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http://hyphy.org/

Open source software package for comparative sequence analysis using stochastic evolutionary models. Used for analysis of genetic sequence data in particular the inference of natural selection using techniques in phylogenetics, molecular evolution, and machine learning.

Proper citation: HyPhy (RRID:SCR_016162) Copy   

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https://gotrack.msl.ubc.ca/

Open source web-based system and database that provides access to historical records and trends in the Gene Ontology (GO) and GO annotations (GOA). Used for monitoring changes in the Gene Ontology and their impact on genomic data analysis.

Proper citation: GOTrack (RRID:SCR_016399) Copy   

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http://primegens.org/

A Web-based Tool for High-throughput Primer and Probe Design. The program has its different utilities available on its web server. A standalone version is also available. Algorithms: * SSPD - Sequence Specific Primer Design: to design primers for each of the specific sequences given by the user in the query input file against any alternate potential hybridization with any of the sequences given in the database input file. * PSPD - Probe Specific Primer Design: to design primers it selects the gene-specific fragments (probes) to design primer pairs for their PCR amplification. * FSPD Fragment Specific Primer Design: primer design algorithm used when there is a very long query sequence for which multiple primers are required for its amplification. * Check Binding Specificity * Probe Design Only: Probe design algorithm could be used to find sequence-specific probes, which doesn''t show any blast hit against database. Such probe design has been used for targeted sequencing like agilent sure-select technology with next-generation sequencing.

Proper citation: PRIMEGENS (RRID:SCR_005474) Copy   

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http://science.education.nih.gov/home2.nsf/feature/index.htm

The NIH Office of Science Education (OSE) coordinates science education activities at the NIH and develops and sponsors science education projects in house. These programs serve elementary, secondary, and college students and teachers and the public. Activities * Develop curriculum supplements and other educational materials related to medicine and research through collaborations with scientific experts at NIH * Maintain a website as a central source of information about NIH science education resources * Establish national model programs in public science education, such as the NIH Mini-Med School and Science in the Cinema * Promote science education reform as outlined in the National Science Education Standards and related guidelines The OSE was established in 1991 within the Office of Science Policy of the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health. The NIH is the world''s foremost biomedical research center and the U.S. federal government''s focal point for such research. It is one of the components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Office of Science Education (OSE) plans, develops, and coordinates a comprehensive science education program to strengthen and enhance efforts of the NIH to attract young people to biomedical and behavioral science careers and to improve science literacy in both adults and children. The function of the Office is as follows: (1) develops, supports, and directs new program initiatives at all levels with special emphasis on targeting students in grades kindergarten to 16, their educators and parents, and the general public; (2) advises NIH leadership on science education issues; (3) examines and evaluates research and emerging trends in science education and literacy for policy making; (4) works closely with the NIH extramural, intramural, women''s health, laboratory animal research, and minority program offices on science education special issues and programs to ensure coordination of NIH efforts; (5) works with NIH institutes, centers, and divisions to enhance communication of science education activities; and (6) works cooperatively with other public- and private-sector organizations to develop and coordinate activities.

Proper citation: NIH Office of Science Education (RRID:SCR_005603) Copy   

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http://www.esourceresearch.org/

Inside e-Source you will find 20 interactive chapters with authoritative answers to methodological questions on behavioral and social science research. With contributions from a team of international experts, this anthology provides the latest information on addressing emerging challenges in public health. Book contents include: Setting the Scene, Describing How, Explaining Why, What Works, Emerging Issues. Tables, Figures, Exercises and Examples are included. Login for enhanced functionality. Contents: * Appropriate Research Methods * ''Science'' in the Social Sciences * Design Decisions in Research * Theory Development * Social and Behavioral Theories * Sample Surveys * Social Survey Data Collection * Administrative Data Systems * Observational Studies * Qualitative Methods * Conversation Analysis * Software and Qualitative Analysis * Clinical Trials * Cluster Unit Randomized Trials * Ethical Challenges * Multilevel Modeling * Objective Measurement of Subjective Phenomena * Measuring Socioeconomic Status * Evaluating the Quality of Health Care * Patient-Reported Outcomes

Proper citation: e-Source: Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (RRID:SCR_005627) Copy   

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http://grants.nih.gov/podcasts/All_About_Grants/index.htm

The Office of Extramural Research (OER) presents conversations with NIH staff members. Designed for investigators, fellows, students, research administrators, and others, we provide insights on grant topics from those who live and breathe the information. In mp3 and updated monthly. Transcripts are also available. So You Wanna... Keep Up with What''''s Hot? Prepare a Successful Grant Application? Suggest a Topic? Understand How Your Grant is Reviewed? Be an NIH Investigator?

Proper citation: All About Grants Podcast (RRID:SCR_005621) Copy   

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http://slicer.org/

A free, open source software package for visualization and image analysis including registration, segmentation, and quantification of medical image data. Slicer provides a graphical user interface to a powerful set of tools so they can be used by end-user clinicians and researchers alike. 3D Slicer is natively designed to be available on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux and Mac Os X. Slicer is based on VTK (http://public.kitware.com/vtk) and has a modular architecture for easy addition of new functionality. It uses an XML-based file format called MRML - Medical Reality Markup Language which can be used as an interchange format among medical imaging applications. Slicer is primarily written in C++ and Tcl.

Proper citation: 3D Slicer (RRID:SCR_005619) Copy   

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http://great.stanford.edu/public/html/splash.php

Data analysis service that predicts functions of cis-regulatory regions identified by localized measurements of DNA binding events across an entire genome. Whereas previous methods took into account only binding proximal to genes, GREAT is able to properly incorporate distal binding sites and control for false positives using a binomial test over the input genomic regions. GREAT incorporates annotations from 20 ontologies and is available as a web application. The utility of GREAT extends to data generated for transcription-associated factors, open chromatin, localized epigenomic markers and similar functional data sets, and comparative genomics sets. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: GREAT: Genomic Regions Enrichment of Annotations Tool (RRID:SCR_005807) Copy   

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http://umbbd.msi.umn.edu/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on August 27, 2014. Database containing information on microbial biocatalytic reactions and biodegradation pathways for primarily xenobiotic, chemical compounds. Its goal is to provide information on microbial enzyme-catalyzed reactions that are important for biotechnology. The reactions covered are studied for basic understanding of nature, biocatalysis leading to specialty chemical manufacture, and biodegradation of environmental pollutants. Individual reactions and metabolic pathways are presented with information on the starting and intermediate chemical compounds, the organisms that transform the compounds, the enzymes, and the genes. The present database has been successfully used to teach enzymology and use of biochemical Internet information resources to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and is being expanded primarily with the help of such students. In addition to reactions and pathways, this database also contains Biochemical Periodic Tables and a Pathway Prediction System. * Search the UM-BBD for compound, enzyme, microorganism, pathway, or BT rule name; chemical formula; chemical structure; CAS Registry Number; or EC code. * Go to Pathways and Metapathways in the UM-BBD * Lists of 203 pathways; 1400 reactions; 1296 compounds; 916 enzymes; 510 microorganism entries; 245 biotransformation rules; 50 organic functional groups; 76 reactions of naphthalene 1,2-dioxygenase; 109 reactions of toluene dioxygenase; Graphical UM-BBD Overview; and Other Graphics (Metapathway and Pathway Maps and Reaction Mechanisms).

Proper citation: UM-BBD (RRID:SCR_005787) Copy   

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http://genome.ucsc.edu/

Portal to interactively visualize genomic data. Provides reference sequences and working draft assemblies for collection of genomes and access to ENCODE and Neanderthal projects. Includes collection of vertebrate and model organism assemblies and annotations, along with suite of tools for viewing, analyzing and downloading data.

Proper citation: UCSC Genome Browser (RRID:SCR_005780) Copy   

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http://www.patternlabforproteomics.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented July 5, 2018. Gene Ontology Explorer (GOEx) combines data from protein fold changes with GO over-representation statistics to help draw conclusions in proteomic experiments. It is tightly integrated within the PatternLab for Proteomics project and, thus, lies within a complete computational environment that provides parsers and pattern recognition tools designed for spectral counting. GOEx offers three independent methods to query data: an interactive directed acyclic graph, a specialist mode where key words can be searched, and an automatic search. A recent hack included in GOEx is to load the sparse matrix index file directly into GOEx, instead of going through the report generation using the AC/T-fold methods. This makes it easy for GOEx to analyze any list of proteins as long as the list follows the index file format (described in manuscript) . Please note that if using this alternative strategy, there will be no protein fold information. Platform: Windows compatible

Proper citation: GOEx - Gene Ontology Explorer (RRID:SCR_005779) Copy   

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https://rarediseases.org/organizations/nihoffice-of-rare-disease-research/

Organization which develops and maintains a centralized database on rare disease clinical research supported by the NIH. It also stimulates rare disease research by supporting scientific workshops and symposia, responds to requests for information on highly technical matters and matters of public policy, provides information to the Office of the Director on matters relating to rare diseases and orphan products, and coordinates and serves as a liaison with Federal and non-Federal national and international organizations.

Proper citation: Office of Rare Diseases Research (RRID:SCR_004121) Copy   

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http://www.essentialtremor.us/

Finding a cure for any neurological disorder begins with the scientific study of the disorder''s causes, processes, and development in the brain. For essential tremor (ET), rigorous study of this kind had not been undertaken until 2003, when the Essential Tremor Centralized Brain Repository (ETCBR) was established at Columbia University. For the past five years, brain tissue from ET donors has been collected, processed and compared alongside age-matched control brains at the ETCBR, and already several significant findings have been made. However, there is still much to learn and a severe shortage of ET brains for scientific study. If you have been diagnosed with essential tremor, donating your brain tissue in the hours immediately after your death is of utmost importance in providing crucial information about what causes ET. Direct analysis of the shape and number of nerve cells and their content will provide medical researchers with the information they need in order to understand this complex illness. By advancing our medical knowledge of ET, the gift of brain tissue is a central piece of the puzzle in the search to develop better treatments and find a cure.

Proper citation: Essential Tremor Centralized Brain Repository (RRID:SCR_004464) Copy   

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http://www.na-mic.org/

The National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC) is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, software engineers, and medical investigators who develop computational tools for the analysis and visualization of medical image data. The purpose of the Center is to provide the infrastructure and environment for the development of computational algorithms and open-source technologies, and then oversee the training and dissemination of these tools to the medical research community. Electronic resources provided by NA-MIC include software, data, tutorials, presentations, and more.

Proper citation: National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (RRID:SCR_004460) Copy   

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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/

Data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences, hosting 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. ICPSR comprises a consortium of about 700 academic institutions and research organizations providing training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSR welcomes and encourages deposits of digital data. ICPSR's educational activities include the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research external link, a comprehensive curriculum of intensive courses in research design, statistics, data analysis, and social methodology. ICPSR also leads several initiatives that encourage use of data in teaching, particularly for undergraduate instruction. ICPSR-sponsored research focuses on the emerging challenges of digital curation and data science. ICPSR researchers also examine substantive issues related to our collections, with an emphasis on historical demography and the environment.

Proper citation: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) (RRID:SCR_003194) Copy   

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http://www.loni.usc.edu/BIRN/Projects/Mouse/

Animal model data primarily focused on mice including high resolution MRI, light and electron microscopic data from normal and genetically modified mice. It also has atlases, and the Mouse BIRN Atlasing Toolkit (MBAT) which provides a 3D visual interface to spatially registered distributed brain data acquired across scales. The goal of the Mouse BIRN is to help scientists utilize model organism databases for analyzing experimental data. Mouse BIRN has ended. The next phase of this project is the Mouse Connectome Project (https://www.nitrc.org/projects/mcp/). The Mouse BIRN testbeds initially focused on mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases. Mouse BIRN testbed partners provide multi-modal, multi-scale reference image data of the mouse brain as well as genetic and genomic information linking genotype and brain phenotype. Researchers across six groups are pooling and analyzing multi-scale structural and functional data and integrating it with genomic and gene expression data acquired from the mouse brain. These correlated multi-scale analyses of data are providing a comprehensive basis upon which to interpret signals from the whole brain relative to the tissue and cellular alterations characteristic of the modeled disorder. BIRN's infrastructure is providing the collaborative tools to enable researchers with unique expertise and knowledge of the mouse an opportunity to work together on research relevant to pre-clinical mouse models of neurological disease. The Mouse BIRN also maintains a collaborative Web Wiki, which contains announcements, an FAQ, and much more.

Proper citation: Mouse Biomedical Informatics Research Network (RRID:SCR_003392) Copy   

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http://edoctoring.ncl.ac.uk/Public_site/

Online educational tool that brings challenging clinical practice to your computer, providing medical education that is engaging, challenging and interactive. While there is no substitute for real-life direct contact with patients or colleagues, research has shown that interactive online education can be a highly effective and enjoyable method of learning many components of clinical medicine, including ethics, clinical management, epidemiology and communication skills. eDoctoring offers 25 simulated clinical cases, 15 interactive tutorials and a virtual library containing numerous articles, fast facts and video clips. Their learning material is arranged in the following content areas: * Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genetic Testing * Palliative and End-of-Life Care * Prostate Cancer Screening and Shared Decision-Making

Proper citation: eDoctoring (RRID:SCR_003336) Copy   

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http://portal.ncibi.org/gateway/mimiplugin.html

The Cytoscape MiMI Plugin is an open source interactive visualization tool that you can use for analyzing protein interactions and their biological effects. The Cytoscape MiMI Plugin couples Cytoscape, a widely used software tool for analyzing bimolecular networks, with the MiMI database, a database that uses an intelligent deep-merging approach to integrate data from multiple well-known protein interaction databases. The MiMI database has data on 119,880 molecules, 330,153 interactions, and 579 complexes. By querying the MiMI database through Cytoscape you can access the integrated molecular data assembled in MiMI and retrieve interactive graphics that display protein interactions and details on related attributes and biological concepts. You can interact with the visualization by expanding networks to the next nearest neighbors and zooming and panning to relationships of interest. You also can perceptually encode nodes and links to show additional attributes through color, size and the visual cues. You can edit networks, link out to other resources and tools, and access information associated with interactions that has been mined and summarized from the research literature information through a biology natural language processing database (BioNLP) and a multi-document summarization system, MEAD. Additionally, you can choose sub-networks of interest and use SAGA, a graph matching tool, to match these sub-networks to biological pathways.

Proper citation: MiMI Plugin for Cytoscape (RRID:SCR_003424) Copy   

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https://services.healthtech.dtu.dk/

Center for Biological Sequence Analysis of the Technical University of Denmark conducts basic research in the field of bioinformatics and systems biology and directs its research primarily towards topics related to the elucidation of the functional aspects of complex biological mechanisms. A large number of computational methods have been produced, which are offered to others via WWW servers. Several data sets are also available. The center also has experimental efforts in gene expression analysis using DNA chips and data generation in relation to the physical and structural properties of DNA. The on-line prediction services at CBS are available as interactive input forms. Most of the servers are also available as stand-alone software packages with the same functionality. In addition, for some servers, programmatic access is provided in the form of SOAP-based Web Services. The center also educates engineering students in biotechnology and systems biology and offers a wide range of courses in bioinformatics, systems biology, human health, microbiology and nutrigenomics.

Proper citation: DTU Center for Biological Sequence Analysis (RRID:SCR_003590) 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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