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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.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.dana-farber.org/

Cancer institute that provides expert, compassionate care to children and adults with cancer while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. As an affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a Comprehensive Cancer Center designated by the National Cancer Institute, the Institute also provides training for new generations of physicians and scientists, designs programs that promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations, and disseminates innovative patient therapies and scientific discoveries to their target community across the United States and throughout the world.

Proper citation: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (RRID:SCR_003040) Copy   

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http://www.decode.com/

A biopharmaceutical company applying its discoveries in human genetics to develop drugs and diagnostics for common diseases. They specialize in gene discovery - their population approach and resources have enabled them to isolate key genes contributing to major public health challenges from cardiovascular disease to cancer. The company's genotyping capacity is now one of the highest in the world. They have a large population-based biobank containing whole blood and DNA samples with extensive relevant phenotypic information from around 120.000 Icelanders. In the company's work in more than 50 disease projects, their statistical and informatics departments have established themselves in data processing and analysis. deCODE genetics is widely recognized as a center of excellence in genetic research.

Proper citation: deCODE genetics (RRID:SCR_003334) 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.iro.umontreal.ca/~csuros/quadgt/

Software package for calling single-nucleotide variants in four sequenced genomes comprising a normal-tumor pair and the two parents. Genotypes are inferred using a joint model of parental variant frequencies, de novo germline mutations, and somatic mutations. The model quantifies the descent-by-modification relationships between the unknown genotypes by using a set of parameters in a Bayesian inference setting. Note that you can use it on any subset of the four related genomes, including parent-offspring trios, and normal-tumor pairs without parental samples.

Proper citation: QuadGT (RRID:SCR_000073) 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.civm.duhs.duke.edu/

Biomedical technology research center dedicated to the development of novel imaging methods for the basic scientist and the application of the methods to important biomedical questions. The CIVM has played a major role in the development of magnetic resonance microscopy with specialized MR imaging systems capable of imaging at more than 500,000x higher resolution than is common in the clinical domain. The CIVM was the first to demonstrate MR images using hyperpolarized 3He which has been moved from mouse to man with recent clinical trials performed at Duke in collaboration with GE. More recently the CIVM has developed the molecular imaging workbench---a system dedicated to multimodality cardiopulmonary imaging in the rodent. Their collaborators are employing these unique imaging systems in an extraordinary range of mouse and rat models of neurologic disease, cardiopulmonary disease and cancer to illuminate the underlying biology and explore new therapies.

Proper citation: Center for In Vivo Microscopy (RRID:SCR_001426) Copy   

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https://www.bannerhealth.com/research/locations/sun-health-institute/programs/body-donation

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 11, 2023. An autopsy-based, research-devoted brain bank, biobank and biospecimen bank that derives its human donors from the Arizona Study of Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease (AZSAND), a longitudinal clinicopathological study of the health and diseases of elderly volunteers living in Maricopa county and metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Their function is studied during life and their organs and tissue after death. To date, they have concentrated their studies on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, heart disease and cancer. They share the banked tissue, biomaterials and biospecimens with qualified researchers worldwide. Registrants with suitable scientific credentials will be allowed access to a database of available tissue linked to relevant clinical information, and will allow tissue requests to be initiated., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: Brain and Body Donation Program (RRID:SCR_004822) Copy   

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http://ranchobiosciences.com/gse4922/

Curated data set of a study that investigated the expression profiles of 347 primary invasive breast tumors on Affymetrix microarrays. Three separate breast cancer cohorts were analyzed: 1) Uppsala (n=249), 2) Stockholm (n=58), 3) Singapore (n=40). The Uppsala and Singapore data can be accessed in GSE4922. The Stockholm cohort data can be accessed at GEO Series GSE1456.

Proper citation: GSE4922 (RRID:SCR_003557) Copy   

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http://data-analysis.charite.de/care/

Comprehensive database of cancer relevant proteins and compound interactions supported by experimental knowledge.Knowledgebase for drug-target relationships related to cancer as well as for supporting information or experimental data.

Proper citation: CancerResource (RRID:SCR_011945) Copy   

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http://www.cancerrxgene.org/

A genomics database project is an academic research program to identify molecular features of cancers that predict response to anti-cancer drugs.

Proper citation: Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (RRID:SCR_011956) Copy   

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http://cbbiweb.uthscsa.edu/KMethylomes/

Datbase and web-based system for visualization and analysis of genome-wide methylation data of human cancers.

Proper citation: Cancer Methylome System (RRID:SCR_012013) Copy   

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http://dbcat.cgm.ntu.edu.tw/

A database of CpG islands and analytical tools for identifying comprehensive methylation profiles in cancer cells.

Proper citation: DBCAT (RRID:SCR_012014) Copy   

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https://rtips.cancer.gov/rtips/index.do

Database of cancer control interventions and program materials. It is designed to provide program planners and public health practitioners easy and immediate access to research-tested materials.

Proper citation: Research-tested Intervention Programs (RTIPs) (RRID:SCR_016042) Copy   

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http://bioinformatics.istge.it/cldb/mpdb.html

A database containing information on ca. 4300 synthetic oligonucleotides with a sequence of up to 100 nucleotides. Data are mainly taken from the literature and are encoded on the basis of controlled vocabularies. The probes target 821 different genes, of which 691 human and 112 viral. The probes can be used for genetic polymorphisms study (1944), human inherited disease diagnosis (834), cancer diagnosis (517), infectious disease diagnosis (517), neurologic disease diagnosis (72), autoimmune disease diagnosis (40). Oligonucleotides are described on the basis of: name, oligo type (primer, probe, antisense), nucleotide sequence, amino acid sequence (if part of a coding region), target gene and related infos (localization within the gene and recognized variants or specificities), applications, methods, technical notes, complementary primer (if used for PCR), primers for amplification (if probe), bibliographic references. At the moment MPDB is searchable through some SRS servers. MPDB can easily be retrieved from our FTP server, together with SRS syntax files. Typology * ca. 4300 oligonucleotides * 821 different genes, of which 691 human and 112 viral * ca. 3536 oligonucleotides are human gene specific * ca. 620 oligonucleotides are viral gene specific

Proper citation: MPDB - Molecular Probe Database (RRID:SCR_007808) Copy   

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http://www.netpath.org/

A manually curated resource of signal transduction pathways in humans. All pathways are freely available for download in BioPAX level 3.0, PSI-MI version 2.5 and SBML version 2.1 formats. The slim pathway models representing only core reactions in each pathway are available at NetSlim. All the NetPath pathway models are also submitted to WikiPathways., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: NetPath (RRID:SCR_003567) Copy   

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http://pstiing.icr.ac.uk/

A publicly accessible knowledgebase about protein-protein, protein-lipid, protein-small molecules, ligand-receptor interactions, receptor-cell type information, transcriptional regulatory and signal transduction modules relevant to inflammation, cell migration and tumourigenesis. It integrates in-house curated information from the literature, biochemical experiments, functional assays and in vivo studies, with publicly available information from multiple and diverse sources across human, rat, mouse, fly, worm and yeast. The knowledgebase allowing users to search and to dynamically generate visual representations of protein-protein interactions and transcriptional regulatory networks. Signalling and transcriptional modules can also be displayed singly or in combination. This allow users to identify important "cross-talks" between signalling modules via connections with key components or "hubs". The knowledgebase will facilitate a "systems-wide" understanding across many protein, signalling and transcriptional regulatory networks triggered by multiple environmental cues, and also serve as a platform for future efforts to computationally and mathematically model the system behavior of inflammatory processes and tumourigenesis.

Proper citation: pSTIING (RRID:SCR_002045) Copy   

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