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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~brdsmith/Research.html

Data set of image collections and movies including Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Embryos, Human Embryo Imaging, MRI of Cardiovascular Development, and Live Embryo Imaging. Individual MRI slice images, three-dimensional images, animations, stereo-pair animations, animations of organ systems, and photo-micrographs are included.

Proper citation: Brad Smith Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Embryos (RRID:SCR_006300) Copy   

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http://ctdbase.org/

A public database that enhances understanding of the effects of environmental chemicals on human health. Integrated GO data and a GO browser add functionality to CTD by allowing users to understand biological functions, processes and cellular locations that are the targets of chemical exposures. CTD includes curated data describing cross-species chemical–gene/protein interactions, chemical–disease and gene–disease associations to illuminate molecular mechanisms underlying variable susceptibility and environmentally influenced diseases. These data will also provide insights into complex chemical–gene and protein interaction networks.

Proper citation: Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) (RRID:SCR_006530) Copy   

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http://rgd.mcw.edu

Database for genetic, genomic, phenotype, and disease data generated from rat research. Centralized database that collects, manages, and distributes data generated from rat genetic and genomic research and makes these data available to scientific community. Curation of mapped positions for quantitative trait loci, known mutations and other phenotypic data is provided. Facilitates investigators research efforts by providing tools to search, mine, and analyze this data. Strain reports include description of strain origin, disease, phenotype, genetics, immunology, behavior with links to related genes, QTLs, sub-strains, and strain sources.

Proper citation: Rat Genome Database (RGD) (RRID:SCR_006444) Copy   

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http://brainmaps.org

An interactive multiresolution brain atlas that is based on over 20 million megapixels of sub-micron resolution, annotated, scanned images of serial sections of both primate and non-primate brains and integrated with a high-speed database for querying and retrieving data about brain structure and function. Currently featured are complete brain atlas datasets for various species, including Macaca mulatta, Chlorocebus aethiops, Felis catus, Mus musculus, Rattus norvegicus, Tyto alba and many other vertebrates. BrainMaps is currently accepting histochemical, immunocytochemical, and tracer connectivity data, preferably whole-brain. In addition, they are interested in EM, MRI, and DTI data.

Proper citation: BrainMaps.org (RRID:SCR_006878) Copy   

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http://www.webgestalt.org/

Web based gene set analysis toolkit designed for functional genomic, proteomic, and large-scale genetic studies from which large number of gene lists (e.g. differentially expressed gene sets, co-expressed gene sets etc) are continuously generated. WebGestalt incorporates information from different public resources and provides a way for biologists to make sense out of gene lists. This version of WebGestalt supports eight organisms, including human, mouse, rat, worm, fly, yeast, dog, and zebrafish.

Proper citation: WebGestalt: WEB-based GEne SeT AnaLysis Toolkit (RRID:SCR_006786) Copy   

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https://madb.nci.nih.gov/

Microarray data management and analysis system for NCI / Center for Cancer Research scientists / collaborators. Data is secured and backed up on a regular basis, and investigators can authorize levels of access privileges to their projects, allowing data privacy while still enabling data sharing with collaborators.

Proper citation: mAdb (RRID:SCR_006677) Copy   

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http://brainarray.mbni.med.umich.edu/Brainarray/Database/ProbeMatchDB/ncbi_probmatch_para_step1.asp

Matches a list of microarray probes across different microrarray platforms (GeneChip, EST from different vendors, Operon Oligos) and species (human, mouse and rat), based on NCBI UniGene and HomoloGene. The capability to match protein sequence IDs has just been added to facilitate proteomic studies. The ProbeMatchDB is mainly used for the design of verification experiments or comparing the microarray results from different platforms. It can be used for finding equivalent EST clones in the Research Genetics sequence verified clone set based on results from Affymetirx GeneChips. It will also help to identify probes representing orthologous genes across human, mouse and rat on different microarray platforms.

Proper citation: ProbeMatchDB 2.0 (RRID:SCR_003433) Copy   

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http://ucsfeye.net/mlavailRDratmodels.shtml

Supplier of fully penetrant rat models of the retinitis pigmentosa type of inherited retinal degeneration, including the following models: * Mutant rhodopsin transgenic rats ** P23H mutant rhodopsin transgenic rats -Three lines with different rates of photoreceptor degeneration ** S334ter mutant rhodopsin transgenic rats -Five lines with different rates of photoreceptor degeneration * RCS (Royal College of Surgeons) rats with inherited retinal dystrophy ** RCS pink-eyed inbred strain ** RCS pigmented congenic strain with slowed rate of retinal dystrophy ** RCS congenic control strains of both pigmentation types, wild-type at the retinal dystrophy (Mertk) genetic locus The resource has been supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI) for the past 19 years to produce and distribute breeding pairs of these animal models to vision scientists. Thus, the following apply: * Request for rats requires only a 1-page letter/e-mail addressing 4 questions * No charge for the animals or tissues (except for shipping costs) * No Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) required * No collaboration requirement (in most cases) The resource usually provides multiple breeding pairs of the rats to vision scientists to generate breeding stock. It can also provide extra animals to breed for immediate experimental work, animals of specific ages (depending upon availability), animals with prior exposure to different lighting conditions, eyes taken at specific ages instead of rats for pilot studies and other experiments (fresh, frozen, dissected in specific ways, or fixed with special fixatives or by different methods), or other tissues (e.g., liver, spleen, brain, testis, etc.) prepared different ways.

Proper citation: Retinal Degeneration Rat Model Resource (RRID:SCR_003311) Copy   

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http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/DrugDevelopmentToolsQualificationProgram/UCM294644.pdf

Serum / plasma biomarkers, Cardiac troponins T (cTnT) and I (cTnI), in safety assessment studies for rats, dogs, and monkeys are qualified biomarkers for the following contexts of use: # When there is previous indication of cardiac structural damage with a particular drug, cardiac troponin testing can help estimate a lowest toxic dose or a highest non-toxic dose to help choose doses for human testing. In this case, cardiac troponins may serve as a clinical chemistry correlate to the histology. For example, in a safety assessment study, lower doses without increases in cardiac troponins may be used to support a no observed effect level (NOEL) identified by histology. # When there is known cardiac structural damage with a particular pharmacologic class of a drug and histopathologic analyses do not reveal structural damage, circulating cardiac troponins may be used to support or refute the inference of low cardiotoxic potential. # When unexpected cardiac structural toxicity is found in a nonclinical study, the retroactive (reflex) examination of serum or plasma from that study for cardiac troponins can be used to help determine a no observed adverse effect level (NOAEL) or lowest observed adverse effect level (LOAEL). The results of this testing may support inclusion of cardiac troponin testing in subsequent safety assessment studies.

Proper citation: O'Brien Reagan York and Jacobsen Drug-induced Cardiotoxicity Biomarkers (RRID:SCR_003717) Copy   

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http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/DrugDevelopmentToolsQualificationProgram/UCM285010.pdf

Urinary kidney biomarkers, Clusterin and Renal Papillary Antigen-1 (RPA-1), that sponsors may use to determine more conservative NOAELs for estimating starting doses in the initial human clinical trial of a drug that displays nonclinical nephrotoxicity as determined by histopathology. When tested with a limited number of nephrotoxic compounds, the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analyses showed that urinary clusterin and renal papillary antigen-1 (RPA-1) have better sensitivity and specificity than BUN and creatinine for the detection of specific kidney pathologies in male rats. Clusterin and RPA-1 provide additional and complementary information to BUN, serum creatinine (sCr), and histopathology for the detection of acute drug-induced nephrotoxicity in safety assessment studies.

Proper citation: ILSI HESI Drug-induced Nephrotoxicity Biomarkers (RRID:SCR_003716) Copy   

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http://synapses.clm.utexas.edu

A portal into the 3D ultrastructure of the brain providing: Anatomy of astrocytes, axons, dendrites, hippocampus, organelles, synapses; procedures of 3D reconstruction and tissue preparation; as well as an atlas of ultrastructural neurocytology (by Josef Spacek), online aligned images, and reconstructed dendrites. Synapse Web hosts an ultrastructural atlas containing more than 500 electron micrographs (added to regularly) that identify unique ultrastructural and cellular components throughout the brain. Additionally, Synapse Web has raw images, reconstructions, and quantitative data along with tutorial instructions and numerous tools for investigating the functional structure of objects that have been serial thin sectioned for electron microscopy.

Proper citation: Synapse Web (RRID:SCR_003577) Copy   

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http://www.informatics.jax.org/searches/MP_form.shtml

Community ontology to provide standard terms for annotating mammalian phenotypic data. It has a hierarchical structure that permits a range of detail from high-level, broadly descriptive terms to very low-level, highly specific terms. This range is useful for annotating phenotypic data to the level of detail known and for searching for this information using either broad or specific terms as search criteria. Your input is welcome.

Proper citation: MPO (RRID:SCR_004855) 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://genenet2.uthsc.edu/geneinfoviz/search.php

GeneInfoViz is a web based tool for batch retrieval of gene function information, visualization of GO structure and construction of gene relation networks. It takes a input list of genes in the form of LocusLink ID, UniGeneID, gene symbol, or accession number and returns their functional genomic information. Based on the GO annotations of the given genes, GeneInfoViz allows users to visualize these genes in the DAG structure of GO, and construct a gene relation network at a selected level of the DAG. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: GeneInfoViz (RRID:SCR_005680) Copy   

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http://adacgh.bioinfo.cnio.es/

A web tool for the analysis of aCGH data sets. They focus on calling gains and losses and estimating the number of copy changes. Note: ADaCGH will continue being maintained, but is deprecated. Their new tool for CGH and CNV is WaviCGH, http://wavi.bioinfo.cnio.es/

Proper citation: ADaCGH (RRID:SCR_010916) Copy   

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http://www.zi-mannheim.de/en.html

An independent public foundation of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg associated with the University of Heidelberg, that is one of Europe''s premier research institutions dedicated to mental health. The CIMH combines a clinical inpatient (300 beds) and outpatient program in adult psychiatry, addiction, childhood and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy with outstanding research facilities, including two dedicated research fMRI scanners (currently 1.5 Ts and 3 Ts, from next summer 2 3 Ts magnets), an 9.4 Ts animal fMRI scanner, high-throughput facilities for genotyping and molecular biology, neuropsychology and an extensive transgenic animal (both mice and rats) and animal behavior assessment facility.

Proper citation: Central Institute of Mental Health; Mannheim; Germany (RRID:SCR_011144) Copy   

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http://www.theearlab.org

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 13, 2026. Computationally oriented experimental laboratory interested in the encoding of auditory information in the cerebral cortex and brainstem, and in the mechanisms of tinnitus and the effect of various drugs (Lidocaine, steroids, anti-oxidants) in relieving noise trauma induced tinnitus. The ferret (Mustela putorius) and the rat serve as their system model. Through chronic implants, they obtain electrophysiological data from awake behaving animals in order to investigate the response properties and functional organization of the auditory system, both in health and after noise trauma that induces tinnitus in rats. Projects: * Response Modulation to Ongoing Broadband Sounds in Primary Auditory Cortex * Neuronal Response Characteristics in the Inferior Colliculus of the Awake Ferret and Rat * Spectro-Temporal Representation of Feature Onsets in Primary Auditory Cortex * Targeting the changes in inferior colliculus induced by tinnitus

Proper citation: Ear Lab (RRID:SCR_002531) Copy   

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https://www.genevestigator.com/gv/

A high performance search engine for gene expression that integrates thousands of manually curated public microarray and RNAseq experiments and nicely visualizes gene expression across different biological contexts (diseases, drugs, tissues, cancers, genotypes, etc.). There are two basic analysis approaches: # for a gene of interest, identify which conditions affect its expression. # for condition(s) of interest, identify which genes are specifically expressed in this/these conditions. Genevestigator builds on the deep integration of data, both at the level of data normalization and on the level of sample annotations. This deep integration allows scientists to ask new types of questions that cannot be addressed using conventional tools.

Proper citation: Genevestigator (RRID:SCR_002358) Copy   

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http://spine.rutgers.edu/microarray/

Database which provides on-line searching of microarray datasets generated from rat spinal cord after contusion injury. Both the primary injury site and a site 5 mm distal to the injury site were assayed. Tissue was obtained from Long Evans rats subject to spinal cord contusion injury using the MASCIS impactor (formerly known as the NYU impactor). RNA expression was assayed at the site of injury and distal to the site of injury using the Affymetrix Rat Neuro U34 chip.

Proper citation: Gene Expression Profiling in Spinal Cord Injury (RRID:SCR_003260) Copy   

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http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/

A Swiss-led project with the aim of reverse engineering the mammalian brain and achieving a complete virtual human brain. The researchers have demonstrated the validity of their method by developing a realistic model of a rat cortical column, consisting of about 10,000 neurons. The eventual goal is to simulate systems of millions and hundreds of millions of neurons. The virtual brain will be an exceptional tool giving neuroscientists a new understanding of the brain and a better understanding of neurological diseases. In five years of work, Henry Markram's team has perfected a facility that can create realistic models of one of the brain's essential building blocks. This process is entirely data driven and essentially automatically executed on the supercomputer. Meanwhile the generated models show a behavior already observed in years of neuroscientific experiments. These models will be basic building blocks for larger scale models leading towards a complete virtual brain.

Proper citation: Blue Brain Project (RRID:SCR_002994) Copy   

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