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http://www.janssenrnd.com/

Pharmaceutical company with a mission to discover and develop innovative medicines that ease patients'' suffering, and solve the most important unmet medical needs of our time. As one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, their strategy is to identify the biggest unmet medical needs and match them with the best science, internal or external, to find solutions for patients worldwide. They leverage their world-class discovery and development expertise, and operational excellence, to bring innovative, effective treatments in five therapeutic areas: cardiovascular and metabolism, immunology, infectious diseases and vaccines, neuroscience, and oncology.

Proper citation: Janssen Research and Development (RRID:SCR_003904) Copy   

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http://www.althia.es/

A biomedical company in Spain focused on the development of new tools for diagnosis and personalized treatment of oncological diseases and precancerous. It has three areas of activity in permanent innovation: Assistance in Diagnosis / Prognosis in solid and hematological tumors, Translational Research covering the gap between basic and clinical research and advanced radiotherapy treatments based image-guided single dose (SD-IGRT). Their objectives are: * Provide an integrated tissue and tumor molecular phenotype analysis using the most advanced technologies in diagnosis, to guide the most appropriate treatment for each patient. * Discover and validate molecular patterns by molecular systems and platforms including pathology, to generate predictive algorithms through computational biology, evolution and determining the response of patients with a particular tumor profile. Althia has laboratories equipped with the most advanced equipment and technologies in Barcelona and Granada Genyo Center, with offices in Madrid.

Proper citation: Althia (RRID:SCR_003918) Copy   

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http://www.epo-berlin.com/

A small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) that has expertise in preclinical pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, and toxicology for the characterization of novel anticancer therapeutics and predictive biomarkers like: cytostatics, biologicals (peptides, antibodies), (anti)-hormones, immunomodulators (cytokines), and gene therapeutics. EPO has modern laboratories licensed for animal experiments and gene technology (S2) and a broad panel of murine and human tumor models growing in immunocompetent (SPF-quality, syngeneic strains) or immunodeficient mice (nude, SCID, NOD/SCID). EPO has established imaging technologies to monitor in vivo tumor growth.

Proper citation: Experimental Pharmacology and Oncology Berlin-Buch (RRID:SCR_003954) Copy   

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https://code.google.com/p/destruct/

A software tool for identifying structural variation in tumour genomes from whole genome illumina sequencing.

Proper citation: deStruct (RRID:SCR_004747) Copy   

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http://www.celgene.com

An American global biotechnology company that manufactures drug therapies for cancer and inflammatory disorders. The company's major products are Thalomid (thalidomide), which is approved for the acute treatment of the cutaneous manifestations of moderate to severe erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL), as well as in combination with dexamethasone for patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, and Revlimid (lenalidomide), for which the company has received FDA and EMA approval in combination with dexamethasone for the treatment of multiple myeloma patients who have received at least one prior therapy. Revlimid is also approved in the United States for the treatment of patients with transfusion-dependent anemia due to Low- or Intermediate-1-risk Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) associated with a deletion 5q cytogenetic abnormality with or without additional cytogenetic abnormalities. Both Thalomid and Revlimid are sold through proprietary risk-management distribution programs to ensure safe and appropriate use of these pharmaceuticals. Vidaza is approved for the treatment of patients with MDS. Celgene also receives royalties from Novartis Pharma AG on sales of the entire Ritalin family of drugs, which are widely used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). (Adapted from Wikipedia) There are numerous clinical trials at major medical centers using compounds from Celgene. Investigational compounds are being studied for patients with incurable hematological and solid tumor cancers, including multiple myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes, chronic lymphocyte leukemia (CLL), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), glioblastoma, and ovarian, pancreatic and prostate cancer.

Proper citation: Celgene (RRID:SCR_002955) Copy   

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http://code.google.com/p/drgap/

Designed to identify Driver Genes and Pathways in cancer genome sequencing studies.

Proper citation: DrGaP (RRID:SCR_008670) Copy   

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http://www.ivyfoundation.org/

Funds patient-focused research on gliomas to develop better diagnostics and treatments that lead to long-term survival and a high quality of life for patients with brain tumors. The goal is to decrease the suffering of patients with brain tumors. With an ultimate goal to cure brain cancer, their immediate goal is to improve diagnostics and treatment. They are dedicated to improving the lives of all patients with brain cancer by funding research that they hope will lead to the doubling of life expectancy of patients with brain cancer. Their goal is to do this within the next seven years. Since 2005 they''ve committed more than $50 million to research into brain tumors, with the expectation that this will lead to better diagnostics and therapies. They are dedicated to this search because funding leads to answers, and answers lead to hope.

Proper citation: Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation (RRID:SCR_006333) Copy   

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https://cismm.web.unc.edu/

Biomedical technology research center that develops force technologies applicable over a wide range of biological settings, from the single molecule to the tissue, with integrated systems that orchestrate facile instrument control, multimodal imaging, and analysis through visualization and modeling. The Force Microscope Technologies Core designs instruments in an area of science where there are unusual opportunities: the measurement of forces and the integration with optical microscopy. Force technologies play the obvious role of both measuring events in the sample and modifying the sample during the experiment. It is through the microscope that the force data is correlated with simultaneous 3D optical images. The force technology development includes the magnetic bead technology in the 3D Force Microscope project, Atomic Force Microscopy in the nanoManipulator project, and Control Software to drive the instrumentation. This core is focused on providing the physical capability to perform the experiments and probe structure/property correlations. The Ideal User Interfaces core makes the connection between the user and the instrument, the model building, and the data. This includes control systems that allow the user to move the bead inside the cell culture with a handheld pen and the visualization techniques to view the optical microscope data as a rendered 3D image collocated with the force data. Using data to create, change, and understand a model is the focus of the Advanced Model Fitting and Analysis core. The quantitative reduction of images to structural, shape, and velocity parameters is the goal of Image Analysis. The immediate understanding of correlations across image fields and between data sets in the challenge of Visualization. The power of combining the strength of a computer science graphics group with a microscopy technology group is most evident in the Graphics Hardware Acceleration project, which seeks to harness the speed of graphics processors for microscope data analysis and simulation. The Advanced Technology core pushes the boundaries of the Human Computer Interface through the investigation of improved techniques for the interaction of users with virtual environments, the real time lighting of virtual settings, and the enabling of multi-person collaboration. These techniques are validated and evaluated through physiological measures in virtual environments effectiveness evaluation studies.

Proper citation: Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and Manipulation (RRID:SCR_001413) Copy   

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http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/SamSPECTRAL.html

Software that identifies cell population in flow cytometry data. It demonstrates significant advantages in proper identification of populations with non-elliptical shapes, low density populations close to dense ones, minor subpopulations of a major population and rare populations. It samples large data such that spectral clustering is possible while preserving density information in edge weights. More specifically, given a matrix of coordinates as input, SamSPECTRAL first builds the communities to sample the data points. Then, it builds a graph and after weighting the edges by conductance computation, the graph is passed to a classic spectral clustering algorithm to find the spectral clusters. The last stage of SamSPECTRAL is to combine the spectral clusters. The resulting connected components estimate biological cell populations in the data sample.

Proper citation: SamSPECTRAL (RRID:SCR_001858) Copy   

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http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/VegaMC.html

Software package that enables the detection of driver chromosomal imbalances including loss of heterozygosity (LOH) from array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) data. It performs a joint segmentation of a dataset and uses a statistical framework to distinguish between driver and passenger mutation. VegaMC has been implemented so that it can be immediately integrated with the output produced by PennCNV tool. In addition, it produces in output two web pages that allows a rapid navigation between both the detected regions and the altered genes. In the web page that summarizes the altered genes, the link to the respective Ensembl gene web page is reported.

Proper citation: VegaMC (RRID:SCR_001267) Copy   

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https://code.google.com/p/nfuse/

Software that predicts fusion transcripts and associated CGRs from matched RNA-seq and Whole Genome Shotgun Sequencing (WGSS).

