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The Johns Hopkins NIMH Center is comprised of an interdisciplinary research team who has pooled their talents to study the nature of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND). Their aim is to translate discoveries of the pathophysiological mechanisms into novel therapeutics for HAND. Objectives * To integrate aspects of ongoing research in HAND and SIV encephalitis * Develop high-throughput and screening assays for identifying novel therapeutic compounds * Use proteomics and lipidomics approaches to indentifying surrogate markers of disease activity * Disseminate information and education about HAND through existing and new educational systems, including the JHU AIDS Education Training Center and the JHU Center for Global Clinical Education * Facilitate the entry of new investigators into Neuro-AIDS research, and to catalyze new areas of research, particularly where relevant for drug discovery or the development of validated surrogate markers

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on June 21, 2011. Database focusing on gene expression in the frog Xenopus laevis, it is the web companion to the research papers describing a large-scale in situ hybridization screening in Xenopus embryos. The goals of this large-scale in situ screen project are to identify genes by the characterization of their expression pattern, to partially sequence the corresponding cDNAs and to maintain a database collecting the results.

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Software that constructs a hierarchy of cells using flow cytometry for maximization of an external variable (e.g., a clinical outcome or a cytokine response).

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 23, 2016. It is an international collaboration of educators, researchers, physicians, students, programmers, instructional designers and graphic artists working together to build interactive, dynamic human physiology course materials on the Web. Sponsors: This work has received funding from the US National Science Foundation.

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It provides databases and tools useful for analyzing protein structures and their sequences. It is partially derived from, and augments the SCOP: Structural Classification of Proteins database, a database created by manual inspection and abetted by a battery of automated methods, aims to provide a detailed and comprehensive description of the structural and evolutionary relationships between all proteins whose structure is known. Most of the resources provided here depend upon the coordinate files maintained and distributed by the Protein Data Bank. Sponsors: This work is supported by grants from the NIH (1-P50-GM62412, 1-K22-HG00056) and the Searle Scholars Program (01-L-116), and by the US Department of Energy under contract DE-AC03-76SF00098.

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VideoCasting of special NIH events, seminars, conferences, meetings and lectures available to viewers on the NIH network and the Internet from the VideoCast web site. VideoCasting is the method of electronically streaming digitally encoded video and audio data from a server to a client. VideoCast is often referred to as streaming video. Streaming files are not downloaded, but rather are broadcast in a manner similar to television broadcasts. The videos are processed by a compression program into a streaming format and delivered in a staggered fashion to minimize impact upon the network and maximize the experience of the content for the viewer. When users request a streaming file they will receive an initial burst of data after a short delay (file latency). While content is being viewed, the streaming server machine and software continues to stream data in such a manner that the viewer experiences no break in the content. CIT can broadcast your seminar, conference or meeting live to a world-wide audience over the Internet as a real-time streaming video. The event can be recorded and made available for viewers to watch at their convenience as an on-demand video or a downloadable podcast. CIT can also broadcast NIH-only or HHS-only content.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented April 12, 2016. The New England HDSA office provides education, advocacy, support, and care to people with Huntington's Disease and their families throughout New England. It funds research efforts and has an extensive education outreach program.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 23,2022. The Alternative Splicing and Transcript Diversity (ASTD) database project is creating a database of alternative splice events and transcripts of genes from human, mouse and rat. Full length transcripts are generated with the aim of understanding the mechanism of alternative splicing on a genome-wide scale. The current release of the human genome consists of: 16715 genes, 14101 have more than one splice isoform, with an average of 5.6 splice patterns per gene. 10831 transcripts are annotated as full length with a transcription start site and a poly(A). The current release of the mouse genome consists of: 16491 genes, 13028 have more than one splice isoform, with an average of 4 splice patterns per gene. 6011 transcripts are annotated as full length with a transcription start site and a poly(A). The current release of the rat genome consists of: 10424 genes, 6344 have more than one splice isoform, with an average of 2.6 splice patterns per gene. 1250 transcripts are annotated as full length with a transcription start site and a poly(A). Sponsors: The ASTD project at EBI is supported by a grant from the EC: Eurasnet Network of Excellence (LSHG-CT-2005-518238). It was also supported by the ASD grant from the EC (QLRT-CT-2001-02062) until November 2005 and the ATD grant from the EC (LSHG-CT-2003-503329) until May 2007.

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The Electronic Prenatal Mouse Brain Atlas, EPMBA, at present consists of two sets of annotated images of coronal sections from Gestational Day (GD) 12 heads and GD 16 brains of C57BL/6J mice. Ten micron thick sections were stained with hematoxylin and eosin. Images were prepared at various resolutions for annotations and for high resolution presentation. A subset of sections were annotated and linked to anatomical terms. Additionally, horizontal sections of a GD 12 head were aligned and re-assembled into a 3D volume for digital sectioning in arbitrarily oblique planes. These images were captured using a Nikon E800 stereomicroscope with a 10X objective. The resolution is 1.35 pixels/micrometer. The PC program used to grab the images, Microbrightfield's Neurolucida (version 6), stitched together a mosaic of between 10 and 50 high-res images for each tissue slice, while the user focused the scope for each mosaic tile. Since the nature of optic lenses is to focus on one central point, it was difficult to obtain a uniformly-focused field of vision; as such, small areas of these images are blurred. Images were then transferred to a Macintosh and processed in Adobe Photoshop (version 7). Color levels were adjusted for maximum clarity of the tissue, and areas surrounding the tissue were cleared of artifacts. Each image is approximately 3350 pixels wide by 2650 pixels high. A scale bar with a length of 1350 pixels/mm is visible in the lower right-hand corner of each image. The annotations have been completed for the Atlas of Developing Mouse Brain Gestational (Embryonic) Day 12 (7/5/07) as well as the Atlas of Developing Mouse Brain Embryonic Day 16 (4/26/07). The 3D EPMBA data set has been mounted on a NeuroTerrain Atlas Server (NtAS). (6/27/07).

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025. Bioinformatics resource system including web server and web service for functional annotation and enrichment analyses of gene lists. Consists of comprehensive knowledgebase and set of functional analysis tools. Includes gene centered database integrating heterogeneous gene annotation resources to facilitate high throughput gene functional analysis.

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A resource for viewing annotated genes arising from various Aspergillus sequencing and annotation projects, resulting from the merging of Central Aspergillus Data REpository (CADRE) and The Aspergillus Website, which took place in June 2008. The principal role of CADRE is to aid the Aspergillus research community by managing Aspergillus genome data and by providing visualization tools, ranging from relatively simple annotation displays to more complex data integration displays. In contrast, The Aspergillus Website provides a range of information to the medical community (i.e., clinicians, patients and scientists) regarding the genus Aspergillus and the diseases, such as Aspergillosis, that it can cause. CADRE has been implemented using the Ensembl v22 suite. This suite comprises: * a database schema, which has been devised for storing annotated eukaryotic genomes. The schema is implemented with the MySQL relational database management system. * several specialized programming modules for building interfaces (i.e., BioPerl and Ensembl API modules). * a series of programs (i.e., Perl CGI scripts using the API modules) for viewing genomic data within a web browser., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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Software that provides utilities for flow cytometry data.

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An interactive web tool for visualizing differential gene expression data.

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Project content including raw image data, neuronal tracings, image registration tools and analysis scripts covering three manuscripts: Comprehensive Maps of DrosophilaHigher Olfactory Centres : Spatially Segregated Fruit and Pheromone Representation which uses single cell labeling and image registration to describe the organization of the higher olfactory centers of Drosophila; Diversity and wiring variability of olfactory local interneurons in the Drosophila antennal lobe which uses single cell labeling to describe the organization of the antennal lobe local interneurons; and Sexual Dimorphism in the Fly Brain which uses clonal analysis and image registration to identify a large number of sex differences in the brain and VNC of Drosophila. Data * Raw Data of Reference Brain (pic, amira) (both seed and average) * Label field of LH and MB calyx and surfaces for these structures * Label field of neuropil of Reference Brain * Traces (before and after registration). Neurolucida, SWC and AmiraMesh lineset. * MB and LH Density Data for different classes of neuron. In R format and as separate amira files. * Registration files for all brains used in the study * MBLH confocal images for all brains actually used in the study (Biorad pic format) * Sample confocal images for antennal lobe of every PN class * Confocal stacks of GABA stained ventral PNs Programs * ImageJ plugins (Biorad reader /writer/Amira reader/writer/IGS raw Reader) * Binary of registration, warp and gregxform (macosx only, others on request) * Simple GUI for registration tools (macosx only at present) * R analysis/visualization functions * Amira Script to show examples of neuronal classes The website is a collaboration between the labs of Greg Jefferis and Liqun Luo and has been built by Chris Potter and Greg Jefferis. The core Image Registration tools were created by Torsten Rohlfing and Calvin Maurer.

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A software package to analyze next-generation resequencing data. The toolkit offers a wide variety of tools, with a primary focus on variant discovery and genotyping as well as strong emphasis on data quality assurance. Its robust architecture, powerful processing engine and high-performance computing features make it capable of taking on projects of any size. This software library makes writing efficient analysis tools using next-generation sequencing data very easy, and second it's a suite of tools for working with human medical resequencing projects such as 1000 Genomes and The Cancer Genome Atlas. These tools include things like a depth of coverage analyzers, a quality score recalibrator, a SNP/indel caller and a local realigner. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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Software package for assembling, annotating, querying, and comparing transcript and expression level data that consists of two parts: * singleTCW (sTCW): Single transcript sets or assemblies; annotation; differential expression (EdgeR, DEGSeq, DESeq, GoSeq) * multiTCW (mTCW): Comparison of multiple transcript sets; ortholog grouping (e.g., OrthoMCL) It has been tested on Linux and uses Java, mySQL and optionally R.

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This resource hyperlinks to systematic analysis projects, resources, laboratories, and departments at Stanford University.

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Stable isotope labeling with amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) is a simple and straightforward approach for in vivo incorporation of a label into proteins for mass spectrometry (MS)-based quantitative proteomics. SILAC relies on metabolic incorporation of a given "light" or "heavy" form of the amino acid into the proteins. The method relies on the incorporation of amino acids with substituted stable isotopic nuclei (e.g. deuterium, 13C, 15N). In an experiment, two cell populations are grown in culture media that are identical except that one of them contains a "light" and the other a "heavy" form of a particular amino acid (e.g. 12C and 13C labeled L-lysine, respectively). When the labeled analog of an amino acid is supplied to cells in culture instead of the natural amino acid, it is incorporated into all newly synthesized proteins. After a number of cell divisions, each instance of this particular amino acid will be replaced by its isotope labeled analog. Since there is hardly any chemical difference between the labeled amino acid and the natural amino acid isotopes, the cells behave exactly like the control cell population grown in the presence of normal amino acid. It is efficient and reproducible as the incorporation of the isotope label is 100%. SILAC Applications: - Differential expression of proteins and identification of disease biomarkers - Cell signaling dynamics - Analysis of yeast pheromone signaling pathway - Identification of methylation sites - Identification of protease substrates - Study of protein complexes/protein interactions - Analysis of signaling pathways and effect of pharmacological inhibitors - Subcellular proteomics Sponsors: Supported in part by an NIH Roadmap grant Technology Center for Networks & Pathways of Lysine Modification.

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Curated public database for autism research built on information extracted from the studies on molecular genetics and biology of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The genetic information includes data from linkage and association studies, cytogenetic abnormalities, and specific mutations associated with ASD. New gene submissions are welcome. Modules: * Human Gene: thoroughly annotated list of genes that have been studied in the context of autism, with information on the genes themselves, relevant references from the literature, and the nature of the evidence. Uniquely, SFARI Gene incorporates information on both common and rare variants. * Animal Model: information about lines of genetically modified mice that represent potential models of autism. This information includes the nature of the targeting construct, the background strain and, most importantly, a thorough summary of the phenotypic features of the mice that are most relevant to autism. * Protein Interaction (PIN): compilation of all known direct protein interactions for those gene products implicated in autism. It presents both graphical and tabular views of interactomes, highlighting connections between autism candidate genes. Each protein interaction is manually verified by consultation with the primary reference. * Copy Number Variant (CNV): a parallel resource providing genetic information about all known copy number variants linked to autism. * Gene Scoring: includes a "score" for each autism candidate gene, based on an assessment of the strength of human genetic evidence.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented April 11, 2017. Division within the South Korean government that handled affairs of education and science. It has since been split into Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and Ministry of Education.

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