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http://archives.niddk.nih.gov/patient/aask/aask.aspx

Clinical trial investigating whether a specific class of antihypertensive drugs (beta-adrenergic blockers, calcium channel blockers, or angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors) and/or the level of blood pressure would influence progression of hypertensive kidney disease in African Americans. The initiative consisting of 21 clinical centers and a data-coordinating center is followed by a Continuation of AASK Cohort Study to investigate the environmental, socio-economic, genetic, physiologic, and other co-morbid factors that influence progression of kidney disease in a well-characterized cohort of African Americans with hypertensive kidney disease. Only patients who were previously in the randomized trial are eligible for the cohort study. A significant discovery was made in the treatment strategy for slowing kidney disease caused by hypertension. Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, compared with calcium channel blockers, were found to slow kidney disease progression by 36 percent, and they drastically reduced the risk of kidney failure by 48 percent in patients who had at least one gram of protein in the urine, a sign of kidney failure. ACE inhibitors have been the preferred treatment for hypertension caused by diabetes since 1994; however, calcium channel blockers have been particularly effective in controlling blood pressure in African Americans. The AASK study now recommends ACE inhibitors to protect the kidneys from the damaging effects of hypertension. The Continuation of AASK Cohort Study will be followed at the clinical centers. The patients will be provided with the usual clinical care given to all such patients at the respective centers. Baseline demographic information, selected laboratory tests, and other studies are being obtained at the initiation of the Continuation Study. The patients will be seen quarterly at the centers, and some selected studies done at these visits. Samples will be obtained and stored for additional studies and analyses at a later date.

Proper citation: AASK Clinical Trial and Cohort Study (RRID:SCR_006985) Copy   

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/avor/id497245573?mt=8

A teaching, training and test tool app, designed for both iPhone and iPad, for the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) system and its disorders, including Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). It demonstrates eye saccades, including those caused by canalithiasis (free-floating particles in the canals), and both functioning and dysfunctional VOR. It shows how BPPV is caused and treated. aVOR demonstrates how head movement has an automatic influence on eye direction, the impact of dysfunction of the semicircular canals, their size, shape and location in the head, and the causes of nystagmus. The application includes a Test Mode which presents the symptoms of various types of VOR dysfunction for the student to diagnose. It is designed for college-level neuropsychology students and medical professionals, and incorporates the latest research. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later Languages: English, Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish

Proper citation: aVOR (RRID:SCR_006857) Copy   

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http://www.brain.org.au/software/mrtrix/

A set of tools to perform diffusion-weighted MRI white matter tractography in the presence of crossing fibres, using Constrained Spherical Deconvolution (Tournier et al.. 2004; Tournier et al. 2007), and a probabilisitic streamlines algorithm (e.g. Behrens et al., 2003; Parker et al., 2003). These applications have been written from scratch in C++, using the functionality provided by the GNU Scientific Library, and gtkmm. The software is currently capable of handling DICOM, NIfTI and AnalyseAVW image formats, amongst others. Installation * Unix/Linux * Microsoft Windows * Mac Os X, THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: MRtrix (RRID:SCR_006971) Copy   

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http://www.mitk.org/DiffusionImaging

A selection of image analysis algorithms for the processing of diffusion-weighted MR images. Features & Highlights * Tensor and q-ball reconstruction * Glyph visualization * Quantification and partial volume clustering of tensor and q-ball images * Global fiber tractography, visualization, and tract post-processing * Brain network statistics and visualization (connectomics) * Interactive exploration of Tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) results * Intra-voxel incoherent motion (IVIM) estimation * Synthetic data generation Additional system specific requirements: * Windows: If you have problems running the Windows application, please install the Microsoft Redistributable Packages for VS 2008: 32 bit or 64 bit * Linux: the Qt framework, version 4.6.2 or later Tested systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista; Ubuntu 12.04 and newer; OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) The OS X 10.6 installer is compatible with OS X 10.7 (Lion) so there is no dedicated disk image build under 10.7. The MITK Diffusion application is based on the MITK research platform and the most of it is open-source. The available code is embedded into the source code of MITK as a module and can be accessed through the public git repository.

Proper citation: MITK Diffusion (RRID:SCR_006846) Copy   

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http://androgendb.mcgill.ca/

Comprehensive listing of androgen receptor gene mutations published in journals and meetings proceedings. The majority of mutations are point mutations identified in patients with androgen insensitivity syndrome. Information is included regarding the phenotype, the nature and location of the mutations, as well as the effects of the mutations on the androgen binding activity of the receptor. In light of the difficulty in getting new AR mutations published the curator will now accept new mutations that have not been published, provided that it is from a reputable research or clinical laboratory. The database incorporates information on the exon 1 CAG repeat expansion disease, spinobulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA), as well as CAG repeat length variations associated with risk for female breast, uterine endometrial, colorectal, and prostate cancer, as well as for male infertility. The possible implications of somatic mutations, as opposed to germline mutations, in the development of future locus-specific mutation databases (LSDBs) is discussed.
The database now provides information on the external genitalia and on sex - of - rearing. Additionally, the new version of the database has an entry to show if pathogenicity has been proven. A pdf and fully searchable version of the Database is available for download.

Proper citation: Androgen Receptor Gene Mutations Database (RRID:SCR_006887) Copy   

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http://virtualhumanembryo.lsuhsc.edu/

A digital image database of serially sectioned human embryos from the Carnegie Collection originally developed as a collaboration between embryologist Dr. Raymond Gasser at Louisiana State University Health Science Center (LSUHSC) and the Human Developmental Anatomy Center (HDAC) in Washington D.C. The aim of the project is to increase understanding of human embryology and to encourage study of human embryonic development by providing students and researchers with reliable resources for human embryo morphology. The VHE project has several components: * DREM: The Digitally Reproduced Embryonic Morphology (DREM) project, with funding from NICHD, project has produced 27 image databases of labeled serial sections from representative human embryos at each of the 23 Carnegie stages. These databases, together with animations and reconstructions of the embryos are available on DVD and CD. * HEIRLOOM: The HEIRLOOM Collection (Human Embryo Imaging and Reconstruction, Library Of Online Media) was funded by the National Library of Medicine to provide greater access to the DREM databases. NLM provided funding to set up this website and to produce additional 3D-reconstructions and animations that are included on the DREM disks. Original website, http://virtualhumanembryo.lsuhsc.edu/HEIRLOOM/heirloom.htm * EHD: Starting in 2011, The Endowment for Human Development (EHD) will also host the VHE databases. They have made the project accessible to everyone and include a comprehensive cataloging of all the terms used to label the embryos. Their website enables users to browse through the complete VHE atlas of human embryology, http://www.ehd.org/virtual-human-embryo/

Proper citation: Virtual Human Embryo (RRID:SCR_006921) Copy   

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http://www.siumed.edu/alz/research%20Dementia.html

A brain autopsy program developed to serve the needs of Illinois families and individuals affected by dementing diseases and to advance dementia research by providing tissue to researchers studying dementing diseases. The SIU School of Medicine (SIU-SM) Dementia Brain Autopsy Program facilitates the postmortem process for families wishing to obtain an autopsy for a loved one. A brain autopsy provides family members with accurate information regarding the exact nature of their relative's dementia. This includes information about the possibility of an inherited disorder which may affect other family members. The brain autopsy also helps clinicians improve their clinical skills by identifying the precise cause of the clinical dementia.

Proper citation: SIU CADRD Dementia Brain Autopsy Program (RRID:SCR_006918) Copy   

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http://www.microrna.org

Database of microRNA target predictions and expression profiles. Target predictions are based on a development of the miRanda algorithm which incorporates current biological knowledge on target rules and on the use of an up-to-date compendium of mammalian microRNAs. MicroRNA expression profiles are derived from a comprehensive sequencing project of a large set of mammalian tissues and cell lines of normal and disease origin. This website enables users to explore: * The set of genes that are potentially regulated by a particular microRNA. * The implied cooperativity of multiple microRNAs on a particular mRNA. * MicroRNA expression profiles in various mammalian tissues. The web resource provides users with functional information about the growing number of microRNAs and their interaction with target genes in many species and facilitates novel discoveries in microRNA gene regulation. The microRNA Target Detection Software, miRanda, is an algorithm for finding genomic targets for microRNAs. This algorithm has been written in C and is available as an open-source method under the GPL., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: microRNA.org (RRID:SCR_006997) Copy   

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http://brainmaps.org

An interactive multiresolution brain atlas that is based on over 20 million megapixels of sub-micron resolution, annotated, scanned images of serial sections of both primate and non-primate brains and integrated with a high-speed database for querying and retrieving data about brain structure and function. Currently featured are complete brain atlas datasets for various species, including Macaca mulatta, Chlorocebus aethiops, Felis catus, Mus musculus, Rattus norvegicus, Tyto alba and many other vertebrates. BrainMaps is currently accepting histochemical, immunocytochemical, and tracer connectivity data, preferably whole-brain. In addition, they are interested in EM, MRI, and DTI data.

Proper citation: BrainMaps.org (RRID:SCR_006878) Copy   

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http://goblet.molgen.mpg.de/cgi-bin/goblet2008/goblet.cgi

Tool that performs annotation based on GO and pathway terms for anonymous cDNA or protein sequences. It uses the species independent GO structure and vocabulary together with a series of protein databases collected from various sites, to perform a detailed GO annotation by sequence similarity searches. The sensitivity and the reference protein sets can be selected by the user. GOblet runs automatically and is available as a public service on our web server. GOblet expects query sequences to be in FASTA-Format (with header-lines). Protein and nucleotide sequences are accepted. Total size of all sequences submitted per request should not be larger than 50kb currently. For security reasons: Larger post's will be rejected. Due to limited capacities the queries may be processed in batches depending on the server load. The output of the BLAST job is filtered automatically and the relevant hits are displayed. In addition, the respective GO-terms are shown together with the complete GO-hierarchy of parent terms., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: GOblet (RRID:SCR_006998) Copy   

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http://humanconnectome.org/consortia/

Project to map the neural pathways that underlie human brain function for several modalities of neuroimaging data including fMRI. The purpose of the Project is to acquire and share data about the structural and functional connectivity of the human brain. It will greatly advance the capabilities for imaging and analyzing brain connections, resulting in improved sensitivity, resolution, and utility, thereby accelerating progress in the emerging field of human connectomics. Altogether, the Human Connectome Project will lead to major advances in the understanding of what makes us uniquely human and will set the stage for future studies of abnormal brain circuits in many neurological and psychiatric disorders. The sixteen institutes and centers of the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience have funded two major grants that will take complementary approaches to deciphering the brain's amazingly complex wiring diagram. An 11-institution consortium led by Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Minnesota received a 5-year grant to enable development and utilization of advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) methods to chart brain circuitry. A consortium led by Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of California at Los Angeles received a grant to enable building and refining a next-generation 3T MR scanner that improves the quality and spatial resolution with which brain connectivity data can be acquired at this field strength.

Proper citation: NIH Human Connectome Project (RRID:SCR_006942) Copy   

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http://www.webgestalt.org/

Web based gene set analysis toolkit designed for functional genomic, proteomic, and large-scale genetic studies from which large number of gene lists (e.g. differentially expressed gene sets, co-expressed gene sets etc) are continuously generated. WebGestalt incorporates information from different public resources and provides a way for biologists to make sense out of gene lists. This version of WebGestalt supports eight organisms, including human, mouse, rat, worm, fly, yeast, dog, and zebrafish.

Proper citation: WebGestalt: WEB-based GEne SeT AnaLysis Toolkit (RRID:SCR_006786) Copy   

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http://www.hematologic.niddk.nih.gov/

Information dissemination service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) providing information about certain hematologic diseases in easy-to-understand language: online, in booklets and fact sheets, by email, and over the phone to patients, health professionals and the public. The NHDIS provides the following informational products and services: * Response to inquiries about hematologic diseases, ranging from information about available patient and professional education materials to referrals to patient support organizations. Assistance is available by phone (8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. eastern time, M-F), fax, mail, and email. * Publications about hematologic diseases, provided free of copyright, in varying reading levels. Available online or in hard copy. NHDIS also sends publications to health fairs and community events. * Referrals to health professionals through the National Library of Medicine''''s MEDLINEplus, which includes a consumer-friendly listing of organizations to assist in the search for physicians and other health professionals.

Proper citation: National Hematologic Diseases Information Service (RRID:SCR_006817) Copy   

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http://pga.mgh.harvard.edu/primerbank/

Database of human and mouse primer pairs for gene expression analysis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and quantitative PCR (qPCR). A total of 306,800 primers covering most known human and mouse genes can be accessed from the PrimerBank database, together with information on these primers such as T(m), location on the transcript and amplicon size. For each gene, at least one primer pair has been designed and in many cases alternative primer pairs exist. Primers have been designed to work under the same PCR conditions, thus facilitating high-throughput QPCR. All primers in PrimerBank were carefully designed to ensure gene specificity. All experimental validation data for mouse primers are available from PrimerBank. You can submit your primers. They will be added to the database once they are properly QCd.

Proper citation: PrimerBank (RRID:SCR_006898) Copy   

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http://www.parkinsonalliance.org

A U.S. nonprofit organization, in partnership with The Tuchman Foundation. It was formed to foster philanthropic activities to raise funds for the most promising Parkinson's disease research that will help find the cure. The Parkinson Alliance is dedicated to raising donations through special fundraising events. The Parkinson Alliance is also devoted to improving the quality of life in the DBS community through informational means and by funding promising research within the DBS field.

Proper citation: Parkinson Alliance (RRID:SCR_006961) Copy   

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http://btris.nih.gov

Provides NIH clinical investigators with access to identifiable data for the subjects on their own active protocols, while providing all NIH investigators with access to de-identified data across all protocols. BTRIS provides users with advanced search, filtering, and aggregation methods to create data sets to support ongoing studies and stimulate ideas for new research. BTRIS is two distinct but interrelated applications, BTRIS Data Access and BTRIS Preferences. * BTRIS Data Access is the data repository where principal investigators or their designee create reports on their active protocols with identified subject data. Reports include the IRB Inclusion Enrollment Report, demographics, patient lists, laboratory and microbiology results, vital signs, medication orders and administration, diagnoses, and radiology reports (with links to images in the CC PACS system). * BTRIS Preferences is a Web based application that allows principal investigators or their designees to verify subject enrollment in their protocol(s). This ensures that reports created in BTRIS Data Access include all subjects. It also allows the principal investigator to designate an alternate investigator from the protocol to manage subject enrollment and create reports in BTRIS Data Access. BTRIS contains subject data from CRIS/MIS (the Clinical Center Medical Information Systems) and research data from NIAID (Crimson), NIAAA, and NCI. Data are available from 1976 to the present.

Proper citation: BTRIS: NIH Biomedical Translational Research Information System (RRID:SCR_006838) Copy   

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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA/

Database of the nation''s substance abuse and mental health research data providing public use data files, file documentation, and access to restricted-use data files to support a better understanding of this critical area of public health. The goal is to increase the use of the data to most accurately understand and assess substance abuse and mental health problems and the impact of related treatment systems. The data include the U.S. general and special populations, annual series, and designs that produce nationally representative estimates. Some of the data acquired and archived have never before been publicly distributed. Each collection includes survey instruments (when provided), a bibliography of related literature, and related Web site links. All data may be downloaded free of charge in SPSS, SAS, STATA, and ASCII formats and most studies are available for use with the online data analysis system. This system allows users to conduct analyses ranging from cross-tabulation to regression without downloading data or relying on other software. Another feature, Quick Tables, provides the ability to select variables from drop down menus to produce cross-tabulations and graphs that may be customized and cut and pasted into documents. Documentation files, such as codebooks and questionnaires, can be downloaded and viewed online.

Proper citation: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (RRID:SCR_007002) Copy   

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http://genome.ucsc.edu/ENCODE

Encyclopedia of DNA elements consisting of list of functional elements in human genome, including elements that act at protein and RNA levels, and regulatory elements that control cells and circumstances in which gene is active. Enables scientific and medical communities to interpret role of human genome in biology and disease. Provides identification of common cell types to facilitate integrative analysis and new experimental technologies based on high-throughput sequencing. Genome Browser containing ENCODE and Epigenomics Roadmap data. Data are available for entire human genome.

Proper citation: ENCODE (RRID:SCR_006793) Copy   

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http://www.1000genomes.org/

International collaboration producing an extensive public catalog of human genetic variation, including SNPs and structural variants, and their haplotype contexts, in an effort to provide a foundation for investigating the relationship between genotype and phenotype. The genomes of about 2500 unidentified people from about 25 populations around the world were sequenced using next-generation sequencing technologies. Redundant sequencing on various platforms and by different groups of scientists of the same samples can be compared. The results of the study are freely and publicly accessible to researchers worldwide. The consortium identified the following populations whose DNA will be sequenced: Yoruba in Ibadan, Nigeria; Japanese in Tokyo; Chinese in Beijing; Utah residents with ancestry from northern and western Europe; Luhya in Webuye, Kenya; Maasai in Kinyawa, Kenya; Toscani in Italy; Gujarati Indians in Houston; Chinese in metropolitan Denver; people of Mexican ancestry in Los Angeles; and people of African ancestry in the southwestern United States. The goal Project is to find most genetic variants that have frequencies of at least 1% in the populations studied. Sequencing is still too expensive to deeply sequence the many samples being studied for this project. However, any particular region of the genome generally contains a limited number of haplotypes. Data can be combined across many samples to allow efficient detection of most of the variants in a region. The Project currently plans to sequence each sample to about 4X coverage; at this depth sequencing cannot provide the complete genotype of each sample, but should allow the detection of most variants with frequencies as low as 1%. Combining the data from 2500 samples should allow highly accurate estimation (imputation) of the variants and genotypes for each sample that were not seen directly by the light sequencing. All samples from the 1000 genomes are available as lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) and LCL derived DNA from the Coriell Cell Repository as part of the NHGRI Catalog. The sequence and alignment data generated by the 1000genomes project is made available as quickly as possible via their mirrored ftp sites. ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk ftp://ftp-trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1000genomes

Proper citation: 1000 Genomes: A Deep Catalog of Human Genetic Variation (RRID:SCR_006828) Copy   

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http://physionet.org/physiobank/

Archive of well-characterized digital recordings of physiologic signals and related data for use by the biomedical research community. PhysioBank currently includes databases of multi-parameter cardiopulmonary, neural, and other biomedical signals from healthy subjects and patients with a variety of conditions with major public health implications, including sudden cardiac death, congestive heart failure, epilepsy, gait disorders, sleep apnea, and aging. The PhysioBank Archives now contain over 700 gigabytes of data that may be freely downloaded. PhysioNet is seeking contributions of data sets that can be made freely available in PhysioBank. Contributions of digitized and anonymized (deidentified) physiologic signals and time series of all types are welcome. If you have a data set that may be suitable, please review PhysioNet''s guidelines for contributors and contact them.

Proper citation: Physiobank (RRID:SCR_006949) Copy   

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