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A splice alignment software tool of RNA-Seq reads mapping.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

A multi-platform visualization tool which allows import and visualization of 3-D atlas structures in combination with tomographic and histological image data. The tool allows visualization and analysis of the reconstructed atlas framework, surface modeling and rotation of selected structures, user-defined slicing at any chosen angle, and import of data produced by the user for merging with the atlas framework. Tomographic image data in NIfTI (Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative) file format, VRML and PNG files can be imported and visualized within the atlas framework. XYZ coordinate lists are also supported. Atlases that are available with the tool include mouse brain structures (3-D reconstructed from The Mouse Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates by Paxinos and Franklin (2001)) and rat brain structures (3-D reconstructed from The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates by Paxinos and Watson (2005)). Experimental data can be imported in Atlas3D and warped to atlas space, using manual linear registration, with the possibility to scale, rotate, and position the imported data. This facilitates assignment of location and comparative analysis of signal location in tomographic images.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

A Bioconductor software package for automated gating of flow cytometry data that implements a robust model-based clustering approach based on multivariate t mixture models with the Box-Cox transformation.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Collection of tools to support all tasks associated with a neural simulation project, which are not handled by the simulation engine. NeuroTools is written in Python and works best with PyNN and other simulation engines with a Python front-end such as NEURON, NEST, PCSIM, BrainScaleS Neuromorphic VLSI, Brian, MOOSE/GENESIS, and Neurospaces/GENESIS. NeuroTools provides modules to facilitate simulation setup, parameterization, data management, analysis and visualization. The data-related tools are equally suited to analysis of experimental data.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

This Consortiums objectives are to 1)synergistically enhance neuroscience research and neural engineering development activities in North Louisiana, 2) design and create via a multi-disciplinary team approach, better and more versatile techniques for studying and activating the nervous system, 3) refine these techniques in a collaborative and iterative manner; 4) use these techniques to advance our understanding of the nervous system in its normal, hypoxic and ischemic states; and 5) design neuroprostheses. By bringing engineers, life scientists, and clinicians together, the Consortium pursues a multimodal approach to neuroscience that enables a deeper understanding of normal and pathological neural conditions and opens new doors in the study and treatment of neurological impairment. It attacks a discrete set of problems that have been outside of the reach of neuroscience research, and propose solutions through the judicious application of neural engineering. And it is developing innovative techniques for minimally-invasive, fast-response, precisely localizable, wide-aperture, chronic measurement and stimulation of neural activity. These New Lanes are the novel methods and microdevices for monitoring and under-standing neural function, and providing potential functional replacements. By employing micro- and nano-system techniques, the NewLANE Consortium provides NewLANEs novel methods for monitoring various aspects of neuronal activity that are more sensitive, reliable, and versatile than currently available and novel met-hods for providing potential functional replacements all of which have direct applicability to the US veteran population. Sponsors: Funding comes from various sources including a VA Sr. Rehab. Research Career Scientist award.

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The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a systematic assessment tool that provides a quantitative measure of stroke-related neurological deficit. The NIHSS was originally designed as a research tool to measure baseline data on patients in acute stroke clinical trials. Now, the scale is also widely used as a clinical assessment tool to evaluate acuity of stroke patients, determine appropriate treatment, and predict patient outcome. The NIHSS can be used as a clinical stroke assessment tool to evaluate and document neurological status in acute stroke patients. The stroke scale is valid for predicting lesion size and can serve as a measure of stroke severity. The NIHSS has been shown to be a predictor of both short and long term outcome of stroke patients. Additionally, the stroke scale serves as a data collection tool for planning patient care and provides a common language for information exchanges among healthcare providers. Performing the scale takes between 5-8 minutes. Emergency physicians and nurses, neurologists, neuroscience nurses and other stroke team members are typical examples of who should be certified to perform the NIHSS. The NINDS/NIH training and testing DVD can be obtained from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Sponsors: NIHSS is supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Professional society of genetic counselors that promotes networking, continuing education opportunities, advocacy, and discussion of relevant issues in the field of genetics.

