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An ontology for the description of biological and clinical investigations built with international, collaborative effort. The ontology represents the design of an investigation, the protocols and instrumentation used, the material used, the data generated and the type analysis performed on it. This includes a set of universal terms that are applicable across various biological and technological domains, and domain-specific terms relevant only to a given domain. Currently OBI is being built under the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). This project was formerly titled the Functional Genomics Investigation Ontology (FuGO) project.

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A database of experimental behavioral data from > 170 aphasia patients who exhibited language impairments secondary to chronic left hemisphere stroke. The core of the database is individual-trial performance data from picture naming. Picture naming is a primary test of lexical processing. The task taps a critical juncture in the language system because naming mediates between high-level conceptual and syntactic processing and low-level phonological processing. Difficulty in this task is present to varying degrees in nearly all aphasic individuals. This site allows researchers to search through naming data from over 170 patients. Searches can narrow in on data subsets based on patient characteristics (e.g. time since aphasia onset, clinical diagnosis), stimulus characteristics (e.g. semantic category, lexical frequency) and task performance (e.g. error type). The data available on this site can be used to test hypotheses about naming impairment and aphasic impairment generally. Once the basic analysis tools of the site are exhausted, users can export the raw data for further analysis and visualization. The web database represents years of data collection. Most were recruited to the research program at Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (MRRI).

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Project to enhance online research articles across all of the RSC journals by identifying the compounds and subject terms to make it easier for users to find the articles that are most relevant to them, as well as providing downloadable information about compounds. RSC editors annotate compounds, concepts and data within articles and link these to additional electronic resources such as biological databases. This will transform the free text within an article to add new ways of identifying, retrieving and presenting the information within RSC publications. Text mining is used to attach structural information (InChI, SMILES and CML) to chemical names, especially chemical names which have never been seen before, and extensions handle terms defined in the Gold Book and ontology entries. The text mining is reviewed by skilled Technical Editors before publication.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Software package that implements the remove unwanted variation (RUV) methods for the normalization of RNA-Seq read counts between samples.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Database of canonical and non-canonical mammalian splice sites. The information about verified splice site sequences for canonical and non-canonical sites is presented with the supporting evidence. Weight matrices were built for the major splice groups, which can be incorporated into gene prediction programs.

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Open-source scientific workflow and provenance management system that provides support for simulations, data exploration and visualization. It was designed to manage these rapidly-evolving workflows. VisTrails has a comprehensive provenance infrastructure that maintains detailed history information about the steps followed and data derived in the course of an exploratory task: VisTrails maintains provenance of data products, of the workflows that derive these products and their executions. This information is persisted as XML files or in a relational database, and it allows users to navigate workflow versions in an intuitive way, to undo changes but not lose any results, to visually compare different workflows and their results, and to examine the actions that led to a result. It also enables a series operations and user interfaces that simplify workflow design and use, including the ability to create and refine workflows by analogy and to query workflows by example. VisTrails supports the creation and execution of workflows. It allows the combination of loosely-coupled resources, specialized libraries, grid and Web services. The released version comes with support for several packages including, VTK, Image Magick, Web Services, and pylab. You can also download packages contributed by users, as well as create your own packages/modules. Workflows can be run interactively, through the VisTrails GUI, or in batch using a VisTrails server. VisTrails is written in Python and it uses the multi-platform Qt library for its user interface. It runs on Mac, Linux and Windows. Provenance-rich results derived by VisTrails can be included in LaTeX, Wiki, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Software package to visualize and analyze structural and functional characteristics of cerebral and cerebellar cortex in humans, nonhuman primates, and rodents. Runs on Apple (Mac OSX), Linux, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

A video production and hosting resource designed to help scientists record and share lab protocols. The site also makes video protocols available.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Database storing and integrating genomic data of diamondback moth (DBM), Plutella xylostella (L.). It provides comprehensive search tools and downloadable datasets for scientists to study comparative genomics, biological interpretation and gene annotation of this insect pest. DBM-DB contains assembled transcriptome datasets from multiple DBM strains and developmental stages, and the annotated genome of P. xylostella (version 2). They have also integrated publically available ESTs from NCBI and a putative gene set from a second DBM genome (KONAGbase) to enable users to compare different gene models. DBM-DB was developed with the capacity to incorporate future data resources, and will serve as a long-term and open-access database that can be conveniently used for research on the biology, distribution and evolution of DBM. This resource aims to help reduce the impact DBM has on agriculture using genomic and molecular tools.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Software package to test if a marker can account in part for the linkage signal in its region. There are two versions of the software: Windows and Linux/Unix.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on August 19,2021. A model of peer review, providing independent and standardized peer review that can be accepted and shared across all types of journals and distribution systems. Rubriq can provide rigorous reviews by the same qualified peers who review for journals, but with a standardized scorecard that can be used in any publishing model. The system will enable faster, more consistent reviews, and will help match papers with the right journals. Authors, reviewers and journal editors are encouraged to sign up in the earliest phases, so you can be among the first to participate and provide feedback.

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A project that observes the processes of adaptive evolution in nature, and tests evolutionary hypotheses, by studying populations of guppies on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. Darwin thought that evolution by natural selection occurred very slowly, over hundreds if not thousands of years. Evolutionary biologists now know that evolutionary changes in species can happen very quickly, over a relatively few generations. The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) program, is funding a 5-year study by 13 biologists from colleges, universities, and research institutions throughout the United States and Canada, to study the relationship of adaptive evolution and environmental circumstances. The Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) is an excellent species for these purposes because: * It matures rapidly (one generation = 3-4 months) * It inhabits different ecological environments that can be easily manipulated On Trinidad, guppies live in streams, or portions of streams, that can differ in the species of predators that the guppies have to contend with. Some streams are high-predation environments, others low-predation. Different predation environments are often right next to one another, separated by a waterfall (which neither guppies nor predators can cross). Guppies from high-predation environments experience much higher mortality rates than do guppies in low-predation environments. High mortality is associated with the following characteristics, all of which have a genetic basis: * Earlier maturity * Greater investment of resources in reproduction * More and smaller offspring. We have found that mortality rates can be manipulated by: * Transplanting guppies from high-predation localities into sites from which they and their predators had previously been excluded by natural waterfalls, thus lowering mortality rates; * Introducing predators into low-predation sites, thus increasing mortality rates. Such experiments have shown that species evolve as predicted by theory. We have also found that evolution by natural selection can be remarkably fast, on the order of four to seven orders of magnitude faster than had been inferred from the fossil record.

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An intelligent search engine to retrieve biomedical correlations from MEDLINE, based on indexing by Natural Language Processing and Text Mining techniques. You can find abstracts/sentences in MEDLINE by specifying semantics of correlations; for example, What activates p53 and What causes colon cancer. Semantic search uses a semantic query for finding biomedical correlations. Input a subject, a verb, and an object of a concept (or either of them) into a form. Results of the query will be shown in a second. (E.g., What does p53 activate? (subject=p53, verb=activate)) Reference: Miyao, Yusuke, Tomoko Ohta, Katsuya Masuda, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Takashi Ninomiya and Jun''''ichi Tsujii (2006) Semantic Retrieval for the Accurate Identification of Relational Concepts in Massive Textbases. Proceedings COLING-ACL 2006. Sydney, Australia, pp. 1017--1024.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on April 23, 2014. Description not available.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

A publicly accessible database containing data on Affymetrix DNA microarray experiments, and Serial Analysis of Gene Expression, mostly on human and mouse stem cell samples and their derivatives to facilitate the discovery of gene functions relevant to stem cell control and differentiation. It has grown in both size and scope into a system with analysis tools that examine either the whole database at once, or slices of data, based on tissue type, cell type or gene of interest. There is currently more than 210 stem cell samples in 60 different experiments, with more being added regularly. The samples were originated by researchers of the Stem Cell Network and processed at the Core Facility of Stemcore Laboratories under the management of Ms. Pearl Campbell in the frame of the Stem Cell Genomics Project. Periodically, new expression data is submitted to the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) repository at the National Center for Biotechnological Information, in order to allow researchers to compare the data deposited in StemBase to a large amount of gene expression data sets. StemBase is different from GEO in both focus and scope. StemBase is concerned exclusively with stem cell related data. we are focused in Stem Cell research. We have made a significant effort to ensure the quality and consistency of the data included. This allows us to offer more specialized analysis tools related to Stem Cell data. GEO is intended as a large scale public archive. Deposition in a public repository such as GEO is required by most important scientific journals and it is advantageous for a further diffusion of the data since GEO is more broadly used than StemBase.

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The Department of Pharmacology at Baylor College of Medicine is dedicated to research and education in modern pharmacology. Our research interests cover a broad spectrum of topics including chemical biology, drug discovery, clinical pharmacology, computational biology, molecular genetics, protein chemistry, protein design, psychopharmacology and structural biology. Our accomplished faculty and well equipped laboratories offer graduate students outstanding opportunities to begin successful careers. Learn more about earning a graduate degree at Baylor College of Medicine by visiting Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

A web-based application that analyzes gene sets for statistically significant accumulations of genes that belong to some functional category. Considered category types are: KEGG Pathways, TRANSPATH Pathways, TRANSFAC Transcription Factor, GeneOntology Categories, Genomic Localization, Protein-Protein Interactions, Coiled-coil domains, Granzyme-B clevage sites, and ELR/RGD motifs. The web server provides two statistical approaches, "Over-Representation Analysis" (ORA) comparing a reference set of genes to a test set, and "Gene Set Enrichment Analysis" (GSEA) scoring sorted lists of genes., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

College of Medicine is the largest component of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and is at the center of OU Health. OU College of Medicine offers Physician Associate Program and MD/PhD dual degree program to meet unique interests of medical students. The college also offers students the option to take MPH coursework.

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• 17 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

A collection of population life tables covering a multitude of countries and many years. Most of the HLD life tables are life tables for national populations, which have been officially published by national statistical offices. Some of the HLD life tables refer to certain regional or ethnic sub-populations within countries. Parts of the HLD life tables are non-official life tables produced by researchers. Life tables describe the extent to which a generation of people (i.e. life table cohort) dies off with age. Life tables are the most ancient and important tool in demography. They are widely used for descriptive and analytical purposes in demography, public health, epidemiology, population geography, biology and many other branches of science. HLD includes the following types of data: * complete life tables in text format; * abridged life tables in text format; * references to statistical publications and other data sources; * scanned copies of the original life tables as they were published. Three scientific institutions are jointly developing the HLD: the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany, the Department of Demography at the University of California at Berkeley, USA and the Institut national d''��tudes d��mographiques (INED) in Paris, France. The MPIDR is responsible for maintaining the database.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

A personal weblog of developmental cognitive neuroscience by Craig Bennett in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous