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Foundation to help all people lead healthy, productive lives, this funding and job resource is focused on health, poverty, and opportunity. They work with partner organizations worldwide to tackle critical problems in four program areas. Their Global Development Division works to help the world''s poorest people lift themselves out of hunger and poverty. Their Global Health Division aims to harness advances in science and technology to save lives in developing countries. Their United States Division works to improve U.S. high school and postsecondary education and support vulnerable children and families in Washington State. And their Global Policy & Advocacy Division seeks to build strategic relationships and promote policies that will help advance their work. Our approach to grantmaking in all four areas emphasizes collaboration, innovation, risk-taking, and, most importantly, results. The foundation is unable to make grants directly to individuals. The majority of our funding is proactive and made to U.S. tax-exempt organizations that are independently identified by our staff.

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A comprehensive biochemical knowledge-base on human metabolism, this community-driven, consensus metabolic reconstruction integrates metabolic information from five different resources: * Recon 1, a global human metabolic reconstruction (Duarte et al, PNAS, 104(6), 1777-1782, 2007) * EHMN, Edinburgh Human Metabolic Network (Hao et al., BMC Bioinformatics 11, 393, 2010) * HepatoNet1, a liver metabolic reconstruction (Gille et al., Molecular Systems Biology 6, 411, 2010), * Ac/FAO module, an acylcarnitine/fatty acid oxidation module (Sahoo et al., Molecular bioSystems 8, 2545-2558, 2012), * a human small intestinal enterocytes reconstruction (Sahoo and Thiele, submitted). Additionally, more than 370 transport and exchange reactions were added, based on a literature review. Recon 2 is fully semantically annotated (Le Nov��re, N. et al. Nat Biotechnol 23, 1509-1515, 2005) with references to persistent and publicly available chemical and gene databases, unambiguously identifying its components and increasing its applicability for third-party users. Here you can explore the content of the reconstruction by searching/browsing metabolites and reactions. Recon 2 predictive model is available in the Systems Biology Markup Language format.

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The Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology supports the vision and goals of USF Health and the School of Biomedical Sciences. Our mission is to offer outstanding educational opportunities to medical students, graduate students, and fellows and to perform innovative biomedical research. Research in the Department is focused on interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the nervous and cardiovascular systems and related disorders, including Alzheimer''s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, cardiovascular disease and stroke, diabetes, and neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression and drug addiction.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

A web-based tool that provides composite interpretations for microarray data comparing two sample groups as well as lists of genes from diverse sources of biological information. It provides multiple gene set analysis methods for microarray inputs as well as enrichment analyses for lists of genes. It screens redundant composite annotations when generating and prioritizing them. It also incorporates union and subtracted sets as well as intersection sets. Users can upload their gene sets (e.g. predicted miRNA targets) to generate and analyze new composite sets.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Martin Fenner''s blog is about a WordPress plugin that he created that automatically creates ePub files from blog posts - they are created in the background when you save a blog post. The plugin can be installed directly from your WordPress installation. For now the plugin, ePub Export, only stores the text and images, but the next version should allow embedding of all kinds of files, most importantly data. ePub is a very interesting document format for scholarly publishing and has several advantages over PDF, including: * ePub can be used for all steps in the creation of a scholarly document, including data collection, authoring, annotating and peer review. There is no need for time-consuming and expensive format conversions. Currently most manuscripts are submitted in Microsoft Word or LateX formats, and then converted first to XML and then to HTML and PDF. Metadata such as author identifiers, digital object identifiers and semantic information can be added early on and don''t get lost in a format conversion. * ePub makes it easy to include supplementary material, e.g. video and other multimedia content, the datasets used in the publication (particularly the data used for tables and figures), all cited references in BibTeX format, etc. * ePub is much better suited for reading on mobile devices, as the format allows reflowing of content. Most articles today are printed from the PDF and then read, but this behavior is rapidly changing.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Supports research and scholarship to improve the quality of life by providing funding for grants in three program areas: studying complex systems, understanding human cognition, and mathematical and complex systems approaches for brain cancer. Types of awards include Fellowship Awards, Scholar Awards, and Collaborative Awards. * Studying Complex Systems: This program supports scholarship and research directed toward the development of theoretical and mathematical tools that can be applied to the study of complex, adaptive, nonlinear systems. It is anticipated that research funded in this program will address issues in fields such as biology, biodiversity, climate, demography, epidemiology, technological change, economic development, governance, or computation. * Understanding Human Cognition: This program supports research studying how neural systems are linked to and support cognitive functions and how cognitive systems are related to an organism's (preferably human) observable behavior. Studies with model organisms should justify why such models were selected and how data obtained from models advances our understanding of human cognition. * Mathematical & Complex Systems Approaches for Brain Cancer: (Collaborative Activity Awards grant type only.) Despite some recent cause for optimism for advancing the clinical treatment of brain cancers, for many patients brain tumor remains a devastating diagnosis. Progress against this disease has been stymied by limited understandings of the molecular, metabolic, and physiological characteristics of human brain cancers across multiple temporal and spatial scales and by the failure of many preclinical models to predict patient responses.

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A software tool providing a Web interface and a database back-end for collecting clinical symptoms and physical findings observed in patients with genetic disorders. The main goals of this software are * To allow for collecting patient data in standard formats, enabling effortless data exchange and automated search in annotated gene and disease databases, and * To provide advanced functionalities and a friendly user interface that help reduce the clinician''''s workload, permitting seamless use of this application within the clinician''''s routine. PhenoTips uses the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) to express clinical phenotypes, and provides a friendly interface with error-tolerant, predictive search of phenotypic descriptions. PhenoTips closely mirrors clinician workflows: observations can be recorded directly during the patient encounter, and the interface is compatible with any device that runs a modern Web browser. The clinician can record demographic information, family history, medical history, various standard measurements, phenotypic abnormalities detected in the patient, pertinent indications that were not observed and that can be helpful for differential diagnosis, relevant images depicting manifestations of the patient''''s disorders, and additional notes for each of these categories. The software automatically plots growth curves, selects phenotypes reflecting abnormal measurements, instantly finds OMIM disorders matching the phenotypic description and suggests other symptoms to investigate in order to reach a more accurate diagnosis.

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• 17 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Funding resource that supports research into A-T (Ataxia Telangiectasia) and other debilitating, degenerative diseases plaguing human kind, including cancer and neuro-degeneration associated with auto-immunity and aging. Researchers share their findings and collaborate with each other. The research must lead to practical, near-term treatments and cures to receive funds. The researchers have found treatments and cures that are the first of their kind in the world. Over $850,000 in direct research grants have been made. These grants have leveraged over $9 million in research resources contributed by partner institutions. We pay the research institutions for direct costs only. We pay no administrative, indirect, or overhead costs.

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Nature Network is the professional networking website for scientists around the world. It''s an online meeting place where you and your colleagues can gather, share and discuss ideas, and keep in touch. It''s also where you can consult the community for answers to scientific questions or offer your expertise to help others. Additionally, using the Workbench, you can collate your online scientific tools or widgets together in a customizable workspace, allowing you to group your most important tools and information in the way that works best for you. Scientists can also benefit from interactions at the local level whether discussing local news, looking for jobs or finding out about events nearby. All features on Nature Network are completely free. To get the most out of the site, all you need to do is create a profile. You can also use your nature.com account details if you have one. Once you''re set up, here''s a selection of what you can do: *Manage My Profile *Manage My Contacts *Join or Start Groups *Join or Start Forums *Blog *Join a Hub *Customize Your Workbench *Ask a Question or Submit an Answer to Q&A

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Software application for performing unsupervised machine learning and visualization with a focus on the clustering (separating data into groups) and dimensionality reduction (finding low dimensional structure in high dimensional data) subfields of machine learning. For visualization we provide support for both the whole dataset (e.g. a scatter plot) and points (e.g. transforming a particular point into an image). * Endlessly extensible. Every clusterer, reducer, point visualizer and dataset visualizer in Divvy is a plugin. We''ve provided a few big ones (K-means, PCA, scatter plot, &c.) and we''re hoping the community will use our plugin protocol to build many more. Each plugin defines its own UI, so your algorithm can look and behave the way that you want it to without top-down constraints. * Have lots of cores? Divvy is both task and data parallel. No longer will you be waiting for one algorithm to complete before you start another. Start as many as you want and keep using the UI. Only started one? With data parallelism we''ll still push your new MacBook Pro to 800% CPU utilization. * Part of your workflow: Export your clusterings and reductions to .csv and your visualizations to .png. Use your Matlab or R data with our Matlab/R to Divvy export tools available at http://github.com/jmlewis/divvy.

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Wrangler is an interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation. Spend less time formatting and more time analyzing your data. Why wrangle? * Too much time is spent manipulating data just to get analysis and visualization tools to read it. Wrangler is designed to accelerate this process: spend less time fighting with your data and more time learning from it. * Wrangler allows interactive transformation of messy, real-world data into the data tables analysis tools expect. Export data for use in Excel, R, Tableau, Protovis, ... * Want to learn more about Wrangler''s design? Take a look at our research paper. * Wrangler is still a work-in-progress. Please share your feedback and feature requests!

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

A federated data sharing platform and infrastructure that provides access to real-time clinical, imaging and biospecimen data across jurisdictions, institutions and diseases. The web-based platform provides a secure infrastructure that advances health research by linking privacy-protected and ethically approved data among a wide network of health collaborators. Access to de-identified health records data is granted to authorized researchers after an application process so patient privacy and intellectual property are protected. BioGrid Australia''s approved researchers are provided access to multiple institutional databases, via the BioGrid interface, preventing gaps in patient records and research analysis. This legal and ethical arrangement with participating collaborators allows BioGrid to connect data through a common platform where data governance and access is managed by a highly skilled team. Data governance, security and ethics are at the core of BioGrid''s federated data sharing platform that securely links patient level clinical, biospecimen, genetic and imaging data sets across multiple sites and diseases for the purpose of medical research. BioGrid''s infrastructure and data management strategies address the increasing need by authorized researchers to dynamically extract and analyze data from multiple sources whilst protecting patient privacy. BioGrid has the capability to link data with other datasets, produce tailored reports for auditing and reporting and provide statistical analysis tools to conduct more advanced research analysis. In the health sector, BioGrid is a trusted independent virtual real-time data repository. Government investment in BioGrid has facilitated a combination of technology, collaboration and ethics approval processes for data sharing that exist nowhere else in the world.

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Funds patient-focused research on gliomas to develop better diagnostics and treatments that lead to long-term survival and a high quality of life for patients with brain tumors. The goal is to decrease the suffering of patients with brain tumors. With an ultimate goal to cure brain cancer, their immediate goal is to improve diagnostics and treatment. They are dedicated to improving the lives of all patients with brain cancer by funding research that they hope will lead to the doubling of life expectancy of patients with brain cancer. Their goal is to do this within the next seven years. Since 2005 they''ve committed more than $50 million to research into brain tumors, with the expectation that this will lead to better diagnostics and therapies. They are dedicated to this search because funding leads to answers, and answers lead to hope.

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Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. In the directory you can find, download, rate, and comment on all the best plugins the WordPress community has to offer. Search for res-comms for Beyond the pdf related plugins. WordPress can host your plugin and give it some exposure. You'll be able to: # Keep track of how many people have downloaded it. # Let people leave comments about your plugin. # Get your plugin rated against all the other cool WordPress plugins. # Give your plugin lots of exposure in this centralized repository.

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Open source software written in R that tracks a single animal walking in a homogenous environment (Buritrack) and analyzes its trajectory. It extracts eleven metrics and includes correlation analyses and a Principal Components Analysis (PCA). It was designed to be easily customized to personal requirements. In combination with inexpensive hardware, these tools can readily be used for teaching and research purposes. Buritrack is a program to track individual Drosophila fruit flies online with any camera as they walk in Buridan's paradigm. The program extracts the coordinate locations of the fly and stores them in a text file.

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The Congress of Neurological Surgeons presents surgical videos on a variety of topics: Cerebrovascular, Pain, Pediatric, Peripheral Nerves, Spine, Functional/Epilepsy, and Tumor. You must have QuickTime player installed to view the videos but you can download this from the site. Cerebrovascular * Contralateral Microsurgical Approach to Multiple Aneurysms * Microsurgical Exosure and Clipping of an Ophthalmic Clinoidal Aneurysm Pain * Motor Cortex Stimulation for Chronic Pain * Pain Surgery * Spinal Cord Stimulation for Failed Back Syndrome * Treatment of Chiari I Malformation Pediatric * Occipitocervical Fusion in a Pediatric Patient:Use of a New Device Peripheral Nerves * Brachial Plexus Schwannoma in the Upper Trunk * Mini Open Carpal Tunnel Release * Ulnar Nerve Neurolysis and Subcutaneous/Submuscular Transposition Spine * Bilateral Thoracoscopic Sympathectomy * En Bloc Resection of Primary Cervical Spine Tumors * Endoscopic Thoracic Stabilization * Occipitocervical Fusion in a Pediatric Patient:Use of a New Device * Spinal Cord Stimulation for Failed Back Syndrome * Surgical Management of Spinal Cord Ependymomas * Thoracoscopic Discectomy * Treatment of Chiari I Malformation Functional/Epilepsy * Anteromedial Temporal Resection * STN Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson''s Disease Tumor * En Bloc Resection of Primary Cervical Spine Tumors * Insular Tumor Resection * Surgical Management of Spinal Cord Ependymomas * Surgical Resection of Brain Metastasis

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Collection of high resolution images and movies of mouse and human embryos produced using high resolution episcopic microscopy (HREM). Each data set is a series of block-face images generated during sectioning through an entire embryo, typically cut at 2-3 micrometers. Datasets are organized by approximate developmental stage and each embryo has been assigned a specimen ID (SID) for identification. This is an ongoing project funded by the Wellcome Trust to provide comprehensive imaging of normal and mutant mouse embryos that will complement the standard anatomical texts and form the basis for systematic phenotyping. * Movies: A 3D reconstruction shows each embryo, and lower resolution movies created through each orthogonal plane enable you to quickly review the data set. * Image Stacks: In the stack viewer, you can step through the images in sequence, zoom in to see fine details and adjust the image contrast. * NEW: Embryo Comparison: Two image stacks can now be compared in the stack viewer.

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Private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, focusing on the instruction and research of technical arts and applied sciences.

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• 16 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Consensus classifier tool that combines six of the top performing tools for the prediction of the effects of mutation on protein function. The obtained results are provided together with annotations extracted from the Protein Mutant Database and the UniProt database. A stand-alone version is also available.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous