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https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/genetics-epigenetics-addiction

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 17, 2013. An archived video on the web providing comprehensive and hands-on training in genetics and epigenetic methodology. The purpose of the course is to provide an introduction to approaches and tools for identifying genes that confer vulnerability to addiction and individual differences in responses to treatments. The course is targeted to those who are new to the field of addiction genetics. The course was held over 5 days with lectures and hands-on demonstrations given each day. Viewers of the course will gain familiarity with conceptual and practical approaches to complex disorders using relevant genetic and epigenetic databases, and appropriate statistical and empirical approaches. Topics covered Behavioral genetics, genetic epidemiology, twin and adoption studies, statistical genetic concepts and approaches for mapping complex traits, haplotype based approaches for association mapping, genome-wide scans for addictive disorders, application of linkage for mapping genes and genetic loci for addictive disorders, pharmacogenomics of treatment of addictive disorders, Baysian Methods for identifying gene-gene interactions, analysis of copy number variation, practical use of genetic databases, mapping of complex traits in mice, methods for analyzing gene expression, and methods for doing epigenetic analysis are covered. The course was held April 4, 2008, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Road, Bethesda, MD 20852.

Proper citation: Short Course on the Genetics and Epigenetics of Addiction National Institute on Drug Abuse: Archived Video (RRID:SCR_002783) Copy   

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http://genespeed.ccf.org/home/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 16, 2013. Database and customized tools to study the PFAM protein domain content of the transcriptome for all expressed genes of Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Drosophila melanogaster, and Caenorhabditis elegans tethered to both a genomics array repository database and a range of external information resources. GeneSpeed has merged information from several existing data sets including the Gene Ontology Consortium, InterPro, Pfam, Unigene, as well as micro-array datasets. GeneSpeed is a database of PFAM domain homology contained within Unigene. Because Unigene is a non-redundant dbEST database, this provides a wide encompassing overview of the domain content of the expressed transcriptome. We have structured the GeneSpeed Database to include a rich toolset allowing the investigator to study all domain homology, no matter how remote. As a result, homology cutoff score decisions are determined by the scientist, not by a computer algorithm. This quality is one of the novel defining features of the GeneSpeed database giving the user complete control of database content. In addition to a domain content toolset, GeneSpeed provides an assortment of links to external databases, a unique and manually curated Transcription Factor Classification list, as well as links to our newly evolving GeneSpeed BetaCell Database. GeneSpeed BetaCell is a micro-array depository combined with custom array analysis tools created with an emphasis around the meta analysis of developmental time series micro-array datasets and their significance in pancreatic beta cells.

Proper citation: GeneSpeed- A Database of Unigene Domain Organization (RRID:SCR_002779) Copy   

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http://liulab.dfci.harvard.edu/BINOCh/

Software that infers the identity of transcription factors used to regulate cell response to stimulus or determine a program of differentiation. It uses genome wide information on enhancer proximal nucleosome occupancy, acquired using ChIP-seq targeting enhancer related histone modifications., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 15,2026.

Proper citation: BINOCh (RRID:SCR_002778) Copy   

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http://www.nikoninstruments.com/Products/Software/NIS-Elements-Basic-Research

Software tool for acquisition and device control for standard research applications, requiring four dimensional imaging. Provides access to advanced image capture, archiving, and analysis solutions that are easy-to-use and provide maximum workflow. Handles multi dimensional imaging with support for capture, display, data management, analysis and additional options for peripheral device control, and multi-dimensional acquisition. Provides advanced image processing options such as database capabilities and report generation, intensity over time measurement, and Extended Depth of Focus functionality.

Proper citation: NIS-Elements Basic Research (RRID:SCR_002776) Copy   

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http://www.cbil.upenn.edu/RAD

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, Documented on March 24, 2014. A resource for gene expression studies, storing highly curated MIAME-compliant studies (i.e. experiments) employing a variety of technologies such as filter arrays, 2-channel microarrays, Affymetrix chips, SAGE, MPSS and RT-PCR. Data were available for querying and downloading based on the MGED ontology, publications or genes. Both public and private studies (the latter viewable only by users having appropriate logins and permissions) were available from this website. Specific details on protocols, biomaterials, study designs, etc., are collected through a user-friendly suite of web annotation forms. Software has been developed to generate MAGE-ML documents to enable easy export of studies stored in RAD to any other database accepting data in this format. RAD is part of a more general Genomics Unified Schema (http://gusdb.org), which includes a richly annotated gene index (http://allgenes.org), thus providing a platform that integrates genomic and transcriptomic data from multiple organisms. NOTE: Due to changes in technology and funding, the RAD website is no longer available. RAD as a schema is still very much active and incorporated in the GUS (Genomics Unified Schema) database system used by CBIL (EuPathDB, Beta Cell Genomics) and others. The schema for RAD can be viewed along with the other GUS namespaces through our Schema Browser.

Proper citation: RNA Abundance Database (RRID:SCR_002771) Copy   

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http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/

A physiologic and molecular look at drug addiction involving many factors including: basic neurobiology, a scientific examination of drug action in the brain, the role of genetics in addiction, and ethical considerations. Designed to be used by students, teachers and members of the public, the materials meet selected US education standards for science and health. Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by changes in the brain which result in a compulsive desire to use a drug. A combination of many factors including genetics, environment and behavior influence a person's addiction risk, making it an incredibly complicated disease. The new science of addiction considers all of these factors - from biology to family - to unravel the complexities of the addicted brain. * Natural Reward Pathways Exist in the Brain: The reward pathway is responsible for driving our feelings of motivation, reward and behavior. * Drugs Alter the Brain's Reward Pathway: Drugs work over time to change the reward pathway and affect the entire brain, resulting in addiction. * Genetics Is An Important Factor In Addiction: Genetic susceptibility to addiction is the result of the interaction of many genes. * Timing and Circumstances Influence Addiction: If you use drugs when you are an adolescent, you are more likely to develop lifetime addiction. An individual's social environment also influences addiction risk. * Challenges and Issues in Addiction: Addiction impacts society with many ethical, legal and social issues.

Proper citation: New Science of Addiction: Genetics and the Brain (RRID:SCR_002770) Copy   

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http://www.genedb.org/Homepage

Database of genomes at various stages of completion, from early access to partial genomes with automatic annotation through to complete genomes with extensive manual curation. Its primary goals are: 1) to provide reliable access to the latest sequence data and annotation/curation for the whole range of organisms sequenced by the Pathogen group, and 2) to develop the website and other tools to aid the community in accessing and obtaining the maximum value from these data.

Proper citation: GeneDB (RRID:SCR_002774) Copy   

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http://www.lajollaneuroscience.org/

Our NINDS Center Core Grant supports centralized resources and facilities shared by investigators with existing NINDS-funded research projects. Our Center is composed of three research cores, each of which will enrich the effectiveness of ongoing research, and promote new research directions. The three Core facilities support Electrophysiology, Neuropathology / Histology, and High-Throughput/High-Content Chemical and Genomic Library screening. By making these important Core Services available to the local Neuroscience community, the La Jolla Neurosciences Program hopes to promote the study of how the nervous system works and develop treatments for nervous system diseases. The cores and their services are available to La Jolla neuroscientists. Core services are available to NINDS-supported neuroscience projects from local investigators as well as young neuroscientists prior to obtaining their first NIH-funded grant. * Electrophysiology: SBMRI Electrophysiology ** The Electrophysiology Core consists of the Sanford-Burnham Electrophysiology Facility. This facility can perform patch-clamp intracellular and extracellular field recordings on a range of material including cultured cells and brain slices. The Sanford-Burnham facility emphasizes electrophysiological analysis of cultured cells and the detailed electrical properties of channels, receptors and recombinant proteins expressed in Xenopus oocytes or mammalian cells. * Neuropathology: UCSD Neuropathology ** The Neuropathology laboratory applies immunocytochemistry, neurochemistry, molecular genetics, transgenic models of disease, and imaging by scanning laser confocal microscopy to analysis of neurological disease in animal models. * Chemical Library Screening: SBIMR Assay Development, SBIMR Chemical Library Screening, SBIMR Cheminformatics, SBIMR High-content Screening ** The Chemical Library Screening core offers high-throughput screening (HTS) of biochemical and cell-based array using traditional HTS readouts and automated microscopy for high-content screening (HCS)> These facilities also offer array development and screening, as well as cheminformatics and medicinal chemistry., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 15,2026.

Proper citation: La Jolla Interdisciplinary Neurosciences Center (RRID:SCR_002772) Copy   

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http://www.cnl.salk.edu/

The long range goal of this laboratory is to understand the computational resources of brains from the biophysical to the systems levels. The central issues being addressed are how dendrites integrate synaptic signals in neurons, how networks of neurons generate dynamical patterns of activity, how sensory information is represented in the cerebral cortex, how memory representations are formed and consolidated during sleep, and how visuo-motor transformations are adaptively organized. Additionally, new techniques have been developed for modeling cell signaling using Monte Carlo methods (MCell) and the blind separation of brain imaging data into functionally independent components (ICA).

Proper citation: Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute (RRID:SCR_002809) Copy   

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http://www.med.unc.edu/ngrrc

Material resource that provides germ-free and selectively colonized rodents to requesting investigators. Germ-free rodents are axenic, with no detectible bacteria, yeast, molds, parasites or viruses (except retroviruses).

Proper citation: National Gnotobiotic Rodent Resource Center (RRID:SCR_002768) Copy   

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http://jonathancrabtree.github.io/Circleator/

A Perl-based visualization software tool that generates circular figures of genome-associated data. Common uses of the tool include: * Displaying the sequence and/or genes in a GenBank flat file. * Highlighting differences and/or similarities in gene content between related organisms. * Comparing SNPs and indels between closely-related strains or serovars. * Comparing gene expression values across multiple samples or timepoints. * Visualizing coverage plots of RNA-Seq read alignments.

Proper citation: Circleator (RRID:SCR_002801) Copy   

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http://www.macaque.org/

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 June 8, 2020.Macaque genomic and proteomic resources and how they are providing important new dimensions to research using macaque models of infectious disease. The research encompasses a number of viruses that pose global threats to human health, including influenza, HIV, and SARS-associated coronavirus. By combining macaque infection models with gene expression and protein abundance profiling, they are uncovering exciting new insights into the multitude of molecular and cellular events that occur in response to virus infection. A better understanding of these events may provide the basis for innovative antiviral therapies and improvements to vaccine development strategies.

Proper citation: Macaque.org (RRID:SCR_002767) Copy   

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http://www.imexconsortium.org/

Interaction database from international collaboration between major public interaction data providers who share curation effort and develop set of curation rules when capturing data from both directly deposited interaction data or from publications in peer reviewed journals. Performs complete curation of all protein-protein interactions experimentally demonstrated within publication and makes them available in single search interface on common website. Provides data in standards compliant download formats. IMEx partners produce their own separate resources, which range from all encompassing molecular interaction databases, such as are maintained by IntAct, MINT and DIP, organism-centric resources such as BioGrid or MPIDB or biological domain centric, such as MatrixDB. They have committed to making records available, via PSICQUIC webservice, which have been curated to IMEx rules and are available to users as single, non-redundant set of curated publications which can be searched at the IMEx website. Data is made available in standards-compliant tab-deliminated and XML formats, enabling to visualize data using wide range of tools. Consortium is open to participation of additional partners and encourages deposition of data, prior to publication, and will supply unique accession numbers which may be referenced within final article. Submitters may send their data directly to any of member databases using variety of formats, but should conform to guidelines as to minimum information required to describe data.

Proper citation: IMEx - The International Molecular Exchange Consortium (RRID:SCR_002805) Copy   

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

Portal provides list of software resources. LONI is leader in development of advanced computational algorithms and software for comprehensive and quantitative mapping of brain structure and function. Aims to encourage communication between users and LONI software engineers in order to improve effectiveness.

Proper citation: University of Southern California LONI Software (RRID:SCR_002802) Copy   

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https://simtk.org/home/contrack

An algorithm for identifying pathways that are known to exist between two regions within DTI data of anisotropic tissue, e.g., muscle, brain, spinal cord. The ConTrack algorithms use knowledge of DTI scanning physics and apriori information about tissue architecture to identify the location of connections between two regions within the DTI data. Assuming a course of connection or pathway between these two regions is known to exist within the measured tissue, ConTrack can be used to estimate properties of these connections in-vivo.

Proper citation: ConTrack (RRID:SCR_002681) Copy   

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http://www.credrivermice.org/

Project to provide Neuroscience Community with mouse strains that are suitable for tissue and cell-type-specific perturbation of gene function in nervous system. NIH Neuroscience Blueprint has established three centers in the USA for generation of genetically modified mice expressing CRE recombinases in nervous system on the C57BJ/6 genetic background. Mouse lines are generated at Cold Spring Harbor Lab, at Scripps Research Institute, and at Baylor College of Medicine.

Proper citation: CRE Driver Network (RRID:SCR_002720) Copy   

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http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/sapFinder.html

An R software package, for detection of the variant peptides based on tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS)-based proteomics data. It automates (1) variation-associated database construction, (2) database searching, (3) post-processing, (4) HTML-based report generation in shotgun proteomics.

Proper citation: sapFinder (RRID:SCR_002685) Copy   

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https://simtk.org/home/simbody

This project is a SimTK Core toolset providing general multibody dynamics capability, i.e., the capability to solve Newton's 2nd law F=ma in any set of coordinates. The techniques of rigid body mechanics are used to provide results in Order(n) time for any set of n coordinates. This can be used for internal coordinate modeling of molecules, or for coarse-grained models based on larger chunks. It is also useful for large-scale mechanical models, such as neuromuscular models of human gait. Simbody is provided as an open source, object-oriented C++ API and delivers high-performance, accuracy-controlled science/engineering-quality results. Binaries of this software are bundled with other SimTK Core modules.

Proper citation: Simbody(tm): SimTK Multibody Dynamics Toolset (RRID:SCR_002684) Copy   

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http://www.cnsforum.com/educationalresources/imagebank/

A collection of downloadable central nervous system (CNS) images for teaching, presentations, articles, and other purposes. The following major categories of images are as follows: Brain anatomy, Brain physiology, Anxiety, Depression, Schizophrenia, Dementia, Parkinson's disease, Stroke, and Others.

Proper citation: CNSforum: Image Bank (RRID:SCR_002718) Copy   

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https://github.com/grenaud/leeHom

Software program for the Bayesian reconstruction of ancient DNA fragments. The algorithm removes the adaptors and reconstructs the original DNA sequences using a Bayesian maximum a posteriori probability approach.

Proper citation: leeHom (RRID:SCR_002710) Copy   

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