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A private, nonprofit, nonsectarian, Historically Black College and University and a Minority Serving Institution located in Willowbrook, unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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• 13 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Leading treatment, research and teaching center for complex neurological conditions based at the University Hospital and the UC College of Medicine. Its physicians and researchers have created national models for evidence-based treatment and research of complex conditions, including ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, brain aneurysms, brain and spinal cord trauma, brain tumors, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and seizure disorders, multiple sclerosis, trigeminal neuralgia, Alzheimer's disease and memory disorders, mood disorders, and neuromuscular disorders. UCNI includes a team of more than 100 experts from 15 specialties who collaborate across disciplines to provide the most comprehensive diagnoses and treatments possible.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

A combined tissue bank and core facility which provides annotated human tissue samples for research purposes. The facility also offers high quality tissue procurement, tissue microarray, histology, immunohistochemistry, photomicroscopy, and laser capture microdissection services for both human and animal tissues to biomedical investigators conducting non-clinical research studies. The TPHC offers instruction to researchers on how to incorporate human tissue into research activities and how to work within the boundaries of patient confidentiality and other regulatory issues. The purpose of the TPHC is to provide tissue collection and processing services to intramural and extramural researchers studying cancer and other diseases. Normal, diseased, benign and malignant tissues are obtained, and matched normal adjacent tissues and tissues from different organ sites from the same donor can also be provided when available. Tissue samples are prepared according to user-specified protocols and can be fresh in a medium of choice, fixed in formalin, quick frozen in the vapor phase of liquid nitrogen or snap-frozen by plunging the sample into liquid nitrogen. Frozen tissues are held in the vapor phase of the liquid nitrogen. Tissues can also be embedded, cut and mounted on slides, and stained upon request. Tissue Microarray (TMA) services are offered for the design and construction of TMAs meeting specific project needs. Basic demographic data (age, race, gender) and histopathologic data from Surgical Pathology Reports are provided by the TPHC with the tissues.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

Collaborative neuro-oncology research program with a tissue repository (tumor bank) containing a wide range of clinical specimens, which they make available to researchers in order to study the effects of new drugs on a large number and wide range of tumor specimens. They provide highly coordinated, complex care in neurosurgery, radiation oncology, medical oncology, and neurology to patients afflicted with tumors of the brain and spine by combining the newest technologies and treatments available anywhere in the world. The program is formed from a multidisciplinary group with a goal of helping patients navigate the complex issues surrounding brain and spinal cancer care. The researchers are working to increase the number of targets that could be considered for anti-angiogenesis therapy. Many of their studies focus on the blood vessel cells (endothelial cells) themselves, which, unlike tumor cells, rarely mutate and so might be less likely to become resistant to therapy and are also more easily reached through the bloodstream. Their researchers are also attempting to better understand the changes in the blood-brain barrier (BBB) that are associated with fluid accumulation and brain swelling (edema) in neuro-oncology patients. Normal brain tissue is shielded from the rest of the body by the BBB. This barrier is composed of very tight blood vessels that prevent most substances from entering the brain. Brain tumors have a leaky BBB ����?? this feature can be used to identify tumors on MRI scans. They have identified specific molecules that appear to be associated with the leaky, abnormal vessels while the normal blood vessels with intact BBB produce these molecules at very low levels or not at all. Inhibiting the function of these molecules may help control or prevent disruption of the BBB and limit cerebral edema in brain tumor patients, as well as patients suffering from stroke or traumatic brain injury.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented September 18, 2017. Text Mining platform that copes with major Information Retrieval and Information Extraction tasks and promotes multi-disciplinary research. It aims to provide support to three different usage roles: biologists, text miners and application developers. The workbench supports the retrieval, processing and annotation of documents as well as their analysis at different levels.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

A portal presenting the patient registries and databases of the National Ataxia Foundation. The registries include: Ataxia Patient Registry at CoRDS, Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance Patient Registry; the Fragile X Research Registry; Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay ARSACS; and, Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T) Children's Project Family Data Base.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

A web based search tool to help you gain an overview of the set of articles (up to 25,000 most recent articles) retrieved by a PubMed query. Once you enter a query, you can select different types of summary information to view: Important words, Topics, Authors, Affiliations, Journals, Year, Clustered by topic.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Java software for studying protein-DNA interaction using ChIP-seq / ChIP-exo data. It links binding event discovery and motif discovery with positional priors in the context of a generative probabilistic model of ChIP data and genome sequence, resolves ChIP data into explanatory motifs and binding events at unsurpassed spatial resolution. GEM reciprocally improves motif discovery using binding event locations, and binding event predictions using discovered motifs.

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The CEI Science & Technology Network (S&TN), launched at the beginning of 2004, is composed of sevenTrieste-based research centres and their partners in the CEI region. With the aim to strengthen scientific and technological cooperation, the S&TN provides financial support for the organization of seminars, conferences, workshops and training courses. Young scientists from CEI countries, especially non-EU member States, are offered the opportunity to attend such activities and carry out scientific research on various topics in one of the seven Lead Institutions (LIs). The area of cooperation of each Lead Institution is separately defined in a three-year Protocol complemented by an annual Work Programme. During 2004-2009, the Network''s Lead Institutions implemented a number of activities, some of which in partnership with other institutions from CEI countries. This cooperation started up the Secondary Network whose further enhancement will be the main challenge in the future years. The CEI Research Fellowship Programme The CEI Research Fellowship Programme was established in 2005 to enable mobility across the CEI region by giving selected scientists the possibility of carrying out research in one of the Network''s Lead Institutions. In the time-frame 2005 - 2009, the request for fellowships has constantly increased and witnessed the effectiveness of the Programme. Taking this into account, in 2008 the CEI-ES started to explore EU funding opportunities in order to develop its Research Fellowship Programme. A joint proposal named CERES (CEI Research Fellowship Programme) was submitted to the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7). CERES was approved and is currently under implementation. EU Funding opportunities for the CEI Science & Technology Network Following the successful experience of CERES, the CEI-ES, along with the Network''s Lead Institutions, will continue to look into funding opportunities offered by the EU with the ultimate aim to support mobility of researchers across the CEI area and promote significant progress in the S&T sector.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

Web application, API and widget able to recognize and annotate biomedical concepts in text.Provides annotations for isolated, nested and intersected entities.Identifies concepts from multiple semantic groups, providing preferred names and enriching them with references to public knowledge resources.

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Compilation terms with definitions that describe altered states that are associated with brain injury (e.g., trauma, stroke, tumor) or with developmental deficits. Although the list deals with primarily CNS-associated disorders, in some cases the term does not distinguish between a CNS cause or a peripheral or neuromuscular cause. Terms that are primarily psychiatric diagnoses (e.g., schizophrenia) are not included. AGNOSIA is a general term for a loss of ability to recognize objects, people, sounds, shapes, or smells; that is, the inability to attach appropriate meaning to objective sense-data. It usually is used when the primary sense organ involved is not impaired. APHASIA is a general term relating to a loss of language ability. APRAXIA is a general term for disorders of practice. These conditions are usually caused by brain injury due to trauma, stroke and/or tumor. Many of these terms have two synonymous forms that differ in whether the word starts with a- or with dys- such as alexia and dyslexia. Here the a- form is usually defined and the other is noted as syn:, except when the dys- form is the more common usage. (If you cannot find a term in one of these forms, look for it in the other. All other synonyms are defined in both forms.) Sources: These definitions are paraphrased from definitions in a large number or print and online dictionaries. Thus this list is not meant to be considered my own, but rather is a compilation. Note: When a word appears in italics, that indicates it is defined elsewhere in this list.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

A database of bodily fluid proteome data. It contains information on proteins from humanplasma/serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, synovial fluid, nipple aspirate fluid, tear fluid, seminal fluid, human milk, and amniotic fluid. Our body fluid protein database, Sys-BodyFluid, contains 11 body fluid proteomes, including plasma/serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, synovial fluid, nipple aspirate fluid, tear fluid, seminal fluid, human milk, and amniotic fluid. Over 10,000 proteins are included in the Sys-BodyFluid. These body fluid proteome data come from 50 peer-review publications of different laboratories all over the world. Protein annotation are provided including protein description, Gene ontology, Domain information, Protein sequence and involved pathway. User can access the proteome data by protein name, protein accession number, sequence similarity. In addition, user could perform query cross different body fluids to get more comprehensive understanding. The difference and similarity between these 11 body fluids are also analyzed. Thus , the Sys-BodyFluid database could serve as a reference database for body fluid research and disease proteomics. plasm, serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, synovial fluid, nipple aspirate fluid, tear fluid, seminal fluid, human milk, and amniotic fluid, protein, proteomics

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

A collaboration which works to transform scholarly communications through advanced use of computers and the Web. FORCE11 advocates the digital publishing of papers in order to enable more effective scholarly communication. The virtual community also advocates the publication of software tools and research communication by means of social media channels. As such, FORCE11 provides access to information and tools for the wider scientific community.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

A database of genome-wide annotations of regulatory sites. The predictions are based on Bayesian probabilistic analysis of a combination of input information including: * Experimentally determined binding sites reported in the literature. * Known sequence-specificities of transcription factors. * ChIP-chip and ChIP-seq data. * Alignments of orthologous non-coding regions. Predictions were made using the PhyloGibbs, MotEvo, IRUS and ISMARA algorithms developed in their group, depending on the data available for each organism. Annotations can be viewed in a Gbrowse genome browser and can also be downloaded in flat file format.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

A web-based system that assess articles according to their term correlations among sentences. It employs the co-occurrence relations and their network centralities to evaluate the influence of biomedical terms from Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD)., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Software package that computes quick but highly informative enrichment and quality measures for ChIP-seq/DNase-seq/FAIRE-seq/MNase-seq data. It can also be used to obtain robust estimates of the predominant fragment length or characteristic tag shift values in these assays.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

A standalone software package for ChIP-seq quality control and protocol optimization.

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A Web service that annotates textual metadata (e.g. journal abstract) with relevant ontology concepts. NCBO uses this Web service to annotate resources in the NCBO Resource Index. They also provide this Web service as a stand-alone service for users. This Web service can be accessed through BioPortal or used directly in your software. Currently, the annotation workflow is based on syntactic concept recognition (using concept names and synonyms) and on a set of semantic expansion algorithms that leverage the semantics in ontologies (e.g., is_a relations). Their service methodology leverages ontologies to create annotations of raw text and returns them using semantic web standards.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

R package for identification and removal of low-complexity sites in allele-specific analysis of ChIP-seq data.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Text mining tool that detects co-occuring biomedical concepts in abstracts from the MedLine literature database. It allows batch input of multiple human, mouse or rat genes and produces lists of keywords from several biomedical thesauri that are significantly correlated with the set of input genes. These lists link to Medline abstracts in which the co-occurring input genes and correlated keywords are highlighted. Furthermore, CoPub can graphically visualize differentially expressed genes and over-represented keywords in a network, providing detailed insight in the relationships between genes and keywords, and revealing the most influential genes as highly connected hubs.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous