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http://nramm.scripps.edu/

Biomedical technology research center that develops, tests and applies technology aimed toward completely automating the processes involved in solving macromolecular structures using cryo-electron microscopy. The goal is to establish a resource that will serve both as a center for high-throughput molecular microscopy as well as for transferring this technique to the research community. Current Core Technology Research and Development is focused on 4 areas: improving grid substrates and specimen preparation; further automation and optimization of image acquisition; development of an integrated single particle analysis and processing pipeline; and the development of automated high throughput EM screening. NRAMM welcomes applications of both collaborative and service projects.

Proper citation: National Resource for Automated Molecular Microscopy (RRID:SCR_001448) Copy   

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http://www.acert.cornell.edu/

Biomedical technology research center that develops methods, both experimental and theoretical, of modern electron spin resonance (ESR) for biomedical applications. Center technologies are applicable to the determination of the structure and complex dynamics of proteins. Principal areas of expertise: * Pulsed Fourier Transform and Two Dimensional ESR * High Frequency-High Field (HFHF) ESR * High Resolution ESR Microscopy * Theory and Computational Methods for Modern ESR Activities include: * making resources available to the biomedical community, * publishing results, * running workshops on the new methodologies, * addressing the need to bring these new technologies to other laboratories.

Proper citation: National Biomedical Center for Advanced ESR Technology (RRID:SCR_001444) Copy   

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http://www.sci.utah.edu/cibc/

Biomedical technology research center that produces open-source software tools for biomedical image-based modeling, biomedical simulation and estimation, and the visualization of biomedical data. The Center works closely with software users and collaborators in a range of scientific domains to produce user-optimized tools and provides advice, technical support, workshops, and education to enhance user success. Biological projects and collaborations drive their development efforts, all with a single unifying vision: to develop the role of image-based modeling and analysis in biomedical science and clinical practice. The CIBC has a strong, ongoing emphasis on software simulation of bioelectric fields, with clinically oriented collaborations in cardiac defibrillation and the diagnosis/treatment of epilepsy. In addition, the CIBC has expanded in recent years to include applications of statistical shape analysis and three-dimensional visualization to mouse genetics and neuroimaging and applications of image and geometry processing to cell biology.

Proper citation: Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (RRID:SCR_001961) Copy   

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http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/

Biomedical technology research center focusing on the structure and function of supramolecular systems in the living cell as well as on the development of new algorithms and efficient computing tools for physical biology. They bring the most advanced molecular modeling, bioinformatics, and computational technologies to bear on questions of biomedical relevance. They extend, refine and deliver these technologies in response to experimental progress and emerging needs of the wide biomedical research community. They magnify the impact of their work through direct collaboration with experimental researchers, the distribution of cutting-edge and user-friendly software, and via extensive training, service, and dissemination efforts. The multidisciplinary team is engaged in the modeling of large macromolecular systems in realistic environments, and has produced ground-breaking insights into biomolecular processes coupled with mechanical force, bioelectronic processes in metabolism and vision, and with the function and mechanism of membrane proteins. They are committed and work towards further advancement of * Molecular modeling tools which can integrate structural information with bioinformatics databases and molecular dynamics simulations, and which can be used by a wide audience; * High performance molecular visualization and simulation software, capable of modeling biomolecules in realistic environments of 100,000,000 atoms or more; * Conceptual and methodological foundations of molecular modeling in the fields of quantum biology, mechanobiology, and interactive modeling; * Biomedical science through collaborations between theoretical and experimental researchers; * Support of the entire research process and training through a web-enabled collaborative environment; and * Service, training, and dissemination by leveraging web-based molecular graphics and integrated modeling technologies.

Proper citation: NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics (RRID:SCR_001435) Copy   

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http://nrnb.org/index.html

Biomedical technology research center that develops new algorithms, visualizations and conceptual frameworks to study biological networks at multiple levels and scales, from protein-protein and genetic interactions to cell-cell communication and vast social networks. They are developing freely available, open-source suite of software technology that broadly enables network-based visualization, analysis, and biomedical discovery for NIH-funded researchers. This software is enabling researchers to assemble large-scale biological data into models of networks and pathways and to use these networks to better understand how biological systems operate under normal conditions and how they fail in disease. The National Resource for Network Biology is organized around the following key components: Technology Research and Development, Driving Biomedical Projects, Outreach, Training and Dissemination of Tools. The NRNB supports several types of training events, including both virtual and live workshops; tutorials sessions for clinicians, biologists and bioinformaticians; presentations and demonstrations at conferences; online tutorials and webcasts; and annual symposium.

Proper citation: National Resource for Network Biology (RRID:SCR_004259) Copy   

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http://www.fruitfly.org

Database on the sequence of the euchromatic genome of Drosophila melanogaster In addition to genomic sequencing, the BDGP is 1) producing gene disruptions using P element-mediated mutagenesis on a scale unprecedented in metazoans; 2) characterizing the sequence and expression of cDNAs; and 3) developing informatics tools that support the experimental process, identify features of DNA sequence, and allow us to present up-to-date information about the annotated sequence to the research community. Resources * Universal Proteomics Resource: Search for clones for expression and tissue culture * Materials: Request genomic or cDNA clones, library filters or fly stocks * Download Sequence data sets and annotations in fasta or xml format by http or ftp * Publications: Browse or download BDGP papers * Methods: BDGP laboratory protocols and vector maps * Analysis Tools: Search sequences for CRMs, promoters, splice sites, and gene predictions * Apollo: Genome annotation viewer and editor September 15, 2009 Illumina RNA-Seq data from 30 developmental time points of D. melanogaster has been submitted to the Short Read Archive at NCBI as part of the modENCODE project. The data set currently contains 2.2 billion single-end and paired reads and over 201 billion base pairs.

Proper citation: Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project (RRID:SCR_013094) Copy   

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http://regulondb.ccg.unam.mx/

Database on transcriptional regulation in Escherichia coli K-12 containing knowledge manually curated from original scientific publications, complemented with high throughput datasets and comprehensive computational predictions. Graphic and text-integrated environment with friendly navigation where regulatory information is always at hand. They provide integrated views to understand as well as organized knowledge in computable form. Users may submit data to make it publicly available.

Proper citation: RegulonDB (RRID:SCR_003499) Copy   

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http://www.mbio.ncsu.edu/RNaseP/home.html

Ribonuclease P is responsible for the 5''-maturation of tRNA precursors. Ribonuclease P is a ribonucleoprotein, and in bacteria (and some Archaea) the RNA subunit alone is catalytically active in vitro, i.e. it is a ribozyme. The Ribonuclease P Database is a compilation of ribonuclease P sequences, sequence alignments, secondary structures, three-dimensional models and accessory information. The database contains information on bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryotic RNase P. The RNase P and protein sequences are available from phylogentically-arranged lists, individual sequences, or aligned in GenBank format. The database also provides secondary structures and 3D models, as well as movies, still images, and other accessory information.

Proper citation: RNase P Database (RRID:SCR_006680) Copy   

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http://www.agbase.msstate.edu/

A curated, open-source, web-accessible resource for functional analysis of agricultural plant and animal gene products. Our long-term goal is to serve the needs of the agricultural research communities by facilitating post-genome biology for agriculture researchers and for those researchers primarily using agricultural species as biomedical models. AgBase provides tools designed to assist with the analysis of proteomics data and tools to evaluate experimental datasets using the GO. Additional tools for sequence analysis are also provided. We use controlled vocabularies developed by the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium to describe molecular function, biological process, and cellular component for genes and gene products in agricultural species. AgBase will also accept annotations from any interested party in the research communities. AgBase develops freely available tools for functional analysis, including tools for using GO. We appreciate any and all questions, comments, and suggestions. AgBase uses the NCBI Blast program for searches for similar sequences. And the Taxonomy Browser allows users to find the NCBI defined taxon ID for or taxon name for different organisms.

Proper citation: AgBase (RRID:SCR_007547) Copy   

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http://www.biocheminfo.org/klotho/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 16, 2013. A database of biochemical compound information. All files are available for download, and all entries are cataloged by accession number. Klotho is part of a larger attempt to model biological processes, beginning with biochemistry.

Proper citation: Klotho: Biochemical Compounds Declarative Database (RRID:SCR_007714) Copy   

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http://metallo.scripps.edu/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on June 24, 2013. Database and Browser containing quantitative information on all the metal-containing sites available from structures in the PDB distribution. This database contains geometrical and molecular information that allows the classification and search of particular combinations of site characteristics, and answer questions such as: How many mononuclear zinc-containing sites are five coordinate with X-ray resolution better than 1.8 Angstroms?, and then be able to visualize and manipulate the matching sites. The database also includes enough information to answer questions involving type and number of ligands (e.g. "at least 2 His"), and include distance cutoff criteria (e.g. a metal-ligand distance no more than 3.0 Angstroms and no less than 2.2 Angstroms). This database is being developed as part of a project whose ultimate goal is metalloprotein design, allowing the interactive visualization of geometrical and functional information garnered from the MDB. The database is created by automatic recognition and extraction of metal-binding sites from metal-containing proteins. Quantitative information is extracted and organized into a searchable form, by iterating through all the entries in the latest PDB release (at the moment: September 2001). This is a comprehensive quantitative database, which exists in SQL format and contains information on about 5,500 proteins.

Proper citation: Metalloprotein Site Database (RRID:SCR_007780) Copy   

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http://www.phenologs.org/

Database for identifying orthologous phenotypes (phenologs). Mapping between genotype and phenotype is often non-obvious, complicating prediction of genes underlying specific phenotypes. This problem can be addressed through comparative analyses of phenotypes. We define phenologs based upon overlapping sets of orthologous genes associated with each phenotype. Comparisons of >189,000 human, mouse, yeast, and worm gene-phenotype associations reveal many significant phenologs, including novel non-obvious human disease models. For example, phenologs suggest a yeast model for mammalian angiogenesis defects and an invertebrate model for vertebrate neural tube birth defects. Phenologs thus create a rich framework for comparing mutational phenotypes, identify adaptive reuse of gene systems, and suggest new disease genes. To search for phenologs, go to the basic search page and enter a list of genes in the box provided, using Entrez gene identifiers for mouse/human genes, locus ids for yeast (e.g., YHR200W), or sequence names for worm (e.g., B0205.3). It is expected that this list of genes will all be associated with a particular system, trait, mutational phenotype, or disease. The search will return all identified model organism/human mutational phenotypes that show any overlap with the input set of the genes, ranked according to their hypergeometric probability scores. Clicking on a particular phenolog will result in a list of genes associated with the phenotype, from which potential new candidate genes can identified. Currently known phenotypes in the database are available from the link labeled ''Find phenotypes'', where the associated gene can be submitted as queries, or alternately, can be searched directly from the link provided.

Proper citation: Phenologs (RRID:SCR_005529) Copy   

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http://bigg.ucsd.edu/

A knowledgebase of Biochemically, Genetically and Genomically structured genome-scale metabolic network reconstructions. BiGG integrates several published genome-scale metabolic networks into one resource with standard nomenclature which allows components to be compared across different organisms. BiGG can be used to browse model content, visualize metabolic pathway maps, and export SBML files of the models for further analysis by external software packages. Users may follow links from BiGG to several external databases to obtain additional information on genes, proteins, reactions, metabolites and citations of interest.

Proper citation: BiGG Database (RRID:SCR_005809) Copy   

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http://www.youtube.com/user/NIGMS/

YouTube videos provided by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).

Proper citation: NIGMS - YouTube (RRID:SCR_005678) Copy   

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http://worfdb.dfci.harvard.edu/

Database that integrates and disseminates the data from the cloning of complete set of predicted protein-encoding ORFs of Caenorhabditis elegans. It also allows the community to search for availability and quality of cloned ORFs. So far, ORF sequence tags (OSTs) obtained for all individual clones have allowed exon structure corrections for ORFs originally predicted by the C. elegans sequencing consortium. The database contains this OST information along with data pertinent to the cloning process.

Proper citation: WorfDB (RRID:SCR_006028) Copy   

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http://humanmetabolism.org/

A comprehensive biochemical knowledge-base on human metabolism, this community-driven, consensus metabolic reconstruction integrates metabolic information from five different resources: * Recon 1, a global human metabolic reconstruction (Duarte et al, PNAS, 104(6), 1777-1782, 2007) * EHMN, Edinburgh Human Metabolic Network (Hao et al., BMC Bioinformatics 11, 393, 2010) * HepatoNet1, a liver metabolic reconstruction (Gille et al., Molecular Systems Biology 6, 411, 2010), * Ac/FAO module, an acylcarnitine/fatty acid oxidation module (Sahoo et al., Molecular bioSystems 8, 2545-2558, 2012), * a human small intestinal enterocytes reconstruction (Sahoo and Thiele, submitted). Additionally, more than 370 transport and exchange reactions were added, based on a literature review. Recon 2 is fully semantically annotated (Le Nov��re, N. et al. Nat Biotechnol 23, 1509-1515, 2005) with references to persistent and publicly available chemical and gene databases, unambiguously identifying its components and increasing its applicability for third-party users. Here you can explore the content of the reconstruction by searching/browsing metabolites and reactions. Recon 2 predictive model is available in the Systems Biology Markup Language format.

Proper citation: Recon x (RRID:SCR_006345) Copy   

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http://cossmos.slu.edu/

Database to search through the nucleic acid structures from the Protein Data Bank and examine structural motifs, including (a)symmetric internal loops, bulge loops, and hairpin loops. They have compiled over 2,000 three-dimensional structures, which can now be searched using different parameters, including PDB information, experimental technique, sequence, and motif type. RNA secondary structure is important for designing therapeutics, understanding protein-RNA binding and predicting tertiary structure of RNA. Several databases and downloadable programs exist that specialize in the three-dimensional (3D) structure of RNA, but none focus specifically on secondary structural motifs such as internal, bulge and hairpin loops. To create the RNA CoSSMos database, 2156 Protein Data Bank (PDB) files were searched for internal, bulge and hairpin loops, and each loop''''s structural information, including sugar pucker, glycosidic linkage, hydrogen bonding patterns and stacking interactions, was included in the database. False positives were defined, identified and reclassified or omitted from the database to ensure the most accurate results possible. Users can search via general PDB information, experimental parameters, sequence and specific motif and by specific structural parameters in the subquery page after the initial search. Returned results for each search can be viewed individually or a complete set can be downloaded into a spreadsheet to allow for easy comparison. The RNA CoSSMos database is updated weekly.

Proper citation: RNA CoSSMos (RRID:SCR_006120) Copy   

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http://www.wwpdb.org/

Public global Protein Data Bank archive of macromolecular structural data overseen by organizations that act as deposition, data processing and distribution centers for PDB data. Members are: RCSB PDB (USA), PDBe (Europe) and PDBj (Japan), and BMRB (USA). This site provides information about services provided by individual member organizations and about projects undertaken by wwPDB. Data available via websites of its member organizations.

Proper citation: Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) (RRID:SCR_006555) Copy   

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http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/computinglife/

An NIGMS magazine that showcases the exciting ways that scientists are using the power of computers to expand our knowledge of biology and medicine. From text messaging friends to navigating city streets with GPS technology, we''re all living the computing life. But as we''ve upgraded from snail mail and compasses, so too have scientists. Computer advances now let researchers quickly search through DNA sequences to find gene variations that could lead to disease, simulate how flu might spread through your school and design three-dimensional animations of molecules that rival any video game. By teaming computers and biology, scientists can answer new and old questions that could offer insights into the fundamental processes that keep us alive and make us sick. This booklet introduces you to just some of the ways that physicists, biologists and even artists are computing life. Each section focuses on a different research problem, offers examples of current scientific projects and acquaints you with the people conducting the work. You can follow the links for online extras and other opportunities to learn aboutand get involved inthis exciting new interdisciplinary field.

Proper citation: NIGMS Computing Life (RRID:SCR_005850) Copy   

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http://www.zfishbook.org/NGP/journalcontent/SCORE/SCORE.html

Narrative resource describing a visual data analysis and collection approach that takes advantage of the cylindrical nature of the zebrafish allowing for an efficient and effective method for image capture called, Specimen in a Corrected Optical Rotational Enclosure (SCORE) Imaging. To achieve a non-distorted image, zebrafish were placed in a fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) tube with a surrounding, optically corrected imaging solution: water. By similarly matching the refractive index of the housing (FEP tubing) to that of the inner liquid and outer liquid (water), distortion was markedly reduced, producing a crisp imagable specimen that is able to be fully rotated 360 degrees. A similar procedure was established for fixed zebrafish embryos using convenient, readily available borosilicate capillaries surrounded by 75% glycerol. The method described could be applied to chemical genetic screening and other, related high-throughput methods within the fish community and among other scientific fields.

Proper citation: Zebrafish - SCORE Imaging: Specimen in a Corrected Optical Rotational Enclosure (RRID:SCR_001300) Copy   

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