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Public research university in Hong Kong. Founded in 1911, its origins trace back to the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, which was founded in 1887. It is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong.

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• 13 years ago - submitted by Stephen Larson

Web interface that facilitates open science for neuroscience community by simplifying global access to and sharing of datasets and tools. Portal internalizes typical data cycle of research project, beginning with data acquisition, followed by data processing with published tools, and ultimately publication of results with link to original dataset. Platform to form interactive network of collaborations in brain research, interdisciplinary student training, international partnerships, clinical translation and open publishing. Provides unified interface to Canadian neuroscience research community. Open neuroscience research with sharing of both data and methods, to create large-scale databases, development of standards for sharing, facilitation of advanced analytic strategies, open dissemination to global community of neuroscience data and methods, and establishment of training programs for next generation of computational neuroscience researchers.

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• 8 years ago - submitted by Maryann Martone

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on 05 01 2025. PhenX is a project to prioritize Phenotype and eXposure measures for Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS). Leaders of the scientific community will assess and prioritize a broad range of domains relevant to genomics research and public health. The PhenX Steering Committee (SC), chaired by Dr. Jonathan Haines, provides leadership in the selection of domains and domain experts. Members of the SC include outstanding scientists from the research community and liaisons from the Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health. Consensus measures for GWAS will have a direct impact on biomedical research and ultimately on public health. During the course of this project, up to 20 research domains will be examined, with up to 15 measures being recommended for use in future GWAS and other large-scale genomic research efforts. The goal is to maximize the benefits of future research by having comparable measures so that studies can be integrated. Each selected domain will be reviewed by a Working Group (WG) of scientists who are experts in the research area. A systematic review of the literature will guide the WGs selection of up to 15 high priority measures with standardized approaches for measurement. Selection criteria for the measures include factors such as validity, reproducibility, cost, feasibility, and burden to both investigators and participants. The scientific community will be asked to provide input on proposed measures. Consensus development is a key component of the project.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Brazilian federal university based in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. UFRGS is among the largest and highest-rated universities in Brazil, having one of the largest number of scientific publications.

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• SciCrunch
• 13 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

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 August 23, 2016. The euHCVdb is oriented towards protein sequence, structure, function analysis and structural biology of the Hepatitis C Virus. It is monthly updated from the EMBL Nucleotide sequence database and maintained in a relational database management system (PostgreSQL). Programs for parsing the EMBL database flat files, annotating HCV entries, filling up and querying the database used SQL and Java programming languages. Great efforts have been made to develop a fully automatic annotation procedure thanks to a reference set of HCV complete annotated well-characterized genomes of various genotypes. This automatic procedure ensures standardization of nomenclature for all entries and provides genomic regions/proteins present in the entry, bibliographic reference, genotype, interesting sites (e.g. HVR1) or domains (e.g. NS3 helicase), source of the sequence (e.g. isolate) and structural data that are available as protein 3D models. The euHCVdb is funded as part of the HepCVax cluster (EC grant QLK2-CT-2002-01329) and viRgil network of excellence (EC grant LSHM-CT-2004-503359).

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

An interdisciplinary data resource on health, economic position and quality of life as people age. Longitudinal multidisciplinary data from a representative sample of the English population aged 50 and older have been collected. Both objective and subjective data are collected relating to health and disability, biological markers of disease, economic circumstance, social participation, networks and well-being. Participants are surveyed every two years to see how people''s health, economic and social circumstances may change over time. One of the study''s aims is to determine the relationships between functioning and health, social networks, resources and economic position as people plan for, move into and progress beyond retirement. It is patterned after the Health and Retirement Study, a similar study based in the United States. ELSA''s method of data collection includes face-to-face interview with respondents aged 50+; self-completion; and clinical, physical, and performance measurements (e.g., timed walk). Wave 2 added questions about quality of health care, literacy, and household consumption, and a visit by a nurse to obtain anthropometric, blood pressure, and lung function measurements, as well as saliva and blood samples, and to record results from tests of balance and muscle strength. Another new aspect of Wave 2 is the ''Exit Interview'' carried out with proxy informants to collect data about respondents who have died since Wave 1. This interview includes questions about the respondents'' physical and psychological health, the care and support they received, their memory and mood in the last year of their life, and details of what has happened to their finances after their death. Wave 3 data added questions related to mortgages and pensions. The intention is to conduct interviews every 2 years, and to have a nurse visit every 4 years. It also is envisioned that the ELSA data will ultimately be linked to available administrative data, such as death registry data, a cancer register, NHS hospital episodes data, National Insurance contributions, benefits, and tax credit records. The survey data are designed to be used for the investigation of a broad set of topics relevant to understanding the aging process. These include: * health trajectories, disability and healthy life expectancy; * the determinants of economic position in older age; * the links between economic position, physical health, cognition and mental health; * the nature and timing of retirement and post-retirement labour market activity; * household and family structure, social networks and social supports; * patterns, determinants and consequences of social, civic and cultural participation; * predictors of well-being. Current funding for ELSA will extend the panel to 12 years of study, giving significant potential for longitudinal analyses to examine causal processes. * Dates of Study: 2002-2007 * Study Features: Longitudinal, International, Anthropometric Measures * Sample Size: ** 2000-2003 (Wave 1): 12,100 ** 2004-2005 (Wave 2): 9,433 ** 2006-2007 (Wave 3): 9,771 ** 2008-2009 (Wave 4): underway Links * Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS): http://www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal/about/overview.asp * ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/00139#scope-of-study

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• SciCrunch
• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

Public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Founded in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange as a reward to the town of Leiden for its defense against Spanish attacks during the Eighty Years' War, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the Netherlands.

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• SciCrunch
• 15 years ago - submitted by Stephen Larson

Database of the nation''s substance abuse and mental health research data providing public use data files, file documentation, and access to restricted-use data files to support a better understanding of this critical area of public health. The goal is to increase the use of the data to most accurately understand and assess substance abuse and mental health problems and the impact of related treatment systems. The data include the U.S. general and special populations, annual series, and designs that produce nationally representative estimates. Some of the data acquired and archived have never before been publicly distributed. Each collection includes survey instruments (when provided), a bibliography of related literature, and related Web site links. All data may be downloaded free of charge in SPSS, SAS, STATA, and ASCII formats and most studies are available for use with the online data analysis system. This system allows users to conduct analyses ranging from cross-tabulation to regression without downloading data or relying on other software. Another feature, Quick Tables, provides the ability to select variables from drop down menus to produce cross-tabulations and graphs that may be customized and cut and pasted into documents. Documentation files, such as codebooks and questionnaires, can be downloaded and viewed online.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

HaploReg is a tool for exploring annotations of the noncoding genome at variants on haplotype blocks, such as candidate regulatory SNPs at disease-associated loci. Using linkage disequilibrium (LD) information from the 1000 Genomes Project, linked SNPs and small indels can be visualized along with their predicted chromatin state in nine cell types, conservation across mammals, and their effect on regulatory motifs. HaploReg is designed for researchers developing mechanistic hypotheses of the impact of non-coding variants on clinical phenotypes and normal variation.

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• SciCrunch
• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

Founded in 1551, this research university features murals by Diego Rivera and other famous artists.

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• SciCrunch
• 15 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

The Autism Chromosome Rearrangement Database is a collection of hand curated breakpoints and other genomic features, including phenotypes, organized by chromosome, related to autism, taken from publicly available literature: databases and unpublished data. The database welcomes submission of data and comments regarding the database from the research community. The database is continuously updated with information from in-house experimental data as well as data from published research studies.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Funds innovative research and development in Washington state to promote life sciences competitiveness, enhance economic vitality, and improve health and health care. Its grantmaking opportunities are designed to leverage the state''s investment in research and development by achieving three goals: promoting health; making the life sciences sector more competitive; and strengthening Washington''s economy. LSDF currently offers two different types of granting mechanisms for both for-profit and non-profit organizations in Washington: * Proof of Concept grants to enhance the commercial viability of intellectual property developed by non-profit organizations or enhance the competitiveness of early-stage companies for private equity investment. (This grant mechanism combines the Commercialization and PreCede mechanisms offered in prior years.) * Opportunity grants to fund extraordinary research and development proposals having the ability to significantly leverage LSDF dollars against those from other sources.

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• SciCrunch
• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Chinese research university in Beijing, China that offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in pure and applied sciences, social sciences and humanities, and sciences of management and education.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - submitted by Stephen Larson

Public database of information about all clinical trials involving humans, this global initiative provides a single point of access to information about ongoing and completed clinical trials. It contains the trial registration data sets made available by data providers around the world meeting criteria for content and quality control. It also aims to: * To improve the comprehensiveness, completeness and accuracy of registered clinical trial data * To communicate and raise awareness of the need to register clinical trials * To ensure the accessibility of registered data * To build capacity for clinical trial registration * To encourage the utilization of registered data * To ensure the sustainability of the ICTRP The mission of the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform is to ensure that a complete view of research is accessible to all those involved in health care decision making. This will improve research transparency and will ultimately strengthen the validity and value of the scientific evidence base. The registration of all interventional trials is a scientific, ethical and moral responsibility. The ICTRP: * Publishes the ICTRP Search Portal * Supports the WHO Registry Network * Supports countries and regions wanting to establish WHO-compliant clinical trial registries or policies on trial registration.

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• SciCrunch
• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Data set of postural sway measurements for 15 healthy young (mean age 23, standard deviation 2), and 12 healthy elderly (mean age 73, standard deviation 3) volunteers. Each subject''s postural sway was recorded during a test of 10 minutes for the young subjects, or 5 minutes for the elderly subjects, in all cases with a 2-minute seated break midway through the test. Each test was divided into 30-second trials, and each file of the database contains data for one of these 30-second trials.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

A Danish public university founded in 1972 and located in Trekroner in the Eastern part of Roskilde. The university awards bachelor, master''s degrees and Ph.D. degrees in a wide variety of subjects. (Wikipedia)

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• SciCrunch
• 13 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Model repository and data related to earth-surface dynamics modeling. The CSDMS Modeling Tool (CMT) allows you to run and couple CSDMS model components on the CSDMS supercomputer in a user-friendly software environment. Components in the CMT are based on models, originally submitted to the CSDMS model repository, and now adapted to communicate with other models. The CMT tool is the environment in which you can link these components together to run new simulations. The CMT software runs on your own computer; but it communicates with the CSDMS HPCC, to perform the simulations. Thus, the CMT also offers you a relatively easy way of using the CSDMS supercomputer for model experiments. CSDMS deals with the Earth's surface - the ever-changing, dynamic interface between lithosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and atmosphere. They are a diverse community of experts promoting the modeling of earth surface processes by developing, supporting, and disseminating integrated software modules that predict the movement of fluids, and the flux (production, erosion, transport, and deposition) of sediment and solutes in landscapes and their sedimentary basins. CSDMS: * Produces protocols for community-generated, continuously evolving, open software * Distributes software tools and models * Provides cyber-infrastructure to promote the quantitative modeling of earth surface processes * Addresses the challenging problems of surface-dynamic systems: self-organization, localization, thresholds, strong linkages, scale invariance, and interwoven biology & geochemistry * Enables the rapid development and application of linked dynamic models tailored to specific landscape basin evolution (LBE) problems at specific temporal and spatial scales * Partners with related computational and scientific programs to eliminate duplication of effort and to provide an intellectually stimulating environment * Supports a strong linkage between what is predicted by CSDMS codes and what is observed, both in nature and in physical experiments * Supports the imperatives in Earth Science research

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• SciCrunch
• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

A vocabulary that is able to describe and semantically interconnect the different paradigms of the cancer chemoprevention domain.

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• SciCrunch
• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Medical school located in Springfield, the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois. It is part of the Southern Illinois University system, which includes a campus in Edwardsville as well as the flagship in Carbondale.

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• SciCrunch
• 16 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Open access repository for Johns Hopkins University researchers to share their research data. Data repository is administered by professional curators at JHU Data Services, who will work with depositors to enable future discovery and reuse of your data, and ensure your data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). Each dataset has citation and DOI, facilitating attribution, and connection to research publications.

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• SciCrunch
• 10 years ago - submitted by Yueling Li