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GoFigure is a software platform for quantitating complex 4d in vivo microscopy based data in high-throughput at the level of the cell. A prime goal of GoFigure is the automatic segmentation of nuclei and cell membranes and in temporally tracking them across cell migration and division to create cell lineages. GoFigure v2.0 is a major new release of our software package for quantitative analysis of image data. The research focuses on analyzing cells in intact, whole zebrafish embryos using 4d (xyzt) imaging which tends to make automatic segmentation more difficult than with 2d or 2d+time imaging of cells in culture. This resource has developed an automatic segmentation pipeline that includes ICA based channel unmixing, membrane nuclear channel subtraction, Gaussian correlation, shape models, and level set based variational active contours. GoFigure was designed to meet the challenging requirements of in toto imaging. In toto imaging is a technology that we are developing in which we seek to track all the cell movements and divisions that form structures during embryonic development of zebrafish and to quantitate protein expression and localization on top of this digital lineage. For in toto imaging, GoFigure uses zebrafish embryos in which the nuclei and cell membranes have been marked with 2 different color fluorescent proteins to allow cells to be segmented and tracked. A transgenic line in a third color can be used to mark protein expression and localization using a genetic approach that this resource developed called FlipTraps or using traditional transgenic approaches. Embryos are imaged using confocal or 2-photon microscopy to capture high-resolution xyzt image sets used for cell tracking. The GoFigure GUI will provide many tools for visualization and analysis of bioimages. Since fully automatic segmentation of cells is never perfect, GoFigure will provide easy to use tools for semi-automatically and manually adding, deleting, and editing traces in 2d (figures-xy, xz, or yz), 3d (meshes- xyz), 4d (tracks- xyzt) and 4d+cell division (lineages). GoFigure will also provide a number of views into complex image data sets including 3d XYZ and XYT image views, tabular list views of traces, histograms, and scattergrams. Importantly, all these views will be linked together to allow the user to explore their data from multiple angles. Data will be easily sorted and color-coded in many ways to explore correlations in higher dimensional data. The GoFigure architecture is designed to allow additional segmentation, visualization, and analysis filters to be plugged in. Sponsors: GoFigure is developed by Harvard University., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on April 13,2026. Genomatix is a privately held company that offers software, databases, and services aimed at understanding gene regulation at the molecular level representing a central part of systems biology. Its multilayer integrative approach is a working implementation of systems biology principles. Genomatix combines sequence analysis, functional promoter analysis, proprietary genome annotation, promoter sequence databases, comparative genomics, scientific literature data mining, pathway databases, biological network databases, pathway analysis, network analysis, and expression profiling into working solutions and pipelines. It also enables better understanding of biological mechanisms under different conditions and stimuli in the biological context of your data. Some of Genomatix'' most valuable assets are the strong scientific background and the years of experience in research & discovery as well as in development & application of scientific software. Their firsthand knowledge of all the complexities involved in the in-silico analysis of biological data makes them a first-rate partner for all scientific projects involving the evaluation of gene regulatory mechanisms. The Genomatix team has more than a decade of scientific expertise in the successful application of computer aided analysis of gene regulatory networks, which is reflected by more than 150 peer reviewed scientific publications from Genomatix'' scientists More than 35,000 researchers in industry and academia around the world use this technology. The software available in Genomatix are: - GenomatixSuite: GenomatixSuite is our comprehensive software bundle including ElDorado, Gene2Promoter, GEMS Launcher, MatInspector and MatBase. GenomatixSuite PE also includes BiblioSphere Pathway Edition. Chromatin IP Software - RegionMiner: Fast, extensive analysis of genomic regions. - ChipInspector: Discover the real power of your microarray data. Genome Annotation Software - ElDorado: Extended Genome Annotation. - Gene2Promoter: Retrieve & analyze promoters - GPD: The Genomatix Promoter Database, which is now included with Gene2Promoter. Knowledge Mining Software - BiblioSpere : The next level of pathway/genomics analysis. - LitInspector: Literature and pathway analysis for free. Sequence Analysis Software - GEMS Launcher: Our integrated collection of sequence analysis tools. - MalInspector: Search transcription factor binding sites - MatBase: The transcription factor knowledge base. Other (no registration required) Software - DiAlign: Multiple alignment of DNA/protein sequence. - Genomatix tools: Various small tools for sequence statistics, extraction, formatting, etc.

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The GEneral NEural SImulation System (GENESIS) started as a very advanced software package in the late eighties, for biologically accurate neuronal modeling. Besides being used as a neuronal simulator, it was also applied to various domains outside computational neuroscience. The Neurospaces project is a departure from the monolithic software system design of the original GENESIS system. It is a development center for software components of computational neuroscience simulators. There are many advantages of developing independent software components: - Interfacing to an individual component is obviously more simple than interfacing to a do-all monolithic system. The compartmental solver developed for the Neurospaces project can be connected to Matlab fi. - It simplifies the individual components and encourages other developers to get involved. - It allows for separate testing of the components. More than 1000 use case tests been defined for these software components, including integration tests. - Integrating different component, gives different flavours of the same simulator, and enhances the user experienced consistency when doing multilevel simulations. - A component based software system avoids vendor-lockin. Its life-cycle is more smooth than that of a monolithic system, because software components can be upgraded one at a time. The Neurospaces project embodies many software components that all have been developed in full isolation. The core of the most important components is finished. The current development focus has shifted from component integration to the support of specific use case with an emphasis on single neuron modeling. This is a list of software components that have been developed or are under construction. Together, these tools give the core for the upcoming GENESIS 3 GUI. - GShell: a simple replacement for the Genesis 2 SLI. - Heccer: a fast compartmental solver, a backend. - Dash: a second compartmental solver faster than Heccer, for simpler models. - Neurospaces Model Container: provides a solver independent internal and external storage format for models. - Discrete event system: consists of a discrete event distributor and queuer. This is used for abstract modeling of an action potential traveling inside an axon as a ''discrete event''. - SSP: a flexible scheduler written in perl, to run simulations with the Neurospaces model container and Heccer. - The Neurospaces Studio: some tools for graphical browsing and command line usage. - The Genesis Script Language Interface: a scripting component that reads Genesis 2 scripts and feeds them to the Neurospaces model container. - The Geometry Library is a general purpose geometry library, with some essential geometrical operators, not commonly found in other geometrical libraries. - Using the Geometry Library, a Reconstruct Interface has been written. This interface supports the conversion of contours exported by the Reconstruct software to the Neurospaces declarative NDF format. - The Neurospaces project browser for browsing projects and inspecting simulation results. - The Installer package contains the Neurospaces installer and developer tools that have emerged from developing Neurospaces software components. - The Configurator package contains configuration utilities for the other tools. It is not needed for the other tools to work properly. Rather, it allows to set up model database and simulation servers in a convenient way. - There is also a Neurospaces blog and a wiki at googlecode for the Neurospaces project, with information for developers.

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GeneNetWorks is designed for accumulation of experimental data, data navigation, data analysis, and analysis of dependencies in the field of gene expression regulation. It integrates the databases and programs for processing the data about structure and function of DNA, RNA, and proteins, together with the other information resources important for gene expression description. The unique property of above described system is that all the resources within the system GeneNetWorks are divided according to the natural hierarchy of molecular genetic systems and has the following levels: (1) DNA; (2) RNA; (3) proteins; and (4) gene networks. Each module contains: 1) experimental data represented as a database or some sample; 2) program for data analysis; 3) results of an automated data processing; 4) tools for the graphical representation of these data and the results of the data analyses.

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In an effort to strongly support the collaborative nature of scientific research, BIOBASE offers academic and non-profit organizations free access to reduced functionality versions of their products. TRANSFAC Professional provides gene regulation analysis solutions, offering the most comprehensive collection of eukaryotic gene regulation data. The professional paid subscription gives customers access to up-to-date data and tools not available in the free version. The public databases currently available for academic and non-profit organizations are: * TRANSFAC: contains data on transcription factors, their experimentally-proven binding sites, and regulated genes. Its broad compilation of binding sites allows the derivation of positional weight matrices. * TRANSPATH: provides data about molecules participating in signal transduction pathways and the reactions they are involved in, resulting in a complex network of interconnected signaling components.TRANSPATH focuses on signaling cascades that change the activities of transcription factors and thus alter the gene expression profile of a given cell. * PathoDB: is a database on pathologically relevant mutated forms of transcription factors and their binding sites. It comprises numerous cases of defective transcription factors or mutated transcription factor binding sites, which are known to cause pathological defects. * S/MARt DB: presents data on scaffold or matrix attached regions (S/MARs) of eukaryotic genomes, as well as about the proteins that bind to them. S/MARs organize the chromatin in the form of functionally independent loop domains gained increasing support. Scaffold or Matrix Attached Regions (S/MARs) are genomic DNA sequences through which the chromatin is tightly attached to the proteinaceous scaffold of the nucleus. * TRANSCompel: is a database on composite regulatory elements affecting gene transcription in eukaryotes. Composite regulatory elements consist of two closely situated binding sites for distinct transcription factors, and provide cross-coupling of different signaling pathways. * PathoSign Public: is a database which collects information about defective cell signaling molecules causing human diseases. While constituting a useful data repository in itself, PathoSign is also aimed at being a foundational part of a platform for modeling human disease processes.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on April 29,2025. Electroencephalogram (EEG) data recorded from invasive and scalp electrodes. The EEG database contains invasive EEG recordings of 21 patients suffering from medically intractable focal epilepsy. The data were recorded during an invasive pre-surgical epilepsy monitoring at the Epilepsy Center of the University Hospital of Freiburg, Germany. In eleven patients, the epileptic focus was located in neocortical brain structures, in eight patients in the hippocampus, and in two patients in both. In order to obtain a high signal-to-noise ratio, fewer artifacts, and to record directly from focal areas, intracranial grid-, strip-, and depth-electrodes were utilized. The EEG data were acquired using a Neurofile NT digital video EEG system with 128 channels, 256 Hz sampling rate, and a 16 bit analogue-to-digital converter. Notch or band pass filters have not been applied. For each of the patients, there are datasets called ictal and interictal, the former containing files with epileptic seizures and at least 50 min pre-ictal data. the latter containing approximately 24 hours of EEG-recordings without seizure activity. At least 24 h of continuous interictal recordings are available for 13 patients. For the remaining patients interictal invasive EEG data consisting of less than 24 h were joined together, to end up with at least 24 h per patient. An interdisciplinary project between: * Epilepsy Center, University Hospital Freiburg * Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), Freiburg * Freiburg Center for Data Analysis and Modeling (FDM).

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MOOSE is the Multiscale Object-Oriented Simulation Environment. It is the base and numerical core for large, detailed simulations including Computational Neuroscience and Systems Biology. MOOSE spans the range from single molecules to subcellular networks, from single cells to neuronal networks, and to still larger systems. it is backwards-compatible with GENESIS, and forward compatible with Python and XML-based model definition standards like SBML and MorphML. MOOSE is coordinating with the GENESIS-3 project towards the goals of developing educational resources for modeling. MOOSE is open source software, licensed under the LGPL (Lesser GNU Public License). It has absolutely no warranty. Sponsors: - National Center of Biological Sciences (NCBS) - National Institutes of Health (NIH) Collaboration - EU-India grid - Department of Atomic Energy Science Research Council (DAE/SRC) - Department of Biotechnology (DBT)

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A software tool for profiling Short Tandem Repeats (STRs) from high throughput sequencing data., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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The Bio-Lab is a Bioengineering and Bioimages laboratory and it''s part of DIST (Department of Computer Science, Control Systems and Telecommunications- University of Genoa). The main research activities of the Bioengineering Laboratory are related with the acquisition, processing and rendering of bioimages with the aim of exploring the links between structure and functionality of biological systems (images of cells in optical confocal microscopy) and for diagnostic and therapeutical processes (images of the human body in Magnetic Resonance, Computerized X-ray Tomography, ultrasounds and other modalities). The main research activities of the laboratory are related to: - Bioimages: medical/biological image analysis and visualization methods are investigated, with a deep attention to the applications development for the driven therapy. - Bioinformatics: in this field, advanced technologies and knowledge related to production and treatment of gene expression microarray distributed data have been implemented. - Tissue Engineering: this research activity is addressed to the development and testing of biomaterials, coupled with adult stem cells for the in vivo bone formation. - Neuroinformatics: the interaction between results of functional neuroimaging and brain computational models has been studied. Among the equipment of the Bioengineering Laboratory there are of particular interest: 2D-3D cell culture bioreactor systems and a virtual reality platform for the interaction person-bioimages, medical data and 3D models. The Bio-Lab also manages a GRID node belonging to the international GILDA network, which is built by 6 server, for a total amount of 12 CPU, 7 GB RAM and 500 GB Disk Space. Additionally, the confocal laser is a very essential tool in this lab; it is a scanning optical microscope with a hardware/software framework virtual reality-like for the interaction person-bioimages, with stereovision, and equipment for head tracking and pointing. The Bio-Lab collaborates with several research institutes and centers, such as the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, the National Research Council, and the Advanced Biotechnology Center (visit Research area or Project area in the web site). Promising collaborations are also on going with different technological companies in the national scenario. The laboratory has also been involved in several international and national projects funded by the European Commission and MUR. Specifically, it is involved in several projects funded by the European Commission projects related to the area of Health Care Telematics, with special reference to emergency telemedicine.

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An animated primer on the basics of DNA, genes, and heredity organized around three key concepts: Classical Genetics, Molecules of Genetics, and Genetic Organization and Control. The science behind each concept is explained by: animation, image gallery, video interviews, problem, biographies, and links.

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CREB target gene database that uses a multi-layered approach to predict, validate and characterize CREB target genes. For each gene, the database tries to provide the following information: 1. CREB binding sites on the promoters 2. Promoter occupancy by CREB 3. Gene activation by cAMP in tissues CREB seems to occupy a large number of promoters in the genome (up to ~5000 in human), and the profiles for CREB promoter occupancy are very similar in different human tissues. However, only a small proportion of CREB occupied genes are induced by cAMP in any cell type, possibly reflecting the requirement of additional regulatory partners that assist in recruitment of the transcriptional apparatus. To use the database, choose the species, select the table you want to search, leave field (''All'') and type in the gene you want to search. A table listing the search results will be returned, followed by the description of the table. If no search result is returned, try the official gene symbol or gene ID (locuslink number) from NCBI Entrez Gene to search. Sponsors: This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants GM RO1-037828 (to M.M.) and DK068655 (to R.A.Y.).

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The Centre d''Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH) is a research laboratory, the main activities of which are the setting up, storage, processing and distribution of DNA collections for the identification of genetic factors conferring susceptibility to complex disorders. These collections are established in partnership and full collaboration with external French or international research groups. The Foundation currently hosts the CEPH reference panel, the HGDP panel (Human genome Diversity Cell Line Panel) and several collections amounting mid-2008 to more than 250 000 samples. The goal of CEPH is to understand complex multifactorial disorders necessitates the establishment of structures facilitating access to large and integrated collection of individuals, characterized by a large number of variables emanating from different technologies and platforms. To achieve this goal, CEPH facilitates the setting up of integrated analyses combining clinical, genetic and environmental data, for the identification of susceptibility factors to complex multifactorial disorders Additionally, CEHP allows the reception, storage, processing and distribution of biological sample collections. At the same time, it promotes and participates in the design and setting up of genetic studies: - in partnership and full collaboration with external research groups - giving access to a large number of variables - in a sufficient number of subjects - allowing large scale integrated analyses

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A tool for finding significant combinations of multisource annotations in gene lists.

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The National Polytechnic Institute''s (Instituto Politecnico Nacional) department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Neurosciences (Departamento de Fisiologa, Biofsica y Neurociencias) is an institutional topical portal and offers a Masters and doctorate program. The web sites content is in Spanish. In forty years of life, this Department has maintained constant activity and has a well sustained scientific prestige within the national and international levels; in addition, the departments of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Centro de Investigacin y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV)) has had more recognition and support of external agencies. The achievements realized during this time yields the following results: 245 graduate students (140 Masters and doctorate 108), 272 directed theses, 190 research articles published in national journals and 831 in international journals with strict arbitration, 75 chapters in books published abroad, 210 chapters in national books, five complete books published outside the country, fourteen national books, and thousands of citations at the international level to the research work done by its members. Today, its teaching plant is composed of 31 teachers and there are 38 students enrolled in the doctorate program and 11 in the Masters program. The rigorous selection of students has allowed for the production of scientists concerned about the quality of their research. In the Department an atmosphere of cordiality exists and collective performance of the delivery of the work. Lines of inquiry Medication access and drugs across the epithelia and endothelium Accession, proliferation, differentiation and cancer Biophysics of Ionic Channels Endocrinology Sensorimotor integration in the spinal cord Environment and cellular injury Developmental neurobiology Neuropharmacology Nervous system pathologies Gene therapy

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Cellular Open Resource is a Microsoft Windows environment for cellular modeling that is built around CellML (except for reactions and metadata which are not supported). It offers, through CellML, an ''out of the box'' access to a large database of single cell models. COR was among the early adopters of this standard, eventually forming the first publicly available CellML-based modeling and collaboration environment. From the onset, COR was designed to provide an environment that could not only be used by experienced modelers, but also by experimentalists, teachers and students. It therefore tries to combine a user-friendly interface with a computationally efficient numerical engine. In this paper, we introduce the philosophy behind COR, explain its user interface and current functionality, including the editing and running of CellML files, highlight lessons learned from user feedback and problems experienced during the development of COR and conclude by exploring future development potential. Sponsors: This study has been supported by a grant from the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/E024955/1). Keyword: Cell, Model, Cellular, Modeling, Open resource, Microsoft, Environment, Database, Experimentalist, Teacher, Student, Modeler, Computationally, Development,

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This resource is a Wiki page providing information about the Immersive Visualization Laboratory of Cal-IT2 at the UCSD. Sponsors: This resource is supported by Cal-IT2.

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Lab interested in understanding how neuronal circuitries of the brain support its cognitive capacities. Its goal is to provide rational, mechanistic explanations of cognitive functions at a descriptive level. In the lab''s view, the most promising area of cognitive faculties for scientific inquiry is memory, since it is a well-circumscribed term, can be studied in animals and substantial knowledge has accumulated on the molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity. Available software: * NeuroScope: NeuroScope can display local field potentials (EEG), neuronal spikes, behavioral events, as well as the position of the animal in the environment. It also features limited editing capabilities. * Klusters: Klusters is a powerful and easy-to-use cluster cutting application designed to help neurophysiologists sort action potentials from multiple neurons on groups of electrodes (e.g., tetrodes or multisite silicon probes). * KlustaKwik: KlustaKwik is a program for automatic cluster analysis, specifically designed to run fast on large data sets. * MATLAB m-files: A selection of MATLAB files developed in the lab., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 10th,2023. Commercial provider of cognitive assessments, including their proprietary database, the Brain Resource International Database (BRID) that allows users to quantify individual differences in brain function, compare individual performance against peers, and provide a robust frame of reference for clinical assessment and treatment decisions. Database provides evidence for brain behavior connection so important to reliably enabling optimal solutions for mental health and wellbeing. It powers all Brain Resource products.

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