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In the early nineties it became evident that HIV infection was spreading widely in India and the national efforts for control of HIV infection needed to be backed by quality research. It was also realized that AIDS, being a multifaceted disease, needed multi-disciplinary research involving virology, immunology, microbiology, clinical research, epidemiology, field based trials and social and behavioral research. An Institute devoted exclusively to HIV/ AIDS that could undertake research of such a diversity and magnitude was established to meet this requirement. National AIDS Research Institute (NARI) was established in October 1992 in Bhosari, Pune on a seven acre plot. The Institute has progressively expanded its activities in various aspects of research on HIV and AIDS through infra-structural development, capacity building & research programmes. The activities of NARI are supported by the ICMR & numerous extramural agencies. For the fiscal year 2005-2006 the ICMR allocated 5.66 crores for NARI. Additionally, over 13 crores have been generated through extramural sources. The Institute''s research activities are guided by a Scientific Advisory Committee which includes eminent scientists from varied disciplines. All research projects are reviewed & approved by the Ethics Committee which also ensures that research is conducted with highest ethical standards. Establishment of a Community Advisory Board which acts as an interface between the community and the researchers is a pioneering effort by NARI.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

An online tool that takes a set of DNA sequences with point mutations and returns a ranked list to predict the effects of point mutations on pre-mRNA splicing. The current implementation includes 11 genomes: human, chimp, rhesus, mouse, rat, dog, cat, chicken, guinea pig, frog and zebrafish.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Ph.D. program in Behavioral Neuroscience is committed to training exceptional students for independent neuroscience research careers in academic, governmental, or industrial settings. Our program provides training in biological foundations of behavior, with particular focus on sensation, learning and memory, affect, development, and neural plasticity.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Small and very fast utility to calculate X-coverage from Next-Generation-Sequencing data.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

The Department is part of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center and is one of the largest Academic Medical Centers between Chicago and the West Coast. The School of Medicine is in the top 25 schools nationally in NIH funding and includes numerous nationally recognized affiliated hospitals. Our Department is composed of over 30 primary faculty members whose clinical and research interests and activities encompass virtually all aspects of neurology. Faculty are integrated into functional units including Behavioral Neurology, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders, Infectious Disease, Movement Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis, Neuromuscular Disorders, Neuro-oncology, and Neuro-ophthalmology each of which strives to provide cutting-edge diagnostic and therapeutic services to patients and families dealing with neurological disease. Our faculty have clinical activities at four affiliated teaching hospitals (The Childrens Hospital, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University Hospital), each of which brings unique clinical, educational, and research strengths to our program. Clinical, research and educational programs are closely linked to the Division of Pediatric Neurology of the Department of Pediatrics. The educational mission of the Department includes primary responsibility for the training of medical students in required neurology clerkships, an ACGME accredited Neurology Residency Training Program (16 positions), Clinical Fellowships (Behavioral Neurology, Cerebrovascular Disease, CNS Infections, Epilepsy, Movement Disorders, Neuromuscular Disease, MS) and both clinical and laboratory based fellowships in neurology research. The clinical enterprise includes busy outpatient, inpatient and consultation services, as exemplified by over 12,000 outpatient visits and over 800 annual admissions at UH.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Tools for splitting, joining and otherwise manipulating FASTA format sequence files. The first tools in the toolbox is for manipulating fasta headers, cropping alignments and doing some sequence comparison allowing users to combine the description of data (often in excel spreadsheets) with the actual data (often DNA sequences). Also, producing correct input files for a range of programs seems to be problematic for the average user. Hence, some converters in some of the services have been included as well as some stand-alone converters. The converters are not necessarily meant to provide the final input file, but you''ll get a valid input file for Arlequin, MrBayes etc. - that you may further edit so it suit your needs. This means that you may need to combine several of the tools to finish your handling - but it keeps it relatively simple to use. Please note that FaBox is written in PHP and ONLY RUNS ON A WEBSERVER.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

A software program for identifying and ranking peak regions in ChIP-Seq experiments. It takes as input, mapped reads from a ChIP-Seq experiment, mapped reads from a control experiment and outputs a file with peak regions ranked with increasing Q-values.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Founded in 1942, the UC Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience is transforming behavioral health care through basic, clinical and translational research programs. Our vision is to be leaders in advancing the understanding and treatment of psychiatric disorders.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

A private, nonprofit, nonsectarian, Historically Black College and University and a Minority Serving Institution located in Willowbrook, unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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• 13 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Leading treatment, research and teaching center for complex neurological conditions based at the University Hospital and the UC College of Medicine. Its physicians and researchers have created national models for evidence-based treatment and research of complex conditions, including ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, brain aneurysms, brain and spinal cord trauma, brain tumors, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and seizure disorders, multiple sclerosis, trigeminal neuralgia, Alzheimer's disease and memory disorders, mood disorders, and neuromuscular disorders. UCNI includes a team of more than 100 experts from 15 specialties who collaborate across disciplines to provide the most comprehensive diagnoses and treatments possible.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

A combined tissue bank and core facility which provides annotated human tissue samples for research purposes. The facility also offers high quality tissue procurement, tissue microarray, histology, immunohistochemistry, photomicroscopy, and laser capture microdissection services for both human and animal tissues to biomedical investigators conducting non-clinical research studies. The TPHC offers instruction to researchers on how to incorporate human tissue into research activities and how to work within the boundaries of patient confidentiality and other regulatory issues. The purpose of the TPHC is to provide tissue collection and processing services to intramural and extramural researchers studying cancer and other diseases. Normal, diseased, benign and malignant tissues are obtained, and matched normal adjacent tissues and tissues from different organ sites from the same donor can also be provided when available. Tissue samples are prepared according to user-specified protocols and can be fresh in a medium of choice, fixed in formalin, quick frozen in the vapor phase of liquid nitrogen or snap-frozen by plunging the sample into liquid nitrogen. Frozen tissues are held in the vapor phase of the liquid nitrogen. Tissues can also be embedded, cut and mounted on slides, and stained upon request. Tissue Microarray (TMA) services are offered for the design and construction of TMAs meeting specific project needs. Basic demographic data (age, race, gender) and histopathologic data from Surgical Pathology Reports are provided by the TPHC with the tissues.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

Collaborative neuro-oncology research program with a tissue repository (tumor bank) containing a wide range of clinical specimens, which they make available to researchers in order to study the effects of new drugs on a large number and wide range of tumor specimens. They provide highly coordinated, complex care in neurosurgery, radiation oncology, medical oncology, and neurology to patients afflicted with tumors of the brain and spine by combining the newest technologies and treatments available anywhere in the world. The program is formed from a multidisciplinary group with a goal of helping patients navigate the complex issues surrounding brain and spinal cancer care. The researchers are working to increase the number of targets that could be considered for anti-angiogenesis therapy. Many of their studies focus on the blood vessel cells (endothelial cells) themselves, which, unlike tumor cells, rarely mutate and so might be less likely to become resistant to therapy and are also more easily reached through the bloodstream. Their researchers are also attempting to better understand the changes in the blood-brain barrier (BBB) that are associated with fluid accumulation and brain swelling (edema) in neuro-oncology patients. Normal brain tissue is shielded from the rest of the body by the BBB. This barrier is composed of very tight blood vessels that prevent most substances from entering the brain. Brain tumors have a leaky BBB ����?? this feature can be used to identify tumors on MRI scans. They have identified specific molecules that appear to be associated with the leaky, abnormal vessels while the normal blood vessels with intact BBB produce these molecules at very low levels or not at all. Inhibiting the function of these molecules may help control or prevent disruption of the BBB and limit cerebral edema in brain tumor patients, as well as patients suffering from stroke or traumatic brain injury.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented September 18, 2017. Text Mining platform that copes with major Information Retrieval and Information Extraction tasks and promotes multi-disciplinary research. It aims to provide support to three different usage roles: biologists, text miners and application developers. The workbench supports the retrieval, processing and annotation of documents as well as their analysis at different levels.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

A portal presenting the patient registries and databases of the National Ataxia Foundation. The registries include: Ataxia Patient Registry at CoRDS, Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance Patient Registry; the Fragile X Research Registry; Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay ARSACS; and, Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T) Children's Project Family Data Base.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

A web based search tool to help you gain an overview of the set of articles (up to 25,000 most recent articles) retrieved by a PubMed query. Once you enter a query, you can select different types of summary information to view: Important words, Topics, Authors, Affiliations, Journals, Year, Clustered by topic.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Java software for studying protein-DNA interaction using ChIP-seq / ChIP-exo data. It links binding event discovery and motif discovery with positional priors in the context of a generative probabilistic model of ChIP data and genome sequence, resolves ChIP data into explanatory motifs and binding events at unsurpassed spatial resolution. GEM reciprocally improves motif discovery using binding event locations, and binding event predictions using discovered motifs.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

The CEI Science & Technology Network (S&TN), launched at the beginning of 2004, is composed of sevenTrieste-based research centres and their partners in the CEI region. With the aim to strengthen scientific and technological cooperation, the S&TN provides financial support for the organization of seminars, conferences, workshops and training courses. Young scientists from CEI countries, especially non-EU member States, are offered the opportunity to attend such activities and carry out scientific research on various topics in one of the seven Lead Institutions (LIs). The area of cooperation of each Lead Institution is separately defined in a three-year Protocol complemented by an annual Work Programme. During 2004-2009, the Network''s Lead Institutions implemented a number of activities, some of which in partnership with other institutions from CEI countries. This cooperation started up the Secondary Network whose further enhancement will be the main challenge in the future years. The CEI Research Fellowship Programme The CEI Research Fellowship Programme was established in 2005 to enable mobility across the CEI region by giving selected scientists the possibility of carrying out research in one of the Network''s Lead Institutions. In the time-frame 2005 - 2009, the request for fellowships has constantly increased and witnessed the effectiveness of the Programme. Taking this into account, in 2008 the CEI-ES started to explore EU funding opportunities in order to develop its Research Fellowship Programme. A joint proposal named CERES (CEI Research Fellowship Programme) was submitted to the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7). CERES was approved and is currently under implementation. EU Funding opportunities for the CEI Science & Technology Network Following the successful experience of CERES, the CEI-ES, along with the Network''s Lead Institutions, will continue to look into funding opportunities offered by the EU with the ultimate aim to support mobility of researchers across the CEI area and promote significant progress in the S&T sector.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

Web application, API and widget able to recognize and annotate biomedical concepts in text.Provides annotations for isolated, nested and intersected entities.Identifies concepts from multiple semantic groups, providing preferred names and enriching them with references to public knowledge resources.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Compilation terms with definitions that describe altered states that are associated with brain injury (e.g., trauma, stroke, tumor) or with developmental deficits. Although the list deals with primarily CNS-associated disorders, in some cases the term does not distinguish between a CNS cause or a peripheral or neuromuscular cause. Terms that are primarily psychiatric diagnoses (e.g., schizophrenia) are not included. AGNOSIA is a general term for a loss of ability to recognize objects, people, sounds, shapes, or smells; that is, the inability to attach appropriate meaning to objective sense-data. It usually is used when the primary sense organ involved is not impaired. APHASIA is a general term relating to a loss of language ability. APRAXIA is a general term for disorders of practice. These conditions are usually caused by brain injury due to trauma, stroke and/or tumor. Many of these terms have two synonymous forms that differ in whether the word starts with a- or with dys- such as alexia and dyslexia. Here the a- form is usually defined and the other is noted as syn:, except when the dys- form is the more common usage. (If you cannot find a term in one of these forms, look for it in the other. All other synonyms are defined in both forms.) Sources: These definitions are paraphrased from definitions in a large number or print and online dictionaries. Thus this list is not meant to be considered my own, but rather is a compilation. Note: When a word appears in italics, that indicates it is defined elsewhere in this list.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

A database of bodily fluid proteome data. It contains information on proteins from humanplasma/serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, synovial fluid, nipple aspirate fluid, tear fluid, seminal fluid, human milk, and amniotic fluid. Our body fluid protein database, Sys-BodyFluid, contains 11 body fluid proteomes, including plasma/serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, synovial fluid, nipple aspirate fluid, tear fluid, seminal fluid, human milk, and amniotic fluid. Over 10,000 proteins are included in the Sys-BodyFluid. These body fluid proteome data come from 50 peer-review publications of different laboratories all over the world. Protein annotation are provided including protein description, Gene ontology, Domain information, Protein sequence and involved pathway. User can access the proteome data by protein name, protein accession number, sequence similarity. In addition, user could perform query cross different body fluids to get more comprehensive understanding. The difference and similarity between these 11 body fluids are also analyzed. Thus , the Sys-BodyFluid database could serve as a reference database for body fluid research and disease proteomics. plasm, serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, synovial fluid, nipple aspirate fluid, tear fluid, seminal fluid, human milk, and amniotic fluid, protein, proteomics

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous