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Database and data analysis system dedicated to glossary, nomenclature, classification, information search, prediction, design, and statistics of Antimicrobial peptides and beyond. The peptide data stored in the APD were gleaned from the literature (PubMed, PDB, Google, and Swiss-Prot) manually in the past several years. Peptides will be registered into this database if: # they are from natural sources (bacteria, protozoa, fungi, plants, and animals); # their antimicrobial activities are demonstrated (MIC

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

The Wake Forest Cynomolgus Breeding Colony (CBC) is a colony of cynomolgus macaques (crab-eating macaques, Macaca fascicularis). The cynomolgus colony is designed to produce specific pathogen free (SPF) cynomolgus monkeys for use in biomedical research. The colony, supported by a grant from the NCRR, addresses the growing need for investigators to use in their protocols animals defined for the absence of specific diseases including CHV-1 (Herpes B), simian immunodeficiency virus, and simian retroviruses. An additional important characteristic of this colony is that, unlike many breeding colonies, the NHPs will be fed two defined diets. The first diet is a soy-free diet, not commercial monkey chow. The second diet has the same macronutrients but the protein source is from soy; similar in isoflavone content. A drawback of chow diets is that the exact nutritional product composition is unknown from lot to lot. However, they are always rich in soy bean meal, isoflavones and other constituents of soy bean meal that are known confounders of several types of research projects. All research using the cynomolgus colony must be reviewed and approved by the colony''s scientific board and the Wake Forest Animal Care and Use Committee (ACUC) before any work can be initiated. The scientific board meets regularly to assess the scientific value of each request and to determine whether or not animals/samples/data can be made available. This includes all requests for: # The purchase of animals for use outside the colony # The use of animals within the colony for the collection of blood/tissue samples, behavioral observations or other kinds of testing # The use of the CBC sample/tissue repository # The use of the CBC data repository

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• SciCrunch
• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

Repository contains antibody/B cell and T cell epitope information and epitope prediction and analysis tools. Immune epitopes are defined as molecular structures recognized by specific antigen receptors of the immune system, namely antibodies, B cell receptors, and T cell receptors. Immune epitopes from infectious diseases, excluding HIV, and immune-mediated diseases and the accompanying biological information are included.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

BrainLine is a national multimedia project offering information and resources about preventing, treating, and living with TBI. BrainLine includes a series of webcasts, an electronic newsletter, and an extensive outreach campaign in partnership with national organizations concerned about traumatic brain injury. BrainLine serves anyone whose life has been affected by TBI. That includes people with brain injury, their families, professionals in the field, and anyone else in a position to help prevent or ameliorate the toll of TBI. Through BrainLine, we seek to provide a sense of community, a place where people who care about TBI can go 24 hours a day for information, support, and ideas. BrainLine is funded by the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, the Primary Operational TBI Component of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, through a subcontract award with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Ontology describing the anatomy and the development of Botryllus schlosseri.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Biomedical technology research center focusing on technological innovation and application of new techniques to biological problems. The main areas of research are free radicals, spin labeling, metal complexes, and metallo proteins. Spectrometers are available for S-, X-, L-, Q- , and W-band EPR, many with ENDOR, ELDOR, saturation-transfer, saturation-recovery, and multiquantum capabilities. * Development of multiquantum Q- and W-band spectrometers, including multiquantum ELDOR, development of time-locked sub-sampling (TLSS) for broadband detection of periodically modulated signals * Development of loop-gap resonators using finite element modeling of Maxwell''s equations * Application of multifrequency (1 to 100 GHz) electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) to characterize paramagnetic centers * Study of relaxation processes using multifrequency pulse saturation recovery * Use of nitroxide radical spin labels to measure translational and rotational diffusion in biological systems, site-directed spin labeling (SDSL), and use of EPR for the detection of nitric oxide and oxy radicals

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Collection of data related to crop plant and model organism Zea mays. Used to synthesize, display, and provide access to maize genomics and genetics data, prioritizing mutant and phenotype data and tools, structural and genetic map sets, and gene models and to provide support services to the community of maize researchers. Data stored at MaizeGDB was inherited from the MaizeDB and ZmDB projects. Sequence data are from GenBank. Data are searchable by phenotype, traits, Pests, Gel Pattern, and Mutant Images.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

European research collaboration aimed at understanding the ways in which researchers are evaluated by their peers and by institutions, and at assessing how the science system can be improved and enhanced. This FP7 project is a cooperation among nine European research institutes with Professor Paul Wouters (CWTS ����?? Leiden University) as principal investigator.

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• SciCrunch
• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Database of mapped validated gene and protein expression, phenotype and images related to cell types. The data allow characterization and comparison of cell types and can be browsed by using the body browser and by searching for cells or genes. All cells are related to more complex systems such as tissues, organs and organisms and arranged according to their position in development. CellFinder provides long-term data storage for validated and curated primary research data and provides additional expert-validation through relevant information extracted from text. Operated under the Open Source/Access model, community and scientific networking applications will allow users to store and retrieve their data and to explore cells and their interactions on singular and complex resolution levels. The involvement of stem cell registries and banks will allow direct access to selected cells. The set up the stem cell data repository will involve three lines of action: * the acquisition of scientific data and contents * the standardized description of this data, its organization with the help of ontologies and technical implementation * the integration of existing sources/logistics and to ensure sustainable long-term operation

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Articles published by guardian.co.uk Science about: Science + Video

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

Interactive and programmatic interfaces to query, browse and navigate an increasing number of biomedical ontologies and controlled vocabularies. It provides a web service interface to query multiple ontologies from a single location with a unified output format. It can integrate any ontology available in the Open Biomedical Ontology (OBO) format. The database can be queried to obtain information on a single term or to browse a complete ontology using AJAX. Auto-completion provides a user-friendly search mechanism. An AJAX-based ontology viewer is available to browse a complete ontology or subsets of it. A weekly MySQL database export file can be downloaded from the EBI public FTP directory.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Ontology that describes the field of Tissue Engineering for what concerns bone and cartilage tissues.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

A scientific data management system specifically designed for neuroimaging data. NIMS automatically reaps data from the measurement instrument (e.g., MR scanner), sorts and organizes the data based on header information, does some basic processing on the data, and makes the data available to authorized users through a web-based interface. The data are also available from the command-line through a FUSE-based filesystem.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Software tools for global and local image registration. The algorithm used for global registration is based on a block matching approach enabling robust registration (outliers rejection). The local registration implementation uses a cubic B-Spline parametrisation (Free-Form Deformation). All registration algorithms are based on symmetric approaches where forward and backward transformations can be optimised concurrently. NiftyReg has been implemented for both CPU and GPU (through the use of CUDA).

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

BoDD is an electronic re-incarnation of BOTANICAL DERMATOLOGY by John Mitchell & Arthur Rook. This updated on-line version is made available to users with the kind permission of the original authors. The original edition has been digitized by Google Books. Although BoDD is actively being updated, updates are uploaded to the website only at about monthly intervals. A vast body of information collected by the Editor (Richard J. Schmidt PhD) awaits addition to the database. Users should be aware that some of the information that is currently accessible is neither accurate nor up-to-date. None of the information presented in BoDD should be regarded as a recommendation to treat any disease or disorder. The following are databases that are present in BoDD: -Balsaminaceae -Elaeagnaceae -Gelsemiaceae -Gentianaceae / Potaliacaceae -Hydroleaceae -Loganiaceae / Spigeliaceae / Strychnaceae -Martyniaceae -Orobanchaceae -Phrymaceae -Sabiaceae -Tamaricaceae

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

A high-performance nonlinear finite element solver. A key feature is the option of GPU-based execution, which allows the solver to significantly out-perform equivalent commercial packages.

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• SciCrunch
• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Database of peer-reviewed, continually updated annotation for the Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 reference strain genome expanded to include all Pseudomonas species to facilitate cross-strain and cross-species genome comparisons with high quality comparative genomics. The database contains robust assessment of orthologs, a novel ortholog clustering method, and incorporates five views of the data at the sequence and annotation levels (Gbrowse, Mauve and custom views) to facilitate genome comparisons. Other features include more accurate protein subcellular localization predictions and a user-friendly, Boolean searchable log file of updates for the reference strain PAO1. The current annotation is updated using recent research literature and peer-reviewed submissions by a worldwide community of PseudoCAP (Pseudomonas aeruginosa Community Annotation Project) participating researchers. If you are interested in participating, you are invited to get involved. Many annotations, DNA sequences, Orthologs, Intergenic DNA, and Protein sequences are available for download.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Communication network of current and potential biomedical research investigators and technical personnel from traditionally under-served communities: African American, Hispanic American, American Indian, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islanders. The major objective of the network is to encourage and facilitate participation of members of underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups in the conduct of biomedical research in the fields of diabetes, endocrinology, metabolism, digestive diseases, nutrition, kidney, urologic and hematologic diseases. A second objective is to encourage and enhance the potential of the underrepresented minority investigators in choosing a biomedical research career in these fields. An important component of this network is promotion of two-way communications between network members and the NIDDK.

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• dkNET
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Ontology that provides a comprehensive and formal representation of the different domain concepts involved in documenting the full complexity of the skeletal dysplasia domain. It captures and combines the genetic features that discriminate the bone dysplasias with the multitude of phenotypic characteristics manifested by patients and required to be taken into account in order to support the diagnosis process.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

A utility, whose output is a PostScript file of aligned sequences with graphical enhancements. Its main input is an ascii file of pre-aligned sequences. Optional files allow further rendering. The program calculates a similarity score for each residue of the aligned sequences. The output shows: * Secondary Structures * Aligned sequences * Similarities * Accessibility * Hydropathy * User-supplied markers * Intermolecular contacts In addition, similarity score can be written in the bfactor column of a pdb file, to enable direct display of highly conserved areas. You can run ESPript from this server with the HTML interface. It is configured for a maximum of 1,000 sequences. Links to webESPript * ENDscript: you can upload a PDB file or enter a PDB code such as 1M85. The programs DSSP and CNS are executed via the interface, so as to obtain an ESPript figure with a lot of structural information (secondary structure elements, intermolecular contacts). You can also find homologous sequences with a BLAST search, perform multiple sequence alignments with MULTALIN or CLUSTALW and create an image with BOBSCRIPT or MOLSCRIPT to show similarities on your 3D structure. * ProDom: you can enter a sequence identifier to find homologous domains, perform multiple sequence alignments with MULTALIN and click on the link to ESPript. * Predict Protein: you can receive a mail in text (do not use the HTML option when you submit your request in Predict Protein) with aligned sequences and numerous information including secondary structure prediction. Click on a special html link to upload your mail in ESPript. * NPS(at): you can execute the programs BLAST and CLUSTALW to obtain multiple alignments. You can predict secondary structure elements and click on the link to ESPript. This program started in the laboratory of Dr Richard Wade at the Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble. It moved later to the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics in Oxford, then to the Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale in Toulouse. It is now developed in the Laboratoire de BioCristallographie of Dr Richard Haser, Institut de Biologie et de Chimie des Prot��������ines, Lyon and in the Laboratoire de Biologie Mol��������culaire et de Relations Plantes-Organismes, group of Dr Daniel Kahn, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de Toulouse.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous