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http://beetlebase.org/

A centralized sequence database and community resource for Tribolium genetics, genomics and developmental biology containing genomic sequence scaffolds mapped to 10 linkage groups, genetic linkage maps, the official gene set, Reference Sequences from NCBI (RefSeq), predicted gene models, ESTs and whole-genome tiling array data representing several developmental stages. The current version of Beetlebase is built on the Tribolium castaneum 3.0 Assembly (Tcas 3.0) released by the Human Genome Sequencing Center at the Baylor College of Medicine. The database is constructed using the upgraded Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) modules. The genomic data is stored in a PostgreSQL relational database using the Chado schema and visualized as tracks in GBrowse. The genetic map is visualized using the comparative genetic map viewer CMAP. To enhance search capabilities, the BLAST search tool has been integrated with the GMOD tools. Tribolium castaneum is a very sophisticated genetic model organism among higher eukaryotes. As the member of a primitive order of holometabolous insects, Coleoptera, Tribolium is in a key phylogenetic position to understand the genetic innovations that accompanied the evolution of higher forms with more complex development. Coleoptera is also the largest and most species diverse of all eukaryotic orders and Tribolium offers the only genetic model for the profusion of medically and economically important species therein. The genome sequences may be downloaded.

Proper citation: BeetleBase (RRID:SCR_001955) Copy   

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

Software library that is a collection of Java classes that enable Java programmers to model, manipulate and visualize geometric shapes and associated data values. It simplifies the creation of application programs by providing a ready-made set of support routines. * File format readers that implement ShapeIO interface (modeled after Java ImageIO) are automatically used when appropriate. * Storage of additional metadata of arbitrary type (other than shape vertices and interconnections) is enabled by the use of data attributes. * Shapes may contain a set of child shapes allowing for the construction and manipulation of complex hierarchies of shapes. * The various components of a shape are specified as interfaces with specific implementations, making it easy to create specialized implementations of a shape component when different performance characteristics are required.

Proper citation: LONI ShapeTools (RRID:SCR_002697) Copy   

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.592960

Image reconstruction software for MRI. Its library provides common operations on multi-dimensional arrays, Fourier and wavelet transforms, as well as generic implementations of iterative optimization algorithms.

Proper citation: Berkeley Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox (RRID:SCR_016168) Copy   

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https://open.med.harvard.edu/display/SHRINE/Community

Software providing a scalable query and aggregation mechanism that enables federated queries across many independently operated patient databases. This platform enables clinical researchers to solve the problem of identifying sufficient numbers of patients to include in their studies by querying across distributed hospital electronic medical record systems. Through the use of a federated network protocol, SHRINE allows investigators to see limited data about patients meeting their study criteria without compromising patient privacy. This software should greatly enable population-based research, assessment of potential clinical trials cohorts, and hypothesis formation for followup study by combining the EHR assets across the hospital system. In order to obtain the maximum number of cases representing the study population, it is useful to aggregate patient facts across as many sites as possible. Cutting across institutional boundaries necessitates that each hospital IRB remain in control, and that their local authority is recognized for each and every request for patient data. The independence, ownership, and legal responsibilities of hospitals predetermines a decentralized technical approach, such as a federated query over locally controlled databases. The application comes with the SHRINE Core Ontology but it can be used with any ontology, even one that is disease specific. The Core Ontology is designed to enable the widest range of studies possible using facts gathered in the EMR during routine patient care. SHRINE allows multiple ontologies to be used for different research purposes on the same installed systems.

Proper citation: SHRINE (RRID:SCR_006293) Copy   

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http://www.wakehealth.edu/Research/WFUPC/Cynomolgus-Breeding-Colony-Request-Form-Instructions.htm

The Wake Forest Cynomolgus Breeding Colony (CBC) is a colony of cynomolgus macaques (crab-eating macaques, Macaca fascicularis). The cynomolgus colony is designed to produce specific pathogen free (SPF) cynomolgus monkeys for use in biomedical research. The colony, supported by a grant from the NCRR, addresses the growing need for investigators to use in their protocols animals defined for the absence of specific diseases including CHV-1 (Herpes B), simian immunodeficiency virus, and simian retroviruses. An additional important characteristic of this colony is that, unlike many breeding colonies, the NHPs will be fed two defined diets. The first diet is a soy-free diet, not commercial monkey chow. The second diet has the same macronutrients but the protein source is from soy; similar in isoflavone content. A drawback of chow diets is that the exact nutritional product composition is unknown from lot to lot. However, they are always rich in soy bean meal, isoflavones and other constituents of soy bean meal that are known confounders of several types of research projects. All research using the cynomolgus colony must be reviewed and approved by the colony''s scientific board and the Wake Forest Animal Care and Use Committee (ACUC) before any work can be initiated. The scientific board meets regularly to assess the scientific value of each request and to determine whether or not animals/samples/data can be made available. This includes all requests for: # The purchase of animals for use outside the colony # The use of animals within the colony for the collection of blood/tissue samples, behavioral observations or other kinds of testing # The use of the CBC sample/tissue repository # The use of the CBC data repository

Proper citation: Wake Forest Cynomolgus Breeding Colony (RRID:SCR_006605) Copy   

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http://code.google.com/p/lapdftext/

Software that facilitates accurate extraction of text from PDF files of research articles for use in text mining applications. It is intended for both scientists and natural language processing (NLP) engineers interested in getting access to text within specific sections of research articles. The system extracts text blocks from PDF-formatted full-text research articles and classifies them into logical units based on rules that characterize specific sections. The LA-PDFText system focuses only on the textual content of the research articles. The current version of LA-PDFText is a baseline system that extracts text using a three-stage process: * identification of blocks of contiguous text * classification of these blocks into rhetorical categories * extraction of the text from blocks grouped section-wise.

Proper citation: lapdftext (RRID:SCR_006167) Copy   

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http://www.imagevis3d.org/

A new volume rendering program developed by the NIH/NCRR Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (CIBC). The main design goals of ImageVis3D are: simplicity, scalability, and interactivity. Simplicity is achieved with a new user interface that gives an unprecedented level of flexibility (as shown in the images). Scalability and interactivity for ImageVis3D mean that both on a notebook computer as well as on a high end graphics workstation, the user can interactively explore terabyte sized data sets. Finally, the open source nature as well as the strict component-by-component design allow developers not only to extend ImageVis3D itself but also reuse parts of it, such as the rendering core. This rendering core, for instance, is planned to replace the volume rendering subsystems in many applications at the SCI Institute and with their collaborators.

Proper citation: ImageVis3D (RRID:SCR_009566) Copy   

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http://www.bsl.ece.vt.edu/index.php?page=ara-dataset

Dataset of structural MR images of 70 subjects collected during 2008-2010 across a wide range of ages. The dataset also contains resting state fMRI for most subjects. The structural images are T1 weighted, T2 weighted-FLAIR, 25 direction DTI, and the T1 mapping DESPOT [1] sequence. Reconstructed T1 maps for each subject are also available. The aquisition protocol was designed to study structural differences between young and older adults including both shape and intensity changes. Anonymized DICOM image sessions and processed images for each subject are available. The data is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. It may be used freely for commercial, academic, or other use, as long as the original source is properly cited. http://www.bsl.ece.vt.edu/index.php?page=ara-dataset

Proper citation: Age Related Atrophy Dataset (RRID:SCR_009528) Copy   

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http://www.cbioportal.org/

A portal that provides visualization, analysis and download of large-scale cancer genomics data sets.

Proper citation: cBioPortal (RRID:SCR_014555) Copy   

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http://www.proteometools.org/index.php?id=home

Project for building molecular and digital tools from human proteome to facilitate biomedical research, drug discovery, personalized medicine and life science research.

Proper citation: ProteomeTools (RRID:SCR_018535) Copy   

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http://fit.genomics.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/myFrontPage.cgi

Web tool for browsing genome wide fitness experiments for diverse bacteria from Deutschbauer lab, the Arkin lab, and collaborators. Collection of mutant phenotypes for bacterial genes of unknown function.

Proper citation: Fitness Browser (RRID:SCR_018981) Copy   

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

Software to manage the conversion of imaging data from one file format and convention to another. It consists of a graphical user interface to visually program the translations, and a data translation engine to read, sort and translate the input files, and write the output files to disk. The data translation engine: (1) Reads metadata from a set of image files on disk to identify the source that produced each file; (2) Groups the image files into user-defined collections using image metadata values; (3) Translates each image file collection by reading metadata and pixel data and mapping the data into the appropriate output file format through a programmable set of connected modules. The Debabeler uses the Java Image I/O Plugin Architecture to read and write a wide variety of common medical image file formats, including ANALYZE, MINC, and most variations of DICOM.

Proper citation: LONI Debabeler (RRID:SCR_001160) Copy   

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https://github.com/SciKnowEngine/kefed.io

Knowledge engineering software for reasoning with scientific observations and interpretations. The software has three parts: (a) the KEfED model editor - a design editor for creating KEfED models by drawing a flow diagram of an experimental protocol; (b) the KEfED data interface - a spreadsheet-like tool that permits users to enter experimental data pertaining to a specific model; (c) a "neural connection matrix" interface that presents neural connectivity as a table of ordinal connection strengths representing the interpretations of tract-tracing data. This tool also allows the user to view experimental evidence pertaining to a specific connection. The KEfED model is designed to provide a lightweight representation for scientific knowledge that is (a) generalizable, (b) a suitable target for text-mining approaches, (c) relatively semantically simple, and (d) is based on the way that scientist plan experiments and should therefore be intuitively understandable to non-computational bench scientists. The basic idea of the KEfED model is that scientific observations tend to have a common design: there is a significant difference between measurements of some dependent variable under conditions specified by two (or more) values of some independent variable.

Proper citation: Knowledge Engineering from Experimental Design (RRID:SCR_001238) Copy   

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http://www.michr.umich.edu/services/biorepository

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on April 24,2025. In 2009, the Medical School and the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) unveiled a new biorepository for U-M researchers in need of a controlled storage environment for biological samples. MICHR is pleased to be able to add to its many services for the research community a centralized biological repository for controlled storage of biological samples, and related services (including DNA, RNA, and other downstream preparation) within the U-M campus. The biorepository, located in the CAP/CLIA-certified Michigan Center for Translational Pathology (MCTP) laboratory at the U-M Traverwood facility on Huron Parkway, will store biologic material, including blood and urine. Sample accessioning and tracking will be accomplished using the caTISSUE suite of programs, and samples will be processed and stored in compliance with CAP/CLIA guidelines. Initially, all samples will be used only with the authorization of the individual investigator who directed the project under which the samples were obtained. Samples will be used in accordance with the relevant informed consent. Long-term plans include federating the database in order to facilitate sharing of data and samples between research teams.

Proper citation: University of Michigan Biorepository (RRID:SCR_004643) Copy   

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http://mind.loni.usc.edu

The MiND: Metadata in NIfTI for DWI framework enables data sharing and software interoperability for diffusion-weighted MRI. This site provides specification details, tools, and examples of the MiND mechanism for representing important metadata for DWI data sets at various stages of post-processing. MiND framework provides a practical solution to the problem of interoperability between DWI analysis tools, and it effectively expands the analysis options available to end users. To assist both users and developers in working with MiND-formatted files, we provide a number of software tools for download. * MiNDHeader A utility for inspecting MiND-extended files. * I/O Libraries Programming libraries to simplify writing and parsing MiND-formatted data. * Sample Files Example files for each MiND schema. * DIRAC LONI''s Diffusion Imaging Reconstruction and Analysis Collection is a DWI processing suite which utilizes the MiND framework.

Proper citation: LONI MiND (RRID:SCR_004820) Copy   

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http://www.geneatlas.org/gene/main.jsp

This website allows visitors to search for genes of interest based on their spatial expression patterns in the Postnatal Day 7 mouse brain. Geneatlas provides two searching tools: A graphical interface for customized spatial queries; A textual interface for querying annotated structures. Geneatlas is the product of a collaboration between researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, and University of Houston.

Proper citation: Gene Atlas (RRID:SCR_008089) Copy   

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http://brainmap.wisc.edu/monkey.html

NO LONGER AVAILABLE. Documented on September 17, 2019. A set of multi-subject atlas templates to facilitate functional and structural imaging studies of the rhesus macaque. These atlases enable alignment of individual scans to improve localization and statistical power of the results, and allow comparison of results between studies and institutions. This population-average MRI-based atlas collection can be used with common brain mapping packages such as SPM or FSL.

Proper citation: Rhesus Macaque Atlases for Functional and Structural Imaging Studies (RRID:SCR_008650) Copy   

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http://mouseatlas.caltech.edu/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented May 10, 2017. A pilot effort that has developed a centralized, web-based biospecimen locator that presents biospecimens collected and stored at participating Arizona hospitals and biospecimen banks, which are available for acquisition and use by researchers. Researchers may use this site to browse, search and request biospecimens to use in qualified studies. The development of the ABL was guided by the Arizona Biospecimen Consortium (ABC), a consortium of hospitals and medical centers in the Phoenix area, and is now being piloted by this Consortium under the direction of ABRC. You may browse by type (cells, fluid, molecular, tissue) or disease. Common data elements decided by the ABC Standards Committee, based on data elements on the National Cancer Institute''s (NCI''s) Common Biorepository Model (CBM), are displayed. These describe the minimum set of data elements that the NCI determined were most important for a researcher to see about a biospecimen. The ABL currently does not display information on whether or not clinical data is available to accompany the biospecimens. However, a requester has the ability to solicit clinical data in the request. Once a request is approved, the biospecimen provider will contact the requester to discuss the request (and the requester''s questions) before finalizing the invoice and shipment. The ABL is available to the public to browse. In order to request biospecimens from the ABL, the researcher will be required to submit the requested required information. Upon submission of the information, shipment of the requested biospecimen(s) will be dependent on the scientific and institutional review approval. Account required. Registration is open to everyone.. Documented on October, 01, 2019.
3D digital atlas of normal mouse development constructed from magnetic resonance image data. The download is a zipped file containing the six atlases Theiler Stages (ts) 13, 21,23, 24, 25 and 26 and MRI data for an unlabeled ts19 embryo. To view the atlases, download and install MBAT from: http://mbat.loni.ucla.edu Specimens were prepared in aqueous, isotonic solutions to avoid tissue shrinkage. Limited specimen handling minimized physical perturbation of the embryos to ensure accurate geometric representations of developing mouse anatomy. Currently, the atlas contains orthogonal sections through MRI volumes, three stages of embryos that have annotated anatomy, photographs of several stages of development, lineage trees for annotated embryos and a gallery of images and movies derived from the annotations. Anatomical annotations can be viewed by selecting a transverse section and selecting a pixel on the displayed slice.

Proper citation: 3D MRI Atlas of Mouse Development (RRID:SCR_008090) Copy   

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http://proteogenomics.musc.edu/ma/arrayQuest.php?page=home&act=manage

A web-accessible program for the analysis of DNA microarray data. ArrayQuest is designed to apply any type of DNA microarray analysis program executable on a Linux system (i.e., Bioconductor statistical and graphical methods written in R as well as BioPerl and C++ based scripts) to DNA microarray data stored in the MUSC DNA Microarray Database, the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) or in a password protected private database uploaded to the center point server. ArrayQuest analyses are performed on a computer cluster.

Proper citation: ArrayQuest (RRID:SCR_010935) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/validate29/

Atlas was created from MRI scans of squirrel monkey brains. The atlas is currently comprised of multiple anatomical templates, diffusion MRI templates, and ex vivo templates. In addition, the templates are combined with histologically defined cortical labels, and diffusion tractography defined white matter labels.

Proper citation: VALiDATe29 Squirrel Monkey Brain Atlas (RRID:SCR_015542) Copy   

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