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http://pathology.wustl.edu/VirusHunter/

A fully automated and modular software package for mining sequence data to identify sequences of microbial origin. The pipeline was optimized for analysis of data generated by the Roche/454 next-generation sequencing platform but can be applied to longer sequences (Sanger sequencing data or assembled contigs) as well. Microbial sequences are identified on the basis of BLAST alignments and the taxonomic classification of the reference sequence(s) to which a read is aligned. Viruses are the focal point of VirusHunter as released, but it can be easily modified to generate parallel outputs for bacterial or parasitic species. To date, VirusHunter has been applied to thousands of specimens, including human, animal and environmental samples, resulting in the detection of many known and novel viruses.

Proper citation: VirusHunter (RRID:SCR_001198) Copy   

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http://www.well.ox.ac.uk/happy/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on February 28,2023. Software package for Multipoint QTL Mapping in Genetically Heterogeneous Animals (entry from Genetic Analysis Software) The method is implemented in a C-program and there is now an R version of HAPPY. You can run HAPPY remotely from their web server using your own data (or try it out on the data provided for download).

Proper citation: Happy (RRID:SCR_001395) Copy   

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http://ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/mhc/rbc/Final Archive

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on August 23, 2019.BGMUT was database that provided publicly accessible platform for DNA sequences and curated set of blood mutation information. Data Archive are available at ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/mhc/rbc/Final Archive.

Proper citation: Blood Group Antigen Gene Mutation Database (RRID:SCR_002297) Copy   

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http://www.ark-genomics.org/

Portal for studies of genome structure and genetic variation, gene expression and gene function. Provides services including DNA sequencing of model and non-model genomes using both Next Generation and Sanger sequencing , Gene expression analysis using both microarrays and Next Generation Sequencing, High throughput genotyping of SNP and copy number variants, Data collection and analysis supported in-house high performance computing facilities and expertise, Extensive EST clone collections for a number of animal species, all of commercially available microarray tools from Affymetrix, Illumina, Agilent and Nimblegen, Parentage testing using microsatellites and smaller SNP panels. ARK-Genomics has developed network of researchers whom they support through each stage of their genomics research, from grant application, experimental design and technology selection, performing wet laboratory protocols, through to analysis of data often in conjunction with commercial partners.

Proper citation: ARK-Genomics: Centre for Functional Genomics (RRID:SCR_002214) Copy   

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https://www.fludb.org/brc/home.spg?decorator=influenza

The Influenza Research Database (IRD) serves as a public repository and analysis platform for flu sequence, experiment, surveillance and related data.

Proper citation: Influenza Research Database (IRD) (RRID:SCR_006641) Copy   

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http://www.loni.usc.edu/

Biomedical technology resource center specializing in novel approaches and tools for neuroimaging. It develops novel strategies to investigate brain structure and function in their full multidimensional complexity. There is a rapidly growing need for brain models comprehensive enough to represent brain structure and function as they change across time in large populations, in different disease states, across imaging modalities, across age and sex, and even across species. International networks of collaborators are provided with a diverse array of tools to create, analyze, visualize, and interact with models of the brain. A major focus of these collaborations is to develop four-dimensional brain models that track and analyze complex patterns of dynamically changing brain structure in development and disease, expanding investigations of brain structure-function relations to four dimensions.

Proper citation: Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (RRID:SCR_001922) Copy   

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http://med.stanford.edu/narcolepsy.html

The Stanford Center for Narcolepsy was established in the 1980s as part of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Today, it is the world leader in narcolepsy research with more than 100 articles on narcolepsy to its name. The Stanford Center for Narcolepsy was the first to report that narcolepsy-cataplexy is caused by hypocretin (orexin) abnormalities in both animal models and humans. Under the direction of Drs. Emmanuel Mignot and Seiji Nishino, the Stanford Center for Narcolepsy today treats several hundred patients with the disorder each year, many of whom participate in various research protocols. Other research protocols are conducted in animal models of narcolespy. We are always looking for volunteers in our narcolepsy research studies. We are presently recruiting narcoleptic patients for genetic studies, drug clinical trials, hypocretin measurement studies in the CSF and functional MRI studies. Monetary gifts to the Center for Narcolepsy are welcome. If you wish to make the ultimate gift, please consider participating in our Brain Donation Program. To advance our understanding of the cause, course, and treatment of narcolepsy, in 2001 Stanford University started a program to obtain human brain tissue for use in narcolepsy research. Donated brains provide an invaluable resource and we have already used previously donated brains to demonstrate that narcolepsy is caused by a lack of a very specific type of cell in the brain, the hypocretin (orexin) neuron. While the brain donations do not directly help the donor, they provide an invaluable resource and a gift to others. The real answers as to what causes or occurrs in the brain when one has narcolepsy will only be definitively understood through the study of brain tissue. Through these precious donations, narcolepsy may eventually be prevented or reversible. We currently are seeking brains from people with narcolepsy (with cataplexy and without), idiopathic hypersomnia and controls or people without a diagnosed sleep disorder of excessive sleepiness. Control brains are quite important to research, as findings must always be compared to tissue of a non-affected person. Friends and loved ones of people who suffer with narcoleps may wish to donate to our program to help fill this very important need. Refer to the Movies tab for movies of Narcolepsy / Cataplexy.

Proper citation: Stanford Center for Narcolepsy (RRID:SCR_007021) Copy   

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http://www.fmridc.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 25, 2013 Public curated repository of peer reviewed fMRI studies and their underlying data. This Web-accessible database has data mining capabilities and the means to deliver requested data to the user (via Web, CD, or digital tape). Datasets available: 107 NOTE: The fMRIDC is down temporarily while it moves to a new home at UCLA. Check back again in late Jan 2013! The goal of the Center is to help speed the progress and the understanding of cognitive processes and the neural substrates that underlie them by: * Providing a publicly accessible repository of peer-reviewed fMRI studies. * Providing all data necessary to interpret, analyze, and replicate these fMRI studies. * Provide training for both the academic and professional communities. The Center will accept data from those researchers who are publishing fMRI imaging articles in peer-reviewed journals. The goal is to serve the entire fMRI community.

Proper citation: fMRI Data Center (RRID:SCR_007278) Copy   

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http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/research/core-facilities/obrien-kidney/

Center whose goal is to generate new animal models to study the pathogenesis and treatment of human kidney diseases and their cardiovascular complications, accelerate the clinical application of discoveries made in renal basic science laboratories, and provide investigators with specialized tools and expertise to study kidney development, physiology, and pathophysiology.

Proper citation: George M. O'Brien Kidney Research Core Center - UT Southwestern Medical Center (RRID:SCR_015293) Copy   

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http://www.betacell.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented May 10, 2017. A pilot effort that has developed a centralized, web-based biospecimen locator that presents biospecimens collected and stored at participating Arizona hospitals and biospecimen banks, which are available for acquisition and use by researchers. Researchers may use this site to browse, search and request biospecimens to use in qualified studies. The development of the ABL was guided by the Arizona Biospecimen Consortium (ABC), a consortium of hospitals and medical centers in the Phoenix area, and is now being piloted by this Consortium under the direction of ABRC. You may browse by type (cells, fluid, molecular, tissue) or disease. Common data elements decided by the ABC Standards Committee, based on data elements on the National Cancer Institute''s (NCI''s) Common Biorepository Model (CBM), are displayed. These describe the minimum set of data elements that the NCI determined were most important for a researcher to see about a biospecimen. The ABL currently does not display information on whether or not clinical data is available to accompany the biospecimens. However, a requester has the ability to solicit clinical data in the request. Once a request is approved, the biospecimen provider will contact the requester to discuss the request (and the requester''s questions) before finalizing the invoice and shipment. The ABL is available to the public to browse. In order to request biospecimens from the ABL, the researcher will be required to submit the requested required information. Upon submission of the information, shipment of the requested biospecimen(s) will be dependent on the scientific and institutional review approval. Account required. Registration is open to everyone., documented on August 1, 2015. Consortium that aims to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations to advance the understanding of pancreatic islet development and function, with the goal of developing innovative therapies to correct the loss of beta cell mass in diabetes, including cell reprogramming, regeneration and replacement. They are responsible for collaboratively generating the necessary reagents, mouse strains, antibodies, assays, protocols, technologies and validation assays that are beyond the scope of any single research effort. The scientific goals for the BCBC are to: * Use cues from pancreatic development to directly differentiate pancreatic beta cells and islets from stem / progenitor cells for use in cell-replacement therapies for diabetes, * Determine how to stimulate beta cell regeneration in the adult pancreas as a basis for improving beta cell mass in diabetic patients, * Determine how to reprogram progenitor / adult cells into pancreatic beta-cells both in-vitro and in-vivo as a mean for developing cell-replacement therapies for diabetes, and * Investigate the progression of human type-1 diabetes using patient-derived cells and tissues transplanted in humanized mouse models. Many of the BCBC investigator-initiated projects involve reagent-generating activities that will benefit the larger scientific community. The combination of programs and activities should accelerate the pace of major new discoveries and progress within the field of beta cell biology.

Proper citation: Beta Cell Biology Consortium (RRID:SCR_005136) Copy   

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http://ccr.coriell.org/Sections/Collections/NIGMS/?SsId=8

Highly characterized cell lines and high quality DNA for cell and genetic research representing a variety of disease states, chromosomal abnormalities, apparently healthy individuals and many distinct human populations. The NIGMS Repository contains more than 10,600 cell lines, primarily fibroblasts and transformed lymphoblasts, and over 5,500 DNA samples. The NIGMS Repository has a major emphasis on heritable diseases and chromosomally aberrant cell lines. In addition, it contains a large collection dedicated to understanding human variation that includes samples from populations around the world, the CEPH collection, the Polymorphism Discovery Resource, and many apparently healthy controls. Human induced pluripotent stem cell lines, many of which were derived from NIGMS Repository fibroblasts, have recently become available through the NIGMS Repository. Sample donation facilitates all areas of research by making available well-characterized materials to any qualified researcher who might have otherwise been unable to invest the time and resources to collect needed samples independently. Donations to the Repository have created a resource of unparalleled scope. Samples from the collection have been used in more than 5,500 publications and are distributed to scientists in more than 50 countries. This resource is continuously expanding to support new directions in human genetics.

Proper citation: NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository (RRID:SCR_004517) Copy   

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https://www.niddk.nih.gov/research-funding/research-programs/hematology-centers

Online portal with thorough information about hematology research centers and cores. Each entry details the center's research aims, its activities and core services, and links to pilot programs.

Proper citation: Hematology Centers (RRID:SCR_015321) Copy   

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http://bioinformatics.istge.it/cldb/indexes.html

Hypertext on cell culture availability extracted from the Cell Line Data Base of the Interlab Project. HyperCLDB includes links to records of OMIM, the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man Catalogue, and now also links to the PubMed, database of bibliographic biomedical references, which are drawn primarily from MEDLINE and PREMEDLINE.

Proper citation: Hyper Cell Line Database (RRID:SCR_007730) Copy   

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http://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/vetcore/research/research-units/vetbiobank/

Not yet vetted by NIF curator

Proper citation: VetBioBank (RRID:SCR_008716) Copy   

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http://www.nordgen.org/index.php/en/content/view/full/467

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 18,2023.

Proper citation: Nordic Genetic Resource Center (RRID:SCR_008706) Copy   

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http://omia.angis.org.au/

Describes phenotype relationships with between breeds and genes. Catalogue/compendium of inherited disorders, other (single-locus) traits, and genes in 245 animal species. Database of genes, inherited disorders and traits in animal species other than human, mouse, and rats. Database contains textual information and references, as well as links to relevant records from OMIM, PubMed and Gene.

Proper citation: OMIA - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (RRID:SCR_006436) Copy   

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http://www.lfd.uci.edu/

Biomedical technology research center and training resource that develops novel fluorescence technologies, including instrumentation, methods and software applicable to cellular imaging and the elucidation of dynamic processes in cells. The LFD's main activities are: * Services and Resources: the LFD provides a state-of-the-art laboratory for fluorescence measurements, microscopy and spectroscopy, with technical assistance to visiting scientists. * Research and Development: the LFD designs, tests, and implements advances in the technology of hardware, software, and biomedical applications. * Training and Dissemination: the LFD disseminates knowledge of fluorescence spectroscopic principles, instrumentation, and applications to the scientific community.

Proper citation: Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics (RRID:SCR_001437) Copy   

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http://rover.bsd.uchicago.edu/lfepr/

Biomedical technology research center that develops instrumentation, analysis techniques, spin probes and spin traps, and methodologies for imaging physiologically relevant aspects of tissue fluids, including high-resolution oxygen maps, with very low frequency electron paramagnetic resonance imaging (EPRI). Novel bridges and high-access, low-field magnet/gradient systems have produced physiologically relevant measurements and accommodate a number of resonant structures. The Center is a consortium between the University of Chicago, the University of Denver, the University of Maryland and Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry (NIOC), Russia.

Proper citation: Center for EPR Imaging in Vivo Physiology (RRID:SCR_001410) Copy   

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http://lammp.bli.uci.edu/

Biomedical technology research center dedicated to the use of lasers and optics in biology and medicine with activities in technological research and development, collaborative research, service, training, and dissemination. One of the primary goals of LAMMP is to facilitate translational research by rapidly moving basic science and technology discoveries from blackboard to benchtop to bedside. This is accomplished by combining state of the art optical technologies with specialized resource facilities for cell and tissue engineering, histopathology, pre-clinical animal models, and clinical care. The resource center has been organized into 3 cores: * Microscopy and Microbeam Technologies (MMT) for high-resolution functional imaging and manipulation of living cells and tissues * Medical Translational Technologies (MTT) for non- and minimally-invasive monitoring, treating, and imaging pre-clinical animal models and human subjects, and * Virtual Photonics Technologies (VPT) for developing computational models and methods that advance the performance of biophotonic technologies, and enhance the information content derived from optical measurements. LAMMP cores contain complementary technologies that are capable of quantitatively characterizing, imaging, and perturbing structure and biochemical function in cells and tissues with scalable resolution and depth sensitivity ranging from micrometers to centimeters.

Proper citation: Laser Microbeam and Medical Program (RRID:SCR_001409) Copy   

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http://www.cmrr.umn.edu/

Biomedical technology research center that focuses on development of unique magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and spectroscopy methodologies and instrumentation for the acquisition of structural, functional, and biochemical information non-invasively in humans, and utilizing this capability to investigate organ function in health and disease. The distinctive feature of this resource is the emphasis on ultrahigh magnetic fields (7 Tesla and above), which was pioneered by this BTRC. This emphasis is based on the premise that there exists significant advantages to extracting biomedical information using ultrahigh magnetic fields, provided difficulties encountered by working at high frequencies corresponding to such high field strengths can be overcome by methodological and engineering solutions. This BTRC is home to some of the most advanced MR instrumentation in the world, complemented by human resources that provide unique expertise in imaging physics, engineering, and signal processing. No single group of scientists can successfully carry out all aspects of this type of interdisciplinary biomedical research; by bringing together these multi-disciplinary capabilities in a synergistic fashion, facilitating these interdisciplinary interactions, and providing adequate and centralized support for them under a central umbrella, this BTRC amplifies the contributions of each of these groups of scientists to basic and clinical biomedical research. Collectively, the approaches and instrumentation developed in this BTRC constitute some of the most important tools used today to study system level organ function and physiology in humans for basic and translational research, and are increasingly applied world-wide. CMRR Faculty conducts research in a variety of areas including: * High field functional brain mapping in humans; methodological developments, mechanistic studies, and neuroscience applications * Metabolism, bioenergetics, and perfusion studies of human pathological states (tumors, obesity, diabetes, hepatic encephalopathy, cystic fibrosis, and psychiatric disorders) * Cardiac bioenergetics under normal and pathological conditions * Automated magnetic field shimming methods that are critical for spectroscopy and ultrafast imaging at high magnetic fields * Development of high field magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy techniques for anatomic, physiologic, metabolic, and functional studies in humans and animal models * Radiofrequency (RF) pulse design based on adiabatic principles * Development of magnetic resonance hardware for high fields (e.g. RF coils, pre-amplifiers, digital receivers, phased arrays, etc.) * Development of software for data analysis and display for functional brain mapping.

Proper citation: Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (RRID:SCR_003148) Copy   

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