Curator Dashboard

An R software package providing plotting and convenience functions.

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A Swiss-led project with the aim of reverse engineering the mammalian brain and achieving a complete virtual human brain. The researchers have demonstrated the validity of their method by developing a realistic model of a rat cortical column, consisting of about 10,000 neurons. The eventual goal is to simulate systems of millions and hundreds of millions of neurons. The virtual brain will be an exceptional tool giving neuroscientists a new understanding of the brain and a better understanding of neurological diseases. In five years of work, Henry Markram's team has perfected a facility that can create realistic models of one of the brain's essential building blocks. This process is entirely data driven and essentially automatically executed on the supercomputer. Meanwhile the generated models show a behavior already observed in years of neuroscientific experiments. These models will be basic building blocks for larger scale models leading towards a complete virtual brain.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on January 08, 2013. A consortium of three facilities whose purpose is to establish, characterize, and distribute novel mutant mouse models with neural and/or behavioral phenotypes, and distribute them to the worldwide research community. Interested scientists are able to obtain information about mouse lines at all three sites in a single unified database. GOALS * Increase genomic and genetic tools for functional gene identification * Provide mice with mutations that alter the nervous system or behavior * Build collaborations between geneticists and neuroscientists The consortium is made up of three mutagenesis and phenotypic screening facilities, focused on identifying alterations in nervous system function and behavior, and established by NIH. They are the Neurogenomics Project at Northwestern University, the Neuroscience Mutagenesis Facility at The Jackson Laboratory, and the Neuromutagenesis Project of the Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium. The NIH Neurogenomics Project at Northwestern University is directed by Dr. Joseph S. Takahashi, who also acts as the Director of the Neuromice.org consortium. Chemical mutagenesis is used to induce mutations throughout the genome and combined with phenotypic screens to detect mice with mutations. In order to maximize the genomic coverage and recover both dominant and recessive mutations, a dominant G1 screen and a recessive G3 screen are utilized. Phenotypic screens focus on five primary domains: learning and memory, behavioral responses to stress, responses to psychostimulants, circadian rhythmicity, and vision. The Neuroscience Mutagenesis Facility at the Jackson Laboratory is directed by Dr. Wayne N. Frankel. The Neuroscience Mutagenesis Facility is using a three-generation backcross breeding scheme to produce homozygous mutants and will thus recover dominant, semidominant, and recessive mutations. In addition, some mutagenesis will be done in ES cells followed by two generations of breeding. Phenotypic screens focus on identifying mutations affecting: motor function, seizure threshold, hearing, vision, and neurodevelopment. The Neuromutagenesis Project of the Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium (TMGC) involves researchers throughout the state of Tennessee, under the direction of Dr. Daniel Goldowitz, Ph.D., at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. TMGC also includes researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, Meharry Medical College, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and the University of Memphis. The Project is using regional mutagenesis, covering regions on chromosomes 10, 14, 15, 19, and X, thus including approximately 15 of the genome in the screened region. Phenotypic screens include: motor and sensory function, learning and memory, neurohistology, aging, alcohol response, abused drug response, visual function, and social behavior. Neuromice.org has stopped taking orders online but mutants are orderable please contact the originating center for availability and pricing details. Live targeted mutant Fragile X model mice are now available for distribution.

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IntEnz (Integrated relational Enzyme database) is a freely available resource focused on enzyme nomenclature. IntEnz is created in collaboration with the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). This collaboration is responsible for the production of the ENZYME resource. IntEnz contains the recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NC-IUBMB) on the nomenclature and classification of enzyme-catalysed reactions.

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Biologic Stylus is Biologic Institute's Stylus simulation software suite. Programming Language: C++, Python

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Map of gene expression in developing mouse brain revealing gene expression patterns from embryonic through postnatal stages. Provides information about spatial and temporal regulation of gene expression with database. Feature include seven sagittal reference atlases created with a developmental ontology. These anatomic atlases may be viewed alongside in situ hybridization (ISH) data as well as by itself.

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BioPerl is a community effort to produce Perl code which is useful in biology. This toolkit of perl modules is useful in building bioinformatics solutions in Perl. It is built in an object-oriented manner so that many modules depend on each other to achieve a task. The collection of modules in the bioperl-live repository consist of the core of the functionality of bioperl. Additionally auxiliary modules for creating graphical interfaces (bioperl-gui), persistent storage in RDMBS (bioperl-db), running and parsing the results from hundreds of bioinformatics applications (Run package), software to automate bioinformatic analyses (bioperl-pipeline) are all available as Git modules in our repository. The BioPerl toolkit provides a library of hundreds of routines for processing sequence, annotation, alignment, and sequence analysis reports. It often serves as a bridge between different computational biology applications assisting the user to construct analysis pipelines. This chapter illustrates how BioPerl facilitates tasks such as writing scripts summarizing information from BLAST reports or extracting key annotation details from a GenBank sequence record. BioPerl includes modules written by Sohel Merchant of the GO Consortium for parsing and manipulating OBO ontologies. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

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A quantitative proteomics software program for accurate protein abundance ratio estimation with confidence interval evaluation.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 4,2023.Platform provides free software and data services to international scientific community in order to foster scientific collaboration and facilitate scientific discovery process. Project adheres to open source philosophy that promotes collaboration and code reuse.

