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A reference terminology and core biomedical ontology for NCI that covers approximately 100,000 key biomedical concepts with terms, codes, definitions, and more than 200,000 inter-concept relationships. It is the reference terminology for NCI, NCI Metathesaurus and NCI informatics infrastructure covering vocabulary for clinical care, translational and basic research, and public information and administrative activities. It includes broad coverage of the cancer domain, including cancer related diseases, findings and abnormalities; anatomy; agents, drugs and chemicals; genes and gene products and so on. In certain areas, like cancer diseases and combination chemotherapies, it provides the most granular and consistent terminology available. It combines terminology from numerous cancer research related domains, and provides a way to integrate or link these kinds of information together through semantic relationships. NCIt features: * Stable, unique codes for biomedical concepts; * Preferred terms, synonyms, definitions, research codes, external source codes, and other information; * Links to NCI Metathesaurus and other information sources; * Over 200,000 cross-links between concepts, providing formal logic-based definition of many concepts; * Extensive content integrated from NCI and other partners, much available as separate NCIt subsets * Updated frequently by a team of subject matter experts. NCIt is a widely recognized standard for biomedical coding and reference, used by a broad variety of public and private partners both nationally and internationally including the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Terminology (CDISC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Federal Medication Terminologies (FMT), and the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP).

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Catalog of phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) results for 3,144 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) present in the NHGRI GWAS Catalog as of 4/17/2012 in 13,835 European-ancestry individuals from five sites of the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) network. A total of 1,358 EMR-derived phenotypes were analyzed for each SNP. This PheWAS replicated 66% (51/77) of sufficiently powered prior GWAS associations, and 210/751 of all prior GWAS associations. They also identified 63 potentially pleiotropic associations with p < 4.6x10-6 (false discovery rate < 0.1); the strongest of these novel associations replicated in an independent cohort (n=7,406). The catalog contains all associations with p < 0.05 (uncorrected)., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 6, 2023. A machine learning toolbox written in Matlab and C that provides a general interface to support the integration of new statistical machine learning methods by writing high level wrappers. It allows complex methods to be built from simple building blocks and makes the use of cross-validation and permutation testing as easy as writing one line of Matlab code. The code requires at least Matlab distribution 7.6.0.324 (R2008a).

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Integration framework for major open source packages in neuroimaging including SPM, FSL, FreeSurfer, EEGLAB, and Fieldtrip. Efficient neuroimaging workflows and parallel processing using Matlab and XML. Addresses challenges of processing multimodal datasets, like combining anatomy, functional MRI, diffusion, and EEG, to yield integrated views of brain. Allows to design, execute, and share pipelines utilizing multiple open source packages. Supports parallelized execution to address challenges of large cohort studies and provides quality control offering group statistics and reporting facilities to help identify outlier subjects and erroneous processing steps.

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Two biorepositories, operated by the Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine, to serve the research community at Partners HealthCare. The BioSample Services Facility (BSF) provides sample storage and processing services. The Partners Biorepository for Medical Discovery (PBMD) is an enterprise-wide repository of high-quality, consented samples available to foster genetic research and advance understanding of genetic causes of common, complex diseases. Services provided by these cores include assistance with the collection and processing of samples for research use, extraction of DNA and isolation of serum and or plasma with monitored cryogenic storage to provide stability and availability of the materials. After processing, and in conjunction with the BioSample Services Facility, the samples stored within the Biorepository for Medical Discovery may be arrayed for further processing via multiple molecular techniques such as - sequencing, genotyping, and expression profiling.

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A US sperm bank that offers superior donor sperm and sperm banking services, including sperm storage and embryo storage. We provide the highest quality in the industry as one of the few sperm banks fully accredited by the American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB). Cryogenic Laboratories is fully compliant with FDA regulations. Extensive donor Information is downloaded FREE for ALL sperm donors. Searching for a donor is fun, easy and free of charge. Most other sperm banks require you to pay for each donor information product you view. So look and listen for free 24/7. Childhood photos, audio clips, medical and personal profiles are all free. Monthly specials are also there to make the process easier.

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Curated data set of a study that investigated the expression profiles of 347 primary invasive breast tumors on Affymetrix microarrays. Three separate breast cancer cohorts were analyzed: 1) Uppsala (n=249), 2) Stockholm (n=58), 3) Singapore (n=40). The Uppsala and Singapore data can be accessed in GSE4922. The Stockholm cohort data can be accessed at GEO Series GSE1456.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 16, 2013. A free surgical encyclopedia for surgeons and their patients. Contributions in the form of new articles and editing can be made by anyone at anytime anywhere in the world. With over 33,000 articles for surgeons and patients, including news, articles, operation scripts, biographies and images. The website is a "wiki" which allows for the collaborative editing and building of content. Contributions in the form of new articles and editing can be made by those who register on the site, confirm their email address and whose application is accepted by an administrator. Wikisurgery is more than just a depot of surgical knowledge, not just articles about facts but also articles about controversy, debates, with none of the usual editorial limits on space. Indeed we hope it will become a record of surgical thought, experience and progression. Key Topics: Operation Scripts, Basic Surgical Skills Training Program, Basic Laparoscopic Training Program, Operative Images, Patient Information; there is also a Featured Videos section.

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An international coalition formed to enable the sharing of genomic and clinical data to help unlock potential advancements in medicine and science. Bringing together more than 145 leading institutions working in healthcare, research, disease advocacy, life science, and information technology, the Global Alliance is working together to create and promulgate harmonized approaches to enable the responsible, voluntary, and secure sharing of genomic and clinical data.

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A web tool for descriptive analysis of microarray data. The analysis is performed by looking for descriptions of gene sets that are statistically significantly over- or under-expressed between different scenarios within the context of a genome-scale experiments (DNA microarray). Descriptions are defined by using the terms from the Gene Ontology (GO), the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways and gene-gene interactions found in the ENTREZ database. Gene annotations by GO and KEGG terms can also be found in the ENTREZ database. The tool provides three procedures for testing the enrichment of the gene sets (over- or under-expressed): Fisher's exact test, GSEA and PAGE, and option for combining the results of the tests. Because of the multiple-hypothesis testing nature of the problem, all the p-values are computed using the permutation testing method.

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Ontology network about Patient Safety Incident. This work has been carried out by the Ontological Engineering Group, using sources from the University of Saint Etienne and the Australian Patient Safety Foundation.

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Service that integrates cross-references from several biological databases into a graph model with multiple types of edges, such as protein interactions, gene-disease associations and gene ontology annotations. Edges are weighted based on their type, reliability, and informativeness. In particular, it formulates protein interaction prediction and disease gene prioritization tasks as instances of link prediction. The predictions are based on a proximity measure computed on the integrated graph.

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A listing of NIH supported data sharing repositories that make data accessible for reuse. Most accept submissions of appropriate data from NIH-funded investigators (and others), but some restrict data submission to only those researchers involved in a specific research network. Also included are resources that aggregate information about biomedical data and information sharing systems. The table can be sorted according by name and by NIH Institute or Center and may be searched using keywords so that you can find repositories more relevant to your data. Links are provided to information about submitting data to and accessing data from the listed repositories. Additional information about the repositories and points-of-contact for further information or inquiries can be found on the websites of the individual repositories.

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Software for automated anatomical labeling of activations in SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping) using a macroscopic anatomical parcellation of the MNI MRI single-subject brain. The software was used for an automated anatomical parcellation of the spatially normalized single-subject high-resolution T1 volume provided by the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) (D. L. Collins et al., 1998, Trans. Med. Imag. 17, 463468, PubMed). Using this parcellation method, three procedures to perform the automated anatomical labeling of functional studies were proposed: (1) labeling of an extremum defined by a set of coordinates, (2) percentage of voxels belonging to each of the anatomical volumes of interest (AVOI) intersected by a sphere centered by a set of coordinates, and (3) percentage of voxels belonging to each of the AVOI intersected by an activated cluster. An interface with the Statistical Parametric Mapping package is provided as a freeware to researchers of the neuroimaging community.

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Program consisting of three Task Forces and one Working Group to promote data exchange and integration in the neurosciences by developing terminology standards and formal ontologies for neural structures. Closely linked to the Program on Digital Brain Atlasing, the Program aims to establish a structured lexicon for the translation and definition of terms describing neural structures at multiple levels of granularity. The three Task Forces and one Working Group involved in the PONS effort: * Structural lexicon * Neuron registry * Representation and deployment * KnowledgeSpace Working Group Structural lexicon, Neuron registry, Representation and deployment, and KnowledgeSpace Working Group.

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Provides animal and human serums, plasmas, purified proteins, and antisera.

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Private comprehensive research university in South Korea. Starting as a church-run kindergarten in 1918, CAU transformed into a school for female kindergarten teachers in 1922 and was granted university status in 1953.

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Database for molecular interaction information integrated with various other bio-entity information, including pathways, diseases, gene ontology (GO) terms, species and molecular types. The information is obtained from several manually curated databases and automatic extraction from literature. There are protein-protein interaction, gene/protein regulation and protein-small molecule interaction information stored in the database. The interaction information is linked with relevant GO terms, pathway, disease and species names. Interactions are also linked to the PubMed IDs of the corresponding abstracts the interactions were obtained from. Manually curated molecular interaction information was obtained from BioGRID, IntAct, NCBI Gene, and STITCH database. Pathway related information was obtained from KEGG database, Pathway Interaction database and Reactome. Disease information was obtained from PharmGKB and KEGG database. Gene ontology terms and related information was obtained from Gene Ontology database and GOA database.

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A file format for graphs that consists of a language core to describe the structural properties of a graph and a flexible extension mechanism to add application-specific data. It is based on XML and is ideally suited as a common denominator for all kinds of services generating, archiving, or processing graphs. Its main features include support of * directed, undirected, and mixed graphs, * hypergraphs, * hierarchical graphs, * graphical representations, * references to external data, * application-specific attribute data, and * light-weight parsers.

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TACMASS collects, preserves, and banks biospecimens obtained from Arizona Cancer Center surgical patients who are seen by University Medical Center surgeons and oncologists. Biospecimens collected at the time of surgery include fresh surgical tissue, blood and urine. Serum, plasma and genomic DNA are harvested from the whole blood. AZCC Members and collaborators may request the use of banked biospecimens through TACMASS. The patient's surgeon or oncologist is responsible for consenting the patient for submission of surgical specimens to the AZCC BioRepository (IRB #06-0609-04, Setsuko Chambers, PI). The surgeon and the Department of Pathology attending physicians and residents are responsible for identifying appropriate tissue for banking that will not compromise pathological diagnosis. Tumor and/or normal adjacent tissue, identified by gross examination, that will not be needed for pathological diagnosis are preserved by fixing in formalin, snap freezing, and/or fixing in RNALater. Histological diagnosis is rendered on each piece of formalin-fixed and snap frozen tissue by Hematoxylin and Eosin staining (H&E). Everyone involved in submitting specimens to the Tumor Bank must maintain a current CITI Certification.

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