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A flex/bison-based C++ Mascot Generic Format (MGF) parser library.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Software that calls copy number variants (CNVs) from targeted sequence data, typically exome sequencing experiments designed to identify the genetic basis of Mendelian disorders.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

A interactive and highly effective educational resource and review for training in neuroscience and cognitive science. Supported by the Canadian institute of neurosciences, mental health and addiction; and Canadian institutes of health research.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

A source to FIND and APPLY for federal grants. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is proud to be the managing partner for Grants.gov, an initiative that is having an unparalleled impact on the grant community. All discretionary grants offered by the 26 federal grant-making agencies can be found on Grants.gov. Grants.gov was established as a governmental resource named the E-Grants Initiative, part of the President's 2002 Fiscal Year Management Agenda to improve government services to the public. The concept has its origins in the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999, also known as Public Law 106-107. Public Law 106-107 has since sunset and is now known as the Grants Policy Committee (GPC). For more information on the Grants Policy Committee, click here. Today, Grants.gov is a central storehouse for information on over 1,000 grant programs and provides access to approximately $500 billion in annual awards. You may find information on *What is a Grant? *Who is Eligible for a Grant? *Program highlights and accomplishments *Grants.gov in the News (Articles, press releases, milestones and events) *Program Status (Detailed information about our relationship with partner federal agencies, financial contributions, grant opportunities, fiscal reports, planning strategies and statistics.)

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Collection of microbial resources and perform taxonomic characterization of individual microorganisms such as bacteria including actinomycetes and archaea, yeasts, fungi, algaes, bacteriophages and DNA resources for academic research and industrial applications. NBRC is a member of WFCC, OECD Global BRC Network, ACM and JSCC. They are certified by quality management system ISO 9001. To provide attractive biological resources with useful information attached, they actively collect potentially useful biological resources (microorganisms and cloned genes) and distributes them to promote basic research as well as industrial applications. At the Biological Resource Center, they explore, isolate and identify microorganisms from various natural environments and at the same time accept scientifically and industrially useful microorganisms from researchers in academic and industrial sectors. The microbial DNA library constructed at the Biotechnology Development Center is also part of their collection. To improve and expand the collection, new methodologies for the isolation, identification and preservation of microorganisms and DNA will be investigated and developed so as to provide biological resources of higher quality. Their resources serve, for example, as the standard for determining antimicrobial activity, in aseptic tests as well as for the production of pharmaceutical substances and will be constantly reinforced for wider distribution to researchers in academia and industries. Please refer to the catalog shown at the NBRC website for details.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Software for visual and interactive quality control of large Illumina 450k data sets. Bad quality samples are detected using sample-dependent and sample-independent controls present on the array and user adjustable thresholds. In depth exploration of bad quality samples can be performed using several interactive diagnostic plots of the quality control probes present on the array. Furthermore, the impact of any batch effect provided by the user can be explored.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on 7/28/13. Core facility of Columbia Neuroscience with the goal of establishing a collaborative and multi-investigator neuroimaging environment that is focused on the investigation of the neurocircuitry of the brain that underlies cognition, perception and action, and also the development of clinical applications that enhance the goals of personalized medicine. Within this environment the specific current research interests of the Hirsch group include several related directions of investigation. The first is conscious and subconscious neural processes that mediate emotion and cognition in healthy individuals and in patients with psychiatric disorders. This direction also includes neurocircuitry that is characteristic of disorders of consciousness such as minimally conscious or vegetative states, self and visual awareness, and attention. Neurocircuitry of other complex cognitive processes such as decisions, inductive and deductive reasoning, language, truthfulness and top-down influences of expectation, reward, and regulation on early visual and mid-level perceptual and emotional systems. On-going projects targeted for clinical applications include benefits for neurosurgery such as the development of task batteries to map the cortical locations of essential functions such as language, motor, sensation, memory, emotion and sensory functions including visions, audition and the chemical senses. Computational innovations for labeling correspondence between brain structure and specific functional regions are under development to achieve the highest interpretive precision. Current projects include integration of EEG and fMRI techniques to localize seizuregenic cortex in relation to eloquent and functioning cortex for neurosurgical planning; integration of TMS and fMRI to discriminate essential and associative language-sensitive cortical areas; and integration of VEP, EEG and fMRI to inform assessments of visual disease secondary to stroke or neural degeneration. Projects intended to refine and enhance diagnosis of psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression, and eating disorders include development of specialized paradigms to target dysfunctional neurocircuitry such as emotional systems (amygdala and basal ganglia) and control and regulatory systems (cingulate and pre-frontal cortex). Comparison of before-treatment images with after-treatment images to inform models of both treatment and disease and investigation of the hypothesis that individual genetic and functional differences have predictive value for treatment options and outcome are currently underway. The lab has pioneered techniques for functional mapping of single patients, and operates an active clinical service for mapping individuals for neurosurgical planning, assessments of the neurocircuitry that underlie acquired or inherited disabilities and the mechanisms of neuroplasticity that restore lost functions are actively investigated using both groups and single subject studies. :

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on March 17, 2022. A secure repository for storing, cataloging, and accessing cancer genome sequences, alignments, and mutation information from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) consortium and related projects. CGHub gives scientific researchers the statistical power of large cancer genome datasets to attack the molecular complexity of cancer.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Biomedical technology research center that conducts, catalyzes and enables multiscale biomedical research, focusing on four key activities: 1) integrating computational, data and visualization resources in a transparent, advanced grid environment to enable better access to distributed data, computational resources, instruments and people; 2) developing and deploying advanced computational tools for modeling and simulation, data analysis, query and integration, three-dimensional image processing and interactive visualization; 3) delivering and supporting advanced grid/cyberinfrastructure for biomedical researchers; and 4) training a cadre of new researchers to have an interdisciplinary, working knowledge of computational technology relevant to biomedical scientists. NBCR enables biomedical scientists to address the challenge of integrating detailed structural measurements from diverse scales of biological organization that range from molecules to organ systems in order to gain quantitative understanding of biological function and phenotypes. Predictive multi-scale models and their driving biological research problems together address issues in modeling of sub-cellular biophysics, building molecular modeling tools to accelerate discovery, and defining tools for patient-specific multi-scale modeling. NBCR furthers these driving problems by developing tools and models based on rapid advances in mathematics and information technology, incorporating them into NBCR pipelines or problem solving environments, and addressing the inevitable changes in the underlying cyber-infrastructure technologies and continually adapting codes over time. Their technology focus integrates both the biological applications and the underlying support software into reproducible science workflows that can function across a number of physical infrastructures.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Biomedical technology research center that develops computer-aided, advanced microscopy for the acquisition of structural and functional data in the dimensional range of 1 nm to 100 um, a range encompassing macromolecules, subcellular structures and cells. Novel specimen-staining methods, imaging instrumentsincluding intermediate high-voltage transmission electron microscopes (IVEMs) and high-speed, large-format laser-scanning light microscopesand computational capabilities are available for addressing mesoscale biological microscopy of proteins and macromolecular complexes in their cellular and tissue environments. These technologies are developed to bridge understanding of biological systems between the gross anatomical and molecular scales and to make these technologies broadly available to biomedical researchers. NCMIR provides expertise, infrastructure, technological development, and an environment in which new information about the 3D ultrastructure of tissues, cells, and macromolecular complexes may be accurately and easily obtained and analyzed. NCMIR fulfills its mission through technology development, collaboration, service, training, and dissemination. It aims to develop preparative methods and analytical approaches to 3D microscopy applicable to neurobiology and cell biology, incorporating equipment and implementing software that expand the analysis of 3D structure. The core research activities in the areas of specimen development, instrument development, and software infrastructures maximize the advantages of higher voltage electron microscopy and correlated light microscopies to make ambitious imaging studies across scales routine, and to facilitate the use of resources by biomedical researchers. NCMIR actively recruits outside users who will not only make use of these resources, but who also will drive technology development and receive training.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

A gene finder based on a Generalized Hidden Markov Model (GHMM). Although the gene finder conforms to the overall mathematical framework of a GHMM, additionally it incorporates splice site models adapted from the GeneSplicer program and a decision tree adapted from GlimmerM. It also utilizes Interpolated Markov Models for the coding and noncoding models . Currently, GlimmerHMM's GHMM structure includes introns of each phase, intergenic regions, and four types of exons (initial, internal, final, and single).

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented September 12, 2017.<br/><br/>Dataset in Bilingual exposure optimizes left-hemisphere dominance for selective attention processes in the developing brain by Arredondo, Su, Satterfield, & Kovelman (XX) Does early bilingual exposure alter the representations of cognitive processes in the developing brain? Theories of bilingual development have suggested that bilingual language switching might improve children''s executive function and foster the maturation of prefrontal brain regions that support higher cognition. To test this hypothesis, we used functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy to measure brain activity in Spanish-English bilingual and English-monolingual children during a visuo-spatial executive function task of attentional control (N=27, ages 7-13). Prior findings suggest that while young children start with bilateral activation for the task, it becomes right-lateralized with age (Konrad et al., 2005). Indeed monolinguals showed bilateral frontal activation, however young bilinguals showed greater activation in left language areas relative to right hemisphere and relative to monolinguals. The findings suggest that bilingual experience optimizes attention mechanisms in the language hemisphere, and highlight the importance of early experiences for neurodevelopmental plasticity of higher cognition. These data are made available from Ioulia Kovelman''s Language and Literacy Lab at University of Michigan and may be exported through the NIF Data Federation. To cite these data please use this text Data were published by Arredondo et al. (XX) and made available via the NIF at XX

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

An collaborative tool which allows users to edit LaTeX documents in their browser. Multiple users can simultaneously access and edit the same LaTeX document and see the changes in real time. The latest version is available online, and the built in chat helps communicate with others while editing.

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An open-source, web-based platform and suite of software tools for for sharing heterogeneous scientific research datasets, models or simulations, processes and research outcomes - and collaborations between scientists. It preserves associations between them, along with information about the people and organizations involved. Underpinning SEEK is the ISA infrastructure, a standard format for describing how individual experiments are aggregated into wider studies and investigations. Within SEEK, ISA has been extended and is configurable to allow the structure to be used outside of Biology. SEEK is incorporating semantic technology allowing sophisticated queries over the data, yet without getting in the way of your users. Access to the RESTful API to access the data within SEEK is available.

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Blog featuring critical analysis of scholarly open-access journals by Jeffrey Beale. Good tool to consult if you have suspicions that a journal is less than legit. Jeffrey Beall works as a librarian at Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver, in Denver, Colorado.

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An open-source tool for adding ontology term selection to Excel spreadsheets. It is used by a "Template Creator" to create semantically aware Excel spreadsheet templates. The Excel templates are then reused by Scientists to collect and annotate their data; without any need to understand, or even be aware of, RightField or the ontologies used. For each annotation field, RightField can specify a range of allowed terms from a chosen ontology (subclasses, individuals or combinations). The resulting spreadsheet presents these terms to the users as a simple drop-down list. This reduces the adoption barrier for using community ontologies as the annotation is made by the scientist that generated the data rather than a third party, and the annotation is collected at the time of data collection. RightField is a standalone Java application which uses Apache-POI for interacting with Microsoft documents. It enables users to import Excel spreadsheets, or generate new ones from scratch. Ontologies can either be imported from their local file systems, or from the BioPortal ontology repository. Individual cells, or whole columns or rows can be marked with the required ranges of ontology terms and an individual spreadsheet can be annotated with terms from multiple ontologies.

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A suite of automated tools that examine biological molecules and produces useful representations of the key biophysical and biochemical features of these structures that are critical for understanding function. The utility of this system extends from medical / pharmaceutical applications (model-based drug design, comparing pharmacological activities) to industrial applications (understanding structural stability, protein engineering). The FEATURE code is made available, without too much support, to any interested scientists. Audience: Researchers interested in identifying functional sites in protein structures. Long Term Goals and Related Uses: Enable improved functional site prediction.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Public university in Bari, Italy that offers a variety of degree programs including agricultural science, economics, education, and veterinary medicine.

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• 17 years ago - submitted by Stephen Larson

Bibliographic database that brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. A central discipline wheel features ten color-coded disciplines: law, social and behavioral sciences, arts and humanities, life sciences, physical sciences and mathematics, education, engineering, medicine and health sciences, business, and architecture. The size of each color-coded area reflects the size of each discipline's collection relative to the rest of DCN. Users can click on any segment of any layer of the wheel, with the selected discipline, subdiscipline, or subject navigating users to their chosen commons area where they can then proceed to a list of full-text PDFs. To be clear, typing a couple of keywords into the Search Entire Network box, also located on the homepage, might be a more efficient method than mousing around on this graphical browsing element. If you would like to contribute your institution's research to the Digital Commons Network, Use the form provided, http://network.bepress.com/about/

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

A Semantic content editor based on TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor. RDFaCE is created as a proof of concept for WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) concept. WYSIWYM aims to enable end-users to easily annotate their content using RDFa and Microdata markups. RDFaCE employs external NLP APIs to suggest namespaces, properties, URIs and to automatically annotate content.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous