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University of British Columbia Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics is an amalgamation of three very important areas of medicine: anesthesiology, pharmacology, and therapeutics. Although we are a joined department with many common interests, each of the sections named above, bring special areas of expertise and learning to the mix. We welcome your interest in our department and look forward to the recruitment of outstanding anesthesiology residents, pharmacology grad students, anesthesiology fellows, and pharmacology post-graduate students. Information on the residency program and postgraduate programs can be found on the appropriate link. Our department now extends across the Province of British Columbia.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

The Kabat Database determines the combining site of antibodies based on the available amino acid sequences. The precise delineation of complementarity determining regions (CDR) of both light and heavy chains provides the first example of how properly aligned sequences can be used to derive structural and functional information of biological macromolecules. The Kabat database now includes nucleotide sequences, sequences of T cell receptors for antigens (TCR), major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and II molecules, and other proteins of immunological interest. The Kabat Database searching and analysis tools package is an ASP.NET web-based portal containing lookup tools, sequence matching tools, alignment tools, length distribution tools, positional correlation tools and much more. The searching and analysis tools are custom made for the aligned data sets contained in both the SQL Server and ASCII text flat file formats. The searching and analysis tools may be run on a single PC workstation or in a distributed environment. The analysis tools are written in ASP.NET and C# and are available in Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005/2008 formats. The Kabat Database was initially started in 1970 to determine the combining site of antibodies based on the available amino acid sequences at that time. Bence Jones proteins, mostly from human, were aligned, using the now-known Kabat numbering system, and a quantitative measure, variability, was calculated for every position. Three peaks, at positions 24-34, 50-56 and 89-97, were identified and proposed to form the complementarity determining regions (CDR) of light chains. Subsequently, antibody heavy chain amino acid sequences were also aligned using a different numbering system, since the locations of their CDRs (31-35B, 50-65 and 95-102) are different from those of the light chains. CDRL1 starts right after the first invariant Cys 23 of light chains, while CDRH1 is eight amino acid residues away from the first invariant Cys 22 of heavy chains. During the past 30 years, the Kabat database has grown to include nucleotide sequences, sequences of T cell receptors for antigens (TCR), major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and II molecules and other proteins of immunological interest. It has been used extensively by immunologists to derive useful structural and functional information from the primary sequences of these proteins.

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LeadDiscovery was founded by life scientists to expedite drug discovery and pharmaceutical development. Based on a solid background of experience from within the pharmaceutical research and development sector, the aim of this resource is to help companies optimize drug discovery and product pipelines through the identification of breaking research and the in depth and expert evaluation of selected therapeutic areas. At the same time it also provides a showcase for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and academic organizations wishing to increase the exposure of their research to the drug development community. LeadDiscovery sits at the center of this sector helping companies to identify commercially viable R&D options from within small biotechs and the public sector. Additionally, it supports the drug discovery and pharmaceutical development community through three key services: DailyUpdates, UpdatesPlus and PharmaReports - DailyUpdates: Launched in 2002 this popular e-mail alert service delivers information on breaking research, new clinical trials, drug development news and recently published market research and pipeline analysis reports. Registration to receive the service is available here - UpdatesPlus: Developed in 2007 as an extension of DailyUpdates, UpdatesPlus provides a monthly in depth analysis of breaking research and development activity in high profile therapeutic areas. - PharmaReports: LeadDiscovery offers a wide range of in depth pharmaceutical reports. It''s reports include market research reports and pipeline analyses. You can search our entire portfolio using LeadDiscovery''s search engine. Alternatively as it are one of the few information providers that has extensive research and development experience, LeadDiscovery occupys a unique position of being able to source reports that accurately meet your needs. If we don''t have a report that fits your requirements, it can produce one through its pharmaceutical consultancy services. LeadDiscovery offers full reports in selected areas of the pharmaceutical and biotech sector. Each of the reports below has been especially selected by LeadDiscovery and categorized into relevant areas: - Oncology - Cancer Immunotherapy - Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases - Infectious Diseases - Psychiatric, Addictive & Sleep Disorders - Pain - Neurodegenerative & Neuroelectrophysiological Disorders - Metabolic & Hormonal Disorders - Cardiovascular Disorders - GenitoUrinary Tract Disorders - Technology - Diagnostics & Devices - Other Theraputic Areas, Pharmaceutical Strategy and Development

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Global online employment solution for people seeking jobs and the employers who need great people. They''ve been doing this for over ten years, and have expanded from their roots as a job board to a global provider of a full array of job seeking, career management, recruitment and talent management products and services.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

The Office of Public Health Genomics (OPHG) aims to integrate genomics into public health research, policy, and programs. Doing so could improve interventions designed to prevent and control the country''s leading chronic, infectious, environmental, and occupational diseases. OPHG''s efforts focus on conducting population-based genomic research, assessing the role of family health history in disease risk and prevention, supporting a systematic process for evaluating genetic tests, translating genomics into public health research and programs, and strengthening capacity for public health genomics in disease prevention programs. Goals: To improve public health interventions of diseases of major public health importance, including chronic, infectious, environmental, and occupational diseases, through six major initiatives: * Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention (EGAPP), * Human Genome Epidemiology Network (HuGENet), * NHANES Collaborative Genomics Project, * Family History Public Health Initiative, * Genomics Translation Research and Programs, and, * Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention Network (GAPPNet).

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Software for accurate indel prediction using paired-end short reads.

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International database for laboratory mouse. Data offered by The Jackson Laboratory includes information on integrated genetic, genomic, and biological data. MGI creates and maintains integrated representation of mouse genetic, genomic, expression, and phenotype data and develops reference data set and consensus data views, synthesizes comparative genomic data between mouse and other mammals, maintains set of links and collaborations with other bioinformatics resources, develops and supports analysis and data submission tools, and provides technical support for database users. Projects contributing to this resource are: Mouse Genome Database (MGD) Project, Gene Expression Database (GXD) Project, Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB) Database Project, Gene Ontology (GO) Project at MGI, and MouseCyc Project at MGI.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

A free program for multiple sequence alignment editing, visualisation and analysis that is available in two forms: a lightweight Java applet for use in web applications, and a powerful desktop application that employs web services for sequence alignment, secondary structure prediction and the retrieval of alignments, sequences, annotation and structures from public databases and any DAS 1.53 compliant sequence or annotation server. Use it to view and edit sequence alignments, analyse them with phylogenetic trees and principal components analysis (PCA) plots and explore molecular structures and annotation. Jalview has built in DNA, RNA and protein sequence and structure visualisation and analysis capabilities. It uses Jmol to view 3D structures, and VARNA to display RNA secondary structure.

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• 13 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Collects, maintains and distributes Drosophila melanogaster strains for research. Emphasis is placed on genetic tools that are useful to a broad range of investigations. These include basic stocks of flies used in genetic analysis such as marker, balancer, mapping, and transposon-tagging strains; mutant alleles of identified genes, including a large set of transposable element insertion alleles; defined sets of deficiencies and a variety of other chromosomal aberrations; engineered lines for somatic and germline clonal analysis; GAL4 and UAS lines for targeted gene expression; enhancer trap and lacZ-reporter strains with defined expression patterns for marking tissues; and a collection of transposon-induced lethal mutations.

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Fund the best research to eradicate diseases and support the warfighter to benefit the American Public. They promote innovative research, recognizing untapped opportunities, creating partnerships, and guarding the public trust. Research Program topics include: * Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis * Autism * Bone Marrow Failure * Breast Cancer * Defense Medical Research and Development Program * Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy * Gulf War Illness * Lung Cancer * Multiple Sclerosis * Neurofibromatosis * Ovarian Cancer * Peer Reviewed Cancer * Peer Reviewed Medical * Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic * Prostate Cancer * Psychological Health / Traumatic Brain Injury * Spinal Cord Injury * Tuberous Sclerosis Complex

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Software application for discovering direct or indirect targets of transcription factors (TFs) using ChIP-chip or ChIP-seq, and microarray or RNA-seq gene expression data. Inputting a list of genes of potential targets of one TF from ChIP-chip or ChIP-seq, and the gene expression results, it generates a regulatory network of the TF.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Database that contains all publicly available HMS LINCS datasets and information for each dataset about experimental reagents and experimental and data analysis protocols. Experimental reagents include small molecule perturbagens, cells, antibodies, and proteins.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

The Science Podcast takes you on a tour of some interesting stories in the journal and online. * MP3 of this show * Transcript of this show * Subscribe to the Science Podcast RSS Feed

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

For over 40 years, NIST has provided well-documented numeric data to scientists and engineers for use in technical problem-solving, research, and development. These recommended values are based on data which have been extracted from the world''s literature, assessed for reliability, and then evaluated to select the preferred values. These data activities are conducted by scientists at NIST. NIST Data Gateway-provides easy access to many (currently over 80) of the NIST scientific and technical databases. These databases cover a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines. The Gateway includes links to free online NIST data systems as well as to information on NIST PC databases available for purchase.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

A disease-related portal about Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (ALPS) including research in the following categories: Medical and Genetic Description, Database of Mutations, Database of ALPS-FAS Mutations, and Molecular Pathways. Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (ALPS) is a recently recognized disease in which a genetic defect in programmed cell death, or apoptosis, leads to breakdown of lymphocyte homeostasis and normal immunologic tolerance. It is an inherited disorder of the immune system that affects both children and adults. In ALPS, unusually high numbers of white blood cells called lymphocytes accumulate in the lymph nodes, liver, and spleen, which can lead to enlargement of these organs. Database of Mutations * All existing ALPS-FAS mutations (NIH Web site) * ALPS-FAS * ALPS Type Ia (most common type) ** Reported FAS (TNFRSF6) mutations causing ALPS ** Distribution of FAS (TNFRSF6) mutations ** FAS (TNFRSF6) polymorphisms * ALPS Type II

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Data analysis software for gene sets in expression microarray data or other genome-wide data that results in rankings of genes. A typical goal is to determine whether particular biological pathways are doing something interesting in the data. The software is designed to be used by biologists with little or no informatics background. A command-line interface is available for users who wish to script the use of ermineJ. Major features include: * Implementation of multiple methods for gene set analysis: ** Over-representation analysis ** A resampling-based method that uses gene scores ** A rank-based method that uses gene scores ** A resampling-based method that uses correlation between gene expression profiles (a type of cluster-enrichment analysis). * Gene sets receive statistical scores (p-values), and multiple test correction is supported. * Support of the Gene Ontology terminology; users can choose which aspects to analyze. * User files use simple text formats. * Users can modify gene sets or create new ones. * The results can be visualized within the software. * It is simple to compare multiple analyses of the same data set with different settings. * User-definable hyperlinks are provided to external sites to allow more efficient browsing of the results. * For programmers, there is a command line interface as well as a simple application programming interface that can be used to plug ermineJ functionality into your own code Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Founded in 1916, The Endocrine Society is the world''s oldest, largest, and most active organization devoted to research on hormones and the clinical practice of endocrinology. The Society works to foster a greater understanding of endocrinology amongst the general public and practitioners of complementary medical disciplines and to promote the interests of all endocrinologists at the national scientific research and health policy levels of government. The Endocrine Society publishes four world-renowned journals and a monthly news magazine, holds scientific conferences, provides educational programs for physicians, issues clinical practice guidelines, promotes careers in endocrinology, and advocates for appropriate funding of scientific research in endocrinology and public policies that support the practice of clinical endocrinology. The Hormone Health Network, the Society''s public education affiliate, is a leading source of hormone-related health information for the public, physicians, allied health professionals and the media. The Endocrine Society is an international body with more than 15,000 members from over 100 countries. The Society''s diverse membership represents medicine, molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry, physiology, genetics, immunology, education, industry and allied health fields. Members of The Endocrine Society represent the full range of disciplines associated with endocrinologists: clinicians, researchers, educators, fellows and students, industry professionals and health professionals who are involved in the field of endocrinology. These professionals are dedicated to the research and treatment of the full range of endocrine disorders: diabetes, reproduction, infertility, osteoporosis, thyroid disease, obesity/lipids, growth hormone, pituitary tumors, and adrenal insufficiency.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

A software toolkit including statistics tool for illumina high-throughput sequencing data, and filtration tools for sequence quality, length, tail quality, etc..

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This resource is part of the Gene Ontology Consortium which seeks to provide controlled vocabularies for the description of the molecular function, biological process, and cellular component of gene products. These terms are to be used as attributes of gene products by collaborating databases, facilitating uniform queries across them. GO team members at MGI participate in ontology development, outreach, and functional curation of mouse gene products. The GO vocabularies have a hierarchical structure that permits a range of detail from high-level, broadly descriptive terms to very low level, highly specific terms. This broad range is useful both in annotating genes and in searching for gene information using these terms as search criteria. GO terms are defined, allowing all databases to use the terms consistently and properly. GO annotations in the databases additionally include the publication reference which allowed the association to be made and an evidence statement citing how the association was determined.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous