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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/

Non-profit academic organization for research and services in bioinformatics. Provides freely available data from life science experiments, performs basic research in computational biology, and offers user training programme, manages databases of biological data including nucleic acid, protein sequences, and macromolecular structures. Part of EMBL.

Proper citation: European Bioinformatics Institute (RRID:SCR_004727) Copy   

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http://www.eurordis.org/

EURORDIS is a non-governmental patient-driven alliance of patient organizations and individuals active in the field of rare diseases, dedicated to improving the quality of life of all people living with rare diseases in Europe. It is a not-for-profit organization and represents more than 479 rare disease organizations in 45 different countries (of which 25 are EU Member States), covering more than 4,000 rare diseases. It is therefore the voice of the 30 million patients affected by rare diseases throughout Europe. EURORDIS aims at improving the quality of life of people living with rare diseases in Europe through advocacy at the European level, support for research and drug development, networking patient groups, raising awareness and other actions designed to fight against the impact of rare diseases on the lives of patients and family. EURORDIS' training programs and resources are designed to strengthen the capacity of rare disease patients' representatives. Training empowers patients' representatives to advocate effectively for rare diseases at both the local and EU level. Key issues affecting patients of Rare Diseases on which we actively work: * Sustaining rare diseases as an EU public health priority * Making Rare Diseases A Public Health Priority In All Member States * Rare Diseases: An International Public Health Priority * Improving Access To Orphan Drugs * Improving Access To Quality Care * Promoting cross-border healthcare and patient mobility * Bridging Patients And Research * Genetic testing and newborn screening

Proper citation: EURORDIS (RRID:SCR_003814) Copy   

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http://eurofung.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=3&Itemid=4

The Eurofung project is a Coordination Action with the aim of developing a strategy to build up and maintain an integrated, sustainable European genomic database required for innovative genomics research of filamentous fungal model organisms of interest. This database will become a crystallization point for related systems and then could be integrated and conserved in a central European genomic database. The consortium counts 32 member laboratories, three of which have partner status. A Fungal Industrial Platform (FIP) of 13 members is also associated with the project. The project focuses on several filamentous fungi for different reasons. Aspergillus nidulans has a long record of use as a fungal model organism. Aspergillus niger, Trichoderma reesei and Penicillium chrysogenum are important cell factories used for the production of enzymes and metabolites including compounds such as Beta-lactams with benefits to human health. The human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus serves not only as a model pathogen, but becomes more and more a serious threat to human health. The project contributes to create the conditions and facilities within Europe to widely apply all genomics technologies in filamentous fungal research. This will greatly expand our knowledge about filamentous fungi. This new genomics information will thus be beneficial to European biotechnology industries and help to improve the prevention and treatment of fungal disease. Expected results: The main results expected from this project are: - The contribution of the community to the manual annotation of important fungal genomes through annotation jamborees. - The realization of an integrated sustainable fungal genomic database through collaboration with bioinformatics centers and incorporation of the community data. - The realization of a fungal genomics knowledge base for the Eurofungbase community and the European fungal biotech industry through meetings, workshops and web-based information. - Intensified collaboration between the members of the network including the participating industries, thus strengthening the infrastructure for high quality fungal genomics research in Europe and furthermore determining joint research targets for the future. -Individualized training of a next generation of young scientists in fungal genomics and biotechnological research.

Proper citation: Eurofungbase (RRID:SCR_007094) Copy   

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http://www.wf4ever-project.org/

Project to addresses challenges associated with the preservation of scientific experiments in data-intensive science, including: * The definition of models to describe, in a standard way, scientific experiments by means of workflow-centric Research Objects, which comprise scientific workflows, the provenance of their executions, interconnections between workflows and related resources (e.g., datasets, publications, etc.), and social aspects related to such scientific experiments. * The collection of best practices for the creation and management of Research Objects. * The analysis and management of decay in scientific workflows. To address these challenges they are creating an architecture and tooling for the access, manipulation, sharing, reuse and evolution of Research Objects in a range of disciplines. This will result into the next generation RO-enabled myExperiment.

Proper citation: Workflow4Ever (RRID:SCR_005939) Copy   

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http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki

A free, open-source extension to MediaWiki - the wiki software that powers Wikipedia - that helps to search, organize, tag, browse, evaluate, and share the wiki''s content. While traditional wikis contain only text which computers can neither understand nor evaluate, SMW adds semantic annotations that allow a wiki to function as a collaborative database. Semantic MediaWiki introduces some additional markup into the wiki-text which allows users to add semantic annotations to the wiki. While this first appears to make things more complex, it can also greatly simplify the structure of the wiki, help users to find more information in less time, and improve the overall quality and consistency of the wiki. A large number of related extensions have been created that extend the ability to edit, display and browse through the data stored by SMW: the term Semantic MediaWiki is sometimes used to refer to this entire family of extensions.

Proper citation: Semantic MediaWiki (RRID:SCR_006246) Copy   

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http://www.sanger.ac.uk/mouseportal/

Database of mouse research resources at Sanger: BACs, targeting vectors, targeted ES cells, mutant mouse lines, and phenotypic data generated from the Institute''''s primary screen. The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute generates, characterizes, and uses a variety of reagents for mouse genetics research. It also aims to facilitate the distribution of these resources to the external scientific community. Here, you will find unified access to the different resources available from the Institute or its collaborators. The resources include: 129S7 and C57BL6/J bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs), MICER gene targeting vectors, knock-out first conditional-ready gene targeting vectors, embryonic stem (ES) cells with gene targeted mutations or with retroviral gene trap insertions, mutant mouse lines, and phenotypic data generated from the Institute''''s primary screen.

Proper citation: Sanger Mouse Resources Portal (RRID:SCR_006239) Copy   

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

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 29, 2016. Study of genetic and life-style risk factors associated with common diseases based on analysis of European twins. The population cohorts used in the Genomeutwin study consist of Danish, Finnish, Italian, Dutch, English, Australian and Swedish twins and the MORGAM population cohort. This project will apply and develop new molecular and statistical strategies to analyze unique European twin and other population cohorts to define and characterize the genetic, environmental and life-style components in the background of health problems like obesity, migraine, coronary heart disease and stroke, representing major health care problems worldwide. The participating 8 twin cohorts form a collection of over 0.6 million pairs of twins. Tens of thousands of DNA samples with informed consents for genetic studies of common diseases have already been stored from these population-based twin cohorts. Studies targeted to cardiovascular traits are now being undertaken in MORGAM, a prospective case-cohort study. MORGAM cohorts include approximately 6000 individuals, drawn from population-based cohorts consisting of more than 80 000 participants who have donated DNA samples.

Proper citation: GenomEUtwin (RRID:SCR_002843) Copy   

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http://bbmri-eric.eu

BBMRI is a pan-European and internationally broadly accessible research infrastructure and a network of existing and de novo biobanks and biomolecular resources. The infrastructure will include samples from patients and healthy persons, representing different European populations (with links to epidemiological and health care information), molecular genomic resources and biocomputational tools to optimally exploit this resource for global biomedical research. During the past 3 years BBMRI has grown into a 53-member consortium with over 280 associated organizations (largely biobanks) from over 30 countries, making it the largest research infrastructure project in Europe. During the preparatory phase the concept of a functional pan-European biobank was formulated and has now been presented to Member States of the European Union and for associated states for approval and funding. BBMRI will form an interface between specimens and data (from patients and European populations) and top-level biological and medical research. This can only be achieved through a distributed research infrastructure with operational units in all participating Member States. BBMRI will be implemented under the ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) legal entity. BBMRI-ERIC foresees headquarters (central coordination) in Graz, Austria, responsible for coordination of the activities of National Nodes established in participating countries. BBMRI is in the process of submitting its application to the European Commission for a legal status under the ERIC regulation, with an expected start date at the end of 2011. Major synergism, gain of statistical power and economy of scale will be achieved by interlinking, standardizing and harmonizing - sometimes even just cross-referencing - a large variety of well-qualified, up-to date, existing and de novo national resources. The network should cover (1) major European biobanks with blood, serum, tissue or other biological samples, (2) molecular methods resource centers for human and model organisms of biomedical relevance, (3) and biocomputing centers to ensure that databases of samples in the repositories are dynamically linked to existing databases and to scientific literature as well as to statistical expertise. Catalog of European Biobanks www.bbmriportal.eu Username: guest / Password: catalogue The catalogue is intended to be used as a reference for scientists seeking information about biological samples and data suitable for their research. The BBMRI catalogue of European Biobanks provides a high-level description of Europe''s biobanks characteristics using a portal solution managing metadata and aggregate data of biobanks. The catalogue can be queried by country, by biobank, by ICD-groups, by specimen types, by specific strengths, by funding and more. A search function is available for all data.

Proper citation: Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI) (RRID:SCR_004226) Copy   

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http://briansimulator.org/

Software Python package for simulating spiking neural networks. Useful for neuroscientific modelling at systems level, and for teaching computational neuroscience. Intuitive and efficient neural simulator.

Proper citation: Brian Simulator (RRID:SCR_002998) Copy   

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http://bioinformatics.biol.rug.nl/standalone/fiva/

Functional Information Viewer and Analyzer (FIVA) aids researchers in the prokaryotic community to quickly identify relevant biological processes following transcriptome analysis. Our software is able to assist in functional profiling of large sets of genes and generates a comprehensive overview of affected biological processes. Currently, seven different modules containing functional information have been implemented: (i) gene regulatory interactions, (ii) cluster of orthologous groups (COG) of proteins, (iii) gene ontologies (GO), (iv) metabolic pathways (v) Swiss Prot keywords, (vi) InterPro domains - and (vii) generic functional categories. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: FIVA - Functional Information Viewer and Analyzer (RRID:SCR_005776) Copy   

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http://www.orpha.net/

European website providing information about orphan drugs and rare diseases. It contains content both for physicians and for patients. Reference portal for rare diseases and orphan drugs to help improve diagnosis, care and treatment of patients with rare diseases.

Proper citation: Orphanet (RRID:SCR_006628) Copy   

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https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/reapr

Software tool to identify errors in genome assemblies without need for reference sequence. Can be used in any stage of assembly pipeline to automatically break incorrect scaffolds and flag other errors in assembly for manual inspection. Reports mis-assemblies and other warnings, and produces new broken assembly based on error calls.

Proper citation: Recognition of Errors in Assemblies using Paired Reads (RRID:SCR_017625) Copy   

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https://www.openaire.eu/

A research portal to share and obtain research data and journal articles openly accessible to all disciplines. Established to support the Open Access Policy, as set out by the ERC Scientific Council Guidelines for Open Access and the Open Access pilot launched by the European Commission.

Proper citation: OpenAIRE (RRID:SCR_013740) Copy   

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http://funsimmat.bioinf.mpi-inf.mpg.de

FunSimMat is a comprehensive resource of semantic and functional similarity values. It allows ranking disease candidate proteins for OMIM diseases and searching for functional similarity values for proteins (extracted from UniProt), and protein families (Pfam, SMART). FunSimMat provides several different semantic and functional similarity measures for each protein pair using the Gene Ontology annotation from UniProtKB and the Gene Ontology Annotation project at EBI (GOA). There are several search options available: Disease candidate prioritization: * Rank candidate proteins using any OMIM disease entry * Compare a list of proteins to any OMIM disease entry * Compare all human proteins to any OMIM disease entry Functional similarity: * Compare one protein / protein family to a list of proteins / protein families * Compare a list of GO terms to a list of proteins / protein families Semantic similarity: * For a list of GO terms, FunSimMat performs an all-against-all comparison and displays the semantic similarity values. FunSimMat provides an XML-RPC interface for performing automatic queries and processing of the results as well as a RestLike Interface. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: FunSimMat (RRID:SCR_002729) Copy   

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http://www.genepaint.org

Digital atlas of gene expression patterns in developing and adult mouse. Several reference atlases are also available through this site. Expression patterns are determined by non-radioactive in situ hybridization on serial tissue sections. Sections are available from several developmental ages: E10.5, E14.5 (whole embryos), E15.5, P7 and P56 (brains only). To retrieve expression patterns, search by gene name, site of expression, GenBank accession number or sequence homology. For viewing expression patterns, GenePaint.org features virtual microscope tool that enables zooming into images down to cellular resolution.

Proper citation: GenePaint (RRID:SCR_003015) Copy   

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http://www.mged.org/Workgroups/MAGE/mage-ml.html

A language / data exchange format designed to describe and communicate information about microarray based experiments that is based on XML and can describe microarray designs, microarray manufacturing information, microarray experiment setup and execution information, gene expression data and data analysis results. MAGE-ML has been automatically derived from Microarray Gene Expression Object Model (MAGE-OM), which is developed and described using the Unified Modelling Language (UML) -- a standard language for describing object models. Descriptions using UML have an advantage over direct XML document type definitions (DTDs), in many respects. First they use graphical representation depicting the relationships between different entities in a way which is much easier to follow than DTDs. Second, the UML diagrams are primarily meant for humans, while DTDs are meant for computers. Therefore MAGE-OM should be considered as the primary model, and MAGE-ML will be explained by providing simplified fragments of MAGE-OM, rather then XML DTD or XML Schema. (from the description by Ugis Sarkans) The field of gene expression experiments has several distinct technologies that a standard must include. These include single vs. dual channel experiments, cDNA vs. oligonucleotides. Because of these different technologies and different types of gene expression experiments, it is not expected that all aspects of the standard will be used by all organizations. Given the massive amount of data associated with a single set of experiments, it is felt that Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the best way to describe the data. The use of a Document Type Definition (DTD) allows a well-defined tag set, a vocabulary, to describe the domain of gene expression experiments. It also has the virtue of compressing very well so that files in an XML format compress to ten percent of their original size. XML is now widely accepted as a data exchange format across multiple platforms.

Proper citation: MicroArray and Gene Expression Markup Language (RRID:SCR_003023) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress/

International functional genomics data collection generated from microarray or next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms. Repository of functional genomics data supporting publications. Provides genes expression data for reuse to the research community where they can be queried and downloaded. Integrated with the Gene Expression Atlas and the sequence databases at the European Bioinformatics Institute. Contains a subset of curated and re-annotated Archive data which can be queried for individual gene expression under different biological conditions across experiments. Data collected to MIAME and MINSEQE standards. Data are submitted by users or are imported directly from the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus.

Proper citation: ArrayExpress (RRID:SCR_002964) Copy   

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http://www.mugen-noe.org/database/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 5, 2023. MUGEN Mouse Database (MMdb) is a virtual and fully searchable repository of murine models of immune processes and immunological diseases. MMdb is being developed within the context of the MUGEN network of Excellence, a consortium of 21 leading research institutes and universities, and currently holds all mutant mouse models that were developed within the consortium. Its primary aim is to enable information exchange between participating institutions on mouse strain characteristics and availability. More importantly, it aims to create a mouse-centric international forum on modelling of immunological diseases and pave the way to systems biology of the mouse by correlating various genotypic and phenotypic characteristics. The basic categorization of models is based on three major research application categories: * Model of Human Disease * Model of Immune Processes * Transgenic Tool Mutant strains carry detailed information on affected gene(s), mutant alleles and genetic background (DNA origin, targeted, host and backcrossing background). Each gene/transgene index also includes IDs and direct links to Ensembl (EBI��s genome browser), ArrayExpress (providing expression profiles), Eurexpress II (for embryonic expression patterns) and NCBI��s Entrez Gene database. Phenotypic description is standardized and hierarchically structured, based on MGI��s mammalian phenotypic ontology terms, but also includes relevant images and references. Since version 2.1.0 MMdb is also utilizing PATO. Availability (in the form of live mice, cryopreserved embryos or sperm, as well as ES cells) is clearly indicated, along with handling and genotyping details (in the form of documents or hyperlinks) and all relevant contact information (including EMMA and JAX hyperlinks where available).

Proper citation: MUGEN Mouse Database (RRID:SCR_003243) Copy   

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https://services.healthtech.dtu.dk/

Center for Biological Sequence Analysis of the Technical University of Denmark conducts basic research in the field of bioinformatics and systems biology and directs its research primarily towards topics related to the elucidation of the functional aspects of complex biological mechanisms. A large number of computational methods have been produced, which are offered to others via WWW servers. Several data sets are also available. The center also has experimental efforts in gene expression analysis using DNA chips and data generation in relation to the physical and structural properties of DNA. The on-line prediction services at CBS are available as interactive input forms. Most of the servers are also available as stand-alone software packages with the same functionality. In addition, for some servers, programmatic access is provided in the form of SOAP-based Web Services. The center also educates engineering students in biotechnology and systems biology and offers a wide range of courses in bioinformatics, systems biology, human health, microbiology and nutrigenomics.

Proper citation: DTU Center for Biological Sequence Analysis (RRID:SCR_003590) Copy   

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http://www.proteomexchange.org

A data repository for proteomic data sets. The ProteomeExchange consortium, as a whole, aims to provide a coordinated submission of MS proteomics data to the main existing proteomics repositories, as well as to encourage optimal data dissemination. ProteomeXchange provides access to a number of public databases, and users can access and submit data sets to the consortium's PRIDE database and PASSEL/PeptideAtlas.

Proper citation: ProteomeXchange (RRID:SCR_004055) Copy   

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