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The HCV Immunology Database contains a curated inventory of immunological epitopes in HCV and their interaction with the immune system, with associated retrieval and analysis tools. The funding for the HCV database project has stopped, and this website and the HCV immunology database are no longer maintained. The site will stay up, but problems will not be fixed. The database was last updated in September 2007. The HIV immunology website contains the same tools, and may be usable for non-HCV-specific analyses. For new epitope information, users of this database can try the Immuno Epitope Database (http://www.immuneepitope.org).

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An application ontology integrating knowledge about the eukaryotic cell cycle.

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HbVar is a relational database of information about hemoglobin variants and mutations that cause thalassemia. The initial data came from Syllabi authored by Prof. Titus H.J. Huisman, Mrs. Marianne F.H. Carver, Dr. Erol Baysal, and Prof. Georgi D. Efremov. This information was converted to a database, and now new entries are added and old entries are corrected by curators. HbVar results from a collaboration among several investigators at Penn State University (USA), INSERM Creteil (France), and Boston University Medical Center (USA). Visit our query page or summary page to see the types of information available.

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A collaboration involving developers of science-based ontologies who are establishing a set of principles for ontology development with the goal of creating a suite of orthogonal interoperable reference ontologies in the biomedical domain. In addition to a listing of OBO ontologies, this site provides a statement of the OBO Foundry principles, discussion fora, technical infrastructure, and other services to facilitate ontology development. Feedback is welcome and participation encouraged.

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Integrative database of germ-line V genes from the immunoglobulin loci of human and mouse. It presents V gene sequences extracted from the EMBL nucleotide sequence database and Ensembl together with links to the respective source sequences. Based on the properties of the source sequences, V genes are classified into 3 different classes: * Class 1: genomic and rearranged evidence * Class 2: genomic evidence only * Class 3: rearranged evidence only This allows careful sequence quality validation by the user. References to other immunological databases ( KABAT, IMGT/LIGM and VBASE ) are given to provide all public annotation data for each V gene. The VBASE2 database can be accessed either by the Direct Query interface or by the DNAPLOT Query interface. The Sequences given by the user are aligned with DNAPLOT against the VBASE2 database. Direct Query allows to enter sequence IDs and names (Field 1), choose species, locus, V gene family and class (Field 2) or search for 100% sequences (Field 3). At the DNAPLOT Query, the sequences given by the user are aligned with DNAPLOT against the VBASE2 database. The DNAPLOT program offers V gene nucleotide sequence alignment referring to the IMGT V gene unique numbering. The Quick Search can be used either for Direct Query to search for sequence IDs and V gene names or for DNAPLOT Query for up to 5 sequences. The new Fab Analysis allows you to align Fab, scFab, scAb or scFv sequences with DNAPLOT against the VBASE2 database, where both heavy and light chain are analyzed.

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A Matlab toolbox for the statistical analysis of univariate and multivariate surface data using linear mixed effects models and random field theory.

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Database of collected known and predicted transcription factors (TF) of the black cottonwood tree, Populus trichocarpa. They have made extensive annotations, including similarity searches against major databases (Uniprot, RefSeq, EMBL, TRANSFAC et al) and EST expression information extraction from UniGene clusters and microarray expression, to provide comprehensive information for the putative TFs. In addition, multiple alignment of the DNA-binding domain of each family, Neighbor-Joining phylogenetic tree of each family, the GO annotation, homolog with the Database of Arabidopsis Transcription Factors (DATF), the Database of Rice Transcription Factors (DRTF) are included.

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The initial objective of Genoscope was to compare the genomic sequences of this fish to that of humans to help in the annotation of human genes and to estimate their number. This strategy is based on the common genetic heritage of the vertebrates: from one species of vertebrate to another, even for those as far apart as a fish and a mammal, the same genes are present for the most part. In the case of the compact genome of Tetraodon, this common complement of genes is contained in a genome eight times smaller than that of humans. Although the length of the exons is similar in these two species, the size of the introns and the intergenic sequences is greatly reduced in this fish. Furthermore, these regions, in contrast to the exons, have diverged completely since the separation of the lineages leading to humans and Tetraodon. The Exofish method, developed at Genoscope, exploits this contrast such that the conserved regions which can be identified by comparing genomic sequences of the two species, correspond only to coding regions. Using preliminary sequencing results of the genome of Tetraodon in the year 2000, Genoscope evaluated the number of human genes at about 30,000, whereas much higher estimations were current. The progress of the annotation of the human genome has since supported the Genoscope hypothesis, with values as low as 22,000 genes and a consensus of around 25,000 genes. The sequencing of the Tetraodon genome at a depth of about 8X, carried out as a collaboration between Genoscope and the Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research (now the Broad Institute), was finished in 2002, with the production of an assembly covering 90 of the euchromatic region of the genome of the fish. This has permitted the application of Exofish at a larger scale in comparisons with the genome of humans, but also with those of the two other vertebrates sequenced at the time (Takifugu, a fish closely related to Tetraodon, and the mouse). The conserved regions detected in this way have been integrated into the annotation procedure, along with other resources (cDNA sequences from Tetraodon and ab initio predictions). Of the 28,000 genes annotated, some families were examined in detail: selenoproteins, and Type 1 cytokines and their receptors. The comparison of the proteome of Tetraodon with those of mammals has revealed some interesting differences, such as a major diversification of some hormone systems and of the collagen molecules in the fish. A search for transposable elements in the genomic sequences of Tetraodon has also revealed a high diversity (75 types), which contrasts with their scarcity; the small size of the Tetraodon genome is due to the low abundance of these elements, of which some appear to still be active. Another factor in the compactness of the Tetraodon genome, which has been confirmed by annotation, is the reduction in intron size, which approaches a lower limit of 50-60 bp, and which preferentially affects certain genes. The availability of the sequences from the genomes of humans and mice on one hand, and Takifugu and Tetraodon on the other, provide new opportunities for the study of vertebrate evolution. We have shown that the level of neutral evolution is higher in fish than in mammals. The protein sequences of fish also diverge more quickly than those of mammals. A key mechanism in evolution is gene duplication, which we have studied by taking advantage of the anchoring of the majority of the sequences from the assembly on the chromosomes. The result of this study speaks strongly in favor of a whole genome duplication event, very early in the line of ray-finned fish (Actinopterygians). An even stronger evidence came from synteny studies between the genomes of humans and Tetraodon. Using a high-resolution synteny map, we have reconstituted the genome of the vertebrate which predates this duplication - that is, the last common ancestor to all bony vertebrates (most of the vertebrates apart from cartilaginous fish and agnaths like lamprey). This ancestral karyotype contains 12 chromosomes, and the 21 Tetraodon chromosomes derive from it by the whole genome duplication and a surprisingly small number of interchromosomal rearrangements. On the contrary, exchanges between chromosomes have been much more frequent in the lineage that leads to humans. Sponsors: The project was supported by the Consortium National de Recherche en Genomique and the National Human Genome Research Institute.

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The Department of Pharmacology at the Health Science Center at San Antonio is uniquely positioned to carry out research into the most relevant areas in pharmacology as well as to deliver superior training in pharmacology. Our faculty use approaches that range from the molecular and cellular through electrophysiology and systems to behavior. The Department of Pharmacology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) has 18 tenure-track or tenured faculty, 11 research-track faculty, 15 graduate students, and 15 postdoctoral fellows. We are very excited about recent developments in pharmacology that allow new and challenging means of exploring the biological effects of drugs. Graduate studies leading to a Doctor of Philosophy degree in the basic biomedical sciences at UTHSCSA are offered in the Integrated Multidisciplinary Graduate Program (IMGP). The Department of Pharmacology administers two tracks within the IMGP: the pharmacology track and the neuroscience track. The Department of Pharmacology has a ten-week summer research program that offers participants a variety of experiences that will help prepare them for success in research-intensive doctoral programs. Participants will have research responsibilities, attend seminars, actively participate in a student journal club and take part in formal course work. Prior research experience is not necessary, and students of all undergraduate levels are encouraged to apply.

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Software package for functional imaging of human brain. Used to compute three dimensional distribution of electric neuronal activity from non-invasive measurements of scalp electric potential differences with high time resolution in millisecond range. Non-invasive intracranial time series are used for studying functional dynamic connectivity.. Current software version includes two new, improved variants of the original method: standardized (sLORETA) and exact (eLORETA). The new methods are characterized by exact localization when tested with point sources. Due to the fact that these methods are multivariate tomographies that are solutions to the inverse EEG problem, and that they are linear in nature, they will produce a low spatial resolution image for any distribution of activity. This property is not shared by naive one-at-a-time single dipole techniques.

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The NCI Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research (OBBR) was established in 2005 in recognition of the critical role that biospecimens play in cancer research. The OBBR is responsible for developing a common biorepository infrastructure that promotes resource sharing and team science, in order to facilitate multi-institutional, high throughput genomic and proteomic studies. OBBR is focused on the following objectives: * Establish biobanking as a new area of research, in order to determine the impact of various collection and processing protocols on the usefulness of biospecimens in genomic and proteomic studies * Disseminate first-generation Best Practices in order to harmonize policies and procedures of NCI-supported biorepositories * Develop future generations of biorepository best practices, based on the data generated in the biobanking research programs above * Promote professional oversight of biospecimen standards development by standards organizations * Develop new technologies for biorepository operations * Develop a biorepository accreditation program * Coordinate with the international biobanking community to harmonize policies and procedures to facilitate multi-national research

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A comprehensive analysis and visualization software package for gene expression experiments that provides: a number of clustering and analysis techniques; integrated gene expression and analysis result visualizations, integration with the Gene Expression Omnibus; and an optional data sharing architecture. GO is used to assign functional enrichment scores to clusters, using a combination of specially developed techniques and general statistical methods. These results can be explored using the in built ontology browsing tool or through the generated web pages. SeqExpress also supports numerous data transformation, projection, visualization, file export/import, searching, integration (with R), and clustering options.

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Database about gene regulation and gene expression in prokaryotes. It includes a manually curated and unique collection of transcription factor binding sites. A variety of bioinformatics tools for the prediction, analysis and visualization of regulons and gene reglulatory networks is included. The integrated approach provides information about molecular networks in prokaryotes with focus on pathogenic organisms. In detail this concerns: * transcriptional regulation (transcription factors and their DNA binding sites * signal transduction (two-component systems, phosphylation cascades) * protein interactions (complex formation, oligomerization) * biochemical pathways (chemical reactions) * other regulation events (e.g. codon usage, etc. ...) It aims to be a resource to model protein-host interactions and to be a suitable platform to analyze high-throughput data from proteomis and transcriptomics experiments (systems biology). Currently it mainly contains detailed information about operon and promoter structures including huge collections of transcription factor binding sites. If an appropriate number of regulatory binding sites is available, a position weight matrix (PWM) and a sequence logo is provided, which can be used to predict new binding sites. This data is collected manually by screening the original scientific literature. PRODORIC also handles protein-protein interactions and signal-transduction cascades that commonly occur in form of two-component systems in prokaryotes. Furthermore it contains metabolic network data imported from the KEGG database., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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Biomedical and genomic research center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Nonprofit research organization under the name Broad Institute Inc., and is partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the five Harvard teaching hospitals. Dedicated to advance understanding of biology and treatment of human disease to improve human health.

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Data set of metabolic pathways for the malaria parasite based on the present knowledge of parasite biochemistry and on pathways known to occur in other unicellular eukaryotes. This site extracted the pertinent information from the universal sites and presented them in an educative and informative format. The site also includes, cell-cell interactions (cytoadherence and rosetting), invasion of the erythrocyte by the parasite and transport functions. It also contains an artistic impression of the ultrastructural morphology of the interaerythrocytic cycle stages and some details about the morphology of mitochondria and the apicoplast. Most pathways are relevant to the erythrocytic phase of the parasite cycle. All maps were checked for the presence of enzyme-coding genes as they are officially annotated in the Plasmodium genome (http://plasmodb.org/). The site is constructed in a hierarchical pattern that permits logical deepening: * Grouped pathways of major chemical components or biological process ** Specific pathways or specific process *** Chemical structures of substrates and products or process **** Names of enzymes and their genes or components of process Each map is linked to other maps thus enabling to verify the origin of a substrate or the fate of a product. Clicking on the EC number that appears next to each enzyme, connects the site to BRENDA, SWISSPROT ExPASy ENZYME, PlasmoDB and to IUBMB reaction scheme. Clicking of the name of a metabolite, connects the site to KEGG thus providing its chemical structure and formula. Next to each enzyme there is a pie that depicts the stage-dependent transcription of the enzyme''s coding gene. The pie is constructed as a clock of the 48 hours of the parasite cycle, where red signifies over-transcription and green, under-transcription. Clicking on the pie links to the DeRisi/UCSF transcriptome database.

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Data set of manually annotated chordata-specific proteins as well as those that are widely conserved. The program keeps existing human entries up-to-date and broadens the manual annotation to other vertebrate species, especially model organisms, including great apes, cow, mouse, rat, chicken, zebrafish, as well as Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis. A draft of the complete human proteome is available in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot and one of the current priorities of the Chordata protein annotation program is to improve the quality of human sequences provided. To this aim, they are updating sequences which show discrepancies with those predicted from the genome sequence. Dubious isoforms, sequences based on experimental artifacts and protein products derived from erroneous gene model predictions are also revisited. This work is in part done in collaboration with the Hinxton Sequence Forum (HSF), which allows active exchange between UniProt, HAVANA, Ensembl and HGNC groups, as well as with RefSeq database. UniProt is a member of the Consensus CDS project and thye are in the process of reviewing their records to support convergence towards a standard set of protein annotation. They also continuously update human entries with functional annotation, including novel structural, post-translational modification, interaction and enzymatic activity data. In order to identify candidates for re-annotation, they use, among others, information extraction tools such as the STRING database. In addition, they regularly add new sequence variants and maintain disease information. Indeed, this annotation program includes the Variation Annotation Program, the goal of which is to annotate all known human genetic diseases and disease-linked protein variants, as well as neutral polymorphisms.

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An audio summary of highlights and key articles from each issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry. Users may subscribe to the podcast to get automatic updates with each issue or download each issue''s audio file individually.

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It is a dual function database that associates an informatics database to a structural database of known and potential drug targets. PDTD is a comprehensive, web-accessible database of drug targets, and focuses on those drug targets with known 3D-structures. PDTD contains 1207 entries covering 841 known and potential drug targets with structures from the Protein Data Bank (PDB). Drug targets of PDTD were categorized into 15 and 13 types according to two criteria: therapeutic areas and biochemical criteria. The database supports extensive searching function using PDB ID, target name and category, related disease.

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The Molecular Toolkit is a group of programs for analysis and manipulation of nucleic acid and protein sequence data. The programs are written in Java (1.0) and require that your browser support this language. Also, it''s best if your monitor supports a screen resolution of at least 800x600. Nucleic Acid Analysis and Manipulation Programs: *Dot Plots - Examine the similarity of two DNA (or RNA) sequences by production of a similarity matrix displayed as a dot plot. *Manipulate and Display Sequences - Perform simple manipulations on a DNA sequence (inverse, complement, inverse-complement, double-stranded etc). *Restriction Maps - Generate graphical and text-based maps for restriction endonuclease cleavage of DNA. *Translate - Translate a DNA or RNA sequence and obtain graphical and text depictions of the resulting protein sequences. Protein Analysis Programs *Reverse Translate - Reverse translate a protein sequence into DNA. *Protein Composition - Obtain the amino acid composition of a protein. *Hydrophobicity Plots - Plot hydrophobic and hydrophilic domains of a protein.

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Ontology that represents CTX phenotypes, genetic variants, and bidirectional relationships between them though a patient model. The CTX ontology was built reusing the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) and the Snomed ct ontologies. A set of temporal clinical manifestations are semantically annotated with a domain phenotype ontology and registered with a time-stamped value.

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