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http://www.idoimaging.com/program/280

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 6, 2023.Comprised of a large array of sophisticated programs, this comprehensive software package with tools based around the MINC file format. Utilities are provided for conversion, viewing, editing, registering, segmentation, and a wide array of analysis. Many programs are in Perl. MINC software tools for neurological imaging are free. Input format: Analyze, DICOM, Minc

Proper citation: MINC Brain Imaging Toolbox (RRID:SCR_003519) Copy   

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http://aging.ucsd.edu/

Portal dedicated to the development and application of the latest advances in biomedical and behavioral science knowledge to issues of successful, healthy aging and the prevention and reduction of the burden of disability and disease in late life. Additionally, they provide numerous grants to junior faculty, as well as education programs for doctors and researchers through monthly Grand Rounds. From studying memory to identifying genes with important roles in aging, Stein Institute scientists are continuously pushing the boundaries of knowledge. One of their most promising ongoing projects is the Successful AGing Evaluation (SAGE) Study. SAGE is the only large-scale study on successful aging that considers the impact of positive psychological traits, such as resilience and wisdom, in addition to biological factors, providing a much more complete picture of older adults. Their monthly public lectures presented by renowned physicians and scientists are broadcast on UCSD-TV and have been viewed more than one billion times. This year they partnered with the Clinical and Translational Research Institute and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute to organize Making Sense of Science, a course for older adults interested in science and health. In addition, They distribute a free monthly newsletter and work extensively with the community, participating in numerous events and conferences.

Proper citation: Stein Institute for Research on Aging (RRID:SCR_003759) Copy   

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http://www.criver.com/

Commercial organism provider selling mice, rats and other model animals. American corporation specializing in a variety of pre-clinical and clinical laboratory services for the pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology industries. It also supplies assorted biomedical products and research and development outsourcing services for use in the pharmaceutical industry. (Wikipedia)

Proper citation: Charles River Laboratories (RRID:SCR_003792) Copy   

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http://neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/

Collaborative framework that includes the NIH Office of the Director and the 14 NIH Institutes and Centers that support research on the nervous system. By pooling resources and expertise, the Blueprint identifies cross-cutting areas of research, and confronts challenges too large for any single Institute or Center. The Blueprint makes collaboration a day-to-day part of how the NIH does business in neuroscience, complementing the basic missions of Blueprint partners. During each fiscal year, the partners contribute a small percentage of their funds to a common pool. Since the Blueprint's inception in 2004, this pool has comprised less than 1 percent of the total neuroscience research budget of the partners. In 2009, the Blueprint Grand Challenges were launched to catalyze research with the potential to transform our basic understanding of the brain and our approaches to treating brain disorders. * The Human Connectome Project is an effort to map the connections within the healthy brain. It is expected to help answer questions about how genes influence brain connectivity, and how this in turn relates to mood, personality and behavior. The investigators will collect brain imaging data, plus genetic and behavioral data from 1,200 adults. They are working to optimize brain imaging techniques to see the brain's wiring in unprecedented detail. * The Grand Challenge on Pain supports research to understand the changes in the nervous system that cause acute, temporary pain to become chronic. The initiative is supporting multi-investigator projects to partner researchers in the pain field with researchers in the neuroplasticity field. * The Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network is helping small labs develop new drugs for nervous system disorders. The Network provides research funding, plus access to millions of dollars worth of services and expertise to assist in every step of the drug development process, from laboratory studies to preparation for clinical trials. Project teams across the U.S. have received funding to pursue drugs for conditions from vision loss to neurodegenerative disease to depression. Since its inception in 2004, the Blueprint has supported the development of new resources, tools and opportunities for neuroscientists. For example, the Blueprint supports several training programs to help students pursue interdisciplinary areas of neuroscience, and to bring students from underrepresented groups into the neurosciences. The Blueprint also funds efforts to develop new approaches to teaching neuroscience through K-12 instruction, museum exhibits and web-based platforms. From fiscal years 2007 to 2009, the Blueprint focused on three major themes of neuroscience - neurodegeneration, neurodevelopment, and neuroplasticity. These efforts enabled unique funding opportunities and training programs, and helped establish new resources including the Blueprint Non-Human Primate Brain Atlas.

Proper citation: NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research (RRID:SCR_003670) Copy   

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http://www.wikisurgery.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 16, 2013. A free surgical encyclopedia for surgeons and their patients. Contributions in the form of new articles and editing can be made by anyone at anytime anywhere in the world. With over 33,000 articles for surgeons and patients, including news, articles, operation scripts, biographies and images. The website is a "wiki" which allows for the collaborative editing and building of content. Contributions in the form of new articles and editing can be made by those who register on the site, confirm their email address and whose application is accepted by an administrator. Wikisurgery is more than just a depot of surgical knowledge, not just articles about facts but also articles about controversy, debates, with none of the usual editorial limits on space. Indeed we hope it will become a record of surgical thought, experience and progression. Key Topics: Operation Scripts, Basic Surgical Skills Training Program, Basic Laparoscopic Training Program, Operative Images, Patient Information; there is also a Featured Videos section.

Proper citation: WikiSurgery - The Free Surgical Encyclopedia (RRID:SCR_003556) Copy   

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http://www.antilope-project.eu/

Consortium focused on making electronic health data more interoperable, both within and outside of Europe, with the intention to create, validate, and disseminate standard methods to test and certify electronic health solutions and services. In particular it will: Drive the adoption of recognized sets of profiles and underlying standards for eHealth interoperability, and improve the impact of the EU and International eHealth standards development process; Define and validate testing guidelines and common approaches on Interoperability Labelling and Certification processes at European and at National / Regional level. Four work packages were created to provide guidelines, recommendations and frameworks based on a set of use cases, related profiles and standards, Interoperability Quality Management System, testing guidelines and Certification process. All the deliverables will be presented for validation and promotion by organizing workshops across Europe.

Proper citation: Antilope Project (RRID:SCR_003829) Copy   

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http://www.mindtouch.com/

A web based social authoring and publishing environment that adheres to open standards and RESTful design principals. It provides wiki-like ease of use with a sophisticated web services framework for rapid application development, creating flexible workflows and rapid integration. MindTouch creates a vibrant real-time information fabric by federating content from across enterprise silos, such as CRM, ERP, file servers, email, databases, web services and more.

Proper citation: Mindtouch DekiWiki (RRID:SCR_003425) Copy   

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http://www.nanostring.com/products/nSolver

Data analysis software program that offers nCounter users the ability to QC, normalize, and analyze data without having to purchase additional software packages.

Proper citation: nSolver Analysis Software (RRID:SCR_003420) Copy   

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http://portal.ncibi.org/gateway/mimiplugin.html

The Cytoscape MiMI Plugin is an open source interactive visualization tool that you can use for analyzing protein interactions and their biological effects. The Cytoscape MiMI Plugin couples Cytoscape, a widely used software tool for analyzing bimolecular networks, with the MiMI database, a database that uses an intelligent deep-merging approach to integrate data from multiple well-known protein interaction databases. The MiMI database has data on 119,880 molecules, 330,153 interactions, and 579 complexes. By querying the MiMI database through Cytoscape you can access the integrated molecular data assembled in MiMI and retrieve interactive graphics that display protein interactions and details on related attributes and biological concepts. You can interact with the visualization by expanding networks to the next nearest neighbors and zooming and panning to relationships of interest. You also can perceptually encode nodes and links to show additional attributes through color, size and the visual cues. You can edit networks, link out to other resources and tools, and access information associated with interactions that has been mined and summarized from the research literature information through a biology natural language processing database (BioNLP) and a multi-document summarization system, MEAD. Additionally, you can choose sub-networks of interest and use SAGA, a graph matching tool, to match these sub-networks to biological pathways.

Proper citation: MiMI Plugin for Cytoscape (RRID:SCR_003424) Copy   

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http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/

A file format for graphs that consists of a language core to describe the structural properties of a graph and a flexible extension mechanism to add application-specific data. It is based on XML and is ideally suited as a common denominator for all kinds of services generating, archiving, or processing graphs. Its main features include support of * directed, undirected, and mixed graphs, * hypergraphs, * hierarchical graphs, * graphical representations, * references to external data, * application-specific attribute data, and * light-weight parsers.

Proper citation: GraphML (RRID:SCR_003545) Copy   

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https://www.bioshare.eu/

A consortium of leading biobanks and international researchers from all domains of biobanking science to ensure the development of harmonized measures and standardized computing infrastructures enabling the effective pooling of data and key measures of life-style, social circumstances and environment, as well as critical sub-components of the phenotypes associated with common complex diseases. The overall aim is to build upon tools and methods available to achieve solutions for researchers to use pooled data from different cohort and biobank studies. This, in order to obtain the very large sample sizes needed to investigate current questions in multifactorial diseases, notably on gene-environment interactions. This aim will be achieved through the development of harmonization and standardization tools, implementation of these tools and demonstration of their applicability. BioSHaRE researchers are collaborating with P3G, the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, IRDiRC (International Rare Diseases Research Consortium), H3Africa and other organizations on the development of an International Code of Conduct for Genomic and Health-Related Data Sharing. A draft version is available for external review. Generic documents have been prepared covering areas of biobanking that are of major importance. SOPs have been finalized for blood withdrawal (SOPWP5001blood withdrawal), manual blood processing (SOPWP5002blood processing), shipping of biosamples (SOPWP5003shipping) and withdrawal, processing and storage of urine samples (SOPWP5004urine).

Proper citation: BioSHaRE (RRID:SCR_003811) Copy   

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http://www.isi.edu/integration/karma/

An information integration software tool that enables users to integrate data from a variety of data sources including databases, spreadsheets, delimited text files, XML, JSON, KML and Web APIs. Users integrate information by modeling it according to an ontology of their choice using a graphical user interface that automates much of the process. Karma learns to recognize the mapping of data to ontology classes and then uses the ontology to propose a model that ties together these classes. Users then interact with the system to adjust the automatically generated model. During this process, users can transform the data as needed to normalize data expressed in different formats and to restructure it. Once the model is complete, users can publish the integrated data as RDF or store it in a database.

Proper citation: Karma (RRID:SCR_003732) Copy   

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http://www.asf.alaska.edu/

Satellite facility that downlinks, processes, archives, and distributes remote-sensing data to scientific users around the world. Three major components: * Satellite Tracking Ground Station: Part of NASA?s Near Earth Network system of ground stations around the world. * Synthetic Aperture Radar Distributed Active Archive Center (SAR DAAC): ASF maintains the NASA archive of SAR data from a variety of satellites and aircraft, and provides these data and associated specialty support services to U.S. Government-approved researchers in support of NASA?s Earth Science Data and Information System project. * ASF Enterprise Center (ASFE): In support of UAF?s mission to be a student-centered research university, the ASF-E focuses on applications of remote-sensing data, specifically for UAF research. The ASF-E includes the GeoData Center (GDC), which provides data management and archive services for UAF principal investigators and maintains a variety of geophysical data collections in support of scientific research.

Proper citation: Alaska Satellite Facility (RRID:SCR_003610) Copy   

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http://core.biotech.hawaii.edu/Bioinformatics.htm

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVCE, documented January 28, 2019. Core Facility provides the software and support for computer assisted protein and DNA sequence analysis and database access. The Genetics Computer Group GCG-Wisconsin package is currently available on PBRC's UNIX platform that is accessible via modem or direct connection. The package can be accessed via three interfaces: the command-line interface (UNIX C-shell), the web-based interface (SeqWeb) and the X-Windows based graphics interface (SeqLab). Applications in the package include sequence editing, alignment, comparison, primer design, restriction analysis, mapping, data presentation, database browsing, etc. In addition to local databases, access to remote databases (BLAST) is integrated into the package. The local databases are updated quarterly. Databases available include GenBank, EMBL, PIR-Protein, SWISS-PROT and Restriction Enzymes (REBASE).

Proper citation: GCG/SeqWeb (RRID:SCR_003454) Copy   

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https://github.com/alyssafrazee/polyester

An R package designed to simulate RNA sequencing experiments with differential transcript expression. Given a set of annotated transcripts, it will simulate the steps of an RNA-seq experiment (fragmentation, reverse-complementing, and sequencing) and produce files containing simulated RNA-seq reads. Simulated reads can be analyzed using a choice of downstream analysis tools. Polyester has a built-in wrapper function to simulate a case/control experiment with differential transcript expression and biological replicates. Users are able to set the levels of differential expression at transcripts of their choosing. This means they know which transcripts are differentially expressed in the simulated dataset, so accuracy of statistical methods for differential expression detection can be analyzed. Polyester offers several unique features: * Built-in functionality to simulate differential expression at the transcript level * Ability to explicitly set differential expression signal strength * Simulation of small datasets, since large RNA-seq datasets can require lots of time and computing resources to analyze * Generation of raw RNA-seq reads, as opposed to alignments or transcript-level abundance estimates * Transparency/open-source code

Proper citation: Polyester (RRID:SCR_003602) Copy   

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http://www.minituba.org

miniTUBA is a web-based modeling system that allows clinical and biomedical researchers to perform complex medical/clinical inference and prediction using dynamic Bayesian network analysis with temporal datasets. The software allows users to choose different analysis parameters (e.g. Markov lags and prior topology), and continuously update their data and refine their results. miniTUBA can make temporal predictions to suggest interventions based on an automated learning process pipeline using all data provided. Preliminary tests using synthetic data and laboratory research data indicate that miniTUBA accurately identifies regulatory network structures from temporal data. miniTUBA represents in a network view possible influences that occur between time varying variables in your dataset. For these networks of influence, miniTUBA predicts time courses of disease progression or response to therapies. minTUBA offers a probabilistic framework that is suitable for medical inference in datasets that are noisy. It conducts simulations and learning processes for predictive outcomes. The DBN analysis conducted by miniTUBA describes from variables that you specify how multiple measures at different time points in various variables influence each other. The DBN analysis then finds the probability of the model that best fits the data. A DBN analysis runs every combination of all the data; it examines a large space of possible relationships between variables, including linear, non-linear, and multi-state relationships; and it creates chains of causation, suggesting a sequence of events required to produce a particular outcome. Such chains of causation networks - are difficult to extract using other machine learning techniques. DBN then scores the resulting networks and ranks them in terms of how much structured information they contain compared to all possible models of the data. Models that fit well have higher scores. Output of a miniTUBA analysis provides the ten top-scoring networks of interacting influences that may be predictive of both disease progression and the impact of clinical interventions and probability tables for interpreting results. The DBN analysis that miniTUBA provides is especially good for biomedical experiments or clinical studies in which you collect data different time intervals. Applications of miniTUBA to biomedical problems include analyses of biomarkers and clinical datasets and other cases described on the miniTUBA website. To run a DBN with miniTUBA, you can set a number of parameters and constrain results by modifying structural priors (i.e. forcing or forbidding certain connections so that direction of influence reflects actual biological relationships). You can specify how to group variables into bins for analysis (called discretizing) and set the DBN execution time. You can also set and re-set the time lag to use in the analysis between the start of an event and the observation of its effect, and you can select to analyze only particular subsets of variables.

Proper citation: miniTUBA (RRID:SCR_003447) Copy   

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https://www.projectdatasphere.org/

Initiative to advance oncology research by enabling collaborative sharing of historical oncology clinical trial data through a universal platform (database). The initiative aims to network all stakeholders in the cancer community researchers, industry, academia, advocacy, and other organizations to share insights and collaborate on issues that could not be solved individually. To do this, they have made efforts to address issues of data privacy, security, intellectual property, resources, and incentives as part of its effort to maximize participation. Data contributions include control arms of clinical trials, and the platform uses data-security precautions and analytics to pool multiple studies associated with the same diagnosis in a manner that seeks to protect the privacy of patients and the security of the data contributed.

