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A free, open-source shotgun proteomic simulator that goes beyond previous simulation attempts by generating LC-MS features with realistic m/z and intensity variance along with other noise components.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Biomedical technology research center that provides state-of-the-art surface analysis expertise, instrumentation, experimental protocols, and data analysis methods to address surface-related biomedical problems. NESAC/BIO develops and applies surface science methodologies that produce a full understanding of the surface composition, structure, spatial distribution, and orientation of biomaterials and adsorbed biomolecules. The NESAC/BIO program identifies areas where surface science must evolve to keep pace with the growth in biochemical knowledge and biomaterial fabrication technology, and develops instrumentation, experimental protocols, and data analysis methods to achieve this evolution. NESAC/BIO provides state-of-the-art surface analysis tools to researchers in the biomedical community. You can gain access to the NESAC/BIO facilities in one of the following ways: * Collaborative: Propose a project to collaborate on with NESAC/BIO. The project should be rewarding for both groups, and the results should reflect the utility of surface analysis for biomedical research * Service: Ask NESAC/BIO to analyze your biomaterial specimens. The spectra obtained from the analyses will be interpreted for you. * Training: Visit the University of Washington to receive training in surface analysis and personally run experiments for your individual research projects. These experiments should have a high probability for yielding useful information and should not involve the development of new ESCA techniques or methodologies.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Biomedical technology research center that develops and applies new methods for analysis of metabolic networks in intact tissues, animals and human patients. The importance of understanding abnormal metabolism in common diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease has long been appreciated. Because of constraints in technology, however, much of this research has been conducted in isolated systems where clinical relevance may be uncertain. Progress in magnetic resonance technology provides a foundation for major advances towards new ways of imaging metabolism in patients. These new techniques offer the advantage of imaging biochemical pathways without radiation. The focus of this Resource is to bring these technologies to a level where clinical research is feasible through the development of new MR contrast agents, NMR spectroscopy at high fields, and imaging of hyperpolarized 13C.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Biomedical technology research center dedicated to the development and application of innovative, novel magnetic resonance and optical imaging techniques. The facility's core sections provide research and computing resources for numerous user, collaborative, and training projects. The focus of this resource is on developing instrumentation, methodologies, and data analysis techniques for the quantitative assessment of functional, structural, and metabolic parameters in humans with the use of multinuclear magnetic resonance, novel spectral, perfusion, functional, and optical imaging techniques. These technological developments are driven by collaboration with scientists from within and outside University of Pennsylvania, the primary institution. Specifically, the Resource is focused on the development of quantitative, noninvasive MR and optical imaging based biomarkers for studying tissue metabolism and function, with an eye towards clinical translation through early diagnosis. The Center also provides support in the development and evaluation of new therapies in a variety of diseases.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Interactive infographic of a brain exploring more than 100,000 chemical reactions, highlighted by areas and explanations of what that area is known to do.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Biomedical technology research center dedicated to the development of novel imaging methods for the basic scientist and the application of the methods to important biomedical questions. The CIVM has played a major role in the development of magnetic resonance microscopy with specialized MR imaging systems capable of imaging at more than 500,000x higher resolution than is common in the clinical domain. The CIVM was the first to demonstrate MR images using hyperpolarized 3He which has been moved from mouse to man with recent clinical trials performed at Duke in collaboration with GE. More recently the CIVM has developed the molecular imaging workbench---a system dedicated to multimodality cardiopulmonary imaging in the rodent. Their collaborators are employing these unique imaging systems in an extraordinary range of mouse and rat models of neurologic disease, cardiopulmonary disease and cancer to illuminate the underlying biology and explore new therapies.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Biomedical technology research center dedicated for radiobiological research with available ionizing radiations such as protons, alpha particles, and neutrons. RARAF is well-established and highly user-friendly. The focus of RARAF is the development of high-throughput single-cell/single-particle microbeams, which can deliver defined amounts of ionizing radiation into individual cells with a spatial resolution of a few microns or better. The ability of a microbeam to put double strand break damage at any specific known location in a given cell has allowed new approaches to the study of damage signaling.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Biomedical technology research center that works to develop integrated tools and technologies that advance the discovery of polymeric biomaterials for regenerative medicine, the delivery of biological agents, and the next generation of medical implants. To achieve its mission, RESBIO's research is focused on the development of combinatorial and computational approaches to biomaterials design and optimization. Within this framework, RESBIO employs and uses: * Advanced multi-photon confocal laser microscopy to explore, understand, and control the response of cells in contact with artificial surfaces * Electron microscopy techniques to study the effect of nano-scale surface morphological features on cell behavior RESBIO research emphasizes the integration of a strong synthetic effort to create new biomaterial candidates with the development of rapid screening techniques for key material and biological properties relevant to the performance of a biomaterial in a given medical application.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Biomedical technology research center that develops and applies innovative neuroimaging technologies and techniques to enable closer examination of the human brain, and thereby contribute to better understanding of the brain in health and disease. They develop new techniques and advance existing technologies for acquisition and analysis of functionally specific images of the working brain, with unprecedented physiological precision and spatiotemporal resolution. The research and development aims to improve and extend existing methods for non-invasive magnetic resonance image analysis and acquisition, electromagnetic source imaging, optical neuroimaging, and most recently, combined MR-PET neuroimaging. The Resource provides an essential interactive environment, within which an interdisciplinary team of highly skilled scientists, engineers, and clinicians with diverse expertise in multiple modalities and disciplines. The resource supports service use of the Center's facilities by neuroscientists throughout the country, provide extensive training opportunities for students, fellows, and staff scientists, and seek to advance the field of brain mapping through active dissemination of new knowledge and technology.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Ontology for the four consensus human vital signs: blood pressure, body temperature, respiration rate, pulse rate. It provides a controlled structured vocabulary for describing vital signs measurement data, the various processes of measuring vital signs, and the various devices and anatomical entities participating in such measurements.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Integrated Animals is a virtual database currently indexing available animal strains and mutants from: AGSC (Ambystoma), BCBC (mice), BDSC (flies), CWRU Cystic Fibrosis Mouse Models (mice), DGGR (flies), FlyBase (flies), IMSR (mice), MGI (mice), MMRRC (mice), NSRRC (pig), NXR (Xenopus), RGD (rats), Sperm Stem Cell Libraries for Biological Research (rats), Tetrahymena Stock Center (Tetrahymena), WormBase (worms), XGSC (Xiphophorus), ZFIN (zebrafish), and ZIRC (zebrafish).

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Public university in Townsville, Australia that functions as a research and teaching institution. Some well-known divisions of the university include the division of Tropical Environments and Societies, Tropical Health and Medicine, and Research and Innovation.

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• 16 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Biomedical Technology Resource Center that serves as a national resource for all aspects of research into medical procedures that are enhanced by imaging. Its common goal is to provide more effective patient care. The center is focused on the multidisciplinary development of innovative image-guided intervention technologies to enable effective, less invasive clinical treatments that are not only more economical, but also produce better results for patients. The NCIGT is helping to implement this vision by serving as a proving ground for some of the next generation of medical therapies.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Biomedical technology research center that pioneers and provides access to microscopic imaging instruments for biologic and clinical research. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has evolved over the last two decades to become a standard of care for diagnostic ophthalmic imaging and is poised to make significant impact in the fields of cardiology and gastrointestinal endoscopy. Access to state-of-the-art instrumentation, however, has been limited to a relatively few research laboratories and the optimization of instruments for new biomedical applications has hindered the investigation of new opportunities. A major focus of CBORT will be to cultivate strategic research collaborations and respond to a pressing need for application-specific OCT instrumentation and hardware.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Biomedical technology research center that provides biomedical investigators with novel microsystems engineering tools for biological discovery, diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic applications. Thrust areas of interest are the development of novel living cell-based, lab-on-a-chip type devices for sorting blood cells, for high-throughput biochemistry in small volumes, and for studying cellular behavior in controlled microenvironments.

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Biomedical technology research center with the focus on the application to biomedical research of a new generation of secondary ion mass spectrometer (SIMS), the Multi-Isotope Imaging Mass Spectrometer (MIMS). MIMS is an ion microscope and an ion counter. MIMS provides high mass separation at high transmission (M/lambdaM > 10,000), high spatial resolution (< 40 nm) and has the unique capability of simultaneously recording several atomic mass images. Of the utmost importance, MIMS makes it possible for the first time (and at the intracellular level) to simultaneously image the distribution and measure the accumulation of molecules labeled with any isotopes, in particular with stable isotopes, for example with 15N. Thus, MIMS allows one to study localization, accumulation and turnover of proteins, fats, sugars and foreign molecules in cellular microdomains, donor-receiver cellular trafficking, stem cell nesting and localization of drugs. Their aim is to be a technological, methodological, and intellectual resource for researchers from a variety of disciplines. They seek to explore and develop the unique capabilities of MIMS and to bring cutting-edge information to biology and medicine that is currently unobtainable using existing technologies.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Consortium serving the diabetic complications community that sponsors annual meetings in complications-relevant scientific areas, solicits and funds pilot projects in high impact areas of complications research, and provides resources and data including animal models, protocols and methods, validation criteria, reagents and resources, histology, publications and bioinformatics for researchers conducting diabetic complications research.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Software resource for multiple whole genome alignment. It uses Nucmer, a custom graph-based segmentation procedure, for pairwise alignment, and the Seqan:TCoffee's multiple alignment strategy.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Biomedical technology research center that develops force technologies applicable over a wide range of biological settings, from the single molecule to the tissue, with integrated systems that orchestrate facile instrument control, multimodal imaging, and analysis through visualization and modeling. The Force Microscope Technologies Core designs instruments in an area of science where there are unusual opportunities: the measurement of forces and the integration with optical microscopy. Force technologies play the obvious role of both measuring events in the sample and modifying the sample during the experiment. It is through the microscope that the force data is correlated with simultaneous 3D optical images. The force technology development includes the magnetic bead technology in the 3D Force Microscope project, Atomic Force Microscopy in the nanoManipulator project, and Control Software to drive the instrumentation. This core is focused on providing the physical capability to perform the experiments and probe structure/property correlations. The Ideal User Interfaces core makes the connection between the user and the instrument, the model building, and the data. This includes control systems that allow the user to move the bead inside the cell culture with a handheld pen and the visualization techniques to view the optical microscope data as a rendered 3D image collocated with the force data. Using data to create, change, and understand a model is the focus of the Advanced Model Fitting and Analysis core. The quantitative reduction of images to structural, shape, and velocity parameters is the goal of Image Analysis. The immediate understanding of correlations across image fields and between data sets in the challenge of Visualization. The power of combining the strength of a computer science graphics group with a microscopy technology group is most evident in the Graphics Hardware Acceleration project, which seeks to harness the speed of graphics processors for microscope data analysis and simulation. The Advanced Technology core pushes the boundaries of the Human Computer Interface through the investigation of improved techniques for the interaction of users with virtual environments, the real time lighting of virtual settings, and the enabling of multi-person collaboration. These techniques are validated and evaluated through physiological measures in virtual environments effectiveness evaluation studies.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Biomedical technology research center designated as a biotechnology nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) resource that hosts research efforts into cancer, neurological diseases, and many other areas. The heart of the 900 MHz magnetic resonance instrument is a superconducting magnet with a field strength of 21 Tesla, the highest field currently available for magnetic resonance spectroscopy, roughly 400,000 times stronger than the earth's magnetic field. Magnetic resonance is a powerful tool for determining the structure of molecules, and has proven especially useful for elucidating the role of proteins in biological processes and diseases. The state of the art facility includes two 17.6 T magnets with a third to be delivered in 2000. With multiple 17.6 T NMR magnets, the CMR is a valuable resource in New England and will continue to serve this research community for years to come. The advent of high magnetic fields has placed demands on the hardware needed to run experiments in these very high fields. The CMR has recently produced new advances in NMR probe technology, in electron magnetic resonance, and in using microwaves to enhance NMR experiments. The results are powerful new methods for performing biological research and they are looking forward to the continued growth of these exciting new areas!

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous