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Sample Catalog and Registry for the International Geo Sample Number. SESAR catalogs and preserves sample metadata profiles, and provides access to the sample catalog via the Global Sample Search.
Proper citation: System for Earth Sample Registration (RRID:SCR_002222) Copy
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 2, 2025. Archives and distributes Antarctic glaciological and cryospheric system data collected by the U.S. Antarctic Program. The Data Catalog contains data sets collected by individual investigators and products assembled from many different PI data sets, published literature, and other sources. The catalog provides useful compilations of important geophysical parameters, such as accumulation rate or ice velocity. The NSF OPP Guidelines and Award Conditions for Scientific Data state that PIs should submit data collected as a result of their OPP grant to a designated data center as soon as possible, but no later than two years after the data are collected.
Proper citation: Antarctic Glaciological Data Center (RRID:SCR_002219) Copy
An NSF supported image repository of over 374,000 high-resolution photographs of approximately 4,000 species for research and education, used largely but not exclusively in the area of biodiversity research. Images can be annotated by users and browsed by specimen, view, taxonomy, location, collection, or annotation.
Proper citation: MorphBank (RRID:SCR_003147) Copy
http://cmr.jcvi.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/CmrHomePage.cgi
Database of all of the publicly available, complete prokaryotic genomes. In addition to having all of the organisms on a single website, common data types across all genomes in the CMR make searches more meaningful, and cross genome analysis highlight differences and similarities between the genomes. CMR offers a wide variety of tools and resources, all of which are available off of our menu bar at the top of each page. Below is an explanation and link for each of these menu options. * Genome Tools: Find organism lists as well as summary information and analyses for selected genomes. * Searches: Search CMR for genes, genomes, sequence regions, and evidence. * Comparative Tools: Compare multiple genomes based on a variety of criteria, including sequence homology and gene attributes. SNP data is also found under this menu. * Lists: Select and download gene, evidence, and genomic element lists. * Downloads: Download gene sequences or attributes for CMR organisms, or go to our FTP site. * Carts: Select genome preferences from our Genome Cart or download your Gene Cart genes. The Omniome is the relational database underlying the CMR and it holds all of the annotation for each of the CMR genomes, including DNA sequences, proteins, RNA genes and many other types of features. Associated with each of these DNA features in the Omniome are the feature coordinates, nucleotide and protein sequences (where appropriate), and the DNA molecule and organism with which the feature is associated. Also available are evidence types associated with annotation such as HMMs, BLAST, InterPro, COG, and Prosite, as well as individual gene attributes. In addition, the database stores identifiers from other centers such as GenBank and SwissProt, as well as manually curated information on each genome or each DNA molecule including website links. Also stored in the Omniome are precomputed homology data, called All vs All searches, used throughout the CMR for comparative analysis.
Proper citation: JCVI CMR (RRID:SCR_005398) Copy
Open-source scientific workflow and provenance management system that provides support for simulations, data exploration and visualization. It was designed to manage these rapidly-evolving workflows. VisTrails has a comprehensive provenance infrastructure that maintains detailed history information about the steps followed and data derived in the course of an exploratory task: VisTrails maintains provenance of data products, of the workflows that derive these products and their executions. This information is persisted as XML files or in a relational database, and it allows users to navigate workflow versions in an intuitive way, to undo changes but not lose any results, to visually compare different workflows and their results, and to examine the actions that led to a result. It also enables a series operations and user interfaces that simplify workflow design and use, including the ability to create and refine workflows by analogy and to query workflows by example. VisTrails supports the creation and execution of workflows. It allows the combination of loosely-coupled resources, specialized libraries, grid and Web services. The released version comes with support for several packages including, VTK, Image Magick, Web Services, and pylab. You can also download packages contributed by users, as well as create your own packages/modules. Workflows can be run interactively, through the VisTrails GUI, or in batch using a VisTrails server. VisTrails is written in Python and it uses the multi-platform Qt library for its user interface. It runs on Mac, Linux and Windows. Provenance-rich results derived by VisTrails can be included in LaTeX, Wiki, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents.
Proper citation: VisTrails (RRID:SCR_006261) Copy
iBioSeminars offers: * Free, on-demand lectures: Many universities/colleges have limited access to high profile leaders in biological research. Our goal is to add 15-20 seminars per year, of similar quality to outstanding lectures that are currently in this library. Access, through web streaming or download, is completely free-of-charge. * Targeting a broad audience: iBioSeminars start with an extended introduction, making them accessible to non-specialists and students, and then progress to cover current research. Senior scientists and students can view and enjoy these lectures. * Education: iBioSeminars are being used by undergraduate and graduate teachers to augment their classroom material. We have now added an education component to this web site (including lecture notes, questions/answers and short video clips for teaching). * International communication: iBioSeminars have viewers in 115 countries and they are being internally promoted in several countries as an educational tool and scientific resource. * Goodwill: Lecturers generously donate their time to prepare these lectures. The project, largely funded by HHMI, is a grass roots efforts with time invested by several individuals at UCSF, HHMI and ASCB.
Proper citation: iBioSeminars (RRID:SCR_005848) Copy
http://treebase.org/treebase-web/
Repository of phylogenetic information, specifically user-submitted phylogenetic trees and the data used to generate them. TreeBASE accepts all kinds of phylogenetic data (e.g., trees of species, trees of populations, trees of genes) representing all biotic taxa. Data in TreeBASE are exposed to the public if they are used in a publication that is in press or published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, book, conference proceedings, or thesis. Data used in publications that are in preparation or in review can be submitted to TreeBASE but will not be available to the public until they have passed peer review.
Proper citation: TreeBASE (RRID:SCR_005688) Copy
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 15, 2013. Database covering a range of plant pathogenic oomycetes, fungi and bacteria primarily those under study at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. The data comes from different sources and has genomes of 3 oomycetes pathogens: Phytophthora sojae, Phytophthora ramorum and Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis. The genome sequences (95 MB for P.sojae and 65 MB for P.ramorum) were annotated with approximately 19,000 and approximately 16,000 gene models, respectively. Two different statistical methods were used to validate these gene models, Fickett''''s and a log-likelihood method. Functional annotation of the gene models is based on results from BlastX and InterProScan screens. From the InterProScan results, putative functions to 17,694 genes in P.sojae and 14,700 genes in P.ramorum could be assigned. An easy-to-use genome browser was created to view the genome sequence data, which opens to detailed annotation pages for each gene model. A community annotation interface is available for registered community members to add or edit annotations. There are approximately 1600 gene models for P.sojae and approximately 700 models for P.ramorum that have already been manually curated. A toolkit is provided as an additional resource for users to perform a variety of sequence analysis jobs.
Proper citation: VMD (RRID:SCR_004905) Copy
http://www.plexdb.org/index.php
PLEXdb (Plant Expression Database) is a unified gene expression resource for plants and plant pathogens. PLEXdb is a genotype to phenotype, hypothesis building information warehouse, leveraging highly parallel expression data with seamless portals to related genetic, physical, and pathway data. The integrated tools of PLEXdb allow investigators to use commonalities in plant biology for a comparative approach to functional genomics through use of large-scale expression profiling data sets.
Proper citation: PLEXdb - Plant Expression Database (RRID:SCR_006963) Copy
http://www.digitalfishlibrary.org/index.php
A database of 3D magnetic resonance (MRI) images of fish accessible to scientists, educators and the general public via the web. The Marine Vertebrate Collection at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides the majority of the DFL specimens.
Proper citation: Digital Fish Library (RRID:SCR_008338) Copy
https://web.njit.edu/~matveev/calc.html
A modeling tool for simulating intracellular calcium diffusion and buffering. CalC solves continuous reaction-diffusion PDEs describing the entry of calcium into a volume through point-like channels, and its diffusion, buffering and binding to calcium receptors. Its features include: being platform-independent; being operated by simple script; combinable with MATLAB; and providing real-time views. Demos and manuals are provided on the website.
Proper citation: CalC (RRID:SCR_014259) Copy
http://interactome.baderlab.org/
Project portal for the Human Reference Protein Interactome Project, which aims generate a first reference map of the human protein-protein interactome network by identifying binary protein-protein interactions (PPIs). It achieves this by systematically interrogating all pairwise combinations of predicted human protein-coding genes using proteome-scale technologies.
Proper citation: Human Reference Protein Interactome Project (RRID:SCR_015670) Copy
http://cagt.bu.edu/page/PRECISE_about
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 12,2023. Database of interactions between amino acid residues of enzyme and its ligands. Provides summary of interactions between amino acid residues of enzyme and its various ligands including substrate and transition state analogues, cofactors, inhibitors, and products., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.
Proper citation: PRECISE (RRID:SCR_007874) Copy
https://plantcyc.org/databases/aracyc/15.0
Curated species-specific database present at the Plant Metabolic Network. It has a large number of experimentally supported enzymes and metabolic pathways, but it also houses a substantial number of computationally predicted enzymes and pathways.
Proper citation: AraCyc (RRID:SCR_008109) Copy
http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page
OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering. OWW provides a place for labs, individuals, and groups to organize their own information and collaborate with others easily and efficiently. In the process, the hope is that OWW will not only lead to greater collaboration between member groups, but also provide a useful information portal to our colleagues, and ultimately the rest of the world. OWW''s approaches to achieve their goals: # Lower the technical barriers to sharing and dissemination of knowledge in biological research # Build a community of researchers in biology and biological engineering that values, practices, and innovates the open sharing of information # Integrate OpenWetWare into existing and future reward structures in research
Proper citation: OpenWetWare (RRID:SCR_008053) Copy
Database of crystallographic information. Its membership includes crystallographic service facilities (that analyze crystals submitted by research chemists) located at major universities. These labs analyze anywhere from a few dozen to several hundred molecular structures each year and post the data online for the public to access. A distributed database engine takes care of shuttling this data across the Internet so that every structure can be located by the search engine. There may be a delay of a year or more between the time a structure is first analyzed and the time it finally becomes available for the public to see. This is due to intellectual property issues - the intervening time allows the chemists who first discovered the structure to publish it in a trade journal.
Proper citation: Reciprocal Net (RRID:SCR_008238) Copy
http://wiki.c2b2.columbia.edu/honiglab_public/index.php/Software:DelPhi
DelPhi provides numerical solutions to the Poisson-Boltzmann equation (both linear and nonlinear form) for molecules of arbitrary shape and charge distribution. The current version is fast, accurate, and can handle extremely high lattice dimensions. It also includes flexible features for assigning different dielectric constants to different regions of space and treating systems containing mixed salt solutions. DelPhi takes as input a coordinate file format of a molecule or equivalent data for geometrical objects and/or charge distributions and calculates the electrostatic potential in and around the system, using a finite difference solution to the Poisson-Boltzmann equation. DelPhi is a versatile electrostatics simulation program that can be used to investigate electrostatic fields in a variety of molecular systems. Features of DelPhi include solutions to mixtures of salts of different valence; solutions to different dielectric constants to different regions of space; and estimation of the best relaxation parameter at run time.
Proper citation: DelPhi (RRID:SCR_008669) Copy
http://plantgrn.noble.org/LegumeIP/
LegumeIP is an integrative database and bioinformatics platform for comparative genomics and transcriptomics to facilitate the study of gene function and genome evolution in legumes, and ultimately to generate molecular based breeding tools to improve quality of crop legumes. LegumeIP currently hosts large-scale genomics and transcriptomics data, including: * Genomic sequences of three model legumes, i.e. Medicago truncatula, Glycine max (soybean) and Lotus japonicus, including two reference plant species, Arabidopsis thaliana and Poplar trichocarpa, with the annotation based on UniProt TrEMBL, InterProScan, Gene Ontology and KEGG databases. LegumeIP covers a total 222,217 protein-coding gene sequences. * Large-scale gene expression data compiled from 104 array hybridizations from L. japonicas, 156 array hybridizations from M. truncatula gene atlas database, and 14 RNA-Seq-based gene expression profiles from G. max on different tissues including four common tissues: Nodule, Flower, Root and Leaf. * Systematic synteny analysis among M. truncatula, G. max, L. japonicus and A. thaliana. * Reconstruction of gene family and gene family-wide phylogenetic analysis across the five hosted species. LegumeIP features comprehensive search and visualization tools to enable the flexible query on gene annotation, gene family, synteny, relative abundance of gene expression.
Proper citation: LegumeIP (RRID:SCR_008906) Copy
http://qutublab.rice.edu/cytoNet/
Cloud based analysis software for cell population microscopy images. Network Analysis of Cell Communities cytoNet image analysis software designed to quantify structure of cell communities from microscope images, using principles of graph theory.
Proper citation: cytoNet (RRID:SCR_017465) Copy
http://compbio.mit.edu/ChromHMM/
Software tool for chromatin state discovery and characterization. Used for chromatin state discovery and genome annotation of non coding genome using epigenomic information across one or multiple cell types. Combines multiple genome wide epigenomic maps, and uses combinatorial and spatial mark patterns to infer complete annotation for each cell type. Provides automated enrichment analysis of resulting annotations.
Proper citation: ChromHMM (RRID:SCR_018141) Copy
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