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http://bmsr.usc.edu/software/targetgene/

MATLAB tool to effectively identify potential therapeutic targets and drugs in cancer using genetic network-based approaches. It can rapidly extract genetic interactions from a precompiled database stored as a MATLAB MAT-file without the need to interrogate remote SQL databases. Millions of interactions involving thousands of candidate genes can be mapped to the genetic network within minutes. While TARGETgene is currently based on the gene network reported in (Wu et al.,Bioinformatics 26:807-813, 2010), it can be easily extended to allow the optional use of other developed gene networks. The simple graphical user interface also enables rapid, intuitive mapping and analysis of therapeutic targets at the systems level. By mapping predictions to drug-target information, TARGETgene may be used as an initial drug screening tool that identifies compounds for further evaluation. In addition, TARGETgene is expected to be applicable to identify potential therapeutic targets for any type or subtype of cancers, even those rare cancers that are not genetically recognized. Identification of Potential Therapeutic Targets * Prioritize potential therapeutic targets from thousands of candidate genes generated from high-throughput experiments using network-based metrics * Validate predictions (prioritization) using user-defined benchmark genes and curated cancer genes * Explore biologic information of selected targets through external databases (e.g., NCBI Entrez Gene) and gene function enrichment analysis Initial Drug Screening * Identify for further evaluation existing drugs and compounds that may act on the potential therapeutic targets identified by TARGETgene * Explore general information on identified drugs of interest through several external links Operating System: Windows XP / Vista / 7

Proper citation: TARGETgene (RRID:SCR_001392) Copy   

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http://www.blast2go.com/b2ghome

An ALL in ONE tool for functional annotation of (novel) sequences and the analysis of annotation data. Blast2GO (B2G) joins in one universal application similarity search based GO annotation and functional analysis. B2G offers the possibility of direct statistical analysis on gene function information and visualization of relevant functional features on a highlighted GO direct acyclic graph (DAG). Furthermore B2G includes various statistics charts summarizing the results obtained at BLASTing, GO-mapping, annotation and enrichment analysis (Fisher''''s Exact Test). All analysis process steps are configurable and data import and export are supported at any stage. The application also accepts pre-existing BLAST or annotation files and takes them to subsequent steps. The tool offers a very suitable platform for high throughput functional genomics research in non-model species. B2G is a species-independent, intuitive and interactive desktop application which allows monitoring and comprehending the whole annotation and analysis process supported by additional features like GO Slim integration, evidence code (EC) consideration, a Batch-Mode or GO-Multilevel-Pies. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: Blast2GO (RRID:SCR_005828) Copy   

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http://www.altanalyze.org/

Software application for microarry, RNA-Seq and metabolomics analysis. For splicing sensitive platforms (RNA-Seq or Affymetrix Exon, Gene and Junction arrays), it will assess alternative exon (known and novel) expression along protein isoforms, domain composition and microRNA targeting. In addition to splicing-sensitive platforms, it provides comprehensive methods for the analysis of other data (RMA summarization, batch-effect removal, QC, statistics, annotation, clustering, network creation, lineage characterization, alternative exon visualization, gene-set enrichement and more). AltAnalyze can be run through an intuitive graphical user interface or command-line and requires no advanced knowledge of bioinformatics programs or scripting. Alternative regulated exons can be subsequently visualized in the context of proteins, domains and microRNA binding sites with the Cytoscape Plugin DomainGraph.

Proper citation: AltAnalyze - Alternative Splicing Analysis Tool (RRID:SCR_002951) Copy   

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http://nipy.org/nipype/

A package for writing fMRI analysis pipelines and interfacing with external analysis packages (SPM, FSL, AFNI). Current neuroimaging software offer users an incredible opportunity to analyze their data in different ways, with different underlying assumptions. However, this has resulted in a heterogeneous collection of specialized applications without transparent interoperability or a uniform operating interface. Nipype, an open-source, community-developed initiative under the umbrella of Nipy, is a Python project that solves these issues by providing a uniform interface to existing neuroimaging software and by facilitating interaction between these packages within a single workflow. Nipype provides an environment that encourages interactive exploration of algorithms from different packages (e.g., SPM, FSL), eases the design of workflows within and between packages, and reduces the learning curve necessary to use different packages. Nipype is creating a collaborative platform for neuroimaging software development in a high-level language and addressing limitations of existing pipeline systems.

Proper citation: Nipype (RRID:SCR_002502) Copy   

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http://visit.llnl.gov/

Open source software interactive, scalable, visualization, animation and analysis tool. Used to generate visualizations, animate them through time, manipulate them with variety of operators and mathematical expressions, and save resulting images and animations for presentations.

Proper citation: VisIt (RRID:SCR_024370) Copy   

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http://www.ntnu.edu/hunt

International biobank storing whole blood and DNA from 200,000 individuals, serum and plasma samples from more than 100,000 individuals as well as urine, RNA tubes, cells, buffy coat and Na-heparin tubes for environmental analysis for as many as 50,000 individuals. All bio-specimens from the HUNT surveys are collected, processed and stored at the HUNT Biobank in Levanger. The National CONOR Biobank is located on the same site, where it serves as a central research repository for DNA samples from all the largest Norwegian health surveys. These make up the Cohorts of Norway (CONOR), which include samples from more than 200,000 individuals. * HUNT 1 was carried out in 1984-1986 to establish the health history of 75,000 people. * HUNT 2, carried out in 1995-1997, focused on the evolution of the health history of 74,000 people. This included blood sample collection from 65,000 people. The data that accompany biospecimens in the biobank are stored in secured computer systems that run complex database management and analysis software. * HUNT 3 was completed in June 2008. 93,210 people were invited to participate in the study, and as of the 6th of June, 2008, 48,289 people participated (52% participation rate). The data, collected by means of questionnaires, interviews, clinical examinations and collection of blood and urine samples, will be ready for analysis in January 2009. * Young-HUNT is the adolescent part of HUNT including participants aged 13-19 years. Young-HUNT1 (1995-97) was conducted as part of HUNT2, 9141 adolescents participated (90% response rate). Young-HUNT2 (2000-01) was a follow-up study of Young-HUNT1, 2400 students participated in both studies (77% of the invited). Young-HUNT3 (2006-08) was a new cross-sectional study as part of HUNT3. This time 8677 adolescents participated (87% response rate). Data collection included self-reported questionnaires, structured interviews, clinical measurements and, in Young-HUNT3, buccal smears. All institutions with research expertise can apply for access to analyze HUNT data. Projects must have recommendations from The Regional Committee for Medical Research in Norway (REK) and be registered with The Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD).

Proper citation: Hunt Biobank (RRID:SCR_010626) Copy   

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http://www.genetrap.org/

Consortium represents all publicly available gene trap cell lines, which are available on non-collaborative basis for nominal handling fees. Researchers can search and browse IGTC database for cell lines of interest using accession numbers or IDs, keywords, sequence data, tissue expression profiles and biological pathways, can find trapped genes of interest on IGTC website, and order cell lines for generation of mutant mice through blastocyst injection. Consortium members include: BayGenomics (USA), Centre for Modelling Human Disease (Toronto, Canada), Embryonic Stem Cell Database (University of Manitoba, Canada), Exchangeable Gene Trap Clones (Kumamoto University, Japan), German Gene Trap Consortium provider (Germany), Sanger Institute Gene Trap Resource (Cambridge, UK), Soriano Lab Gene Trap Resource (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA), Texas Institute for Genomic Medicine - TIGM (USA), TIGEM-IRBM Gene Trap (Naples, Italy).

Proper citation: International Gene Trap Consortium (RRID:SCR_002305) Copy   

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http://www.oege.org/software/hwe-mr-calc.shtml

This portal leads to the Chi-sq Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium test calculator for biallelic markers (SNPs, indels etc), including analysis for ascertainment bias for dominant/recessive models (due to biological or technical causes.) The purpose of this web program is for estimating possible missingness and an approach to evaluating missingness under different genetic models. Mendelian randomization (MR) permits causal inference between exposures and a disease. It can be compared with randomized controlled trials. Whereas in a randomized controlled trial the randomization occurs at entry into the trial, in MR the randomization occurs during gamete formation and conception. Several factors, including time since conception and sampling variation, are relevant to the interpretation of an MR test. Particularly important is consideration of the missingness of genotypes that can be originated by chance, genotyping errors, or clinical ascertainment. Testing for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) is a genetic approach that permits evaluation of missingness. Through this tool, the authors demonstrate evidence of nonconformity with HWE in real data. They also perform simulations to characterize the sensitivity of HWE tests to missingness. Unresolved missingness could lead to a false rejection of causality in an MR investigation of trait-disease association. These results indicate that large-scale studies, very high quality genotyping data, and detailed knowledge of the life-course genetics of the alleles/genotypes studied will largely mitigate this risk. Sponsors: This resource is supported by an Intermediate Fellowship (grant FS/05/065/19497) from the British Heart Foundation.

Proper citation: Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium Calculator (RRID:SCR_008371) Copy   

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http://vensim.com/

Simulation software for improving the performance of real systems. Used for developing, analyzing, and packaging dynamic feedback models.

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https://jmorp.megabank.tohoku.ac.jp/

Japanese multi omics reference panel. Provides multidimensional approach to diversity of Japanese population. Public database for plasma metabolome and proteome analyses. Updated to metabolome, genome, transcriptome, metagenome, number of samples, analysis methods of each dataset, expanding links between each layer and links between hierarchies.

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https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/singleCellTK.html

Software R package provides interface to popular tools for importing, quality control, analysis, and visualization of single cell RNA-seq data. Allows users to integrate tools from various packages at different stages of analysis workflow.

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https://www.charmm.org/charmm/?CFID=66837e22-4ee5-47ba-bcbf-b4b385c2397e&CFTOKEN=0

Software program that simulates molecular interactions. It has features that allow broad application to many-particle systems with a comprehensive set of energy functions, a variety of enhanced sampling methods, and support for multi-scale techniques, and a range of implicit solvent models. It also primarily targets biological systems including peptides, proteins, prosthetic groups, small molecule ligands, nucleic acids, lipids, and carbohydrates, as they occur in solution, crystals, and membrane environments. CHARMM can also be applied to inorganic materials with applications in materials design and has a comprehensive set of analysis and model builiding tools.

Proper citation: CHARMM (RRID:SCR_014892) Copy   

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https://edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/

Repository of open source tools for behavioral neuroscience research. OpenBehavior features hardware (tools, devices, apparatuses), as well as software for data acquisition and analysis and for the investigation of animal behavior and cognition. Dedicated to accelerating research through promotion of collaboration and open source projects.

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https://atlas.kpmp.org/

Atlas is set of interactive tools built to promote retrieval, exploration, discovery, and analysis of Kidney Precision Medicine Project data by greater research community. Datasets available in repository are combination of raw and processed data from KPMP participant biopsies and reference tissue samples.

Proper citation: Kidney Tissue Atlas (RRID:SCR_021626) Copy   

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http://neuralensemble.org/sumatra/

A software tool for managing and tracking projects based on numerical simulation or analysis to support reproducible research. It can be thought of as an automated electronic lab notebook for simulation/analysis projects. Sumatra consists of: a command-line interface, smt, for launching simulations/analyses with automatic recording of information about the context, annotating these records, linking to data files, etc.; a web interface with a built-in web-server, smtweb, for browsing and annotating simulation/analysis results; a LaTeX package and Sphinx extension for including Sumatra-tracked figures and links to provenance information in papers and other documents; and a Python API, on which smt and smtweb are based, that can be used in personalized scripts in place of using smt.

Proper citation: Sumatra (RRID:SCR_001381) Copy   

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http://www.cma.mgh.harvard.edu/iatr/

A centrally available listing of all image analysis tools that are available to the neuroscience community in order to facilitate the development, identification, and sharing of tools. It is hoped that this helps the tool developers to get their tools to a larger user community and to reduce redundancy (or at least utilize tool redundancy to facilitate optimal tool design) in tool development. This also helps tool users in identification of the existing tools for specific problems as they arise. The registry is designed to be self-moderated. This means that all tool entries are owned by some responsible party who enters the tool information, and keeps it up to date via the Web.

Proper citation: Internet Analysis Tools Registry (RRID:SCR_005638) Copy   

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http://genemania.org/

Data analysis service to predict the function of your favorite genes and gene sets. Indexing 1,421 association networks containing 266,984,699 interactions mapped to 155,238 genes from 7 organisms. GeneMANIA interaction networks are available for download in plain text format. GeneMANIA finds other genes that are related to a set of input genes, using a very large set of functional association data. Association data include protein and genetic interactions, pathways, co-expression, co-localization and protein domain similarity. You can use GeneMANIA to find new members of a pathway or complex, find additional genes you may have missed in your screen or find new genes with a specific function, such as protein kinases. Your question is defined by the set of genes you input. If members of your gene list make up a protein complex, GeneMANIA will return more potential members of the protein complex. If you enter a gene list, GeneMANIA will return connections between your genes, within the selected datasets. GeneMANIA suggests annotations for genes based on Gene Ontology term enrichment of highly interacting genes with the gene of interest. GeneMANIA is also a gene recommendation system. GeneMANIA is also accessible via a Cytoscape plugin, designed for power users. Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: GeneMANIA (RRID:SCR_005709) Copy   

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http://estbioinfo.stat.ub.es/?page_id=2

The Statistics and Bioinformatics research group has as its main objectives the development of methods and tools to deal with problems appearing in the interface between Statistics and Bioinformatics. We started focusing in DNA microarrays but we are also interested in statistical methods for ''omics'' data integration and next generation sequencing (NGS). Our group collaborates with different research groups in the fields of biology and biomedicine, to whom it offers statistical support for problems which are specifically statistic in nature, such as experimental design or microarray data analysis, and also in more general aspects, such as modeling, analysis or data mining. After a first period of collaboration agreements with the Fundaci�� Vall d''Hebr��n Institut de Recerca we contributed to the creation of the Statistics and Bioinformatics Unit (UEB) which provides statistical and bioinformatical support to VHIR researchers.

Proper citation: University of Barcelona Statistics and Bioinformatics Research Group (RRID:SCR_005704) Copy   

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http://geneontology.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geneontology/go-moose/

go-moose is intended as a replacement for the aging go-perl and go-db-perl Perl libraries. It is written using the object oriented Moose libraries. It can be used for performing a number of analyses on GO data, including the remapping of GO annotations to a selected subset of GO terms. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

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http://vortex.cs.wayne.edu/projects.htm#Onto-Translate

In the annotation world, the same piece of information can be stored and viewed differently across different databases. For instance, more than one Affymetrix probe ID can refer to the same GenBank sequence (accession number) and more than one nucleotide sequence from GenBank can be grouped in a single UniGene cluster. The result of Onto-Express depends on whether the input list contains Affymetrix probe IDs, GenBank accession numbers or UniGene cluster IDs. The user has to be aware of relations between the different forms of the data in order to interpret correctly the results. Even if the user is aware of the relationships and knows how to convert them, most existing tools allow conversions of individual genes. Onto-Translate is a tool that allows the user to perform easily such translations. Affymetrix probe IDs, etc., translate GO terms into other identifiers like GenBank accession number, Uniprot IDs. User account required. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: Onto-Translate (RRID:SCR_005725) Copy   

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