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http://www.pbtc.org/

The PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR CONSORTIUM (PBTC) is a multidisciplinary cooperative research organization devoted to the study of correlative tumor biology and new therapies for primary CNS tumors of childhood. PBTC's mission is to contribute rapidly and effectively to the understanding and cure of these tumors through the conduct of multi-center, multidisciplinary, innovative studies with designs and analyses based on uniformly high quality statistical science. While the primary mission of the PBTC is to identify through laboratory and clinical science superior treatment strategies for children with brain cancers, the PBTC investigators recognize their profound responsibility to meet the special needs of the children and families as they face this enormous challenge. Members are committed to working within their institutions and communities to improve support services and follow up care for these patients and their families. The PBTC's primary objective is to rapidly conduct novel phase I and II clinical evaluations of new therapeutic drugs, new biological therapies, treatment delivery technologies and radiation treatment strategies in children from infancy to 21 years of age with primary central nervous system (CNS) tumors. A second objective is to characterize reliable markers and predictors (direct or surrogate) of brain tumors' responses to new therapies. The Consortium conducts research on brain tumor specimens in the laboratory to further understand the biology of pediatric brain tumors. A third objective is to develop and coordinate innovative neuro-imaging techniques. Through the PBTC's Neuro-Imaging Center, formed in May 2000, research to evaluate new treatment response criteria and neuro-imaging methods to understand regional brain effects is in progress. These imaging techniques can also advance understanding of significant neuro-toxicity in a developing child's central nervous system. The Neuro-Imaging Center is supported in part by private sources - grants from foundations and non-profit organizations - in addition to the NCI. As an NCI funded Consortium, the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC) is required to make research data available to other investigators for use in research projects. An investigator who wishes to use individual patient data from one or more of the Consortium's completed and published studies must submit in writing a description of the research project, the PBTC studies from which data are requested, the specific data requested, and a list of investigators involved with the project and their affiliated research institutions. A copy of the requesting investigator's CV must also be provided. Participating Institutions: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Children's National Medical Center (Washington, DC), Children's Memorial Hospital (Chicago), Duke University, National Cancer Institute, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Texas Children's Cancer Center, University of California at San Francisco, and University of Pittsburgh.

Proper citation: Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (RRID:SCR_000658) Copy   

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http://www.px.nsls.bnl.gov/

Biomedical technology research center that creates optimal facilities and environments and support for macromolecular structure determination by synchrotron X-ray diffraction at the National Synchrotron Light Source for the benefit of outside and in-house investigators. The PXRR innovates new access modes such as Mail-in crystallography, builds new facilities, currently on the X25 undulator, advances automation, develops remote participation software, collaborates with outside groups, teaches novice users, and supports vising investigators with 7-day, 20-hours staff coverage.

Proper citation: Macromolecular Crystallography Research Resource (RRID:SCR_001442) Copy   

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https://sourceforge.net/projects/sivic/

Software framework and application suite for processing and visualization of DICOM MR Spectroscopy data. Through the use of DICOM, SIVIC aims to facilitate the application of MRS in medical imaging studies.

Proper citation: Spectroscopic Imaging, VIsualization, and Computing (SIVIC) (RRID:SCR_027875) Copy   

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https://github.com/caleblareau/mgatk

Software python-based command line interface for processing .bam files with mitochondrial reads and generating high-quality heteroplasmy estimation from sequencing data. This package places a special emphasis on mitochondrial genotypes generated from single-cell genomics data, primarily mtscATAC-seq, but is generally applicable across other assays.

Proper citation: mgatk (RRID:SCR_021159) Copy   

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https://github.com/humanlongevity/HLA

Software tool for fast and accurate HLA typing from short read sequence data. Iteratively refines mapping results at amino acid level to achieve four digit typing accuracy for both class I and II HLA genes, taking only 3 min to process 30× whole genome BAM file on desktop computer.

Proper citation: xHLA (RRID:SCR_022277) Copy   

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https://github.com/RabadanLab/arcasHLA

Software tool for high resolution HLA typing from RNAseq. Fast and accurate in silico inference of HLA genotypes from RNA-seq.

Proper citation: arcasHLA (RRID:SCR_022286) Copy   

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https://ccsp.hms.harvard.edu/

Center includes studies for responsiveness and resistance to anti cancer drugs. Committed to training students and postdocs, promoting junior faculty and ensuring that data and software are reproducible, reliable and publicly accessible. Member of National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Systems Biology Consortium.

Proper citation: Harvard Medical School Center for Cancer Systems Pharmacology (RRID:SCR_022831) Copy   

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http://cancer.osu.edu/research/cancerresearch/sharedresources/ltb/Pages/index.aspx

The OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center Leukemia Tissue Bank Shared Resource (LTBSR) facilitates the successful translation of basic leukemia research to the clinical setting via an extensive repository of tissue samples and accompanying pathologic, cytogenetic and clinical data for ready correlation of clinical and biological results. The LTBSR, which is an NCI-sponsored biorepository, has more than 40,000 vials of cryopreserved viable cells and 13,000 vials of matched frozen plasma and/or serum samples from more than 4,000 patients treated for leukemia and other malignancies. Committed to furthering translational research efforts for OSUCCC - James members and the cancer research community, the LTBSR provides investigators with training and technical support as well as procurement, processing, storage, retrieval and distribution of clinical research materials. In many cases, the LTBSR serves as the central processing lab for multi-site trials in which the principal investigator is an OSUCCC - James member. The LTBSR's goals are to: * Provide a central collection, processing and a state-of-the-art repository for samples collected from leukemia patients treated on OSUCCC - James protocols, and * Provide materials to investigators involved in collaborative studies with OSU, who examine relevant cellular and molecular properties of leukemia and correlate these properties with clinical or population-based outcomes.

Proper citation: Ohio State Leukemia Tissue Bank (RRID:SCR_000529) Copy   

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http://www.cpctr.net/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Doumented on September 23,2022. The National Cancer Institute initially established the Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource (CPCTR) to provide prostate cancer tissue samples with clinical annotation to researchers. The Resource provides access to formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded primary prostate cancer tissue with associated clinical and follow-up data for research studies, particularly studies focused on translating basic research findings into clinical application. Fresh-frozen tissue is also available with limited clinical follow up information since these are more recent cases. The Resource database contains pathologic and clinical information linked to a large collection of prostate tissue specimens that is available for research. Researchers can determine whether the Resource has the tissues and patient data they need for their individual research studies. Consultation and interpretive services: Assistance is available from trained CPCTR pathologists. The CPCTR can provide consultative assistance in staining interpretation, and scoring, on a collaborative basis. Fresh Frozen and Paraffin Tissue: The resource has over 7,000 annotated cases (including 7,635 specimens and 38,399 annotated blocks). Tissue Microarrays (TMA): The CPCTR has slides from prostate cancer TMAs with associated clinical data. The information provided for each case on the arrays (derived from radical prostatectomy specimens) includes: age at diagnosis, race, PSA at diagnosis, tumor size, TNM stage, Gleason score and grade, and vital status and other variables.

Proper citation: CPCTR: Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource (RRID:SCR_000803) Copy   

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http://acsr.ucsf.edu/

A biorepository for HIV-infected human biospecimens from a wide spectrum of HIV-related or associated diseases, including cancer, and from appropriate HIV-negative controls. The ACSR has formalin-fixed paraffin embedded biospecimens, fresh frozen biospecimens, malignant cell suspensions, fine needle aspirates, and cell lines from patients with HIV-related malignancies. It also contains serum, plasma, urine, bone marrow, cervical and anal specimens, saliva, semen, and multi-site autopsy speicmens from patients with HIV-related malignancies including those who have participated in clinical trials. The ACSR has an associated databank that contains prognostic, staging, outcome and treatment data on patients from whom tissues were obtained. The ACSR database contains more than 300,000 individual biospecimens with associated clinical information. Biospecimens are entered into the ACSR database by processing type, disease category, and number of cases defined by disease category.

Proper citation: AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (RRID:SCR_004216) Copy   

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http://www.bionet.umn.edu/tpf/home.html

Procure and distribute human tissue and other biological samples in support of basic, translational, and clinical cancer research at the University of Minnesota. The TPF is a centralized resource with standardized patient consent, sample collection, processing, storage, quality control, distribution, and electronic record maintenance. Since the 1996 inception of the TPF, over 61,000 tissue samples including well-preserved samples of malignant and benign tumors, organ-matched normal tissue, and other types of diseased tissues, have been collected from surgical specimens obtained at the University of Minnesota Medical Center-Fairview (UMMC-F) University Campus. Surgical pathologists are intellectually engaged in TPF functions, providing researchers with specimen-oriented medical consultation to facilitate research productivity. Prior to surgery, TPF personnel identify and consent patients for procurement of tissue, blood, urine, saliva, and ascites fluid. Within the integrated working environment of the surgical pathology laboratory, freshly obtained tissues not needed for diagnosis are selected and provided by pathologists to TPF personnel. Tissue samples are then assigned an independent code and processed. TPF staff can also work with researchers to individualize the procurement of tissues to fit specific research needs.

Proper citation: University of Minnesota Tissue Procurement Facility (RRID:SCR_004270) Copy   

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http://www.rhesusbase.org/drugDisc/CAM.jsp

OKCAM (Ontology-based Knowledgebase for Cell Adhesion Molecules) is an online resource for human genes known or predicted to be related to the processes of cell adhesion. These genes include members of the cadherin, immunoglobulin/FibronectinIII (IgFn), integrin, neurexin, neuroligin, and catenin families. Totally 496 human CAM genes were compiled and annotated. We have mapped these genes onto a novel cell adhesion molecule ontology (CAMO) that provides a hierarchical description of cell adhesion molecules and their functions. It is intended to provide a means to facilitate better and better understanding of the global and specific properties of CAMs through their genomic features, regulatory modes, expression patterns and disease associations become clearer. You may browse by CAM ontology, Chromosomes and Full Gene list.

Proper citation: OKCAM: Ontology-based Knowledgebase for Cell Adhesion Molecules (RRID:SCR_010696) Copy   

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https://genome-cancer.ucsc.edu/

A suite of web-based tools to visualize, integrate and analyze cancer genomics and its associated clinical data. It is possible to display your own clinical data within one of their datasets.

Proper citation: UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser (RRID:SCR_011796) Copy   

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http://www.cravat.us/

A web-based application designed with an easy-to-use interface to facilitate the high-throughput assessment and prioritization of genes and missense alterations important for cancer tumorigenesis.

Proper citation: CRAVAT (RRID:SCR_012776) Copy   

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https://pancreatlas.org/

Collection of human pancreas data and images. Platform to share data from human pancreas samples. Houses reference datasets from human pancreas samples, achieved through generosity of organ donors and their families.

Proper citation: Pancreatlas (RRID:SCR_018567) Copy   

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https://www.robotreviewer.net/

Software tool as machine learning system that automatically assesses bias in clinical trials. From PDF formatted trial report determines risks of bias for domains defined by Cochrane Risk of Bias (RoB) tool, and extracts supporting text for these judgments.

Proper citation: Robot Reviewer (RRID:SCR_018961) Copy   

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

A software tool for annotating biomedical investigations and the resulting data, then producing a MAGE-TAB file. This software is a standalone desktop which features: an editor function, an annotation modifier, incorporation of terms from biomedical ontologies, standard templates for common experiment types, a design aid to help create a new document, and a validator that checks for syntactic and semantic violations.

Proper citation: Annotare (RRID:SCR_000319) Copy   

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http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/nondetects.html

Software R package to model and impute non-detects in results of qPCR experiments.Used to directly model non-detects as missing data.

Proper citation: nondetects (RRID:SCR_001702) Copy   

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https://github.com/QTIM-Lab/DeepNeuro

Software Python package for neuroimaging data. Framework to design and train neural network architectures. Used in medical imaging community to ensure consistent performance of networks across variable users, institutions, and scanners.

Proper citation: DeepNeuro (RRID:SCR_016911) Copy   

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https://github.com/plaisier-lab/sygnal

Software pipeline to integrate correlative, causal and mechanistic inference approaches into unified framework that systematically infers causal flow of information from mutations to TFs and miRNAs to perturbed gene expression patterns across patients. Used to decipher transcriptional regulatory networks from multi-omic and clinical patient data. Applicable for integrating genomic and transcriptomic measurements from human cohorts.

Proper citation: SYGNAL (RRID:SCR_023080) Copy   

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