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The Weill Medical College of Cornell University has a long tradition of neuroscience research. The faculty is large, and the research programs tackle the fundamental questions in the field at all levels - from genes to cells to systems to behavior. The neuroscience community at Weill Cornell spans two campuses. The main one, containing the medical school and associated hospitals, is located on the upper east side of Manhattan, adjacent to Rockefeller University and across the street from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The second campus, with the rapidly growing Burke-Cornell Research Institute, is located in White Plains. The following graduate programs are offered: Neuroscience PhD, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD, Physiology and Biophysics, and Tri-Institutional Graduate program in Computational Biology and Medicine.

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Assessment test developed by the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, for assessing the severity of autism spectrum symptoms in children. This assessment is usually used with children aged from 4-11 years of age.

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PANDIT is a collection of multiple sequence alignments and phylogenetic trees covering many common protein domains. It contains: * the seed protein sequence alignments from the Pfam-A (curated families) database (version 17.0) * nucleotide sequence alignments derived from sequences available for the above and using the protein alignments as "templates"; * protein sequence alignments restricted to the family members for which nucleotide sequences are available * inferred phylogenetic trees for each alignment The data in PANDIT and the dataset's development have been frozen owing to a lack of funding support. The existing data, version 17.0 corresponding to Pfam 17.0, remain stable and, we hope, useful. The entire database is also available for download as a flatfile from this website.

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The spirit of the Department of Pharmacology is one of collaborative and synergistic science. As such, interests of the members of the Department span such diverse problems as the identification of molecular signals that determine whether a cell lives or dies to the discovery of new drugs that control cardiac rhythm in inherited and non-inherited heart disease. We at Columbia in general, and within the Department of Pharmacology in particular, are proud to be an integral part of the intellectual and cultural life of New York. In many ways the diversity of scientific interests within the Department reflect the diversity of the rich scientific environment of Columbia University and, in addition, the unique cultural and urban environment of New York City. Within the Graduate Programs in Mechanisms of Health and Disease, the Department of Pharmacology offers a Pharmacology and Molecular Signaling Program leading to the Ph.D. degree. Training is focused on both classical principles of pharmacology and more modern biophysical, genetic and computational approaches to the development of new and more specific therapeutic agents to manage human disease. The interdisciplinary training program in the molecular and genetic basis of cardiac arrhythmias is designed to provide training to post doctoral fellows with either M.D. or Ph.D. degrees to enable them to become independent researchers and leaders in the field as we enter a period of post genomic medical science. The overall aim of the program is to train researchers who will be well-grounded in molecular and cellular biology, but who also are trained in cardiovascular systems physiology/pharmacology in order to integrate the cellular and subcellular mechanisms (genotype) with the basis of human disease expressed at the systems level (phenotype).

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A python script package which estimates the evolutionary rate of a particular functional gene in a standardized manner by relating its sequence divergence to that of the 16S rRNA gene. It provides gene-specific parameter sets for OTU clustering and taxonomic assignment at desired rank, and it can be implemented into the diversity measurements offered by QIIME or Mothur.

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A structured controlled vocabulary used for various aspects of annotation by FlyBase. This ontology is maintained by FlyBase for various aspects of annotation not covered, or not yet covered, by other OBO ontologies. If and when community ontologies are available for the domains here covered FlyBase will use them.

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The taxonomy of the family Drosophilidae (largely after Baechli) and of other taxa referred to in FlyBase.

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Biomaterial supply resource that acquires, processes, stores, and distributes postmortem brain specimens for brain research. Various types of brain tissue are collected, including those with neurological and psychiatric disorders, along with their parents, siblings and offspring. The HBTRC maintains an extensive collection of postmortem human brains from individuals with Huntington's chorea, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and other neurological disorders. In addition, the HBTRC also has a collection of normal-control specimens.

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A formal ontology of phenotypes observed in fission yeast that is being developed to support the comprehensive and detailed representation of phenotypes in PomBase, the online fission yeast resource. Its scope is similar to that of the Ascomycete Phenotype Ontology (APO), but FYPO includes more detailed pre-composed terms as well as computable definitions.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 5, 2023. MedScan is a fast and flexible biomedical information extraction technology. It uses dictionaries to identify individual biomedical terms (proteins, cellular processes, small molecules, diseases, etc) referred to in literature articles, and applies advanced natural language processing techniques to detect the relationships within the article and extract these terms and the relationships; the overall process of detection, identification, extraction and assembling, is termed Information Harvesting. Information extracted by MedScan represents the multiple aspects of protein function, including protein modification, cellular localization, protein-protein interactions, gene expression regulation, molecular transport and synthesis, as well as association with diseases, and regulation of various cellular processes. This scope can be broadened by modifying information extraction rules and the dictionaries. Dictionaries can be assembled on any topic or area that is represented in the literature you wish to harvest. High-throughput data generation methodologies like microarray gene expression require new approaches for gathering information for data analysis. For the best results, computational approaches used for high-throughput data analysis require that biological information from the literature be a coherent and integrated part of the analysis software itself. Pathway Studio meets this challenge through its MedScan Technology and underlying ResNet database. All editions of Pathway Studio contain MedScan Technology to harvest information from the literature and to save this information in the Pathway Studio ResNet database ready for data analysis. MedScan is more than a web search engine. Indeed, the output of a Google search can be channeled into MedScan for example. Web searches, like Google, are excellent at finding items as a result of a query. A quick look at the output list usually locates the item for which you are looking. This approach however, is not well suited for information and knowledge gathering. Also, once information is gathered, where do you put it for later computational use? MedScan meets this challenge for the area of biomedical literature and biomedical online information. PubMed meets the needs for a central repository of biomedical literature. Researchers can go to PubMed and search for any topic and articles of interest, much like a web type of search. However, just like a web type of search, PubMed also provides a list of all the hits with a link to the articles. If a single article, or even just a few, are sought, this search approach is useful. Alternatively, MedScan will list all the articles of interest but additionally scans the text for relationships, highlights these relationships in the articles and then lists these relationships and the biological molecules and processes involved in the relationships in separate tables. The tables of relationships can be viewed graphically in Pathway Studio and can be saved into the ResNet database for use in experimental data analysis.

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An R package for extending the grammar of graphics for genomic data. The graphics are designed to answer common scientific questions, in particular those often asked of high throughput genomics data. All core Bioconductor data structures are supported, where appropriate. The package supports detailed views of particular genomic regions, as well as genome-wide overviews. Supported overviews include ideograms and grand linear views. High-level plots include sequence fragment length, edge-linked interval to data view, mismatch pileup, and several splicing summaries.

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The U.S. National Institutes of Health Final NIH Statement on Sharing Research Data (NIH-OD-03-032) is now in effect. It specifies that all high-direct-cost NIH grant applications include plans for sharing of research data. To support and encourage collegial, enabling, and rewarding data sharing for neuroscience and beyond, the Laboratory of Neuroinformatics at Weill Medical College of Cornell University has established this site. A source of, and portal to, tools and proposals supporting the informed exchange of neuroscience data.

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Supplier of fully penetrant rat models of the retinitis pigmentosa type of inherited retinal degeneration, including the following models: * Mutant rhodopsin transgenic rats ** P23H mutant rhodopsin transgenic rats -Three lines with different rates of photoreceptor degeneration ** S334ter mutant rhodopsin transgenic rats -Five lines with different rates of photoreceptor degeneration * RCS (Royal College of Surgeons) rats with inherited retinal dystrophy ** RCS pink-eyed inbred strain ** RCS pigmented congenic strain with slowed rate of retinal dystrophy ** RCS congenic control strains of both pigmentation types, wild-type at the retinal dystrophy (Mertk) genetic locus The resource has been supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI) for the past 19 years to produce and distribute breeding pairs of these animal models to vision scientists. Thus, the following apply: * Request for rats requires only a 1-page letter/e-mail addressing 4 questions * No charge for the animals or tissues (except for shipping costs) * No Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) required * No collaboration requirement (in most cases) The resource usually provides multiple breeding pairs of the rats to vision scientists to generate breeding stock. It can also provide extra animals to breed for immediate experimental work, animals of specific ages (depending upon availability), animals with prior exposure to different lighting conditions, eyes taken at specific ages instead of rats for pilot studies and other experiments (fresh, frozen, dissected in specific ways, or fixed with special fixatives or by different methods), or other tissues (e.g., liver, spleen, brain, testis, etc.) prepared different ways.

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Software package that provides a simple and flexible way to generate Circos 2D track plot images for genomic data visualization. The types of plots include: heatmap, histogram, lines, scatterplot, tiles and plot items for further decorations include connector, link (lines and ribbons), and text (gene) label. All functions require only R graphics package that comes with R base installation.

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A structured controlled vocabulary of the anatomy of the slime-mould Dictyostelium discoideum.

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Software tools for read pair collation based algorithms on BAM files including * bamcollate2: reads BAM and writes BAM reordered such that alignment or collated by query name * bammarkduplicates: reads BAM and writes BAM with duplicate alignments marked using the BAM flags field * bammaskflags: reads BAM and writes BAM while masking (removing) bits from the flags column * bamrecompress: reads BAM and writes BAM with a defined compression setting. This tool is capable of multi-threading. * bamsort: reads BAM and writes BAM resorted by coordinates or query name * bamtofastq: reads BAM and writes FastQ; output can be collated or uncollated by query name

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An international leader in genetics, genomics and structural biology, and research institute of the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford, whose objective is to extend our understanding on how genetic inheritance makes us who we are in order to gain a clearer insight into mechanisms of health and disease. Looking across all three billion letters of the human genetic code, they aim to pinpoint variant spellings and discover how they increase or decrease an individual's risk of falling ill. They collaborate with research teams across the world on a number of large-scale studies in these areas.

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An ontology designed to represent the conditions under which physiological and morphological measurements are made both in the clinic and in studies involving humans or model organisms.

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Allegheny's neuroscience major formalizes an alliance dating back 25 years between the College's well-known biology and psychology departments. The major brings faculty and students together to study the brain and the nervous system using principles from the natural and social sciences. It requires a common core of biology, chemistry, and psychology courses. Students may choose from two tracks: "cellular neurobiology" or "behavioral and cognitive neuroscience", and they have the opportunity to explore interdisciplinary topics through the Junior Seminar and the year-long Senior Research Project.

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Organization that provides biomedical researchers with online tools and a web portal enabling them to access, review, and integrate disparate ontological resources in all aspects of biomedical investigation and clinical practice. A major focus of the work involves the use of biomedical ontologies to aid in the management and analysis of data derived from complex experiments.

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