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http://www.drugabuseresearchtraining.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on November 07, 2012. Decemeber 15, 2011 - Thank you for your interest in DrugAbuseResearchTraining.org. The site, courses, and resources are no longer available. Please send an email to inquiry (at) md-inc.com if you would like to be notified if the site or courses become available again. Introduction to Clinical Drug and Substance Abuse Research Methods is an online training program intended to introduce clinicians and substance abuse professionals to basic clinical research methods. The program is divided into four modules. Each module covers an entire topic and includes self-assessment questions, references, and online resources: * The Neurobiology of Drug Addiction * Biostatistics for Drug and Substance Abuse Research * Evaluating Drug and Substance Abuse Programs * Designing and Managing Drug and Substance Abuse Clinical Trials The learning objectives of this program are to help you: * Evaluate the benefits of alternative investigative approaches for answering important questions in drug abuse evaluation and treatment. * Define the proper levels of measurement and appropriate statistical methods for a clinical study. * Address common problems in data collection and analysis. * Anticipate key human subjects and ethical issues that arise in drug abuse studies. * Interpret findings from the drug abuse research literature and prepare a clinical research proposal. * Prepare research findings for internal distribution or publication in the peer reviewed literature. * Recognize drug addiction as a cyclical, chronic disease. * Understand and describe the brain circuits that are affected by addicting drugs, and explain to others the effects of major classes of addicting drugs on brain neurotransmitters. * Utilize new pharmacologic treatments to manage persons with drug addiction. Physicians can earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credit and purchase a high resolution printable electronic CME certificate(view sample); non-physicians can purchase high resolution printable electronic certificate of course participation that references AMA PRA Category 1 credit (view sample). This program does not offer printed certificates.

Proper citation: Online Education for the International Research Community: AboutIntroduction to Clinical Drug and Substance Abuse Research Methods (RRID:SCR_000802) Copy   

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http://www.drugabuse.gov/about/organization/CEWG/

A network composed of researchers from major metropolitan areas of the United States and selected foreign countries which meet semiannually to discuss the current epidemiology of drug abuse. The primary mission of the Work Group is to provide ongoing community-level surveillance of drug abuse through analysis of quantitative and qualitative research data. Through this program the CEWG provides current descriptive and analytical information regarding the nature and patterns of drug abuse, emerging trends, characteristics of vulnerable populations and social and health consequences. Reports Reports are available from the biannual meetings at which the network members discuss current and emerging problems of substance abuse. At the meetings, CEWG members present data on drug abuse from a variety of city, State, Federal, and other sources. These data are enhanced with information gathered through ethnographic research, focus groups, interviews, and other qualitative methods. This integration of quantitative with qualitative data provides invaluable insight into emerging drug use trends. Book In 1998, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) published the first edition of Assessing Drug Abuse Within and Across Communities: Community Epidemiology Surveillance Networks on Drug Abuse to share information on establishing drug abuse epidemiology networks at community and State levels. Its purpose is to provide guidelines for establishing epidemiology networks to monitor and assess drug abuse patterns and trends and emerging drug problems at community and State levels to provide a foundation of information for public health response. The second edition differs from the first in format. For each data source, there is a description of the source and database, followed by guidelines on how to access the data (including Web sites) and what to request, and examples of how the data have been used by epidemiology work groups or Federal agencies. NIDA hopes that this revised guide is helpful to agencies, organizations, and researchers that are involved in or wish to establish epidemiology networks in their communities or States.

Proper citation: Community Epidemiology Work Group (RRID:SCR_002751) Copy   

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http://neuinfo.org

Framework for identifying, locating, relating, accessing, integrating, and analyzing information from neuroscience research. Users can search for and add neuroscience-related resources at NIF portal and receive and RRID to track and cite resources within scientific manuscripts.

Proper citation: Neuroscience Information Framework (RRID:SCR_002894) Copy   

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http://trans.nih.gov/bmap/resources/resources.htm

As part of BMAP gene discovery efforts, mouse brain cDNA libraries and Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) have been generated. Through this project a BMAP mouse brain UniGene set consisting of over 24,000 non-redundant members of unique clusters has been developed from EST sequencing of more than 50,000 cDNA clones from 10 regions of adult mouse brain, spinal cord, and retina (http://brainEST.eng.uiowa.edu/). In 2001, NIMH along with NICHD, NIDDK, and NIDA, awarded a contract to the University of Iowa ( M.B. Soares, PI) to isolate full-length cDNA clones corresponding to genes expressed in the developing mouse nervous system and determine their full-coding sequences. The BMAP mouse brain EST sequences can be accessed at NCBI's dbEST database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dbEST/). Arrayed sets of BMAP mouse brain UniGenes and cDNA libraries, and individual BMAP cDNA clones can be purchased from Open Biosystems, Huntsville, AL (http://www.openbiosystems.com

Proper citation: BMAP cDNA Resources (RRID:SCR_002973) Copy   

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https://neurobiobank.nih.gov/

National resource for investigators utilizing human post-mortem brain tissue and related biospecimens for their research to understand conditions of the nervous system. Federated network of brain and tissue repositories in the United States that collects, evaluates, stores, and makes available to researchers, brain and other tissues in a way that is consistent with the highest ethical and research standards. The NeuroBioBank ensures protection of the privacy and wishes of donors. Provides information to the public about the need for tissue donation and how to register as a donor.

Proper citation: NIH NeuroBioBank (RRID:SCR_003131) Copy   

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http://www.pediatricmri.nih.gov/

Data sets of clinical / behavioral and image data are available for download by qualified researchers from a seven year, multi-site, longitudinal study using magnetic resonance technologies to study brain maturation in healthy, typically-developing infants, children, and adolescents and to correlate brain development with cognitive and behavioral development. The information obtained in this study is expected to provide essential data for understanding the course of normal brain development as a basis for understanding atypical brain development associated with a variety of developmental, neurological, and neuropsychiatric disorders affecting children and adults. This study enrolled over 500 children, ranging from infancy to young adulthood. The goal was to study each participant at least three times over the course of the project at one of six Pediatric Centers across the United States. Brain MR and clinical/behavioral data have been compiled and analyzed at a Data Coordinating Center and Clinical Coordinating Center. Additionally, MR spectroscopy and DTI data are being analyzed. The study was organized around two objectives corresponding to two age ranges at the time of enrollment, each with its own protocols. * Objective 1 enrolled children ages 4 years, 6 months through 18 years (total N = 433). This sample was recruited across the six Pediatric Study Centers using community based sampling to reflect the demographics of the United States in terms of income, race, and ethnicity. The subjects were studied with both imaging and clinical/behavioral measures at two year intervals for three time points. * Objective 2 enrolled newborns, infants, toddlers, and preschoolers from birth through 4 years, 5 months, who were studied three or more times at two Pediatric Study Centers at intervals ranging from three months for the youngest subjects to one year as the children approach the Objective 1 age range. Both imaging and clinical/behavioral measures were collected at each time point. Participant recruitment used community based sampling that included hospital venues (e.g., maternity wards and nurseries, satellite physician offices, and well-child clinics), community organizations (e.g., day-care centers, schools, and churches), and siblings of children participating in other research at the Pediatric Study Centers. At timepoint 1, of those enrolled, 114 children had T1 scans that passed quality control checks. Staged data release plan: The first data release included structural MR images and clinical/behavioral data from the first assessments, Visit 1, for Objective 1. A second data release included structural MRI and clinical/behavioral data from the second visit for Objective 1. A third data release included structural MRI data for both Objective 1 and 2 and all time points, as well as preliminary spectroscopy data. A fourth data release added cortical thickness, gyrification and cortical surface data. Yet to be released are longitudinally registered anatomic MRI data and diffusion tensor data. A collaborative effort among the participating centers and NIH resulted in age-appropriate MR protocols and clinical/behavioral batteries of instruments. A summary of this protocol is available as a Protocol release document. Details of the project, such as study design, rationale, recruitment, instrument battery, MRI acquisition details, and quality controls can be found in the study protocol. Also available are the MRI procedure manual and Clinical/Behavioral procedure manuals for Objective 1 and Objective 2.

Proper citation: NIH MRI Study of Normal Brain Development (RRID:SCR_003394) Copy   

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http://www.genetics.ucla.edu/labs/horvath/CoexpressionNetwork/

Software R package for weighted correlation network analysis. WGCNA is also available as point-and-click application. Unfortunately this application is not maintained anymore. It is known to have compatibility problems with R-2.8.x and newer, and the methods it implements are not all state of the art., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis (RRID:SCR_003302) Copy   

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http://trans.nih.gov/bmap/index.htm

The Brain Molecular Anatomy Project is a trans-NIH project aimed at understanding gene expression and function in the nervous system. BMAP has two major scientific goals: # Gene discovery: to catalog of all the genes expressed in the nervous system, under both normal and abnormal conditions. # Gene expression analysis: to monitor gene expression patterns in the nervous system as a function of cell type, anatomical location, developmental stage, and physiological state, and thus gain insight into gene function. In pursuit of these goals, BMAP has launched several initiatives to provide resources and funding opportunities for the scientific community. These include several Requests for Applications and Requests for Proposals, descriptions of which can be found in this Web site. BMAP is also in the process of establishing physical and electronic resources for the community, including repositories of cDNA clones for nervous system genes, and databases of gene expression information for the nervous system. Most of the BMAP initiatives so far have focused on the mouse as a model species because of the ease of experimental and genetic manipulation of this organism, and because many models of human disease are available in the mouse. However, research in humans, other mammalian species, non-mammalian vertebrates, and invertebrates is also being funded through BMAP. For the convenience of interested investigators, we have established this Web site as a central information resource, focusing on major NIH-sponsored funding opportunities, initiatives, genomic resources available to the research community, courses and scientific meetings related to BMAP initiatives, and selected reports and publications. When appropriate, we will also post initiatives not directly sponsored by BMAP, but which are deemed relevant to its goals. Posting decisions are made by the Trans-NIH BMAP Committee

Proper citation: BMAP - Brain Molecular Anatomy Project (RRID:SCR_008852) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/dots/

A fast, scalable tool developed at the Johns Hopkins University to automatically segment the major anatomical fiber tracts within the human brain from clinical quality diffusion tensor MR imaging. With an atlas-based Markov Random Field representation, DOTS directly estimates the tract probabilities, bypassing tractography and associated issues. Overlapping and crossing fibers are modeled and DOTS can also handle white matter lesions. DOTS is released as a plug-in for the MIPAV software package and as a module for the JIST pipeline environment. They are therefore cross-platform and compatible with a wide variety of file formats.

Proper citation: DOTS WM tract segmentation (RRID:SCR_009459) Copy   

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https://rrid.site/rin/sources/SCR_005400

Interactive portal for finding and submitting biomedical resources. Resources within SciCrunch have assigned RRIDs which are used to cite resources in scientific manuscripts. SciCrunch Registry, formerly NIF Registry, provides resources catalog. Allows to add new resources. Allows edit existing resources after registration. Curators are tasked with identifying and registering resources, examining data, writing configuration files to index and display data and keeping contents current.

Proper citation: SciCrunch Registry (RRID:SCR_005400) Copy   

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http://biositemaps.ncbcs.org/rds/search.html

Resource Discovery System is a web-accessible and searchable inventory of biomedical research resources. Powered by the Resource Discovery System (RDS) that includes a standards-based informatics infrastructure * Biositemaps Information Model * Biomedical Resource Ontology Extensions * Web Services distributed web-accessible inventory framework * Biositemap Resource Editor * Resource Discovery System Source code and project documentation to be made available on an open-source basis. Contributing institutions: University of Pittsburgh, University of Michigan, Stanford University, Oregon Health & Science University, University of Texas Houston. Duke University, Emory University, University of California Davis, University of California San Diego, National Institutes of Health, Inventory Resources Working Group Members

Proper citation: Resource Discovery System (RRID:SCR_005554) Copy   

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http://www.exocarta.org/

Manually curated database of exosomal proteins, RNA and lipids. Web based compendium of exosomal cargo. Database catalogs information from both published and unpublished exosomal studies. Mode of exosomal purification and characterization, biophysical and molecular properties are listed.

Proper citation: ExoCarta (RRID:SCR_021960) Copy   

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http://vox.pharmacology.ucla.edu/home.html

Two-dimensional images of gene expression for 20,000 genes in a coronal slice of the mouse brain at the level of the striatum by using microarrays in combination with voxelation at a resolution of 1 cubic mm gene expression patterns in the brain obtained through voxelation. Voxelation employs high-throughput analysis of spatially registered voxels (cubes) to produce multiple volumetric maps of gene expression analogous to the images reconstructed in biomedical imaging systems.

Proper citation: Voxelation Map of Gene Expression in a Coronal Section of the Mouse Brain (RRID:SCR_008065) Copy   

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http://www.nihpromis.org/

Repository of person centered measures that evaluates and monitors physical, mental, and social health in adults and children.

Proper citation: Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (RRID:SCR_004718) Copy   

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http://courses.jax.org/2012/addiction.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 23, 2016. This course emphasizes genetic applications and approaches to drug addiction research through methodological instruction based on literature, data sets and informatics resources drawn from studies of addiction related phenotypes. The course includes plenary sessions on major progress in addiction genetics, and discussion sessions in which students present their work for discussion on applications of genetic methods. Students will leave the course able to design and interpret genetic and genomic studies of addiction as they relate to their specific research question, and will be able to make use of current bioinformatics resources to identify research resources and make use of public data sources in their own research.

Proper citation: Short Course on the Genetics of Addiction (RRID:SCR_005560) Copy   

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http://zfishbook.org/

Collection of revertible protein trap gene-breaking transposon (GBT) insertional mutants in zebrafish with active or cryopreserved lines from initially identified lines. Open to community-wide contributions including expression and functional annotation and represents world-wide central hub for information on how to obtain these lines from diverse members of International Zebrafish Protein Trap Consortium (IZPTC) and integration within other zebrafish community databases including Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN), Ensembl and National Center for Biotechnology Information. Registration allows users to save their favorite lines for easy access, request lines from Mayo Clinic catalog, contribute to line annotation with appropriate credit, and puts them on optional mailing list for future zfishbook newletters and updates.

Proper citation: zfishbook (RRID:SCR_006896) Copy   

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http://www.emouseatlas.org

Detailed multidimensional digital multimodal atlas of C57BL/6J mouse nervous system with data and informatics pipeline that can automatically register, annotate, and visualize large scale neuroanatomical and connectivity data produced in histology, neuronal tract tracing, MR imaging, and genetic labeling. MAP2.0 interoperates with commonly used publicly available databases to bring together brain architecture, gene expression, and imaging information into single, simple interface.Resource to visualise mouse development, identify anatomical structures, determine developmental stage, and investigate gene expression in mouse embryo. eMouseAtlas portal page allows access to EMA Anatomy Atlas of Mouse Development and EMAGE database of gene expression.EMAGE is freely available, curated database of gene expression patterns generated by in situ techniques in developing mouse embryo. EMA, e-Mouse Atlas, is 3-D anatomical atlas of mouse embryo development including histology and includes EMAP ontology of anatomical structure, provides information about shape, gross anatomy and detailed histological structure of mouse, and framework into which information about gene function can be mapped.

Proper citation: eMouseAtlas (RRID:SCR_002981) Copy   

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https://confluence.crbs.ucsd.edu/display/NIF/DRG

Gene expression data from published journal articles that test hypotheses relevant to neuroscience of addiction and addictive behavior. Data types include effects of particular drug, strain, or knock out on particular gene, in particular anatomical region. Focuses on gene expression data and exposes data from investigations using DNA microarrays, polymerase chain reaction, immunohistochemistry and in-situ hybridizations. Data are available for query through NIF interface.Data submissions are welcome.

Proper citation: Drug Related Gene Database (RRID:SCR_003330) Copy   

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https://scicrunch.org/scicrunch/data/source/nlx_154697-7/search?q=*

Virtual database currently indexing interaction between genes and diseases from Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) and Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD).

Proper citation: Integrated Gene-Disease Interaction (RRID:SCR_006173) Copy   

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http://www.mbl.org/mbl_main/atlas.html

High-resolution electronic atlases for mouse strains c57bl/6j, a/j, and dba/2j in either coronal or horizontal section. About this Atlas: The anterior-posterior coordinates are taken from an excellent print atlas of a C57BL/6J brain by K. Franklin and G. Paxinos (The Mouse Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, Academic Press, San Diego, 1997, ISBN Number 0-12-26607-6; Library of Congress: QL937.F72). The abbreviations we have used to label the sections conform to those in the Franklin-Paxinos atlas. A C57BL/6J mouse brain may contain as many as 75 million neurons, 23 million glial cells, 7 million endothelial cells associated with blood vessels, and 3 to 4 million miscellaneous pial, ependymal, and choroid plexus cells (see data analysis in Williams, 2000). We have not yet counted total cell number in DBA/2J mice, but the counts are probably appreciably lower.The brain and sections were all processed as described in our methods section. The enlarged images have a pixel count of 1865 x 1400 and the resolution is 4.5 microns/pixel for the processed sections.Plans: In the next several years we hope to add several additional atlases of the same sort for other strains of mice. A horizontal C57BL/6J atlas and a DBA/2J coronal atlas were completed by Tony Capra, summer 2000, and additional atlases may be made over the next several years. As describe in the MBL Procedures Section is not hard to make your own strain-specific atlas from the high resolution images in the MBL.

Proper citation: Mouse Brain Atlases (RRID:SCR_007127) Copy   

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