Proper citation: nFuse (RRID:SCR_000066) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/cancer/cga/absolute

Software to estimate purity / ploidy, and from that compute absolute copy-number and mutation multiplicities. When DNA is extracted from an admixed population of cancer and normal cells, the information on absolute copy number per cancer cell is lost in the mixing. The purpose of ABSOLUTE is to re-extract these data from the mixed DNA population. This process begins by generation of segmented copy number data, which is input to the ABSOLUTE algorithm together with pre-computed models of recurrent cancer karyotypes and, optionally, allelic fraction values for somatic point mutations. The output of ABSOLUTE then provides re-extracted information on the absolute cellular copy number of local DNA segments and, for point mutations, the number of mutated alleles.

Proper citation: ABSOLUTE (RRID:SCR_005198) Copy   

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http://www.qcmg.org/bioinformatics/tiki-index.php

A single nucleotide variant caller optimised for identifying somatic variants in low cellularity cancer samples.

Proper citation: qSNP (RRID:SCR_005105) Copy   

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http://statgenpro.psychiatry.hku.hk/limx/kggseq/

A biological Knowledge-based mining platform for Genomic and Genetic studies using Sequence data. The software platform, constituted of bioinformatics and statistical genetics functions, makes use of valuable biologic resources and knowledge for sequencing-based genetic mapping of variants / genes responsible for human diseases / traits. It facilitates geneticists to fish for the genetic determinants of human diseases / traits in the big sea of DNA sequences. KGGSeq has paid attention to downstream analysis of genetic mapping. The framework was implemented to filter and prioritize genetic variants from whole exome sequencing data.

Proper citation: KGGSeq (RRID:SCR_005311) Copy   

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http://www.ibridgenetwork.org/wustl/splinter

Software that detects and quantifies short IN/DELs as well as single nucleotide substitutions in pooled-DNA samples.

Proper citation: SPLINTER (RRID:SCR_005826) Copy   

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https://sites.google.com/site/oncosnp/

An analytical software tool for characterizing copy number alterations and loss-of-heterozygosity (LOH) events in cancer samples from SNP genotyping data.

Proper citation: OncoSNP (RRID:SCR_012985) Copy   

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http://www.bioconductor.org/packages//2.10/bioc/html/CancerMutationAnalysis.html

Software package that implements gene and gene-set level analysis methods for somatic mutation studies of cancer.

Proper citation: CancerMutationAnalysis (RRID:SCR_013181) Copy   

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http://www.bwhct.nhs.uk/wmrgl/biobank-cehrb

The Central England Haemato-Oncology Research Biobank stores excess material from oncology samples referred for diagnostic testing and disease monitoring at the West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratory (WMRGL). The bank is housed within the WMRGL. Types of material stored include viable cells, fixed cell suspensions, DNA, RNA / cDNA, and plasma. The material is made available to all cancer research groups both locally and nationally. Excess sample (mainly from blood and bone marrow) is stored from diagnostic patient material and from samples received throughout their disease course. The WMRGL serves a population of about 5.5 million and is the largest UK NHS genetic Lab. Due to the large patient population CEHRB is able to collate sufficient research material from all classifications of neoplastic haematological disorders including those that are rare.

Proper citation: Central England Haemato-Oncology Research Biobank (RRID:SCR_004637) Copy   

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http://ccr.coriell.org/Sections/Collections/Wistar/?SsId=74

Collection of cell lines developed by Wistar scientists that includes a group of hybridomas that produce monoclonal antibodies that are useful in influenza research and vaccine development, melanoma cell lines derived from patients with diseases ranging from mild dysplasia to advanced metastatic cancer and a range of human endothelial cell lines.

Proper citation: Wistar Institute Collection at Coriell (RRID:SCR_004660) Copy   

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http://www.tumorbank.unibe.ch/

Tumorbank Bern - TBB collects high quality clinical samples since 2003 for translational research selected by expert pathologists under controlled conditions of normal and diseased tissue from different origin. The Tumor Bank is approved by the Ethical Commission of Bern, we only collect samples with written informed patient consent. Origin of Tissue: Thoracic Surgery, Gynecology, Urology, Visceral Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery, Neurosurgery Tumorbank Bern TBB holds 12,000 samples from 3600 Patients. Please contact us to check if we have samples for your field of research.

Proper citation: Tumorbank Bern (RRID:SCR_004611) Copy   

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