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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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http://www.morpholinodatabase.org/

Central database to house data on morpholino screens currently containing over 700 morpholinos including control and multiple morpholinos against the same target. A publicly accessible sequence-based search opens this database for morpholinos against a particular target for the zebrafish community. Morpholino Screens: They set out to identify all cotranslationally translocated genes in the zebrafish genome (Secretome/CTT-ome). Morpholinos were designed against putative secreted/CTT targets and injected into 1-4 cell stage zebrafish embryos. The embryos were observed over a 5 day period for defects in several different systems. The first screen examined 184 gene targets of which 26 demonstrated defects of interest (Pickart et al. 2006). A collaboration with the Verfaillie laboratory examined the knockdown of targets identified in a comparative microarray analysis of hematopoietic stem cells demonstrating how microarray and morpholino technologies can be used in conjunction to enrich for defects in specific developmental processes. Currently, many collaborations are underway to identify genes involved in morphological, kidney, skin, eye, pigment, vascular and hematopoietic development, lipid metabolism and more. The screen types referred to in the search functions are the specific areas of development that were examined during the various screens, which include behavior, general morphology, pigmentation, toxicity, Pax2 expression, and development of the craniofacial structures, eyes, kidneys, pituitary, and skin. Only data pertaining to specific tests performed are presented. Due to the complexity of this international collaboration and time constraints, not all morpholinos were subjected to all screen types. They are currently expanding public access to the database. In the future we will provide: * Mortality curves and dose range for each morpholino * Preliminary data regarding the effectiveness of each morpholino * Expanded annotation for each morpholino * External linkage of our morpholino sequences to ZFIN and Ensembl. To submit morpholino-knockdown results to MODB please contact the administrator for a user name and password.

Proper citation: Morpholino Database (RRID:SCR_001378) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels-main/

Repository of mathematical models of biological and biomedical systems. Hosts selection of existing literature based physiologically and pharmaceutically relevant mechanistic models in standard formats. Features programmatic access via Web Services. Each model is curated to verify that it corresponds to reference publication and gives proper numerical results. Curators also annotate components of models with terms from controlled vocabularies and links to other relevant data resources allowing users to search accurately for models they need. Models can be retrieved in SBML format and import/export facilities are being developed to extend spectrum of formats supported by resource.

Proper citation: BioModels (RRID:SCR_001993) Copy   

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http://www.pathwaycommons.org/pc

Database of publicly available pathways from multiple organisms and multiple sources represented in a common language. Pathways include biochemical reactions, complex assembly, transport and catalysis events, and physical interactions involving proteins, DNA, RNA, small molecules and complexes. Pathways were downloaded directly from source databases. Each source pathway database has been created differently, some by manual extraction of pathway information from the literature and some by computational prediction. Pathway Commons provides a filtering mechanism to allow the user to view only chosen subsets of information, such as only the manually curated subset. The quality of Pathway Commons pathways is dependent on the quality of the pathways from source databases. Pathway Commons aims to collect and integrate all public pathway data available in standard formats. It currently contains data from nine databases with over 1,668 pathways, 442,182 interactions,414 organisms and will be continually expanded and updated. (April 2013)

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http://gowiki.tamu.edu/wiki/

A wiki where users of the Gene Ontology can contribute and view notes about how specific GO terms are used. GONUTS can also be used as a GO term browser, or to search for GO annotations of specific genes from included organisms. The rationale for this wiki is based on helping new users of the gene ontology understand and use it. The GONUTS wiki is not an official product of the the Gene Ontology consortium. The GO consortium has a public wiki at their website, http://wiki.geneontology.org/. Maintaining the ontology involves many decisions to carefully choose terms and relationships. These decisions are currently made at GO meetings and via online discussion using the GO mailing lists and the Sourceforge curator request tracker. However, it is difficult for someone starting to use GO to understand these decisions. Some insight can be obtained by mining the tracker, the listservs and the minutes of GO meetings, but this is difficult, as these discussions are often dispersed and sometimes don't contain the GO accessions in the relevant messages. Wikis provide a way to create collaboratively written documentation for each GO term to explain how it should be used, how to satisfy the true path requirement, and whether an annotation should be placed at a different level. In addition, the wiki pages provide a discussion space, where users can post questions and discuss possible changes to the ontology. GONUTS is currently set up so anyone can view or search, but only registered users can edit or add pages. Currently registered users can create new users, and we are working to add at least one registered user for each participating database (So far we have registered users at EcoliHub, EcoCyc, GOA, BeeBase, SGD, dictyBase, FlyBase, WormBase, TAIR, Rat Genome Database, ZFIN, MGI, UCL and AgBase...

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http://opensim.stanford.edu

OpenSim is an open-source software system that lets users develop models of musculoskeletal structures and create dynamic simulations of movement. The software provides a platform on which the biomechanics community can build a library of simulations that can be exchanged, tested, analyzed, and improved through multi-institutional collaboration. The underlying software is written in ANSI C++, and the graphical user interface (GUI) is written in Java. OpenSim technology makes it possible to develop customized controllers, analyses, contact models, and muscle models among other things. These plugins can be shared without the need to alter or compile source code. Users can analyze existing models and simulations and develop new models and simulations from within the GUI.

Proper citation: OpenSim (RRID:SCR_002683) Copy   

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http://regulondb.ccg.unam.mx/

Database on transcriptional regulation in Escherichia coli K-12 containing knowledge manually curated from original scientific publications, complemented with high throughput datasets and comprehensive computational predictions. Graphic and text-integrated environment with friendly navigation where regulatory information is always at hand. They provide integrated views to understand as well as organized knowledge in computable form. Users may submit data to make it publicly available.

Proper citation: RegulonDB (RRID:SCR_003499) Copy   

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http://www.seg3d.org

A free volume processing segmenting tool that combines a flexible manual interface with powerful image processing and segmentation algorithms. Users can explore and label image volumes using slice windows and 3D volume rendering.

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http://smd.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/source/sourceSearch

SOURCE compiles information from several publicly accessible databases, including UniGene, dbEST, UniProt Knowledgebase, GeneMap99, RHdb, GeneCards and LocusLink. GO terms associated with LocusLink entries appear in SOURCE. The mission of SOURCE is to provide a unique scientific resource that pools publicly available data commonly sought after for any clone, GenBank accession number, or gene. SOURCE is specifically designed to facilitate the analysis of large sets of data that biologists can now produce using genome-scale experimental approaches Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: SOURCE (RRID:SCR_005799) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/sbo/

A set of controlled, relational vocabularies of terms commonly used in Systems Biology, and in particular in computational modeling. The ontology consists of seven orthogonal vocabularies defining: the roles of reaction participants (eg. substrate), quantitative parameters (eg. Michaelis constant), a precise classification of mathematical expressions that describe the system (eg. mass action rate law), the modeling framework used (eg. logical framework), and a branch each to describe entity (eg. macromolecule) and interaction (eg. process) types, and a branch to define the different types of metadata that may be present within a model. SBO terms can be used to introduce a layer of semantic information into the standard description of a model, or to annotate the results of biochemical experiments in order to facilitate their efficient reuse. SBO is an Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) candidate ontology, and is free for use. A programmatic access to the content of the Systems Biology Ontology is provided by Web Services.

Proper citation: SBO (RRID:SCR_006753) Copy   

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http://www.ibioseminars.org/

iBioSeminars offers: * Free, on-demand lectures: Many universities/colleges have limited access to high profile leaders in biological research. Our goal is to add 15-20 seminars per year, of similar quality to outstanding lectures that are currently in this library. Access, through web streaming or download, is completely free-of-charge. * Targeting a broad audience: iBioSeminars start with an extended introduction, making them accessible to non-specialists and students, and then progress to cover current research. Senior scientists and students can view and enjoy these lectures. * Education: iBioSeminars are being used by undergraduate and graduate teachers to augment their classroom material. We have now added an education component to this web site (including lecture notes, questions/answers and short video clips for teaching). * International communication: iBioSeminars have viewers in 115 countries and they are being internally promoted in several countries as an educational tool and scientific resource. * Goodwill: Lecturers generously donate their time to prepare these lectures. The project, largely funded by HHMI, is a grass roots efforts with time invested by several individuals at UCSF, HHMI and ASCB.

Proper citation: iBioSeminars (RRID:SCR_005848) Copy   

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https://neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/Resources-Tools/Blueprint-Resources-Tools-Library

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on February 22, 2023. National initiative to advance biomedical research through data sharing and online collaboration that provides data sharing infrastructure, software tools, strategies and advisory services. Groups may choose whether to share data internally or with external audiences. Hardware and data remain under control of individual user groups.

Proper citation: Biomedical Informatics Research Network (RRID:SCR_005163) Copy   

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http://www.physionet.org/

Collection of dissemination and exchange recorded biomedical signals and open-source software for analyzing them. Provides facilities for cooperative analysis of data and evaluation of proposed new algorithm. Providies free electronic access to PhysioBank data and PhysioToolkit software. Offers service and training via on-line tutorials to assist users at entry and more advanced levels. In cooperation with annual Computing in Cardiology conference, PhysioNet hosts series of challenges, in which researchers and students address unsolved problems of clinical or basic scientific interest using data and software provided by PhysioNet. All data included in PhysioBank, and all software included in PhysioToolkit, are carefully reviewed. Researchers are further invited to contribute data and software for review and possible inclusion in PhysioBank and PhysioToolkit. Please review guidelines before submitting material.

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https://github.com/nbcrrolls/workflows/tree/master/Production/AmberGPUMDSimulation

A workflow for running molecular dynamics simulations. It can be used for all-atom molecular dynamic simulations, which involve five steps of minimization, one step of heating, three steps of equilibration, and one or more instances of production. The input is a set of directories that include the MD simulation input scripts, system topology and coordinate files. Output files are list of plots, simulation trajectories, intermediate files, restart files, and the like.

Proper citation: Molecular Dynamics Workflow (BioKepler) (RRID:SCR_014389) Copy   

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https://gitlab.com/gernerlab/cytomap/-/wikis/home

Software tool as spatial analysis software for whole tissue sections.Utilizes information on cell type and position to phenotype local neighborhoods and reveal how their spatial distribution leads to generation of global tissue architecture.Used to make advanced data analytic techniques accessible for single cell data with position information.

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https://github.com/CEGRcode/stencil

Web engine for visualizing and sharing life science datasets.Designed to organize, visualize, and enable sharing of interactive genomic data visualizations. Provides ability to inspect and interpret sequencing data, without requiring programming expertise.

Proper citation: STENCIL (RRID:SCR_021878) Copy   

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https://github.com/zdk123/SpiecEasi

Software R package for microbiome network analysis. Used for inference of microbial ecological networks from amplicon sequencing datasets. Combines data transformations developed for compositional data analysis with graphical model inference framework that assumes underlying ecological association network is sparse.

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https://github.com/ChristopherWilks/megadepth

Software tool for quantifying alignments and coverage for BigWig and BAM/CRAM input files.Quantifies number of RNA-seq reads assigned to gene in BAM file, successor of bamcounts.

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https://zdock.umassmed.edu/

Web tool as protein docking server, based on rigid body docking programs ZDOCK and M-ZDOCK, to predict structures of protein-protein complexes and symmetric multimers.

Proper citation: ZDOCK Server (RRID:SCR_022518) Copy   

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https://github.com/FunctionLab/sei-framework

Web server for systematically predicting sequence regulatory activities and applying sequence information to human genetics data. Provides global map from any sequence to regulatory activities, as represented by sequence classes, and each sequence class integrates predictions for chromatin profiles like transcription factor, histone marks, and chromatin accessibility profiles across wide range of cell types.

Proper citation: sei (RRID:SCR_022571) Copy   

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