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Software application that uses hierarchical clustering and graph methods for selecting tag SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms). Cluster and set-cover algorithms are developed to obtain a set of tag SNPs that can represent all the known SNPs in a chromosomal region, subject to the constraint that all SNPs must have a squared correlation R2 > C with at least one tag SNP, where C is specified by the user. The program is implemented with Java, and it can run in Windows platform as well as the Unix environment.

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Tool that extracts and displays alternative splicing (AS) events from a given genomic annotation of exon-intron gene coordinates. By comparing all given transcripts, it detects the variations in their splicing structure and identifies all AS events (like exon skipping, alternate donor, etc) by assigning to each of them an AS code. It provides a visual summary of the AS landscape in the analyzed dataset, the possibility to browse the results on the UCSC website or to download them in GTF or ASTA format. You can use AStalavista for any genome by providing your own annotation set, the identifier of your gene(s) of interest, or analyze the AS landscape of reference annotation datasets like Gencode, RefSeq, Ensembl, FlyBase, etc.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Private non-sectarian and coeducational university based in Higashiosaka, Osaka, Japan.

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• 15 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Databases of accumulating BMI (Brain Machine Interfaces)-related experimental data, mathematical models, and tools generated in neuroscience, computational theory, and robotics. Databases include: # Database of BMI (Brain Machine Interfaces)-related papers: More than 3500 BMI-related papers are registered. Each paper has original tags, for example, recording method and subject, for easy searching. # Database of original contents: BMI-related materials (Movie, Picture, Data, Program) provided by scientists. # Database of BMI-related research sites: 185 BMI-related research sites in the world (university, institute and company) are registered. The research site can be searched either by the location using clickable map or by the field of interest. # Database of BMI-related materials: Links to BMI-related materials (Movie, Picture, Document, Data, Program) are listed. You can easily find materials of your interest since each material is classified into research field. # BMI-related column: The columns are written by researchers specialized in BMI. Original contents include: * Neuronal activity during performance of a memory-guided movement * Reconstructed visual images from human fMRI activity * fMRI data and program for visual image reconstruction * Brain sections of monkeys, stained for several gene markers * Cortical Box Method: The Cortical box method is an analytical method that standardizes the serial coronal sections of rodent cortex for quantitative analysis. * Multineuron activity in monkey prefrontal cortex * Monkey Atlas: **Brain sections of monkeys, stained for AChE, ER81 mRNA and Sema3E mRNA - These pictures are low-resolution photos of serial brain sections of monkeys, stained for AChE as well as for ER81 and Sema3E mRNAs. The compressed file contains JPEG photos and html files for web browser navigation. Other materials are available at our website BraInSitu dedicated for in situ hybridization resources for brains. BraInSitu http://www.nibb.ac.jp/brish/indexE.html ** MRI Brain Atlas of Japanese Snow Monkey (Macaca Fuscata) at different ages - MRI Brain Atlas of Japanese Snow Monkey (Macaca Fuscata) at different ages ** The Stereotaxic MRI Brain Atlas of Japanese Snow Monkey - The Stereotaxic MRI Brain Atlas of Japanese Snow Monkey * Monkey M1 BMI ** m-file for checking the results of wrist angle estimation- This program is m-file to train the relationship between joint angles and EMG signals using artificial neural network. The input signals are four EMG signals and the output signals are joint angles of wrist, such as flexion/extension, radial deviation/uln ** m-file for training of wrist angle estimation -This program is m-file to train the relationship between joint angles and EMG signals using artificial neural network. The input signals are four EMG signals and the output signals are joint angles of wrist, such as flexion/extension, radial deviation/ulnar deviation.ar deviation. ** M1 Neuronal Activity during monkey performing a motor task - video/x-ms-wmv ** Muscle tension - To estimate muscle tension from raw emg signal ** raw EMG signal - Raw EMG signal for 5 seconds ** training data of wrist angle and emg signal - This program is m-file to train the relationship between joint angles and EMG signals using artificial neural network. The input signals are four EMG signals and the output signals are joint angles of wrist, such as flexion/extension, radial deviation/ulnar deviation. ** Weight file of neural network - This program is m-file to train the relationship between joint angles and EMG signals using artificial neural network. The input signals are four EMG signals and the output signals are joint angles of wrist, such as flexion/extension, radial deviation/ulnar deviation. * Multineuron activity in monkey prefrontal cortex: Multineuron activity in monkey prefrontal cortex recorded by 3 tetrodes. Vertical 4 lines indicate one tetrode. Adjacent tetrodes are around 500 micron apart to each other.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Platform to promote studies on dynamic principles of brain functions through unifying experimental and computational approaches in cellular, local circuit, global network and behavioral levels. Provides services such as data sets, popular research findings and articles and current developments in field. This site has been archived since FY2019 and is no longer updated.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

The Micro3D 2004 is a software for 3-D reconstruction, visualization, and analysis of neuronal populations and brain regions. Micro3D generates geometric models from line and point coded data sets, representing labeled objects such as cell bodies or axonal plexuses, and boundaries of brain regions in serial sections. Data are typically imported from image-combining computerized microscopy systems, such as Neurolucida (MicroBrightField, Colchester, VT). The models may be rotated and zoomed in real-time. Surfaces are re-synthesized on the basis of stacks of contour lines. Clipping is used for defining section-independent subdivisions of the model. Flattening of sheets of points in curved layers (e.g., neurons in a cortical lamina) facilitates inspection of complicated distribution patterns. Micro3D computes color-coded density maps, and allows production of mpeg videos. Micro3D 2004 runs on LINUX PCs equipped with Open Inventor. It performs operations similar to the Silicon Graphics based version that has been used in more than 25 investigations and in various species, ranging from insects to monkeys, at the LM- and EM-level. Sponsors:Micro 3D was developed with support from The Research Council of Norway and The Oslo Research Park / FORNY.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

An analysis and visualization software tool for high dimensional flow cytometry data that organizes cells into hierarchies of related phenotypes.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

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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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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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