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The research in the lab focuses on computational modeling of biological macromolecules and their assemblages and predicting biophysical quantities associated with them. The main focus of the lab is the development and maintenance of the popular software package DelPhi, which calculates electrostatic potential and energies of systems comprised of biological macromolecules. In addition, we are interested in modeling disease-causing missense mutations, pKa''s of amino acids and nucleic groups and pH-dependence of stability and binding. In parallel with in silico modeling, the lab actively collaborates with experimetalists to better understand molecular mechanisms of biological reactions and interactions. The combination of the methods of Computational Biophysics and Bioinformatics with experimental results is an essential approach utilized in our research.

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A dataset of an on-going multi-level longitudinal survey in Indonesia that collects extensive information on socio-economic and demographic characteristics of respondents, as well as extremely comprehensive interviews with local leaders about community services and facilities. The survey is ideally suited for research on topics related to important dynamic aging processes such as the transition from self-sufficiency to dependency, the decline from robust health to frailty, labor force and earning dynamics, wealth accumulation and decumulation, living arrangements and intergenerational transfers. The first wave of IFLS was fielded in 1993 and collected information on over 30,000 individuals living in 7,200 households. The sample covers 321 communities in 13 provinces in Indonesia and is representative of about 83% of the population. These households were revisited in 1997 (IFLS2), 2000 (IFLS3), and 2007-8 (IFLS4). A 25% sub-sample of households was re-interviewed in 1998 (IFLS2+). Special attention is paid to the measurement of health, including the measurement of anthropometry, blood pressure, lung capacity, a mobility test and collection of dry blood spots by a nurse or doctor. In addition to comprehensive life history data on education, work, migration, marriage and child bearing, the survey collects very detailed information on economic status of individuals and households. Links with non co-resident family members are spelled out in conjunction with information on borrowing and transfers. Information is gathered on participation in community activities and in public assistance programs. Measurement of health is a major focus of the survey. In addition to detailed information about use of private and public health services along with insurance status, respondents provide a self-reported assessment of health status. Detailed information on the local economy and prices of goods and services are also collected. These data may be matched with the individual and household-level data. Considerable attention has been placed on minimizing attrition in IFLS. In each re-survey, about 95% of households have been re-contacted. Around 10-15% of respondents have moved from the location in which they were interviewed in the previous wave. In addition, individuals who split-off from the original households have been followed. They have added around 1,000 households to the sample in 1997 and about 3,000 households in 2000. Data Availability: IFLS1 data are available through ICPSR as study number 6706. Data from subsequent waves of the IFLS can be accessed from the RAND project Website. * Dates of Study: 1993-2008 * Study Features: Longitudinal, International, Anthropometric Measures, Biomarkers * Sample Size: ** 1993: 22,000 (IFLS1) ** 1997: 33,000 (IFLS2) ** 1998: 10,000 (IFLS2+) ** 2000: 37,000 (IFLS3) ** 2008: 44,103 (IFLS4) Links: * IFLS1 ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/06706 * IFLS ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/00184

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Virtual Biology Lab portal from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis; Nice; France. Offered are a variety of software including: * GenBank2Treedyn: Extract annotations from GenBank files for: ** More convenient alignments and phylogeny (replace def line of fasta file by GI number) ** Extremely powerful annotations of phylogenetic trees with TreeDyn. * THEA: Analyses of DNA chip data with ontologies * Blast2Tree: Blast server for the identification of procaryotes * Dashboard: e-Tool for data exchanges among partners, DNA chips design and developement * Oligo Heat Map: Check thermodynamical parameters for PCR primers and compute graphical representation to show specificity of target sequences * EmblEx: A cgi tool to parse and extract data from EMBL entries to various formats * Miscellaneous software ** Jane plugin: Add a small panel to Jane server to retrieve PMID of publications ** EtBlast plugin: Add a small panel to EtBlast server to retrieve PMID of publications ** Oligo Builder: Get the oligomers from a set of target sequences by avoiding non-target sequences

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A pipeline for analyzing whole genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) data.

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Biomedicine can only be understood in the context of genomics and with the concourse of bioinformatics. Our department aims to tackle biomedical problems from a system's biology perspective. Following this, the general objective we seek through the main lines of research is to relate the mutations (Pharmacogenomics and Comparative Genomics) to their effect at cellular and phenotypic level (Functional Genomics) trying to understand the mechanism of action (Structural Genomics). Systems Biology Genes operate within an intricate network of interactions that we have only recently started to envisage. Many higher-order levels of interaction are continuously being discovered. In this scenario we are interested in developing methods and tools which can help to understand large-scale experiments from a systems biology perspective. Comparative genomics We are interested in the analysis of patterns and processes occurred during the evolution of our genome, and in the application of the evolutionary thought in human health and disease. * Adaptive Human Evolution * Evolutionary Pharmacogenetics * SNP's and Human Disease Structural genomics Our Unit aims to develop and apply computational methods for understanding the molecular mechanisms of cell regulation beyond proteins. In particular, we apply our methods to study the interaction of small chemical compounds with proteins and to characterize their molecular actions. We are also developing methods for RNA 3D structure prediction with the aim of applying them to understand the effects of non-coding RNA molecules. Finally, in collaboration with experimentalists, we are working in determining the first ever 3D structure of a genomic domain in human.

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The Pr��ncipe Felipe Research Centre (CIPF), which was inaugurated by their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Asturias on 17th March 2005, is a centre dedicated to biomedical research, with the aim of taking on new challenges in the field of basic research and encouraging scientific works of excellence. The construction of the Centre was carried out thanks to the Regional Development Funds from the European Union, and from the Regional Government (Generalitat Valenciana) through its Ministry of Health. The current financing of the CIPF comes mainly from the investment made by the Generalitat Valenciana through the Ministry of Health, as well as the Regenerative Medicine Programme, the fruit of an agreement between the Institute of Health Carlos III and the Ministry of Health for basic and translation research in this field. The CIPF takes the research tradition from the then Valencian Cytological Research Institute and the Valencian Biomedical Research Foundation, with the aim of consolidating and expanding this research. Therefore the activity in the CIPF can be divided into three main strategic work areas: The Regenerative Medicine area focuses its research on cellular therapy and interdisciplinary research in human embryonic and adult stem cells, with the aim of regenerating damaged organs to improve human health. The Chemical and Quantative Biology area aims to understand, through the application of (bio) chemical, genetic, and bioinformatic methods, to understand the molecular mechanisms that control the biological processes and alterations that lead to pathological conditions. The Biomedicine area focuses on understanding the molecular bases of human pathologies that require new diagnostic and clinical procedures for their identification and treatment, pathologies such as cancer, neurological pathologies and rare illnesses.

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The Bioinformatics, Algorithmics, and Data Mining group BIIT lead by prof. Jaak Vilo is a joint research group between the Department of Computer Science (University of Tartu), Quretec, and the Estonian Biocenter. Our main research topics and capabilities include the gene regulation, gene expression data analysis, biological data mining, systems biology, combinatorial pattern matching, developing software for biomedical research databases, as well as partnering in stem cell and cancer related projects. Software * MEM - Multi-Experiment-Matrix -- large-scale gene expression data queries and mining (Genome Biology 2009) * g:Profiler family of tools for functional assessment of gene groups, gene ID mappings, orthology and expression similarity searches. (NAR web server issue 2007) * KEGGanim - visualisation of high-throughput data on biological pathway charts (Bioinformatics, 2007) * GraphWeb - a tool for mining large biological networks (NAR Web server issue 2008) * FunGenES data atlas * More software tools

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Wandora is a general purpose information extraction, management and publishing application based on Topic Maps and Java. Wandora has graphical user interface, layered and merging information model, multiple visualization models, huge collection of information extraction, import and export options, embedded HTTP server with several output modules and open plug-in architecture. Wandora is a FOSS application with GNU GPL license. Wandora is well suited for constructing ontologies and information mashups. Wandora is capable of extracting and converting a wide range of open data feeds to topic map formats. Beyond topic map conversion, this feature allows Wandora user to aggregate multidimensional information mashups where information from Flickr interleaves with information from GeoNames and YouTube, for example. Wandora is a software application to build, edit, publish and visualize information graphs, especially topic maps. Wandora is written in Java and suits for * Collecting, combining, aggregating, managing, refining and publishing information and knowledge graphs * Designing information, information modeling and prototyping * Information mashups * Ontology creation and management * Mind and concept mapping * Language technology applications * Graph visualizations * Knowledge format conversions * Digital preservation * Data journalism * Open data projects * Linked data projects Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

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Repository of phylogenetic information, specifically user-submitted phylogenetic trees and the data used to generate them. TreeBASE accepts all kinds of phylogenetic data (e.g., trees of species, trees of populations, trees of genes) representing all biotic taxa. Data in TreeBASE are exposed to the public if they are used in a publication that is in press or published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, book, conference proceedings, or thesis. Data used in publications that are in preparation or in review can be submitted to TreeBASE but will not be available to the public until they have passed peer review.

