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http://ceolas.org/VL/mo/

Catalog of internet resources relating to biological model organisms, and is part of the Biosciences area of the Virtual Library project. The main Model Organisms Library discussed in this website are: * E. coli (bacterium) * Yeasts (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and other species) * Dictyostelium discoideum (slime mold) * Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) * Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog) Many aspects of biology are similar in most or all organisms, but it is frequently much easier to study particular aspects in particular organisms - for instance, genetics is easier in small organisms that breed quickly, and very difficult in humans! The most popular model organisms have strong advantages for experimental research, and become even more useful when other scientists have already worked on them, discovering techniques, genes and other useful information.

Proper citation: The WWW Virtual Library: Model Organisms (RRID:SCR_007007) Copy   

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http://mitobreak.portugene.com/cgi-bin/Mitobreak_home.cgi

Database with curated datasets of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) rearrangements. Users may submit new mtDNA rearrangements.

Proper citation: MitoBreak (RRID:SCR_012949) 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://crispr.dbcls.jp/

Software for designing CRISPR/Cas guide RNA with reduced off target sites. Used for rational design of CRISPR/Cas target. Web server for selecting rational CRISPR/Cas targets from input sequence. Server currently incorporates genomic sequences of human, mouse, rat, marmoset, pig, chicken, frog, zebrafish, Ciona, fruit fly, silkworm, Caenorhabditis elegans, Arabidopsis, rice, Sorghum and budding yeast.

Proper citation: CRISPRdirect (RRID:SCR_018186) Copy   

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http://www.proteinlounge.com

Complete siRNA target database, complete Peptide-Antigen target database and a Kinase-Phosphatase database. They have also developed the largest database of illustrated signal transduction pathways, which are interconnected to their extensive protein database and online gene / protein analysis tools. The interactive web-based databases and software help life-scientists understand the complexity of systems biology. Systems biology efforts focus on understanding cellular networks, protein interactions involved in cell signaling, mechanisms of cell survival and apoptosis leading to development or identification of drug candidates against a variety of diseases. In the post-genomic era, one of the major concerns for life-science researchers is the organization of gene / protein data. Protein Lounge has met this concern by organizing all necessary data about genes / proteins into one portal.

Proper citation: Protein Lounge (RRID:SCR_002117) Copy   

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/HTGS/

Database of high-throughput genome sequences from large-scale genome sequencing centers, including unfinished and finished sequences. It was created to accommodate a growing need to make unfinished genomic sequence data rapidly available to the scientific community in a coordinated effort among the International Nucleotide Sequence databases, DDBJ, EMBL, and GenBank. Sequences are prepared for submission by using NCBI's software tools Sequin or tbl2asn. Each center has an FTP directory into which new or updated sequence files are placed. Sequence data in this division are available for BLAST homology searches against either the htgs database or the month database, which includes all new submissions for the prior month. Unfinished HTG sequences containing contigs greater than 2 kb are assigned an accession number and deposited in the HTG division. A typical HTG record might consist of all the first-pass sequence data generated from a single cosmid, BAC, YAC, or P1 clone, which together make up more than 2 kb and contain one or more gaps. A single accession number is assigned to this collection of sequences, and each record includes a clear indication of the status (phase 1 or 2) plus a prominent warning that the sequence data are unfinished and may contain errors. The accession number does not change as sequence records are updated; only the most recent version of a HTG record remains in GenBank.

Proper citation: High Throughput Genomic Sequences Division (RRID:SCR_002150) Copy   

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http://uwaging.org/genesdb/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on February 17,2023. A database of genes and interventions connected with aging phenotypes including those with respect to their effects on life-span or age-related neurological diseases. Information includes: organism, aging phenotype, allele type, strain, gene function, phenotypes, mutant, and homologs. If you know of published data (or your own unpublished data that you'd like to share) not currently in the database, please use the Submit a Gene/Intervention link.

Proper citation: Aging Genes and Interventions Database (RRID:SCR_002701) Copy   

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http://www.flymine.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 14,2026. Integrated database of genomic, expression and protein data for Drosophila, Anopheles, C. elegans and other organisms. You can run flexible queries, export results and analyze lists of data. FlyMine presents data in categories, with each providing information on a particular type of data (for example Gene Expression or Protein Interactions). Template queries, as well as the QueryBuilder itself, allow you to perform searches that span data from more than one category. Advanced users can use a flexible query interface to construct their own data mining queries across the multiple integrated data sources, to modify existing template queries or to create your own template queries. Access our FlyMine data via our Application Programming Interface (API). We provide client libraries in the following languages: Perl, Python, Ruby and & Java API

Proper citation: FlyMine (RRID:SCR_002694) Copy   

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http://ancora.genereg.net/

Web resource that provides data and tools for exploring genomic organization of highly conserved noncoding elements (HCNEs) for multiple genomes. It includes a genome browser that shows HCNE locations and features novel HCNE density plots as a powerful tool to discover developmental regulatory genes and distinguish their regulatory elements and domains. They identify HCNEs as non-exonic regions of high similarity between genome sequences from distantly related organisms, such as human and fish, and provide tools for studying the distribution of HCNEs along chromosomes. Major peaks of HCNE density along chromosomes most often coincide with developmental regulatory genes. Their aim with this site is to aid discovery of developmental regulatory genes, their regulatory domains and their fundamental regulatory elements.

Proper citation: Ancora (RRID:SCR_001623) Copy   

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https://scicrunch.org/scicrunch/data/source/nlx_154697-1/search?q=*&l=

Integrated Animals is a virtual database currently indexing available animal strains and mutants from: AGSC (Ambystoma), BCBC (mice), BDSC (flies), CWRU Cystic Fibrosis Mouse Models (mice), DGGR (flies), FlyBase (flies), IMSR (mice), MGI (mice), MMRRC (mice), NSRRC (pig), NXR (Xenopus), RGD (rats), Sperm Stem Cell Libraries for Biological Research (rats), Tetrahymena Stock Center (Tetrahymena), WormBase (worms), XGSC (Xiphophorus), ZFIN (zebrafish), and ZIRC (zebrafish).

Proper citation: Integrated Animals (RRID:SCR_001421) Copy   

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http://www.stanford.edu/group/nusselab/cgi-bin/wnt/

A resource for members of the Wnt community, providing information on progress in the field, maps on signaling pathways, and methods. The page on reagents lists many resources generously made available to and by the Wnt community. Wnt signaling is discussed in many reviews and in a recent book. There are usually several Wnt meetings per year.

Proper citation: Wnt homepage (RRID:SCR_000662) Copy   

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http://www.thebiogrid.org/

Curated protein-protein and genetic interaction repository of raw protein and genetic interactions from major model organism species, with data compiled through comprehensive curation efforts.

Proper citation: Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets (BioGRID) (RRID:SCR_007393) Copy   

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http://the_brain.bwh.harvard.edu/uniprobe/

Database that hosts experimental data from universal protein binding microarray (PBM) experiments (Berger et al., 2006) and their accompanying statistical analyses from prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, malarial parasites, yeast, worms, mouse, and human. It provides a centralized resource for accessing comprehensive data on the preferences of proteins for all possible sequence variants ("words") of length k ("k-mers"), as well as position weight matrix (PWM) and graphical sequence logo representations of the k-mer data. The database's web tools include a text-based search, a function for assessing motif similarity between user-entered data and database PWMs, and a function for locating putative binding sites along user-entered nucleotide sequences.

Proper citation: UniPROBE (RRID:SCR_005803) 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://genetrail.bioinf.uni-sb.de/

A web-based application that analyzes gene sets for statistically significant accumulations of genes that belong to some functional category. Considered category types are: KEGG Pathways, TRANSPATH Pathways, TRANSFAC Transcription Factor, GeneOntology Categories, Genomic Localization, Protein-Protein Interactions, Coiled-coil domains, Granzyme-B clevage sites, and ELR/RGD motifs. The web server provides two statistical approaches, "Over-Representation Analysis" (ORA) comparing a reference set of genes to a test set, and "Gene Set Enrichment Analysis" (GSEA) scoring sorted lists of genes., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: GeneTrail (RRID:SCR_006250) Copy   

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http://cbl-gorilla.cs.technion.ac.il/

A tool for identifying and visualizing enriched GO terms in ranked lists of genes. It can be run in one of two modes: * Searching for enriched GO terms that appear densely at the top of a ranked list of genes or * Searching for enriched GO terms in a target list of genes compared to a background list of genes.

Proper citation: GOrilla: Gene Ontology Enrichment Analysis and Visualization Tool (RRID:SCR_006848) Copy   

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http://gbrowse.org/

A database and interactive web site for manipulating and displaying annotations on genomes. Features include: detailed views of the genome; use of a variety of premade or personally made glyphs ; customizable order and appearance of tracks by administrators and end-users; search by annotation ID, name, or comment; support of third party annotation using GFF formats; DNA and GFF dumps; connectivity to different databases, including BioSQL and Chado; and a customizable plug-in architecture (e.g. run BLAST, find oligonucleotides, design primers, etc.). GBrowse is distributed as source code for Macintosh OS X, UNIX and Linux platforms, and as pre-packaged binaries for Windows machines. It can be installed using the standard Perl module build procedure, or automated using a network-based install script. In order to use the net installer, you will need to have Perl 5.8.6 or higher and the Apache web server installed. The wiki portion accepts data submissions.

Proper citation: GBrowse (RRID:SCR_006829) Copy   

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http://www.GeneWeaver.org

Freely accessible phenotype-centered database with integrated analysis and visualization tools. It combines diverse data sets from multiple species and experiment types, and allows data sharing across collaborative groups or to public users. It was conceived of as a tool for the integration of biological functions based on the molecular processes that subserved them. From these data, an empirically derived ontology may one day be inferred. Users have found the system valuable for a wide range of applications in the arena of functional genomic data integration.

Proper citation: Gene Weaver (RRID:SCR_003009) Copy   

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http://gpcr.biocomp.unibo.it/esldb

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on August 22,2022. database of protein subcellular localization annotation for eukaryotic organisms. It contains experimental annotations derived from primary protein databases, homology based annotations and computational predictions.

Proper citation: eSLDB - eukaryotic Subcellular Localization database (RRID:SCR_000052) Copy   

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http://lifespandb.sageweb.org/

Database that collects published lifespan data across multiple species. The entire database is available for download in various formats including XML, YAML and CSV.

Proper citation: Lifespan Observations Database (RRID:SCR_001609) Copy   

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