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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 11, 2023.The Linked Clinical Trials (LinkedCT) project aims at publishing the first open Semantic Web data source for clinical trials data. The data exposed by LinkedCT is generated by (1) transforming existing data sources of clinical trials into RDF, and (2) discovering links between the records in the trials data and several other data sources. You may download static data dumps. The LinkedCT data space is published according to the principles of publishing Linked Data. These principles greatly enhance adaptability and usability of data on the web. Each entity in LinkedCT is identified by a unique HTTP dereferenceable Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). When the URI is looked up, related RDF statements about the entity is returned in HTML or RDF/XML based on the user''s agent. Moreover, a SPARQL endpoint is provided as the standard access method for RDF data.

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The GEO Profiles database stores gene expression profiles derived from curated GEO DataSets. Each Profile is presented as a chart that displays the expression level of one gene across all Samples within a DataSet. Experimental context is provided in the bars along the bottom of the charts making it possible to see at a glance whether a gene is differentially expressed across different experimental conditions. Profiles have various types of links including internal links that connect genes that exhibit similar behaviour, and external links to relevant records in other NCBI databases. GEO Profiles can be searched using many different attributes including keywords, gene symbols, gene names, GenBank accession numbers, or Profiles flagged as being differentially expressed.

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The NLM Catalog provides access to NLM bibliographic data for journals, books, audiovisuals, computer software, electronic resources and other materials. Links to the library''s holdings in LocatorPlus, NLM''s online public access catalog, are also provided.

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Community Tissue Services (CTS), a not-for-profit tissue bank, was founded in Dayton, Ohio in 1986 as a division of the Community Blood Center. The tissue bank was established to help patients in need of life saving or life enhancing tissue grafts. CTS'' goal is to educate the community of the importance of tissue donation so that families can make informed decisions about the options of donation. CTS serves the public through recovery, processing and distribution of human tissue grafts used for transplantation. Since 1994, CTS has expanded its Dayton, Ohio operations into Texas, Oregon, California, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Tennessee, with over 300 employees nationwide. CTS is an accredited member of the American Association of Tissue Banks and CTS-CTIR is ISO 13485 certified. Strongly committed to providing the highest quality of tissues for transplantation, the tissue bank complies with all federal and state regulations. CTS is currently one of the largest US tissue banks, distributing nearly 10% of the tissue grafts in the United States. CTS is the largest nonprofit provider of skin grafts to surgeons for severe burn patients.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVCE, documented September 2, 2016. The MD Anderson Cancer Center Clone Bank consists of 802 murine cDNA clones, purchased from Research Genetics, Inc. These clones were sequence verified. A listing of the following are available: * Currently available clones (xls) * Top five blast hits for incorrect sequences (xls)

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The Alabama Head Injury Foundation (AHIF) was founded in 1983 to increase public awareness of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and to stimulate the development of supportive services. Today, AHIF is among the largest state brain injury associations in the nation with model programs and statewide services. Its mission is to improve the quality of life for people who have survived traumatic brain injuries and for their families. Whether the injury is mild or severe the life of the injured person and their family is changed forever. The impact can be both emotionally and financially devastating. AHIF provides the information to help clients and families understand the results of injury. AHIF helps access available resources and provides services and programs which meet the unique needs of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) as well as spinal cord injury (SCI) in certain programs.

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Psychology wiki is an up-to-date, authoritative statement of knowledge, theory, and practice in the whole field of psychology reflecting generally accepted academic standards. A topic covered in this wiki portal includes Neuroinformatics. The Neuroinformatics wiki page currently offers the following categories: overview, history, collaboration with other disciplines, research programs and groups, technologies and developments, references, external links, research centers, and more. Neuroinformatics is a research field that encompasses the development of neuroscience data, knowledge and application of computational models and analytical tools for the integration and analysis of experimental data and for improving existing theories about nervous system and brain. Neuroinformatics provides tools, databases, models, networks technologies and models for the clinical and research purposes in the neuroscience community and other fields.

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The Blood and Tissue Center of Central Texas is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Its mission is to safeguard the community''s gifts of blood and tissue with uncompromising quality and excellence in customer service. The Center is licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration, accredited by the American Association of Blood Banks and American Association of Tissue Banks, and is a proud member of America''s Blood Centers. The Blood and Tissue Center today is the exclusive provider and guardian of the community blood supply for more than 37 medical facilities in a ten-county service area of Central Texas. In 2010, over 56,000 whole blood donations and 7,700 apheresis platelet donations were collected. These donations are tested extensively to assure suitability for transfusion and processed into life saving components: red blood cells, plasma, and platelets, which go to help Central Texas patients. The Center works with the Marrow Donor Program of Central and South Texas to increase the number of Central Texans on the National Marrow Donor Registry. The Tissue Services division was established in 1985 due to the increasing demand for allograft tissue. Today, The Tissue Center surgically recovers tissue from approximately 300 donors each year and assists with donor family services. The Tissue Center''s main facility is located in Austin with a satellite office in Corpus Christi.

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The Southern Alberta Organ and Tissue Donation Program is an integrated donation program for organs, occular tissue and non-occular tissue. These services are provided by the Southern Alberta Organ Donation Program, Lions Eye Bank & the Southern Alberta Tissue Program. This service provides: * coordination of donation, allocation, recovery and distribution of organs for transplantation for Southern Alberta; * recovery, processing, storage and distribution of occular and non-occular tissues for transplantation; * public , professional education and awareness; * research and statistics; * bereavement support.

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Alien_hunter is an application for the prediction of putative Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) events with the implementation of Interpolated Variable Order Motifs (IVOMs). This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. An IVOM approach exploits compositional biases using variable order motif distributions and captures more reliably the local composition of a sequence compared to fixed-order methods. Optionally the predictions can be parsed into a 2-state 2nd order Hidden Markov Model (HMM), in a change-point detection framework, to optimize the localization of the boundaries of the predicted regions. The predictions (embl format) can be automatically loaded into the freely available Artemis genome viewer.

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The Virtual Tumour Bank of the Canceropole Grand Sud-Ouest''s mission is to federate the cancer research of four French regions: Aquitaine, Languedoc-Roussillon, Limousin and Midi-Pyrenees. This site allows access to an inventory of the specimens stored in the tumor banks of the Greater South-West region, within the laboratories of Pathology of the University Hospital Centers and Cancer Centers of Bordeaux, Limoges, Montpellier, Nimes and Toulouse. You may search by disease or multiple criteria. These specimens are removed from patients primarily to confirm and accurately characterize their cancer diagnosis, and are therefore stored by the tumor bank for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes. These samples can be re-qualified for scientific research pending that a number of conditions are met, including the absence of refusal from the person (in compliance with French regulations). So far, the tumor bank is a major tool for cancer treatment and research. This inventory is a further evidence of the coordination effort between the eight concerned tumor banks that have been mobilized at the service of patients and research within the framework of the Canceropole Grand Sud-Ouest programs. These biological resources are made available to research groups that conduct basic or translational programs in the field of oncology. They will not be made available for projects in fields other than oncology.

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Standalone software programs that can be used to calculate how well tetranucleotide usage patterns in DNA sequences correlate. Such correlations can provide valuable hints on the relatedness of DNA sequences.

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SubMito is the first computational system for predicting protein submitochondria locations from its primary sequence. SubMito is designed and implemented with Java. This site is a web-like front end for SubMito system. Users can access SubMito on the server side by uploading a FASTA file or entering sequence below. The prediction result will be saved on server, and a link to the result file will be provided. Since there may be several sessions running at the same time on the server, the responding of the server side SubMito may be very slow. Another way to use SubMito is to download a local version of the software. The online service can accept 2 forms of input. One is single sequence, the other is uploaded FASTA file. If you want to predict submitochondria location for a single sequence, you can paste your sequence in the text box. Optionally, you can choose to write some remarks in the text field labeling Enter your remark. Then, press the Submit button to perform the prediction. The result will be saved in a FASTA format file, and you can download it at any time in the coming 48 hours.

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Software tool that allows scripting of simple modifications to pedigree files. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) BioBank employs a federated rather than a centralized model which encourages participation by sample owners who are concerned about guaranteeing their ownership of samples and sample information about patients, samples and related clinical data. In a federated model, individual sites agree on shared policies and procedures for data and sample sharing and oversight. Samples remain with and are governed by the contributing principal investigator at each site. The contributing investigator has final authority whether or not to collaborate or to release samples to qualified researchers. The goal of SLED (Sample Location and Enhanced Distribution) is to help researchers overcome two of the biggest obstacles preventing their research from beginning: 1) location of samples and related data, and 2) requesting of samples and related data. Prior to SLED''s inception the existing system was limited to providing links to samples and data and relying on phone calls to sample owners to facilitate sharing. Collaboration between the CTSA Biobank Consortium and the informatics team at the University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics is ongoing during this effort. The initial design was constructed using best practices offered by NIH, NCI, and other biobank industry leaders to support and to improve synergy and interaction among various research efforts. Through SLED, researchers will be able to search for samples using a variety of criteria including availability, clinical data, consent criteria, patient demographics, patient diagnoses, study data, and sample type at local and national biobank sites.

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An ontology to describe the entities and relationships in the SEEK database, a Systems Biology environment for the sharing and exchange of data and models. The SysMO-SEEK database contains the work of the SysMO consortium (Systems Biology of Micro-Organisms) https://seek.sysmo-db.org/

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on January 19, 2022.The mission of the Human Antibody Initiative (HAI) aims to promote and facilitate the use of antibodies for proteomics research. The initiative consists of two separate activities; (1) the generation of a catalogue of validated antibodies from many different sources and (2) a protein atlas for the expression and localization of human proteins in normal and disease tissue. The two separate activities have as their primary deliverables to generate databases with free public accessibility. The Antibody Resource database (www.antibodypedia.org) is aimed to produce a comprehensive catalogue of validated antibodies towards human proteins. This initiative depends on input from a large number of academic groups and commercial companies. The Protein Atlas initiative (www.proteinatlas.org) is aimed to provide comprehensive and annotated database of high-resolution images showing tissue profiles in normal and cancer tissues. Both databases will be open to the public without restriction (no passwords).

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WebMD has created an organization that we believe fulfills the promise of health information on the Internet. We provide credible information, supportive communities, and in-depth reference material about health subjects that matter to you. We are a source for original and timely health information as well as material from well known content providers. The WebMD content staff blends award-winning expertise in journalism, content creation, community services, expert commentary, and medical review to give our users a variety of ways to find what they are looking for. And that, we believe, requires dedicated, full-time staff professionals with state-of-the-art expertise in: * Health news for the public * Creating and maintaining up-to-date medical reference content databases * Medical imagery, graphics, and animation * Communities * Live web events * User experience * Interactive tools Our board-certified physicians, award-winning journalists, and trained community moderators are solely dedicated to your daily information experience on WebMD. Our content staff includes individuals who hold advanced degrees in journalism, medical illustration, health communications, clinical informatics, nursing, and medicine. WebMD verifies the qualifications of all medical professionals on the site; including health professionals, experts, editorial professionals and contributors with a specialty license. You may search for information or use the Health A-Z option. Additionally, Drugs & Supplements, Living Healthy, Eating & Diet, Parenting & Pregnancy, Teen Health, and Pet Health tabs are available.

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A narrative resource that provides a wealth of information on topic including: * Dementia Due to HIV Infection Overview * Dementia Due to HIV Infection Causes * Dementia Due to HIV Infection Symptoms * Exams and Tests * Dementia Due to HIV Infection Treatment * Self-Care at Home * Medical Treatment * Next Steps * Follow-up * Prevention * Outlook * Support Groups and Counseling * For More Information * Web Links * Multimedia * Synonyms and Keywords Additional information includes: * HIV AIDS Myths and Facts Slideshow Pictures * Take the HIV/AIDS Quiz * AIDS Retrospective Slideshow Pictures

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Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA, LifeNet Health Inc., is a leading biomedical alloengineering organization and organ and tissue donation agency whose mission is saving lives and restoring health. LifeNet Health of Florida is a fully owned subsidiary dedicated to the recovery of tissue in Northern Florida, improving the awareness of tissue donation and educating the public about donation in the Northern Florida Community. Our mission is to improve upon the awareness of tissue donation within the community as well as to provide human tissue for transplant. We strive to give back to the community by providing an extensive public education program regarding donation, as well as being involved and making contributions that we feel will benefit the local community as a whole. Our efforts with total quality management have solidified our belief that LifeNet Health of Florida, Inc., must be driven by excellence in service and uncompromising quality. By the continuous improvement of processes and services leading to a better understanding of the entire donor process for both hospital personnel and members of our community.

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