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http://www.zfscreens.com/

A commercial organization with expertise and multiple departments that focus on both fish physiology and molecular cell biology. ZF-pharma has developed patented technology for the automated in vivo high-throughput screening of pharmaceutical drug candidates against diseases. They seek industrial partners that are interested in obtaining a license for this technology or, alternatively, would prefer to outsource screening of TB drugs to ZF-pharma. NewCatch BV has developed a tool for use in sustainable aquaculture. The tool will first be used for reproduction of the highly valued fish species eel, pikeperch and sole. They seek industrial / aquaculture partners interested in obtaining a license for ZF-implants in other fish species. NewCatch BV carries out fish reproductive research, for instance European eel (Anguilla anguilla), exploring maturation and reproduction. ZF-Genomics offers multiple sequencing services, including mRNAseq and microRNA analysis and de novo and reference genome assemblies. In addition they also offer the bioinformatics services that are needed to make sense of the sequence data. In addition, they perform Next generation sequencing tasks for (inter)national research project partners and for external customers.

Proper citation: ZF-screens (RRID:SCR_003910) 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://crezoo.crt-dresden.de/crezoo/

Database of helpful set of CreERT2 driver lines expressing in various regions of the developing and adult zebrafish. The lines have been generated via the insertion of a mCherry-T2A-CreERT2 in a gene trap approach or by using promoter fragments driving CreERT2. You can search the list of all transgenic lines or single entries by insertions (gene) or expression patterns (anatomy/region). In most cases the CreERT2 expression profile using in situ hybridization at 24 hpf and 48 hpf is shown, but also additional information (e.g. mCherry or CreERT2 expression at adult stages, transactivation of a Cre-dependent reporter line) is displayed. Currently, not all insertions have been mapped to a genomic location but the database will be regularly updated adding newly generated insertions and mapping information. Your help in improving and broadening the database by giving your opinion or knowledge of expression patterns is highly appreciated.

Proper citation: CreZoo (RRID:SCR_008919) 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://stemcellcommons.org/

Open source environment for sharing, processing and analyzing stem cell data bringing together stem cell data sets with tools for curation, dissemination and analysis. Standardization of the analytical approaches will enable researchers to directly compare and integrate their results with experiments and disease models in the Commons. Key features of the Stem Cell Commons * Contains stem cell related experiments * Includes microarray and Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data from human, mouse, rat and zebrafish * Data from multiple cell types and disease models * Carefully curated experimental metadata using controlled vocabularies * Export in the Investigation-Study-Assay tabular format (ISA-Tab) that is used by over 30 organizations worldwide * A community oriented resource with public data sets and freely available code in public code repositories such as GitHub Currently in development * Development of Refinery, a novel analysis platform that links Commons data to the Galaxy analytical engine * ChIP-seq analysis pipeline (additional pipelines in development) * Integration of experimental metadata and data files with Galaxy to guide users to choose workflows, parameters, and data sources Stem Cell Commons is based on open source software and is available for download and development.

Proper citation: Stem Cell Commons (RRID:SCR_004415) Copy   

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http://inparanoid.sbc.su.se/cgi-bin/index.cgi

Collection of pairwise comparisons between 100 whole genomes generated by a fully automatic method for finding orthologs and in-paralogs between TWO species. Ortholog clusters in the InParanoid are seeded with a two-way best pairwise match, after which an algorithm for adding in-paralogs is applied. The method bypasses multiple alignments and phylogenetic trees, which can be slow and error-prone steps in classical ortholog detection. Still, it robustly detects complex orthologous relationships and assigns confidence values for in-paralogs. The original data sets can be downloaded.

Proper citation: InParanoid: Eukaryotic Ortholog Groups (RRID:SCR_006801) Copy   

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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://www.morpholinodatabase.org/

Central database to house data on morpholino screens currently containing over 700 morpholinos including control and multiple morpholinos against the same target. A publicly accessible sequence-based search opens this database for morpholinos against a particular target for the zebrafish community. Morpholino Screens: They set out to identify all cotranslationally translocated genes in the zebrafish genome (Secretome/CTT-ome). Morpholinos were designed against putative secreted/CTT targets and injected into 1-4 cell stage zebrafish embryos. The embryos were observed over a 5 day period for defects in several different systems. The first screen examined 184 gene targets of which 26 demonstrated defects of interest (Pickart et al. 2006). A collaboration with the Verfaillie laboratory examined the knockdown of targets identified in a comparative microarray analysis of hematopoietic stem cells demonstrating how microarray and morpholino technologies can be used in conjunction to enrich for defects in specific developmental processes. Currently, many collaborations are underway to identify genes involved in morphological, kidney, skin, eye, pigment, vascular and hematopoietic development, lipid metabolism and more. The screen types referred to in the search functions are the specific areas of development that were examined during the various screens, which include behavior, general morphology, pigmentation, toxicity, Pax2 expression, and development of the craniofacial structures, eyes, kidneys, pituitary, and skin. Only data pertaining to specific tests performed are presented. Due to the complexity of this international collaboration and time constraints, not all morpholinos were subjected to all screen types. They are currently expanding public access to the database. In the future we will provide: * Mortality curves and dose range for each morpholino * Preliminary data regarding the effectiveness of each morpholino * Expanded annotation for each morpholino * External linkage of our morpholino sequences to ZFIN and Ensembl. To submit morpholino-knockdown results to MODB please contact the administrator for a user name and password.

Proper citation: Morpholino Database (RRID:SCR_001378) Copy   

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https://github.com/Ensembl

Public database that stores areas of genome that differ between individual genomes (variants) and, where available, associated disease and phenotype information. Different types of variants for several species: single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), short nucleotide insertions and/or deletions, and longer variants classified as structural variants (including CNVs). Effects of variants on the Ensembl transcripts and regulatory features for each species are predicted. You can run same analysis on your own data using Variant Effect Predictor. These data are integrated with other data sources in Ensembl, and can be accessed using the API or website. For several different species in Ensembl, they import variation data (SNPs, CNVs, allele frequencies, genotypes, etc) from a variety of sources (e.g. dbSNP). Imported variants and alleles are subjected to quality control process to flag suspect data. In human, they calculate linkage disequilibrium for each variant, by population.

Proper citation: Ensembl Variation (RRID:SCR_001630) 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://wiki.phenoscape.org/wiki/Teleost_Anatomy_Ontology

A multi-species anatomy ontology for teleost fishes. It was originally seeded from ZFA, but covers terms relevant to other taxa. The TAO uses terms from the Common Anatomy Reference Ontology (CARO) as a template for its upper level nodes, and the Vertebrate Skeletal Anatomy Ontology (VSAO) for general skeletal anatomy classes. Growth of the TAO is enabled by contributions from data curators and the ichthyological community. The TAO can be browsed by using the NCBO BioPortal and data annotated using TAO terms can be queried using the Phenoscape Knowedgebase.

Proper citation: Teleost Anatomy Ontology (RRID:SCR_001610) 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://cshprotocols.cshlp.org/cgi/collection/behavioral_assays

A bibliography of published Behavioral Assays by Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is an interdisciplinary journal providing a definitive source of research methods in cell, developmental and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, computational biology, immunology, neuroscience and imaging. Each monthly issue details multiple essential methods - a mix of cutting-edge and well-established techniques. Newly commissioned protocols and unsolicited submissions are supplemented with articles based on Cold Spring Harbor Laboratorys renowned courses and manuals. All protocols are up-to-date and presented in a consistent, easy-to-follow format.

Proper citation: Cold Spring Harbor Protocols: Collected Resources - Behavioral Assays (RRID:SCR_001697) 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://seqant.genetics.emory.edu/

A free web service and open source software package that performs rapid, automated annotation of DNA sequence variants (single base mutations, insertions, deletions) discovered with any sequencing platform. Variant sites are characterized with respect to their functional type (Silent, Replacement, 5' UTR, 3' UTR, Intronic, Intergenic), whether they have been previously submitted to dbSNP, and their evolutionary conservation. Annotated variants can be viewed directly on the web browser, downloaded in a tab delimited text file, or directly uploaded in a Browser Extended Data (BED) format to the UCSC genome browser. SeqAnt further identifies all loci harboring two or more coding sequence variants that help investigators identify potential compound heterozygous loci within exome sequencing experiments. In total, SeqAnt resolves a significant bottleneck by allowing an investigator to rapidly prioritize the functional analysis of those variants of interest.

Proper citation: SeqAnt (RRID:SCR_005186) Copy   

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http://great.stanford.edu/public/html/splash.php

Data analysis service that predicts functions of cis-regulatory regions identified by localized measurements of DNA binding events across an entire genome. Whereas previous methods took into account only binding proximal to genes, GREAT is able to properly incorporate distal binding sites and control for false positives using a binomial test over the input genomic regions. GREAT incorporates annotations from 20 ontologies and is available as a web application. The utility of GREAT extends to data generated for transcription-associated factors, open chromatin, localized epigenomic markers and similar functional data sets, and comparative genomics sets. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: GREAT: Genomic Regions Enrichment of Annotations Tool (RRID:SCR_005807) Copy   

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http://vibez.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/

An imaging and image analysis framework for virtual colocalization studies in larval zebrafish brains, currently available for 72hpf, 48hpf and 96hpf old larvae. ViBE-Z contains a database with precisely aligned gene expression patterns (1����m^3 resolution), an anatomical atlas, and a software. This software creates high-quality data sets by fusing multiple confocal microscopic image stacks, and aligns these data sets to the standard larva. The ViBE-Z database and atlas are stored in HDF5 file format. They are freely available for download. ViBE-Z provides a software that automatically maps gene expression data with cellular resolution to a 3D standard larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) brain. ViBE-Z enhances the data quality through fusion and attenuation correction of multiple confocal microscope stacks per specimen and uses a fluorescent stain of cell nuclei for image registration. It automatically detects 14 predefined anatomical landmarks for aligning new data with the reference brain. ViBE-Z performs colocalization analysis in expression databases for anatomical domains or subdomains defined by any specific pattern. The ViBE-Z database, atlas and software are provided via a web interface.

Proper citation: ViBE-Z (RRID:SCR_005895) Copy   

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/assembly/grc/

Consortium that puts sequences into a chromosome context and provides the best possible reference assembly for human, mouse, and zebrafish via FTP. Tools to facilitate the curation of genome assemblies based on the sequence overlaps of long, high quality sequences.

Proper citation: Genome Reference Consortium (RRID:SCR_006553) Copy   

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http://corefacilities.case.edu/animal.php

A set of core facilities of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine which allows users to create and analyze in vivo animal models. The various facilities provide animal care, transgenic models, imaging, irradiation, and phenotyping for research concerning such topics as cancer, metabolic processes, and behavior. In vivo animals provided include mice, zebrafish, and rodents.

Proper citation: CWRU In Vivo Animal Facilities (RRID:SCR_014209) Copy   

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http://zfrhmaps.tch.harvard.edu/cemh/CoreB.htm

Zebrafish core facility which generates and maintains transgenic and mutant fish lines for hematology research. It also provides expertise and training in model production, study design, and fish production for research.

Proper citation: Boston Children's Hospital Center of Excellence in Molecular Hematology Zebrafish Core (RRID:SCR_015355) Copy   

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