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http://www.laskerfoundation.org/index.htm

The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation and its programs are dedicated to the support of biomedical research toward conquering disease, improving human health and extending life. The Foundation''s mission is to foster the prevention and treatment of disease and disabilities by honoring excellence in basic and clinical science, by educating the public, and by advocating for support of medical research. The Lasker Awards The Lasker Foundation''s Awards Program recognizes the contributions of scientists, physicians, and public servants who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure or prevention of human disease. Other Programs Although the Lasker Foundation is not a grant-giving organization, it does support select initiatives that raise awareness of medical discoveries and their benefits to human health, and that increase support for the medical science enterprise. These initiatives have included study groups, Congressional briefings, innovative web-based programs, educational forums, and scholarly studies.

Proper citation: Lasker Foundation (RRID:SCR_005114) Copy   

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http://bioinformatics.wistar.upenn.edu/isoformex

Software that estimates transcript expression levels and gene expression levels from mRNA-Seq data. Technically speaking, IsoformEx parses bowtie alignment files in a project directory (e.g. ~yourid/isoformex/xxx, where xxx is the project name) and generates two files: (1) xxx/xxx_transcript_1.txt: expression levels of all transcripts, (2) xxx/xxx_gene_1.txt: expression levels of all genes.

Proper citation: IsoformEx (RRID:SCR_005235) Copy   

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http://www.bioportfolio.com/

BioPortfolio is a leading news, information and knowledge resource covering the global life science industries impacted on by biotechnology. The site aims to provide the lay person, the researcher and the management executive with a single location to source core information on specific bio-related topics, to collate relevant data associated with each topic and to point the user to relevant knowledge resources. We publish up to the minute news (see biotechnology news categories) and regularly update content across our information databases. BioPortfolio promotes and sells market research and management reports from 30+ publishers. In addition our unique corporate database lists 40,000+ companies and organizations. BioPortfolio aims to bring together high quality information about marketed drugs - medication and relevant clinical trials, research papers and recent news from PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, and DailyMed. Additionally, resources include biotech, pharma and medical job listings. When the BioPortfolio site was launched in February 1997 the company aimed to provide a global free-to-use resource with defined aims and mission statement: to meet the increasing demand of consumers, scientists, investors, commerce and government for timely, accurate and commercially useful information and intelligence on biotechnology companies, technologies and products world-wide. Driven by the success of the site we have made major investments and improvements to enhance our content and to apply the latest web technologies to improve functionality and site utility. We believe this unique depth and breadth of content is supporting individuals, organizations and policy-makers to become more aware of the role of biotechnology on the global economy. With 97,000 users visiting the site more than once per month we are confident that we are providing information our users need. We hope you the users find the site of value for both personal and professional reasons. Please enjoy this free resource and email your comments!

Proper citation: BioPortfolio (RRID:SCR_005230) Copy   

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

RNA-seq tool that uses the Dirichlet distribution and a transformation to identify genes that exhibit small within-condition and large between-condition variance.

Proper citation: aldex (RRID:SCR_005110) 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://variant.bioinfo.cipf.es/

Analysis tool that can report the functional properties of any variant in all the human, mouse or rat genes (and soon new model organisms will be added) and the corresponding neighborhoods. Also other non-coding extra-genic regions, such as miRNAs are included in the analysis. It not only reports the obvious functional effects in the coding regions but also analyzes noncoding SNVs situated both within the gene and in the neighborhood that could affect different regulatory motifs, splicing signals, and other structural elements. These include: Jaspar regulatory motifs, miRNA targets, splice sites, exonic splicing silencers, calculations of selective pressures on the particular polymorphic positions, etc. Software analysis pipelines used in the analysis of NGS data are highly modular, heterogeneous, and rapidly evolving. VARIANT can easily be incorporated into a NGS resequencing pipeline either as a CLI or invoked a webservice. It inputs data directly from the most widely used programs for SNV detection., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: VARIANT (RRID:SCR_005194) Copy   

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https://www.rostlab.org/services/snpdbe/

A database to fill the annotation gap left by the high cost of experimental testing for functional significance of protein variants. It joins related bits of knowledge, currently distributed throughout various databases, into a consistent, easily accessible, and updatable resource. It currently covers over 155,000 protein sequences which come from more than 2,600 organisms. Overall more than one million single amino acid substitutions (SAASs) are referenced consisting of natural variants, SAASs from mutagenesis experiments and sequencing conflicts. SNPdbe offers the following pieces of information (if available) on each SAAS: * Experimentally derived functional and structural impact * Predicted functional effect * Associated disease * Average heterozygosity * Experimental evidence of the nsSNP * Evolutionary conservation of wildtype and mutant amino acid * Link-outs to external databases A convenient webinterface to query SAASs on the following levels is offered: * Protein and gene identifiers and keywords * Disease keywords * Protein sequence on different sequence identity thresholds * Variant identifier (dbSNP rs, SwissVar, PMD) or specific mutant like XposY and specified sequence They offer the possibility to submit protein sequences along with experimentally substantiated mutations in order to predict their functional effect and inclusion into our database.

Proper citation: SNPdbe (RRID:SCR_005190) Copy   

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http://ctsaconnect.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IS SERVICE. Documented on December 5th, 2022. Semantic framework to integrate information about research activities, clinical activities, and scientific resources to facilitate the production and consumption of Linked Open Data about investigators, physicians, biomedical research resources, services, and clinical activities. The goal is to enable software to consume data from multiple sources and allow the broadest possible representation of researchers'''' and clinicians'''' activities and research products. Current research tracking and networking systems rely largely on publications, but clinical encounters, reagents, techniques, specimens, model organisms, etc., are equally valuable for representing expertise. CTSAConnect will provide linkage between semantic representations of a wide range of clinical and research data using controlled vocabularies mapped to the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) as a bridge between the two subject areas. The data sources include data from Medicaid, hospital billing systems, CTSAShareCenter, and other CTSA resource data, eagle-i and VIVO. It allows institutions to leverage existing tools and data sources by making the information they contain more discoverable and easier to integrate. For instance, with the ISF, researchers can be characterized by organizational affiliations, grant and project participation, research resources that they have generated, and publications that they have (co)-authored. Clinicians can be characterized by training and credentials, by clinical research topic, and by the kinds of procedures and specialization that can be inferred from encounter data. LOD refers to data that has been given a specific Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), for the purpose of sharing and linking data and information on the Semantic Web. While a large amount of data is published as LOD, there remains a significant gap in the representation of research resources and clinical expertise. Researchers can be characterized by the organization to which they belong, the grants and research in which they have participated, the research topics and research resources (reagents, biospecimens, animal models) they have generated, as well as the publications they have (co)-authored. Clinician profiles on the other hand, can be defined by their credentials, clinical research topics, and the kinds of procedures and specialization that can be inferred from clinical encounter data. They believe that integrating and relating this diversity of information sources and platforms requires addressing the overlap between research resources and the attributes and activities of researchers and clinicians. CTSAconnect aims to promote integration and discovery of research activities, resources, and clinical expertise. To this end, they will publish their ontologies and LOD via their website, which will also illustrate repeatable methods and examples of how to extract, consume, and utilize this valuable new LOD using freely available tools like VIVO, eagle-i, and Google APIs. CTSAconnect is a collaboration between Oregon Health & Science University, Stony Brook University, Cornell University, Harvard University, University at Buffalo, and the University of Florida, and leverages the work of eagle-i (eagle-i.net), VIVO (vivoweb.org), and ShareCenter (ctsasharecenter.org).

Proper citation: CTSAconnect (RRID:SCR_005225) 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://www.damonrunyon.org/

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation funds early career cancer researchers who have the energy, drive and creativity to become leading innovators in their fields. We identify the best young scientists in the nation and support them through four award programs: our Fellowship, Pediatric Cancer Fellowship, Clinical Investigator and Innovation Awards. Damon Runyon awards give young scientists: * Freedom to follow their own ideas, explore new paths and take risks * A prestigious endorsement that attracts further funding, advances their careers and accelerates their research * Guaranteed financial support, sparing them hours applying for grants Since 1946, Damon Runyon has invested more than $240 million in the best young minds in the nation. Our alumni include 11 Nobel Laureates and leaders of major cancer centers across the United States. Many of our 3,300 scientists have gone on to make breakthroughs in the way we prevent, diagnose and treat many forms of cancer. The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation is a registered nonprofit with 501(c)(3) status.

Proper citation: Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (RRID:SCR_005106) Copy   

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http://samtools.sourceforge.net/mpileup.shtml

Provide various utilities for manipulating alignments in the SAM format, including sorting, merging, indexing and generating alignments in a per-position format.

