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Public university in Germany that offers degrees in law, management and business, the arts and humanities, and human sciences.

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• 18 years ago - submitted by Stephen Larson

An ontological representation of protein-related entities, explicitly defining them and showing the relationships between them. Each PRO term represents a distinct class of entities (including specific modified forms, orthologous isoforms, and protein complexes) ranging from the taxon-neutral to the taxon-specific. PRO encompasses three sub-ontologies: proteins based on evolutionary relatedness (ProEvo); protein forms produced from a given gene locus (ProForm); and protein-containing complexes (ProComp).

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Software package that carries out association analysis of common copy number variants in population-based studies. It includes functions for analysing association under a series of study designs (case-control, cohort, etc), using several dependent variables (class status, censored data, counts) as response, adjusting for covariates and considering various inheritance models. It also includes functions for inferring copy number (CNV genotype calling). Various classes and methods for generic functions (print, summary, plot, anova, ... ) have been created to facilitate the analysis.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 4th,2023. Program developing a self-sustaining colony of baboons free of all known herpesviruses, four retroviruses, and SV40 for research. When the program is fully developed, they will provide healthy, behaviorally normal, SPF baboons that are free of all known herpes viruses, four retroviruses, and SV40. To accomplish this goal, the center has established in collaboration with co-investigators and consultants serological and PCR tests for each of the 11 target viruses. These baboon viruses include six herpesviruses (analogs of human HSV, VZV, CMV, HHV6, EBV, and HHV8), four retroviruses (simian foamy virus, SRV/D, SIV, and STLV), and SV40. Twenty-four infant baboons are being recruited into the SPF program in each of the first five years, for a final total of at least 66 SPF baboons. All infants will be repeatedly tested for each of the target viruses. At one month of age, larger social groups of 4-6 SPF animals are formed. Beginning at 2-3 years of age, SPF animals will be integrated into larger socially compatible groups. These groups will eventually mature into breeding harems of SPF animals. This approach provides infants with age-matched companions for socialization during their early period of development, minimizes opportunities for transmission of viruses to the infants from adult animals, and allows for the simultaneous elimination of many different viruses from SPF animals.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

The mission of the SRF is to help in the search for causes, treatments, and understanding of the devastating disease of schizophrenia. Our goal is to foster collaboration among researchers by providing an international online forum where ideas, research news, and data can be presented and discussed. The website is intended to bring together scientists working specifically on schizophrenia, scientists researching related diseases, and basic scientists whose work can shed light on these diseases. In this way, we hope that the Schizophrenia Research Forum will be a catalyst for creative thinking in the quest to understand a deeply complex disease. It is our goal to create and maintain up-to-date content of the highest quality. The website is free of charge to users, independent of industry sponsorship, and open to the public. Though geared toward researchers, we welcome other visitorspeople with mental illnesses, families, the media, and others who need accurate information on research into schizophrenia. We do, however, require that users who wish to post comments and other materials be registered members. All such materials are subject to approval by the editorial team. As a forum, we encourage participation and welcome feedback from the community.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

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.Service to design PCR primers from protein multiple sequence alignments. NOTICE: This version of CODEHOP is no longer maintained.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 17, 2013. Society for Neuroscience (SfN) provides this Web site, Neuroscience Education Resources Virtual Encycloportal (NERVE), to advance neuroscience teaching and educational efforts. SfN is a nonprofit association of more than 38,000 researchers and professionals, believes K-12 educators and vital partners for engaging the next generation of researchers. NERVE gives access to information and tools for teaching about the nervous system and related health issues. The goal of NERVE is to provide a gateway to credible information from government, nonprofit and other respected sources. Society scientists and educators have reviewed information for appropriateness but responsibility for content remains that of the originating author or organizations. NERVE gives access to information and tools for teaching about the nervous system and related health issues.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

ORNIS is a database of bird specimens as well as a portal to connect the academic and museum communities involved with studying birds. This project expands on existing infrastructure developed for distributed mammal (MaNIS), amphibian and reptile (HerpNet), and fish (FishNet) databases. Over 5 million bird specimens are housed in North American collections, documenting the composition, distribution, ecology, and systematics of the world's estimated 10,000-16,000 bird species. Millions of additional observational records are held in diverse data sets. ORNIS addresses the urgent call for increased access to these data in an open and collaborative manner, and involves development of a suite of online software tools for data analysis and error-checking. This project expands on existing infrastructure developed for distributed mammal (MaNIS), amphibian and reptile (HerpNet), and fish (FishNet) databases. Improved access to avian data sets will allow predictive uses to reveal patterns and processes of evolutionary and ecological phenomena that have not been apparent heretofore. Along with similar infrastructures for other vertebrate groups, it also will enable detailed and synthetic knowledge of the earth's biodiversity for tracking climate change, emerging diseases (e.g., West Nile Virus), and other conservation challenges for species in the 21st century.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Describes data from and access to permanent cell lines containing beta-arrestin fluorescent protein biosensors. This assay Bank provides plasmids, cells lines, and resulting data to the NIDA/NIH funded research community in order to better understand and combat addiction.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Framework for identifying, locating, relating, accessing, integrating, and analyzing information from neuroscience research. Users can search for and add neuroscience-related resources at NIF portal and receive and RRID to track and cite resources within scientific manuscripts.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

An annotated, searchable collection of HIV-1 cytotoxic and helper T-cell epitopes and antibody binding sites, plus related tools and information. The goal of this database is to provide a comprehensive listing of defined HIV epitopes. These data are also printed in the HIV Molecular Immunology compendium, which is updated yearly and provided free of charge to scientific researchers, both by online download and as a printed copy. The data included in this database are extracted from the HIV immunology literature. HIV-specific B-cell and T-cell responses are summarized and annotated. Immunological responses are divided into three sections, CTL (CD8+), T helper (CD4+), and antibody. Within these sections, defined epitopes are organized by protein and binding sites within each protein, moving from left to right through the coding regions spanning the HIV genome. We include human responses to natural HIV infections, as well as vaccine studies in a range of animal models and human trials. Responses that are not specifically defined, such as responses to whole proteins or monoclonal antibody responses to discontinuous epitopes, are summarized at the end of each protein sub-section. Studies describing general HIV responses to the virus, but not to any specific protein, are included at the end of each section. The annotation includes information such as cross-reactivity, escape mutations, antibody sequence, TCR usage, functional domains that overlap with an epitope, immune response associations with rates of progression and therapy, and how specific epitopes were experimentally defined. Basic information such as HLA specificities for T-cell epitopes, isotypes of monoclonal antibodies, and epitope sequences are included whenever possible. All studies that we can find that incorporate the use of a specific monoclonal antibody are included in the entry for that antibody. A single T-cell epitope can have multiple entries, generally one entry per study. Finally, tables and maps of all defined linear epitopes relative to the HXB2 reference proteins are provided. Alignments of CTL, helper T-cell, and antibody epitopes are available through the search interfaces. Only responses to HIV-1 and HIV-2 are included in the database.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

This portal leads to the numerous Wasserman Lab online software tools available for use. The following are list of active Software tools available: - ConSite: Transcription factor binding site detection using phylogenetic footprinting - dbMTN: Multiple Tissue Northern Blot Comparison Tool - Gene Set Builder: A tool for collation, curation and distribution of sets of genes - The Gene Characterization Index: a bioinformatics method for scoring the extent to which a protein-encoding gene is functionally described - JASPAR: Transcription Factor Binding Profile Database - MSCAN: Algorithm that detects clusters of transcription factor binding sites in genomic sequences - NHRscan: A computational predictor of nuclear hormone receptor binding sites - oPOSSUM: Web-based analysis of over-represented transcription factor binding sites - ORCA: Transcription factor binding site detection using phylogenetic footprinting (alternative to ConSite) - OrthoSeq: Alignment of DNA sequences - PAZAR: An open-access system for the collection and dissemination of regulatory sequence annotation - Phylofoot: Tools for phylogenetic footprinting - RAVEN: Regulatory analysis of Variation in ENhancers - SAGE2Splice: A tool that uses unmapped SAGE tags to predict novel splice junctions in the genome - TFBS: Perl modules for transcription factor binding site detection and analysis - TFCat: TFCat is a catalog of mouse and human TFs based on a reliable core collection of annotations obtained by expert review of the scientific literature. - TFe: An online encyclopedic collection of well-studied transcription factor proteins in the human, mouse, and rat genomes - Ulysses: Protein Interactions Conserved Across Evolution

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Commercial organization which provides life science services and products to researchers. They specialize in gene synthesis, peptide, protein, antibody and preclinical drug development service.

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• SciCrunch
• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

The HGSC has sequenced the honey bee, Apis mellifera. The version 4.0 assembly was released in March 2006 and published in October 2006. The genome sequence is being upgraded with additional sequence coverage. The honey bee is important in the agricultural community as a producer of honey and as a facilitator of pollination. It is a model organism for studying the following human health issues: immunity, allergic reaction, antibiotic resistance, development, mental health, longevity and diseases of the X chromosome. In addition, biologists are interested in the honey bee's social organization and behavioral traits. This project was proposed to the HGSC by a group of dedicated insect biologists, headed by Gene Robinson. Following a workshop at the HGSC and a honey bee white paper, the HGSC began the project in 2002. A 6-fold coverage WGS, BAC sequence from pooled arrays, and an initial genome assembly (Amel_v1.0) were released beginning in 2003. This has been a challenging project with difficulty in recovering AT-rich regions. The WGS data had lower coverage in AT-rich regions and BAC data from clones showed evidence of internal deletions. Additional reads from AT enriched DNA addressed these underrepresented regions. The current assembly Amel_4.0 was produced with Atlas and includes 2.7 million reads (1.8 Gb) or 7.5x coverage of the (clonable) genome. About 97% of STSs, 98% of ESTs, and 96% of cDNAs are represented in the 231 Mb assembly. About 2,500 reads were also produced from a strain of Africanized honey bee and SNPs were extracted. These were released in dbSNP and the NCBI Trace Archive. Analysis of the genome by a consortium of 20 labs has been completed. This produced a gene list derived from five different methods melded through the GLEAN software. Publications include a main paper in Nature and up to forty companion papers in Genome Research and Insect Molecular Biology. Sponsors: Sequencing of the honey bee is jointly funded by National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA). Multiple drones from the same queen (strain DH4) were obtained from Danny Weaver of B. Weaver Apiaries. All libraries were made from DNA isolated from these drones. The honey bee BAC library (CHORI-224) was prepared by Pieter de Jong and Katzutoyo Osoegawa at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 4,2023.The Human Gene and Protein Database presents SDS-PAGE patterns and other informations of human genes and proteins. The HGPD was constructed from full-length cDNAs. For conversion to Gateway entry clones, we first determined an open reading frame (ORF) region in each cDNA meeting the criteria. Those ORF regions were PCR-amplified utilizing selected resource cDNAs as templates. All the details of the construction and utilization of entry clones will be published elsewhere. Amino acid and nucleotide sequences of an ORF for each cDNA and sequence differences of Gateway entry clones from source cDNAs are presented in the GW: Gateway Summary window. Utilizing those clones with a very efficient cell-free protein synthesis system featuring wheat germ, we have produced a large number of human proteins in vitro. Expressed proteins were detected in almost all cases. Proteins in both total and supernatant fractions are shown in the PE: Protein Expression window. In addition, we have also successfully expressed proteins in HeLa cells and determined subcellular localizations of human proteins. These biological data are presented on the frame of cDNA clusters in the Human Gene and Protein Database. To build the basic frame of HGPD, sequences of FLJ full-length cDNAs and others deposited in public databases (Human ESTs, RefSeq, Ensembl, MGC, etc.) are assembled onto the genome sequences (NCBI Build 35 (UCSC hg17)). The majority of analysis data for cDNA sequences in HGPD are shared with the FLJ Human cDNA Database (http://flj.hinv.jp/) constructed as a human cDNA sequence analysis database focusing on mRNA varieties caused by variations in transcription start site (TSS) and splicing.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Collaborative project to bring together biochemical pathway databases and research communities focused on plant metabolism. Used to build broad network of plant metabolic pathway databases. Central feature of PMN is PlantCyc, comprehensive plant biochemical pathway database, containing curated information from literature and computational analyses about genes, enzymes, compounds, reactions, and pathways involved in primary and secondary metabolism.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 12,2023. A U.S. Regional Primate Research Center that focuses on AIDS, cancer, neuropsychiatric disorders, drug addiction, and neurodegenerative disease. The Division of Primate Resources provides researchers with the services and facilities to support biomedical research. It offers a broad spectrum of services ranging from analysis of tissue specimens to partnership investigations with leading biomedical research institutions. Outside investigators have access to tissue specimens, organs, blood, skeletal structures, and viral specimens. Services include veterinary services, animals and animal care, surgical and radiographic services, timed mating, biocontainment, pathology services, and professional and technical expertise. Additional diagnostic and research services at NEPRC include testing for antiviral antibodies, DNA cloning, and DNA sequencing. The colony of nine species includes rhesus macaques and other Old World monkeys and New World species including the common marmoset and squirrel monkey. Other species can be obtained. Animals with exceptional characteristics (specific-pathogen-free, timed pregnancy, surgically altered, etc.) can be made available if needed. Scientists wishing to conduct research at the center must have projects reviewed and approved by the center animal allocation committee.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

An interactive web interface addressed to biologists, allowing both coverage visualization and analysis of NGS alignments performed on prokaryotic organisms (bacteria and phages). Its strength is to make NGS analysis without software installation, login or long training period.

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• SciCrunch
• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Resource of special strains of mice that are valuable tools for genetic analysis of complex diseases. They include panels of recombinant inbred (RI) and chromosome substitution (CS) strains.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Collection of images from cell type-specific protein expression in retina using BAC transgenic mice. Images from cell type-specific protein expression in retina using BAC transgenic mice from GENSAT project.

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• SciCrunch
• 15 years ago - by Anonymous