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http://em.emory.edu/protect/index.cfm

Recently, our team completed an NINDS-funded, Phase IIa double-blinded, placebo-controlled pilot clinical trial that examined the pharmacokinetics, safety, and activity of progesterone, a steroid found to have powerful neuroprotective effects in multiple animal models of brain injury. Our pilot study demonstrated a 50% reduction in death among severe TBI patients and less disability among moderate TBI patients treated with progesterone. Based on these promising results and supportive preclinical data, we are conducting a large, phase III clinical trial (ProTECT III) to definitively assess the safety and efficacy of this treatment for adults with moderate to severe acute TBI. The study is slated to begin August 2008. WHY Progesterone: Although progresterone is widely considered a sex steroid, it is also a potent neurosteroid. Progesterone is naturally synthesized in the CNS. A large and growing body of animal studies indicate that early administration of progesterone after TBI reduces cerebral edema, neuronal loss, and behavioral deficits in laboratory animals. Certain properties of progesterone make it an ideal therapeutic candidate. First, in contrast to most drugs tested to date, progesterone rapidly enters the brain and reaches equilibrium with the plasma within an hour of administration. Second, unlike other experimental agents, progesterone has a long history of safe use in humans. Finally, the findings of our pilot clinical trial (presented in the Preliminary Data Section, below) indicate that progesterone has consistent and predictable pharmacokinetic properties, is unlikely to produce harm, and may be efficacious for treating acute TBI in humans.

Proper citation: ProTECT (RRID:SCR_004531) Copy   

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http://krasnow1.gmu.edu/cn3/hippocampus3d/

Data files for a high resolution three dimensional (3D) structure of the rat hippocampus reconstructed from histological sections. The data files (supplementary data for Ropireddy et al., Neurosci., 2012 Mar 15;205:91-111) are being shared on the Windows Live cloud space provided by Microsoft. Downloadable data files include the Nissl histological images, the hippocampus layer tracings that can be visualized alone or superimposed to the corresponding Nissl images, the voxel database coordinates, and the surface rendering VRML files. * Hippocampus Nissl Images: The high resolution histological Nissl images obtained at 16 micrometer inter-slice distance for the Long-Evans rat hippocampus can be downloaded or directly viewed in a browser. This dataset consists of 230 jpeg images that cover the hippocampus from rostral to caudal poles. This image dataset is uploaded in seven parts as rar files. * Hippocampus Layer Tracings: The seven hippocampus layers ''ML, ''GC'', ''HILUS'' in DG and ''LM'', ''RAD'', ''PC'', ''OR'' in CA were segmented (traced) using the Reconstruct tool which can be downloaded from Synapse web. This tool outputs all the tracings for each image in XML format. The XML tracing files for all these seven layers for each of the above Nissl images are zipped into one file and can be downloaded. * Hippocampus VoxelDB: The 3D hippocampus reconstructed is volumetrically transformed into 16 micrometer sized voxels for all the seven layers. Each voxel is reported according to multiple coordinate systems, namely in Cartesian, along the natural hippocampal dimensions, and in reference to the canonical brain planes. The voxel database file is created in ascii format. The single voxel database file was split into three rar archive files. Please note that the three rar archive files should be downloaded and decompressed in a single directory in order to obtain the single voxel data file (Hippocampus-VoxelDB.txt). * 3D Surface Renderings: This is a rar archive file with a single VRML file containing the surface rendering of DG and CA layers. This VRML file can be opened and visualized in any VRML viewer, e.g. the open source software view3dscene. * 3D Hippocampus Movie: This movie contains visualization of the 3D surface renderings of CA (blue) and DG (red) inner and outer boundaries; neuronal embeddings of DG granule and CA pyramidal dendritic arbors; potential synapses between CA3b interneuron axon and pyramidal dendrite, and between CA2 pyramidal axon and CA pyramidal dendrites.

Proper citation: Hippocampus 3D Model (RRID:SCR_005083) Copy   

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http://www.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/neurogrid.html

A specialized hardware platform that will perform cortex-scale emulations while offering software-like flexibility. With sixteen 12x14 sq-mm chips (Neurocores) assembled on a 6.5x7.5 sq-in circuit board that can model a slab of cortex with up to 16x256x256 neurons - over a million! The chips are interconnected in a binary tree by 80M spike/sec links. An on-chip RAM (in each Neurocore) and an off-chip RAM (on a daughterboard, not shown) softwire vertical and horizontcal cortical connections, respectively. It provides an affordable option for brain simulations that uses analog computation to emulate ion-channel activity and uses digital communication to softwire synaptic connections. These technologies impose different constraints, because they operate in parallel and in serial, respectively. Analog computation constrains the number of distinct ion-channel populations that can be simulatedunlike digital computation, which simply takes longer to run bigger simulations. Digital communication constrains the number of synaptic connections that can be activated per secondunlike analog communication, which simply sums additional inputs onto the same wire. Working within these constraints, Neurogrid achieves its goal of simulating multiple cortical areas in real-time by making judicious choices.

Proper citation: Neurogrid (RRID:SCR_005024) Copy   

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https://www.immport.org/home

Data sharing repository of clinical trials, associated mechanistic studies, and other basic and applied immunology research programs. Platform to store, analyze, and exchange datasets for immune mediated diseases. Data supplied by NIAID/DAIT funded investigators and genomic, proteomic, and other data relevant to research of these programs extracted from public databases. Provides data analysis tools and immunology focused ontology to advance research in basic and clinical immunology.

Proper citation: The Immunology Database and Analysis Portal (ImmPort) (RRID:SCR_012804) Copy   

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http://i2b2.cchmc.org/

A data warehouse that integrates information on patients from multiple sources and consists of patient information from all the visits to Cincinnati Children''''s between 2003 and 2007. This information includes demographics (age, gender, race), diagnoses (ICD-9), procedures, medications and lab results. They have included extracts from Epic, DocSite, and the new Cerner laboratory system and will eventually load public data sources, data from the different divisions or research cores (such as images or genetic data), as well as the research databases from individual groups or investigators. This information is aggregated, cleaned and de-identified. Once this process is complete, it is presented to the user, who will then be able to query the data. The warehouse is best suited for tasks like cohort identification, hypothesis generation and retrospective data analysis. Automated software tools will facilitate some of these functions, while others will require more of a manual process. The initial software tools will be focused around cohort identification. They have developed a set of web-based tools that allow the user to query the warehouse after logging in. The only people able to see your data are those to whom you grant authorization. If the information can be provided to the general research community, they will add it to the warehouse. If it cannot, they will mark it so that only you (or others in your group with proper approval) can access it.

Proper citation: i2b2 Research Data Warehouse (RRID:SCR_013276) Copy   

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http://www.msmc.com/neurosciences/wien-center-for-alzheimers-disease-memory-disorders

A joint program between Mount Sinai Medical Center and the University of Miami Department of Psychiatry that seeks an end to Alzheimer's disease and similar disorders through research, diagnosis, education and treatment. The goals are to improve memory and mental responsiveness of Alzheimer's patients, delay the onset of the disease and, ultimately, find a cure. The Wien Center typically conducts multidisciplinary initiatives utilizing clinical trials.

Proper citation: Wien Center For Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders (RRID:SCR_008755) Copy   

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http://mli.nih.gov/mli/

High throughput screening services to identify small molecules that can be optimized as chemical probes to study the functions of genes, cells, and biochemical pathways, along with medicinal chemistry and informatics. This will lead to new ways to explore the functions of genes and signaling pathways in health and disease. The NIH Molecular Libraries Initiative NIH is designed to discover small molecules that interact with biologically important proteins and pathways and to provide open access to the bioassay and chemical data generated by its research centers. This will lead to new ways to explore the functions of genes and signaling pathways in health and disease. As these HTS Technologies were not previously available to the public sector, many investigators may not be familiar with the components and requirements of high throughput screening. A key challenge is to identify small molecules effective at modulating a given biological process or disease state. The Molecular Libraries Roadmap, through one of its components, the Molecular Libraries Probe Production Centers Network (MLPCN), offers biomedical researchers access to the large-scale screening capacity, along with medicinal chemistry and informatics necessary to identify chemical probes to study the functions of genes, cells, and biochemical pathways. This will lead to new ways to explore the functions of genes and signaling pathways in health and disease. There are two kinds of data that are available to the scientific community through a dedicated database: Chemical Compounds and Bioassay Results (NCBI). Various types of data, including informative records on substances, compound structures, and biologically active properties of small molecules are housed respectively within PubChem''''s three primary databases: PCSubstance, PCCompound, and PCBioAssay. To date, PubChem contains over 11 million substance records, details about approximately 5.5 million unique compound structures with links to bioassay descriptions, relevant literature, references, and assay data points and over 250 bioassays, a good percentage of which were contributed by the pilot phase of the MLP. The deposition will continue during the current MLPCN phase. NIH anticipates that these projects will also facilitate the development of new drugs, by providing early stage chemical compounds that will enable researchers in the public and private sectors to validate new drug targets, which could then move into the drug-development pipeline. This is particularly true for rare diseases, which may not be attractive for development by the private sector. Funding opportunities are available through the site.

Proper citation: Molecular Libraries Program (RRID:SCR_008847) Copy   

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http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/health/services/brain/

A clinical care and research center for neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's, dementia and seizure disorders. It provides a dynamic setting for training healthcare professionals and neuroscience researchers to develop and implement evidence-based treatment.

Proper citation: OHSU Brain Institute (RRID:SCR_008932) Copy   

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http://cbfbirn.ucsd.edu/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented August 23, 2017.

A web based central repository for individual and group analysis of Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) data sets and ASL pulse sequences developed at CMFRI UCSD for MRI researchers. This resource currently hosts more 1300 ASL data sets from 22 projects and consists of mainly two main tools 1) The Cerebral Blood Flow Database and Analysis Pipeline (CBFDAP) is a web enabled data and workflow management system extended from the HID codebase on NITRC specialized for Arterial Spin Labeling data management and analysis (including group analysis) in a centralized manner. 2) Pulse Sequence Distribution System (PSDS) for managing dissamination of ASL pulse sequences developed at the UCSD CFMRI. This resource also includes web and video tutorials for end users.

Proper citation: CBFBIRN (RRID:SCR_009543) Copy   

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http://drugcentral.org/

Database of drug information created and maintained by the Division of Translational Informatics at University of New Mexico. It provides information on active ingredients chemical entities, pharmaceutical products, drug mode of action, indications, and pharmacologic action.

Proper citation: DrugCentral (RRID:SCR_015663) Copy   

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http://www.geworkbench.org

geWorkbench (genomics Workbench) is a Java-based open-source platform for integrated genomics. Using a component architecture it allows individually developed plug-ins to be configured into complex bioinformatic applications. At present there are more than 70 available plug-ins supporting the visualization and analysis of gene expression and sequence data. Example use cases include: * loading data from local or remote data sources. * visualizing gene expression, molecular interaction networks, protein sequence and protein structure data in a variety of ways. * providing access to client- and server-side computational analysis tools such as t-test analysis, hierarchical clustering, self organizing maps, regulatory networks reconstruction, BLAST searches, pattern/motif discovery, etc. * validating computational hypothesis through the integration of gene and pathway annotation information from curated sources as well as through Gene Ontology enrichment analysis. geWorkbench is the Bioinformatics platform of MAGNet, the National Center for the Multi-scale Analysis of Genomic and Cellular Networks (one of the 7 National Centers for Biomedial Computing funded through the NIH Roadmap). Additionally, geWorkbench is supported by caBIG, NCI''s cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid initiative.

Proper citation: genomics Workbench (RRID:SCR_013599) Copy   

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http://www.metabolomicsworkbench.org

Repository for metabolomics data and metadata which provides analysis tools and access to various resources. NIH grantees may upload data and general users can search metabolomics database. Provides protocols for sample preparation and analysis, information about NIH Metabolomics Program, data sharing guidelines, funding opportunities, services offered by its Regional Comprehensive Metabolomics Resource Cores (RCMRC)s, and training workshops.

Proper citation: Metabolomics Workbench (RRID:SCR_013794) Copy   

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http://chavi-id.org

A consortium whose goal is to further HIV research and accelerate the development of a preventative HIV vaccine. Its main research target is to define immunogens and immunization regimens that induce sustained HIV cross-protective B cell and CD4+ T cell responses.

Proper citation: CHAVI-ID (RRID:SCR_014047) Copy   

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https://datajoint.org/

MATLAB and Python 3 high-level programming interface for MySQL databases to support data processing chains in science labs. Specifically designed to provide robust and intuitive data model for scientific data processing chains.Used for scientific data pipelines and workflow management.

Proper citation: DataJoint (RRID:SCR_014543) Copy   

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https://guolab.shinyapps.io/app-mimivirus-publication/

Web interactive and searchable genome wide comparison tool for browsing human and mimivirus homologous proteins. User friendly Shinny app helps users browse protein sequence homology between humans and mimivirus at genome wide level for querying new homologs and generating new hypotheses.

Proper citation: App for searching human and mimivirus homologous proteins (RRID:SCR_022140) Copy   

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https://github.com/immunogenomics/harmony

Software R package to project cells into shared embedding in which cells group by cell type rather than dataset specific conditions. Harmony simultaneously accounts for multiple experimental and biological factors. Used for integration of single cell data.

Proper citation: Harmony (RRID:SCR_022206) Copy   

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https://imagej.net/

Open source Java based image processing software program designed for scientific multidimensional images. ImageJ has been transformed to ImageJ2 application to improve data engine to be sufficient to analyze modern datasets.

Proper citation: ImageJ (RRID:SCR_003070) Copy   

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http://www.type2diabetesgenetics.org/

Portal and database of DNA sequence, functional and epigenomic information, and clinical data from studies on type 2 diabetes and analytic tools to analyze these data. .Provides data and tools to promote understanding and treatment of type 2 diabetes and its complications. Used for identifying genetic biomarkers correlated to Type 2 diabetes and development of novel drugs for this disease.

Proper citation: Accelerating Medicines Partnership Type 2 Diabetes Knowledge Portal (AMP-T2D) (RRID:SCR_003743) Copy   

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https://simtk.org/home/rna-viz-proto

A software application for animating and visualising RNA and other macromolecular structures. Users are able to use their intuition to interactively refold RNA structures and produce morphs from one structure to another. It allow researchers to explore and manipulate molecular structures Imported from BiositeMaps registry, to better understand structure:function relationships, folding pathways, and molecular motion.

Proper citation: ToRNADo (RRID:SCR_002706) Copy   

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http://crcns.org

Website for brain experimental data and other resources such as stimuli and analysis tools. Provides marketplace and discussion forum for sharing tools and data in neuroscience. Data repository and collaborative tool that supports integration of theoretical and experimental neuroscience through collaborative research projects. CRCNS offers funding for new class of proposals focused on data sharing and other resources.

Proper citation: CRCNS (RRID:SCR_005608) Copy   

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