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Randomized clinical trial to determine the efficacy and safety of three treatments for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH): transurethral needle ablation (TUNA), transurethral microwave therapy (TUMT), and medical therapy with alfuzosin and finasteride. The study has been terminated. (Inability to recruit required sample size.)

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Database of known enzyme structures that have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). The enzyme structures are classified by their E.C. number of the ENZYME Data Bank. Browse the classification hierarchy or enter an EC number or search-string. There are currently 45,638 PDB-enzyme entries in the PDB (as at 23 February, 2013) involving 38,109 separate PDB files - some files having more than one E.C. number associated with them.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 23, 2016. Neuropsychiatric Imaging Research Laboratory (NIRL) analyze magnetic resonance images to research numerous psychiatric disorders including depression, bipolar disorder, and post traumatic stress disorder. NIRL also develop new methods for MR image processing to improve quality and reliability of research in the field of neuroimaging. The laboratory computer resources include Sun MicroSystems SPARC workstations, Windows PCs, over 3 terabytes of online hard disk space, and a web server system. The lab has a site filtered anonymous ftp server system for data transfer. There are individual offices for visiting fellows and analysts for image processing as well as shared work-study rooms and conference facilities.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

This database have been funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to produce shotgun sequence of the Tetraodon nigriviridis genome. The strategy involves Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS) sequencing, in which sequence from the entire genome is generated. Whole genome shotgun libraries were prepared from Tetraodon genomic DNA obtained from the laboratory of Jean Weissenbach at Genoscope. Additional sequence data of approximately 2.5X coverage of Tetraodon has also been generated by Genoscope in plasmid and BAC end reads. Broad and Genoscope intend to pool their data and generate whole genome assemblies. Tetraodon nigroviridis is a freshwater pufferfish of the order Tetraodontiformes and lives in the rivers and estuaries of Indonesia, Malaysia and India. This species is 20-30 million years distant from Fugu rubripes, a marine pufferfish from the same family. The gene repertoire of T. nigroviridis is very similar to that of other vertebrates. However, its relatively small genome of 385 Mb is eight times more compact than that of human, mostly because intergenic and intronic sequences are reduced in size compared to other vertebrate genomes. These genome characteristics along with the large evolutionary distance between bony fish and mammals make Tetraodon a compact vertebrate reference genome - a powerful tool for comparative genetics and for quick and reliable identification of human genes.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Bookshelf, the books division of the NLM Literature Archive, is an online collection of full-text books, reports, databases and other documents, providing free access to over 700 texts in life science and healthcare. A vital node in the data-rich resource network at NCBI, Bookshelf enables users to easily browse, retrieve, and read content, and spurs discovery of related information. Some Bookshelf contents have a corresponding entry in PubMed. The books we host have been given to us by the publishers (we do not pay them any kind of fee). Each book is viewed as a new candidate for Bookshelf. Whether the next edition of a book comes out on Bookshelf depends on whether we have a new agreement for that edition with the publisher. The publisher must contact us with this request. You may also contact the publisher directly to request that the next edition be placed on Bookshelf.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

A neuroscience research program that studies genes, the brain and behavior in an integrated manner, established to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of learning and memory, and shed light on the pathogenesis of disorders of cognition. Central to G2C investigations is the NMDA receptor complex (NRC/MASC), that is found at the synapses in the central nervous system which constitute the functional connections between neurons. Changes in the receptor and associated components are thought to be in a large part responsible for the phenomenon of synaptic plasticity, that may underlie learning and memory. G2C is addressing the function of synapse proteins using large scale approaches combining genomics, proteomics and genetic methods with electrophysiological and behavioral studies. This is incorporated with computational models of the organization of molecular networks at the synapse. These combined approaches provide a powerful and unique opportunity to understand the mechanisms of disease genes in behavior and brain pathology as well as provide fundamental insights into the complexity of the human brain. Additionally, Genes to Cognition makes available its biological resources, including gene-targeting vectors, ES cell lines, antibodies, and transgenic mice, generated for its phenotyping pipeline. The resources are freely-available to interested researchers.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Database that provides users with information on protein-protein interactions, as well as experimental and inferring interactions, for the organism Helicobacter pylori. Searching the database provides users with the ORF, locus, similarity comparisons, and description for the object queried.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

One of the country''s leading procurement organizations and is just one of eight nationwide to house organ, tissue, and eye donation in one location. With the addition of community blood banking services in the summer of 2007, Upstate New York Transplant Services became the only organization nationwide to offer such services in conjunction with organ, tissue, and eye donation. Licensed by the NY State Dept. of Health, FDA-Registered Accredited by the Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA) and American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB)

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

A database of virtually generated anatomically plausible neurons for several morphological classes, including cerebellar Purkinje cells, hippocampal pyramidal and granule cells, and spinal cord motoneurons. It presently contains 542 cells. In the trade neurons collection the database contains an amaral cell archive, neuron morpho reconstructions, and mouse alpha motoneurons. Their collection of generated neurons include motoneurons, Purkinje cells, and hippocampal pyramidal cells.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

The DFWG is charged with arriving at a technical solution to the problem of multiple data formats used in fMRI research. This was identified by many investigators as a fundamental obstacle to fMRI fulfilling the promise it has to elucidate brain function. The solution arrived at by the DFWG will not be imposed on the research community, but several groups that develop fMRI-related software have already indicated their willingness to adopt the solution. Suggestions for membership on the DFWG were broadly solicited from the research community.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

Probe Explorer is an open access web-based bioinformatics application designed to show the association between microarray oligonucleotide probes and transcripts in the genomic context, but flexible enough to serve as a simplified genome and transcriptome browser. Coordinates and sequences of the genomic entities (loci, exons, transcripts), including vector graphics outputs, are provided for fifteen metazoa organisms and two yeasts. Alignment tools are used to built the associations between Affymetrix microarrays probe sequences and the transcriptomes (for human, mouse, rat and yeasts). Search by keywords is available and user searches and alignments on the genomes can also be done using any DNA or protein sequence query. Platform: Online tool

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

An epidemiologic study being conducted in the Boston metropolitan area to examine the prevalence of symptoms for health problems such as interstitial cystitis, urinary incontinence, benign prostatic hyperplasia, prostatitis, hypogonadism, and sexual function. Of interest to the survey are health disparities and inequalities. BACH is especially concerned with lack of adequate health insurance, lack of access to adequate medical care, and how these problems influence patterns of disease. The study also focuses on social determinants of disease that are over and above the contribution of individual characteristics and risk factors. To achieve a randomly sampled population, four neighborhoods were divided into 12 strata and from them investigators selected census blocks. Households were then randomly selected from the census blocks and sampled to identify eligible study participants. Investigators conduct a two-hour, in-home, bilingual field interview of all eligible participants, looking at symptoms and asking questions about lifestyle, physical activity, alcohol use, nutrition, demographics, and morbidity. They also conduct a detailed inventory of medications, both prescribed and over-the-counter, and take two non-fasting blood samples for hormone, cholesterol, and lipid levels that will be stored for future studies. By the time the study ends, approximately 6,000 men and women, ages 30 to 79, from four Boston area neighborhoods that have density levels proportionate with minority populations will have been interviewed in their homes. One third of the randomly sampled population will be African American; one third, Hispanic; and one third, Caucasian.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Sixty years of study have made Escherichia coli K-12 the most deeply understood organism at the molecular level. Much of what we know about cellular processes can be traced to fundamental discoveries in E. coli. In spite of its great importance as a model organism, information about E. coli is distributed among many online resources. EcoliHub uses web services that are being developed to make seamless bidirectional connections between E. coli resources, thereby enabling the full use of existing knowledge and supporting cutting-edge research into the molecular basis of life. :topical portal;

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

A UNIX-style command-line program which quickly computes multifactorial ANOVAs for very large data sets with minimal memory use (without loading all of the data into memory). It has been used for fMRI analysis, e.g. CLEAVE adds the following to the standard ANOVA analyses: # Unlimited numbers of factors can be analyzed. # Factor Correlation and Unequal Variance Corrections # Treatment Magnitudes: omega^2, partial eta^2, and R^2 # A convenient Ranking of Factors based upon treatment magnitudes and significance levels. # Post-Hoc Significance Tests # Post-Hoc Power Table to gauge how many subjects will be needed to achieve significance. # Allows the use of Random Factors. # A Configuration File to make the program more tunable # A Histogram and Cell Line Diagrams: which help the user to detect outliers. # Associated MATLAB functions: port CLEAVE-style data sets in or out of MATLAB.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Bibliography covering all publications related to the fast-growing field of biomedical literature and text mining. This forum for collecting, compiling and sharing is a one-stop resource, letting researchers find out who-does-what in the area and where it is published, bridging across the many discipline-specific venues in which biomedical text-mining papers are published. If you know of a relevant paper that is missing from BLIMP, or have an accepted-for-publication paper, PhD/MSc thesis or a technical report, that you believe is relevant to biomedical text mining, fill in the submission form. The fast-growing field of biomedical literature mining is highly-interdisciplinary. Publications appear in forums ranging from the SIGIR conferences (the ACM Special Interest group on Information Retrieval) to journals such as Nature and Science, with the whole range of bioinformatics forums in-between. To substantially contribute, one must know what was/is being done in this diverse area, and place the work in context - both biologically and computationally. Instead of starting a journal fully dedicated to biomedical literature mining, thus creating yet another publication venue, this site offers an alternative: It holds in one place a compilation of references to relevant papers that have been published or accepted for publication.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

VIDA contains a collection of homologous protein families derived from open reading frames from complete and partial virus genomes. For each family, users can get an alignment of the conserved regions, functional and taxonomy information, and links to DNA sequences and structures. * Search homologous protein families from particular virus families * Links to complete genome sequence: Arteriviridae, Coronaviridae, Herpesviridae, Poxviridae The Virus Database at University College London has been developed as a system to organize animal virus open reading frame sequences. All known and predicted protein sequences from complete and partial genomes of particular virus families are extracted from GenBank and filtered to remove 100% redundancy. On the basis of sequence similarity the sequences are then clustered into homologous protein families (HPFs). The families are enriched with annotations including function and functional classification, related protein structures, taxonomy, length of the proteins, boundaries of the conserved region/s, virus-specific gene name and links to EMBL entries and SWISSPROT., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

The aim of this work is to present a toolbox for structure segmentation of structural MRI images. All programs were developed in MATLAB based on a widely used fMRI, MRI software package, SPM99, SPM2, SPM5 (Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, London, UK). Other previous works have developed a similar strategy for obtaining the segmentation of individual MRI image into different anatomical structures using a standardized Atlas. Have to be mentioned the one introduced by Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) that merges the information coming from ANIMAL (algorithm that deforms one image (nonlinear registration) to match previously labelled) and INSECT (Cerebral Tissue Classification) programs for obtaining a suitable gross cortical structure segmentation (Collins et al, 1999). Here both, nonlinear registration and gray matter segmentation processes have been performed through SPM99, SPM2, SPM5 subroutines. Three principal elements for the labeling process are used: gray matter segmentation, normalization transform matrix (that maps voxels from individual space to standardized one) and MaxPro MNI Atlas. All three are combined to yield a good performance in segmenting gross cortical structures. The programs here can be used in general for any standardized Atlas and any MRI image modality. System Requirements: 1. The IBASPM graphical user interface (GUI) runs only under MATLAB 7.0 or higher. The non-graphical version runs under MATLAB 6.5 or higher. 2. Statistical Parametrical Mapping Software SPM2, SPM5 Main Functions: * Atlasing: Main function ( This file contains spm_select script from SPM5 toolbox and uigetdir script from MATLAB 7.0 ). * Auto_Labeling : Computes individual atlas. * Create_SPAMs : Constructs Statistical Probability Anatomy Maps (SPAMs). * Create_MaxProb : Creates Maximum Probability Atlas (MaxPro) using the SPAMs previously computed. * All_Brain_Vol : Computes whole brain volume masking the brain using the segmentation files (if the segmentation files does not exist it segments). * Struct_Vol : Computes the volume for different structures based on individual Atlas previously obtained by the atlasing process. * Vols_Stats : Computes mean and standard deviation for each structure in a group of individual atlases.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

Suite of programs developed for fMRI analysis in a Virtual Pipeline Laboratory facilitates combining program modules from different software packages into processing pipelines to create analysis solutions which are not possible with a single software package alone. Current pipelines include fMRI analysis, statistical testing based on randomization methods and fractal spectral analysis. Pipelines are continually being added. The software is mostly written in C. This fMRI analysis package supports batch processing and comprises the following general functions at the first level of individual image analysis: movement correction (interpolation and regression), time series modeling, data resampling in the wavelet domain, hypothesis testing at voxel and cluster levels. Additionally, there is code for second level analysis - group and factorial or ANOVA mapping - after co-registration of voxel statistic maps from individual images in a standard space. The main point of difference from other fMRI analysis packages is the emphasis throughout on the use of data resampling (permutation or randomization) as a basis for inference on individual, group and factorial test statistics at voxel and cluster levels of resolution.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 11, 2023. Software application that is intended to provide p-values for the hypothesis of association between evolutionary clades and continuous traits, using haplotype trees. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Software program to adjust the alignment of two adjacent images. Allows to correct for any misalignment that may occur during auto-alignment step. Serves as a bootstrap to get the images in approximately the right place.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous