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

A versatile 1D, 2D and 3D data viewer geared for cross-platform visualization of stereotactic brain data. It is a 3-D viewer that allows volumetric data display and manipulation of axial, sagittal and coronal views. It reads Analyze, Raw-binary and NetCDF volumetric data, as well as, Multi-Contour Files (MCF), LWO/LWS surfaces, atlas hierarchical brain-region labelings ( Brain Trees). It is a portable Java-based software, which only requires a Java interpreter and a 64 MB of RAM memory to run on any computer architecture. LONI_Viz allows the user to interactively overlay and browse through several data volumes, zoom in and out in the axial, sagittal and coronal views, and reports the intensities and the stereo-tactic voxel and world coordinates of the data. Expert users can use LONI_Viz to delineate structures of interest, e.g., sulcal curves, on the 3 cardinal projections of the data. These curves then may be use to reconstruct surfaces representing the topological boundaries of cortical and sub-cortical regions of interest. The 3D features of the package include a SurfaceViewer and a full real-time VolumeRenderer. These allow the user to view the relative positions of different anatomical or functional regions which are not co-planar in any of the axial, sagittal or coronal 2D projection planes. The interactive part of LONI_Viz features a region drawing module used for manual delineation of regions of interest. A series of 2D contours describing the boundary of a region in projection planes (axial, sagittal or coronal) could be used to reconstruct the surface-representation of the 3D outer shell of the region. The latter could then be resliced in directions complementary to the drawing-direction and these complementary contours could be loaded in all tree cardinal views. In addition the surface object could be displayed using the SurfaceViewer. A pre-loading data crop and sub-sampling module allows the user to load and view practically data of any size. This is especially important when viewing cryotome, histological or stained data-sets which may reach 1GB (109 bytes) in size. The user could overlay several pre-registered volumes, change intensity colors and ranges and the inter-volume opacities to visually inspect similarities and differences between the different subjects/modalities. Several image-processing aids provide histogram plotting, image-smoothing, etc. Specific Features: * Region description DataBase * Moleculo-genetic database * Brain anatomical data viewer * BrainMapper tool * Surface (LightWave objects/scenes) and Volume rendering tools * Interactive Contour Drawing tool Implementation Issues: * Applet vs. Application - the software is available as both an applet and a standalone application. The former could be used to browse data from within the LONI database, however, it imposes restrictions on file-size, Internet connection and network-bandwidth and client/server file access. The later requires a local install and configuration of the LONI_Viz software * Extendable object-oriented code (Java), computer architecture independent * Complete online software documentation is available at http://www.loni.ucla.edu/LONI_Viz and a Java-Class documentation is available at http://www.loni.ucla.edu/~dinov/LONI_Vis.dir/doc/LONI_Viz_Java_Docs.html

Proper citation: LONI Visualization Tool (RRID:SCR_000765) Copy   

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https://github.com/hms-dbmi/spp

R analysis and processing package for Illumina platform Chip-Seq data.

Proper citation: SPP (RRID:SCR_001790) Copy   

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http://www.rrrc.us/

Supplies biomedical investigators with rat models, embryonic stem cells, related reagents, and protocols they require for their research. In addition to repository, cryostorage and distribution functions, RRRC can facilitate acquisition of rat strains from other international repositories as well as provide consultation and technical training to investigators using rat models.

Proper citation: Rat Resource and Research Center (RRID:SCR_002044) Copy   

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http://www.yerkes.emory.edu/

Center for advancing scientific understanding and improving the health and well-being of humans and nonhuman primates. The Center conducts research in microbiology and immunology, neurologic diseases, neuropharmacology, behavioral, cognitive and developmental neuroscience, and psychiatric disorders.

Proper citation: Yerkes National Primate Research Center (RRID:SCR_001914) Copy   

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http://vivoweb.org/

Open source semantic web application that enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at a particular institution and across institutions by creating a semantic cloud of information that can be searched and browsed. Participants include institutions with local installations of VIVO or those with research discovery and profiling applications that can provide semantic web-compliant data. The information accessible through the national network''''s search and browse capability will therefore reside and be controlled locally within institutional VIVOs or other semantic web applications. The VIVO ontology provides a set of types (classes) and relationships (properties) to represent researchers and the full context of their experience, outputs, interests, accomplishments, and associated institutions. https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO/VIVO-ISF+Ontology VIVO is populated with detailed profiles of faculty and researchers including information such as publications, teaching, service, and professional affiliations. It also supports browsing and a search function which returns faceted results for rapid retrieval of desired information. The rich semantically structured data in VIVO support and facilitate research discovery. Examples of applications that consume these rich data include: visualizations, enhanced multi-site search through VIVO Search, and applications such as VIVO Searchlight, a browser bookmarklet which uses text content of any webpage to search for relevant VIVO profiles, and the Inter-Institutional Collaboration Explorer, an application which allows visualization of collaborative institutional partners, among others. Institutions are free to participate in the national network by installing and using the application. The application provides linked data via RDF data making users a part of the semantic web! or any other application that provides linked data can be used. Users can also get involved with developing applications that provide enhanced search, new collaboration capabilities, grouping, finding and mapping scientists and their work.

Proper citation: VIVO (RRID:SCR_005246) Copy   

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http://pubbrain.org/

A literature search and visualization tool that allows end users to enter any PubMed query and see that query rendered as a heatmap illustrating which regions of interest are most commonly mentioned within the search results. To use PubBrain, simply enter any valid PubMed search in the search box.

Proper citation: PubBrain (RRID:SCR_005387) Copy   

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http://cre.jax.org/index.html

Repository of Cre Driver lines and related information resources. Their services include analysis of Cre line excision function in both target and non-target tissues using Cre reporter lines and presenting the annotated data in the expression data portion of this website, http://cre.jax.org/data.html.

Proper citation: JAX Cre Repository (RRID:SCR_005566) Copy   

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http://mousemutant.jax.org/index.html

Producer and supplier of a collection of mice bearing spontaneous mutations. These mice contribute to a better understanding of the genetic bases of neurological, neuromuscular, sensory, metabolic, skeletal/craniofacial and developmental disorders and conditions such as diabetes, obesity and heart disease.

Proper citation: Mouse Mutant Resource (RRID:SCR_008367) Copy   

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http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/comparative_medicine/resource_directory/primates.asp#alamo

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 17, 2013. It houses chimpanzees that have been used in biomedical research, but no active, invasive research is conducted on the site. The APF provides for the long-term care and husbandry of chimpanzees that have been used in biomedical research. Charles River Laboratories Inc. operates the facility under contract with the National Institutes of Health. To be used in continuing virological research, the animals must be transferred to active chimpanzee research settings. All chimpanzees at the APF have been exposed to various microorganisms, such as hepatitis C virus and HIV. For this reason, they may be candidates for studies related to these diseases. The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) may remove infected animals from the APF to other accredited chimpanzee facilities for research purposes. Investigators interested in the chimpanzees at the APF should contact Dr. Harold Watson in NCRR''s Division of Comparative Medicine to discuss research requirements.

Proper citation: Alamogordo Primate Facility (RRID:SCR_008376) Copy   

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http://loni.usc.edu/Software/CFMBIS

A computer-aided tool for 2-D brain image segmentation using an electrostatic charged fluid model. It allows researchers to perform 2-D image segmentation in brain MR image data. Each interactive visualization element corresponding to the embedded function enables the end user to easily manipulate the image data. The visual environment of this tool provides an easy-to-use means of inspection and interpretation of image data using the LONI jViewbox library. CFMBIS uses the Java Image I/O plug-in architecture to read a wide variety of common medical image file formats.

Proper citation: Charged Fluid Model for Brain Image Segmentation (RRID:SCR_008281) Copy   

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http://nirc.louisiana.edu/index.html

NIRC maintains and provides available research facilities accredited by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) International; a ready source of chimpanzees of mixed ages and sex for use in biomedical and behavioral sciences, and also provides professional staff necessary to support investigators with their research needs. Current Research: Vaccine development and testing; pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, preclinical safety, and efficacy studies. Services Provided: The University of Louisiana at Lafayette-New Iberia Research Center (UL Lafayette-NIRC) is an AAALAC-International-accredited nonhuman primate research facility dedicated to the support of basic and applied biomedical and behavioral research. All proposed programs must be approved by the presenting institution and the UL Lafayette-NIRC animal care and use committees. State-of-the-art biomedical support facilities are available that include access to ultrasound, radiography with automatic processor and computer imagery for diagnostic enhancement, and endoscopy and laparoscopy with video monitors, camera and color photo imagery. Diagnostic Laboratory: A 12,000-square-foot laboratory is available for investigators'' research support requirements. Capabilities within the laboratory include but are not limited to hematology, chemistry, microbiology, urinalysis, parasitology, and histology. Among the investigator support procedures are Ficoll gradient isolation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells, platelet aggregation profiles, nonhuman primate lymphocyte proliferation assay, and flow cytometry (lymphocyte enumeration). Emergency generator power is accessible in each laboratory unit and for all major instrumentation and critical freezers. Animals: The center cares for approximately 360 chimpanzees and 5,500 New and Old World species of nonhuman primates. In addition to chimpanzees, the following species of nonhuman primates are being bred at the center: Vervet monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops), cynomolgus macaque (Macaca fascicularis), pigtailed macaque (M. nemestrina), rhesus macaque (M. mulatta).

Proper citation: New Iberia Research Center (RRID:SCR_008279) Copy   

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http://www.loni.usc.edu/Software/MultiPhase-SEG

A segmentation software that employs the implementation of the active contours without edges level set based segmentation model. Its features include: segmentation of three-dimensional brain volumes into two or more regions (for example, regions could be WM, GM, and CSF), visualization of surfaces representing boundaries of different brain regions, and being written in Matlab with the ability to run on any platform with Matlab installed.

Proper citation: MultiPhase-SEG (RRID:SCR_008275) Copy   

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

The DualSurfaceMin is a C++ implementation of the fully automatic dual surface minimization (DSM) algorithm for the optimization of deformable surfaces. The method is developed for automatic surface extraction from noisy volumetric images. Its features include: global DSM, DSM-OS, and DSM-IS algorithms for automatic surface extraction from volumetric images using deformable simplex meshes; support for the VRML and OFF formats; output pf both triangulated and simplex meshes; and support for the raw and Analyze 7.5 image formats.

Proper citation: DualSurfaceMin (RRID:SCR_008278) Copy   

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http://loni.usc.edu/Software/SVT

Software tool for determining the statistically significant regions of activation in single or multi-subject human brain functional studies. It can be also applied to structural brain data for analyzing developmental, dementia and other changes of anatomy over time. This package was originally developed to work on Sun SPARC and SGI stations using the "C" language compiler provided by Sun/SGI as part of the standard system software.

Proper citation: Sub-Volume Thresholding Analysis (RRID:SCR_008272) Copy   

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http://www.hms.harvard.edu/NEPRC/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 12,2023. A center that focuses on performing bio-medical research on nonhuman primates to aid in human health research. The center also focuses on training young scientists for professional careers in bio-medical research and primate biology. One of the New England Primate Research School's main accomplishments was the creation of an animal model for AIDS that first demonstrated that vaccine protection could be possible. Recent research has led to the development of novel agents for brain imaging that will aid in the diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson's disease.

Proper citation: New England Primate Research School (RRID:SCR_008290) Copy   

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http://code.google.com/p/eagle-i/

Ontology that models research resources such as instruments, protocols, reagents, animal models and biospecimens. It has been developed in the context of the eagle-i project (http://eagle-i.net/) and consists of over 3451 classes of which over 1200 were created within the ERO namespace, while the rest come from existent ontologies such as the Ontology for Biomedical Investigation (OBI), the uber-anatomy ontology (Uberon), VIVO, the Ontology for Clinical Research (OCRe), the Sequence Ontology (SO), the Software Ontology (SWO) and we include terms from the NCBI Taxonomy as well. The main ontology can be browsed in OntoBee. All purls resolve to OntoBee.

Proper citation: eagle-i research resource ontology (RRID:SCR_008784) Copy   

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http://brainatlas.mbi.ufl.edu/Database/

Comprehensive three-dimensional digital atlas database of the C57BL/6J mouse brain based on magnetic resonance microscopy images acquired on a 17.6-T superconducting magnet. This database consists of: Individual MRI images of mouse brains; three types of atlases: individual atlases, minimum deformation atlases and probabilistic atlases; the associated quantitative structural information, such as structural volumes and surface areas. Quantitative group information, such as variations in structural volume, surface area, magnetic resonance microscopy image intensity and local geometry, have been computed and stored as an integral part of the database. The database augments ongoing efforts with other high priority strains as defined by the Mouse Phenome Database focused on providing a quantitative framework for accurate mapping of functional, genetic and protein expression patterns acquired by a myriad of technologies and imaging modalities. You must register First (Mandatory) and then you may Download Images and Data.

Proper citation: MRM NeAt (Neurological Atlas) Mouse Brain Database (RRID:SCR_007053) Copy   

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http://ncmir.ucsd.edu/downloads/manual_align_rts2000.shtm

Software program to adjust the alignment of two adjacent images. Allows to correct for any misalignment that may occur during auto-alignment step. Serves as a bootstrap to get the images in approximately the right place.

Proper citation: Manual Align RTS2000 (RRID:SCR_007107) Copy   

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http://www.birncommunity.org/collaborators/function-birn/

The FBIRN Federated Informatics Research Environment (FIRE) includes tools and methods for multi-site functional neuroimaging. This includes resources for data collection, storage, sharing and management, tracking, and analysis of large fMRI datasets. fBIRN is a national initiative to advance biomedical research through data sharing and online collaboration. BIRN provides data-sharing infrastructure, software tools, strategies and advisory services - all from a single source.

Proper citation: Function BIRN (RRID:SCR_007291) Copy   

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http://www.nbirn.net/research/bcc/index.shtm

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on September 06, 2013. It was established to develop, implement and support the information infrastructure necessary to achieve large-scale data sharing among the test bed participants (function, morphometry and mouse birn). The BIRN-CC consists of a unique and well-established partnership between computer scientists, neuroscientists and engineers. This partnership addresses a large array of technical, policy, and architectural issues to fundamentally enable a new suite of information technology supported database and analysis tools that allow scientists to analyze and interpret significantly larger sets of data than is possible in the traditional single-institution study paradigm.

Proper citation: BIRN Coordinating Center (RRID:SCR_007290) Copy   

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