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http://www.berkeleybop.org/

The BBOP, located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, is a diverse group of scientific researchers and software engineers dedicated to developing tools and applying computational technologies to solve biological problems. Members of the group contribute to a number of projects, including the Gene Ontology, OBO Foundry, the Phenotypic Quality Ontology, modENCODE, and the Generic Model Organism Database Project. Our group is focused on the development, use, and integration of ontolgies into biological data analysis. Software written or maintained by BBOP is accessible through the site.

Proper citation: Berkeley Bioinformatics Open-Source Projects (RRID:SCR_006704) Copy   

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https://github.com/arq5x/lumpy-sv/

Software package as probabilistic framework for structural variant discovery. Capable of integrating any number of SV detection signals including those generated from read alignments or prior evidence. Simplified wrapper for standard analyses, LUMPY Express, can also be executed.

Proper citation: LUMPY (RRID:SCR_003253) Copy   

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http://primer3.ut.ee

Tool used to design PCR primers from DNA sequence - often in high-throughput genomics applications. It does everything from mispriming libraries to sequence quality data to the generation of internal oligos.

Proper citation: Primer3 (RRID:SCR_003139) Copy   

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http://edoctoring.ncl.ac.uk/Public_site/

Online educational tool that brings challenging clinical practice to your computer, providing medical education that is engaging, challenging and interactive. While there is no substitute for real-life direct contact with patients or colleagues, research has shown that interactive online education can be a highly effective and enjoyable method of learning many components of clinical medicine, including ethics, clinical management, epidemiology and communication skills. eDoctoring offers 25 simulated clinical cases, 15 interactive tutorials and a virtual library containing numerous articles, fast facts and video clips. Their learning material is arranged in the following content areas: * Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genetic Testing * Palliative and End-of-Life Care * Prostate Cancer Screening and Shared Decision-Making

Proper citation: eDoctoring (RRID:SCR_003336) Copy   

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http://phenome.jax.org/

Database enables integration of genomic and phenomic data by providing access to primary experimental data, data collection protocols and analysis tools. Data represent behavioral, morphological and physiological disease-related characteristics in naive mice and those exposed to drugs, environmental agents or other treatments. Collaborative standardized collection of measured data on laboratory mouse strains to characterize them in order to facilitate translational discoveries and to assist in selection of strains for experimental studies. Includes baseline phenotype data sets as well as studies of drug, diet, disease and aging effect., protocols, projects and publications, and SNP, variation and gene expression studies. Provides tools for online analysis. Data sets are voluntarily contributed by researchers from variety of institutions and settings, or retrieved by MPD staff from open public sources. MPD has three major types of strain-centric data sets: phenotype strain surveys, SNP and variation data, and gene expression strain surveys. MPD collects data on classical inbred strains as well as any fixed-genotype strains and derivatives that are openly acquirable by the research community. New panels include Collaborative Cross (CC) lines and Diversity Outbred (DO) populations. Phenotype data include measurements of behavior, hematology, bone mineral density, cholesterol levels, endocrine function, aging processes, addiction, neurosensory functions, and other biomedically relevant areas. Genotype data are primarily in the form of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). MPD curates data into a common framework by standardizing mouse strain nomenclature, standardizing units (SI where feasible), evaluating data (completeness, statistical power, quality), categorizing phenotype data and linking to ontologies, conforming to internal style guides for titles, tags, and descriptions, and creating comprehensive protocol documentation including environmental parameters of the test animals. These elements are critical for experimental reproducibility.

Proper citation: Mouse Phenome Database (MPD) (RRID:SCR_003212) Copy   

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http://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/dbinfo/pirsf.shtml

A SuperFamily classification system, with rules for functional site and protein name, to facilitate the sensible propagation and standardization of protein annotation and the systematic detection of annotation errors. The PIRSF concept is being used as a guiding principle to provide comprehensive and non-overlapping clustering of UniProtKB sequences into a hierarchical order to reflect their evolutionary relationships. The PIRSF classification system is based on whole proteins rather than on the component domains; therefore, it allows annotation of generic biochemical and specific biological functions, as well as classification of proteins without well-defined domains. There are different PIRSF classification levels. The primary level is the homeomorphic family, whose members are both homologous (evolved from a common ancestor) and homeomorphic (sharing full-length sequence similarity and a common domain architecture). At a lower level are the subfamilies which are clusters representing functional specialization and/or domain architecture variation within the family. Above the homeomorphic level there may be parent superfamilies that connect distantly related families and orphan proteins based on common domains. Because proteins can belong to more than one domain superfamily, the PIRSF structure is formally a network. The FTP site provides free download for PIRSF.

Proper citation: PIRSF (RRID:SCR_003352) Copy   

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http://www.reactome.org

Collection of pathways and pathway annotations. The core unit of the Reactome data model is the reaction. Entities (nucleic acids, proteins, complexes and small molecules) participating in reactions form a network of biological interactions and are grouped into pathways (signaling, innate and acquired immune function, transcriptional regulation, translation, apoptosis and classical intermediary metabolism) . Provides website to navigate pathway knowledge and a suite of data analysis tools to support the pathway-based analysis of complex experimental and computational data sets.

Proper citation: Reactome (RRID:SCR_003485) Copy   

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http://www.textpresso.org/

An information extracting and processing package for biological literature that can be used online or installed locally via a downloadable software package, http://www.textpresso.org/downloads.html Textpresso's two major elements are (1) access to full text, so that entire articles can be searched, and (2) introduction of categories of biological concepts and classes that relate two objects (e.g., association, regulation, etc.) or describe one (e.g., methods, etc). A search engine enables the user to search for one or a combination of these categories and/or keywords within an entire literature. The Textpresso project serves the biological and biomedical research community by providing: * Full text literature searches of model organism research and subject-specific articles at individual sites. Major elements of these search engines are (1) access to full text, so that the entire content of articles can be searched, and (2) search capabilities using categories of biological concepts and classes that relate two objects (e.g., association, regulation, etc.) or identify one (e.g., cell, gene, allele, etc). The search engines are flexible, enabling users to query the entire literature using keywords, one or more categories or a combination of keywords and categories. * Text classification and mining of biomedical literature for database curation. They help database curators to identify and extract biological entities and facts from the full text of research articles. Examples of entity identification and extraction include new allele and gene names and human disease gene orthologs; examples of fact identification and extraction include sentence retrieval for curating gene-gene regulation, Gene Ontology (GO) cellular components and GO molecular function annotations. In addition they classify papers according to curation needs. They employ a variety of methods such as hidden Markov models, support vector machines, conditional random fields and pattern matches. Our collaborators include WormBase, FlyBase, SGD, TAIR, dictyBase and the Neuroscience Information Framework. They are looking forward to collaborating with more model organism databases and projects. * Linking biological entities in PDF and online journal articles to online databases. They have established a journal article mark-up pipeline that links select content of Genetics journal articles to model organism databases such as WormBase and SGD. The entity markup pipeline links over nine classes of objects including genes, proteins, alleles, phenotypes, and anatomical terms to the appropriate page at each database. The first article published with online and PDF-embedded hyperlinks to WormBase appeared in the September 2009 issue of Genetics. As of January 2011, we have processed around 70 articles, to be continued indefinitely. Extension of this pipeline to other journals and model organism databases is planned. Textpresso is useful as a search engine for researchers as well as a curation tool. It was developed as a part of WormBase and is used extensively by C. elegans curators. Textpresso has currently been implemented for 24 different literatures, among them Neuroscience, and can readily be extended to other corpora of text.

Proper citation: Textpresso (RRID:SCR_008737) Copy   

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http://go.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/GOTermFinder

The Generic GO Term Finder finds the significant GO terms shared among a list of genes from an organism, displaying the results in a table and as a graph (showing the terms and their ancestry). The user may optionally provide background information or a custom gene association file or filter evidence codes. This tool is capable of batch processing multiple queries at once. GO::TermFinder comprises a set of object-oriented Perl modules GO::TermFinder can be used on any system on which Perl can be run, either as a command line application, in single or batch mode, or as a web-based CGI script. This implementation, developed at the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton, depends on the GO-TermFinder software written by Gavin Sherlock and Shuai Weng at Stanford University and the GO:View module written by Shuai Weng. It is made publicly available through the GMOD project. The full source code and documentation for GO:TermFinder are freely available from http://search.cpan.org/dist/GO-TermFinder/. Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: Generic GO Term Finder (RRID:SCR_008870) Copy   

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http://hymenopteragenome.org/beebase/

Gene sequences and genomes of Bombus terrestris, Bombus impatiens, Apis mellifera and three of its pathogens, that are discoverable and analyzed via genome browsers, blast search, and apollo annotation tool. The genomes of two additional species, Apis dorsata and A. florea are currently under analysis and will soon be incorporated.BeeBase is an archive and will not be updated. The most up-to-date bee genome data is now available through the navigation bar on the HGD Home page.

Proper citation: BeeBase (RRID:SCR_008966) Copy   

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http://itools.loni.usc.edu/

An infrastructure for managing of diverse computational biology resources - data, software tools and web-services. The iTools design, implementation and meta-data content reflect the broad NCBC needs and expertise (www.NCBCs.org).

Proper citation: iTools (RRID:SCR_009626) Copy   

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http://weblogo.berkeley.edu

Web application to generate sequence logos, graphical representations of patterns within multiple sequence alignment. Designed to make generation of sequence logos easy. Sequence logo generator.

Proper citation: WEBLOGO (RRID:SCR_010236) Copy   

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http://compbio.cs.brown.edu/projects/gasv/

Software tool combining both paired read and read depth signals into probabilistic model which can analyze multiple alignments of reads. Used to find structural variation in both normal and cancer genomes using data from variety of next-generation sequencing platforms. Used to predict structural variants directly from aligned reads in SAM/BAM format.Combines read depth information along with discordant paired read mappings into single probabilistic model two common signals of structural variation. When multiple alignments of read are given, GASVPro utilizes Markov Chain Monte Carlo procedure to sample over the space of possible alignments.

Proper citation: GASVPro (RRID:SCR_005259) Copy   

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http://bioportal.bioontology.org/annotator

A Web service that annotates textual metadata (e.g. journal abstract) with relevant ontology concepts. NCBO uses this Web service to annotate resources in the NCBO Resource Index. They also provide this Web service as a stand-alone service for users. This Web service can be accessed through BioPortal or used directly in your software. Currently, the annotation workflow is based on syntactic concept recognition (using concept names and synonyms) and on a set of semantic expansion algorithms that leverage the semantics in ontologies (e.g., is_a relations). Their service methodology leverages ontologies to create annotations of raw text and returns them using semantic web standards.

Proper citation: NCBO Annotator (RRID:SCR_005329) Copy   

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http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/index.shtml

Software ultrafast memory efficient tool for aligning sequencing reads. Bowtie is short read aligner.

Proper citation: Bowtie (RRID:SCR_005476) Copy   

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http://owlsim.org

Software package that provides the ability to do a number of standard semantic similarity methods and includes novel methods for combining these with dynamic selection of anonymous grouping classes. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: OwlSim (RRID:SCR_006819) Copy   

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https://github.com/kstreet13/slingshot

Software R package for identifying and characterizing continuous developmental trajectories in single cell data. Cell lineage and pseudotime inference for single-cell transcriptomics.

Proper citation: Slingshot (RRID:SCR_017012) Copy   

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https://github.com/shendurelab/LACHESIS

Software tool for chromosome scale scaffolding of de novo genome assemblies based on chromatin interactions.Method exploits signal of genomic proximity in Hi-C datasets for ultra long range scaffolding of de novo genome assemblies.

Proper citation: LACHESIS (RRID:SCR_017644) Copy   

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http://www.bcgsc.ca/platform/bioinfo/software/abyss

Software providing de novo, parallel, paired-end sequence assembler that is designed for short reads. ABySS 1.0 originally showed that assembling human genome using short 50 bp sequencing reads was possible by aggregating half terabyte of compute memory needed over several computers using standardized message passing system. ABySS 2.0 is Resource Efficient Assembly of Large Genomes using Bloom Filter. ABySS 2.0 departs from MPI and instead implements algorithms that employ Bloom filter, probabilistic data structure, to represent de Bruijn graph and reduce memory requirements.

Proper citation: ABySS (RRID:SCR_010709) Copy   

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http://uberon.org

An integrated cross-species anatomy ontology representing a variety of entities classified according to traditional anatomical criteria such as structure, function and developmental lineage. The ontology includes comprehensive relationships to taxon-specific anatomical ontologies, allowing integration of functional, phenotype and expression data. Uberon consists of over 10000 classes (March 2014) representing structures that are shared across a variety of metazoans. The majority of these classes are chordate specific, and there is large bias towards model organisms and human.

Proper citation: UBERON (RRID:SCR_010668) Copy   

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