department of Pharmacology (RRID:SCR_003320) Copy   

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http://neuroscience.med.cornell.edu/

The Weill Medical College of Cornell University has a long tradition of neuroscience research. The faculty is large, and the research programs tackle the fundamental questions in the field at all levels - from genes to cells to systems to behavior. The neuroscience community at Weill Cornell spans two campuses. The main one, containing the medical school and associated hospitals, is located on the upper east side of Manhattan, adjacent to Rockefeller University and across the street from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The second campus, with the rapidly growing Burke-Cornell Research Institute, is located in White Plains. The following graduate programs are offered: Neuroscience PhD, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD, Physiology and Biophysics, and Tri-Institutional Graduate program in Computational Biology and Medicine.

Proper citation: Cornell University Neuroscience (RRID:SCR_003324) Copy   

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http://cmb.molgen.mpg.de/2ndGenerationSequencing/Solas/

Software package for the statistical language R, devoted to the analysis of next generation short read data of RNA-seq transcripts. It provides predictions of alternative exons in a single condition/cell sample, predictions of differential alternative exons between two conditions/cell samples, and quantification of alternative splice forms in a single condition/cell sample.

Proper citation: Solas (RRID:SCR_003168) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/cancer/software/genepattern

A powerful genomic analysis platform that provides access to hundreds of tools for gene expression analysis, proteomics, SNP analysis, flow cytometry, RNA-seq analysis, and common data processing tasks. A web-based interface provides easy access to these tools and allows the creation of multi-step analysis pipelines that enable reproducible in silico research.

Proper citation: GenePattern (RRID:SCR_003201) Copy   

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https://www.msu.edu/~brains/index.html

The Brain Biodiversity Bank refers to the repository of images of and information about brain specimens contained in the collections associated with the National Museum of Health and Medicine at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC. Atlases and brain sections are available for a variety of mammals, and we are also developing a series of labeled atlases of stained sections for educators, students, and researchers. These collections include, besides the Michigan State University Collection, the Welker Collection from the University of Wisconsin, the Yakovlev-Haleem Collection from Harvard University, the Meyer Collection from the Johns Hopkins University, and the Huber-Crosby and Crosby-Lauer Collections from the University of Michigan. What we are doing currently at Michigan State is a series of demonstration projects for publicizing the contents of the collections and ways in which they can be used. For example, the images from the collection can be used for comparative brain study. We have prepared databases of the contents of the collections for presentation and use on this site, as well as for downloading by users in several formats. We are also developing a series of labeled atlases of stained sections for educators, students, and researchers. This internet site is associated with the Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections site. All of the images are in JPEG or GIF format.

Proper citation: Michigan State University Brain Biodiversity Bank (RRID:SCR_003289) Copy   

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http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/

A non-profit research and public policy organization devoted to improving the worlds diet, preventing obesity, and reducing weight stigma.

Proper citation: Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity (RRID:SCR_003283) Copy   

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http://www.brainbank.mclean.org/

Biomaterial supply resource that acquires, processes, stores, and distributes postmortem brain specimens for brain research. Various types of brain tissue are collected, including those with neurological and psychiatric disorders, along with their parents, siblings and offspring. The HBTRC maintains an extensive collection of postmortem human brains from individuals with Huntington's chorea, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and other neurological disorders. In addition, the HBTRC also has a collection of normal-control specimens.

Proper citation: Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (RRID:SCR_003316) Copy   

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http://www.physiol.ucl.ac.uk/research/silver_a/nclamp/

Data acquisition software that runs in conjunction with neuromatic. configured to work with Igor Pro on PC or Mac, instrutech or national instrument acquisition devices. Funded by The Medical Research Council (UK) Compatibility with WaveMetrics Igor Pro 5 and 6. Compatibility with Mac or PC. NIDAQ interfacing multifunction DAQ boards from National Instruments. Requires Igor NIDAQ Tools MX. ITC interfacing - data acquisition systems from InstruTech / Heka. Requires Igor ITC XOPs. Episodic acquisition (stim and sample). Continuous acquisition (currently for ITC users only). Online analysis, with ability to create your own analysis functions. Notes and Log Files which can be displayed within a table or notebook. Automatic saving of data and log folders to your hard drive. Flexible stimulus pulse generator with ability to use your own pulse waveforms. Instant accessibility to all of NeuroMatics and Igor Pros pre-existing data analysis functions.

Proper citation: Nclamp - data acquisition software for electrophysiology (RRID:SCR_003750) Copy   

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http://bbid.irp.nia.nih.gov/

Database of images of putative biological pathways, macromolecular structures, gene families, and cellular relationships. It is of use to those who are working with large sets of genes or proteins using cDNA arrays, functional genomics, or proteomics. The rationale for this collection is that: # Except in a few cases, information on most biological pathways in higher eukaryotes is non-existent, incomplete, or conflicting. # Similar biological pathways differ by tissue context, developmental stages, stimulatory events, or for other complex reasons. This database allows comparisons of different variations of pathways that can be tested empirically. # The goal of this database is to use images created directly by biomedical scientists who are specialists in a particular biological system. It is specifically designed to NOT use average, idealized or redrawn pathways. It does NOT use pathways defined by computer algorithm or information search approaches. # Information on biological pathways in higher eukaryotes generally resides in the images and text of review papers. Much of this information is not easily accessible by current medical reference search engines. # All images are attributable to the original authors. All pathways or other biological systems described are graphic representations of natural systems. Each pathway is to be considered a work in progress. Each carries some degree of error or incompleteness. The end user has the ultimate responsibility to determine the scientific correctness and validity in their particular biological system. Image/pathway submissions are welcome.

Proper citation: Biological Biochemical Image Database (RRID:SCR_003474) Copy   

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