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https://www.hpcwire.com/2005/10/28/swami_the_next_generation_biology_workbench/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 22, 2016. The Next Generation Biology Workbench is a free resource for research and education in Bioinformatics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Phylogenetics. The NGBW is a re-engineering of the Biology Workbench which was designed by Shankar Subramaniam and his group to provide an integrated environment where tools, user data, and public data resources can be easily accessed. The NGBW is designed to be an organic tool that evolves with the needs of the Biomedical research and education communities. The Next Generation Biology Workbench (NGBW) is now available for public use, in its production release.

Proper citation: Swami: The Next Generation Biology Workbench (RRID:SCR_007217) Copy   

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http://integrativemodeling.org/

An open source C++ and Python toolbox for solving complex modeling problems, and a number of applications for tackling some common problems in a user-friendly way. Its broad goal is to contribute to a comprehensive structural characterization of biomolecules ranging in size and complexity from small peptides to large macromolecular assemblies, by integrating data from diverse biochemical and biophysical experiments. It can also be used from the Chimera molecular modeling system, or via one of several web applications.

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https://github.com/DReichLab/AdmixTools

Software package that supports formal tests of whether admixture occurred, and makes it possible to infer admixture proportions and dates.

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https://github.com/sqjin/CellChat

Software R toolkit for inference, visualization and analysis of cell-cell communication from single cell data.Quantitatively infers and analyzes intercellular communication networks from single-cell RNA-sequencing data. Predicts major signaling inputs and outputs for cells and how those cells and signals coordinate for functions using network analysis and pattern recognition approaches. Classifies signaling pathways and delineates conserved and context specific pathways across different datasets.

Proper citation: CellChat (RRID:SCR_021946) Copy   

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https://github.com/plaisier-lab/sygnal

Software pipeline to integrate correlative, causal and mechanistic inference approaches into unified framework that systematically infers causal flow of information from mutations to TFs and miRNAs to perturbed gene expression patterns across patients. Used to decipher transcriptional regulatory networks from multi-omic and clinical patient data. Applicable for integrating genomic and transcriptomic measurements from human cohorts.

Proper citation: SYGNAL (RRID:SCR_023080) Copy   

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https://github.com/virajbdeshpande/AmpliconArchitect

Software package designed to call circular DNA from short read WGS data.Used to identify one or more connected genomic regions which have simultaneous copy number amplification and elucidates architecture of amplicon.Used to reconstruct structure of focally amplified regions using whole genome sequencing and validate it extensively on multiple simulated and real datasets, across wide range of coverage and copy numbers.

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http://www.minituba.org

miniTUBA is a web-based modeling system that allows clinical and biomedical researchers to perform complex medical/clinical inference and prediction using dynamic Bayesian network analysis with temporal datasets. The software allows users to choose different analysis parameters (e.g. Markov lags and prior topology), and continuously update their data and refine their results. miniTUBA can make temporal predictions to suggest interventions based on an automated learning process pipeline using all data provided. Preliminary tests using synthetic data and laboratory research data indicate that miniTUBA accurately identifies regulatory network structures from temporal data. miniTUBA represents in a network view possible influences that occur between time varying variables in your dataset. For these networks of influence, miniTUBA predicts time courses of disease progression or response to therapies. minTUBA offers a probabilistic framework that is suitable for medical inference in datasets that are noisy. It conducts simulations and learning processes for predictive outcomes. The DBN analysis conducted by miniTUBA describes from variables that you specify how multiple measures at different time points in various variables influence each other. The DBN analysis then finds the probability of the model that best fits the data. A DBN analysis runs every combination of all the data; it examines a large space of possible relationships between variables, including linear, non-linear, and multi-state relationships; and it creates chains of causation, suggesting a sequence of events required to produce a particular outcome. Such chains of causation networks - are difficult to extract using other machine learning techniques. DBN then scores the resulting networks and ranks them in terms of how much structured information they contain compared to all possible models of the data. Models that fit well have higher scores. Output of a miniTUBA analysis provides the ten top-scoring networks of interacting influences that may be predictive of both disease progression and the impact of clinical interventions and probability tables for interpreting results. The DBN analysis that miniTUBA provides is especially good for biomedical experiments or clinical studies in which you collect data different time intervals. Applications of miniTUBA to biomedical problems include analyses of biomarkers and clinical datasets and other cases described on the miniTUBA website. To run a DBN with miniTUBA, you can set a number of parameters and constrain results by modifying structural priors (i.e. forcing or forbidding certain connections so that direction of influence reflects actual biological relationships). You can specify how to group variables into bins for analysis (called discretizing) and set the DBN execution time. You can also set and re-set the time lag to use in the analysis between the start of an event and the observation of its effect, and you can select to analyze only particular subsets of variables.

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http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/

A molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting. VMD supports computers running MacOS X, Unix, or Windows, is distributed free of charge, and includes source code.

Proper citation: Visual Molecular Dynamics (RRID:SCR_001820) Copy   

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https://github.com/caraweisman/abSENSE

Software to interpret undetected homolog.Method that calculates probability that homolog of given gene would fail to be detected by homology search in given species, even if homolog were present and evolving normally.

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https://github.com/protofilamentdude/Protofilament-Bending-Models

Code is written to be run with Matlab version r2020b or higher. Model accepts wave assay pulse amplitude data, and simultaneously solves and fits protofilament deflection models to deduce fundamental biophysical properties of microtubule protofilaments.

Proper citation: Protofilament Bending Models (RRID:SCR_023062) Copy   

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https://github.com/compbiolabucf/PTNet

Graph based learning model for protein expression estimation by considering miRNA-mRNA interactions. Estimates protein levels by considering miRNA-mRNA interaction network, mRNA expression and miRNA expression.

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https://github.com/spreka/biomagdsb

Software tool as parameter-free deep learning framework for nucleus segmentation using image style transfer. Cell segmentation tool.

Proper citation: NucleAIzer (RRID:SCR_026500) Copy   

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https://github.com/agshumate/Liftoff

Software genome annotation lift-over tool capable of mapping genes between two assemblies of the same or closely related species. Aligns genes from reference genome to target genome and finds the mapping that maximizes sequence identity while preserving the structure of each exon, transcript and gene. Used for accurate mapping of gene annotations.

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https://simtk.org/home/simtkcore

SimTK Core is one of the two packages that together constitute SimTK, the biosimulation toolkit from the Simbios Center. The other major component of SimTK is OpenMM which is packaged separately. This SimTK Core project collects together all the binaries needed for the various SimTK Core subprojects. These include Simbody, Molmodel, Simmath (including Ipopt), Simmatrix, CPodes, SimTKcommon, and Lapack. See the individual projects for descriptions. SimTK brings together in a robust, convenient, open source form the collection of highly-specialized technologies necessary to building successful physics-based simulations of biological structures. These include: strict adherence to an important set of abstractions and guiding principles, robust, high-performance numerical methods, support for developing and sharing physics-based models, and careful software engineering. Accessible High Performance Computing We believe that a primary concern of simulation scientists is performance, that is, speed of computation. We seek to build valid, approximate models using classical physics in order to achieve reasonable run times for our computational studies, so that we can hope to learn something interesting before retirement. In the choice of SimTK technologies, we are focused on achieving the best possible performance on hardware that most researchers actually have. In today''s practice, that means commodity multiprocessors and small clusters. The difference in performance between the best methods and the do-it-yourself techniques most people use can be astoundingeasily an order of magnitude or more. The growing set of SimTK Core libraries seeks to provide the best implementation of the best-known methods for widely used computations such as: Linear algebra, numerical integration and Monte Carlo sampling, multibody (internal coordinate) dynamics, molecular force field evaluation, nonlinear root finding and optimization. All SimTK Core software is in the form of C++ APIs, is thread-safe, and quietly exploits multiple CPUs when they are present. The resulting pre-built binaries are available for download and immediate use. Audience: Biosimulation application programmers interested in including robust, high-performance physics-based simulation in their domain-specific applications.

Proper citation: SimTKCore (RRID:SCR_008268) Copy   

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http://www.stat.washington.edu/thompson/Genepi/MORGAN/Morgan.shtml

Software programs for segregation and linkage analysis, using a variety of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. Includes MCMC methods for multilocus gene identity by descent (including homozygosity mapping) and Monte Carlo Lod scores. Also, other programs for EM analysis of quantitative traits.

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http://zebrafinch.brainarchitecture.org/

Atlas of high resolution Nissl stained digital images of the brain of the zebra finch, the mainstay of songbird research. The cytoarchitectural high resolution photographs and atlas presented here aim at facilitating electrode placement, connectional studies, and cytoarchitectonic analysis. This initial atlas is not in stereotaxic coordinate space. It is intended to complement the stereotaxic atlases of Akutegawa and Konishi, and that of Nixdorf and Bischof. (Akutagawa E. and Konishi M., stereotaxic atalas of the brain of zebra finch, unpublished. and Nixdorf-Bergweiler B. E. and Bischof H. J., A Stereotaxic Atlas of the Brain Of the Zebra Finch, Taeniopygia Guttata, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.) The zebra finch has proven to be the most widely used model organism for the study of the neurological and behavioral development of birdsong. A unique strength of this research area is its integrative nature, encompassing field studies and ethologically grounded behavioral biology, as well as neurophysiological and molecular levels of analysis. The availability of dimensionally accurate and detailed atlases and photographs of the brain of male and female animals, as well as of the brain during development, can be expected to play an important role in this research program. Traditionally, atlases for the zebra finch brain have only been available in printed format, with the limitation of low image resolution of the cell stained sections. The advantages of a digital atlas over a traditional paper-based atlas are three-fold. * The digital atlas can be viewed at multiple resolutions. At low magnification, it provides an overview of brain sections and regions, while at higher magnification, it shows exquisite details of the cytoarchitectural structure. * It allows digital re-slicing of the brain. The original photographs of brain were taken in certain selected planes of section. However, the brains are seldom sliced in exactly the same plane in real experiments. Re-slicing provides a useful atlas in user-chosen planes, which are otherwise unavailable in the paper-based version. * It can be made available on the internet. High resolution histological datasets can be independently evaluated in light of new experimental anatomical, physiological and molecular studies.

Proper citation: Zebrafinch Brain Architecture Project (RRID:SCR_004277) Copy   

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http://www.sci.utah.edu/cibc/software/131-shapeworks.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE.Documented on September 2, 2022. Software that is an open-source distribution of a new method for constructing compact statistical point-based models of ensembles of similar shapes that does not rely on any specific surface parameterization. The method requires very little preprocessing or parameter tuning, and is applicable to a wide range of shape analysis problems, including nonmanifold surfaces and objects of arbitrary topology. The proposed correspondence point optimization uses an entropy-based minimization that balances the simplicity of the model (compactness) with the accuracy of the surface representations. The ShapeWorks software includes tools for preprocessing data, computing point-based shape models, and visualizing the results.

Proper citation: ShapeWorks (RRID:SCR_000424) Copy   

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https://github.com/BioDepot/nbdocker

Software tool as Jupyter Notebook extension for Docker. Each Docker container encapsulates its individual computing environment to allow different programming languages and computing environments to be included in one single notebook, provides user to document code as well as computing environment.

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https://github.com/compbiolabucf/omicsGAN

Software generative adversarial network to integrate two omics data and their interaction network to generate one synthetic data corresponding to each omics profile that can result in better phenotype prediction. Used to capture information from interaction network as well as two omics datasets and fuse them to generate synthetic data with better predictive signals.

Proper citation: OmicsGAN (RRID:SCR_022976) Copy   

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http://www.uwyo.edu/microscopy/

Core to assist researchers and students in their imaging needs of fluorescence and electron microscopy and to increase use of microscopes in science education. Consultation, training or touring facility is also available by appointment.

Proper citation: Wyoming University Jenkins Microscopy Core Facility (RRID:SCR_017758) Copy   

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