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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 6, 2023. rOGED is a searchable database containing ovarian gene sequences, data, and images of ovarian genes expressed in rats. The site also provides customized gene expression profiles in the rat oviduct and uterus or mouse ovary. The database was constructed from total RNA isolated from intact ovaries, granulosa cells, or residual ovarian tissues collected from immature PMSG/hCG-treated rats at 0 (no PMSG), 12, and 48 h post-PMSG, as well as 6 and 12 h post-hCG. The total RNA was used for DNA microarray analysis using Affymetrix Rat Expression Arrays 230A and B. The microarray data was compiled and utilized for display of individual gene expression profiles through specially developed software. The final rOGED provides immediate analysis of temporal gene expression profiles for over 28,000 genes in intact ovaries, granulosa cells, and residual ovarian tissue during follicular growth and the preovulatory period. The accuracy of the rOGED was validated against the gene profiles for over 100 known genes. The utility of the rOGED was demonstrated by identifying seven genes which have not been described in the rat periovulatory ovary. The rOGED can be used as an instant reference for ovarian gene expression profiles, as well as reliable resource for identifying important yet, to date, unknown ovarian genes. Category: Microarray Data and other Gene Expression Databases

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

A virtual database indexing video and other multimedia content from: NIH VideoCasting and Podcasting, JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments, The Guardian: Science Videos, Biointeractive, goCognitive, UCSF Laboratory for Visual Neuroscience, and Clarity resources.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (R-fMRI) datasets from 539 individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 573 typical controls. This initiative involved 16 international sites, sharing 20 samples yielding 1112 datasets composed of both MRI data and an extensive array of phenotypic information common across nearly all sites. This effort is expected to facilitate discovery science and comparisons across samples. All datasets are anonymous, with no protected health information included.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Data sets of current German weather stations updated hourly or every twelve hours. Data sets, in German, include: * Daily mean values ??of temperature, updated hourly. Daily archive since 29.1.2008 * Daily maximum and minimum temperature, updated every 12 hours. Daily archive since 21.7.2008 * Monthly mean values ??of temperature and deviation, updated daily . * Rainfall in the last 12 hours and monthly total, updated every 12 hours . * Monthly totals of precipitation and relative to langj. means in%, updated every 12 hours. Monthly Archive since Feb. 2008 * Air pressure and pressure tendency, updated hourly.

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Satellite facility that downlinks, processes, archives, and distributes remote-sensing data to scientific users around the world. Three major components: * Satellite Tracking Ground Station: Part of NASA?s Near Earth Network system of ground stations around the world. * Synthetic Aperture Radar Distributed Active Archive Center (SAR DAAC): ASF maintains the NASA archive of SAR data from a variety of satellites and aircraft, and provides these data and associated specialty support services to U.S. Government-approved researchers in support of NASA?s Earth Science Data and Information System project. * ASF Enterprise Center (ASFE): In support of UAF?s mission to be a student-centered research university, the ASF-E focuses on applications of remote-sensing data, specifically for UAF research. The ASF-E includes the GeoData Center (GDC), which provides data management and archive services for UAF principal investigators and maintains a variety of geophysical data collections in support of scientific research.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Gene expression analysis software using Java.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Software tool that uses a machine learning (ML) approach to classify text, based on the Gene Ontology. It relies on a k-Nearest Neighbours algorithm, a simple algorithm which assigns to a new text the categories that are the most prevalent among the k most similar instances contained in the knowledge base. The ML classifier operates in two steps and combines two components. First, a related article search engine retrieves instances (i.e. abstracts) in the knowledge base that are the most similar to the input text (its nearest neighbours); second, a score computer infers the functional profile from the k most similar instances.

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Collects and provides de-identified biospecimens and associated epidemiological and clinical data to meet the scientific needs of investigators. Newly diagnosed patients are asked to contribute data and specimens to the DBBR prior to treatment. Other patients with who have benign disease or advanced disease and have undergone treatment are also enrolled based on anticipated use of data and samples for research. Additionally, non-patients (family members and friends of patients and community members) with no personal history of cancer are asked to participate in the biorepository as controls. Specimens and data are procured with protected health information (PHI) and de-identified prior to distribution to investigators with hypothesis driven IRB reviewed studies. An extensive data collection and management system is in place to track informed consent, questionnaire collection and follow up, epidemiological questionnaire data, clinical data, biospecimens and their derivatives. Research Services * Availability of a bank of prospectively collected blood specimens (serum, plasma, buffy coat, red blood cells and DNA) from cancer patients, high risk individuals and healthy controls for research. * Collection, linking and distribution of epidemiologic and clinical data with biospecimens. * Study-specific biospecimen and data procurement to meet the needs of individual studies, including: ** Participant identification, eligibility screening and informed consent ** Serial biospecimen procurement prior to and throughout treatment ** Study specific collection of biospecimens other than blood (buccal cells, sputum, and urine) ** Procurement and distribution of fresh biospecimens ** Collection of extended clinical and risk factor data

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented September 6, 2016. A publicly accessible data repository to provide neuroscience investigators with secure access to cohort collections. The Databank collects and disseminates gene expression data from microarray experiments on brain tissue samples, along with diagnostic results from postmortem studies of neurological and psychiatric disorders. All of the data that is derived from studies of the HBTRC collection is being incorporated into the National Brain Databank. This data is available to the general public, although strict precautions are undertaken to maintain the confidentiality of the brain donors and their family members. The system is designed to incorporate MIAME and MAGE-ML based microarray data sharing standards. Data from various types of studies conducted on brain tissue in the HBTRC collection will be available from studies using different technologies, such as gene expression profiling, quantitative RT-PCR, situ hybridization, and immunocytochemistry and will have the potential for providing powerful insights into the subregional and cellular distribution of genes and/or proteins in different brain regions and eventually in specific subregions and cellular subtypes.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

A Java tool to evaluate and visualize the sample discrimination abilities of gene expression signatures. This tool provides a filtration function for signature identification and lies between clinical analyses and class prediction (or feature selection) tools.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Agency that produces evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable. Funding opportunities, grants, and a large collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States including the Systematic Review Data Repository and data sources on healthcare cost, quality, and accessibility, emergency room visits, hospitalization, and medical insurance are available. It works within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.

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Blog investigating a light-weight way of publishing scientific, academic and technical knowledge on the web where you can read about current events. It is used in a number of different ways: hosting tutorials on ontologies and bioinformatics; as a conference website; and as a mechanism for documenting Knowledge Blog. They also provide software for extending WordPress, enabling referencing, adding metadata to posts, and supporting mathematics on the web. Together, these pieces of software have had many thousands of downloads, representing 100s of installations; it can be used to provide a formal personal publication framework for the researcher. Finally, they provide Greycite, a service which provides bibliographic metadata for any website, supporting their referencing plugin, and helping authors to link to the many web archiving services, enabling increased digital preservation. Blogs and blog technology has been designed to allow people to discuss, share and disseminate their opinion in a simple and light-weight way. Adding a little formality to this, and we have a journal.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

An R package designed to simulate RNA sequencing experiments with differential transcript expression. Given a set of annotated transcripts, it will simulate the steps of an RNA-seq experiment (fragmentation, reverse-complementing, and sequencing) and produce files containing simulated RNA-seq reads. Simulated reads can be analyzed using a choice of downstream analysis tools. Polyester has a built-in wrapper function to simulate a case/control experiment with differential transcript expression and biological replicates. Users are able to set the levels of differential expression at transcripts of their choosing. This means they know which transcripts are differentially expressed in the simulated dataset, so accuracy of statistical methods for differential expression detection can be analyzed. Polyester offers several unique features: * Built-in functionality to simulate differential expression at the transcript level * Ability to explicitly set differential expression signal strength * Simulation of small datasets, since large RNA-seq datasets can require lots of time and computing resources to analyze * Generation of raw RNA-seq reads, as opposed to alignments or transcript-level abundance estimates * Transparency/open-source code

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The objective of this human tissue repository is to systematically collect, store, and distribute brain and other tissues for research dedicated to the improved understanding, care, and treatment of individuals with developmental disorders. Brain sections are primarily frozen in isopentane / dry ice. Tissues are stored in 10% formalin and frozen at -85 degrees C. Of special interest are individuals with Down syndrome and other chromosomal defects, mitochondrial encephalopathies, phenylketonuria and other aminoacidopathies, maternal PKU, Rett syndrome, leukodystrophies, lysosomal disorders, dyslexia, autism, and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The brain and tissue banks have extensive experience in arranging for the rapid retrieval of tissue upon the death of individuals who die while at home, in hospitals or hospice care. As a special service, the brain and tissue banks are able to assist researchers who are working with patients who intend to donate tissues at the time of their death. Immediately after retrieval of the tissue, the brain and tissue banks will forward needed tissue to the referring investigators and ensure proper storage and cataloging of any additional tissues as part of the brain and tissue banks. The recipient of tissue and the brain and tissue banks are required to sign a Tissue Transfer Agreement before any tissues are transferred.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Developed as part of the BioText project at the University of California, Berkeley, the BioText Search Engine is a freely available Web-based application that provides biologists with new ways to access the scientific literature. The system indexes all open access articles available at PubMed Central. New articles are indexed daily. The current collection consists of more than 300 journals, 40,000 articles, 100,000 figures, and 60,000 tables. The Full Text & Abstract view searches the full text of articles (in addition to title, author, and abstract information) and returns full-text excerpts that match users' queries. Three selection boxes at the top (ABSTRACTS, FULL-TEXT EXCERPTS and FIGURES allow users to choose what the view displays. The BioText Search Engine allows users to search in tables. When the table view is selected, BioText searches in article titles, table captions, and table contents. The Grid View allows users to search over captions. It returns figures and truncated captions in a grid arrangement.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

The EuroBioBank network is the first operating network of biobanks in Europe providing human DNA, cell and tissue samples as a service to the scientific community conducting research on rare diseases. It is the only network dedicated to rare disease research in Europe. By creating a critical mass of collections and facilitating the exchange of biological material, the EuroBioBank network helps accelerate research on these diseases. * Over 440,000 samples are available across the network and can be requested via the online catalogue. Approximately 13,000 samples are collected each year and 7,000 samples distributed in Europe and beyond. The biological samples are obtained from patients affected by rare diseases, including rare neuromuscular disorders. * The EuroBioBank Network is currently composed of 18 members, of which 16 biobanks from 8 European countries (France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Slovenia, Spain and the United-Kingdom) as well as Israel and Canada. Goals * Identify and localize biological material of interest to researchers * Build a critical mass of rare disease sample collections * Distribute high quality material and associated data to users * Promote best-practice guidelines for biobanking activities * Disseminate knowledge and know-how to the scientific community through training courses * Enhance collaboration with the medical and scientific community in the field of rare diseases EuroBioBank acts as a clearing house or virtual bank, with all samples listed in the central online catalogue remaining in the possession of the member biobanks, where they are located and can be requested. The network was established by patients and researchers to facilitate research on rare diseases by guaranteeing quick and easy access to samples via an online catalogue. The catalogue lists the samples available throughout the EuroBioBank network by type of biomaterial. A search engine enables a search by disease or by bank contact. Once a sample has been located in the catalogue, it can be requested by email. Therefore, the biological material is exchanged faster. If a sample does not appear in the EuroBioBank catalogue, help can be provided to further search it at: eurobiobank (at) telethon.it Funding and Collaboration Originally funded by the EC between 2003-2006, the EuroBioBank received further EC support between 2007-2011 within the European Network of Excellence TREAT-NMD (FP6), which covered the cost sustained by Eurordis for the network coordination and website hosting. Each biobank of the network is financed by its own Institution or charitable organization. As of January 2012, the Fondazione Telethon provides the administrative support for coordinating the EuroBioBank network and hosting the website.

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Organization to lead the integration of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes observing capabilities, in collaboration with Federal and non-Federal partners, to maximize access to data and generation of information products, inform decision making, and promote economic, environmental, and social benefits to the nation and the world. This national-regional partnership is working to provide new tools and forecasts to improve safety, enhance the economy, and protect the environment. Integrated ocean information is available in near real time, as well as retrospectively. Easier and better access to this information is improving their ability to understand and predict coastal events - such as storms, wave heights, and sea level change. Such knowledge is needed for everything from retail to development planning. The Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) program achieves its objectives by funding organizations through a competitive process.

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A web-based software tool offering an integrated analysis of transcriptome data under genomic, proteomic and metabolic context.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 6,2023. Code used for analysis of TwoPhoton data.

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Software library for manipulating neural data files generated in Andreas Tolias Lab.

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