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A virtual database created by the Neuroscience Information Framework currently indexing Scientific Blog and News resources such as: Nature Network Blogs, Wired Science Blogs, The Guardian: Science, It Takes 30, Scientific American Cross-Check, Scientific American Bering in Mind, Research Blogging, CENtral Science, ScienceBlogs: Medicine and Health, American Guest Blog, Scientific American Observations, LabSpaces, RetractionWatch.com, Wired Science, Genomes Unzipped, PLoS Blogs, Daring Nucleic Adventures - genegeek, H2SO4Hurts - Brian Krueger PhD, and Sciblogs.

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• SciCrunch
• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

A Comprehensive Bioinformatics Scientific Workflow Module for Distributed Analysis of Large-Scale Biological Data that is distributed on top of the core Kepler scientific workflow system.

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• SciCrunch
• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

A virtual database currently indexing the following scientific Job resources: Naturejobs, Monster, Indeed, Hays, jobs.ac.uk, New Scientist Jobs, Science Careers, Access-ScienceJobs.co.uk, TheScienceJobs.com, ScienceBlogs: Jobs, and It Takes 30.

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• SciCrunch
• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Global biobanking organization that creates opportunities for networking, education, and innovation. ISBER provides a community for harmonizing approaches to emerging challenges in repositories, as well as fostering ideas to create new solutions.

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• SciCrunch
• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

The NBIA Disorders Association, formerly known as Hallervorden-Spatz Syndrome Association, (HSSA) was originally founded in 1996 by President, Patricia Wood. The goals of the association are to raise funds to support research pertinent to NBIA; to provide emotional support to those afflicted with NBIA and their families; and to raise public awareness of NBIA. The NBIA Disorders Association is accepting applications for one-year grants for clinical and translational research studies related to the early detection, diagnosis, or treatment of patients with NBIA. Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation (NBIA) is a group of rare, genetic, neurological disorders characterized by the accumulation of iron deposits in the brain and progressive degeneration of the nervous system. It typically first appears in childhood. Presenting signs and symptoms may include difficulty walking, loss of balance, and problems related to speech. Those affected suffer a progressive loss of muscle control, sudden involuntary muscle spasms, and uncontrolled tightening of the muscles. Symptoms may also include disorientation, seizures, and deterioration of intellectual ability. Approximately half of the cases diagnosed have been linked to a mutation of a gene known as PANK2. At the present time, symptoms may be treated but there is no cure. The purpose of the NBIA Disorders Association Research Grant Program is to encourage meritorious research studies designed to improve the diagnosis or treatment of NBIA. The research can be conducted in the United States, countries of the European Union, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, South Africa, Japan, or Israel, and in other countries where adequate supervision of grant administration is possible. Grants will be awarded to qualified researchers to initiate pilot studies, the results of which are intended to be used to obtain larger multi-year grant funding. Evaluation of proposals will follow NIH guidelines and include careful consideration of experimental or protocol design, objectivity or relevance of parameters measured, and statistical analysis plan. Proposals that address the following areas will be given priority: * Therapeutics Development: ** Development of pantethine and its derivatives ** Development of other rational therapeutics * Animal & Cellular Models: ** Development of a new rodent disease model by targeted insertion of a ''human disease'' mutation into Pank2 ** Development of induced pluripotent stem cell lines. *** Development of animal and cellular models will be considered for multi-year funding with adequate budget justification. Proposals should detail a research plan and a budget for the initial phase of the work, with the option to contract further work out to a commercial enterprise. * Biomarker Discovery and Assay Development: ** Metabolomics ** Coenzyme A / acyl coenzyme A measurement using accessible (peripheral and central) tissue/fluid * New NBIA gene discovery

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• SciCrunch
• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

Taverna Knowledge Blog: Designing, Executing and Sharing Scientific workflows

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

Knowledge Blog for descriptive, tutorial and explanatory material about building, using and maintaining ontologies, as well as the social processes and technology that support this. Ontogenesis features over 20 articles written by leading academics, and has attracted over 17,000 page reads. Articles are peer-reviewed. Following publication as reviewed, articles are stable and can be cited by stable URL or DOI. Ontogenesis is now archived by the British Library as part of the UK Web Archive and is indexed by Google Scholar. The initial idea for Ontogenesis came from Phillip Lord. You can read the original manifesto that they wrote, describing the purpose of this blog. Ontogenesis is the first and main example of a Knowledgeblog, a flexible and light-weight process for scientific publication. It has received funding from JISC. They are currently open to submissions. Please contact them if you want further information, or would like to offer articles for publication., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

Series of tutorial material covering a broad selection of topics in bioinformatics. Categories include: Bioinformatics APIs, Data integration, Events, Grid and Cloud Computing, Metabolic modelling, Reviews, Software Comparisons, Statistics, Systems Biology, Transcriptomics, Tutorials.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

It is now widely known that animals share many genes with humans and can suffer from the same diseases, for example diabetes or deafness. Investigating these diseases in animals can provide vital leads to understanding both their causes and ways to treat them in humans. This approach to medical research lies at the heart of work at the MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit (MGU) at Harwell in Oxfordshire. In 1995 the MRC Radiobiology Unit was reconstituted to form two new units, the Radiation and Genome Stability Unit and the MGU. These opened in January 1996, together with the UK Mouse Genome Centre which is now part of MGU, making MRC Harwell a unique campus for multi-disciplinary genetics research. Since MGU's Director Steve Brown took the reins in 1996, the unit has dramatically expanded its scientific scope and increased its personnel from 40 to over 100. It now has 13 research programs encompassing molecular genetics, genomics, genetic manipulation and data analysis at all levels, from single genes to the whole genome. With a combination of cutting-edge facilities and expertise unrivaled in Europe, MGU Harwell has become firmly established as one of the world's leading academic centres for mouse genetics.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

A web interface and scalable software system for bioinformatics workflows that is used to create, run, and monitor reusable computational analysis pipelines. It contains pre-built components for common bioinformatics analysis tasks. These components can be arranged graphically to form highly-configurable pipelines. Each analysis component supports multiple output formats, including the Bioinformatic Sequence Markup Language (BSML). The current implementation includes support for data loading into project databases following the CHADO schema, a highly normalized, community-supported schema for storage of biological annotation data. Ergatis uses the Workflow engine to process its work on a compute grid. Workflow provides an XML language and processing engine for specifying the steps of a computational pipeline. It provides detailed execution status and logging for process auditing, facilitates error recovery from point of failure, and is highly scalable with support for distributed computing environments. The XML format employed enables commands to be run serially, in parallel, and in any combination or nesting level.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

A set of custom nodes for the KNIME (The Konstanz Information Miner) graphical workbench, for analysing next-generation sequencing (NGS) data without the requirement of programming skills.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 5,2022.Tool that predicts interactions between transcription factors and their regulated genes from binding motifs. Understanding vertebrate development requires unraveling the cis-regulatory architecture of gene regulation. PRISM provides accurate genome-wide computational predictions of transcription factor binding sites for the human and mouse genomes, and integrates the predictions with GREAT to provide functional biological context. Together, accurate computational binding site prediction and GREAT produce for each transcription factor: 1. putative binding sites, 2. putative target genes, 3. putative biological roles of the transcription factor, and 4. putative cis-regulatory elements through which the factor regulates each target in each functional role., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences research focus is on the cutting edge of pharmaceutical sciences. Provides training at professional, master, doctoral and post-doctoral levels in wide range of disciplines, including medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutics, toxicology, drug delivery, pharmacology and many other related biomedical sciences.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Software to assist a bioinformatician to organize, document, share, execute and repeat workflows in a command line environment without losing any of the flexibility of the command line, and, at all times giving the user full access to all aspects of the workflow.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

A compact, portable, and extensively tested C++11 software framework and set of applications tailored to the demands of next-generation sequencing data and applicable to many other applications. It is designed to work with common file formats and data types used both in genomic analysis and general data analysis. A central relational-database-like Table class is a flexible and powerful object to intuitively represent and work with a wide variety of tabular datasets, ranging from alignment data to annotations. MolBioLib includes programs to perform a wide variety of analysis tasks such as computing read coverage, annotating genomic intervals, and novel peak calling with a wavelet algorithm. This package assumes fluency in both UNIX and C++.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

The Invitrogen Clone Collection: * Ultimate ORF Clones: Full-insert sequenced human and mouse open reading frames (ORFs) in a Gateway entry vector offering the highest utility for your downstream analysis needs. * GeneStorm Clones: GeneStorm Clones are human ORFs cloned and tested for expression in a mammalian, insect, or bacterial expression system. They are sequenced for identity and classification and are not guaranteed at the nucleotide level. * Full-Length Clones: An unparalleled repository of clones enriched for full-length inserts, derived from both public and proprietary sources. * BAC/PAC Clones: Invitrogen offers several genomic libraries from a selection of tissues and sources to facilitate your research and discovery. These collections are available in a variety of formats including clones, plates, pools and high-density colony membrane filters. * Yeast Deletions: Each yeast deletion represents a unique gene-knockout of the S. cerevisiae genome. Each open reading frame is knocked out using a PCR-based gene deletion strategy. Yeast deletions are available as clones, pools, plates and complete collections. * Yeast GFP Clones: The Yeast GFP Clone Collection of S. cerevisiae tagged open reading frames were generated by Dr. Erin O''Shea and Dr. Jonathan Weissman at University of California-San Francisco. The GFP fusion proteins are integrated into the yeast chromosome through homologous recombination and are expressed using endogenous promoters.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

The mission of the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center (HNRC) is to increase our understanding of how HIV and other diseases affect the human nervous system. The HNRC conducts local, national, and international research devoted to advancing our knowledge of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of HIV-related diseases as they affect the brain and nervous system, and result in impairment of everyday functioning. Research areas of the Center include: - The incidence, prevalence, and features of neurocognitive impairment caused by HIV - The attributes of the virus, host, and host-virus interactions that determine the presentation of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders - Possible molecular and cellular mechanisms of nervous system impairment, including the mechanisms by which host-virus factors generate neural injury and neurobehavioral disorders - The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) as a window on CNS events * The role of co-pathogens and comorbidities in neuroAIDS (e.g., hepatitis C infection, methamphetamine abuse) - Real life implications of neurocognitive impairment in terms of work, daily life, and survival - The effects of HIV disease and neurocognitive impairment on family and social adaptation - NeuroAIDS in resource limited settings - Treatments for neurocognitive impairment and behavioral interventions HNRC also has a Developmental Grants Program (DGP), the primary goal of which is the initiation of innovative studies by junior faculty and trainees at UCSD or affiliated institutions with the following objectives: 1. Recruitment to neuroAIDS research of new investigators or established investigators without prior experience in the field; 2. Generation and pilot testing of new research initiatives; 3. Fostering collaboration among investigators from throughout Southern California. The program provides to qualified investigators and trainees any appropriate combination of the following forms of support: 1. Small, 1-2 year grants to support pilot studies; 2. Access to HNRC core resources such as data, specimens, participants, equipment, administrative support, or expert consultation and technical assistance. Lastly, The the NHRC Mentored Investigator Program recruits, supports, and follows the progress of graduate students, postdoctoral (Ph.D. or M.D.) fellows, and junior faculty in disciplines relevant to HNRC research. The HNRC is committed to tailoring our training opportunities to the backgrounds and interests of candidates from a variety of disciplines who join us with various levels of training and experience in research. We have and will continue to provide training and mentoring of medical students, doctoral students in clinical psychology, and postdoctoral fellows in Medicine, Psychiatry, Neurology, and Psychology. Sponsors: The Center is supported by public funding from the National Institutes of Health, the State of California, and other sources.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Public university in French community of Belgium. International university spreads out over 4 campuses. Its official language is French.

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• 16 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Database with 2797 unique DNA-binding proteins (mostly transcription factors, TFs), 4196 Position Weight Matrices (PWMs) and 13161 DNA Binding Sites extracted from the literature and other repositories. The binding interfaces of (most) proteins in the database are inferred from the collection of protein-DNA complexes described in 3D-footprint. The database predicts transcription factors which bind a specific DNA site or motif and DNA motifs or sites likely to be recognized by a specific DNA-binding protein.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 22, 2016. A database of information on bacterial phages. It contains multiple phage genomes, which users can BLAST and MegaBLAST, and also hosts a Phage Forum in which users can discuss phage data. Interactive browsing of completed phage genomes is available using the program. The browser allows users to scan the genome for particular features and to download sequence information plus analyses of those features. Views of the genome are generated showing named genes BLAST similarities to other phages predicted tRNAs and other sequence features.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous