Curator Dashboard

Software package that contains functions to interact with tally data from Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) experiments that is stored in HDF5 files.

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PROCAP is a study of the importance of lifestyle and genetic factors in the progression of localized cancer of the prostate. Our study hypothesis is that the likelihood of disease recurrence of prostate cancer is modified or determined by genetic variation in the human genome and/or lifestyle factors. To be able to test our hypothesis, we are using a large, population-based cohort of men with localized prostate cancer in Sweden, recruited in 1997-2002, from which detailed clinical information and data on progression already have been collected. From this cohort, we are collecting lifestyle data and blood samples from 8,500 men. If men with progressive prostate cancer could be identified on their genetic make-up, they could be given additional therapies targeted specifically at prostate cancer progression or monitored even more frequently so that progressions could be treated even earlier. If lifestyle factors are important, these results have an impact on recommendations given to men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer. In the study, we are asking the study persons to fill in an Internet-based questionnaire focusing on diet and physical activity and we ask them to leave 2 test tubes of blood at their local urologist/health care center. The pilot study has recently been completed and evaluated and the remaining 7,500 men in the cohort will be included during 2007 and 2008. So far, we have a response rate of approximately 85% on the blood samples. The response rate for the questionnaire is approximately 80% (both in the web based and paper based versions combined). Genotyping and analysis will begin in the fall of 2008. Sample types: * EDTA whole blood * Plasma * DNA Number of sample donors: 5492 (sample collection completed)

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National clinical trial registry by Ministry of Health of China to join World Health Organization International Clinical Trial Registration Platform (WHO ICTRP Primary Registry), and the approved Primary Registry of WHO ICTRP. It registers both Chinese and global clinical trials, receives data from Partner Registers certified by the WHO ICTRP, and submits data to the WHO ICTRP Central Repository for global search. Moreover, based upon the talent and technical platform, consisting of Chinese Evidence-based Medicine Centre of Ministry of Health of China, Virtual Research Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine of Ministry of Education of China, Chinese Cochrane Centre, UK Cochrane Centre and International Clinical Epidemiology Network Resource and Training Centre in West China Hospital, Sichuan University (INCLEN CERTC), ChiCTR is responsible for providing consultations on trial design, central randomization service, guidance on the writing of clinical trial reports and relevant training. WHO takes the lead in establishing the global clinical trial registration system, which is agreed upon by governments from all over the world. There are both ethical and scientific reasons for clinical trial registration. Trial participants expect that their contributions to biomedical knowledge will be used to improve health care for everyone. Open access to information about ongoing and completed trials meets the ethical duty to trial participants, and promotes greater trust and public confidence in clinical research. Furthermore, trial registration ensures that the results of all trials can be tracked down and should help to reduce unnecessary duplication of research through greater awareness of existing trials and results. The mission of ChiCTR is to Unite clinicians, clinical epidemiologists, biostatisticians, epidemiologists and health care managers both at home and abroad, to manage clinical trials in a strict and scientific manner, and to promote their quality in China, so as to provide reliable evidences from clinical trials for health care workers, consumers and medical policy decision makers, and also to use medical resources more effectively to provide better service for Chinese people and all human beings. Any trial performed in human beings is considered as a clinical trial, and should be registered before its implementation. All the registered clinical trials will be granted a unique registration number by WHO ICTRP.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 23, 2016. Libro-1 is a study with the overall aim to identify prognostic factors for breast cancer. The study comprise women in the Stockholm-Gotland region that were diagnosed with breast cancer between the years 2001-2008. Register data (tumor characteristics and treatment), lifestyle factors and blood samples have been collected from the participants.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 3rd, 2023. The ICAP - Integrated analysis of prostate cancer study aims at identifying a set of biomarkers with high prognostic value for prostate cancer progression. These biomarkers will be used to customize treatment and to identify patients with high risk of recurrent disease. Sample types: * EDTA whole blood * DNA Number of sample donors: 505 (sample collection completed)

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Saliva taken from participants in a study investigating the association between environmental exposures and brain tumors in children aged 7-19 years and the interaction between these risk factors and genetic polymorphisms, which may confer susceptibility to effects of exogenous agents. Sample types: * Saliva Number of sample donors: 886 (sample collection completed)

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 3rd,2023. We have completed the recruitment of this population-based prostate cancer case-control study, one of the largest prostate cancer case-control study populations available so far. This study population was recruited in two phases. The inclusion and exclusion criteria were the same for the first (CAPS1) and second phase (CAPS2), except for the timeframe. In total, 3,030 cases and 1,960 controls participated in CAPS donating blood samples and answering a questionnaire during 2001-2003. In addition we have detailed clinical information on all 3,000 cases. With data generated from CAPS we have 25 published papers and 10 manuscripts since 2004. During 2006 we completed a record linkage to the Cause of Death Registry to determine the cause of death for all participants. We could conclude that 347 of the cases in CAPS had died of prostate cancer. The CAPS study has provided data to several new studies on markers on prostate cancer progression. Sample types: * EDTA whole blood * DNA Number of sample donors: 5015 (sample collection completed)

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An Antibody supplier

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SNNAP (Simulator for Neural Networks and Action Potentials) is a tool for rapid development and simulation of realistic models of single neurons and neural networks. It includes mathematical descriptions of ion currents and intracellular second messengers and ions. In addition, you can simulate current flow in multicompartment models of neurons by using the equations describing electric coupling. SNNAP also includes mathematical descriptions of intracellular second messengers and ions, and simulate the modulation of membrane currents and synaptic transmission, , either enhancement or inhibition. Other advantages of SNNAP include: * Written in JAVA and can run on virtually any type of computer system. * Graphical user interface * Ability to simulate common experimental manipulations. * Modular organizations of input files. Agencies: NCRR, FOSR grant F49620-93-1-0272, as well as NIH grants R01-RR11626 and P01-NS38310

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Study to surveyed structures of protein-protein interfaces in PDB to carry out structural comparisons of interfaces. Structural comparisons of protein-protein interfaces.

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X:Map is a project for mapping between Affymetrix Exon Arrays and their corresponding genome data. It consists of a website for general visualisation of Gene/Transcript/Exon/Probeset relationships, and an R package exonmap to support statistical analysis of Exon Array experiments. Affymetrix exon arrays aim to target every known and predicted exon in the human, mouse or rat genomes, and have reporters that extend beyond protein coding regions to other areas of the transcribed genome. This combination of increased coverage and precision is important because a substantial proportion of protein coding genes are predicted to be alternatively spliced, and because many non-coding genes are known also to be of biological significance. In order to fully exploit these arrays, it is necessary to associate each reporter on the array with the features of the genome it is targeting, and to relate these to gene and genome structure. X:Map is a genome annotation database that provides this information. Data can be browsed using a novel Google-maps based interface, and analysed and further visualized through an associated BioConductor package.

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Database that integrates and disseminates the data from the cloning of complete set of predicted protein-encoding ORFs of Caenorhabditis elegans. It also allows the community to search for availability and quality of cloned ORFs. So far, ORF sequence tags (OSTs) obtained for all individual clones have allowed exon structure corrections for ORFs originally predicted by the C. elegans sequencing consortium. The database contains this OST information along with data pertinent to the cloning process.

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IDEAL, Intrinsically Disordered proteins with Extensive Annotations and Literature, is a collection of knowledge on experimentally verified intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) or intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs). IDEAL contains manually curated annotations on IDPs in locations, structures, and functional sites such as protein binding regions and posttranslational modification sites together with references and structural domain assignments. Protean segment One of the unique phenomena seen in IDPs is so-called the coupled folding and binding, where a short flexible segment can bind to its binding partner with forming a specific structure to act as a molecular recognition element. IDEAL explicitly annotates these regions as protean segment (ProS) when unstructured and structured information are both available in the region. Access to the data All the entries are tabulated in the list and individual entries can be retrieved by using the search tool at the upper-right corner in this page. IDEAL also provides the BLAST search, which can find homologs in IDEAL. All the information in IDEAL can be downloaded in the XML file.

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ICEberg is an integrated database that provides comprehensive information about integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) found in bacteria. ICEs are conjugative self-transmissible elements that can integrate into and excise from a host chromosome. An ICE contains three typical modules, integration and excision, conjugation, and regulation modules, that collectively promote vertical inheritance and periodic lateral gene flow. Many ICEs carry likely virulence determinants, antibiotic-resistant factors and/or genes coding for other beneficial traits. ICEberg offers a unique, highly organized, readily explorable archive of both predicted and experimentally supported ICE-relevant data. It currently contains details of 428 ICEs found in representatives of 124 bacterial species, and a collection of >400 directly related references. A broad range of similarity search, sequence alignment, genome context browser, phylogenetic and other functional analysis tools are readily accessible via ICEberg. ICEberg will facilitate efficient, multidisciplinary and innovative exploration of bacterial ICEs and be of particular interest to researchers in the broad fields of prokaryotic evolution, pathogenesis, biotechnology and metabolism. The ICEberg database will be maintained, updated and improved regularly to ensure its ongoing maximum utility to the research community.

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The Stanford Human OligoGenome Project hosts a database of capture oligonucleotides for conducting high-throughput targeted resequencing of the human genome. This set of capture oligonucleotides covers over 92% of the human genome for build 37 / hg19 and over 99% of the coding regions defined by the Consensus Coding Sequence (CCDS). The capture reaction uses a highly multiplexed approach for selectively circularizing and capturing multiple genomic regions using the in-solution method developed in Natsoulis et al, PLoS One 2011. Combined pools of capture oligonucleotides selectively circularize the genomic DNA target, followed by specific PCR amplification of regions of interest using a universal primer pair common to all of the capture oligonucleotides. Unlike multiplexed PCR methods, selective genomic circularization is capable of efficiently amplifying hundreds of genomic regions simultaneously in multiplex without requiring extensive PCR optimization or producing unwanted side reaction products. Benefits of the selective genomic circularization method are the relative robustness of the technique and low costs of synthesizing standard capture oligonucleotide for selecting genomic targets.

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ESCI (pronounced ''esky'') is a set of interactive simulations that run under Microsoft Excel. The set of Excel files lets students explore some key concepts in statistical and quantitative reasoning, including effect sizes, confidence intervals, and meta analysis. These are key concepts in the neuroscience toolkit, but can be particularly difficult to foster in undergraduate and graduate students. With ESCI you can: * explore many Confidence Interval (CI) concepts * calculate and display CIs for your own data, for some simple designs * calculate CIs for Cohen''s standardized effect size d * explore noncentral t distributions and their role in statistical power * use CIs for simple meta-analysis, using original or standardized units * explore all these concepts via vivid interactive graphical simulations. The simulations are free, excellent, and come with detailed supporting materials. Cumming also has a printed textbook companion which is quite good. Cumming, G. (2012). Understanding The New Statistics: Effect Sizes, Confidence Intervals, and Meta-Analysis. New York: Routledge * Explains estimation, with many examples. * Designed for any discipline that uses statistical significance testing. * For advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers. * Comes with free ESCI software. * May be the first evidence-based statistics textbook. * Assumes only prior completion of any intro statistics course. * See the dance of the confidence intervals, and many other intriguing things. The Excel files truly stand on their own, though, with good feedback from their use in a basic stats class for psych and neuroscience majors. Finally, if you are like me and learned the ''old school'' statistics of null-hypothesis testing, here''s a great article by Gerd Gigerenzer to kick you into the ''new school'' of confidence intervals and effect sizes. Learn the dirty secrets of null hypothesis testing: Gigerenzer G, Kraus S & Vitouch O. (2004). The null ritual: What you always wanted to know about significance testing but were afraid to ask. The Sage Handbook of Quantitative Methodology for the Social Sciences, p. 391-408: http://library.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/ft/gg/GG_Null_2004.pdf

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Software providing a simple method for comparison of gene expression generated across different experiments, and on different platforms; that does not require global renormalization, and is not restricted to comparison of identical probes. YuGene works on a range of microarray dataset distributions, such as between manufacturers. The resulting output allows direct comparisons of gene expression between experiments and experimental platforms.

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Hot spots are energetically important residues at protein interfaces and they are not randomly distributed across the interface but rather clustered. These clustered hot spots form hot regions. Hot regions are important for the stability of protein complexes, as well as providing specificity to binding sites. HotRegion provides the hot region information of the interfaces by using predicted hot spot residues, and structural properties of these interface residues such as pair potentials of interface residues, accessible surface area (ASA) and relative ASA values of interface residues of both monomer and complex forms of proteins. Also, the 3D visualization of the interface and interactions among hot spot residues are provided. The number of interfaces in the database is 147909 and still growing.

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The Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) is the new state-of-the-art R&D satellite of the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), which also includes under its umbrella the Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH), the largest cancer hospital in Asia. ACTREC has the mandate to function as a national centre for treatment, research and education in cancer. TMC is an autonomous grant-in-aid institution of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India. It is registered under the Societies Registration Act (1860) and the Bombay Public Trust Act (1950). Its Governing Council is headed by the Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, Government of India. ACTREC comprises of 2 arms - one for basic research and another for clinical research. The basic research building was inaugurated in March 2002 at the new site of ACTREC in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai. In August 2002, the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) shifted in toto from its Parel campus in Mumbai to serve as the basic research arm of ACTREC. The clinical research arm of ACTREC comprising of the Clinical Research Centre (CRC) has become functional from March 2005. ACTREC also has a 50-bed hospital fully equipped with state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic facilities. Research investigations at CRI currently focus on molecular mechanisms responsible for causation of major human cancers relevant to India. It is envisaged that in the future, ACTREC will play a greater role in drug development and emerging therapies for treatment and prevention of cancer.

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Wnt proteins form a family of highly conserved secreted signaling molecules that regulate cell-to-cell interactions during embryogenesis. Insights into the mechanisms of Wnt action have emerged from several systems: genetics in Drosophila and Caenorhabditis elegans; biochemistry in cell culture and ectopic gene expression in Xenopus embryos. Mutations in Wnt genes or Wnt pathway components lead to specific developmental defects, while various human diseases, including cancer, are caused by abnormal Wnt signaling.As currently understood, Wnt proteins bind to receptors of the Frizzled and LRP families on the cell surface. Through several cytoplasmic relay components, the signal is transduced to beta-catenin , which then enters the nucleus and forms a complex with TCF to activate transcription of Wnt target genes. Protein sequence databases, Databases of individual protein families, Metabolic and Signaling Pathways, Protein-protein interactions

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