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http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8661937&icde=19363283&ddparam=&ddvalue=&ddsub=&cr=1&csb=default&cs=ASC

Initiative to assemble a multicenter team of expert neuroscientists to evaluate the late effects of Traumatic brain injury (TBI), including single and repetitive TBI of varying severity, and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), using histological examination of postmortem bio specimens and neuroimaging tools as a foundation to develop in vivo diagnostics. As a first aim, this proposal will bring together a team of 5 accomplished neuropathologists in neurodegenerative disease to establish consensus criteria for the post-mortem diagnosis of CTE. This team will also define the stages of CTE pathology, the features that differentiate CTE from other neurodegenerations and the effects of substance abuse, and the characteristics of posttraumatic neurodegeneration after single TBI. As a second aim, this proposal will establish a national bio specimen and data bank for TBI (Understanding Neurological Injury and Traumatic Encephalopathy (UNITE) bio bank) by developing a nationwide brain donor registry and hotline to acquire high quality bio specimens and data. The UNITE bank will use strictly standardized protocols and a web-based interface to ensure that tissue and data are readily available to qualified investigators. Comprehensive retrospective clinical data including clinical symptoms, brain trauma and substance abuse history, and medical records (including common data elements) will be entered into a secure database. Behavioral/ mood dysfunction, cognitive changes, substance abuse and traumatic exposure will be correlated with quantitative assessment of the multifocal tauopathy, Ass deposition and axonal injury. As a third aim, neuroimaging signatures of the neuropathology will be determined in post-mortem tissue using high spatial resolution diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and autoradiography using a highly selective PET ligand for tau. Quantitative assessment of axonal injury, tau, and Ass will be correlated with ex vivo DTI abnormalities and tau ligand autoradiography. Pilot neuroimaging studies of individuals at high risk for the development of CTE will also be conducted in the final 2 years of the proposal. This proposal will determine the clinical and neuroimaging correlates of CTE and posttraumatic neurodegeneration and create the groundwork for establishing their incidence and prevalence. This study will have a tremendous impact on public health of millions of Americans and greatly increase our understanding of the latent effects of brain trauma.

Proper citation: CTE and Post-traumatic Neurodegeneration: Neuropathology and Ex Vivo Imaging (RRID:SCR_006543) Copy   

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https://www.u-picardie.fr/

Public university organized into five main faculties. One of the top 60 universities of France.

Proper citation: University of Picardie Jules Verne; Amiens; France (RRID:SCR_006540) Copy   

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http://www.informatics.jax.org/expression.shtml

Community database that collects and integrates the gene expression information in MGI with a primary emphasis on endogenous gene expression during mouse development. The data in GXD are obtained from the literature, from individual laboratories, and from large-scale data providers. All data are annotated and reviewed by GXD curators. GXD stores and integrates different types of expression data (RNA in situ hybridization; Immunohistochemistry; in situ reporter (knock in); RT-PCR; Northern and Western blots; and RNase and Nuclease s1 protection assays) and makes these data freely available in formats appropriate for comprehensive analysis. There is particular emphasis on endogenous gene expression during mouse development. GXD also maintains an index of the literature examining gene expression in the embryonic mouse. It is comprehensive and up-to-date, containing all pertinent journal articles from 1993 to the present and articles from major developmental journals from 1990 to the present. GXD stores primary data from different types of expression assays and by integrating these data, as data accumulate, GXD provides increasingly complete information about the expression profiles of transcripts and proteins in different mouse strains and mutants. GXD describes expression patterns using an extensive, hierarchically-structured dictionary of anatomical terms. In this way, expression results from assays with differing spatial resolution are recorded in a standardized and integrated manner and expression patterns can be queried at different levels of detail. The records are complemented with digitized images of the original expression data. The Anatomical Dictionary for Mouse Development has been developed by our Edinburgh colleagues, as part of the joint Mouse Gene Expression Information Resource project. GXD places the gene expression data in the larger biological context by establishing and maintaining interconnections with many other resources. Integration with MGD enables a combined analysis of genotype, sequence, expression, and phenotype data. Links to PubMed, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM), sequence databases, and databases from other species further enhance the utility of GXD. GXD accepts both published and unpublished data.

Proper citation: Gene Expression Database (RRID:SCR_006539) Copy   

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http://f1000.com/

Service that identifies and evaluates the most important articles in biology and medical research publications. The selection process comprises a peer-nominated global ''Faculty'' of the world''s leading scientists and clinicians who rate the best of the articles they read and explain their importance. Faculty Members and their evaluations are organized into over 40 Faculties (subjects), which are further subdivided into over 300 Sections. On average, 1500 new evaluations are published each month; this corresponds to approximately the top 2% of all published articles in the biological and medical sciences. F1000 is a subscription service paid for by academic and corporate institutions. Users at subscribing institutions automatically receive full access to the F1000 service when using internet facilities provided by their institution.

Proper citation: F1000: Faculty of 1000 Post-Publication Peer Review (RRID:SCR_006537) Copy   

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http://bioconductor.org/packages/bioc/html/GeneAnswers.html

GeneAnswers provide an integrated tool for given genes biological or medical interpretation. It includes statistical test of given genes and specified categories. Microarray techniques have been widely employed in genomic scale studies for more than one decade. The standard analysis of microarray data is to filter out a group of genes from thousands of probes by certain statistical criteria. These genes are usually called significantly differentially expressed genes. Recently, next generation sequencing (NGS) is gradually adopted to explore gene transcription, methylation, etc. Also a gene list can be obtained by NGS preliminary data analysis. However, this type of information is not enough to understand the potential linkage between identified genes and interested functions. The integrated functional and pathway analysis with gene expression data would be very helpful for researchers to interpret the relationship between the identified genes and proposed biological or medical functions and pathways. The GeneAnswers package provides an integrated solution for a group of genes and specified categories (biological or medical functions, such as Gene Ontology, Disease Ontology, KEGG, etc) to reveal the potential relationship between them by means of statistical methods, and make user-friendly network visualization to interpret the results. Besides the package has a function to combine gene expression profile and category analysis together by outputting concept-gene cross tables, keywords query on NCBI Entrez Gene and application of human based Disease ontology analysis of given genes from other species can help people to understand or discover potential connection between genes and functions. Sponsors: This project was supported in part by Award Number UL1RR025741 from the National Center for Research Resources.

Proper citation: GeneAnswers (RRID:SCR_006498) Copy   

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http://www.plantontology.org

Ontology and database that links plant anatomy, morphology and growth and development to plant genomics data.Plant Ontology Consortium develops, curates and shares controlled vocabularies (ontologies) that describe plant structures and growth and developmental stages, providing semantic framework for meaningful cross species queries across databases. PO is under active development to expand to encompass terms and annotations from all plants.

Proper citation: Plant Ontology (RRID:SCR_006494) Copy   

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http://www.tdt.com/

Commercial organization that provides products for basic and applied research in the neurophysiology, hearing, and speech sciences as well as for general data acquisition applications. It offers a complete line of modular DSP-based data acquisition and stimulus generation systems, ranging in complexity from a simple audio stimulator to a complete multichannel sensory and behavioral neurophysiology system for awake, behaving subjects.

Proper citation: Tucker-Davis Technologies (RRID:SCR_006495) Copy   

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http://www.nbic.nl/about-nbic/affiliated-organisations/cwa/introduction/

CWA is an open collaborative community that is actively addressing the challenges associated with the production of unprecedented volumes of academic and professional data. This international effort seeks to organize the massive amounts of information flooding the biological sciences and other scientific disciplines. Challenges include storage, interoperability and analysis of such massive and disparate data sets. CWA''s agreed approach is a ''Semantic Web'' strategy, meaning that disparate data on the internet are now structurally connected to each other. As the amount of scholarly communication increases, it is increasingly difficult for specific core scientific statements to be found, connected and curated. Additionally, the redundancy of these statements in multiple fora makes it difficult to determine attribution, quality, and provenance. To tackle these challenges, the Concept Web Alliance has promoted the notion of nanopublications (core scientific statements with associated context) in a manner allowing for meaningful Web-wide interconnectivity. The notion of a ''nanopublication'' is basically a general scientific assertion, written using semantic-web standard formats with additional meta-data concerning provenance.

Proper citation: Concept Web Alliance (RRID:SCR_006490) Copy   

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http://www.rarechromo.org/html/home.asp

Unique is a source of information and support to families and individuals affected by any rare chromosome disorder and to the professionals who work with them. Unique is a UK-based charity but welcomes members worldwide. Unique''''s Karyotype Database allows users to search the Registered Chromosome Disorders by chromosome, arm and disorder. You may have been given a diagnosis or indication of a chromosome disorder by a geneticist or other medical professional and they may have used a medical term which is unfamiliar to you. So to help you decide if Unique is the appropriate organization for you, we thought it would be useful to describe the different categories of rare chromosome disorder. Rare chromosome disorders can be grouped as structural disorders, numerical disorders and other miscellaneous disorders. Unique: * acts as an international family support group * produces a newsletter three times each year * works to promote awareness of rare chromosome disorders * arranges for families to assist in research into rare chromosome disorders * links families whose children have similar clinical and/or practical problems * works to ensure that the public at large are aware of rare chromosome disorders * works to raise funds to support the group activities and produce literature to make others more aware of our children''''s conditions * assists relevant research projects and the centralisation of information, at all times observing the need for total confidentiality * sets up local groups throughout the UK for families affected by any rare chromosome disorders and to give support and encouragement to each other * develops and maintains a comprehensive computerised database detailing the life-time effects of specific chromosome disorders on affected members * aims to hold an annual conference where families and relevant specialists can meet and be informed of the latest medical, technical and practical developments * liaises and works in co-operation, with other similar support groups and professionals world-wide for the benefit of families and individuals affected by rare chromosome disorders * ensures that hospitals, doctors, health authorities, genetic clinics and other professionals are aware of the group so that we may have early contact with families where required Membership of Unique is free but the group receives no government funding and is heavily reliant on donations and fundraising to continue its work. Please help us in whatever way you can.

Proper citation: Unique (RRID:SCR_006492) Copy   

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http://www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu/neuroscience/

Research center that takes multidisciplinary approach to neuroscience education and research. Research programs on molecular and cellular bases of neural diseases are the center of the innovative educational programs. Primary mission is to foster and conduct science that advances understanding of brain function and diseases that affect nervous system.

Proper citation: Louisiana State University School of Medicine Neurosciences Center (RRID:SCR_006446) Copy   

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http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/GO/project.shtml

This resource is part of the Gene Ontology Consortium which seeks to provide controlled vocabularies for the description of the molecular function, biological process, and cellular component of gene products. These terms are to be used as attributes of gene products by collaborating databases, facilitating uniform queries across them. GO team members at MGI participate in ontology development, outreach, and functional curation of mouse gene products. The GO vocabularies have a hierarchical structure that permits a range of detail from high-level, broadly descriptive terms to very low level, highly specific terms. This broad range is useful both in annotating genes and in searching for gene information using these terms as search criteria. GO terms are defined, allowing all databases to use the terms consistently and properly. GO annotations in the databases additionally include the publication reference which allowed the association to be made and an evidence statement citing how the association was determined.

Proper citation: Mouse Genome Informatics: The Gene Ontology Project (RRID:SCR_006447) Copy   

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http://www.animalgenome.org/

We at NRSP-8 bioinformatics coordination program strive to serve the animal genomics research community to better use computer tools and methods, to best utilize available resources, and in working with researchers in the community, to effectively share, combine, manage, manipulate, and analyze information from genomics/genetics studies. This site is designed as an information center to serve the national animal genome research projects of cattle, chicken, pigs, sheep, horse, and aquaculture species. This is home to databases and web sites (being) built for structural, functional and application oriented studies of the animal genomics, to serve the purpose of research, education and related activities in the scientific, industrial and educational communities in the states and world wide. The challenges in bioinformatics support/research for animal genomics may involve * Effective data collection, organization and management * Rapid development of most needed bioinformatics tools and resources * Efficient use of these tools for innovative data analysis Projects: * Animal Trait Ontology (ATO) Project * Virtual Comparative Genomics * The Past, the Current, and the Potentials * Collaborative and Hosted Works

Proper citation: NAGRP Bioinformatics Coordination Program (RRID:SCR_006564) Copy   

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http://www.LOVD.nl/

Freely available tool for Gene-centered collection and display of DNA variations. It also provides patient-centered data storage and storage of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, even of variants outside of genes. Please note that LOVD provides a system for storage of information on genes and allelic variants. To obtain information about any genes or variants, do not download the LOVD package. This information should be obtained from the respective databases, http://www.lovd.nl/2.0/index_list.php In total: 2,507,027 variants (2,208,937 unique) in 170,935 individuals in 62619 genes in 88 LOVD installations. (Aug. 2013) LOVD 3.0 shared installation, http://databases.lovd.nl/shared/genes To maintain a high quality of the data stored, LOVD connects with various resources, like HGNC, NCBI, EBI and Mutalyzer. You can download LOVD in ZIP and GZIPped TARball formats.

Proper citation: Leiden Open Variation Database (RRID:SCR_006566) Copy   

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http://www.prize4life.org/

Prize4Life is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the discovery of treatments and cures for ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig''s disease). Our mission is to accelerate the discovery of a treatment and a cure for ALS by using powerful incentives to attract new people and new ideas and to leverage existing efforts and expertise in the ALS field. Our Values: * Patients first. Avichai Kremer, one of the Harvard Business School students who founded Prize4Life, was diagnosed with ALS in 2004. We therefore know the disease firsthand and have a sense of urgency to find a treatment. We value patients and their viewpoints. Patients, please tell us what you think. * Global awareness. We plan to push ALS to the forefront of fatal disease issues. We need your help in order to do this. Get involved. * New people and new ideas. We believe important breakthroughs in ALS may reside in the minds and laboratories of people who are not currently researching the disease. Our platform is a bridge for reaching these people. Enter the competition. * Results. Research is traditionally funded upfront, before an idea is even tested. Our prize model ensures that only clear research results, vetted by a team of scientific advisors, are rewarded. grants; funding resource;.

Proper citation: Prize4Life (RRID:SCR_006558) 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://www.asm.org/

The American Society for Microbiology is the oldest and largest single life science membership organization in the world. Membership has grown from 59 scientists in 1899 to more than 39,000 members today, with more than one third located outside the United States. The members represent 26 disciplines of microbiological specialization plus a division for microbiology educators. Eligibility for Full Membership is open to any person who is interested in microbiology and holds at least a bachelor''s degree or equivalent experience in microbiology or related field. Many members hold advanced degrees, including a large number at the master''s, PhD, ScD, DrPH and MD level. A regularly matriculated student of microbiology or a related field is eligible to become a student member. There are also separate membership categories for postdoctoral fellows and for transitional scientists in the early years of a career. Microbiologists study microbes--bacteria, viruses, rickettsiae, mycoplasma, fungi, algae and protozoa--some of which cause diseases, but many of which contribute to the balance of nature or are otherwise beneficial. Microbiological research includes infectious diseases, recombinant DNA technology, alternative methods of energy production and waste recycling, new sources of food, new drug development, and the etiology of sexually transmitted diseases, among other areas. Microbiology is also concerned with environmental problems and industrial processes. Microbiology boasts some of the most illustrious names in the annals of science--Pasteur, Koch, Fleming, Leeuwenhoek, Lister, Jenner and Salk--and some of the greatest achievements for mankind. Within the 20th century, a third of all Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have been bestowed upon microbiologists. The mission of the American Society for Microbiology is to advance the microbiological sciences as a vehicle for understanding life processes and to apply and communicate this knowledge for the improvement of health and environmental and economic well being worldwide. To achieve these goals, ASM will: * Support programs of education, training and public information; * Publish journals and books; convene meetings, workshops and colloquia; * Promote the contributions and promise of the microbiological sciences; * Recognize achievement and distinction among its practitioners; * Set standards of ethical and professional behavior.

Proper citation: American Society for Microbiology (RRID:SCR_006551) Copy   

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http://www.geenivaramu.ee/en/tools/gwama

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on February 28,2023. Software tool for meta analysis of whole genome association data.

Proper citation: GWAMA (RRID:SCR_006624) Copy   

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http://gmd.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/

It facilitates the search for and dissemination of mass spectra from biologically active metabolites quantified using Gas chromatography (GC) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS). Use the Search Page to search for a compound of your interest, using the name, mass, formula, InChI etc. as query input. Additionally, a Library Search service enables the search of user submitted mass spectra within the GMD. In parallel to the library search, a prediction of chemical sub-groups is performed. This approach has reached beta level and a publication is currently under review. Using several sub-group specific Decision Trees (DTs), mass spectra are classified with respect to the presence of the chemical moieties within the linked (unknown) compound. Prediction of functional groups (ms analysis) facilitates the search of metabolites within the GMD by means of user submitted GC-MS spectra consisting of retention index (n-alkanes, if vailable) and mass intensities ratios. In addition, a functional group prediction will help to characterize those metabolites without available reference mass spectra included in the GMD so far. Instead, the unknown metabolite is characterized by predicted presence or absence of functional groups. For power users this functionality presented here is exposed as soap based web services. Functional group prediction of compounds by means of GC-EI-MS spectra using Microsoft analysis service decision trees All currently available trained decision trees and sub-structure predictions provided by the GMD interface. Table describes the functional group, optional use of an RI system, record date of the trained decision tree, number of MSTs with proportion of MSTs linked to metabolites with the functional group present for each tree. Average and standard deviation of the 50-fold CV error, namely the ratio false over correctly sorted MSTs in the trained DT, are listed. The GMD website offers a range of mass spectral reference libraries to academic users which can be downloaded free of charge in various electronic formats. The libraries are constituted by base peak normalized consensus spectra of single analytes and contain masses in the range 70 to 600 amu, while the ubiquitous mass fragments typically generated from compounds carrying a trimethylsilyl-moiety, namely the fragments at m/z 73, 74, 75, 147, 148, and 149, were excluded.

Proper citation: GMD (RRID:SCR_006625) Copy   

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http://edamontology.org/

An ontology of bioinformatics operations (tool, application, or workflow functions), types of data including identifiers, topics (application domains), and data formats. The applications of EDAM are within organizing tools and data, finding suitable tools in catalogues, and integrating them into complex applications or workflows. Semantic annotations with EDAM are applicable to diverse entities such as for example Web services, databases, programmatic libraries, standalone tools and toolkits, interactive applications, data schemas, data sets, or publications within bioinformatics. Annotation with EDAM may also contribute to data provenance, and EDAM terms and synonyms can be used in text mining. EDAM - and in particular the EDAM Data sub-ontology - serves also as a markup vocabulary for bioinformatics data on the Semantic Web.

Proper citation: EDAM Ontology (RRID:SCR_006620) Copy   

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http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd/clip/webtracks.aspx

This project will develop an approach and mechanism to address the construction and propagation of linked data in the context of research and academic endeavour. The proposed work will build experiments in previous projects (Claddier, StoreLink) to develop a peer-to-peer protocol to underpin the construction of a web of linked data. This set of semantically annotated links between data resources forms a graph of citation and provenance and the project will build value added services to exploit these features. The project will address the following specific objectives: * To specify and implement the Intercom Protocol so that it can communicate a range of types of semantic links between resources via a secure communication mechanism. * To develop a practical working scenario involving data repositories, publication repositories, open science notebooks and publishers. * To develop aggregation techniques supporting added value services in search and impact analysis. * To evaluate of the approach with the identified stakeholders groups.

Proper citation: Webtracks (RRID:SCR_006615) Copy   

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