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Decoders and encoders written in Java for the AFNI, ANALYZE, DICOM, ECAT, GE, MINC, NIFTI and other neuroimaging file formats.The plugins use Java Image I/O interfaces to read and write metadata and image data and can read and write AFNI, ANALYZE 7.5, DICOM, ECAT 7.2, GE 5.0, INTERFILE (including hrrt), MINC, NIFTI, and UCLA PACS file formats. All source code is provided and usage examples are included.

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The mission of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is to eliminate cancer in Texas, the nation, and the world through outstanding programs that integrate patient care, research and prevention, and through education for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees and the public.

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A segmentation software that employs the implementation of the active contours without edges level set based segmentation model. Its features include: segmentation of three-dimensional brain volumes into two or more regions (for example, regions could be WM, GM, and CSF), visualization of surfaces representing boundaries of different brain regions, and being written in Matlab with the ability to run on any platform with Matlab installed.

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A portable software framework for medical imaging research. jViewbox consists of a set of Java classes organized under a simple but extensive API that provides the core functionality of 2D image presentation needed by most imaging applications. It follows Java's Swing model closely to make it easy for application developers to build GUIs where end users can use various tools in a tool bar to manipulate the image displays. No optional add-ons or native code is used, which makes jViewBox compatible with any standard Java 2 Runtime Environment (version 1.3 or later).

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Equipment access: All new users must be trained by the facility manager over two orientation sessions and be approved to use the equipment in the facility. All users must obtain the financial approval from their PI and financial manager. Please submit a PO number or the Harvard billing code prior to the first use of the facility.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Software tool for determining the statistically significant regions of activation in single or multi-subject human brain functional studies. It can be also applied to structural brain data for analyzing developmental, dementia and other changes of anatomy over time. This package was originally developed to work on Sun SPARC and SGI stations using the "C" language compiler provided by Sun/SGI as part of the standard system software.

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A biosimulation education and training resource for Neuromuscular Biomechanics, RNA folding, cardiovascular dynamics, and myosin dynamics. The repository contains educational, training, and teaching materials for physics-based simulation of biological structures.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on May 16, 2016. The establishment of open access literature makes it possible for knowledge to be extracted from scholarly articles and included in other resources. BioLit aims to extract database identifiers and rich meta-data from open access articles in the life sciences and integrate that information with existing biological databases. We have begun prototyping this effort using a clone of the RCSB Protein Data Bank, a database of macromolecular structures. Cyberinfrastructure is integral to all aspects of conducting experimental research and distributing those results. However, it has yet to make a similar impact on the way we communicate that information. Peer-reviewed publications have long been the currency of scientific research as they are the fundamental unit through which scientists communicate with and evaluate each other. However, in striking contrast to the data, publications have yet to benefit from the opportunities offered by cyberinfrastructure. While the means of distributing publications has vastly improved, publishers have done little else to capitalize on the electronic medium. In particular, semantic information describing the content of these publications is sorely lacking, as is the integration of this information with data in public repositories. This is confounding considering that many basic tools for marking-up and integrating publication content in this manner already exist, such as a centralized literature database, relevant ontologies, and machine-readable document standards. We believe that the research community is ripe for a revolution in scientific communication and that the current generation of scientists will be the one to push it forward. These scientists, generally graduate students and new post-docs and have grown up with cyberinfrastructure as a part of their daily lives, not just a specialized aspect of their profession. They have a natural ability to do science in an electronic environment without the need for printed publications or static documents and, in fact, can feel quite limited by the traditional format of a publication. Perhaps most importantly, they appreciate that the sheer amount of data and the number of publications is prohibitive to the traditional methods of keeping current with the literature. Fink, L., Bourne, P. Reinventing Scholarly Communication for the Electronic Age, CTWatch Quarterly, Volume 3, Number 3, August 2007., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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A resource that provides information on the vast number of resources available from the National Institute of Aging. NIA maintains approximately 150 primates (Macaca mulatta) at four regional primate centers where aging-related research is conducted. NIA also maintains colonies of aged rats and mice that are used for age-related disease research. This resource supports a multi-institutional study, the Interventions Testing Program (ITP), that investigates diets and dietary supplements that extend lifespan, delay disease and avoid dysfunction. NIA is also in charge of a microarray facility which provides filter arrays of 17,000 mouse cDNA clone sets that were developed at the NIA Intramural Research Program Laboratory of Genetics. NIA supports studies that provide biospecimens that can be shared for later research. This resource also helps the C. elegans Genetic Center at the University of Minnesota, which contains 1,000 strains of C. elegans that can be used for aging studies. This resource also provides a searchable database for epidemiological research on aging. There is access to social and behavioral research materials, including books on aging and health, from the research was conducted and supported by NIA. There are links to federal web sites that are further resources for aging research that were supported by NIA.

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SimTK Core is one of the two packages that together constitute SimTK, the biosimulation toolkit from the Simbios Center. The other major component of SimTK is OpenMM which is packaged separately. This SimTK Core project collects together all the binaries needed for the various SimTK Core subprojects. These include Simbody, Molmodel, Simmath (including Ipopt), Simmatrix, CPodes, SimTKcommon, and Lapack. See the individual projects for descriptions. SimTK brings together in a robust, convenient, open source form the collection of highly-specialized technologies necessary to building successful physics-based simulations of biological structures. These include: strict adherence to an important set of abstractions and guiding principles, robust, high-performance numerical methods, support for developing and sharing physics-based models, and careful software engineering. Accessible High Performance Computing We believe that a primary concern of simulation scientists is performance, that is, speed of computation. We seek to build valid, approximate models using classical physics in order to achieve reasonable run times for our computational studies, so that we can hope to learn something interesting before retirement. In the choice of SimTK technologies, we are focused on achieving the best possible performance on hardware that most researchers actually have. In today''s practice, that means commodity multiprocessors and small clusters. The difference in performance between the best methods and the do-it-yourself techniques most people use can be astoundingeasily an order of magnitude or more. The growing set of SimTK Core libraries seeks to provide the best implementation of the best-known methods for widely used computations such as: Linear algebra, numerical integration and Monte Carlo sampling, multibody (internal coordinate) dynamics, molecular force field evaluation, nonlinear root finding and optimization. All SimTK Core software is in the form of C++ APIs, is thread-safe, and quietly exploits multiple CPUs when they are present. The resulting pre-built binaries are available for download and immediate use. Audience: Biosimulation application programmers interested in including robust, high-performance physics-based simulation in their domain-specific applications.

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A simple Java graphical user interface for running the program ISIM. ISIM is a package that simulates the thermodynamic ensemble of ions around a macromolecule using a grand canonical Monte Carlo scheme and simple hard sphere ion models. It is meant to provide an alternative mechanism to mean field approaches to allow the calculation of ion distributions around a highly charged molecule using a simple model that takes into account ion-ion correlations and steric interactions. The original source was created in the McCammon group at UCSD but is no longer available. The version of ISIM used is available in the ISIM project on simtk.org.

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NIA''s ITP is a multi-institutional study investigating treatments with the potential to exte nd lifespan and delay disease and dysfunction in mice. Priority consideration will be given to the treatments that are easily obtainable, reasonably priced, and can be delivered in the diet (preferred) or water. Interventions that require labor intensive forms of administration, such as daily injections or gavage, are not feasible within the design of the ITP. Treatments currently under study include: - Pharmaceuticals - Nutraceuticals - Foods - Diets - Dietary supplements - Plant extracts - Hormones - Peptides - Amino acids - Chelators - Redox agents - Other agents or mixtures of agents Although the mice involved in this study will be housed at the University of Michigan, the Jackson Laboratories, and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, the project is designed to involve collaborations with investigators at any university, institute, or other organization that has ideas about pharmacological interventions that might decelerate aging and wishes to test these in a lifespan study of mice. Sponsors: This program is supported by the National Institute of Aging.

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Core that gives support including experimental design, islet isolation, and performance of and training in an expansive range of assays for physiological and morphometric assessment of pancreatic islet function and growth. It contributes to the basic and translational research activities of the Institute of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism (IDOM) at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. Its services include perform individual islet and single cell fluorescence imaging, respirometry with islet batches using a Seahorse Extracellular Flux Analyzer, perifusion coupled with respirometry, and closed respirometry experiments for our investigators.

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MRIcro allows Windows and Linux computers view medical images. It is a standalone program, but includes tools to complement SPM (software that allows neuroimagers to analyze MRI, fMRI and PET images). MRIcro allows efficient viewing and exporting of brain images. In addition, it allows neuropsychologists to identify regions of interest (ROIs, e.g. lesions). MRIcro can create Analyze format headers for exporting brain images to other platforms. Some features of MRIcro are: - Converts medical images to SPM friendly Analyze format. - View Analyze format images (big or little endian). - Create Analyze format headers (big or little endian). - Create 3D regions of interest (with computed volume & intensity). - Overlap multiple regions of interest. - Rotate images to match SPM template images. - Export images to BMP, JPEG, PNG or TIF format. - Yoked images: linked viewing of multiple images (e.g. view same coordinates of PET and MRI scans). Users familiar with other Windows programs will find that this software is fairly straightforward to use. Resting the mouse cursor over a button will cause a text hint to appear over the button. However, a tutorial with a step by step guide of how to use MRIcro with SPM is available.

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A fast basecalling scheme for Illumina''s Next Generation sequencing machines, specifically designed for GAII.

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A software development competition, the DIADEM Challenge,to benefit the scientific community by encouraging the development of better software for automating three-dimensional reconstructions of neuronal arbors. The intent of the Sponsors is to ensure that the best software submitted for the competition is made available to the scientific community within a reasonable time and on reasonable terms. No purchase is necessary to enter or win. The competition will have two rounds. As of April 10, 2009, individuals and teams may register to participate in the competition and may download sets of image stacks (Data Sets) of non-human animal brains along with three-dimensional reconstructions for some of these Data Sets for training purposes. Submissions of software, including executable programs, supporting documentation, and reconstruction files for the Data Sets, must be uploaded to the competition website no later than April 9, 2010. In order to be eligible to win the competition, the individuals and at least one member of any teams whose submissions are selected for the Final Round (Finalists) must participate in the Final Round and scientific conference. Personal participation in the Final Round and scientific conference is important for two main reasons: first, because the Finalists software will be tested at the Final Round against additional Data Sets so that the judges can select a winner or winners, and second, because the larger scientific conference, of which the Final Round will be a part, is intended to foster extensive scientific interaction among neuroscientists and computational scientists, including plenary and poster sessions to discuss challenges, solutions, and future directions. There are 5 datasets, all of which have to be reconstructed for the qualifier phase. Once you have registered your group, dataset download information will be sent to you via E-mail. The 5 datasets are: - Cerebellar Climbing Fibers - Hippocampal CA3 Interneuron - Neocortical Layer 6 Axons - Neuromuscular Projection Fibers - Olfactory Projection Fibers Sponsors: The sponsors of this competition are: Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington; Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Chevy Chase, Maryland; and Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on Feb. 05, 2014, however, NIF holds the Research Crossroads data and makes it available through Integrated Grants. World of publicly funded research aggregated into a database providing funding, publication, clinical trial and grant data from government and private research agencies. Advanced reporting and analysis tools are then used to connect research to researchers, organizations and topic areas to uncover non-obvious associations. Use ResearchCrossroads for: Researchers * Make your research visible to funding organizations and collaborators. * Connect with peers to stay up to date on their research progress * Update your investigator profile, biography and publications so funding organizations can find you * Discover available funding from private foundations and government funding organizations * Annotate your previous research grants with outcomes * Create a research diary and participate in discussions with your peers Foundations Participating in ResearchCrossroads is free if you share your research data. Send us a spreadsheet with your grant and investigator information. * Create a community for your researchers to learn from each other * Locate potential investigators and collaborators * Post available funding and be matched with investigator profiles * Access to analytical reporting of funding and research statistics * Update your personalized organization profile page * Display your logo in search results * Link to your ResearchCrossroads grants and investigator profiles from your own website Corporations, Academia & Governments Contact us about subscriptions to funding trend analytics and marketing opportunities. * In-depth reporting of 15 years of funding data from government and private institutions * Subscriptions available to advanced analysis & reporting tools * Display your corporate logo in search results * Update your organization profile page * Highly targeted marketing & advertising by research areas, keywords and categories of investigator * Register for notifications of the newest grants in your area of interest

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This page describes the contents of a database of 1.7 million model neurons. This database is available for interested researchers after contacting the creators, but is not web accessible. The construction and analysis of the database are described in detail in Prinz AA, Billimoria CP, Marder E (2003). Alternative to hand-tuning conductance-based models: construction and analysis of databases of model neurons. J Neurophysiol 90: 3998-4015. Because of its size (over 6 GB even in the zipped version), it is not practicable to download the database over the internet. Instead, we have made multiple copies of the database on sets of two DVDs each. We are happy to send a set of DVDs to anybody who is interested upon e-mail request to Astrid Prinz.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on August 11, 2015. A searchable database for epidemiologic research on aging changes across the lifespan. In 2003, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) established the Longitudinal Data on Aging (LDA) working group to assist with the development of research initiatives for identifying the physiologic and other types of factors across the lifespan, affecting onset and progression of disease with advancing age, as well as elucidation of protective factors contributing to exceptionally healthy aging. This database was developed based on input from the LDA working group which indicated that establishing a database of existing sources of longitudinal data on aging (e.g., ongoing longitudinal cohorts, longitudinal data sets, biospecimen repositories) would be a valuable resource for facilitating future research on aging changes across the lifespan. The longitudinal studies, data sets and repositories included in this database encompass a wide range of age groups (childhood to old age), studies in minority populations, as well as sources of longitudinal data existing in the United States and abroad. Our primary purpose for establishing this database is to provide a resource for potential applicants for grants to the NIA. No part of this database can be used for commercial purposes.

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Core facility that provides the following services: Circulating Tumor Cell analysis, Circulating Tumor Cell Purification. The Circulating Tumor Cell Core Facility uses immunomagnetic technology developed by Veridex, LLC (Raritan, NJ) to isolate rare tumor cells from whole blood. Isolated tumor cells can then be counted or used for downstream analysis such as molecular studies or flow cytometry.

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