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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented May 10, 2017. A pilot effort that has developed a centralized, web-based biospecimen locator that presents biospecimens collected and stored at participating Arizona hospitals and biospecimen banks, which are available for acquisition and use by researchers. Researchers may use this site to browse, search and request biospecimens to use in qualified studies. The development of the ABL was guided by the Arizona Biospecimen Consortium (ABC), a consortium of hospitals and medical centers in the Phoenix area, and is now being piloted by this Consortium under the direction of ABRC. You may browse by type (cells, fluid, molecular, tissue) or disease. Common data elements decided by the ABC Standards Committee, based on data elements on the National Cancer Institute''s (NCI''s) Common Biorepository Model (CBM), are displayed. These describe the minimum set of data elements that the NCI determined were most important for a researcher to see about a biospecimen. The ABL currently does not display information on whether or not clinical data is available to accompany the biospecimens. However, a requester has the ability to solicit clinical data in the request. Once a request is approved, the biospecimen provider will contact the requester to discuss the request (and the requester''s questions) before finalizing the invoice and shipment. The ABL is available to the public to browse. In order to request biospecimens from the ABL, the researcher will be required to submit the requested required information. Upon submission of the information, shipment of the requested biospecimen(s) will be dependent on the scientific and institutional review approval. Account required. Registration is open to everyone., documented September 6, 2016. FSSP (families of structurally similar proteins) is a database of structural alignments of proteins in the Protein Data Bank. The database currently contains an extended structural family for each of 330 representative protein chains. Each data set contains structural alignments of one search structure with all other structurally significantly similar proteins in the representative set (remote homologs, below 30%% sequence identity), as well as all structures in the Protein Data Bank with 70-30%% sequence identity relative to the search structure (medium homologs). Very close homologs (above 70 % sequence identity) are excluded as they rarely have marked structural differences. The alignments of remote homologs are the result of pairwise all-against-all structural comparisons in the set of 330 representative protein chains. All such comparisons are based purely on the 3D co-ordinates of the proteins and are derived by automatic (objective) structure comparison programs. The significance of structural similarity is estimated based on statistical criteria. The FSSP database is available electronically and by anonymous ftp (file transfer protocol).

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A coalescent simulation software program for a structured population including recombination, demographic structure and selection at a single diploid locus.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 6, 2023.BAMS is an online resource for information about neural circuitry. The BAMS Cell view focuses on the major brain regions and which cells are contained therein.

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An ontology of physico-chemical processes, i.e. physico-chemical changes occurring in course of time. It includes both microscopic processes (involving molecular entities or subatomic particles) and macroscopic processes. Some biochemical processes from Gene Ontology (GO Biological process) can be described as instances of REX.

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An OWL representation of the data in PharmGKB, Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) and DrugBank and linked to related ontologies: ChEBI ontology, the Human Disease Ontology (DO), the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System (ATC) and the Medical Subject Headings Thesaurus (MESH). The combined knowledge base can be exploited using the ELK reasoner.

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altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship. No one can read everything. We rely on filters to make sense of the scholarly literature, but the narrow, traditional filters are being swamped. However, the growth of new, online scholarly tools allows us to make new filters; these alt-metrics reflect the broad, rapid impact of scholarship in this burgeoning ecosystem. We call for more tools and research based on alt-metrics. * Tools: Browse a directory of noteworthy altmetrics apps. * Media: Watch videos of altmetrics presentations.

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The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) has long been, and remains, a world-class research laboratory. Our primary goal is to understand biological processes at the molecular level, through the application of methods drawn from physics, chemistry and genetics. This quest extends from structural studies of individual macromolecules, through their interactions and beyond to the functioning of subcellular systems, cells and multicellular systems in whole organisms, with the ultimate aim of using this knowledge to tackle specific problems in human health and disease. The LMB is one of the birthplaces of modern molecular biology. Many techniques were pioneered at the laboratory, most notably methods for determining the three-dimensional structure of proteins and DNA sequencing. Whole genome sequencing was initiated at the LMB. Another landmark discovery was the invention of monoclonal antibodies. Over the years, the work of LMB scientists has attracted 9 Nobel Prizes, shared between 13 LMB scientists, as well as numerous other prizes and scientific awards.

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Software R package for RNA-Seq Differential Expression Analysis.

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Human Physiology is a featured book on Wikibooks because it contains substantial content, it is well-formatted, and the Wikibooks community has decided to feature it on the main page or in other places. Please continue to improve it and thanks for the great work so far! A printable and PDF version are available. You can edit its advertisement template. Contents: 1. Homeostasis 2. Cell Physiology 3. Integumentary System 4. The Nervous System 5. Senses 6. The Muscular System 7. Blood Physiology 8. The Cardiovascular System 9. The Immune System 10. The Urinary System 11. The Respiratory System 12. The Gastrointestinal System 13. Nutrition 14. The Endocrine System 15. The Male Reproductive System 16. The Female Reproductive System 17. Pregnancy and Birth 18. Genetics and Inheritance 19. Development: Birth through Death 20. Appendix 1: Answers to Review Questions 21. Authors 22. Further Reading

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 6, 2023. National Center for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) that develops new algorithms, opensource tools, computational infrastructure, and services for biomedical and behavioral researchers nationwide to promote the secure sharing and consuming of biomedical and behavioral resources (software, data, and computing systems) with iDASH collaborators. The center addresses fundamental challenges to research progress by providing a secure, privacypreserving environment in which researchers can analyze genomic, transcriptomic, clinical, behavioral, and social data relevant to health. Three driving biological projects in iDASH (Molecular Phenotyping of Kawasaki Disease, Post-Marketing Surveillance of Hematologic Medications, and Individualized Intervention to Enhance Physical Activity) span the molecular-individualpopulation spectrum, and they will motivate, inform, and support tool development. iDASH will collaborate with other NCBCs and will disseminate tools via annual workshops, presentations at major conferences, and scientific publications.

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Service that provides petabyte-scale cloud resources to analyze, manage, and share scientific data. It is designed to serve medium to large sized research projects by managing and operating a secure cloud computing infrastructure that can be shared across a project. This Science as a Service approach to research saves scientists and their funders valuable time and money. All of the software developed is open source and hosted on GitHub. The OSDC also has 1PB of public data in a wide variety of disciplines. The data sets can downloaded over the internet or high performance networks such as Internet2, as well as computed over directly on the OSDC.

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OppNet is a trans-NIH initiative to expand the agency's funding of basic behavioral and social sciences research (b-BSSR). Basic-BSSR studies mechanisms and processes that influence behavior at the individual, group, community and population level. Research results lead to new approaches for reducing risky behaviors and improving the adoption of healthy practices. The mission of OppNet is to pursue opportunities for strengthening basic behavioral and social science research (b-BSSR) at the NIH while innovating beyond existing investments. * OppNet advances basic behavioral and social science research through activities and initiatives that build a body of knowledge about the nature of behavior and social systems. * OppNet prioritizes activities and initiatives that focus on basic mechanisms of behavior and social processes; that are relevant to the missions and public health challenges of multiple NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices (ICOs); and that build upon existing NIH investments without replicating them. All NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) share the mission of supporting b-BSSR. OppNet will also develop a plan for focused multi-year programs across ICs to advance priority topics within b-BSSR.

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MiMi Web gives you an easy to use interface to a rich NCIBI data repository for conducting your systems biology analyses. This repository includes the MiMI database, PubMed resources updated nightly, and text mined from biomedical research literature. The MiMI database comprehensively includes protein interaction information that has been integrated and merged from diverse protein interaction databases and other biological sources. With MiMI, you get one point of entry for querying, exploring, and analyzing all these data. MiMI provides access to the knowledge and data merged and integrated from numerous protein interactions databases and augments this information from many other biological sources. MiMI merges data from these sources with deep integration into its single database with one point of entry for querying, exploring, and analyzing all these data. MiMI allows you to query all data, whether corroborative or contradictory, and specify which sources to utilize. MiMI displays results of your queries in easy-to-browse interfaces and provides you with workspaces to explore and analyze the results. Among these workspaces is an interactive network of protein-protein interactions displayed in Cytoscape and accessed through MiMI via a MiMI Cytoscape plug-in. MiMI gives you access to more information than you can get from any one protein interaction source such as: * Vetted data on genes, attributes, interactions, literature citations, compounds, and annotated text extracts through natural language processing (NLP) * Linkouts to integrated NCIBI tools to: analyze overrepresented MeSH terms for genes of interest, read additional NLP-mined text passages, and explore interactive graphics of networks of interactions * Linkouts to PubMed and NCIBI's MiSearch interface to PubMed for better relevance rankings * Querying by keywords, genes, lists or interactions * Provenance tracking * Quick views of missing information across databases. Data Sources include: BIND, BioGRID, CCSB at Harvard, cPath, DIP, GO (Gene Ontology), HPRD, IntAct, InterPro, IPI, KEGG, Max Delbreuck Center, MiBLAST, NCBI Gene, Organelle DB, OrthoMCL DB, PFam, ProtoNet, PubMed, PubMed NLP Mining, Reactome, MINT, and Finley Lab. The data integration service is supplied under the conditions of the original data sources and the specific terms of use for MiMI. Access to this website is provided free of charge. The MiMI data is queryable through a web services api. The MiMI data is available in PSI-MITAB Format. These files represent a subset of the data available in MiMI. Only UniProt and RefSeq identifiers are included for each interactor, pathways and metabolomics data is not included, and provenance is not included for each interaction. If you need access to the full MiMI dataset please send an email to mimi-help (at) umich.edu.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 17, 2013. Memory impairment is one of the most common complaints after head injury, and accordingly, individuals may attempt to feign memory impairment or exaggerate symptoms of memory impairment. This free neuropsychological evaluation software contains some of the most common tests used to detect malingering of memory impairment. This software package contains a number of tests of declarative memory that assess recall of information that has a personal and temporal context. The typical example of declarative tests used for detecting malingering are the auditory verbal learning test and forced choice test. These tests are included in Symptom Validity along with other tests of declarative memory (e.g., prose recall, questionnaire tests). Unfortunately, classification of individuals is not completely accurate even with the use of multiple declarative memory tests. Thus, other tests that can complement previously used declarative memory measures by enhancing classification accuracy may be of great value to the neuropsychologist assessing the possibility of malingering. Your software contains two tests of nondeclarative memory that have been previously shown to be useful in the detection of malingered memory deficits (Davis et al., 1997a, 1997b). These tests take advantage of the general laypersons misunderstanding of the test performance of a truly memory impaired individual. That is, amnesic patients have been shown to perform normally on these nondeclarative memory tests and this is counterintuitive to the memory performance expectations of the general layperson. The nondeclarative tests included in Symptom Validity are two repetition priming tests of word stem completion and two tests of pattern categorization learning. Note: At this time this program will run only on Windows 98. We are currently working on a version that will run under the newer operating systems.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 6, 2023.Comprised of a large array of sophisticated programs, this comprehensive software package with tools based around the MINC file format. Utilities are provided for conversion, viewing, editing, registering, segmentation, and a wide array of analysis. Many programs are in Perl. MINC software tools for neurological imaging are free. Input format: Analyze, DICOM, Minc

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An ontology that includes both extinct and extant vertebrates, aiming to provide one comprehensive hierarchy. The hierarchy backbone for extant taxa is based on the NCBI taxonomy. Since the NCBI taxonomy only includes species associated with archived genetic data, to complement this, they also incorporate taxonomic information across the vertebrates from the Paleobiology Database (PaleoDB). The Teleost Taxonomy Ontology (TTO) and AmphibiaWeb (AWeb) are incorporated to provide a more authoritative hierarchy and a richer set of names for specific taxonomic groups.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 17, 2013. The modifiable n-Back test is free software presumed to measure executive control of the updating of information in working memory. The task requires the participant to monitor some dimension (e.g. content, position, numerosity) of a temporally present sequence of items, responding when the currently presented item matches on the relevant dimension an item that was just recently presented. The match can be with an item present either 1 back, 2 back, 3 back or n back. Considerable flexibility is provided to the experimenter in specifying various parameters of the experiment (e.g. presentation rate, n back, content, position, color). The n-Back test is presumed to measure executive control of the updating of information in working memory. (Shimamura, 2000) Watter, Geffen and Geffen (2001) based on their work with the P300 event-related-potential have suggested that the n-Back is a dual task in that latencies of the P300 did not change with increasing task difficulty, that is memory load while amplitude did reflecting in their view a reallocation of attention and processing capacity away from the matching subtask. The n-Back task is one in which the participant is presented a series of stimuli at a constant rate. The task of the participant is to determine if the currently presented stimulus is similar (along some dimension) to one they have recently (usually one, two or three positions back) seen in the stream. Match criteria can be dimensions like material, position on the screen, color or some combination. CATs n-Back allows for substantial control over the position in which the material is presented (nine different positions), the nature of the material (any character or dingbat string, and any color. The experimenter can set the speed at which the sequence is presented including both the stimulus on time and the inter-stimulus interval. Participant responses can be made either using the keyboard or the mouse. At this time no normative data is available for this test.

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Reaction Time is free neuropsychological evaluation software designed to assess subject's speed of processing on three relatively simple tasks. Tasks include a simple reaction time test, a choice test, and a conditional choice test. Participants are shown a series of visual stimuli on a computer screen and asked to respond by pulling an appropriate trigger on a standard game pad. Both reaction time and the trigger pulled are recorded for subsequent analysis. Tasks to be used in the test, the average inter-stimulus interval and the number of stimuli presented for each task can be set by the investigator. The analysis includes means and standard deviations for response latencies for a single session, as well as the capability of evaluating a participant's performance on a particular session against their performance on a series of sessions. This test requires the use of a game pad that supports at least four buttons and provides a right and left trigger button. We have tested several different brands of inexpensive game pads and have found them acceptable; however we have standardized on Microsoft's SideWinder and have used it in collecting the normative data for this test.

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Advances in our understanding of the brain are leading to new insights into how we think and to new opportunities to treat the devastating set of neurological diseases that affect all segments of our population. Penn State Hershey Neuroscience Institute integrates basic, translational and clinical neuroscience research; education of graduate students, medical students, postdoctoral fellows and residents; clinical care of patients with neurobehavioral diseases and disorders; and outreach to the local community, state, regional, national and international neuroscience organizations. With the neurosciences clearly established as a continuing priority in the overall strategic vision of Penn State Hershey, the leadership of the neuroscience community is seeking to establish the short and long term vision for excellence and continued growth in neuroscience. Those academic centers that can achieve the best collaboration and alignment among the various neuroscience disciplines will be best positioned to advance this field. We believe that the formation of Penn State Hershey Neuroscience Institute positions us to take a leading role in developing neuroscience knowledge and treatment.

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