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TAIR Keyword Browser searches and browses for Gene Ontology, TAIR Anatomy, and TAIR Developmental stage terms, and allows you to view term details and relationships among terms. It includes links to genes, publications, microarray experiments and annotations associated with the term or any children terms. Platform: Online tool

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With PANDORA, you can search for any non-uniform sets of proteins and detect subsets of proteins that share unique biological properties and the intersections of such sets. PANDORA supports GO annotations as well as additional keywords (from UniProt Knowledgebase, InterPro, ENZYME, SCOP etc). It is also integrated into the ProtoNet system, thus allowing testing of thousands of automatically generated protein families. Note that PANDORA replaces the ProtoGO browser developed by the same group. Platform: Online tool

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Manatee is a web-based gene evaluation and genome annotation tool; Manatee can store and view annotation for prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes. The Manatee interface allows biologists to quickly identify genes and make high quality functional assignments, such as GO classifications, using search data, paralogous families, and annotation suggestions generated from automated analysis. Manatee can be downloaded and installed to run under the CGI area of a web server, such as Apache. Platform: Online tool, Linux compatible, Solaris

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GOanna is used to find annotations for proteins using a similarity search. The input can be a list of IDs or it can be a list of sequences in FASTA format. GOanna will retrieve the sequences if necessary and conduct the specified BLAST search against a user-specified database of GO annotated proteins. The resulting file contains GO annotations of the top BLAST hits. The sequence alignments are also provided so the user can use these to access the quality of the match. Platform: Online tool

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Service that provides a summary of GO annotations available for each species. The user provides a taxon id and GOProfiler displays the number of GO associations and the number of annotated proteins for that species. The results are listed by evidence code and a separate list of unannotated proteins is also provided.

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Software program, available as a Java applet online or to download, allows the user to select a subset of Gene Ontology (GO) attributes, and ranks genes according to the probability of having all those attributes., 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 June 29, 2012. We developed a web application, GOfetcher, with a very comprehensive search facility for the GO project and a variety of output formats for the results. GOfetcher has three different levels for searching the GO: Quick Search, Advanced Search, and Upload Files for searching. The application includes a unique search option which generates gene information given a nucleotide or protein accession number which can then be used in generating gene ontology information. The output data in GOfetcher can be saved into several different formats; including spreadsheet, comma-separated values, and the Extensible Markup Language (XML) format. Platform: Online tool

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GeneInfoViz is a web based tool for batch retrieval of gene function information, visualization of GO structure and construction of gene relation networks. It takes a input list of genes in the form of LocusLink ID, UniGeneID, gene symbol, or accession number and returns their functional genomic information. Based on the GO annotations of the given genes, GeneInfoViz allows users to visualize these genes in the DAG structure of GO, and construct a gene relation network at a selected level of the DAG. Platform: Online tool

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on June 29, 2012. Gene Class Expression allows functional annotation of SAGE data using the Gene Ontology database. This tool performs searches in the GO database for each SAGE tag, making associations in the selected GO category for a level selected in the hierarchy. This system provides user-friendly data navigation and visualization for mapping SAGE data onto the gene ontology structure. This tool also provides graphical visualization of the percentage of SAGE tags in each GO category, along with confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. Platform: Online tool

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YouTube videos provided by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).

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COBrA is a Java-based ontology editor for bio-ontologies that distinguishes itself from other editors by supporting the linking of concepts between two ontologies, and providing sophisticated analysis and verification functions. In addition to the Gene Ontology and Open Biology Ontologies formats, COBrA can import and export ontologies in the Semantic Web formats RDF, RDFS and OWL. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible, THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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