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http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/tturc/

A transdisciplinary approach to the full spectrum of basic and applied research on tobacco use to reduce the disease burden of tobacco use, including: * Etiology of tobacco use and addiction * Impact of advertising and marketing * Prevention of tobacco use * Treatment of tobacco use and addiction * Identification of biomarkers of tobacco exposure * Identification of genes related to addiction and susceptibility to harm from tobacco Goals * Increase the number of investigators from relevant disciplines who focus on the study of tobacco use as part of transdisciplinary teams. * Generate basic research evidence to improve understanding of the etiology and natural history of tobacco use. * Produce evidence-based tobacco use interventions that can translate to the community and specific understudied or underserved populations. * Increase the number of evidence-based interventions that are novel, including the development, testing and dissemination of innovative behavioral treatments and prevention strategies based upon findings from basic research. * Train transdisciplinary investigators capable of conducting cutting-edge tobacco use research. * Increase the number of peer-reviewed publications in the areas of tobacco use, nicotine addiction, and treatment.

Proper citation: Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers (RRID:SCR_006858) Copy   

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https://github.com/ABCD-STUDY/auto-scoring

Visualization software that calculates derived scores for the electronic record system REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) to build and manage online surveys and databases. Used in the ABCD-STUDY (Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development - STUDY) report framework.

Proper citation: auto-scoring (RRID:SCR_016015) Copy   

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https://github.com/ABCD-STUDY/little-man-task

Software tool to manage data and derived results. It is used for import of derived measures into REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture).

Proper citation: little-man-task (RRID:SCR_016018) Copy   

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http://marmosetbrain.org/

Brain connectivity atlas to create systematic, digital repository for data on connections between different cortical areas, in primate species. Data repository for connections between different cortical areas in marmoset monkeys. Allows access to data set and enables other interpretations of data, in light of future evolution of knowledge about marmoset cortex.

Proper citation: Marmoset Brain Connectivity Atlas (RRID:SCR_015964) Copy   

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https://github.com/ABCD-STUDY/redcap-completion

Software to measure item level completion in a large REDCap project. It provides a web-interface to review data and it is used in the ABCD project to assess data collection sites for the reached level of completion.

Proper citation: redcap-completion (RRID:SCR_016019) Copy   

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https://github.com/ABCD-STUDY/timeline-followback

Software to capture subject information about substance use using local copies of external files provided by the abcd-report framework of ABCD. No connection to REDCap is attempted to get events and participant names but local files are read in to supply this information.

Proper citation: timeline-followback (RRID:SCR_016017) Copy   

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https://github.com/ABCD-STUDY/aux-file-upload

Software application to upload functional MR imaging runs produce auxilary data that can be collected centrally. Connects to a subject database research electronic data capture (REDCap).

Proper citation: aux-file-upload (RRID:SCR_016026) Copy   

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https://github.com/ABCD-STUDY/FIONA-QC-PHANTOM

Software for online quality control operations performed on Phantom MRI data. It checks the accuracy and reproducibility of data.

Proper citation: FIONA-QC-PHANTOM (RRID:SCR_016024) Copy   

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https://github.com/ABCD-STUDY/nih-ipad-app-end-point

Data collection software for centrally and securely storing data from the NIH iPad application. It allows users to capture results from multiple iPads at a central location.

Proper citation: nih-ipad-app-end-point (RRID:SCR_016029) Copy   

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https://github.com/ABCD-STUDY/redcap-to-nda

Software for metadata-driven electronic data capture to export REDCap data dictionaries and data to the NIMH National Data Archive (NDA). Prepares data submissions as csv formatted spreadsheets for data dictionary spreadsheets and for data spreadsheets.

Proper citation: redcap-to-nda (RRID:SCR_016008) Copy   

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http://prosightlite.northwestern.edu/

Software application for matching a single candidate protein sequence and its modifications against a set of mass spectrometric observations. Used to analyze top-down mass spectrometry data.

Proper citation: ProSight Lite (RRID:SCR_016908) Copy   

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https://github.com/hakyimlab/PrediXcan

Software tool to detect known and novel genes associated with disease traits and provide insights into the mechanism of these associations. Used to test the molecular mechanisms through which genetic variation affects phenotype.

Proper citation: PrediXcan (RRID:SCR_016739) Copy   

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http://trans.nih.gov/bmap/index.htm

The Brain Molecular Anatomy Project is a trans-NIH project aimed at understanding gene expression and function in the nervous system. BMAP has two major scientific goals: # Gene discovery: to catalog of all the genes expressed in the nervous system, under both normal and abnormal conditions. # Gene expression analysis: to monitor gene expression patterns in the nervous system as a function of cell type, anatomical location, developmental stage, and physiological state, and thus gain insight into gene function. In pursuit of these goals, BMAP has launched several initiatives to provide resources and funding opportunities for the scientific community. These include several Requests for Applications and Requests for Proposals, descriptions of which can be found in this Web site. BMAP is also in the process of establishing physical and electronic resources for the community, including repositories of cDNA clones for nervous system genes, and databases of gene expression information for the nervous system. Most of the BMAP initiatives so far have focused on the mouse as a model species because of the ease of experimental and genetic manipulation of this organism, and because many models of human disease are available in the mouse. However, research in humans, other mammalian species, non-mammalian vertebrates, and invertebrates is also being funded through BMAP. For the convenience of interested investigators, we have established this Web site as a central information resource, focusing on major NIH-sponsored funding opportunities, initiatives, genomic resources available to the research community, courses and scientific meetings related to BMAP initiatives, and selected reports and publications. When appropriate, we will also post initiatives not directly sponsored by BMAP, but which are deemed relevant to its goals. Posting decisions are made by the Trans-NIH BMAP Committee

Proper citation: BMAP - Brain Molecular Anatomy Project (RRID:SCR_008852) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/dots/

A fast, scalable tool developed at the Johns Hopkins University to automatically segment the major anatomical fiber tracts within the human brain from clinical quality diffusion tensor MR imaging. With an atlas-based Markov Random Field representation, DOTS directly estimates the tract probabilities, bypassing tractography and associated issues. Overlapping and crossing fibers are modeled and DOTS can also handle white matter lesions. DOTS is released as a plug-in for the MIPAV software package and as a module for the JIST pipeline environment. They are therefore cross-platform and compatible with a wide variety of file formats.

Proper citation: DOTS WM tract segmentation (RRID:SCR_009459) Copy   

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http://synapses.clm.utexas.edu

A portal into the 3D ultrastructure of the brain providing: Anatomy of astrocytes, axons, dendrites, hippocampus, organelles, synapses; procedures of 3D reconstruction and tissue preparation; as well as an atlas of ultrastructural neurocytology (by Josef Spacek), online aligned images, and reconstructed dendrites. Synapse Web hosts an ultrastructural atlas containing more than 500 electron micrographs (added to regularly) that identify unique ultrastructural and cellular components throughout the brain. Additionally, Synapse Web has raw images, reconstructions, and quantitative data along with tutorial instructions and numerous tools for investigating the functional structure of objects that have been serial thin sectioned for electron microscopy.

Proper citation: Synapse Web (RRID:SCR_003577) Copy   

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http://vox.pharmacology.ucla.edu/home.html

Two-dimensional images of gene expression for 20,000 genes in a coronal slice of the mouse brain at the level of the striatum by using microarrays in combination with voxelation at a resolution of 1 cubic mm gene expression patterns in the brain obtained through voxelation. Voxelation employs high-throughput analysis of spatially registered voxels (cubes) to produce multiple volumetric maps of gene expression analogous to the images reconstructed in biomedical imaging systems.

Proper citation: Voxelation Map of Gene Expression in a Coronal Section of the Mouse Brain (RRID:SCR_008065) Copy   

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http://www.mbl.org/mbl_main/atlas.html

High-resolution electronic atlases for mouse strains c57bl/6j, a/j, and dba/2j in either coronal or horizontal section. About this Atlas: The anterior-posterior coordinates are taken from an excellent print atlas of a C57BL/6J brain by K. Franklin and G. Paxinos (The Mouse Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, Academic Press, San Diego, 1997, ISBN Number 0-12-26607-6; Library of Congress: QL937.F72). The abbreviations we have used to label the sections conform to those in the Franklin-Paxinos atlas. A C57BL/6J mouse brain may contain as many as 75 million neurons, 23 million glial cells, 7 million endothelial cells associated with blood vessels, and 3 to 4 million miscellaneous pial, ependymal, and choroid plexus cells (see data analysis in Williams, 2000). We have not yet counted total cell number in DBA/2J mice, but the counts are probably appreciably lower.The brain and sections were all processed as described in our methods section. The enlarged images have a pixel count of 1865 x 1400 and the resolution is 4.5 microns/pixel for the processed sections.Plans: In the next several years we hope to add several additional atlases of the same sort for other strains of mice. A horizontal C57BL/6J atlas and a DBA/2J coronal atlas were completed by Tony Capra, summer 2000, and additional atlases may be made over the next several years. As describe in the MBL Procedures Section is not hard to make your own strain-specific atlas from the high resolution images in the MBL.

Proper citation: Mouse Brain Atlases (RRID:SCR_007127) Copy   

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http://www.drugabuseresearchtraining.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on November 07, 2012. Decemeber 15, 2011 - Thank you for your interest in DrugAbuseResearchTraining.org. The site, courses, and resources are no longer available. Please send an email to inquiry (at) md-inc.com if you would like to be notified if the site or courses become available again. Introduction to Clinical Drug and Substance Abuse Research Methods is an online training program intended to introduce clinicians and substance abuse professionals to basic clinical research methods. The program is divided into four modules. Each module covers an entire topic and includes self-assessment questions, references, and online resources: * The Neurobiology of Drug Addiction * Biostatistics for Drug and Substance Abuse Research * Evaluating Drug and Substance Abuse Programs * Designing and Managing Drug and Substance Abuse Clinical Trials The learning objectives of this program are to help you: * Evaluate the benefits of alternative investigative approaches for answering important questions in drug abuse evaluation and treatment. * Define the proper levels of measurement and appropriate statistical methods for a clinical study. * Address common problems in data collection and analysis. * Anticipate key human subjects and ethical issues that arise in drug abuse studies. * Interpret findings from the drug abuse research literature and prepare a clinical research proposal. * Prepare research findings for internal distribution or publication in the peer reviewed literature. * Recognize drug addiction as a cyclical, chronic disease. * Understand and describe the brain circuits that are affected by addicting drugs, and explain to others the effects of major classes of addicting drugs on brain neurotransmitters. * Utilize new pharmacologic treatments to manage persons with drug addiction. Physicians can earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credit and purchase a high resolution printable electronic CME certificate(view sample); non-physicians can purchase high resolution printable electronic certificate of course participation that references AMA PRA Category 1 credit (view sample). This program does not offer printed certificates.

Proper citation: Online Education for the International Research Community: AboutIntroduction to Clinical Drug and Substance Abuse Research Methods (RRID:SCR_000802) Copy   

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http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/a/capowski//NTSPublic.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 23, 2016. A hardware and software package with which a scientist could trace the structure of neurons and other neuroscientific features directly from tissue sections or from a stack of their images into a computer. Then it also could edit, merge, filter, display in 3D, and make realistic plots of the structures. The NTS also includes a substantial statistical package that provided many, now standardized, mathematical and statistical summaries that described each neuron and compared one population to another. Additionally, NTS also provided an embryonic electrotonic modeler that simulates and displayes the electrical functioning of a cell. The NTS uses a special purpose graphics display processor called the VDP3 whose output is presented on a very high resolution CRT. During tracing, the VDP3 presents a variable-diameter cursor and other information directly in the microscope and enables tracing at a high spatial resolution and with measurement of process diameters limited only by the microscope''s optics. Control of tracing is done with a 3D joystick that allows easy control of five input variables: X,Y,Z position, cursor diameter, and a numeric tag. Finally, superb 3D interactive displays of completed cells are provided on the VDP3.

Proper citation: Eutectic NTS (RRID:SCR_008062) Copy   

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https://ratgenes.org/

Portal includes information about genetic studies of drug abuse in outbred rats. Data center created in 2014 to perform genome wide association studies on numerous behavioral traits that have well established relevance to drug abuse using outbred rats.

Proper citation: NIDA center for genetic studies of drug abuse in outbred rats (RRID:SCR_021788) Copy   

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