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https://www.hpcwire.com/2005/10/28/swami_the_next_generation_biology_workbench/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 22, 2016. The Next Generation Biology Workbench is a free resource for research and education in Bioinformatics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Phylogenetics. The NGBW is a re-engineering of the Biology Workbench which was designed by Shankar Subramaniam and his group to provide an integrated environment where tools, user data, and public data resources can be easily accessed. The NGBW is designed to be an organic tool that evolves with the needs of the Biomedical research and education communities. The Next Generation Biology Workbench (NGBW) is now available for public use, in its production release.

Proper citation: Swami: The Next Generation Biology Workbench (RRID:SCR_007217) Copy   

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http://molprobity.biochem.duke.edu

A structure-validation web application which provides an expert-system consultation about the accuracy of a macromolecular structure model, diagnosing local problems and enabling their correction. MolProbity works best as an active validation tool (used as soon as a model is available and during each rebuild/refine loop) and when used for protein and RNA crystal structures, but it may also work well for DNA, ligands and NMR ensembles. It produces coordinates, graphics, and numerical evaluations that integrate with either manual or automated use in systems such as PHENIX, KiNG, or Coot.

Proper citation: MolProbity (RRID:SCR_014226) Copy   

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http://www.zfishbook.org/NGP/journalcontent/SCORE/SCORE.html

Narrative resource describing a visual data analysis and collection approach that takes advantage of the cylindrical nature of the zebrafish allowing for an efficient and effective method for image capture called, Specimen in a Corrected Optical Rotational Enclosure (SCORE) Imaging. To achieve a non-distorted image, zebrafish were placed in a fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) tube with a surrounding, optically corrected imaging solution: water. By similarly matching the refractive index of the housing (FEP tubing) to that of the inner liquid and outer liquid (water), distortion was markedly reduced, producing a crisp imagable specimen that is able to be fully rotated 360 degrees. A similar procedure was established for fixed zebrafish embryos using convenient, readily available borosilicate capillaries surrounded by 75% glycerol. The method described could be applied to chemical genetic screening and other, related high-throughput methods within the fish community and among other scientific fields.

Proper citation: Zebrafish - SCORE Imaging: Specimen in a Corrected Optical Rotational Enclosure (RRID:SCR_001300) Copy   

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http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/computinglife/

An NIGMS magazine that showcases the exciting ways that scientists are using the power of computers to expand our knowledge of biology and medicine. From text messaging friends to navigating city streets with GPS technology, we''re all living the computing life. But as we''ve upgraded from snail mail and compasses, so too have scientists. Computer advances now let researchers quickly search through DNA sequences to find gene variations that could lead to disease, simulate how flu might spread through your school and design three-dimensional animations of molecules that rival any video game. By teaming computers and biology, scientists can answer new and old questions that could offer insights into the fundamental processes that keep us alive and make us sick. This booklet introduces you to just some of the ways that physicists, biologists and even artists are computing life. Each section focuses on a different research problem, offers examples of current scientific projects and acquaints you with the people conducting the work. You can follow the links for online extras and other opportunities to learn aboutand get involved inthis exciting new interdisciplinary field.

Proper citation: NIGMS Computing Life (RRID:SCR_005850) Copy   

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https://www.biosimulations.org/

Web tool for sharing and re-using biomodels, simulations, and visualizations of simulations results. Supports variety of modeling frameworks including kinetic, constraint based, and logical modeling, model formats including BNGL, CellML, SBML, and simulation tools including COPASI, libRoadRunner/tellurium, NFSim, VCell.

Proper citation: BioSimulations (RRID:SCR_018733) Copy   

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https://webprotege.stanford.edu

Web based platform for editing biomedical ontologies. Web application for editing OWL 2 ontologies. Open source, lightweight, web based ontology editor implemented in Java and JavaScript using OWL API and Google Web Toolkit. For users who do not wish to host their ontologies on Stanford servers, WebProtégé is available as Web app that can be run locally using Servlet container such as Tomcat.

Proper citation: WebProtege (RRID:SCR_024627) Copy   

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http://snyderome.stanford.edu/

Data set generated by personal omics profiling of Dr. Michael Snyder at Stanford University. It combines genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and autoantibody profiles from a single individual over a 14 month period. The analysis revealed various medical risks, including type II diabetes. It also uncovered extensive, dynamic changes in diverse molecular components and biological pathways across healthy and diseased conditions.

Proper citation: iPOP (RRID:SCR_008991) Copy   

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https://bioinformatics.sdstate.edu/idep/

Integrated web application for differential expression and pathway analysis of RNA-Seq data.

Proper citation: iDEP: Integrated Differential Expression and Pathway analysis (RRID:SCR_027373) Copy   

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http://www.proconsortium.org/pro/

An ontological representation of protein-related entities by explicitly defining them and showing the relationships between them. Each PRO term represents a distinct class of entities (including specific modified forms, orthologous isoforms, and protein complexes) ranging from the taxon-neutral to the taxon-specific. The ontology has a meta-structure encompassing three areas: proteins based on evolutionary relatedness (ProEvo); protein forms produced from a given gene locus (ProForm); and protein-containing complexes (ProComp). NOTICE: The PRO ID format has changed from PRO: to PR: (e.g. PRO:000000563 is now PR:000000563).

Proper citation: PR (RRID:SCR_004964) Copy   

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http://dictybase.org/Dicty_Info/dicty_anatomy_ontology.html

An ontology to describe Dictyostelium where the structural makeup of Dictyostelium and its composing parts including the different cell types, throughout its life cycle is defined. There are two main goals for this new tool: (1) promote the consistent annotation of Dictyostelium-specific events, such as phenotypes (already in use), and in the future, of gene expression information; and (2) encourage researchers to use the same terms with the same intended meaning. To this end, all terms are defined. The complete ontology can be browsed using EBI''s ontology browser tool. (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ontology-lookup/browse.do?ontName=DDANAT)

Proper citation: Dictyostelium Anatomy Ontology (RRID:SCR_005929) Copy   

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http://integrativemodeling.org/

An open source C++ and Python toolbox for solving complex modeling problems, and a number of applications for tackling some common problems in a user-friendly way. Its broad goal is to contribute to a comprehensive structural characterization of biomolecules ranging in size and complexity from small peptides to large macromolecular assemblies, by integrating data from diverse biochemical and biophysical experiments. It can also be used from the Chimera molecular modeling system, or via one of several web applications.

Proper citation: Integrative Modeling Platform (RRID:SCR_002982) Copy   

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http://zebrafinch.brainarchitecture.org/

Atlas of high resolution Nissl stained digital images of the brain of the zebra finch, the mainstay of songbird research. The cytoarchitectural high resolution photographs and atlas presented here aim at facilitating electrode placement, connectional studies, and cytoarchitectonic analysis. This initial atlas is not in stereotaxic coordinate space. It is intended to complement the stereotaxic atlases of Akutegawa and Konishi, and that of Nixdorf and Bischof. (Akutagawa E. and Konishi M., stereotaxic atalas of the brain of zebra finch, unpublished. and Nixdorf-Bergweiler B. E. and Bischof H. J., A Stereotaxic Atlas of the Brain Of the Zebra Finch, Taeniopygia Guttata, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.) The zebra finch has proven to be the most widely used model organism for the study of the neurological and behavioral development of birdsong. A unique strength of this research area is its integrative nature, encompassing field studies and ethologically grounded behavioral biology, as well as neurophysiological and molecular levels of analysis. The availability of dimensionally accurate and detailed atlases and photographs of the brain of male and female animals, as well as of the brain during development, can be expected to play an important role in this research program. Traditionally, atlases for the zebra finch brain have only been available in printed format, with the limitation of low image resolution of the cell stained sections. The advantages of a digital atlas over a traditional paper-based atlas are three-fold. * The digital atlas can be viewed at multiple resolutions. At low magnification, it provides an overview of brain sections and regions, while at higher magnification, it shows exquisite details of the cytoarchitectural structure. * It allows digital re-slicing of the brain. The original photographs of brain were taken in certain selected planes of section. However, the brains are seldom sliced in exactly the same plane in real experiments. Re-slicing provides a useful atlas in user-chosen planes, which are otherwise unavailable in the paper-based version. * It can be made available on the internet. High resolution histological datasets can be independently evaluated in light of new experimental anatomical, physiological and molecular studies.

Proper citation: Zebrafinch Brain Architecture Project (RRID:SCR_004277) Copy   

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http://www.evidenceontology.org

A controlled vocabulary that describes types of scientific evidence within the realm of biological research that can arise from laboratory experiments, computational methods, manual literature curation, and other means. Researchers can use these types of evidence to support assertions about research subjects that result from scientific research, such as scientific conclusions, gene annotations, or other statements of fact. ECO comprises two high-level classes, evidence and assertion method, where evidence is defined as a type of information that is used to support an assertion, and assertion method is defined as a means by which a statement is made about an entity. Together evidence and assertion method can be combined to describe both the support for an assertion and whether that assertion was made by a human being or a computer. However, ECO can not be used to make the assertion itself; for that, one would use another ontology, free text description, or other means. ECO was originally created around the year 2000 to support gene product annotation by the Gene Ontology. Today ECO is used by many groups concerned with provenance in scientific research. ECO is used in AmiGO 2

Proper citation: ECO (RRID:SCR_002477) Copy   

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https://github.com/bioinform/somaticseq

Software accurate somatic mutation detection pipeline implementing stochastic boosting algorithm to produce somatic mutation calls for both single nucleotide variants and small insertions and deletions. NGS variant calling and classification.

Proper citation: SomaticSeq (RRID:SCR_024891) Copy   

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https://github.com/xinhe-lab/GSFA

Software R package that performs sparse factor analysis and differential gene expression discovery simultaneously on single cell CRISPR screening data.

Proper citation: Guided Sparse Factor Analysis (RRID:SCR_025023) Copy   

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

A repository of schizophrenia neuroimaging data collected from over 450 individuals with schizophrenia, healthy controls and their respective siblings, most with 2-year longitudinal follow-up. The data include neuroimaging data, cognitive data, clinical data, and genetic data.

Proper citation: Northwestern University Schizophrenia Data and Software Tool (NUSDAST) (RRID:SCR_014153) Copy   

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http://www.berkeleybop.org/

The BBOP, located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, is a diverse group of scientific researchers and software engineers dedicated to developing tools and applying computational technologies to solve biological problems. Members of the group contribute to a number of projects, including the Gene Ontology, OBO Foundry, the Phenotypic Quality Ontology, modENCODE, and the Generic Model Organism Database Project. Our group is focused on the development, use, and integration of ontolgies into biological data analysis. Software written or maintained by BBOP is accessible through the site.

Proper citation: Berkeley Bioinformatics Open-Source Projects (RRID:SCR_006704) Copy   

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https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/apeglm.html

Software package provides Bayesian shrinkage estimators for effect sizes for variety of GLM models, using approximation of posterior for individual coefficients.

Proper citation: apeglm (RRID:SCR_026951) Copy   

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https://github.com/DReichLab/AdmixTools

Software package that supports formal tests of whether admixture occurred, and makes it possible to infer admixture proportions and dates.

Proper citation: ADMIXTOOLS (RRID:SCR_018495) Copy   

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https://github.com/sqjin/CellChat

Software R toolkit for inference, visualization and analysis of cell-cell communication from single cell data.Quantitatively infers and analyzes intercellular communication networks from single-cell RNA-sequencing data. Predicts major signaling inputs and outputs for cells and how those cells and signals coordinate for functions using network analysis and pattern recognition approaches. Classifies signaling pathways and delineates conserved and context specific pathways across different datasets.

Proper citation: CellChat (RRID:SCR_021946) Copy   

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