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The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) and congeneric species are the most common native North American mammal. Laboratory stock of both wild-type and genetically variant Peromyscus are used for investigations in which laboratory-based studies can be interfaced with those of natural populations. The major function of the Stock Center is to provide genetically characterized types of Peromyscus in limited quantities to scientific investigators. It provides a reliable source of genetically defined and virus-free animals and related materials to the scientific and educational communities. The center currently keeps nine species and more than 27 distinctive mutant and other genetically defined stocks. Included among the species maintained are P. californicus, P. leucopus, P. eremicus, P. aztecus, P. melanophrys as well as two subspecies each of P. maniculatus and P. polionotus and three inbred lines of P. leucopus. Among the mutant stocks are 17 with altered coat phenotypes, 3 with neurological symptoms, and 6 others with developmental/physiological effects. One of these is a line deficient in alcohol dehydrogenase that has been widely used in studies of alcohol metabolism. The stock center also supplies biological materials, including fresh, frozen, and preserved tissues; molecular probes, and libraries. The center functions as a clearinghouse for information regarding this genus by sponsoring an Internet database and the semi-annual Peromyscus Newsletter. The center maintains a collection of over 3,000 Peromyscus-related reprints of published articles, books, and journals-photocopies of which are available upon request. Continuation of the center is dependent upon significant external utilization, therefore potential users are encouraged to take advantage of this resource. Sufficient animals of the mutant types generally can be provided to initiate a breeding stock. Some what larger numbers, up to about 50 animals, can be provided from the wild-type stocks. A user fee of $25.00 per wild-type animal and $33.00 per mutant or other special types is charged. The user assumes the cost of air shipment. Animals lost in transit are replaced without charge. Tissues, blood, skins, etc. can also be supplied at a modest fee. Arrangements for special orders will be negotiated. :Sponsors: The peromyscus genetic stock center is supported by the University of South Carolina, :a grant from the Special Projects Program of the National Science Foundation and a P40 grant ( grant number: P40 RR014279) from the National Institutes of Health. physiological, Developmental, Biological, Animal,

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Material resource that provides germ-free and selectively colonized rodents to requesting investigators. Germ-free rodents are axenic, with no detectible bacteria, yeast, molds, parasites or viruses (except retroviruses).

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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 on June 8, 2020.Macaque genomic and proteomic resources and how they are providing important new dimensions to research using macaque models of infectious disease. The research encompasses a number of viruses that pose global threats to human health, including influenza, HIV, and SARS-associated coronavirus. By combining macaque infection models with gene expression and protein abundance profiling, they are uncovering exciting new insights into the multitude of molecular and cellular events that occur in response to virus infection. A better understanding of these events may provide the basis for innovative antiviral therapies and improvements to vaccine development strategies.

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Contains several C++ codes for compress, decompress, and access each of the fields of any SAM format file.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 14,2026. Sample collection of oocytes obtained from various sized antral follicles, and embryos obtained through a variety of different protocols. The PREGER makes it possible to undertake quantitative gene-expression studies in rhesus monkey oocytes and embryos through simple and cost-effective hybridization-based methods.

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A Support Vector Machine-based classifier to assesses the protein-coding potential of a transcript based on six biologically meaningful sequence features. CPC can discriminate coding from noncoding transcripts with high accuracy and speed. In addition to predicting the coding potential of the input transcripts, the CPC web server also graphically displays detailed sequence features and additional annotations of the transcript that may facilitate users' further investigation. The coding potential calculator tool reads FASTA data format as input.

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Software tool to rapidly search for short interactions between two long RNAs.

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A database of high-quality protein-protein interactions in different organisms.

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Center that aims to provide an environment to support biomedical research directed towards human health issues and nonhuman primate health and biology. To meet this mission, the WaNPRC supports biomedical research activities, professional research staff, specifically bred and maintained nonhuman primate colonies, and dedicated facilities and equipment required for nonhuman primate research protocols.

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NIH genetic sequence database that provides annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences for almost 280 000 formally described species (Jan 2014) .These sequences are obtained primarily through submissions from individual laboratories and batch submissions from large-scale sequencing projects, including whole-genome shotgun (WGS) and environmental sampling projects. Most submissions are made using web-based BankIt or standalone Sequin programs, and GenBank staff assigns accession numbers upon data receipt. It is part of International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration and daily data exchange with European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) and DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) ensures worldwide coverage. GenBank is accessible through NCBI Entrez retrieval system, which integrates data from major DNA and protein sequence databases along with taxonomy, genome, mapping, protein structure and domain information, and biomedical journal literature via PubMed. BLAST provides sequence similarity searches of GenBank and other sequence databases. Complete bimonthly releases and daily updates of GenBank database are available by FTP.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on May 11, 2016. Repository of brain-mapping data (surfaces and volumes; structural and functional data) derived from studies including fMRI and MRI from many laboratories, providing convenient access to a growing body of neuroimaging and related data. WebCaret is an online visualization tool for viewing SumsDB datasets. SumsDB includes: * data on cerebral cortex and cerebellar cortex * individual subject data and population data mapped to atlases * data from FreeSurfer and other brainmapping software besides Caret SumsDB provides multiple levels of data access and security: * Free (public) access (e.g., for data associated with published studies) * Data access restricted to collaborators in different laboratories * Owner-only access for work in progress Data can be downloaded from SumsDB as individual files or as bundles archived for offline visualization and analysis in Caret WebCaret provides online Caret-style visualization while circumventing software and data downloads. It is a server-side application running on a linux cluster at Washington University. WebCaret "scenes" facilitate rapid visualization of complex combinations of data Bi-directional links between online publications and WebCaret/SumsDB provide: * Links from figures in online journal article to corresponding scenes in WebCaret * Links from metadata in WebCaret directly to relevant online publications and figures

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 23,2022. An on-line database and publically accessible depository that is dedicated to the omics of small biomolecules.

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Software that implements a flexible module-based process flow for network path mining and visualization, which can be fully inte-grated with user-customized functions. It supports construction of various types of genome scale networks from three different pathway file formats (KGML, SBML and BioPAX), enabling its utility to most common pathway databases. In addition, it provides different visualization techniques to facilitate the analysis of even thousands of output paths.

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Model-based, open source software analysis tool for chromatin states prediction based on time-course epigenetic marks data. It uses a combinatory Finite Mixture model nested with HMM to model the time course marks data in which each single hidden markov model describes the hidden states for a region set across different time points.

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Database that collects, integrates and links all relevant primary information from the GABI plant genome research projects and makes them accessible via internet. Its purpose is to support plant genome research in Germany, to yield information about commercial important plant genomes, and to establish a scientific network within plant genomic research.<BR/> GreenCards is the main interface for text based retrieval of sequence, SNP, mapping data etc. Sharing and interchange of data among collaborating research groups, industry and the patent- and licensing agency are facilitated.<BR/> * GreenCards: Text based search for sequence, mapping, SNP data etc. * Maps: Visualization of genetic or physical maps. * BLAST: Secure BLAST search against different public databases or non-public sequence data stored in GabiPD. * Proteomics: View interactive 2D-gels and view or download information for identified protein spots. Registered users can submit data via secure file upload.

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Software R library performing differntial analysis for count-based sequencing data. It detectes differentially expressed genes (DEGs) from RNA-seq, and differentially methylated loci or regions (DML/DMRs) from bisulfite sequencing (BS-seq). The core of DSS is a new dispersion shrinkage method for estimating the dispersion parameter from Gamma-Poisson or Beta-Binomial distributions.

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With over a thousand members, including many of the top experts on nicotine and tobacco from over 20 countries around the world, the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco's mission is to stimulate the generation of new knowledge concerning nicotine in all its manifestations - from molecular to societal. The Society has the following goals: 1. To sponsor scientific meetings and publications fostering the exchange of information on the biological, behavioral, social, and economic effects of nicotine; these activities shall include basic research and research on mechanisms of action and the use of nicotine as a probe for studying nervous systems function as well as applied research on the behavioral and pharmacological aspects of tobacco use, nicotine dependence, the therapeutic uses of nicotine, and related areas. 2. To encourage scientific research on public health efforts for the prevention and treatment of cigarette and tobacco use. 3. To provide the means by which various legislative, governmental, regulatory, and other public agencies and the ethical drug industry can obtain expert advice and consultation on critical issues concerning tobacco use, nicotine dependence, and the therapeutic uses of nicotine. Membership dues will be used to plan an annual meeting, to publish a newsletter, to compile a directory, to conduct advocacy and liaison activities for nicotine research, and to begin work on professional publications such as a journal. Though the Society will meet at least once per year in North America and will be incorporated in the United States, the intent is to be international in scope, with co-sponsorship of meetings in other countries and active recruitment of members outside the United States. By clicking on the various links on the website you can gain access to further information about the society, its publications, activities and membership. In 2004, the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco celebrated the tenth anniversary of its founding. During its first decade, the Society grew from around 100 to over 900 members, sponsored well-attended annual meetings and highly-influential satellite conferences to promote research, provided timely electronic and print services to increase the flow of information, and founded a new peer-reviewed journal (Nicotine and Tobacco Research: The Journal of SRNT) to facilitate communication of scientific advances. The record documents considerable progress in meeting the objective of the Society to stimulate new knowledge about nicotine in all its manifestations. As part of SRNT's Decade One celebration, two projects were developed to commemorate its achievements and help preserve its collective memory. The first is an article by two past presidents, Ovide Pomerleau and John Hughes, entitled With a little help from its friends: A brief history of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, published in the Societys journal, Nicotine and Tobacco Research. The second is a series of e-interviews with each of SRNTs first ten presidents. A brief structured interview was designed, and the former presidents were invited to respond in writing to each question in as little or as much detail as desired. An open-ended question was provided at the end to allow for more free-form commentary. The results of this effort can be accessed via the links below.

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Data infrastructure project that merged with OpenAIRE. Cohesive, robust and flexible, pan-European infrastructure for digital repositories, offering sophisticated services and functionalities for researchers, administrators and the general public. Access the network of freely accessible digital repositories with content across academic disciplines with over 3,500,000 scientific publications, found in journal articles, dissertations, books, lectures, reports, etc., harvested regularly from more than 295 repositories, from 38 countries. DRIVER has established a network of relevant experts and Open Access repositories. DRIVER-II will consolidate these efforts and transform the initial testbed into a fully functional, state-of-the art service, extending the network to a larger confederation of repositories. It aims to optimize the way the e-Infrastructure is used to store knowledge, add value to primary research data and information making secondary research more effective, provide a valuable asset for industry, and help bridging research and education. The objectives of DRIVER-II, the second phase of the project, include efforts to expand, enrich, and strengthen the results of DRIVER, in the following areas: * strategic geographic and community expansion by means of the DRIVER confederation * establish a robust, scalable repository infrastructure accompanied by an open source software package D-Net * broader coverage of content through the use of enhanced publications * advanced end-user functionality to support scientific exploration of complex digital objects * larger outreach and advocacy programs * continued repository support * guidelines for interoperability in the larger European digital library community

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A network composed of researchers from major metropolitan areas of the United States and selected foreign countries which meet semiannually to discuss the current epidemiology of drug abuse. The primary mission of the Work Group is to provide ongoing community-level surveillance of drug abuse through analysis of quantitative and qualitative research data. Through this program the CEWG provides current descriptive and analytical information regarding the nature and patterns of drug abuse, emerging trends, characteristics of vulnerable populations and social and health consequences. Reports Reports are available from the biannual meetings at which the network members discuss current and emerging problems of substance abuse. At the meetings, CEWG members present data on drug abuse from a variety of city, State, Federal, and other sources. These data are enhanced with information gathered through ethnographic research, focus groups, interviews, and other qualitative methods. This integration of quantitative with qualitative data provides invaluable insight into emerging drug use trends. Book In 1998, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) published the first edition of Assessing Drug Abuse Within and Across Communities: Community Epidemiology Surveillance Networks on Drug Abuse to share information on establishing drug abuse epidemiology networks at community and State levels. Its purpose is to provide guidelines for establishing epidemiology networks to monitor and assess drug abuse patterns and trends and emerging drug problems at community and State levels to provide a foundation of information for public health response. The second edition differs from the first in format. For each data source, there is a description of the source and database, followed by guidelines on how to access the data (including Web sites) and what to request, and examples of how the data have been used by epidemiology work groups or Federal agencies. NIDA hopes that this revised guide is helpful to agencies, organizations, and researchers that are involved in or wish to establish epidemiology networks in their communities or States.

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Web application as free reference manager and academic social network to organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Automatically generate bibliographies, Collaborate easily with other researchers online, Easily import papers from other research software, Find relevant papers based on what you're reading, Access your papers from anywhere online, Read papers on the go with the iPhone app. The software, Mendeley Desktop, offers: * Automatic extraction of document details * Efficient management of your papers * Sharing and synchronization of your library (or parts of it) * Additional features: A plug-in for citing your articles in Microsoft Word, OCR (image-to-text conversion, so you can full-text search all your scanned PDFs), etc The website, Mendeley Web, complements Mendeley Desktop by offering these features: * An online back up of your library * Statistics of all things interesting * A research network that allows you to keep track of your colleagues' publications, conference participations, awards etc * A recommendation engine for papers that might interest you.

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