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http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/DrugDevelopmentToolsQualificationProgram/UCM294644.pdf

Serum / plasma biomarkers, Cardiac troponins T (cTnT) and I (cTnI), in safety assessment studies for rats, dogs, and monkeys are qualified biomarkers for the following contexts of use: # When there is previous indication of cardiac structural damage with a particular drug, cardiac troponin testing can help estimate a lowest toxic dose or a highest non-toxic dose to help choose doses for human testing. In this case, cardiac troponins may serve as a clinical chemistry correlate to the histology. For example, in a safety assessment study, lower doses without increases in cardiac troponins may be used to support a no observed effect level (NOEL) identified by histology. # When there is known cardiac structural damage with a particular pharmacologic class of a drug and histopathologic analyses do not reveal structural damage, circulating cardiac troponins may be used to support or refute the inference of low cardiotoxic potential. # When unexpected cardiac structural toxicity is found in a nonclinical study, the retroactive (reflex) examination of serum or plasma from that study for cardiac troponins can be used to help determine a no observed adverse effect level (NOAEL) or lowest observed adverse effect level (LOAEL). The results of this testing may support inclusion of cardiac troponin testing in subsequent safety assessment studies.

Proper citation: O'Brien Reagan York and Jacobsen Drug-induced Cardiotoxicity Biomarkers (RRID:SCR_003717) Copy   

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http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/DrugDevelopmentToolsQualificationProgram/UCM285010.pdf

Urinary kidney biomarkers, Clusterin and Renal Papillary Antigen-1 (RPA-1), that sponsors may use to determine more conservative NOAELs for estimating starting doses in the initial human clinical trial of a drug that displays nonclinical nephrotoxicity as determined by histopathology. When tested with a limited number of nephrotoxic compounds, the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analyses showed that urinary clusterin and renal papillary antigen-1 (RPA-1) have better sensitivity and specificity than BUN and creatinine for the detection of specific kidney pathologies in male rats. Clusterin and RPA-1 provide additional and complementary information to BUN, serum creatinine (sCr), and histopathology for the detection of acute drug-induced nephrotoxicity in safety assessment studies.

Proper citation: ILSI HESI Drug-induced Nephrotoxicity Biomarkers (RRID:SCR_003716) Copy   

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http://www.informatics.jax.org/searches/MP_form.shtml

Community ontology to provide standard terms for annotating mammalian phenotypic data. It has a hierarchical structure that permits a range of detail from high-level, broadly descriptive terms to very low-level, highly specific terms. This range is useful for annotating phenotypic data to the level of detail known and for searching for this information using either broad or specific terms as search criteria. Your input is welcome.

Proper citation: MPO (RRID:SCR_004855) Copy   

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http://www.theearlab.org

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 13, 2026. Computationally oriented experimental laboratory interested in the encoding of auditory information in the cerebral cortex and brainstem, and in the mechanisms of tinnitus and the effect of various drugs (Lidocaine, steroids, anti-oxidants) in relieving noise trauma induced tinnitus. The ferret (Mustela putorius) and the rat serve as their system model. Through chronic implants, they obtain electrophysiological data from awake behaving animals in order to investigate the response properties and functional organization of the auditory system, both in health and after noise trauma that induces tinnitus in rats. Projects: * Response Modulation to Ongoing Broadband Sounds in Primary Auditory Cortex * Neuronal Response Characteristics in the Inferior Colliculus of the Awake Ferret and Rat * Spectro-Temporal Representation of Feature Onsets in Primary Auditory Cortex * Targeting the changes in inferior colliculus induced by tinnitus

Proper citation: Ear Lab (RRID:SCR_002531) Copy   

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http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/

A Swiss-led project with the aim of reverse engineering the mammalian brain and achieving a complete virtual human brain. The researchers have demonstrated the validity of their method by developing a realistic model of a rat cortical column, consisting of about 10,000 neurons. The eventual goal is to simulate systems of millions and hundreds of millions of neurons. The virtual brain will be an exceptional tool giving neuroscientists a new understanding of the brain and a better understanding of neurological diseases. In five years of work, Henry Markram's team has perfected a facility that can create realistic models of one of the brain's essential building blocks. This process is entirely data driven and essentially automatically executed on the supercomputer. Meanwhile the generated models show a behavior already observed in years of neuroscientific experiments. These models will be basic building blocks for larger scale models leading towards a complete virtual brain.

Proper citation: Blue Brain Project (RRID:SCR_002994) Copy   

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http://brainarray.mbni.med.umich.edu/Brainarray/Database/ProbeMatchDB/ncbi_probmatch_para_step1.asp

Matches a list of microarray probes across different microrarray platforms (GeneChip, EST from different vendors, Operon Oligos) and species (human, mouse and rat), based on NCBI UniGene and HomoloGene. The capability to match protein sequence IDs has just been added to facilitate proteomic studies. The ProbeMatchDB is mainly used for the design of verification experiments or comparing the microarray results from different platforms. It can be used for finding equivalent EST clones in the Research Genetics sequence verified clone set based on results from Affymetirx GeneChips. It will also help to identify probes representing orthologous genes across human, mouse and rat on different microarray platforms.

Proper citation: ProbeMatchDB 2.0 (RRID:SCR_003433) Copy   

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http://spine.rutgers.edu/microarray/

Database which provides on-line searching of microarray datasets generated from rat spinal cord after contusion injury. Both the primary injury site and a site 5 mm distal to the injury site were assayed. Tissue was obtained from Long Evans rats subject to spinal cord contusion injury using the MASCIS impactor (formerly known as the NYU impactor). RNA expression was assayed at the site of injury and distal to the site of injury using the Affymetrix Rat Neuro U34 chip.

Proper citation: Gene Expression Profiling in Spinal Cord Injury (RRID:SCR_003260) Copy   

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http://wavi.bioinfo.cnio.es/

A versatile web-server application for the analysis and visualization of array-CGH data.

Proper citation: waviCGH (RRID:SCR_006662) Copy   

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http://crcview.hegroup.org/

Web-based microarray data analysis and visualization system powered by CRC, or Chinese Restaurant cluster, a Dirichlet process model-based clustering algorithm recently developed by Dr. Steve Qin. It also incorporates several gene expression analysis programs from Bioconductor, including GOStats, genefilter, and Heatplus. CRCView also installs from the Bioconductor system 78 annotation libraries of microarray chips for human (31), mouse (24), rat (14), zebrafish (1), chicken (1), Drosophila (3), Arabidopsis (2), Caenorhabditis elegans (1), and Xenopus Laevis (1). CRCView allows flexible input data format, automated model-based CRC clustering analysis, rich graphical illustration, and integrated Gene Ontology (GO)-based gene enrichment for efficient annotation and interpretation of clustering results. CRC has the following features comparing to other clustering tools: 1) able to infer number of clusters, 2) able to cluster genes displaying time-shifted and/or inverted correlations, 3) able to tolerate missing genotype data and 4) provide confidence measure for clusters generated. You need to register for an account in the system to store your data and analyses. The data and results can be visited again anytime you log in.

Proper citation: CRCView (RRID:SCR_007092) Copy   

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http://pepr.cnmcresearch.org/

An experiment in web-database access to large multi-dimensional data sets using a standardized experimental platform to determine if the larger scientific community can be given simple, intuitive, and user-friendly web-based access to large microarray data sets. All data in PEPR is also available via NCBI GEO. The structure and goals of PEPR differ from other mRNA expression profiling databases in a number of important ways. * The experimental platform in PEPR is standardized, and is an Affymetrix - only database. All microarrays available in the PEPR web database should ascribe to quality control and standard operating procedures. A recent publication has described the QC/SOP criteria utilized in PEPR profiles ( The Tumor Analysis Best Practices Working Group 2004 ). * PEPR permits gene-based queries of large Affymetrix array data sets without any specialized software. For example, a number of large time series projects are available within PEPR, containing 40-60 microarrays, yet these can be simply queried via a dynamic web interface with no prior knowledge of microarray data analysis. * Projects in PEPR originate from scientists world-wide, but all data has been generated by the Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children''''s National Medical Center, Washington DC. Future developments of PEPR will allow remote entry of Affymetrix data ascribing to the same QC/SOP protocols. They have previously described an initial implementation of PEPR, and a dynamic web-queried time series graphical interface ( Chen et al. 2004 ). A publication showing the utility of PEPR for pharmacodynamic data has recently been published ( Almon et al. 2003 ).

