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http://www.kavlifoundation.org/

The Kavli Foundation, based in Oxnard, California, is dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of humanity, promoting public understanding of scientific research, and supporting scientists and their work. The Foundation''s mission is implemented through an international program of research institutes, professorships, symposia and other initiatives in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience, neuroscience and theoretical physics. The Foundation is also a founding partner of the Kavli Prizes, which recognize scientists for their seminal advances in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. To date, The Kavli Foundation has made grants to establish Kavli Institutes on the campuses of the University of California Santa Barbara, Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Yale University, Cornell University, the University of California San Diego, Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Peking University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harvard University, the University of Cambridge and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. In addition to the Kavli Institutes, six Kavli professorships have been established: two at the University of California Santa Barbara, one at University of California Los Angeles, one at the University of California Irvine, one at Columbia University, and one at the California Institute of Technology. The Kavli Futures Symposia a series of high quality scientific symposia on topics of emerging importance in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. The Frontiers of Science symposia bring together some of the very best young scientists across many disciplines to share and discuss exciting advances and opportunities in their fields. Videos and feature pieces have been created for teachers and students. This includes video interviews with acclaimed researchers Eric Kandel, M.D. and Edvard and May-Britt Moser, a video introduction and panel discussion on neuroscience, feature stories, written science overview, institute profiles and other materials. The Kavli Foundation is a private foundation qualified under IRC Section 501 (c) (3).

Proper citation: Kavli Foundation (RRID:SCR_005113) Copy   

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http://www.laskerfoundation.org/index.htm

The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation and its programs are dedicated to the support of biomedical research toward conquering disease, improving human health and extending life. The Foundation''s mission is to foster the prevention and treatment of disease and disabilities by honoring excellence in basic and clinical science, by educating the public, and by advocating for support of medical research. The Lasker Awards The Lasker Foundation''s Awards Program recognizes the contributions of scientists, physicians, and public servants who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure or prevention of human disease. Other Programs Although the Lasker Foundation is not a grant-giving organization, it does support select initiatives that raise awareness of medical discoveries and their benefits to human health, and that increase support for the medical science enterprise. These initiatives have included study groups, Congressional briefings, innovative web-based programs, educational forums, and scholarly studies.

Proper citation: Lasker Foundation (RRID:SCR_005114) Copy   

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http://bioinformatics.wistar.upenn.edu/isoformex

Software that estimates transcript expression levels and gene expression levels from mRNA-Seq data. Technically speaking, IsoformEx parses bowtie alignment files in a project directory (e.g. ~yourid/isoformex/xxx, where xxx is the project name) and generates two files: (1) xxx/xxx_transcript_1.txt: expression levels of all transcripts, (2) xxx/xxx_gene_1.txt: expression levels of all genes.

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http://code.google.com/p/aldex/

RNA-seq tool that uses the Dirichlet distribution and a transformation to identify genes that exhibit small within-condition and large between-condition variance.

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/cancer/cga/absolute

Software to estimate purity / ploidy, and from that compute absolute copy-number and mutation multiplicities. When DNA is extracted from an admixed population of cancer and normal cells, the information on absolute copy number per cancer cell is lost in the mixing. The purpose of ABSOLUTE is to re-extract these data from the mixed DNA population. This process begins by generation of segmented copy number data, which is input to the ABSOLUTE algorithm together with pre-computed models of recurrent cancer karyotypes and, optionally, allelic fraction values for somatic point mutations. The output of ABSOLUTE then provides re-extracted information on the absolute cellular copy number of local DNA segments and, for point mutations, the number of mutated alleles.

Proper citation: ABSOLUTE (RRID:SCR_005198) Copy   

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http://www.qcmg.org/bioinformatics/tiki-index.php

A single nucleotide variant caller optimised for identifying somatic variants in low cellularity cancer samples.

Proper citation: qSNP (RRID:SCR_005105) Copy   

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http://www.damonrunyon.org/

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation funds early career cancer researchers who have the energy, drive and creativity to become leading innovators in their fields. We identify the best young scientists in the nation and support them through four award programs: our Fellowship, Pediatric Cancer Fellowship, Clinical Investigator and Innovation Awards. Damon Runyon awards give young scientists: * Freedom to follow their own ideas, explore new paths and take risks * A prestigious endorsement that attracts further funding, advances their careers and accelerates their research * Guaranteed financial support, sparing them hours applying for grants Since 1946, Damon Runyon has invested more than $240 million in the best young minds in the nation. Our alumni include 11 Nobel Laureates and leaders of major cancer centers across the United States. Many of our 3,300 scientists have gone on to make breakthroughs in the way we prevent, diagnose and treat many forms of cancer. The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation is a registered nonprofit with 501(c)(3) status.

Proper citation: Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (RRID:SCR_005106) Copy   

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http://samtools.sourceforge.net/mpileup.shtml

Provide various utilities for manipulating alignments in the SAM format, including sorting, merging, indexing and generating alignments in a per-position format.

Proper citation: SAMtools/BCFtools (RRID:SCR_005227) Copy   

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http://www.raetschlab.org/suppl/mitie

Software framework for simultaneous RNA-Seq-based Transcript Identification and Quantification in Multiple Samples. They define a likelihood function based on the negative binomial distribution, use a regularization approach to select a few transcripts collectively explaining the observed read data, and show how to find the optimal solution using Mixed Integer Programming. MiTie can a) take advantage of known transcripts, b) reconstruct and quantify transcripts simultaneously in multiple samples, as well as c) resolve the location of multi-mapping reads. It is designed for genome- and assembly-based transcriptome reconstruction.

Proper citation: MiTie (RRID:SCR_005228) Copy   

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http://orman.sourceforge.net/Home

A software tool for resolving multi-mappings within an RNA-Seq SAM file.

Proper citation: ORMAN (RRID:SCR_005188) Copy   

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https://github.com/vezzi/FRC_align

Software package containing tools to process bam files in order to evaluate and analyze de novo assembly / assemblers and identify Structural Variations suspicious genomics regions. The tools have been already successfully applied in several de novo and resequencing projects. This package contains two tools: # FRCbam: tool to compute Feature Response Curves in order to validate and rank assemblies and assemblers # FindTranslocations: tool to identify chromosomal rearrangements using Mate Pairs

Proper citation: FRCbam (RRID:SCR_005189) Copy   

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http://www.ukzn.ac.za/

University with five campuses in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was formed on 1 January 2004 after the merger between the University of Natal and the University of Durban-Westville.

Proper citation: University of KwaZulu-Natal; Durban; South Africa (RRID:SCR_005222) Copy   

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http://stothard.afns.ualberta.ca/downloads/NGS-SNP/

A collection of command-line scripts for providing rich annotations for SNPs identified by the sequencing of transcripts or whole genomes from organisms with reference sequences in Ensembl. Included among the annotations, several of which are not available from any existing SNP annotation tools, are the results of detailed comparisons with orthologous sequences. These comparisons allow, for example, SNPs to be sorted or filtered based on how drastically the SNP changes the score of a protein alignment. Other fields indicate the names of overlapping protein domains or features, and the conservation of both the SNP site and flanking regions. NCBI, Ensembl, and Uniprot IDs are provided for genes, transcripts, and proteins when applicable, along with Gene Ontology terms, a gene description, phenotypes linked to the gene, and an indication of whether the SNP is novel or known. A ?Model_Annotations? field provides several annotations obtained by transferring in silico the SNP to an orthologous gene, typically in a well-characterized species.

Proper citation: NGS-SNP (RRID:SCR_005182) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/cancer/cga/indelocator

A software tool for calling short indels in next generation sequencing data.

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https://code.google.com/p/knime4bio/

A set of custom nodes for the KNIME (The Konstanz Information Miner) graphical workbench, for analysing next-generation sequencing (NGS) data without the requirement of programming skills.

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http://ergatis.sourceforge.net/

A web interface and scalable software system for bioinformatics workflows that is used to create, run, and monitor reusable computational analysis pipelines. It contains pre-built components for common bioinformatics analysis tasks. These components can be arranged graphically to form highly-configurable pipelines. Each analysis component supports multiple output formats, including the Bioinformatic Sequence Markup Language (BSML). The current implementation includes support for data loading into project databases following the CHADO schema, a highly normalized, community-supported schema for storage of biological annotation data. Ergatis uses the Workflow engine to process its work on a compute grid. Workflow provides an XML language and processing engine for specifying the steps of a computational pipeline. It provides detailed execution status and logging for process auditing, facilitates error recovery from point of failure, and is highly scalable with support for distributed computing environments. The XML format employed enables commands to be run serially, in parallel, and in any combination or nesting level.

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http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/repository/display_tool?repository_id=5d0de444b1f9ac52&tool_config=database%2Fcommunity_files%2F000%2Frepo_136%2Fcrest.xml&changeset_revision=4f6952e0af48

An algorithm for detecting genomic structural variations at base-pair resolution using next-generation sequencing data. CREST uses pieces of DNA called soft clips to find structural variations. Soft clips are the DNA segments produced during sequencing that fail to properly align to the reference genome as the sample genome is reassembled. CREST uses the soft clips to precisely identify sites of chromosomal rearrangement or where pieces of DNA are inserted or deleted.

Proper citation: CREST (RRID:SCR_005257) Copy   

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/molbiolib/

A compact, portable, and extensively tested C++11 software framework and set of applications tailored to the demands of next-generation sequencing data and applicable to many other applications. It is designed to work with common file formats and data types used both in genomic analysis and general data analysis. A central relational-database-like Table class is a flexible and powerful object to intuitively represent and work with a wide variety of tabular datasets, ranging from alignment data to annotations. MolBioLib includes programs to perform a wide variety of analysis tasks such as computing read coverage, annotating genomic intervals, and novel peak calling with a wavelet algorithm. This package assumes fluency in both UNIX and C++.

Proper citation: MolBioLib (RRID:SCR_005372) Copy   

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http://www.ulg.ac.be/cms/c_5000/en/

Public university in French community of Belgium. International university spreads out over 4 campuses. Its official language is French.

Proper citation: University of Liege; Wallonia; Belgium (RRID:SCR_005369) Copy   

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

An interactive software program that integrates phenotypic data exploration, selection, management and quality control using a unified platform for association studies of rare and common variants.

Proper citation: PhenoMan (RRID:SCR_005249) Copy   

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