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Data repository where researchers can publicly store and share unthresholded statistical brain activation maps produced by MRI and PET studies.

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A question answering web site and forum that focuses on neuroinformatics and neuroscience. Initially conceived by Istvan Albert's highly successful BioStar website within the Bioinformatics community, NeuroStars is born as an experiment to engage the Neuroinformatics community after some unfruitful attempts in StackExchange's Area51. Posts that are detailed and specific, written clearly and simply are welcome.

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An on-demand archiving system for webreferences (cited webpages and websites, or other kinds of Internet-accessible digital objects), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited webmaterial will remain available to readers in the future. Users make a local copy of the cited webpage / webmaterial and archive the cited URL to enable readers permanent access to the cited material. If cited webreferences in journal articles, books etc. are not archived, future readers may encounter a 404 File Not Found error when clicking on a cited URL. It's free and takes only 30 seconds. A WebCite-enhanced reference is a reference which contains - in addition to the original live URL (which can and probably will disappear in the future, or its content may change) - a link to an archived copy of the material, exactly as the citing author saw it when he accessed the cited material.

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Since 1990 Telethon, along with millions of Italians, has stepped up to the challenge of beating muscular dystrophy and the other genetic diseases. It is a marathon against time, because there are many people who live with these rare disorders, and the resources to deal with them have to be carefully measured out because there is not much public or private funding invested in this field of research, and the path to finding cures is often long and tortuous. The foundation In order to guarantee as much research funding as possible into muscular dystrophy and other genetic diseases, the Telethon team works throughout the year and has adopted a management system for the donated funds that is strict and efficient. For every euro raised by Telethon, about eighty euro cents reach the cutting edge laboratories and excellent research centers. Scientific area The selection of the best research projects, the funding of dedicated researchers and the foundation and maintenance of its research institutes make Telethon a point of Italian excellence in the world. Along with recognition from the international scientific community, Telethon's world of research is the biggest ally of all the people who live with muscular dystrophy or other genetic disorders every day. The online database provides complete information about the projects funded by Telethon from 1991 to the present. The archive contains information about all the Foundation's efforts in the field of biomedical research. In addition to a search by disease, it is possible, using the advanced search function, to interrogate the database by groups of disorders, by the name of a researcher or research institute, or by the town, province, or region where projects are based. The use of another search filter makes it possible to check which research projects are ongoing and which have come to an end.

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A non-governmental organization aimed at raising awareness of all forms of dementia by creating a common European platform through co-ordination and co-operation between Alzheimer organizations throughout Europe. Alzheimer Europe is also a source of information on all aspects of dementia.

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Project whose aim is to produce a robust phylogeny of all the deepest branches within a mega-diverse group, the spiders, by combining a massive amount of newly generated comparative genomic data with a substantial set of new and re-assessed data on morphology and behavior. They propose to collect a huge amount of genomic information in order to test and improve the results achieved by over 50 detailed morphological cladistic analyses conducted by more than 30 investigators during the past 15 years. The insignificant amount of genomic work to date on spiders has been uncoordinated and of little utility for broad-scale phylogenetic investigation. The advent of high-throughput DNA sequencing, however, makes it feasible to examine substantial parts of the genome across a dense sampling of spider taxa. They propose to sequence at least 50 loci (genome samples of 500-1,000 or more base pairs that can be sequenced as single pieces in both directions simultaneously) for representatives of at least 500 genera of spiders and their closest relatives (the whipscorpion orders Amblypygi, Uropygi, and Schizomida). These genera will be carefully selected by a sampling strategy designed to maximize the resolution of deep branches within spider phylogeny, and will purposefully include all the previously most-favored study organisms of ethologists, ecologists, physiologists, and developmental and molecular biologists, thus integrating and contextualizing their research. Data matrices will be produced that combine the new genomic data with a new, comprehensive survey of morphological and behavioral homologies, offering a unique index to all comparative data on one large group. New computer software, designed in large part by members of their group and using massively parallel processing to achieve supercomputing capability, makes such analyses feasible.

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A set of guidelines (community effort) suitable for use with any structured format for simulation experiments to identify the Minimal Information About a Simulation Experiment necessary to enable the reproducible simulation experiments. The Guidelines list the information that a modeller needs to provide to enable the execution and reproduction of a numerical simulation experiment, derived from a given set of quantitative models. MIASE is designed to help modelers and software tools to exchange their simulation settings and to foster collaboration. In 2011, he MIASE guidelines were accepted by researchers from 19 different institutes.

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Project to create a scalable infrastructure that enables linking phenotypes across different fields of biology by the semantic similarity of their descriptions.

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A non-governmental, non-profit public database for paleontological data providing researchers and the public with information about the entire fossil record. It has been organized and operated by a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, international group of paleobiological researchers. Its purpose is to provide global, collection-based occurrence and taxonomic data for organisms of all geological ages, as well data services to allow easy access to data for independent development of analytical tools, visualization software, and applications of all types. The Database's broader goal is to encourage and enable data-driven collaborative efforts that address large-scale paleobiological questions. Paleontological data files are accepted for upload. However, PaleoBioDB needs some basic data types to be included in order to perform an upload. The Application Programming Interface (API) gives scientists, students, and developers programmatic access to taxonomic, spatial, and temporal data contained within the database.

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A family of databases covering the 3D features of monos, di, oligo, polysaccharides, glycosyltransferases, lectins, monoclonal antibodies and glycosaminoglycan-binding proteins. Other databases are also made available that completes the picture of glycan 3D structure decoding. that are made freely available to the scientific community. A search engine has been developed that scans the full content of all the data bases for queries related to sequential information of the carbohydrates or other related descriptors. This database ensemble offers a unique opportunity to characterize the 3D features that a given oligosaccharide can assume in different environments.

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An open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D with features for chemicals, crystals, materials and biomolecules. It is cross-platform, running on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux/Unix systems and features an applet, application, and systems integration component.

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An American multinational energy corporation headquartered in San Ramon, California, and active in more than 180 countries, that is engaged in every aspect of the oil, gas, and geothermal energy industries, including exploration and production; refining, marketing and transport; chemicals manufacturing and sales; and power generation. Chevron is one of the world's largest oil companies; as of 2013, it ranked third in the Fortune Global 500-2014 list of the world's largest companies. (Adapted from Wikipedia)

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A computationally-oriented biotech company located in Barcelona that is focused on the drug discovery and development areas. Chemotargets' goal is to help the biopharma industry fast-forward the process of bringing new medicines to market, speeding up drug discovery and development programs and making them more cost-efficient. To this end, they have designed, and continue to develop, an integrated technology platform involving a broad spectrum of cutting-edge computational methodologies.

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Commercial organism provider selling mice, rats and other model animals. American corporation specializing in a variety of pre-clinical and clinical laboratory services for the pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology industries. It also supplies assorted biomedical products and research and development outsourcing services for use in the pharmaceutical industry. (Wikipedia)

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Company that provides testing and manufacturing services to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies that span the product cycle from early pre-clinical development to licensed production.

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Global biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializing in discovering, developing, and delivering important therapies for the treatment of neurodegenerative, hematologic and autoimmune diseases to patients worldwide.

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Pennsylvania-based company supporting pharmaceutical and medical device innovation with imaging core lab, EDC, IVR / IWR, CTMS, and supply chain forecasting and optimization. Its initial service was medical imaging for clinical trials. It is used to capture, collect, control quality, provide blinded reading services to the final delivery to the sponsor company and to the FDA or EMEA if required for medical images in a wide range of imaging modalities. (Wikipedia)

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Foldit is a revolutionary new multiplayer online computer game that engages non-scientists in solving hard prediction problems, enabling you to contribute to important scientific research. Foldit players interact with protein structures using direct manipulation tools and user-friendly versions of algorithms from the Rosetta structure prediction methodology, while they compete and collaborate to optimize the computed energy. Here are the basic principles to keep in mind when folding proteins. Your score on each protein is based on how well you do with these three things: # Pack the protein: The smaller the protein, the better. More precisely, you want to avoid empty spaces (voids) in the structure of the protein where water molecules can get inside. So you want the atoms in the protein to be as close together as possible. Certain structures, such as sheets, will even connect together with hydrogen bonds if you line them up right and get them close together. This is also good. Key word: Compact. # Hide the hydrophobics: Hydrophobics are the sidechains that don't want to be touching water, just like oil or wax. Since most proteins float around in water, you want to keep the hydrophobics (orange sidechains) surrounded by as many atoms as possible so the water won't get to them. The other side of this rule is that hydrophilics (blue sidechains) do want to be touching water, so they should be exposed as much as possible. Key word: Buried. # Clear the clashes: Two atoms can't occupy the same space at the same time. If you've folded a protein so two sidechains are too close together, your score will go down a lot. This is represented by a red spiky ball (clash) where the two sidechains are intersecting. If there are clashes, you know something is wrong with your protein. So make sure everything is far enough apart. Key word: Apart. The current series of Science Puzzles, the Grand Challenges, are meant to generate the evidence needed to prove that human protein folders can be more effective than computers at certain aspects of protein structure prediction. That's what all the puzzles in Foldit are about right now: predicting the structure of a protein based on its amino acid sequence. The three rules mentioned above describe the characteristics of correct protein structures.

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German multinational chemical company and largest chemical producer in the world. BASF Group comprises subsidiaries and joint ventures in more than 80 countries and operates six integrated production sites and 390 other production sites in Europe, Asia, Australia, the Americas and Africa.

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