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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 29, 2016. The Adenoma Polyp Tissue Bank (APTB) receives whole blood from patients enrolled in the Prevention of Sporadic Colorectal Adenomas with Celecoxib clinical trial. We have reached our accrual on blood submissions, so we will no longer be receiving blood specimens The objectives of this trial are as follows: A. To determine the efficacy and safety of celecoxib versus placebo in preventing the occurrence of newly detected colorectal adenomas in subjects at increased risk for colorectal carcinoma. In addition to incidence, other established risk factors will be evaluated for their association with occurrence of new colorectal adenomas, including cancer family history and adenoma size, histopathologic grade, multiplicity and location. Primary assessment of treatment efficacy will be the reduction in the number of subjects with adenomas at colonoscopy after Year 1 and Year 3 of study drug use. Secondary assessments of treatment efficacy will be 1) the number of adenomas 2) the histopathologic grade of adenomas and 3) the size of adenomas, also measured after one year and three years of study drug use. These factors will be incorporated into a risk model for predicting adenoma occurrence and response to celecoxib. B. To determine the efficacy of celecoxib versus placebo in modulating one or more of a panel of biomarkers for colorectal cancer at the cellular and molecular level sampled in a subset of subjects at selective sites at baseline and after Year 1 and Year 3 of study drug use. These biomarkers will include measurements of aberrant crypt foci (ACF), proliferation (index and crypt distribution), apoptosis (index and crypt distribution), COX expression and activity. If modulation of one or more mucosal biomarkers occur, we will explore whether it correlates with the development of incident colorectal neoplasia (adenomas/carcinomas), thereby attempting to validate the surrogacy of that biomarker. C. To develop a specimen bank. Serum and white blood cells are isolated from whole blood and adenoma tissue blocks and slides are banked. Banked specimens will become available for use in correlative science studies at a later point. This project began in 1999 and will be extended through 2006. The lead principal investigator is Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD, Brigham and Women''s Hospital, Boston, MA, and the APTB Director is Scott Jewell, Ph.D., Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University. The APTB is supported by the NIH, NCI Division of Cancer Prevention, in connection with the Strang Cancer Prevention Center, Cornell University, New York., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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Podcasts (Audio and video files over the internet) form the Translational Genomics Research Institute.

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This is a demo store. Any orders placed through this store will not be honored or fulfilled. The Open Biobank is a network of bio-banks, collaborators, and consumers supplying or acquiring samples that are proactively acquired for future testing, analysis, and/or replenishment for human life. Our goal is to supply quality samples to clinicians and researchers with making their ordering experience convenient, accessible, and available 24/7. Suppliers that we distribute for are Bio-Banks, Tissues Banks, and Seed Banks who supply samples to the open life science community. Samples are stored in bio-repositories, physical and data storage facilities with various controlled environments normally containing associated data history on the sample(s) sourced. We have a policy to provide all consumers with documentation from suppliers on the state, procedures, protocols, and historical data on sample handling and testing analysis on samples ordered from suppliers. In choosing samples to order, suppliers categorize the usage, handling, environment, and application of samples to properly supply samples to users. However, users expect information on sample handling, collection or harvesting, storage, management, shipment, and other logistical considerations that may affect sample quality and impact sample use. The Amazon-like storefront saves lives by sourcing samples from all bio-banks around the world. This is how it works: * Choose a supplier you trust. Find the sample you need. Select samples from search results and place an order. Payment systems by Amazon are reliable. Choose your shipper and method of delivery. Track your orders from multiple vendors. Query reports of all orders place by your staff. Rate the samples you ordered and view the ratings of your peers. * Market your Biospecimen and Data on the Open Biobank

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Biospecimen repository of normal and diseased human material from a variety of tissues and conditions along with clinical annotation. Both frozen aliquots and paraffin embedded tissue are available. Biospecimens are available to qualified researchers with IRB approval. * Preliminary inquires please contact Cheryl Spencer at cheryl.spencer (at) bmc.org

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1200+ ''resting state'' functional MRI (R-fMRI) datasets independently collected at 33 sites and donated by the principal investigators for the purpose of providing the broader imaging community complete access to a large-scale functional imaging dataset. Age, sex and imaging center information are provided for each of the datasets. In accordance with HIPAA guidelines, all datasets are anonymous, with no protected health information included. We anticipate this data-sharing effort will equip researchers with a means of exploring and refining R-fMRI approaches, and facilitate the growing ethos of sharing and collaboration. Disclaimer: The ''1000 Functional Connectomes Project'' datasets are provided freely without assurance of quality or appropriateness for usage.

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Collection of resting state fMRI (R-fMRI) datasets from sites around world. It demonstrates open sharing of R-fMRI data and aims to emphasize aggregation and sharing of well-phenotyped datasets.

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An annual Brain-Art Competition to recognize the beauty and creativity of artistic renderings emerging from the neuroimaging community. Submission deadline: June 1st, 2012. Awards will be announced on June 11th during the OHBM conference in Beijing. (You need not be present to win) Countless hours are devoted to creation of informative visualizations for communicating neuroscientific findings. This competition once again aims to recognize the artistic creativity of our community that often goes underappreciated in the publication process. We are inviting researchers to submit their favorite unpublished works for entry. Both team and single-person entries are welcomed. The competition will have five award categories: # Best Representation of the Human Connectome # Best Abstract Brain Illustration # Best Educational Brain Illustration # Best Humorous Brain Illustration # Best Video Illustration of the Brain Submissions will be evaluated based on their aesthetic merit

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A web-based analytical environment framework for bioinformatics applications that can be customized for a diverse range of -omics applications. The software system is adaptable to a range of both pluggable execution and data backends in an open source implementation. Enabling seamless and transparent access to heterogenous HPC environments at its core, it then provides an analysis workflow environment that can create and reuse workflows as well as manage large amounts of both raw and processed data in a secure and flexible way across geographically distributed compute resources. Yabi can be used via a web-based environment to drag-and-drop tools to create sophisticated workflows. It can also be accessed through the Yabi command line which is designed for users that are more comfortable with writing scripts or for enabling external workflow environments to leverage the features in Yabi. Configuring tools can be a significant overhead in workflow environments. Yabi greatly simplifies this task by enabling system administrators to configure as well as manage running tools via a web-based environment and without the need to write or edit software programs or scripts.

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A grassroots initiative dedicated to accelerating the scientific community''''s understanding of the neural basis of ADHD through the implementation of open data-sharing and discovery-based science. They believe that a community-wide effort focused on advancing functional and structural imaging examinations of the developing brain will accelerate the rate at which neuroscience can inform clinical practice. The ADHD-200 Global Competition invited participants to develop diagnostic classification tools for ADHD diagnosis based on functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain. Applying their tools, participants provided diagnostic labels for previously unlabeled datasets. The competition assessed diagnostic accuracy of each submission and invited research papers describing novel, neuroscientific ideas related to ADHD diagnosis. Twenty-one international teams, from a mix of disciplines, including statistics, mathematics, and computer science, submitted diagnostic labels, with some trying their hand at imaging analysis and psychiatric diagnosis for the first time. The data for the competition was provided by the ADHD-200 Consortium. Consortium members from institutions around the world provided de-identified, HIPAA compliant imaging datasets from almost 800 children with and without ADHD. A phenotypic file including all of the test set subjects and their diagnostic codes can be downloaded. Winner is presented. The ADHD-200 consortium included: * Brown University, Providence, RI, USA (Brown) * The Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA (KKI) * The Donders Institute, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (NeuroImage) * New York University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA (NYU) * Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA (OHSU) * Peking University, Beijing, P.R.China (Peking 1-3) * The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Pittsburgh) * Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA (WashU)

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A neuroscience collaboratory that supports open neuroscience, which basically encompasses the unrestricted sharing of: analytic tools, computational resources, data, and knowledge. Its goal is to establish a spirit and forum for open neuroscience, and to facilitate the translation of that ethos into action by conducting successful large open interdisciplinary collaborative efforts such as releasing the preprocessed version of the ADHD-200 competition dataset. The Brain-Art Competition is likewise an effort to bring attention to the more aesthetically-oriented aspects of their field, and to publicize and encourage creative developments taking place at the nexus of art and neuroimaging.

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AIDS.gov works to increase HIV testing and care among people most at-risk for, or living with, HIV, by using emerging communication strategies to provide access to Federal HIV information, policies (e.g. the National HIV/AIDS Strategy), programs, and resources. Objectives # Expand visibility of timely and relevant Federal HIV policies, programs, and resources to the American public. # Increase use of new media tools by government, minority, and other community partners to extend the reach of HIV programs to communities at greatest risk. # Increase knowledge about HIV and access to HIV services for people most at-risk for, or living with, HIV. Unless otherwise noted, material presented on the AIDS.gov Web site is considered Federal government information and is in the public domain. That means this information may be freely copied and distributed. We request that you use appropriate attribution to AIDS.gov. AIDS.gov receives planning guidance from a cross agency planning group and uses a logic model (70 KB) and Communications Plan (702 KB) to guide AIDS.gov activities.

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In the early nineties it became evident that HIV infection was spreading widely in India and the national efforts for control of HIV infection needed to be backed by quality research. It was also realized that AIDS, being a multifaceted disease, needed multi-disciplinary research involving virology, immunology, microbiology, clinical research, epidemiology, field based trials and social and behavioral research. An Institute devoted exclusively to HIV/ AIDS that could undertake research of such a diversity and magnitude was established to meet this requirement. National AIDS Research Institute (NARI) was established in October 1992 in Bhosari, Pune on a seven acre plot. The Institute has progressively expanded its activities in various aspects of research on HIV and AIDS through infra-structural development, capacity building & research programmes. The activities of NARI are supported by the ICMR & numerous extramural agencies. For the fiscal year 2005-2006 the ICMR allocated 5.66 crores for NARI. Additionally, over 13 crores have been generated through extramural sources. The Institute''s research activities are guided by a Scientific Advisory Committee which includes eminent scientists from varied disciplines. All research projects are reviewed & approved by the Ethics Committee which also ensures that research is conducted with highest ethical standards. Establishment of a Community Advisory Board which acts as an interface between the community and the researchers is a pioneering effort by NARI.

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An online tool that takes a set of DNA sequences with point mutations and returns a ranked list to predict the effects of point mutations on pre-mRNA splicing. The current implementation includes 11 genomes: human, chimp, rhesus, mouse, rat, dog, cat, chicken, guinea pig, frog and zebrafish.

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Ph.D. program in Behavioral Neuroscience is committed to training exceptional students for independent neuroscience research careers in academic, governmental, or industrial settings. Our program provides training in biological foundations of behavior, with particular focus on sensation, learning and memory, affect, development, and neural plasticity.

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Small and very fast utility to calculate X-coverage from Next-Generation-Sequencing data.

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The Department is part of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center and is one of the largest Academic Medical Centers between Chicago and the West Coast. The School of Medicine is in the top 25 schools nationally in NIH funding and includes numerous nationally recognized affiliated hospitals. Our Department is composed of over 30 primary faculty members whose clinical and research interests and activities encompass virtually all aspects of neurology. Faculty are integrated into functional units including Behavioral Neurology, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders, Infectious Disease, Movement Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis, Neuromuscular Disorders, Neuro-oncology, and Neuro-ophthalmology each of which strives to provide cutting-edge diagnostic and therapeutic services to patients and families dealing with neurological disease. Our faculty have clinical activities at four affiliated teaching hospitals (The Childrens Hospital, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University Hospital), each of which brings unique clinical, educational, and research strengths to our program. Clinical, research and educational programs are closely linked to the Division of Pediatric Neurology of the Department of Pediatrics. The educational mission of the Department includes primary responsibility for the training of medical students in required neurology clerkships, an ACGME accredited Neurology Residency Training Program (16 positions), Clinical Fellowships (Behavioral Neurology, Cerebrovascular Disease, CNS Infections, Epilepsy, Movement Disorders, Neuromuscular Disease, MS) and both clinical and laboratory based fellowships in neurology research. The clinical enterprise includes busy outpatient, inpatient and consultation services, as exemplified by over 12,000 outpatient visits and over 800 annual admissions at UH.

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Tools for splitting, joining and otherwise manipulating FASTA format sequence files. The first tools in the toolbox is for manipulating fasta headers, cropping alignments and doing some sequence comparison allowing users to combine the description of data (often in excel spreadsheets) with the actual data (often DNA sequences). Also, producing correct input files for a range of programs seems to be problematic for the average user. Hence, some converters in some of the services have been included as well as some stand-alone converters. The converters are not necessarily meant to provide the final input file, but you''ll get a valid input file for Arlequin, MrBayes etc. - that you may further edit so it suit your needs. This means that you may need to combine several of the tools to finish your handling - but it keeps it relatively simple to use. Please note that FaBox is written in PHP and ONLY RUNS ON A WEBSERVER.

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A software program for identifying and ranking peak regions in ChIP-Seq experiments. It takes as input, mapped reads from a ChIP-Seq experiment, mapped reads from a control experiment and outputs a file with peak regions ranked with increasing Q-values.

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Collect, bank, and distribute human tissue and fluid specimens by uniting tissue-based research resources within the OSU Department of Pathology and promoting collaborative research within the OSU Medical Center and related national human research projects. The HTRN is comprised of the Pathology Core Facility (PCF), Tissue Archive Service (TAS), Tissue Procurement Service (TPS), AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (ACSR), the Cancer and Leukemia Group B Pathology Coordinating Office (CALGB - PCO), and an Adenoma Polyp Tissue Bank (APTB).

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Founded in 1942, the UC Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience is transforming behavioral health care through basic, clinical and translational research programs. Our vision is to be leaders in advancing the understanding and treatment of psychiatric disorders.

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