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http://ratmap.gen.gu.se/

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 September 2, 2016. Database for defining official rat gene symbols. It includes rat gene symbols from three major sources: the Rat Genome Database (RGD), Ensembl, and NCBI-Gene. All rat symbols are compared with official symbols from orthologous human genes as specified by the Human Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC). Based on the outcome of the comparisons, a rat gene symbol may be selected. Rat symbols that do not match a human ortholog undergo a strict procedure of comparisons between the different rat gene sources as well as with the Mouse Genome Database (MGD). For each rat gene this procedure results in an unambiguous gene designation. The designation is presented as a status level that accompanies every rat gene symbol suggested in the database. The status level describes both how a rat symbol was selected, and its validity. Rat Gene Symbol Tracker approves rat gene symbols by an automatic procedure. The rat genes are presented with links to RGD, Ensembl, NCBI Gene, MGI and HGNC. RGST ensures that each acclaimed rat gene symbol is unique and follows the guidelines given by the RGNC. To each symbol a status level associated, describing the gene naming process.

Proper citation: Rat Gene Symbol Tracker (RRID:SCR_003261) Copy   

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http://bioinfo.mbi.ucla.edu/ASAP/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on 8/12/13. Database to access and mine alternative splicing information coming from genomics and proteomics based on genome-wide analyses of alternative splicing in human (30 793 alternative splice relationships found) from detailed alignment of expressed sequences onto the genomic sequence. ASAP provides precise gene exon-intron structure, alternative splicing, tissue specificity of alternative splice forms, and protein isoform sequences resulting from alternative splicing. They developed an automated method for discovering human tissue-specific regulation of alternative splicing through a genome-wide analysis of expressed sequence tags (ESTs), which involves classifying human EST libraries according to tissue categories and Bayesian statistical analysis. They use the UniGene clusters of human Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) to identify splices. The UniGene EST's are clustered so that a single cluster roughly corresponds to a gene (or at least a part of a gene). A single EST represents a portion of a processed (already spliced) mRNA. A given cluster contains many ESTs, each representing an outcome of a series of splicing events. The ESTs in UniGene contain the different mRNA isoforms transcribed from an alternatively spliced gene. They are not predicting alternative splicing, but locating it based on EST analysis. The discovered splices are further analyzed to determine alternative splicing events. They have identified 6201 alternative splice relationships in human genes, through a genome-wide analysis of expressed sequence tags (ESTs). Starting with 2.1 million human mRNA and EST sequences, they mapped expressed sequences onto the draft human genome sequence and only accepted splices that obeyed the standard splice site consensus. After constructing a tissue list of 46 human tissues with 2 million human ESTs, they generated a database of novel human alternative splices that is four times larger than our previous report, and used Bayesian statistics to compare the relative abundance of every pair of alternative splices in these tissues. Using several statistical criteria for tissue specificity, they have identified 667 tissue-specific alternative splicing relationships and analyzed their distribution in human tissues. They have validated our results by comparison with independent studies. This genome-wide analysis of tissue specificity of alternative splicing will provide a useful resource to study the tissue-specific functions of transcripts and the association of tissue-specific variants with human diseases.

Proper citation: ASAP: the Alternative Splicing Annotation Project (RRID:SCR_003415) Copy   

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http://www.mitomap.org/

Database of polymorphisms and mutations of the human mitochondrial DNA. It reports published and unpublished data on human mitochondrial DNA variation. All data is curated by hand. If you would like to submit published articles to be included in mitomap, please send them the citation and a pdf.

Proper citation: MITOMAP - A human mitochondrial genome database (RRID:SCR_002996) Copy   

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http://www.bionet.umn.edu/tpf/home.html

Procure and distribute human tissue and other biological samples in support of basic, translational, and clinical cancer research at the University of Minnesota. The TPF is a centralized resource with standardized patient consent, sample collection, processing, storage, quality control, distribution, and electronic record maintenance. Since the 1996 inception of the TPF, over 61,000 tissue samples including well-preserved samples of malignant and benign tumors, organ-matched normal tissue, and other types of diseased tissues, have been collected from surgical specimens obtained at the University of Minnesota Medical Center-Fairview (UMMC-F) University Campus. Surgical pathologists are intellectually engaged in TPF functions, providing researchers with specimen-oriented medical consultation to facilitate research productivity. Prior to surgery, TPF personnel identify and consent patients for procurement of tissue, blood, urine, saliva, and ascites fluid. Within the integrated working environment of the surgical pathology laboratory, freshly obtained tissues not needed for diagnosis are selected and provided by pathologists to TPF personnel. Tissue samples are then assigned an independent code and processed. TPF staff can also work with researchers to individualize the procurement of tissues to fit specific research needs.

Proper citation: University of Minnesota Tissue Procurement Facility (RRID:SCR_004270) Copy   

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http://www.nimhans.kar.nic.in/neuropathology/neuropath2.htm#brainbank

A National Facility to promote research in Neurobiology using human nervous tissues. The brain tissues collected with informed consent of close relatives within 4-24 hours following death are frozen for Biochemical, Immuno-histochemical and Molecular Biological studies. A large number of formalin fixed brain tissues from various Neurological, Neurosurgical and Psychiatric disorders are also available for study.

Proper citation: Bangalore Brain Bank (RRID:SCR_004227) Copy   

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http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/

CNBC is joint venture of University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Our center leverages the strengths of the University of Pittsburgh in basic and clinical neuroscience and those of Carnegie Mellon in cognitive and computational neuroscience to support a coordinated cross-university research and educational program of international stature. In addition to our Ph.D. program in Neural Computation, we sponsor a graduate certificate program in cooperation with a wide variety of affiliated Ph.D. programs.

Proper citation: Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (RRID:SCR_002301) Copy   

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http://dunham.gs.washington.edu/protocols.shtml

A portal for Maitreya Dunham's lab, which works on the genomic analysis of experimental evolution in yeast using microarrays and the chemostat. Research interests of the lab include experimental evolution of genetic networks in yeast, aneuploidy and copy number variation, comparative genomics, technology development and human genetics in yeast.

Proper citation: Maitreya Dunham's Lab (RRID:SCR_000784) Copy   

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http://biosciencedbc.jp/

The National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC) intends to integrate all databases for life sciences in Japan, by linking each database with expediency to maximize convenience and make the entire system more user-friendly. We aim to focus our attention on the needs of the users of these databases who have all too often been neglected in the past, rather than the needs of the people tasked with the creation of databases. It is important to note that we will continue to honor the independent integrity of each database that will contribute to our endeavor, as we are fully aware that each database was originally crafted for specific purposes and divergent goals. Services: * Database Catalog - A catalog of life science related databases constructed in Japan that are also available in English. Information such as URL, status of the database site (active vs. inactive), database provider, type of data and subjects of the study are contained for each database record. * Life Science Database Cross Search - A service for simultaneous searching across scattered life-science databases, ranging from molecular data to patents and literature. * Life Science Database Archive - maintains and stores the datasets generated by life scientists in Japan in a long-term and stable state as national public goods. The Archive makes it easier for many people to search datasets by metadata in a unified format, and to access and download the datasets with clear terms of use. * Taxonomy Icon - A collection of icons (illustrations) of biological species that is free to use and distribute. There are more than 200 icons of various species including Bacteria, Fungi, Protista, Plantae and Animalia. * GenLibi (Gene Linker to bibliography) - an integrated database of human, mouse and rat genes that includes automatically integrated gene, protein, polymorphism, pathway, phenotype, ortholog/protein sequence information, and manually curated gene function and gene-related or co-occurred Disease/Phenotype and bibliography information. * Allie - A search service for abbreviations and long forms utilized in life sciences. It provides a solution to the issue that many abbreviations are used in the literature, and polysemous or synonymous abbreviations appear frequently, making it difficult to read and understand scientific papers that are not relevant to the reader's expertise. * inMeXes - A search service for English expressions (multiple words) that appear no less than 10 times in PubMed/MEDLINE titles or abstracts. In addition, you can easily access the sentences where the expression was used or other related information by clicking one of the search results. * HOWDY - (Human Organized Whole genome Database) is a database system for retrieving human genome information from 14 public databases by using official symbols and aliases. The information is daily updated by extracting data automatically from the genetic databases and shown with all data having the identifiers in common and linking to one another. * MDeR (the MetaData Element Repository in life sciences) - a web-based tool designed to let you search, compare and view Data Elements. MDeR is based on the ISO/IEC 11179 Part3 (Registry metamodel and basic attributes). * Human Genome Variation Database - A database for accumulating all kinds of human genome variations detected by various experimental techniques. * MEDALS - A portal site that provides information about databases, analysis tools, and the relevant projects, that were conducted with the financial support from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan.

Proper citation: NBDC - National Bioscience Database Center (RRID:SCR_000814) Copy   

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http://cvr.yorku.ca/home/

The Centre for Vision Research focuses on interdisciplinary research into human and machine vision and visual processes, into vision's interactions with other senses and with motor and cognitive processes, and in applications such as visually-guided robotics or clinical diagnosis and treatment. The Centre for Vision Research includes the following major research themes: - Human Visual Performance - Visual Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics and Virtual Reality - Visual Psychophysics - Eye Movements and Hand-Eye Coordination - Computational Modeling and Computer Vision - Electrophysiology - Clinical and Developmental Studies - Brain Imaging

Proper citation: Centre for Vision Research (RRID:SCR_002879) Copy   

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https://cnprc.ucdavis.edu/

Center for investigators studying human health and disease, offering the opportunity to assess the causes of disease, and new treatment methods in nonhuman primate models that closely recapitulate humans. Its mission is to provide interdisciplinary programs in biomedical research on significant human health-related problems in which nonhuman primates are the models of choice.

Proper citation: California National Primate Research Center (RRID:SCR_006426) Copy   

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https://www.msu.edu/~brains/brains/human/index.html

A labeled three-dimensional atlas of the human brain created from MRI images. In conjunction are presented anatomically labeled stained sections that correspond to the three-dimensional MRI images. The stained sections are from a different brain than the one which was scanned for the MRI images. Also available the major anatomical features of the human hypothalamus, axial sections stained for cell bodies or for nerve fibers, at six rostro-caudal levels of the human brain stem; images and Quicktime movies. The MRI subject was a 22-year-old adult male. Differing techniques used to study the anatomy of the human brain all have their advantages and disadvantages. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows for the three-dimensional viewing of the brain and structures, precise spatial relationships and some differentiation between types of tissue, however, the image resolution is somewhat limited. Stained sections, on the other hand, offer excellent resolution and the ability to see individual nuclei (cell stain) or fiber tracts (myelin stain), however, there are often spatial distortions inherent in the staining process. The nomenclature used is from Paxinos G, and Watson C. 1998. The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, 4th ed. Academic Press. San Diego, CA. 256 pp

Proper citation: Human Brain Atlas (RRID:SCR_006131) Copy   

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https://nidagenetics.org/

Site for collection and distribution of clinical data related to genetic analysis of drug abuse phenotypes. Anonymous data on family structure, age, sex, clinical status, and diagnosis, DNA samples and cell line cultures, and data derived from genotyping and other genetic analyses of these clinical data and biomaterials, are distributed to qualified researchers studying genetics of mental disorders and other complex diseases at recognized biomedical research facilities. Phenotypic and Genetic data will be made available to general public on release dates through distribution mechanisms specified on website.

Proper citation: National Institute on Drug Abuse Center for Genetic Studies (RRID:SCR_013061) Copy   

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http://ccg.vital-it.ch/snp2tfbs

Collection of text files providing specific annotations for human single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), namely whether they are predicted to abolish, create or change the affinity of one or several transcription factor (TF) binding sites. Used to investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying regulatory variation in the human genome. SNP2TFBS is also accessible over a web interface, enabling users to view the information provided for an individual SNP, to extract SNPs based on various search criteria, to annotate uploaded sets of SNPs or to display statistics about the frequencies of binding sites affected by selected SNPs.

Proper citation: SNP2TFBS (RRID:SCR_016885) Copy   

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https://omicc.niaid.nih.gov

Community based, biologist friendly web platform for creating and meta analyzing annotated gene expression data compendia., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: OMiCC (RRID:SCR_016604) Copy   

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http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/content/hapmap-3-and-encode-3

Draft release 3 for genome-wide SNP genotyping and targeted sequencing in DNA samples from a variety of human populations (sometimes referred to as the HapMap 3 samples). This release contains the following data: * SNP genotype data generated from 1184 samples, collected using two platforms: the Illumina Human1M (by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) and the Affymetrix SNP 6.0 (by the Broad Institute). Data from the two platforms have been merged for this release. * PCR-based resequencing data (by Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center) across ten 100-kb regions (collectively referred to as ENCODE 3) in 712 samples. Since this is a draft release, please check this site regularly for updates and new releases. The HapMap 3 sample collection comprises 1,301 samples (including the original 270 samples used in Phase I and II of the International HapMap Project) from 11 populations, listed below alphabetically by their 3-letter labels. Five of the ten ENCODE 3 regions overlap with the HapMap-ENCODE regions; the other five are regions selected at random from the ENCODE target regions (excluding the 10 HapMap-ENCODE regions). All ENCODE 3 regions are 100-kb in size, and are centered within each respective ENCODE region. The HapMap 3 and ENCORE 3 data are downloadable from the ftp site.

Proper citation: HapMap 3 and ENCODE 3 (RRID:SCR_004563) Copy   

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http://www.tbi-impact.org/?p=impact%2Fcalc&btn_calc=GO+TO+CALCULATOR

A calculator that calculates the prediction models for 6 month outcome after Traumatic Brain Injury. Based on extensive prognostic analysis the IMPACT investigators have developed prognostic models for predicting 6 month outcome in adult patients with moderate to severe head injury (Glasgow Coma Scale <=12) on admission. By entering the characteristics into the calculator, the models will provide an estimate of the expected outcome at 6 months. We present three models of increasing complexity (Core, Core + CT, Core + CT + Lab). These models were developed and validated in collaboration with the CRASH trial collaborators on large numbers of individual patient data (the IMPACT database). The models discriminate well, and are particularly suited for purposes of classification and characterization of large cohorts of patients. Extreme caution is required when applying the estimated prognosis to individual patients. The sequential prediction models may be used as an aid to estimate 6 month outcome in patients with severe or moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, the prediction rule can only complement, never replace, clinical judgment and can therefore be used only as a decision-support system.

Proper citation: IMPACT Prognostic Calculator (RRID:SCR_004730) Copy   

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http://www.phenologs.org/

Database for identifying orthologous phenotypes (phenologs). Mapping between genotype and phenotype is often non-obvious, complicating prediction of genes underlying specific phenotypes. This problem can be addressed through comparative analyses of phenotypes. We define phenologs based upon overlapping sets of orthologous genes associated with each phenotype. Comparisons of >189,000 human, mouse, yeast, and worm gene-phenotype associations reveal many significant phenologs, including novel non-obvious human disease models. For example, phenologs suggest a yeast model for mammalian angiogenesis defects and an invertebrate model for vertebrate neural tube birth defects. Phenologs thus create a rich framework for comparing mutational phenotypes, identify adaptive reuse of gene systems, and suggest new disease genes. To search for phenologs, go to the basic search page and enter a list of genes in the box provided, using Entrez gene identifiers for mouse/human genes, locus ids for yeast (e.g., YHR200W), or sequence names for worm (e.g., B0205.3). It is expected that this list of genes will all be associated with a particular system, trait, mutational phenotype, or disease. The search will return all identified model organism/human mutational phenotypes that show any overlap with the input set of the genes, ranked according to their hypergeometric probability scores. Clicking on a particular phenolog will result in a list of genes associated with the phenotype, from which potential new candidate genes can identified. Currently known phenotypes in the database are available from the link labeled ''Find phenotypes'', where the associated gene can be submitted as queries, or alternately, can be searched directly from the link provided.

Proper citation: Phenologs (RRID:SCR_005529) Copy   

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http://blog.ketyov.com/

Bradley Voytek''''s blog is where he tries out new ideas. He will often be wrong, but that''''s the point. He is a Neuroscientist studying human cognition, neuroplasticity, and brain computer interfacing. Into really geeky stuff. World zombie neuroscience expert. Also runs brainSCANr.com with his wife, Jessica.

Proper citation: Oscillatory Thoughts (RRID:SCR_005481) Copy   

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http://cmrm.med.jhmi.edu/cmrm/atlas/human_data/file/JHUtemplate_newuser.html

DTI white matter atlases with different data sources and different image processing. These include single-subject, group-averaged, B0 correction, processed atlases (White Matter Parcellation Map, Tract-probability maps, Conceptual difference between the WMPM and tract-probability maps), and linear or non-linear transformation for automated white matter segmentation. # Adam single-subject white matter atlas (old version): These are electronic versions of atlases published in Wakana et al, Radiology, 230, 77-87 (2004) and MRI Atlas of Human White Matter, Elsevier. ## Original Adam Atlas: 256 x 256 x 55 (FOV = 246 x 246 mm / 2.2 mm slices) (The original matrix is 96x96x55 (2.2 mm isotropic) which is zerofilled to 256 x 256 ## Re-sliced Adam Atlas: 246 x 246 x 121 (1 mm isotropic) ## Talairach Adam: 246 x 246 x 121 (1 mm isotropic) # New Eve single-subject white matter atlas: The new version of the single-subject white matter atlas with comprehensive white matter parcellation. ## MNI coordinate: 181 x 217 x 181 (1 mm isotropic) ## Talairach coordinate: 181 x 217 x 181 (1 mm isotropic) # Group-averaged atlases: This atlas was created from their normal DTI database (n = 28). The template was MNI-ICBM-152 and the data from the normal subjects were normalized by affine transformation. Image dimensions are 181x217x181, 1 mm isotropic. There are two types of maps. The first one is the averaged tensor map and the second one is probabilistic maps of 11 white matter tracts reconstructed by FACT. # ICBM Group-averaged atlases: This atlas was created from ICBM database. All templates follow Radiology convention. You may need to flip right and left when you use image registration software that follows the Neurology convention.

Proper citation: DTI White Matter Atlas (RRID:SCR_005279) Copy   

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http://transpogene.tau.ac.il/

A publicly available database of Transposed elements (TEs) which are located within protein-coding genes of 7 organisms: human, mouse, chicken, zebrafish, fruilt fly, nematode and sea squirt. Using TranspoGene the user can learn about the many aspects of the effect these TEs have on their hosting genes, such as: exonization events (including alternative splicing-related data), insertion of TEs into introns, exons, and promoters, specific location of the TE over the gene, evolutionary divergence of the TE from its consensus sequence and involvement in diseases. TranspoGene database is quickly searchable through its website, enables many kinds of searches and is available for download. TranspoGene contains information regarding specific type and family of the TEs, genomic and mRNA location, sequence, supporting transcript accession and alignment to the TE consensus sequence. The database also contains host gene specific data: gene name, genomic location, Swiss-Prot and RefSeq accessions, diseases associated with the gene and splicing pattern. The TranspoGene and microTranspoGene databases can be used by researchers interested in the effect of TE insertion on the eukaryotic transcriptome.

Proper citation: TranspoGene (RRID:SCR_005634) Copy   

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