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http://www.ebire.org/hcnlab/software/vamca.html

A stand-alone, open source human cortical meta-analysis and visualization toolbox for MatLab. It projects stereotaxic coordinates to a mean cortical surface by using an anatomical database of 60 young adults to provide multiple mappings of normalized cortical surfaces into MNI space. VAMCA performs the following analyses: # Multi-Fiducial Projection Mapping: Map stereotaxic 3D coordinates to the normalized cortical location for each of 60 database subjects. # Computing Centroid Locations for groups of foci both on a mean cortical surface and in MNI space. # Comparing Two Groups of Foci for differences in location (surface or 3D) of their group centroids and computing the groups' overlap extent using permutation tests. # Detecting Significant Densities of Foci or Density Differences of Two Groups within anatomical ROIs on a mean cortical surface by using Monte Carlo analyses. Coordinate weights allow fixed or random effects type analyses.

Proper citation: VAMCA (RRID:SCR_007028) Copy   

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http://www.nybb.hs.columbia.edu/

A brain bank which collects postmortem human brains to meet the needs of neuroscientists investigating specific psychiatric and neurological disorders. NYBB disburses tissue samples to investigating clinicians or scientists whose research has been approved by their Institutional Review Board. The tasks of the NYBB include: collection and processing of human postmortem brain samples for research; neuropathological evaluation and diagnosis; storage and computerized inventory of brain samples; and distribution of brain samples to investigating clinicians and scientists. Brains from individuals without neurological or psychiatric disorders are used as normal controls.

Proper citation: New York Brain Bank at Columbia University (RRID:SCR_007142) Copy   

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http://pathology.duke.edu/files/neuroanat/nawr_index.html

Comprehensive neuroanatomy resource created for course PTA 201 Practical Neuroanatomy, including animated images and hyperlinked descriptions with the following major categories: Blood supply, motor systems, cranial nerves, neurohistology, functional organization, sensory systems, and major coverings.

Proper citation: Duke University NeuroAnatomy Web Resources (RRID:SCR_007145) Copy   

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http://humancyc.org/

The HumanCyc database describes human metabolic pathways and the human genome. By presenting metabolic pathways as an organizing framework for the human genome, HumanCyc provides the user with an extended dimension for functional analysis of Homo sapiens at the genomic level. A computational pathway analysis of the human genome assigned human enzymes to predicted metabolic pathways. Pathway assignments place genes in their larger biological context, and are a necessary step toward quantitative modeling of metabolism. HumanCyc contains the complete genome sequence of Homo sapiens, as presented in Build 31. Data on the human genome from Ensembl, LocusLink and GenBank were carefully merged to create a minimally redundant human gene set to serve as an input to SRI''s PathoLogic software, which generated the database and predicted Homo sapiens metabolic pathways from functional information contained in the genome''s annotation. SRI did not re-annotate the genome, but worked with the gene function assignments in Ensembl, LocusLink, and GenBank. The resulting pathway/genome database (PGDB) includes information on 28,783 genes, their products and the metabolic reactions and pathways they catalyze. Also included are many links to other databases and publications. The Pathway Tools software/database bundle includes HumanCyc and the Pathway Tools software suite and is available under license. This form of HumanCyc is faster and more powerful than the Web version.

Proper citation: HumanCyc: Encyclopedia of Homo sapiens Genes and Metabolism (RRID:SCR_007050) Copy   

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http://www.researchals.org/

A research forum portal for ALS-related resources targeted specifically towards academic and industry-based researchers. The aim of the ALS Forum is to identify existing research resources and build new tools to help veteran researchers accelerate their work and to help those new to the ALS field quickly get up to speed. It currently consists of content developed through a partnership with the Alzforum and filtered for its relevance to ALS, as well as links to ALS review articles, and a dynamic listing of current drug development efforts relevant to ALS.

Proper citation: ALS Forum (RRID:SCR_007160) Copy   

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

An epidemiologic study being conducted in the Boston metropolitan area to examine the prevalence of symptoms for health problems such as interstitial cystitis, urinary incontinence, benign prostatic hyperplasia, prostatitis, hypogonadism, and sexual function. Of interest to the survey are health disparities and inequalities. BACH is especially concerned with lack of adequate health insurance, lack of access to adequate medical care, and how these problems influence patterns of disease. The study also focuses on social determinants of disease that are over and above the contribution of individual characteristics and risk factors. To achieve a randomly sampled population, four neighborhoods were divided into 12 strata and from them investigators selected census blocks. Households were then randomly selected from the census blocks and sampled to identify eligible study participants. Investigators conduct a two-hour, in-home, bilingual field interview of all eligible participants, looking at symptoms and asking questions about lifestyle, physical activity, alcohol use, nutrition, demographics, and morbidity. They also conduct a detailed inventory of medications, both prescribed and over-the-counter, and take two non-fasting blood samples for hormone, cholesterol, and lipid levels that will be stored for future studies. By the time the study ends, approximately 6,000 men and women, ages 30 to 79, from four Boston area neighborhoods that have density levels proportionate with minority populations will have been interviewed in their homes. One third of the randomly sampled population will be African American; one third, Hispanic; and one third, Caucasian.

Proper citation: Boston Area Community Health Survey (RRID:SCR_007115) Copy   

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http://biospecimens.cancer.gov/

The NCI Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research (OBBR) was established in 2005 in recognition of the critical role that biospecimens play in cancer research. The OBBR is responsible for developing a common biorepository infrastructure that promotes resource sharing and team science, in order to facilitate multi-institutional, high throughput genomic and proteomic studies. OBBR is focused on the following objectives: * Establish biobanking as a new area of research, in order to determine the impact of various collection and processing protocols on the usefulness of biospecimens in genomic and proteomic studies * Disseminate first-generation Best Practices in order to harmonize policies and procedures of NCI-supported biorepositories * Develop future generations of biorepository best practices, based on the data generated in the biobanking research programs above * Promote professional oversight of biospecimen standards development by standards organizations * Develop new technologies for biorepository operations * Develop a biorepository accreditation program * Coordinate with the international biobanking community to harmonize policies and procedures to facilitate multi-national research

Proper citation: NCI Office of Biospecimens (RRID:SCR_007076) Copy   

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http://www.stanleyresearch.org/dnn/BrainResearchLaboratory/tabid/195/Default.aspx

It is a widely used resource for researchers trying to find the causes of, and better treatments for, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression. Brains were collected 1994 to 2005 with the permission of the families in a standardized manner, with half of each specimen being frozen and half fixed in formalin. Currently four cohorts are available for study; the Neuropathology Consortium consisting of 60 cases (15 each schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and controls), the Array Collection consisting of 105 cases (35 each schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and controls), the Depression Collection consisting of 36 cases (12 each depression with psychosis, depression without psychosis, and controls), and the Parietal Collection of 48 cases (fixed inferior parietal sections from 24 each schizophrenia and controls). Since 1996, the Stanley Brain Collection has sent over 200,000 sections and 10,000 blocks of brain tissue to 240 research laboratories in 23 states and 20 foreign countries. All tissue has been provided to the researchers without charge. All costs for collecting, processing, and storing the brain tissue have been borne by The Stanley Medical Research Institute as a public service. All reasonable requests for brain tissue (over 90 percent of applications) have been honored. Researchers selected to receive tissue must sign an agreement that sets forth conditions for its use. Results received from researchers become part of the Stanley brain collection data set and will be used for integrative, multivariate analyses. In addition to overseeing the brain collection, the laboratory conducts research on the neuropathology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and on brain development. Many studies carried out at the Stanley Brain Research Laboratory are done in cooperation with studies at the Stanley Laboratory of Developmental Neurovirology.

Proper citation: Stanley Brain Collection (RRID:SCR_007062) Copy   

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http://www9.biostr.washington.edu/da.html

Atlases of human brain, thoracic viscera and knee designed for teaching gross anatomy. Also provides a neuroanatomy Interactive syllabus, suitable as a laboratory guide, with an instructive caption accompanying each image and interactive quizzes. The Digital Anatomist Project is motivated by the belief that anatomy is the basis of all the biomedical sciences (including clinical medicine). Manifestations of health and disease can be regarded as attributes of anatomical structures ranging in size from molecules to body parts. Therefore DAP''s goal is to represent anatomy in a comprehensive and consistent way, which should meet the needs of all biomedical applications that require anatomical knowledge. DAP has pursued two parallel tracks for representing anatomical information: 1. The generation of graphical models derived from cadaver and clinical imaging data; and 2. Symbolic modeling of the structures and relationships that constitute the human body. It''s initial work with graphical representations of anatomy provided the impetus and motivation for the National Library of Medicine to establish the Visible Human Project, and it''s symbolic modeling has enhanced NLM''s Unified Medical Language System in order to represent deep anatomical knowledge. In collaboration with the knowledge systems group at Stanford, it has now created a very large knowledge base which provides the foundation for the machine-based intelligence needed to remotely interact with biomedical image data.

Proper citation: Digital Anatomist Interactive Atlases Project (RRID:SCR_007060) Copy   

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http://deconseq.sourceforge.net/

Software tool to automatically detect and efficiently remove sequence contaminations from genomic and metagenomic datasets. It is easily configurable and provides a user-friendly interface. The user can upload FASTA or FASTQ files and select the databases used for contamination screening, including seven human genomes, bacterial genomes, and viral genomes. The user can set the thresholds interactivly and see the results directly using the functionality of the graphical interface. The results can be downloaded in joined or separated files in different formats. The coverage-identity plots provide additional information that can guide the selections of the thresholds using color coded points and connecting lines.

Proper citation: DeconSeq (RRID:SCR_007006) Copy   

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http://www.vbase2.org/

Integrative database of germ-line V genes from the immunoglobulin loci of human and mouse. It presents V gene sequences extracted from the EMBL nucleotide sequence database and Ensembl together with links to the respective source sequences. Based on the properties of the source sequences, V genes are classified into 3 different classes: * Class 1: genomic and rearranged evidence * Class 2: genomic evidence only * Class 3: rearranged evidence only This allows careful sequence quality validation by the user. References to other immunological databases ( KABAT, IMGT/LIGM and VBASE ) are given to provide all public annotation data for each V gene. The VBASE2 database can be accessed either by the Direct Query interface or by the DNAPLOT Query interface. The Sequences given by the user are aligned with DNAPLOT against the VBASE2 database. Direct Query allows to enter sequence IDs and names (Field 1), choose species, locus, V gene family and class (Field 2) or search for 100% sequences (Field 3). At the DNAPLOT Query, the sequences given by the user are aligned with DNAPLOT against the VBASE2 database. The DNAPLOT program offers V gene nucleotide sequence alignment referring to the IMGT V gene unique numbering. The Quick Search can be used either for Direct Query to search for sequence IDs and V gene names or for DNAPLOT Query for up to 5 sequences. The new Fab Analysis allows you to align Fab, scFab, scAb or scFv sequences with DNAPLOT against the VBASE2 database, where both heavy and light chain are analyzed.

Proper citation: VBASE2 (RRID:SCR_007082) Copy   

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http://www.neuropat.dote.hu/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on February 07, 2013. A set of human neuroanatomical resources developed at the University of Hungary. Resources include an on-line brain atlas, a neuropathology atlas, functional neuroanatomy for neurologists and an extensive series of links to other neuroanatomy and neurological resources on the web. The original resources developed by this site include a set of neuropathological slides covering many neurological conditions, e.g., Alzheimer's disease, an atlas of normal human neuroanatomy based on unstained brain slices, along with histological images of brainstem and spinal cord. On-line quizzes are also provided. This is an excellent educational site and gateway to neurological resources on the web.

Proper citation: Neuroanatomy and Neuropathology on the Internet (RRID:SCR_007272) Copy   

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http://trans.nih.gov/CEHP/

Trans-NIH project to assess the state of longitudinal and epidemiological research on demographic, social and biologic determinants of cognitive and emotional health in aging adults and the pathways by which cognitive and emotional health may reciprocally influence each other. A database of large scale longitudinal study relevant to healthy aging in 4 domains was created based on responses of investigators conducting these studies and is available for query. The four domains are: * Cognitive Health * Emotional Health * Demographic and Social Factors * Biomedical and Physiologic Factors

Proper citation: Cognitive and Emotional Health Project: The Healthy Brain (RRID:SCR_007390) Copy   

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http://www.hbpp.org/

An open international project under the patronage of the Human Proteome Organisation (HUPO) that aims: To analyze the brain proteome of human as well as mouse models in healthy, neurodiseased and aged status with focus on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease; To perform quantitative proteomics as well as complementary gene expression profiling on disease-related brain areas and bodily fluids; To advance knowledge of neurodiseases and aging in order to push new diagnostic approaches and medications; To exchange knowledge and data with other HUPO projects and national / international initiatives in the neuroproteomic field; To make neuroproteomic research and its results available in the scientific community and society. Recent work has shown that standards in proteomics and especially in bioinformatics are mandatory to allow comparable analyses, but still missing. To address this challenge, the HUPO BPP is closely working together with the HUPO Proteome Standards Initiative (HUPO PSI).

Proper citation: HUPO Brain Proteome Project (RRID:SCR_007302) Copy   

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http://www.nntc.org/

Collects, stores, and distributes samples of nervous tissue, cerebrospinal fluid, blood, and other tissue from HIV-infected individuals. The NNTC mission is to bolster research on the effects of HIV infection on human brain by providing high-quality, well-characterized tissue samples from patients who died with HIV, and for whom comprehensive neuromedical and neuropsychiatric data were gathered antemortem. Researchers can request tissues from patients who have been characterized by: * degree of neurobehavioral impairment * neurological and other clinical diagnoses * history of drug use * antiretroviral treatments * blood and CSF viral load * neuropathological diagnosis The NNTC encourages external researchers to submit tissue requests for ancillary studies. The Specimen Query Tool is a web-based utility that allows researchers to quickly sort and identify appropriate NNTC specimens to support their research projects. The results generated by the tool reflect the inventory at a previous time. Actual availability at the local repositories may vary as specimens are added or distributed to other investigators.

Proper citation: National NeuroAIDS Tissue Consortium (RRID:SCR_007323) Copy   

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http://www.cerefy.com/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on August 19, 2015. Commercial brain atlases distributed by Theime Medical Publishers. It supports a complete electronic version of the Talairach Atlas, as well as gyral-level description of the human brain and atlases for cerebral vasculature, cranial nerves and a probabilistic functional atlas. In addition, this tool permits the incorporation of user image data, both structural and functional, into the viewer for direct co-visualization with the atlas. This CD-ROM provides numerous tools for the analysis of functional images: It contains the fully color-coded and labeled Talairach-Tournoux brain atlas in the axial, coronal and sagittal orientations, along with Brodmann''s areas and gyri in the axial orientation. -Allows anatomical and functional images to be loaded and registered. -Enables interactive placement of the Talairach landmarks in 3D Space. -Provides automatic data-to-atlas warping based on the Talairaich proportional grid system transformation. In addition, real-time interactive warping for fine tuning is available. -Allows the user to place marks on the activation loci in the warped functional images, display these marks with the atlas, and edit them simultaneously on the axial, cornal and sagittal orientations. Mark placement is assisted by a grey-value thresholding feature. -Provides simultaneous display of the atlas, anatomical image and functional image withing one interactively blended image. Atlas-data blending and anatomical-functional image blending are controlled independently. -Labels the data by means of the atlas. The atlas can be flipped left/right so that Brodmann''s areas areas and gyri can be labeled on both hemispheres. -Provides additional functions such as friendly navigation, simultaneous display of axial, coronal and sagittal atlas plates, cross-referenced display, image and atlas sequencing, readout of the Talairach coordinates and intensities, save, print, help.

Proper citation: Brain Atlas for Functional Imaging (RRID:SCR_007356) Copy   

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https://www.icts.uiowa.edu/confluence/dashboard.action

A group of software packages for image analysis, mainly used in MRI image processing. BRAINS (Brain Research: Analysis of Images, Networks, and Systems) contains manual and automated tools for structural identification and methods for tissue classification and cortical surface generation. BRAINS2 is most commonly used to analyze magnetic resonance (MR) scans, but the package can also be used to analyze images acquired with positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and functional magnetic resonance (fMR). It is implemented in an object-oriented, cross-platform compatible manner and includes a toolbar and command line interface, a graphical interface, and a computational kernel.

Proper citation: Brain Research: Analysis of Images, Networks and Systems (RRID:SCR_007357) Copy   

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http://fmri.wfubmc.edu/software/PickAtlas

A software toolbox that provides a method for generating Region of Interest (ROI) masks based on the Talairach Daemon database. The atlases include Brodmann area, Lobar, Hemisphere, Anatomic Label (gyral anatomy), and Tissue type. The atlases have been extended to the vertex in MNI space, and corrected for the precentral gyrus anomaly. Additional atlases (including non-human atlases) can be added without difficulty., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: WFU PickAtlas (RRID:SCR_007378) Copy   

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http://mipav.cit.nih.gov

A Java-based application that enables quantitative analysis and visualization of medical images of numerous modalities such as DTI, PET, MRI, CT, or microscopy. Using MIPAV's standard user-interface and analysis tools, researchers at remote sites (via the internet) can easily share research data and analyses, thereby enhancing their ability to research, diagnose, monitor, and treat medical disorders. MIPAV can be run on any Java-enabled platform such as Windows, UNIX, or Macintosh OS X. Functionality includes segmentation, inter- and intra multi-modality registration, surface rendering, volume rendering and reading and writing a large number of biomedical file formats including: DICOM 3.0, Analyze, NIFTI, SPM, MINC, Phillips, GE, Zeiss, Biorad, jpeg, png, tiff, mrc, fits, interfile, and many more.

Proper citation: MIPAV: Medical Image Processing and Visualization (RRID:SCR_007371) Copy   

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http://senselab.med.yale.edu/ordb/

Database of vertebrate olfactory receptors genes and proteins. It supports sequencing and analysis of these receptors by providing a comprehensive archive with search tools for this expanding family. The database also incorporates a broad range of chemosensory genes and proteins, including the taste papilla receptors (TPRs), vomeronasal organ receptors (VNRs), insect olfaction receptors (IORs), Caenorhabditis elegans chemosensory receptors (CeCRs), and fungal pheromone receptors (FPRs). ORDB currently houses chemosensory receptors for more than 50 organisms. ORDB contains public and private sections which provide tools for investigators to analyze the functions of these very large gene families of G protein-coupled receptors. It also provides links to a local cluster of databases of related information in SenseLab, and to other relevant databases worldwide. The database aims to house all of the known olfactory receptor and chemoreceptor sequences in both nucleotide and amino acid form and serves four main purposes: * It is a repository of olfactory receptor sequences. * It provides tools for sequence analysis. * It supports similarity searches (screens) which reduces duplicate work. * It provides links to other types of receptor information, e.g. 3D models. The database is accessible to two classes of users: * General public www users have full access to all the public sequences, models and resources in the database. * Source laboratories are the laboratories that clone olfactory receptors and submit sequences in the private or public database. They can search any sequence they deposited to the database against any private or public sequence in the database. This user level is suited for laboratories that are actively cloning olfactory receptors.

Proper citation: Olfactory Receptor DataBase (RRID:SCR_007830) Copy   

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