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http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/udall_center/

A research program associated with bringing together researchers from various disciplines to study the genetic and molecular basis of Parkinson's disease. The program focuses on epidemiological and longitudinal studies of Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and aging and dementia. It also provides clinical materials for other research projects. This program provides faculty research funds, invited speaker seminar series, sponsorship of movement disorder fellowships, pilot research grants, and support for faculty travel to promote intra-institutional collaborations.

Proper citation: Udall Center of Excellence in Parkinson's Disease Research (RRID:SCR_008778) Copy   

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http://www.abfrontier.com/

An Antibody supplier

Proper citation: ABFrontier (RRID:SCR_008899) Copy   

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http://www.alz.org/research/alzheimers_grants/overview.asp

An organization that funds research for Alzheimer's disease, provides information on new treatment strategies, provides information on caring for afflicted people, and generally increases public knowledge of disease prevention. This program financially supports new Alzheimer's studies. These research projects are selected by the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council. The council chooses which studies to address based on their potential uses in diagnostics, genetics, treatments, prevention, early detection and general enhancement of lifestyle.

Proper citation: Alzheimer's Association International Research Grant Program (RRID:SCR_008775) Copy   

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http://www.mcknight.org/

An endowment that offers funding for neuroscience research, especially as it may apply to Minnesota, agriculture, or if the researchers are based in Minnesota. The McKnight Foundation, a Minnesota-based family foundation, seeks to improve the quality of life for present and future generations through grantmaking, collaboration, and strategic policy reform in the following areas: arts, education and learning, environment, the region and communities, agricultural research, and neuroscience research. The McKnight Foundation assists nonprofit organizations and public agencies to improve the quality of life for all people, particularly those in need. Through grantmaking, coalition-building, and encouragement of strategic policy reform, we aim to build and maintain vibrant communities; enrich people''s lives through the arts; encourage protection of the natural environment; and promote research in selected fields. The Foundation had assets of approximately $1.8 billion and gave about $98 million in grants in 2009. Generally speaking, McKnight supports nonprofit organizations in Minnesota, U.S., only. McKnight''s primary geographic focus in grantmaking is to nonprofit organizations located within the state of Minnesota. We do not provide funding outside Minnesota, with five important programmatic exceptions: * Collaborative Crop research: International. * East Africa: Tanzania and Uganda only. * Mississippi River: 10 states bordering or encompassing the Mississippi River. * Neuroscience research: National. * Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam only. Each program is different. Please consult the specific guidelines appropriate to your project or organization for funding details. With very few exceptions, McKnight funds nonprofit organizations only. To be eligible for a grant, applicants must be classified by the Internal Revenue Service as tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations. We discourage the use of fiscal agents.

Proper citation: McKnight Foundation (RRID:SCR_008776) Copy   

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http://www.mcknight.org/neuroscience/

An endowment that offers funding for memory research. The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience is an independent charitable organization established by The McKnight Foundation to carry out the wishes of its founder, William L. McKnight (1887-1979). Currently, the Endowment Fund for Neuroscience administers four awards which support young and established neuroscientists and encourage interdisciplinary collaboration: * Memory and Cognitive Disorders Awards * Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Awards * Scholar Awards * Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards Mr. McKnight, who led the 3M company for three decades, had a personal interest in memory and its diseases. He chose to set aside part of his legacy to bring hope to those suffering from brain injury or disease and cognitive impairment.

Proper citation: McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience (RRID:SCR_008771) Copy   

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http://genome.ufl.edu/rivalab/pasta/

A complete pipeline for the analysis of alternative splicing using RNA-Sequencing data.

Proper citation: PASTA (RRID:SCR_008770) Copy   

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http://www.g-node.org/data

Platform for sharing data, with very large storage capability for electrophysiological data, EEG data is included. This service is provided for neuroscientists to facilitate data access, data storage, data analysis and data sharing. This service is developed and maintained by the German Node of the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility. The global scale of neuroinformatics offers unprecedented opportunities for scientific collaborations between and among experimental and theoretical neuroscientists. To fully harvest these possibilities, coordinated activities are required to improve key ingredients of neuroscience: data access, data storage, and data analysis, together with supporting activities for teaching and training. Focusing on the development and free distribution of tools for handling and analyzing neurophysiological data, G-Node aims at addressing these aspects as part of the International Neuroinformatics Coordination Facility (INCF) and the German Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience (NNCN). G-Node also serves as an international forum for Computational Neuroscientists that are interested in sharing experimental data and tools for data analysis and modeling. G-Node is funded through the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and hosted by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit-Munchen.

Proper citation: G-node portal electrophysiology data sharing (RRID:SCR_008893) Copy   

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http://www.nimh.nih.gov/educational-resources/brains-inner-workings/the-brains-inner-workings-activities-for-grades-9-through-12.shtml

This comprehensive free collection of multimedia resources and inquiry-based activities tied to the National Science Education Standards help teachers and students learn about the structure, function and cognitive aspects of the human brain. The packet includes a teacher's manual, student manual, DVD of videos, and a CDROM of accompanying materials.

Proper citation: Brain's Inner Workings: Activities for Grades 9 through 12 (RRID:SCR_008842) Copy   

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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

Community wiki for an open-content textbooks collection that anyone can improve or add to, start new books, and join project-related discussions in the reading rooms. Contributors maintain the property rights to their contributions, while the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and the GNU Free Documentation License makes sure that the submitted version and its derivative works will always remain freely distributable and reproducible. Categories include: Computing, Engineering, Humanities, Languages, Mathematics, Miscellaneous, Science, Social sciences, All subjects. Wikibooks has two sub-projects; Wikijunior which is aimed at children and the Cookbook which is a collection of recipes and culinary topics. * 2,440 books with 40,746 pages (March 2012)

Proper citation: Wikibooks (RRID:SCR_008799) Copy   

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http://www.med.upenn.edu/cndr/index.shtml

A research institution which conducts clinical research to understand brain dysfunction and degeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), Frontotemporal disease (FTD), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease), and other age-related neurodegenerative disorders. This organization also houses a general training program that has a focus on drug discovery. This program teaches trainees in etiology, pathogenesis, and diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, frontotemporal dementias, motor neuron disease and related disorders. This program also trains Ph.D and M.D/Ph.D students, as well scientists, physicians, and veterinarians who have already completed their advanced degree and are looking for a postdoctoral research fellowship. The program is designed to give a solid background in basic and translational neuroscience, and related disciplines.

Proper citation: University of Pennsylvania Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (RRID:SCR_008798) Copy   

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

An alignment tool targeted to align spliced reads produced by Next Generation sequencing platforms such as Illumina Solexa or 454.

Proper citation: QPALMA (RRID:SCR_008791) Copy   

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http://www.muschealth.com/multimedia/Podcasts/index.aspx?type=main

The MUSChealth.com Podcast Library, featuring podcasts on a variety of topics related to your health and our services here at MUSC. These medical podcasts are hosted by MUSC faculty, physicians and special guests and are produced and directed by Linda Austin, M.D. Current topics include: * Academics and Education * Aging, Geriatrics and Caregiving * Alcohol and Drug Dependency * Allergies and Asthma * Ashley River Tower * Bones, Joints, Muscles and Spine * Cancer * Children''s Health * Cosmetic Surgery * Dental * Dermatology/Skin Problems * Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism * Digestive Health * ENT: Ear, Nose and Throat * Executive Health * Eye Health * General Health and Wellness * Heart and Vascular Health * Hospice * Kohl''s Take a Minute for Kids * Lungs and Breathing * Men''s Health * Mental Health * MUSC News and Events * Neurological Health * Organ Transplant * Osteoporosis * Pregnancy - Week by Week * Pregnancy and Childbirth * Radiology * Research and Clinical Trials * SC Health, Leadership and Policy * Sports Medicine * Stroke * Urology * Weight Loss Surgery Follow-up * Weight Management * Women''s Health

Proper citation: MUSC Health Podcast Library (RRID:SCR_008827) Copy   

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http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/sequgio/

An algorithm to estimate isoforms expression from RNA-seq data based on a model that doesn''t assume uniform distribution of count within transcripts.

Proper citation: Sequgio (RRID:SCR_008867) Copy   

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http://www.cbtrus.org/

Voluntary, non-profit organization dedicated to collecting and disseminating statistical data. Resource for gathering and disseminating epidemiologic data on all primary benign and malignant brain and other CNS tumors.

Proper citation: Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States (RRID:SCR_008748) Copy   

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http://www.cbioc.org

A tool for extraction and collaboration for data curation related to biology. CBioC runs as a web browser extension and allows unobtrusive use of the system during the regular course of research in PubMed. It can also be accessed directly (without having to install a plug-in). Automated text extraction is used as a starting point to bootstrap the database, but then it is up to biologists improve upon the extracted data, ironing out inconsistencies by subsequent edits on a massive scale. * After install, it loads when you visit PubMed. * Gets interactions from PubMed abstracts. * Allows you to vote and modify extracted data. * Also shows data from BIND, DIP, MINT, GRID, IntAct.

Proper citation: CBioC (RRID:SCR_008863) Copy   

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http://www.nature.com/npg_/index_npg.html

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a publisher of high impact scientific and medical information in print and online. NPG publishes journals, online databases and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine. Focusing on the needs of scientists, Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly, international scientific journal. In addition, for this audience, NPG publishes the Nature research journals and Nature Reviews journals, plus a range of prestigious academic journals including society-owned publications. Online, nature.com provides over 6 million visitors per month with access to NPG publications and online databases and services, including news and comment from Nature, NatureJobs plus access to Nature Network and Nature Education''s Scitable.com. Scientific American is at the heart of NPG''s newly-formed consumer media division, meeting the needs of the general public. Founded in 1845, Scientific American is the oldest continuously published magazine in the US and the leading authoritative publication for science in the general media. Together with scientificamerican.com and 16 local language editions around the world it reaches over 3 million consumers and scientists. Other titles include Scientific American Mind and Spektrum der Wissenschaft in Germany. Scientific American is available for site license access on the nature.com platform. Throughout all its businesses NPG is dedicated to serving the scientific and medical communities and the wider scientifically interested general public. Part of Macmillan Publishers Limited, NPG is a global company with principal offices in London, New York and Tokyo, and offices in cities worldwide including Boston, Buenos Aires, Delhi, Hong Kong, Madrid, Barcelona, Munich, Heidelberg, Basingstoke, Melbourne, Paris, San Francisco, Seoul and Washington DC. Read our history for a timeline of NPG and the scientific events which have helped shape the direction of the business.

Proper citation: Nature Publishing Group (RRID:SCR_008741) Copy   

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http://www.neuroanatomy.ca/

The WEB ATLAS contains photographs of dissected brains showing important structures. The diagrams folder contains drawings showing functionally important parts of the brain as well as drawings of dissections adapted from C.G. Smith. We are particularly pleased to make Nan Cheney''s medical illustrations of the brain and the head available. The STROKE MODEL portion of the website has syndromes associated with strokes of different vessels of the brain as well as extensive diagrams and tables about the vessels of the brain. The 3D RECONSTRUCTIONS featured on this website were made from MRI scans through the brain - where indicated the source material was from the NIH Visible Human Project. The website will also contain material important for the neuroanatomy labs for med students at UBC. Weekly quizzes will help you keep up with studying the material, the podcasts will help you review material presented in the labs, and the weekly wikis will help you share information with your peers.

Proper citation: Neuroanatomy at UBC (RRID:SCR_008744) Copy   

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http://meme.nbcr.net/meme/cgi-bin/gomo.cgi

Gene Ontology for Motifs (GOMO) is an alignment- and threshold-free comparative genomics approach for assigning functional roles to DNA regulatory motifs from DNA sequence. The algorithm detects associations between a user-specified DNA regulatory motif (expressed as a position weight matrix; PWM) and Gene Ontology terms. The original method for predicting the roles of transcription factors (TFs starts with a PWM motif describing the DNA-binding affinity of the TF. GOMO uses the PWM to score the promoter region of each gene in the genome for its likelihood to be bound by the TF. The resulting ''''affinity'''' scores are then used to test each term in the Gene Ontology for association with high-scoring genes. The algorithm was subsequently extended to leverage conserved signals using multiple, related species in a comparative approach, which greatly improves the resulting annotations. Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: GOMO - Gene Ontology for Motifs (RRID:SCR_008864) Copy   

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http://lrcv-crp-sante.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/

A gene set analysis algorithm for biomarker identification in the cloud.

Proper citation: YunBe (RRID:SCR_008740) Copy   

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http://www.textpresso.org/

An information extracting and processing package for biological literature that can be used online or installed locally via a downloadable software package, http://www.textpresso.org/downloads.html Textpresso's two major elements are (1) access to full text, so that entire articles can be searched, and (2) introduction of categories of biological concepts and classes that relate two objects (e.g., association, regulation, etc.) or describe one (e.g., methods, etc). A search engine enables the user to search for one or a combination of these categories and/or keywords within an entire literature. The Textpresso project serves the biological and biomedical research community by providing: * Full text literature searches of model organism research and subject-specific articles at individual sites. Major elements of these search engines are (1) access to full text, so that the entire content of articles can be searched, and (2) search capabilities using categories of biological concepts and classes that relate two objects (e.g., association, regulation, etc.) or identify one (e.g., cell, gene, allele, etc). The search engines are flexible, enabling users to query the entire literature using keywords, one or more categories or a combination of keywords and categories. * Text classification and mining of biomedical literature for database curation. They help database curators to identify and extract biological entities and facts from the full text of research articles. Examples of entity identification and extraction include new allele and gene names and human disease gene orthologs; examples of fact identification and extraction include sentence retrieval for curating gene-gene regulation, Gene Ontology (GO) cellular components and GO molecular function annotations. In addition they classify papers according to curation needs. They employ a variety of methods such as hidden Markov models, support vector machines, conditional random fields and pattern matches. Our collaborators include WormBase, FlyBase, SGD, TAIR, dictyBase and the Neuroscience Information Framework. They are looking forward to collaborating with more model organism databases and projects. * Linking biological entities in PDF and online journal articles to online databases. They have established a journal article mark-up pipeline that links select content of Genetics journal articles to model organism databases such as WormBase and SGD. The entity markup pipeline links over nine classes of objects including genes, proteins, alleles, phenotypes, and anatomical terms to the appropriate page at each database. The first article published with online and PDF-embedded hyperlinks to WormBase appeared in the September 2009 issue of Genetics. As of January 2011, we have processed around 70 articles, to be continued indefinitely. Extension of this pipeline to other journals and model organism databases is planned. Textpresso is useful as a search engine for researchers as well as a curation tool. It was developed as a part of WormBase and is used extensively by C. elegans curators. Textpresso has currently been implemented for 24 different literatures, among them Neuroscience, and can readily be extended to other corpora of text.

Proper citation: Textpresso (RRID:SCR_008737) Copy   

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