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https://biocars.uchicago.edu/

Biomedical technology research center and training resource that is a state-of-the art, national user facility for synchrotron-based studies of dynamic and static properties of macromolecules by X-ray scattering techniques such as crystallography (specializing in time-resolved), small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering and fiber diffraction. BioCARS operates two X-ray beamlines, embedded in a Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) facility unique in the U.S. that permits safe studies of biohazardous materials such as human pathogens., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: BioCARS (RRID:SCR_001439) Copy   

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http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/indi/retro/cobre.html

Data set of raw anatomical and functional MR data from 72 patients with Schizophrenia and 75 healthy controls (ages ranging from 18 to 65 in each group). All subjects were screened and excluded if they had: history of neurological disorder, history of mental retardation, history of severe head trauma with more than 5 minutes loss of consciousness, history of substance abuse or dependence within the last 12 months. Diagnostic information was collected using the Structured Clinical Interview used for DSM Disorders (SCID). A multi-echo MPRAGE (MEMPR) sequence was used with the following parameters: TR/TE/TI = 2530/(1.64, 3.5, 5.36, 7.22, 9.08)/900 ms, flip angle = 7��, FOV = 256x256 mm, Slab thickness = 176 mm, Matrix = 256x256x176, Voxel size =1x1x1 mm, Number of echos = 5, Pixel bandwidth =650 Hz, Total scan time = 6 min. With 5 echoes, the TR, TI and time to encode partitions for the MEMPR are similar to that of a conventional MPRAGE, resulting in similar GM/WM/CSF contrast. Rest data was collected with single-shot full k-space echo-planar imaging (EPI) with ramp sampling correction using the intercomissural line (AC-PC) as a reference (TR: 2 s, TE: 29 ms, matrix size: 64x64, 32 slices, voxel size: 3x3x4 mm3). Slice Acquisition Order: Rest scan - collected in the Axial plane - series ascending - multi slice mode - interleaved MPRAGE - collected in the Sag plane - series interleaved - multi slice mode - single shot The following data are released for every participant: * Resting fMRI * Anatomical MRI * Phenotypic data for every participant including: gender, age, handedness and diagnostic information.

Proper citation: COBRE (RRID:SCR_010482) Copy   

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https://www.unmc.edu/vcr/cores/vcr-cores/confocal-microscopy/index.html

Facility houses imaging technologies ranging from super resolution (~ 0.120 um to 0.020 um) to microscopic (~ 0.300 um) to mesoscopic (~ 1 um) biomedical imaging. Imaging specialists provide training and/or actively assist researchers collecting images across imaging instrumentation. Instrumentation includes Zeiss ELYRA PS.1 is inverted microscope for super resolution (SR) structured illumination microscopy (SIM) and single molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) including, PhotoActivated Localization Microscopy (PALM) using photo switchable/convertible fluorescent proteins, Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) and STochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM);Zeiss 800 CLSM with Airyscan is an inverted microscope dramatically increasing conventional confocal image resolution to ~180 nm using Airyscan technology; Zeiss 710 LSM is inverted microscope supporting most basic imaging applications, multi channel and spectral, co localization, live cell, 3D, and time series imaging; Zeiss Celldiscoverer 7 is widefield imaging system for automated, time lapse imaging of live samples; Zeiss Axioscan 7 is high performance whole slide scanning system for fluorescence, brightfield, and polarization imaging;Miltenyi Biotec Ultramicroscope II Light Sheet fluorescence microscope (LSFM) extends fluorescent imaging into true 3D, large scale volumetric imaging of intact tissues, organs, and small organisms. AMCF also houses several high-end data analysis workstations with premier image analysis software including HALO (Indica Labs) and IMARIS (Oxford Instruments) facilitating data rendering, analyses, and presentation options.

Proper citation: University of Nebraska Medical Center Advanced Microscopy Core Facility (RRID:SCR_022467) Copy   

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https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/labs/qlmc/

Provides access to variety of microscope modalities including laser scanning and spinning disk confocal, multiphoton, wide field deconvolution, CFP/YFP FRET, TIRF, single molecule imaging, and more. Offers customized microscopy training, advise and help with sample preparation, image quantification, and offer basic microscope maintenance. Can streamline your data handling and image visualization as well as automate your image analysis workflow through customized Fiji macros.

Proper citation: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Quantitative Light Microscopy Core Facility (RRID:SCR_022605) Copy   

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http://psf.cobre.ku.edu/cores/ppg/about

Core focuses on cloning, expression and purification of prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins for COBRE and other investigators in Kansas and region. Laboratory maintains equipment to support production of properly folded proteins in quantities suitable for structural studies (X-ray and NMR), functional studies (catalytic or biological), label-free binding studies (SPR) and/or high throughput (HTP) screening studies.

Proper citation: Kansas University at Lawrence Protein Production Group Core Facility (RRID:SCR_017749) Copy   

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http://cmrm.med.jhmi.edu/cmrm/atlas/human_data/file/JHUtemplate_newuser.html

DTI white matter atlases with different data sources and different image processing. These include single-subject, group-averaged, B0 correction, processed atlases (White Matter Parcellation Map, Tract-probability maps, Conceptual difference between the WMPM and tract-probability maps), and linear or non-linear transformation for automated white matter segmentation. # Adam single-subject white matter atlas (old version): These are electronic versions of atlases published in Wakana et al, Radiology, 230, 77-87 (2004) and MRI Atlas of Human White Matter, Elsevier. ## Original Adam Atlas: 256 x 256 x 55 (FOV = 246 x 246 mm / 2.2 mm slices) (The original matrix is 96x96x55 (2.2 mm isotropic) which is zerofilled to 256 x 256 ## Re-sliced Adam Atlas: 246 x 246 x 121 (1 mm isotropic) ## Talairach Adam: 246 x 246 x 121 (1 mm isotropic) # New Eve single-subject white matter atlas: The new version of the single-subject white matter atlas with comprehensive white matter parcellation. ## MNI coordinate: 181 x 217 x 181 (1 mm isotropic) ## Talairach coordinate: 181 x 217 x 181 (1 mm isotropic) # Group-averaged atlases: This atlas was created from their normal DTI database (n = 28). The template was MNI-ICBM-152 and the data from the normal subjects were normalized by affine transformation. Image dimensions are 181x217x181, 1 mm isotropic. There are two types of maps. The first one is the averaged tensor map and the second one is probabilistic maps of 11 white matter tracts reconstructed by FACT. # ICBM Group-averaged atlases: This atlas was created from ICBM database. All templates follow Radiology convention. You may need to flip right and left when you use image registration software that follows the Neurology convention.

Proper citation: DTI White Matter Atlas (RRID:SCR_005279) Copy   

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http://lussierlab.org/GO-Module/GOModule.cgi

GO-Module provides an interface to reduce the dimensionality of GO enrichment results and produce interpretable biomodules of significant GO terms organized by hierarchical knowledge that contain only true positive results. Users can download a text file of GO terms annotated with their significance and identified biomodules, a network visualization of resultant GO IDs or terms in PDF format, and view results in an online table. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: GO-Module (RRID:SCR_005813) Copy   

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http://www.civm.duhs.duke.edu/neuro2012ratatlas/

Multidimensional atlas of the adult Wistar rat brain based on magnetic resonance histology (MRH). The atlas has been carefully aligned with the widely used Paxinos-Watson atlas based on optical sections to allow comparisons between histochemical and immuno-marker data, and the use of the Paxinos-Watson abbreviation set. Our MR atlas attempts to make a seamless connection with the advantageous features of the Paxinos-Watson atlas, and to extend the utility of the data through the unique capabilities of MR histology: a) ability to view the brain in the skull with limited distortion from shrinkage or sectioning; b) isotropic spatial resolution, which permits sectioning along any arbitrary axis without loss of detail; c) three-dimensional (3D) images preserving spatial relationships; and d) widely varied contrast dependent on the unique properties of water protons. 3D diffusion tensor images (DTI) at what we believe to be the highest resolution ever attained in the rat provide unique insight into white matter structures and connectivity. The 3D isotropic data allow registration of multiple data sets into a common reference space to provide average atlases not possible with conventional histology. The resulting multidimensional atlas that combines Paxinos-Watson with multidimensional MRH images from multiple specimens provides a new, comprehensive view of the neuroanatomy of the rat and offers a collaborative platform for future rat brain studies. To access the atlas, click view supplementary materials in CIVMSpace at the bottom of the following webpage.

Proper citation: Adult Wistar Rat Atlas (RRID:SCR_006288) Copy   

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http://www.wanprc.org/primate-resources/pathology-tissue-program/

A comparative pathology unit offering pathology support, training programs, and a Tissue Distribution Program (TDP). The TDP provides a wide variety of nonhuman primate tissues to investigative groups within and outside the Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC). Tissue and pathology services (ACVP board certified Veterinary Pathologists), full histology services (including immunohistochemistry and frozen sectioning), and protocol development consultation are available. The Pathology and Tissue Program is an integration of comparative pathology activities occurring at the Washington National Primate Research Center and those occurring within the University of Washington Department of Comparative Medicine ((DCM). Using this model, Washington National Primate Research Center pathologists provide routine pathology support for Washington National Primate Research Center animals, with ancillary support, expertise, and guidance provided by DCM pathologists and mission-dedicated technicians and laboratories. This integrated comparative pathology unit also provides an excellent training opportunity for students such as those enrolled in the Department of Comparative Medicine post-doctoral training program, which offers training in laboratory animal medicine and comparative pathology. A particularly important function of this comparative pathology unit is support of the Tissue Distribution Program. The TDP provides a wide variety of nonhuman primate tissues to investigative groups within and outside the WaNPRC. This program is an extremely valuable method of conserving the nonhuman primate resource. NHP tissues and biological materials are collected in preparation for RNA/DNA isolation, cell culture, immunohistochemistry/histology, anatomic dissection, and cell sorting. Capabilities of the TDP include, but are not limited to flash frozen preservation, sterile preparation, perfusion, technical surgical dissections, and OCT embedding. In conjunction with the Histology and Imaging core of the University of Washington DCM, research capabilities post-collection include in situ hybridization, confocal and fluorescent microscopy, live cell imaging (DeltaVision), and whole slide scanning with image analysis (Visiopharm, Nikon Elements, and Image Pro). Centralized coordination of nonhuman primate tissue requests with animal availability allows support for a large number of biomedical programs with significantly decreased impact on the animal resource.

Proper citation: WaNPRC Pathology and Tissue Program (RRID:SCR_005589) Copy   

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http://crl.berkeley.edu/molecular-imaging-center/

Microscopy core specializing in laser based fluorescence techniques. Offers training and expertise in 20 different microscope systems, including live cell and in vivo imaging, laser scanning (LSM) and spinning disk (SDC) confocal, multi-photon (2p), fluorescent lifetime imaging (FLIM), light-sheet microscopy (SPIM), super resolution (Airyscan), slide scanning and patterned illumination for optogenetic manipulation and readout. Provides offline computer analysis workstations for image processing, visualization and analysis, including GPU workstations. MIC operates in 3 different buildings on campus, with primary locations in Life Sciences Addition (LSA), North-side core in Barker Hall, and small outpost in Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences (LKS).Provides equipment in categories:Confocal and multi photon laser scanning microscopes,Spinning disk confocal microscopes,Lightsheet (SPIM) microscopes,Epifluorescence/widefield scopes and Computer workstations.

Proper citation: University of California at Berkeley Cancer Research Laboratory Molecular Imaging Center Core Facility (RRID:SCR_017852) Copy   

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http://bioimaging.dbi.udel.edu

Microscopy facility that houses equipment including confocal microscopes: LSM780 confocal microscope (Located at CBBI),LSM880 confocal microscope (Located at DBI 117),electron microscopes and their accessory instrumentation:Thermo Scientific Apreo VS SEM microscope,Hitachi S-4700, Leica EM ACE600 and Tousimis Autosamdri-815B,CX7 high content analysis system. Our staff has technical expertise across different microscopy platforms and methodologies.

Proper citation: University of Delaware BioImaging Center Core Facility (RRID:SCR_017814) Copy   

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http://nemoursresearch.org/cores/bcl/

Develops research projects in pediatric genetics and provides essential services in molecular biology and genetics to Nemours clinicians and research staff and to affiliates researchers of University of Delaware and Thomas Jefferson University. Resource for staff of Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Nemours affiliates, COBRE / INBRE investigators and outside customers. Offers expertise in molecular genetics and genomics. Operates according to policies set forth by federal CLIA standards.Services provided include Ion Torrent PGM Next Generation Sequencing, QuantStudio (QS) 3D Digital PCR, Cell Line Authentication, Nucleic Acid Quality Number (AATI Fragment Analyzer),Genotyping including Allelic Discrimination Probes (SNP Real-Time PCR), Affymetrix Microarray (CNV CytoScan, SNP arrays), Fragment Analysis (Capillary Electrophoresis up to 1200 bp), DNA Sequencing (Sanger Sequencing), Expression Analysis including Affymetrix Microarray (global gene expression, transcriptome assays), Pathway-focused Real-Time qPCR (mRNA and miRNA). Shared Instrumentation including Beckman Biomek 3000 Liquid Handler, NanoDrop 2000c, ABI7900 384-well Real-Time Genetic Analyzer, PCR Tamer, Thermocyclers.

Proper citation: Nemours Biomolecular Core Facility (RRID:SCR_018265) Copy   

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https://med.virginia.edu/molecular-electron-microscopy-core/

Facility dedicated to high resolution electron cryomicroscopy and electron cryotomography. It houses three electron microscopes,120kV Spirit, 200kV F20, and 300kV Titan Krios. These microscopes are available to researchers either for direct use, or aided by MEMC personnel, to collect data aimed at high resolution structural biology projects.

Proper citation: University of Virginia School of Medicine Molecular Electron Microscopy Core Facility (RRID:SCR_019031) Copy   

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http://www.med.uvm.edu/mic

Core provides imaging equipment including JEOL 1400 transmission electron microscope with AMT 11 megapixel digital camera,JEOL JSM 6060 scanning electron microscope with attached Oxford INCA energy dispersive spectroscopy detector for element analysis,Nikon Air HD confocal scanning laser microscope, Nikon C2 confocal scanning laser microscope, Andor Spinning Disk confocal microscope, Zeiss LSM 7 Multiphoton confocal microscope, Nikon STORM super-resolution light microscope, Olympus BX50 research microscope for transmitted light, phase contrast, and epi-fluorescence microscopy, Asylum Research MFP-3D BIO atomic force microscope, Asylum Research Cypher Environmental atomic force microscope,Arcturus XT-Ti Laser Capture Microdissector system, Olympus IX70 inverted microscope with associated Applied BioPhysics Electri Cell-Substrate Impedance Sensing (ECIS Ztheta) system, Leica VERSA 8 whole slide imager, Dell workstations containing Molecular Devices MetaMorph image analysis software for complex quantitative image analysis, Indica Labs HALO software, Improvision Volocity, MBR StereoInvestigator.

Proper citation: Vermont University Larner College of Medicine Microscopy Imaging Center Core Facility (RRID:SCR_018821) Copy   

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https://github.com/Washington-University/HCPpipelines

Software package as set of tools, primarily shell scripts, for processing multi-modal, high-quality MRI images for the Human Connectome Project. Minimal preprocessing pipelines for structural, functional, and diffusion MRI that were developed by the HCP to accomplish many low level tasks, including spatial artifact/distortion removal, surface generation, cross-modal registration, and alignment to standard space.

Proper citation: HCP Pipelines (RRID:SCR_026575) Copy   

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http://www.biocurrents.org/

The BioCurrents Research Center (BRC) is an integrated technology resource of the NIH:NCRR. The activities of the Center focus on molecular physiology as it relates to the cell function and disease. Our particular interest is how the dynamics of cell responses are reflected in the chemical profiles of microdomains surrounding single living cells. In order to measure complex cellular boundary layers, the BRC has specialized in the development of extremely sensitive signal acquisition and processing methods along with miniaturized electrochemical sensor designs. The technique is non-invasive and termed self-referencing. Since its establishment in 1996, the BRC has directed its technological research and development to the design and application of ultra-microelectrodes (tip diameters of less than 10m) tailored for the detection of specific chemicals. These have been successfully applied to the boundary layer profiles of many different cell types, with thematic strength in diabetes research, reproductive health and development (see collaborative profiles). More recently, it is changing its focus to technical developments, enhancing the integrative approach to cell function. To understand a cell as a dynamic and integrated whole, BRC must be able to examine responses from different domains as near to real time and as synchronously as possible. To this end, it is developing imaging capabilities to work in parallel with electrochemistry and conventional electrophysiological techniques. Imaging includes a spinning disc confocal, as well as a low light/luminescent imager designed and built within the BRC. The technologies developed or under development are in high demand within the biomedical community. Over 40 investigators work with the Center each year in a collaborative or service capacity. Over 80 of our visitor pool is NIH funded, representing approximately 25 NIH divisions and institutes. As part of our training and dissemination program we host occasional workshops at major national and international meetings, train a significant number of new investigators each year and host graduate students undertaking portions of their thesis dissertation using our technologies. In dissemination we advise on, and install, electrochemical systems in off campus research endeavors, both academic and industrial.

Proper citation: BioCurrents Research Center (RRID:SCR_002020) Copy   

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http://www.loni.usc.edu/

Biomedical technology resource center specializing in novel approaches and tools for neuroimaging. It develops novel strategies to investigate brain structure and function in their full multidimensional complexity. There is a rapidly growing need for brain models comprehensive enough to represent brain structure and function as they change across time in large populations, in different disease states, across imaging modalities, across age and sex, and even across species. International networks of collaborators are provided with a diverse array of tools to create, analyze, visualize, and interact with models of the brain. A major focus of these collaborations is to develop four-dimensional brain models that track and analyze complex patterns of dynamically changing brain structure in development and disease, expanding investigations of brain structure-function relations to four dimensions.

Proper citation: Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (RRID:SCR_001922) Copy   

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http://www.cmrr.umn.edu/

Biomedical technology research center that focuses on development of unique magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and spectroscopy methodologies and instrumentation for the acquisition of structural, functional, and biochemical information non-invasively in humans, and utilizing this capability to investigate organ function in health and disease. The distinctive feature of this resource is the emphasis on ultrahigh magnetic fields (7 Tesla and above), which was pioneered by this BTRC. This emphasis is based on the premise that there exists significant advantages to extracting biomedical information using ultrahigh magnetic fields, provided difficulties encountered by working at high frequencies corresponding to such high field strengths can be overcome by methodological and engineering solutions. This BTRC is home to some of the most advanced MR instrumentation in the world, complemented by human resources that provide unique expertise in imaging physics, engineering, and signal processing. No single group of scientists can successfully carry out all aspects of this type of interdisciplinary biomedical research; by bringing together these multi-disciplinary capabilities in a synergistic fashion, facilitating these interdisciplinary interactions, and providing adequate and centralized support for them under a central umbrella, this BTRC amplifies the contributions of each of these groups of scientists to basic and clinical biomedical research. Collectively, the approaches and instrumentation developed in this BTRC constitute some of the most important tools used today to study system level organ function and physiology in humans for basic and translational research, and are increasingly applied world-wide. CMRR Faculty conducts research in a variety of areas including: * High field functional brain mapping in humans; methodological developments, mechanistic studies, and neuroscience applications * Metabolism, bioenergetics, and perfusion studies of human pathological states (tumors, obesity, diabetes, hepatic encephalopathy, cystic fibrosis, and psychiatric disorders) * Cardiac bioenergetics under normal and pathological conditions * Automated magnetic field shimming methods that are critical for spectroscopy and ultrafast imaging at high magnetic fields * Development of high field magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy techniques for anatomic, physiologic, metabolic, and functional studies in humans and animal models * Radiofrequency (RF) pulse design based on adiabatic principles * Development of magnetic resonance hardware for high fields (e.g. RF coils, pre-amplifiers, digital receivers, phased arrays, etc.) * Development of software for data analysis and display for functional brain mapping.

Proper citation: Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (RRID:SCR_003148) Copy   

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https://www.ngvbcc.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 11, 2023. Archiving services, insertional site analysis, pharmacology and toxicology resources, and reagent repository for academic investigators and others conducting gene therapy research. Databases and educational resources are open to everyone. Other services are limited to gene therapy investigators working in academic or other non-profit organizations. Stores reserve or back-up clinical grade vector and master cell banks. Maintains samples from any gene therapy related Pharmacology or Toxicology study that has been submitted to FDA by U.S. academic investigator that require storage under Good Laboratory Practices. For certain gene therapy clinical trials, FDA has required post-trial monitoring of patients, evaluating clinical samples for evidence of clonal expansion of cells. To help academic investigators comply with this FDA recommendation, the NGVB offers assistance with clonal analysis using LAM-PCR and LM-PCR technology.

Proper citation: National Gene Vector Biorepository (RRID:SCR_004760) Copy   

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https://bioams.llnl.gov/

Biomedical technology research center that develops and refines accelerator mass spectrometry methods and instrumentation for the precise, quantitative and cost-effective measurement of the effects of drugs and toxicants on humans at safe doses. It facilitates the use of accelerator mass spectrometry in biomedical research and provides training and access for researchers.

Proper citation: National Resource for Biomedical Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (RRID:SCR_009006) Copy   

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