Proper citation: Project Data Sphere (RRID:SCR_003726) Copy   

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http://www.themmrf.org/research-programs/commpass-study/

A personalized medicine initiative to discover biomarkers that can better define the biological basis of multiple myeloma to help stratify patients. This effort hopes to obtain samples from approximately 1,000 multiple myeloma patients and follow them over time to identify how a patient's genetic profile is related to clinical progression and treatment response. As a partnership between 17 academic centers, 5 pharmaceuticals and the Department of Veterans Affairs, the goal of this eight year study is to create a database that can accelerate future clinical trials and personalized treatment strategies. MMRF's CoMMpass Study has the following goals: * Create a guide to which treatments work best for specific patient subgroups. * Share data with researchers to accelerate drug development for specific subtypes of multiple myeloma patients. In order to facilitate discoveries and development related to targeted therapies, the comprehensive data from CoMMpass is placed in an open-access research portal. The data will be part of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation's (MMRF) Personalized Medicine Platform combines CoMMpass data with those collected from MMRF's Genomics Initiative. It is hoped that the longitudinal data, combined with the annotated bio-specimens will help provide insights that can accelerate personalized therapies.

Proper citation: MMRF CoMMpass Study (RRID:SCR_003721) Copy   

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http://caties.cabig.upmc.edu/

The Cancer Text Information Extraction System (caTIES) provides tools for de-identification and automated coding of free-text structured pathology reports. It also has a client that can be used to search these coded reports. The client also supports Tissue Banking and Honest Broker operations. caTIES focuses on two important challenges of bioinformatics * Information extraction (IE) from free text * Access to tissue. Regarding the first challenge, information from free-text pathology documents represents a vital and often underutilized source of data for cancer researchers. Typically, extracting useful data from these documents is a slow and laborious manual process requiring significant domain expertise. Application of automated methods for IE provides a method for radically increasing the speed and scope with which this data can be accessed. Regarding the second challenge, there is a pressing need in the cancer research community to gain access to tissue specific to certain experimental criteria. Presently, there are vast quantities of frozen tissue and paraffin embedded tissue throughout the country, due to lack of annotation or lack of access to annotation these tissues are often unavailable to individual researchers. caTIES has three goals designed to solve these problems: * Extract coded information from free text Surgical Pathology Reports (SPRs), using controlled terminologies to populate caBIG-compliant data structures. * Provide researchers with the ability to query, browse and create orders for annotated tissue data and physical material across a network of federated sources. With caTIES the SPR acts as a locator to tissue resources. * Pioneer research for distributed text information extraction within the context of caBIG. caTIES focuses on IE from SPRs because they represent a high-dividend target for automated analysis. There are millions of SPRs in each major hospital system, and SPRs contain important information for researchers. SPRs act as tissue locators by indicating the presence of tissue blocks, frozen tissue and other resources, and by identifying the relationship of the tissue block to significant landmarks such as tumor margins. At present, nearly all important data within SPRs are embedded within loosely-structured free-text. For these reasons, SPRs were chosen to be coded through caTIES because facilitating access to information contained in SPRs will have a powerful impact on cancer research. Once SPR information has been run through the caTIES Pipeline, the data may be queried and inspected by the researcher. The goal of this search may be to extract and analyze data or to acquire slides of tissue for further study. caTIES provides two query interfaces, a simple query dashboard and an advanced diagram query builder. Both of these interfaces are capable of NCI Metathesaurus, concept-based searching as well as string searching. Additionally, the diagram interface is capable of advanced searching functionalities. An important aspect of the interface is the ability to manage queries and case sets. Users are able to vet query results and save them to case sets which can then be edited at a later time. These can be submitted as tissue orders or used to derive data extracts. Queries can also be saved, and modified at a later time. caTIES provides the following web services by default: MMTx Service, TIES Coder Service

Proper citation: caTIES - Cancer Text Information Extraction System (RRID:SCR_003444) Copy   

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http://www.curealzfund.org/

Cure Alzheimer's Fund is a 501(c)(3) public charity. At Cure Alzheimer's Fund, our mission is to fund research with the highest probability of slowing, stopping or reversing Alzheimer's disease. This topical portal has a lot of information including news and blog. Cure Alzheimer's Fund is governed by a board of directors; administered by a small, full-time staff; and guided scientifically by a Research Consortium. A Scientific Advisory Board audits the research program to make sure it is consistent with the objectives of the foundation. Cure Alzheimer's Fund is a doing business as name for the Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation, federal tax ID # 52-2396428.

Proper citation: Cure Alzheimers Fund (RRID:SCR_003564) Copy   

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