Proper citation: Public Expression Profiling Resource (RRID:SCR_007274) Copy   

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http://ercsb.ewha.ac.kr:8080/FusionGene/

Knowledgebase of fusion transcripts collected from various public resources such as the Sanger CGP, OMIM, PubMed, and Mitelman's database. It is an alignment viewer to facilitate examining reliability of fusion transcripts and inferring functional significance., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: ChimerDB (RRID:SCR_007596) Copy   

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https://omictools.com/ecgene-tool

Database of functional annotation for alternatively spliced genes. It uses a gene-modeling algorithm that combines the genome-based expressed sequence tag (EST) clustering and graph-theoretic transcript assembly procedures. It contains genome, mRNA, and EST sequence data, as well as a genome browser application. Organisms included in the database are human, dog, chicken, fruit fly, mouse, rhesus, rat, worm, and zebrafish. Annotation is provided for the whole transcriptome, not just the alternatively spliced genes. Several viewers and applications are provided that are useful for the analysis of the transcript structure and gene expression. The summary viewer shows the gene summary and the essence of other annotation programs. The genome browser and the transcript viewer are available for comparing the gene structure of splice variants. Changes in the functional domains by alternative splicing can be seen at a glance in the transcript viewer. Two unique ways of analyzing gene expression is also provided. The SAGE tags deduced from the assembled transcripts are used to delineate quantitative expression patterns from SAGE libraries available publicly. The cDNA libraries of EST sequences in each cluster are used to infer qualitative expression patterns.

Proper citation: ECgene: Gene Modeling with Alternative Splicing (RRID:SCR_007634) Copy   

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http://degradome.uniovi.es

A database of human, chimpanzee, mouse, and rat proteases and protease inhibitors, as well as as the growing number of hereditary diseases caused by mutations in protease genes. Analysis of the human and mouse genomes has allowed us to annotate 581 human, 580 chimpanzee, 667 mouse, and 655 rat protease genes. Proteases are classified in five different classes according to their mechanism of catalysis. Proteases are a diverse and important group of enzymes representing >2% of the human, chimpanzee, mouse and rat genomes. This group of enzymes is implicated in numerous physiological processes. The importance of proteases is illustrated by the existence of 99 different hereditary diseases due to mutations in protease genes. Furthermore, proteases have been implicated in multiple human pathologies, including vascular diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, neurodegenerative processes, and cancer. During the last ten years, our laboratory has identified and characterized more than 60 human protease genes. Due to the importance of proteolytic enzymes in human physiology and pathology, we have recently introduced the concept of Degradome, as the complete repertoire of proteases expressed by a tissue or organism. Thanks to the recent completion of the human, chimpanzee, mouse, and rat genome sequencing projects, we were able to analyze and compare for the first time the complete protease repertoire in those mammalian organisms, as well as the complement of protease inhibitor genes. This webpage also contains the Supplementary Material of Human and mouse proteases: a comparative genomic approach Nat Rev Genet (2003) 4: 544-558, Genome sequence of the brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution Nature (2004) 428: 493-521, A genomic analysis of rat proteases and protease inhibitors Genome Res. (2004) 14: 609-622, and Comparative genomic analysis of human and chimpanzee proteases Genomics (2005) 86: 638-647.

Proper citation: Mammalian Degradome Database (RRID:SCR_007624) Copy   

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http://www.callisto-science.org/NSI/Neuroscience_Image_Database/Rat_Brain_Atlas.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 27,2025. Compact 3rd edition of The Rat Brain Atlas of Paxinos & Watson published in 1997, it is the most widely used stereotaxic reference system for rat brain. The illustrations and nomenclature of the atlas have become standard tools used by almost all research neuroscientists who deal with anatomy, physiology, or function. It has been subsequently updated, with the 6th edition being the most recent. The 3rd edition is the most recent one available online for free. The program runs in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Proper citation: Rat Brain Atlas of Paxinos and Watson (RRID:SCR_006369) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/dti_rat_atlas/

3D DTI anatomical rat brain atlases have been created by the UNC- Chapel Hill Department of Psychiatry and the CAMID research collaboration. There are three age groups, postnatal day 5, postnatal day 14, and postnatal day 72. The subjects were Sprague-Dawley rats that were controls in a study on cocaine abuse and development. The P5 and P14 templates were made from scans of twenty rats each (ten female, ten male); the P72, from six females. The individual cases have been resampled to isotropic resolution, manually skull-stripped, and deformably registered via an unbiased atlas building method to create a template for each age group. Each template was then manually segmented using itk-SNAP software. Each atlas is made up of 3 files, a template image, a segmentation, and a label file.

Proper citation: 3D DTI Atlas of the Rat Brain In Postnatal Day 5 14 and Adulthood (RRID:SCR_009437) Copy   

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https://www.nitrc.org/projects/localizoom/

Web application for displaying high-resolution image series coupled with overlaid atlas delineations. Online pan-and-zoom type viewer with three operating modes: Display series with atlas overlay, both linear and nonlinear alignments are supported; Create or edit nonlinear alignments; Create markup which can be exported as MeshView point clouds or to Excel for further numerical analysis.

Proper citation: LocaliZoom (RRID:SCR_023481) Copy   

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https://ratgenes.org/

Portal includes information about genetic studies of drug abuse in outbred rats. Data center created in 2014 to perform genome wide association studies on numerous behavioral traits that have well established relevance to drug abuse using outbred rats.

Proper citation: NIDA center for genetic studies of drug abuse in outbred rats (RRID:SCR_021788) Copy   

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http://dgcst.ceinge.unina.it/

A database of conserved sequence elements, identified by a systematic genomic sequence comparison between a set of human genes involved in the pathogenesis of genetic disorders and their murine counterparts. Human and mouse genomic sequences were compared by BLASTZ. Sequences longer than 100 and with identity better than 70 were selected as CSTs and imported into the database. CSTs are extensively annotated with respect to exon/intron structure and other biological parameters. CST counterparts in other species were identified by using BLAST to scan genomes from other species, and selecting on the basis of homology and co-linearity. The database can be accessed by gene, chromosomal location, graphic browser, DNA features, and coding regions.

Proper citation: Disease Genes Conserved Sequence Tags Database (RRID:SCR_000760) Copy   

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http://mitominer.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/

A database of mitochondrial proteomics data. It includes two sets of proteins: the MitoMiner Reference Set, which has 10477 proteins from 12 species; and MitoCarta, which has 2909 proteins from mouse and human mitochondrial proteins. MitoMiner provides annotation from the Gene Ontology (GO) and UniProt databases. This reference set contains all proteins that are annotated by either of these resources as mitochondrial in any of the species included in MitoMiner. MitoMiner data via is available via Application Programming Interface (API). The client libraries are provided in Perl, Python, Ruby and Java.

Proper citation: MitoMiner (RRID:SCR_001368) Copy   

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http://bodymap.genes.nig.ac.jp/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 17, 2013. A taxonomical and anatomical database of latest cross species animal EST data, clustered by UniGene and inter connected by Inparanoid. Users can search by Unigene, RefSeq, or Entrez Gene ID, or search for Gene Name or Tissue type. Data is also sortable and viewable based on qualities of normal, Neoplastic, or other. The last data import appears to be from 2008

Proper citation: BodyMap-Xs (RRID:SCR_001147) Copy   

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