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Web applications for analysis of multimodal/multispecies neuroimaging data. Image analysis software package. Has facilities for DTI and fMRI processing. Capabilities for both neuro/cardiac and abdominal image analysis and visualization. Many packages are extensible, and provide functionality for image visualization and registration, surface editing, cardiac 4D multi-slice editing, diffusion tensor image processing, mouse segmentation and registration, and much more. Can be intergrated with other biomedical image processing software, such as FSL, AFNI, and SPM.

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Automatic software program for microarray image quantification.

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Database of data obtained from the NIAID Influenza Genome Sequencing Project as well as from GenBank, combined with tools for flu sequence analysis and annotation. In addition, it provides links to other resources that contain flu sequences, publications and general information about flu viruses. Users can search the Flu database, build queries, retrieve sequences, and apply analysis tools. This includes selecting influenza sequences by virus, subtype, host, and other criteria, finding complete genome sets, aligning sequence and others in the database (up to 1000 sequences), viewing clustering and phylogenetic trees, BLAST searching a flu sequence against the database, and more.

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Collection of gene expression data in mouse brain for five different conditions of sleep and wakefulness to understand sleep deprivation and dynamic changes underlying sleep and wake cycles. Platform to generate cellular resolution expression data.

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An open source C++ and Python toolbox for solving complex modeling problems, and a number of applications for tackling some common problems in a user-friendly way. Its broad goal is to contribute to a comprehensive structural characterization of biomolecules ranging in size and complexity from small peptides to large macromolecular assemblies, by integrating data from diverse biochemical and biophysical experiments. It can also be used from the Chimera molecular modeling system, or via one of several web applications.

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Detailed multidimensional digital multimodal atlas of C57BL/6J mouse nervous system with data and informatics pipeline that can automatically register, annotate, and visualize large scale neuroanatomical and connectivity data produced in histology, neuronal tract tracing, MR imaging, and genetic labeling. MAP2.0 interoperates with commonly used publicly available databases to bring together brain architecture, gene expression, and imaging information into single, simple interface.Resource to visualise mouse development, identify anatomical structures, determine developmental stage, and investigate gene expression in mouse embryo. eMouseAtlas portal page allows access to EMA Anatomy Atlas of Mouse Development and EMAGE database of gene expression.EMAGE is freely available, curated database of gene expression patterns generated by in situ techniques in developing mouse embryo. EMA, e-Mouse Atlas, is 3-D anatomical atlas of mouse embryo development including histology and includes EMAP ontology of anatomical structure, provides information about shape, gross anatomy and detailed histological structure of mouse, and framework into which information about gene function can be mapped.

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BiSearch is a primer-design algorithm for DNA sequences. It may be used for both bisulfite converted as well as for original not modified sequences. You can search various genomes with the designed primers to avoid non-specific PCR products by our fast ePCR method. This is especially recommended when primers are designed to amplify the highly redundant bisulfite treated sequences. It has the unique property of analyzing the primer pairs for mispriming sites on the bisulfite-treated genome and determines potential non-specific amplification products with a new search algorithm. The options of primer-design and analysis for mispriming sites can be used sequentially or separately, both on bisulfite-treated and untreated sequences. In silico and in vitro tests of the software suggest that new PCR strategies may increase the efficiency of the amplification.

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Modeling platform to study the basic interactions between synaptic elements that allows the user to study qualitatively, and also quantitatively the relative contributions of diverse mechanisms underlying synaptic efficacy: the relevance of each and every element that comprises a synapse, the interactions between these components and their subcellular distribution, as well as the influence of synaptic geometry (presynaptic terminal, cleft and postsynaptic density). This platform consists of a graphical interface in which elements that comprise a single glutamatergic synapse (both pre- and post-synaptically), their behavior as well as the underlying synaptic geometry can be modified. For example, EONS offers the ability to study the effect of voltage-gated calcium channels density and distribution, the number and location of receptors and more. EONS is a parametric model of a generic glutamatergic synapse that takes into account pre-synaptic mechanisms, such as calcium buffering and diffusion, neurotransmitter release, diffusion and uptake in the cleft, and postsynaptic elements, such as ionotropic AMPA and NMDA receptors, their distribution and synaptic geometry, as well as metabotropic glutamate receptors. There are no complicated equations to write: all the models are predefined. This version is a great tool for first time users and students interested in learning about synapses, as well as for studying geometry and distribution hypotheses in a 2D rectangular geometry. System Requirements: EONS V1.2 is a Windows program but can be also successfully installed and run on Mac and Linux.

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Allen Mouse Brain Atlas includes full color, high resolution anatomic reference atlas accompanied by systematic, hierarchically organized taxonomy of mouse brain structures. Enables interactive online exploration of atlas and to provide deeper level of 3D annotation for informatics analysis and viewing in Brain Explorer 3D viewer.

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Software application for performing pixel-by-pixel correlation analysis on a set of gel images from two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and a set of clinical parameters for a population. The application is written in C++, and has been tested on Windows, although it in principle should compile cross platform using CMake.

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Core facility that provides the following services: Induced pluripotent stem cell derivation, Characterization of induced pluripotent stem cells, Hands-on training course for embryonic / induced pluripotent stem cell culture. Additionally, the Core has several established human iPS cell lines for purchase for research purposes by non-profit institutions. Please contact the director for available cell lines. The goals of the Core are: * to facilitate derivation of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from somatic cells; * to provide expertise and training to researchers in embryonic stem (ES)/iPS cell culture; * and to serve as a resource for sharing iPS cell lines and iPSC technology within the UPenn and the broader scientific community.

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