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WebProAnalyst provides web-accessible analysis for scanning the quantitative structure-activity relationships in protein families. It searches for a sequence region, whose substitutions are correlated with variations in the activities of a homologous protein set, the so-called activity modulating sites. WebProAnalyst allows users to search for the key physicochemical characteristics of the sites that affect the changes in protein activities. It enables the building of multiple linear regression and neural networks models that relate these characteristics to protein activities. WebProAnalyst implements multiple linear regression analysis, back propagation neural networks and the Structure-Activity Correlation/Determination Coefficient (SACC/SADC). A back propagation neural network is implemented as a two-layered network, one layer as input, the other as output (Rumelhart et al, 1986). WebProAnalyst uses alignment of amino acid sequences and data on protein activity (pK, Km, ED50, among others). The input data are the numerical values for the physicochemical characteristics of a site in the multiple alignment given by a slide window. The output data are the predicted activity values. The current version of WebProAnalyst handles a single activity for a single protein. The SACC/SADC may be defined as an estimate of the strongest multiple correlation between the physicochemical characteristics of a site in a multiple alignment and protein activities. The SACC/SADC coefficient makes possible the calculation of the possible highest correlation achievable for the quantitative relationship between the physicochemical properties of sites and protein activities. The SACC/SADC is a convenient means for an arrangement of positions by their functional significance. WebProAnalyst outputs a list of multiple alignment positions, the respective correlation values, also regression analysis parameters for the relationships between the amino acid physicochemical characteristics at these positions and the protein activity values.

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The GeneSeeker allows you to search across different databases simultaneously, given a known human genetic location and expression/phenotypic pattern. The GeneSeeker returns any found gene names which are located on the specified location and expressed in the specified tissue. To search for more expression location in one search, just enter them in the textbox for the expression location and separate them with logical operators (and, or, not). You can specify as many tissues as you want, the program starts 20 queries simultaneously, and then waits for a query to finish before starting another query, to keep server loads to a minimum. You can also search only for expression, just leave the cytogenetic location fields blank, and do the query. If you only want to look for one cytogenetic location, only fill in the first location field, and the GeneSeeker will search with only this one. Housekeeping genes , found in Swissprot can be excluded, or genes that are to be excluded can be specified. Human chromosome localizations are translated with an oxford-grid to mouse chromosome localizations, and then submitted to the Mgd. Sponsors: GeneSeeker is a service provided by the Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI).

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Fluorescent allele-calling software toolkit: a computer software for fully automated microsatellite genotyping. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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Center for the study of non-human primates. Its mission is the study and use of non-human primates as models for studies of social and biological interactions and for the discovery of methods of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases that afflict humans. Through the stewardship of three unique facilities—Cayo Santiago Field Station, Sabana Seca Field Station, and the Laboratory of Primate Morphology supports a diverse range of research programs that enhance understanding of primate biology and behavior, with direct applications in biomedical and translational research.

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This resource has cataloged a total of 80 human hereditary diseases caused by mutations in protease-coding genes, which implies that more than 10% of the human protease genes are involved in human pathologies. They are classified in three groups: loss of function, gain of function, and an heterogeneous group including non-protease homologs (np), putative proteases, and hedgehog proteins with only autoprocessing activity. Type of inheritance is indicated by R (recessive) or D (dominant).

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Griffin (G-protein-receptor interacting feature finding instrument) is a high-throughput system to predict GPCR - G-protein coupling selectively with the input of GPCR sequence and ligand molecular weight. This system consists of two parts: 1) HMM section using family specific multiple alignment of GPCRs, 2) SVM section using physico-chemical feature vectors in GPCR sequence. G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR), which is composed of seven transmembrane helices, play a role as interface of signal transduction. The external stimulation for GPCR, induce the coupling with G-protein (Gi/o, Gq/11, Gs, G12/13) followed by different kinds of signal transduction to inner cell. About half of distributed drugs are intending to control this GPCR - G-protein binding system, and therefore this system is important research target for the development of effective drug. For this purpose, it is necessary to monitor, effectively and comprehensively, of the activation of G-protein by identifying ligand combined with GPCR. Since, at present, it is difficult to construct such biochemical experiment system, if the answers for experimental results can be prepared beforehand by using bioinformatics techniques, large progress is brought to G-protein related drug design. Previous works for predicting GPCR-G protein coupling selectivity are using sequence pattern search, statistical models, and HMM representations showed high sensitivity of predictions. However, there are still no works that can predict with both high sensitivity and specificity. In this work we extracted comprehensively the physico-chemical parameters of each part of ligand, GPCR and G-protein, and choose the parameters which have strong correlation with the coupling selectivity of G-protein. These parameters were put as a feature vector, used for GPCR classification based on SVM.

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Isofinder is an algorithm running on the web able to predict isochores at the sequence level. Isochores are long genome segments homogeneous in G+C. The algorithm works by moving a sliding pointer from left to right along the DNA sequence and computing the mean G+C values to the left and to the right of the pointer at each point. Additionally, the program checks whether this significance exceeds a probability threshold. If so, the sequence is cut at this point into two subsequences; otherwise, the sequence remains undivided. The procedure continues recursively for each of the two resulting subsequences created by each cut. This leads to the decomposition of a chromosome sequence into long homogeneous genome regions (LHGRs) with well-defined mean G+C contents, each significantly different from the G+C contents of the adjacent LHGRs. Most LHGRs can be identified with Bernardi''s isochores, given their correlation with biological features such as gene density, SINE and LINE (short, long interspersed repetitive elements) densities, recombination rate or single nucleotide polymorphism variability. The resulting isochore maps are available at http://bioinfo2.ugr.es/isochores/, and also at the UCSC Genome Browser (http://genome.cse.ucsc.edu/). Sponsors: Isofinder is funded by Universidad de Granada, Spain.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 12,2023. An integrated packages of tools for microarray data analysis. GEPAS provides a web-based interface that offers diverse analysis options from the early step of preprocessing (normalization of Affymetrix and two-color microarray experiments and other preprocessing options), to the final step of the functional profiling of the experiment (using Gene Ontology, pathways, PubMed abstracts etc.), which include different possibilities for clustering, gene selection, class prediction and array-comparative genomic hybridization management.

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Supplier of xiphophorus (platyfish or swordtails) from pedigreed parental lines, representing variety of species. In addition to supplying strains and providing consultation on husbandry and genetic questions, the XGSC produces custom interspecies hybrids (both first generation F1, and backcross hybrid generation BC1) for a variety of projects.

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National consortium of medical research institutions working together to transform the local, regional, and national environment to increase the efficiency and speed of clinical and translational research across the country. Consortium members share a common vision to reduce the time it takes for laboratory discoveries to become treatments for patients, to engage communities in clinical research efforts and to train clinical and translational researchers. This consortium includes 60 medical research institutions located throughout the nation, linking them together to energize the discipline of clinical and translational science. The CTSA consortium has five Strategic Goals: * National Clinical and Translational Research Capability * The Training and Career Development of Clinical and Translational Scientists * Consortium-Wide Collaborations * The Health of our Communities and the Nation * T1 Translational Research

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A database of 3D magnetic resonance (MRI) images of fish accessible to scientists, educators and the general public via the web. The Marine Vertebrate Collection at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides the majority of the DFL specimens.

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This website provides summary collections written for a broad audience highlighting some of the significant advances in a particular field. These are not scientific articles although they may reference scientific work. Sponsors: This resource is supported by Nature.com

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A web catalog of over 1M antibodies from hundreds of different companies and other research supplies. Biocompare has made large quantities of data available to the antibodyregistry.org facilitating tagging important research reagents to literature and continues to work with the antibodyregistry.

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Software packages for 3D visualization: Mayavi2 for data visualization and TVTK for object manipulation.

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Phenote is both a complete piece of software and a software toolkit designed to facilitate the annotation of biological phenotypes using ontologies. It provides an interface and infrastructure to record genotype-phenotype pairs, together with the provenance for the annotation. Typical users of Phenote include literature curators, laboratory researchers, and clinicians looking for a method to record data in a user-friendly and computable way. Features of Phenote include the use of any OBO-format ontology, ontology navigation and term information display, bulk sort, copy, edit, and delete of phenotype-genotype character entries, and a variety of export formats. Phenote is a project of the Berkeley Bioinformatics Open-Source Projects (BBOP).

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Center that conducts multidisciplinary studies on captive baboons and provides a resource of laboratory-born and laboratory-reared baboons for NIH-sponsored research programs.

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MaNIS is a database and infrastructure meant to facilitate open access to combined specimen data from a web browser, enhance the value of specimen collections, conserve curatorial resources, and use a design paradigm that can be easily adopted by other disciplines with similar needs. With support from the National Science Foundation, seventeen North American institutions and their collaborators developed the Mammal Networked Information System. The original objectives of MaNIS were to 1) facilitate open access to combined specimen data from a web browser, 2) enhance the value of specimen collections, 3) conserve curatorial resources, and 4) use a design paradigm that can be easily adopted by other disciplines with similar needs. As an NSF-funded initiative, MaNIS has achieved these objectives while avoiding the need for long-term, external maintenance of the network and centralized data management. As MaNIS faces the future, it is only through expansion of the network, both nationally and internationally, that the real impact of this collaborative effort will be maximized. Participation by other institutions is now welcome and those wishing to join have at their disposal the data standards, software and documentation that were developed for this project. All that is asked of future participants is that they make the same institutional commitment as the original collaborators to maintain their repositories of high-quality specimen collections and make the accompanying data available for the benefit of all. At the time of its inception, development of MaNIS addressed the urgent call for natural history museums to come together to build and support a biodiversity informatics infrastructure to facilitate and enhance research, education, conservation, and public health. That call has now been answered. It is hoped that continued expansion of the network will allow the preservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in all its complexity as we attempt to address the magnitude of human impacts on the Earth''s ecological systems during the 21st century. Supported by NSF

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The mission of the Institute is to discover the key principles by which brains work and to implement these in artificial systems that interact intelligently with the real world. The Institute of Neuroinformatics is built of many people covering a wide range of disciplines and research areas. The major research projects and areas are listed below. - Behavior and Cognition: At the Institute of Neuroinformatics researchers investigate in Behavior and Cognition on various levels, ranging from neuronal circuit models of learning and adaptation over psychophysical experiments for color constancy up to modeling complex behavioral tasks such as exploration and goal-directed navigation. - Computation in Neural Circuits: By examining the brains of cats, rats and monkeys, and by making simulations of the cortex, INI hopes to learn how this circuit performs such widely different tasks. This knowledge might lead to advances in how computers are designed, and will certainly lead to advances in the subtlety and power of medical neuroscience. - Neurotechnologies: INI aims to harness the principles of biological computation, which can be expected to have a major impact on the technology market as autonomous intelligence pervades equipment, vehicles, buildings, utilities and clothing. Sponsors: INI is supported by European Union (EU), Gerbert Ruf Stiftung, Neuroscience Center (ZNZ), Swiss Confederation (KTI), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), University of Zurich (UZH), and VW Stiftung

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Collection of some common optical illusions

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This site provides information about the NTT Human and Information Science Laboratory. Technologies that enable users to get along well with information and technologies that can handle information properly on computers and networks are the keys to secure and high-quality information distribution services in a network society. In realizing those technologies, a comprehensive understanding of how human beings, the creators and the recipients of information, process information and novel principles for handling information are indispensable. From this viewpoint, the NTT Human and Information Science Laboratory has been pursuing scientific research in two areas: Sensory and Emotion Research, and Sensory and Motor Research. Sponsors: This resource is supported by NTT Communication Science Laboratories.

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