Proper citation: SAMtools/BCFtools (RRID:SCR_005227) Copy   

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http://www.raetschlab.org/suppl/mitie

Software framework for simultaneous RNA-Seq-based Transcript Identification and Quantification in Multiple Samples. They define a likelihood function based on the negative binomial distribution, use a regularization approach to select a few transcripts collectively explaining the observed read data, and show how to find the optimal solution using Mixed Integer Programming. MiTie can a) take advantage of known transcripts, b) reconstruct and quantify transcripts simultaneously in multiple samples, as well as c) resolve the location of multi-mapping reads. It is designed for genome- and assembly-based transcriptome reconstruction.

Proper citation: MiTie (RRID:SCR_005228) Copy   

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http://orman.sourceforge.net/Home

A software tool for resolving multi-mappings within an RNA-Seq SAM file.

Proper citation: ORMAN (RRID:SCR_005188) Copy   

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https://github.com/vezzi/FRC_align

Software package containing tools to process bam files in order to evaluate and analyze de novo assembly / assemblers and identify Structural Variations suspicious genomics regions. The tools have been already successfully applied in several de novo and resequencing projects. This package contains two tools: # FRCbam: tool to compute Feature Response Curves in order to validate and rank assemblies and assemblers # FindTranslocations: tool to identify chromosomal rearrangements using Mate Pairs

Proper citation: FRCbam (RRID:SCR_005189) Copy   

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http://www.ukzn.ac.za/

University with five campuses in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was formed on 1 January 2004 after the merger between the University of Natal and the University of Durban-Westville.

Proper citation: University of KwaZulu-Natal; Durban; South Africa (RRID:SCR_005222) Copy   

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http://seqant.genetics.emory.edu/

A free web service and open source software package that performs rapid, automated annotation of DNA sequence variants (single base mutations, insertions, deletions) discovered with any sequencing platform. Variant sites are characterized with respect to their functional type (Silent, Replacement, 5' UTR, 3' UTR, Intronic, Intergenic), whether they have been previously submitted to dbSNP, and their evolutionary conservation. Annotated variants can be viewed directly on the web browser, downloaded in a tab delimited text file, or directly uploaded in a Browser Extended Data (BED) format to the UCSC genome browser. SeqAnt further identifies all loci harboring two or more coding sequence variants that help investigators identify potential compound heterozygous loci within exome sequencing experiments. In total, SeqAnt resolves a significant bottleneck by allowing an investigator to rapidly prioritize the functional analysis of those variants of interest.

Proper citation: SeqAnt (RRID:SCR_005186) Copy   

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http://stothard.afns.ualberta.ca/downloads/NGS-SNP/

A collection of command-line scripts for providing rich annotations for SNPs identified by the sequencing of transcripts or whole genomes from organisms with reference sequences in Ensembl. Included among the annotations, several of which are not available from any existing SNP annotation tools, are the results of detailed comparisons with orthologous sequences. These comparisons allow, for example, SNPs to be sorted or filtered based on how drastically the SNP changes the score of a protein alignment. Other fields indicate the names of overlapping protein domains or features, and the conservation of both the SNP site and flanking regions. NCBI, Ensembl, and Uniprot IDs are provided for genes, transcripts, and proteins when applicable, along with Gene Ontology terms, a gene description, phenotypes linked to the gene, and an indication of whether the SNP is novel or known. A ?Model_Annotations? field provides several annotations obtained by transferring in silico the SNP to an orthologous gene, typically in a well-characterized species.

Proper citation: NGS-SNP (RRID:SCR_005182) Copy   

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https://github.com/lpantano/seqbuster

Software tool for processing and analysis of small RNAs datasets.Reveals ubiquitous miRNA modifications in human embryonic cells.

Proper citation: SeqBuster (RRID:SCR_009616) Copy   

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http://www.pstnet.com/hardware.cfm?ID=91

Instrument that accurately gathers participant responses and verifies signals. The Celeritas Series response units are assembled using high-impact, chemical resistant, medical grade plastic. The response units include a tactile indicator to ensure correct finger placement during experiments and comfortably attach to the participant?s wrists. The units communicate button presses through fiber optic cabling which connects to a Fiber Optic Interface Console located in the control room through an available wave guide. The interface console provides real-time feedback of participant responses via LED indicators and includes a set of switches which can be used to make responses for the participant as needed.

Proper citation: Fiber Optic Button Response System (RRID:SCR_009577) Copy   

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http://oregonstate.edu/

Public research university in Corvallis, Oregon. The university currently offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees.

Proper citation: Oregon State University; Oregon; USA (RRID:SCR_009731) Copy   

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