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Software package that creates genomic builds, calls SNPs, detects indels, and counts reads from data generated from one or more sequencing runs. In addition, CASAVA automatically generates a range of statistics, such as mean depth and percentage chromosome coverage, to enable comparison with previous builds or other samples. CASAVA analyzes sequencing reads in three stages: * FASTQ file generation and demultiplexing * Alignment to a reference genome * Variant detection and counting

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Software for combinatorial polyfunctionality analysis of single cells. It is a statistical framework that enables unbiased analysis of antigen-specific T-cell subsets. It uses a Bayesian hierarchical framework to model all observed cell-subsets and select the most likely to be antigen-specific while regularizing the small cell counts that often arise in multi-parameter space. The model provides a posterior probability of specificity for each cell subset and each sample, which can be used to profile a subject's immune response to external stimuli such as infection or vaccination.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Software application that is a combined functional annotation score of non-synonymous coding variants. A major challenge in interpreting whole-exome data is predicting which of the discovered variants are deleterious or neutral. To address this question in silico, they have developed a score called Combined Annotation scoRing toOL (CAROL), which combines information from two bioinformatics tools: PolyPhen-2 and SIFT, in order to improve the prediction of the effect of non-synonymous coding variants. The combination of annotation tools can help improve automated prediction of whole-genome/exome non-synonymous variant functional consequences. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software) The software should run on any UNIX or GNU/Linux system.

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A Perl/C++ software package that provides genome-wide detection of structural variants from next generation paired-end sequencing reads. BreakDancerMax predicts five types of structural variants: insertions, deletions, inversions, inter- and intra-chromosomal translocations from next-generation short paired-end sequencing reads using read pairs that are mapped with unexpected separation distances or orientation. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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Freely-accessible auditory databases as well as custom designed modeling and data analysis software tools. A fully functional online auditory modeling environment is also available, as well as downloadable models in several languages. The models cover many aspects of auditory function and at many different levels of detail ranging from multi-compartment celluar models to high-level abstractions of large portions of the auditory pathway. Currently a few models are available that can be run online and others are available for downloading. EarLab also provides custom cross-platform software for creating your own distributed auditory modeling environment, as well as software for analyzing the results from experimentation. A database of auditory modules is available for online use or download for the distributed auditory modeling environment, as well as instructions and specifications for creating your own modules. All these databases and custom software tools can be used in a wide variety of hearing research applications. This unique resource provides a wealth of information on auditory processing in humans and other animals. Mathematical models are also provided.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

Software for integrated detection of natural antisense transcripts using strand-specific RNA sequencing data.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 23, 2016. Obesity e-Lab is a unique, secure environment for producing, sharing, communicating and finding obesity research between epidemiologists, public health researchers and social scientists. Features of e-Lab: - Tools to share: it enables social and biomedical researchers to share data, information and analytical tools for obesity research. First, it will create a portal to provide access to the platform and facilitate social networking. - Navigation tools: Second, it will generate search and navigation tools for researchers in academic, NHS or local government organizations to find data from administrative and secure data services, via social science views of health datasets, and health science views of social datasets. Within the NHS, e-Lab links records from a variety of administrative and health (and social) care sources for broadly-specified obesity research, and make pseudonymised extracts of NHS-linked datasets available via the portal. - Analytical tools: Third, it will develop analytical tools, focused on: i) easy, reliable and privacy-protecting transformation of geo-codes in health records to other geographies and area-based social and economic measures; ii) epidemiological extensions to geographical information systems; iii) growth-standardization of child obesity measures. The tool-building will employ as much existing software as possible, focusing on the provision of simple, intuitive interfaces to proven software to make it easy for social or biomedical researchers to use collaboratively.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Community repository and virtual research environment where scientists can safely publish their workflows and experiment plans, share them with groups and find and use those of others. Workflows, other digital objects and collections (called Packs) can be swapped, sorted and searched. It supports Linked data, has a SPARQL Endpoint and REST API and is based on an open source Ruby on Rails codebase. Scientific workflows in various formats can be uploaded. Specific support is provided for Taverna workflows for which the system displays relevant metadata, components and visual previews, that are retrieved directly from workflow files. Version history for workflows is collected. This feature allows the contributor to keep previous versions of the workflow available, when the latest one is uploaded. This brings additional benefit for the users by allowing them to view the development stages of the workflow towards its latest implementation.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Open-source set of tools to detect and report SNP genotypes, common Copy-Number Polymorphisms (CNPs), and novel, rare, or de novo CNVs in samples processed with the Affymetrix platform. While most of the components of the suite can be run individually (for instance, to only do SNP genotyping), the Birdsuite is especially intended for integrated analysis of SNPs and CNVs.

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Database of proteins found in the nucleoli of Arabidopsis, identified through proteomic analysis. The Arabidopsis Nucleolar Protein database (AtNoPDB) provides information on the plant proteins in comparison to human and yeast proteins, and images of cellular localizations for over a third of the proteins. A proteomic analysis was carried out of nucleoli purified from Arabidopsis cell cultures and to date 217 proteins have been identified. Many proteins were known nucleolar proteins or proteins involved in ribosome biogenesis. Some proteins, such as spliceosomal and snRNP proteins, and translation factors, were unexpected. In addition, proteins of unknown function which were either plant-specific or conserved between human and plant, and proteins with differential localizations were identified.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Database providing a systematic and comprehensive view of morphological phenotypes regulated by plant hormones, as well as regulatory genes participating in numerous plant hormone responses. By integrating the data from mutant studies, transgenic analysis and gene ontology annotation, genes related to the stimulus of eight plant hormones were identified, including abscisic acid, auxin, brassinosteroid, cytokinin, ethylene, gibberellin, jasmonic acid and salicylic acid. Another pronounced characteristics of this database is that a phenotype ontology was developed to precisely describe all kinds of morphological processes regulated by plant hormones with standardized vocabularies. To increase the coverage of phytohormone related genes, the database has been updated from AHD to AHD2.0 adding and integrating several pronounced features: (1) added 291 newly published Arabidopsis hormone related genes as well as corrected information (e.g. the arguable ABA receptors) based on the recent 2-year literature; (2) integrated orthologues of sequenced plants in OrthoMCLDB into each gene in the database; (3) integrated predicted miRNA splicing site in each gene in the database; (4) provided genetic relationship of these phytohormone related genes mining from literature, which represents the first effort to construct a relatively comprehensive and complex network of hormone related genes as shown in the home page of our database; (5) In convenience to in-time bioinformatics analysis, they also provided links to a powerful online analysis platform Weblab that they have recently developed, which will allow users to readily perform various sequence analysis with these phytohormone related genes retrieved from AHD2.0; (6) provided links to other protein databases as well as more expression profiling information that would facilitate users for a more systematic analysis related to phytohormone research. Please help to improve the database with your contributions.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

A manually curated database of both known and predicted metabolic pathways for the laboratory mouse. It has been integrated with genetic and genomic data for the laboratory mouse available from the Mouse Genome Informatics database and with pathway data from other organisms, including human. The database records for 1,060 genes in Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) are linked directly to 294 pathways with 1,790 compounds and 1,122 enzymatic reactions in MouseCyc. (Aug. 2013) BLAST and other tools are available. The initial focus for the development of MouseCyc is on metabolism and includes such cell level processes as biosynthesis, degradation, energy production, and detoxification. MouseCyc differs from existing pathway databases and software tools because of the extent to which the pathway information in MouseCyc is integrated with the wealth of biological knowledge for the laboratory mouse that is available from the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) database.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

R analysis and processing package for Illumina platform Chip-Seq data.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous