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The HGSC has sequenced the honey bee, Apis mellifera. The version 4.0 assembly was released in March 2006 and published in October 2006. The genome sequence is being upgraded with additional sequence coverage. The honey bee is important in the agricultural community as a producer of honey and as a facilitator of pollination. It is a model organism for studying the following human health issues: immunity, allergic reaction, antibiotic resistance, development, mental health, longevity and diseases of the X chromosome. In addition, biologists are interested in the honey bee's social organization and behavioral traits. This project was proposed to the HGSC by a group of dedicated insect biologists, headed by Gene Robinson. Following a workshop at the HGSC and a honey bee white paper, the HGSC began the project in 2002. A 6-fold coverage WGS, BAC sequence from pooled arrays, and an initial genome assembly (Amel_v1.0) were released beginning in 2003. This has been a challenging project with difficulty in recovering AT-rich regions. The WGS data had lower coverage in AT-rich regions and BAC data from clones showed evidence of internal deletions. Additional reads from AT enriched DNA addressed these underrepresented regions. The current assembly Amel_4.0 was produced with Atlas and includes 2.7 million reads (1.8 Gb) or 7.5x coverage of the (clonable) genome. About 97% of STSs, 98% of ESTs, and 96% of cDNAs are represented in the 231 Mb assembly. About 2,500 reads were also produced from a strain of Africanized honey bee and SNPs were extracted. These were released in dbSNP and the NCBI Trace Archive. Analysis of the genome by a consortium of 20 labs has been completed. This produced a gene list derived from five different methods melded through the GLEAN software. Publications include a main paper in Nature and up to forty companion papers in Genome Research and Insect Molecular Biology. Sponsors: Sequencing of the honey bee is jointly funded by National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA). Multiple drones from the same queen (strain DH4) were obtained from Danny Weaver of B. Weaver Apiaries. All libraries were made from DNA isolated from these drones. The honey bee BAC library (CHORI-224) was prepared by Pieter de Jong and Katzutoyo Osoegawa at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 4,2023.The Human Gene and Protein Database presents SDS-PAGE patterns and other informations of human genes and proteins. The HGPD was constructed from full-length cDNAs. For conversion to Gateway entry clones, we first determined an open reading frame (ORF) region in each cDNA meeting the criteria. Those ORF regions were PCR-amplified utilizing selected resource cDNAs as templates. All the details of the construction and utilization of entry clones will be published elsewhere. Amino acid and nucleotide sequences of an ORF for each cDNA and sequence differences of Gateway entry clones from source cDNAs are presented in the GW: Gateway Summary window. Utilizing those clones with a very efficient cell-free protein synthesis system featuring wheat germ, we have produced a large number of human proteins in vitro. Expressed proteins were detected in almost all cases. Proteins in both total and supernatant fractions are shown in the PE: Protein Expression window. In addition, we have also successfully expressed proteins in HeLa cells and determined subcellular localizations of human proteins. These biological data are presented on the frame of cDNA clusters in the Human Gene and Protein Database. To build the basic frame of HGPD, sequences of FLJ full-length cDNAs and others deposited in public databases (Human ESTs, RefSeq, Ensembl, MGC, etc.) are assembled onto the genome sequences (NCBI Build 35 (UCSC hg17)). The majority of analysis data for cDNA sequences in HGPD are shared with the FLJ Human cDNA Database (http://flj.hinv.jp/) constructed as a human cDNA sequence analysis database focusing on mRNA varieties caused by variations in transcription start site (TSS) and splicing.

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Collaborative project to bring together biochemical pathway databases and research communities focused on plant metabolism. Used to build broad network of plant metabolic pathway databases. Central feature of PMN is PlantCyc, comprehensive plant biochemical pathway database, containing curated information from literature and computational analyses about genes, enzymes, compounds, reactions, and pathways involved in primary and secondary metabolism.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 12,2023. A U.S. Regional Primate Research Center that focuses on AIDS, cancer, neuropsychiatric disorders, drug addiction, and neurodegenerative disease. The Division of Primate Resources provides researchers with the services and facilities to support biomedical research. It offers a broad spectrum of services ranging from analysis of tissue specimens to partnership investigations with leading biomedical research institutions. Outside investigators have access to tissue specimens, organs, blood, skeletal structures, and viral specimens. Services include veterinary services, animals and animal care, surgical and radiographic services, timed mating, biocontainment, pathology services, and professional and technical expertise. Additional diagnostic and research services at NEPRC include testing for antiviral antibodies, DNA cloning, and DNA sequencing. The colony of nine species includes rhesus macaques and other Old World monkeys and New World species including the common marmoset and squirrel monkey. Other species can be obtained. Animals with exceptional characteristics (specific-pathogen-free, timed pregnancy, surgically altered, etc.) can be made available if needed. Scientists wishing to conduct research at the center must have projects reviewed and approved by the center animal allocation committee.

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An interactive web interface addressed to biologists, allowing both coverage visualization and analysis of NGS alignments performed on prokaryotic organisms (bacteria and phages). Its strength is to make NGS analysis without software installation, login or long training period.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Resource of special strains of mice that are valuable tools for genetic analysis of complex diseases. They include panels of recombinant inbred (RI) and chromosome substitution (CS) strains.

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Collection of images from cell type-specific protein expression in retina using BAC transgenic mice. Images from cell type-specific protein expression in retina using BAC transgenic mice from GENSAT project.

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The mission of Pathway Genomics is to empower you with the most secure, comprehensive and affordable personal genomic information available and to become your partner in utilizing that information to improve your health and wellness. Pathway is the only DNA testing service with an on-site federal and state CLIA-licensed laboratory. This means it offers: - Better Science: Its certified geneticists are on-staff and on-site in our own state-of-the-art laboratory in California. Their 10,600 square foot, high-complexity CLIA licensed lab facility is equipped with the latest high-throughput robotics and Affymetrix, Illumina and Sequenom genotyping equipment. As scientists committed to staying on the cutting-edge, they diligently monitor all new developments in the rapidly evolving DNA research field allowing us to provide you immediate access to more meaningful markers than any other DNA testing firm. - Better Security: Because Pathway Genomics has its own laboratory, your DNA never leaves the building, and is never shared with third parties. At Pathway Genomics the integrity of your genetic material and information are protected. Instead, enjoy the security of our proprietary DNA Lockbox. Everyone has the right to know the secrets hidden within their own DNA. That's why Pathway has created the most secure, comprehensive and affordable way to unlock those secrets. This way you can: - Identify genetic health and drug response - Personalize your medical care - Help your doctor help you - Uncover your ancestral path - Explore the traits that make you unique With Personal DNA Testing, you can take preventative steps to improve your future, and even extend your life. Pathway Genomics provides cutting-edge research and easy-to-read scientific information customized for you, and you alone, based on your genes and your lifestyle. For the first time in human history, modern science has made it possible for you to learn your genetic predisposition for more than 90 diseases and conditions, drug responses and pre-pregnancy carrier status. With this powerful knowledge and our easy-to-understand guidance, you can modify your health regime so that you may live a healthier, longer life. DNA testing will discover more about your personal heritage than you ever thought possible. We uncover your deep ancestry by taking giant leaps into the past, going back more than 10,000 years. We test both your mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down from mother to child and reveals your direct maternal ancestry; and your Y chromosome (males only), which is passed down from father to son and reveals your direct paternal ancestry. If you're like most people, you've always wondered about the genes you have inherited and what traits you will pass on to future generations. Discover your genetically inherited predispositions and characteristics and whether they are beneficial or potentially harmful. You may also find that some traits are simply fun to uncover.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 23, 2016. This interface is for exploring data collected as part of the NIF Neurodegenerative Disease Ontology project. Not generally intended for public consumption yet, but people are welcome to look - large caveat emptor applies. Sponsors: This resource is part of the NIF project.

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A free set of Matlab and GNU/Octave functions for vision research. It makes it easy to synthesize and show accurately controlled visual and auditory stimuli and interact with the observer.

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Database designed for web-based examination of the human erythroid transcriptome. The database is organized to provide a cytogenetic band position, a unique name as well as a concise annotation for each entry. Search queries may be performed by name, keyword or cytogenetic location. Search results are linked to primary sequence data and three major human genome browsers for access to information considered current at the time of each search. Hembase provides interested scientists and clinical hematologists with a genome-based approach toward the study of erythroid biology. Red blood cells in the circulation arise from hematopoietic stem cells that proliferate as erythroid progenitors and differentiate into erythroid precursor cells in response to the hormone erythropoietin. Messenger RNA was isolated from those cells and used to generate gene libraries. Sequencing several thousand expressed sequence tags (EST) from those libraries was then performed. Those EST and sequences encoding several hundred additional genes with known expression in erythroid cells are compiled here as a database of human erythroid gene activity. The database is organized and linked according to the location of these sequences within the human genome., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 15,2026.

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The Centre for Vision Research focuses on interdisciplinary research into human and machine vision and visual processes, into vision's interactions with other senses and with motor and cognitive processes, and in applications such as visually-guided robotics or clinical diagnosis and treatment. The Centre for Vision Research includes the following major research themes: - Human Visual Performance - Visual Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics and Virtual Reality - Visual Psychophysics - Eye Movements and Hand-Eye Coordination - Computational Modeling and Computer Vision - Electrophysiology - Clinical and Developmental Studies - Brain Imaging

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Founded in 1976, the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF) is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to serving all people with dystonia and their families. Since its inception, the DMRF has grown from a small family-based foundation into a dynamic membership-driven organization led by a Board of Directors and network of volunteers with personal connections to dystonia. Because dystonia hits so close to home for our directors and volunteers, the DMRF leadership is motivated by an unrelenting drive to find a cure and an unwavering commitment to serving people affected by dystonia. Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF) prides itself on a long history of supporting dystonia research. Always the primary goal of the DMRF, research has led to a better understanding of dystonia as well as to breakthroughs in genetics and therapeutics.The funding which researchers obtain from the DMRF usually serves as seed money before generating even greater funding from the National Institutes of Health.Beyond the funding of research, the scientific program of the DMRF is multi-faceted, encompassing workshops, a residency elective program, and international medical symposiums, all to further the understanding of dystonia.

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Computational biology research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) pursues computational biology research projects and the development of bioinformatics resources in the areas of: sequence-structure analysis; gene regulation; molecular pathways and networks, and diagnostic and prognostic indicators. The mission of cBio is to move the theoretical methods and genome-scale data resources of computational biology into everyday laboratory practice and use, and is reflected in the organization of cBio into research and service components ~ the intention being that new computational methods created through the process of scientific inquiry should be generalized and supported as open-source and shared community resources. Faculty from cBio participate in graduate training provided through the following graduate programs: * Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences * Graduate Training Program in Computational Biology and Medicine Integral to much of the research and service work performed by cBio is the creation and use of software tools and data resources. The tools that we have created and utilize provide evidence of our involvement in the following areas: * Cancer Genomics * Data Repositories * iPhone & iPod Touch * microRNAs * Pathways * Protein Function * Text Analysis * Transcription Profiling

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This COnsensus-DEgenerate Hybrid Oligonucleotide Primer (CODEHOP) strategy has been implemented as a computer program that is accessible over the World-Wide Web and is directly linked from the BlockMaker multiple sequence alignment site for hybrid primer prediction beginning with a set of related protein sequences. This is a new primer design strategy for PCR amplification of unknown targets that are related to multiply-aligned protein sequences. Each primer consists of a short 3' degenerate core region and a longer 5' consensus clamp region. Only 3-4 highly conserved amino acid residues are necessary for design of the core, which is stabilized by the clamp during annealing to template molecules. During later rounds of amplification, the non-degenerate clamp permits stable annealing to product molecules. The researchers demonstrate the practical utility of this hybrid primer method by detection of diverse reverse transcriptase-like genes in a human genome, and by detection of C5 DNA methyltransferase homologs in various plant DNAs. In each case, amplified products were sufficiently pure to be cloned without gel fractionation. Sponsors: This work was supported in part by a grant from the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust and by a grant from NIH. S. P. is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 15,2026.

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A portal to the on-line prediction services at Center for Biological Sequence Analysis. All of the servers are available as interactive input forms, and most of the servers are also available as stand-alone software packages with the same functionality. Ready-to-ship packages exist for the most common UNIX platforms. In addition, for some servers, programmatic access is provided in the form of SOAP-based Web Services.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE.Documented on January 4,2023. IgBLAST was developed at NCBI to facilitate analysis of immunoglobulin V region sequences in GenBank. In addition to performing a regular BLAST search, IgBLAST has several additional functions: - Reports the germline V, D and J gene matches to the query sequence. - Annotates the immunoglobulin domains (FWR1 through FWR3). - Matches the returned hits (for databases other than germline genes) to the closest germline V genes, making it easier to identify related sequences. - Reveals the V(D)J junction details such as nucleotide homology between the ends of V(D)J segments and N nucleotide insertions. D and J gene reporting is only for nucleotide sequence search and requires a stretch of five or more nucleotide identity between the query and D or J genes. Sponsors: This resource is supported by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) toolbox area provides a comprehensive range of tools for the field of bioinformatics. These are subdivided into categories in the left menu for convenience. EBI has developed a large number of very useful bioinformatics tools. A few examples include: - Similarity & Homology - the BLAST or FASTA programs can be used to look for sequence similarity and infer homology. - Protein Functional Analysis - InterProScan can be used to search for motifs in your protein sequence. - Proteomic Services NEW - UniProt DAS server allows researchers to show their research results in the context of UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot annotation. - Sequence Analysis - ClustalW2 a sequence alignment tool. - Structural Analysis - MSDfold can be used to query your protein structure and compare it to those in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). - Web Services - provide programmatic access to the various databases and retrieval/analysis services EBI provides. - Tools Miscellaneous - Expression Profiler a set of tools for clustering, analysis and visualization of gene expression and other genomic data. Sponsors: This resource is sponsored by EBI.

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Wiki that provides a listing (and associated links) of various formats to store and export annotations. Apparently everyone uses his own proprietary format to store and export annotations. The FDF format (or better its XML variant XFDF) is or was used by Acrobat to store form values and annotations, but third-party implementations focus on the forms-part of FDF instead of the annotations-part. * XML Forms Data Format Specification (XFDF) 2.0 (2007). * iText classes (no full FDF/XFDF implementation) ** FdfReader ** FdfWriter ** XfdfReader * The commercial software Adobe Digital Editions explicitly supports external annotations. The FAQ says Digital Editions supports bookmarks, highlights, and text notes via its bookmarks panel. These annotations are stored in an open XML format separately from publications to enable seamless annotation across PDF- and EPUB-based publications. They will set the stage for future social networking features (such as sharing annotations within a community of readers). * Okular has its own annotation exchange format, similar to PDF annotation (comparison is needed) ** internal API documentation ** There is no file format documentation, but the source code is mainly in the methods AnnotationUtils storeAnnotation and Annotation store * Xournal is open source and allows some annotation, but its PDF reading ability is very limited. It also uses its own format to store annotations * Mendeley supports annotations, which can be synced independent from the PDF files they refer to, and exported together with PDFs. There is no documentation of the API and format they use to exchange annotations. * Evernote is worth a view. But proprietary and no Linux client. * iAnnotate seems to be popular on the iPad - can it export and import annotations? In which format? There is a good article by Scott McLeod with screenshots about his use of iAnnotate and Evernote to take notes (June 15, 2010). http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/LeaderTalk/2010/06/tools_for_school_digital_docum.html

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous