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A set of modules that are used to simulate the autoregulation of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems under conditions of changing sleep-wake state and a variety of physiological and pharmacological interventions. It models the dynamic interactions that take place among the various component mechanisms, including those involved in the chemical control of breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure, as well as the effects of changes in the sleep-wake state and arousal from sleep. PNEUMA includes the autonomic control of the cardiovascular system, chemoreflex and state-related control of breath-to-breath ventilation, state-related and chemoreflex control of upper airway potency, as well as respiratory and circulatory mechanics. The model is capable of simulating the cardiorespiratory responses to sleep onset, arousal, continuous positive airway pressure, the administration of inhaled carbon dioxide and oxygen, Valsalva and Mueller maneuvers, and Cheyne-Stokes respiration during sleep. In PNEUMA 3.0, we have extended the existing integrative model of respiratory, cardiovascular, and sleepwake state control, to incorporate a sub-model of glucoseinsulinfatty acid regulation. The extended model is capable of simulating the metabolic control of glucoseinsulin dynamics and its interactions with the autonomic nervous system. The interactions between autonomic and metabolic control include the circadian regulation of epinephrine secretion, epinephrine regulation on dynamic fluctuations in glucose and free fatty acids in plasma, metabolic coupling among tissues and organs mediated by insulin and epinephrine, as well as the effect of insulin on peripheral vascular sympathetic activity. This extended model represents a starting point from which further in silico investigations into the interaction between the autonomic nervous system and the metabolic control system can proceed. Features in PNEUMA 3.0 * Incorporates metabolic component based on prior models of glucose-insulin regulation and free fatty acid (FFA) regulation. * Changes in sympathetic activity from the autonomic portion of PNEUMA produce changes in epinephrine output, which in turn affects the metabolic sub-model. * Inputs from the dietary intake of glucose and external interventions, such as insulin injections, have also been incorporated. * Also incorporated is autonomic feedback from the metabolic component to the rest of PNEUMA: changes in insulin level lead to changes in sympathetic tone. System Requirements: PNEUMA requires Matlab R2007b or higher with the accompanying version of Simulink to be installed on your computer.

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A repository of Common Data Elements (CDE). The CDE is a standardized, precisely defined question, paired with a set of allowable responses, used systematically across different sites, studies, or clinical trials to ensure consistent data collection. Multiple CDEs (from one or more Collections) can be curated into Forms. Forms in the Repository might be original, or might recreate the format of real-world data collection instruments or case report forms. NIH has endorsed collections of CDEs that meet established criteria. NIH-endorsed CDEs are designated with a gold ribbon. Users can Browse NIH-Endorsed CDEs, Browse All CDEs, or Browse Forms.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on July 8, 2022. Consortium developing new technologies and methods to accelerate the development and review of medical products for neurodegenerative diseases. It is focused on accelerating drug development for patients with chronic neurodegenerative disease, namely, Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD), by advancing drug development tools for evaluating drug efficacy, conducting clinical trials, and streamlining the process of regulatory review. The consortium focuses on sharing precompetitive patient-level data from the control arms of legacy clinical trials, developing new tools to be submitted to the regulatory agencies, and developing consensus data standards. CAMD has the following areas of focus: (1) qualification of biomarkers, (2) development of common data standards, (3) creation of integrated databases for clinical trials data, and (4) development of quantitative model-based tools for drug development. Regulatory milestones include a qualification opinion with EMA for the use of low baseline hippocampal volume for patient enrichment in pre-dementia trials, and most recently, positive regulatory decisions from the FDA and EMA for the use of a clinical trial simulation tool to aid in trials for mild to moderate stages of AD., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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A repository of de-identified control arm data of patients from clinical studies of Alzheimer's disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment. It provides the ability to analyze the data online with the R statistical analysis program, create and download standard reports, run complex queries, or download data to a desktop for further analysis. Additional data will be added to the database over time. Critical Path Institute consortia members and qualified researchers may upload and work on scientific data relevant to biomarkers of drug toxicity, neurodegenerative diseases, and patient-reported outcomes.

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Protocols and other training materials related to the CLARITY protocol, a technique for the transformation of intact tissue into a nanoporous hydrogel-hybridized form (crosslinked to a three-dimensional network of hydrophilic polymers) that is fully assembled but optically transparent and macromolecule-permeable.

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Service (Beta) that allows users to search the DataCite Metadata Store, and add their research outputs including datasets, software, and others to their ORCID profile. This should increase the visibility of these research data, and will make it easier to use these data citations in applications that connect to the ORCID Registry. In addition, the service is also providing formatted citations in several popular citation styles, supports COinS, links to related resources, and displays the attached Creative Commons license where this information is available. The DataCite Metadata Store of course also contains many text documents from academic publishers and services such as figshare or PeerJ Preprints, and these works can also be claimed. This tool is a collaborative effort by ORCID, CrossRef and DataCite.

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Interactive software of a set of modular programs (each performing a specific task) that provide an integrated computing environment for data analysis and system modeling. Unique capabilities of LYSIS include input-output nonlinear system modeling and the novel methodology of Principal Dynamic Modes (PDMs). LYSIS is currently available in two versions: one for LYSIS 7.1 Windows and one for LYSIS 7.2 Matlab. Early versions are also available for UNIX environments, distributed as source code that can be compiled for each UNIX implementation (e.g., Solaris, HPUX, Linux). Specific features of LYSIS that cannot be found in commercially available packages include the efficient kernel estimation using Laguerre expansions and the use of Principal Dynamic Modes (PDMs). These enable input-output modeling of dynamic nonlinear systems with relatively short data-records (even in the presence of considerable noise). System Requirements * Operating System ** Windows XP/Vista/7 ** Sun/Unix: Solaris 2.x

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Biomedical technology resource center that develops new gamma-ray imaging instruments and techniques that yield substantially improved spatial and temporal resolutions. The Center makes its imagers and expertise available to a wide community of biomedical and clinical researchers through collaborative and service-oriented interactions. The collaborative research applies these new imaging tools to basic research in functional genomics, proteomics, cancer, cardiovascular disease and cognitive neuroscience, and to clinical research in tumor detection and other selected topics. There are five core research projects: * Detector technology research and development * Reconstruction algorithms and system modeling * Data acquisition, signal processing, and system development * Image-quality assessment and system optimization * Techniques for molecular imaging

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Open source Java library dedicated to semantic measures computation and analysis. Tools based on the SML are also provided through the SML-Toolkit, a command line software giving access to some of the functionalities of the library. The SML and the toolkit can be used to compute semantic similarity and semantic relatedness between semantic elements (e.g. concepts, terms) or entities semantically characterized (e.g. entities defined in a semantic graph, documents annotated by concepts defined in an ontology).

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Community-based initiative to promote and co-ordinate open-source software development in neuroscience hosting a number of software projects for computational and systems neuroscience, including PyNN, NeuroTools, Brian, Neo, OpenElectrophy, libNeuroML and Sumatra. Some of the projects use their Trac installation, others are on GitHub. By grouping these projects together under the NeuralEnsemble umbrella, the aim is to maximize interoperability and build components that can easily be combined into powerful systems for brain simulations and advanced data analysis. An annual CodeJam workshop is organized, bringing together scientists, graduate students, and scientific programmers to share ideas, present their work, and write code together. These workshops have been hugely effective in catalyzing open-source neuroscience software development. There is a NeuralEnsemble Google group for discussion of collaborative neuroscience software development (mainly in Python, but users of other languages are welcome!) and to provide software support.

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A software tool for managing and tracking projects based on numerical simulation or analysis to support reproducible research. It can be thought of as an automated electronic lab notebook for simulation/analysis projects. Sumatra consists of: a command-line interface, smt, for launching simulations/analyses with automatic recording of information about the context, annotating these records, linking to data files, etc.; a web interface with a built-in web-server, smtweb, for browsing and annotating simulation/analysis results; a LaTeX package and Sphinx extension for including Sumatra-tracked figures and links to provenance information in papers and other documents; and a Python API, on which smt and smtweb are based, that can be used in personalized scripts in place of using smt.

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Knowledge management and engineering system software for experimental biomedical scientists permitting a single scientific worker (at the level of a graduate student or postdoctoral worker) to design, construct and manage a shared knowledge repository for a research group derived on a local store of PDF files. Usability is especially emphasized within a laboratory so that this software could provide support to experimental scientists attempting to construct a personalized representation of their own knowledge on a medium scale. The BioScholar system uses a graphical interface to create experimental designs based on the experimental variables in the system. The design is then analyzed to construct a tabular input form based on the data flow. They call this methodology "Knowledge Engineering from Experimental Design" or "KEfED". The approach is domain-independent but domain-specific modules reasoning can be constructed to generate interpretations from the observational data represented in the KEfED model. The application is available for download as platform-specific installers including Linux, Unix, Mac OS, and Windows. The installer will install an application that will run the BioScholar server. This server uses Jetty as its integrated web server.

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Blog focusing on cellular-level neuroscience for everyone. While a higher level of neuroscience, such as behavioral studies and human fMRI scans level of neuroscience is interesting to everyone, some people might want to focus a little closer in. That is what The Cellular Scale is for.

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Central database to house data on morpholino screens currently containing over 700 morpholinos including control and multiple morpholinos against the same target. A publicly accessible sequence-based search opens this database for morpholinos against a particular target for the zebrafish community. Morpholino Screens: They set out to identify all cotranslationally translocated genes in the zebrafish genome (Secretome/CTT-ome). Morpholinos were designed against putative secreted/CTT targets and injected into 1-4 cell stage zebrafish embryos. The embryos were observed over a 5 day period for defects in several different systems. The first screen examined 184 gene targets of which 26 demonstrated defects of interest (Pickart et al. 2006). A collaboration with the Verfaillie laboratory examined the knockdown of targets identified in a comparative microarray analysis of hematopoietic stem cells demonstrating how microarray and morpholino technologies can be used in conjunction to enrich for defects in specific developmental processes. Currently, many collaborations are underway to identify genes involved in morphological, kidney, skin, eye, pigment, vascular and hematopoietic development, lipid metabolism and more. The screen types referred to in the search functions are the specific areas of development that were examined during the various screens, which include behavior, general morphology, pigmentation, toxicity, Pax2 expression, and development of the craniofacial structures, eyes, kidneys, pituitary, and skin. Only data pertaining to specific tests performed are presented. Due to the complexity of this international collaboration and time constraints, not all morpholinos were subjected to all screen types. They are currently expanding public access to the database. In the future we will provide: * Mortality curves and dose range for each morpholino * Preliminary data regarding the effectiveness of each morpholino * Expanded annotation for each morpholino * External linkage of our morpholino sequences to ZFIN and Ensembl. To submit morpholino-knockdown results to MODB please contact the administrator for a user name and password.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, confirmed by curator 11/21/2018; Community of researchers attempting to build a comprehensive virtual cell model. The 3DVC will do for cell biology what the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) does for particle physics, but through a virtual rather than physical resource. It will bring together collaborators around a shared infrastructure to advance the field through efficient groundbreaking science and technology, the results of which will be broadly disseminated to an audience ranging from K12 to professionals. The 3DVC is committed to open science, yet strives for sustainability through new business models that leverages that open content.

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Mark up language for collecting and exchanging metadata in an automated, computer-based fashion, developed for neuroscience, specifically, neurophysiology experiments. In odML arbitrary metadata information is stored as extended key-value pairs in a hierarchical structure. Central to odML is a clear separation of format and content, i.e., neither keys nor values are defined by the format. This makes odML flexible enough for storing all available metadata instantly without the necessity to submit new keys to an ontology or controlled terminology. Common standard keys can be defined in odML-terminologies for guaranteeing interoperability.

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A database of hierarchical classification of enzymes that relates specific sequence-structure features to specific chemical capabilities. The SFLD classifies evolutionarily related enzymes according to shared chemical functions and maps these shared functions to conserved active site features. The classification is hierarchical, where broader levels encompass more distantly related proteins with fewer shared features. It thus serves as the analysis and archive site for superfamilies targeted by the Enzyme Function Initiative, and is developed by the Babbitt Laboratory in collaboration with the UCSF Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics. The resource also provides a collection of tools and data for investigating sequence-structure-function relationships and hypothesizing function.

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Biomedical technology resource center that develops software and web-based resources for the visualization and analysis of molecular structure, and related data, at scales ranging from the atomic to the supramolecular. They create tools for handling and integrating diverse types of biomolecular data, including atomic-resolution coordinates, density maps, sequences, annotations, and networks. Their primary efforts are in the visualization and analysis of structures of molecules and molecular assemblies, enzyme sequence-structure-function relationships, and network representations of protein similarity, binding interactions, and biological pathways. They provide technologies to enable identifying the molecular bases of disease and phenotypic variation, annotating proteins of unknown function, identifying targets for drug development, designing drugs, and engineering proteins with new functions. RBVI distributes software tools, including the popular UCSF Chimera visualization and analysis package, develops and hosts the Structure-Function Linkage Database, and provides access to state-of-the-art computational resources in support of research projects in these areas.

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Repository of information about model organisms, in vitro models, genes, pathways, gene expression, protein and genetic interactions, orthology, disease, phenotypes, publications, and authors, and ability to navigate multi-scale spatial and temporal phenotypes across in vivo and in vitro model systems in context of genetic and genomic data, using semantics and statistics. Discovery system provides basic and clinical science researchers, informaticists, and medical professionals with integrated interface and set of discovery tools to reveal genetic basis of disease, facilitate hypothesis generation, and identify novel candidate drug targets. Database that indexes authoritative information on experimental models of disease from MGI, RGD and ZFIN.

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It's strategy involves Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS) sequencing, in which sequence from the entire genome is generated and reassembled. This method is standard for microbial genome sequencing, and has been successfully applied to Drosophila. Neurospora is an ideal candidate for this approach because of the low repeat content of the genome. Neurospora crassa Database has expanded the scope of its database by including a mitochondrial annotation, incorporating information from the Neurospora compendium, and assigning NCU numbers to tRNA and rRNAs. They have improved the annotation process to predict untranslated regions and to reduce the number of spurious predictions. As a result, version 3 contains 9,826 genes, 794 fewer than version 2. During the initial phase of a WGS project they sequence both ends of the 4 kb inserts from a plasmid library prepared using randomly sheared and sized-selected DNA. The shotgun reads are assembled by recognizing overlapping regions of sequence and making use of the knowledge of the orientation and distance of the paired reads from each plasmid. Obtaining deep sequence coverage though high levels of sequence redundancy assures that the majority of the genome is represented in the initial assembly and that the consensus sequence is of high quality. Their approach toward the initial assembly was conservative, meaning they would rather fail to join sequence contigs that might overlap each other than risk making false joins between two closely related but non-overlapping genomic regions. Hence, the initial assembly contains many sequence contigs and over time these contigs will increase in size and decrease in number as they are joined together. After shotgun sequencing and assembly there was a second phase of sequencing in which additional sequence was obtained from specific regions that were missing from the original assembly or are recognized to be of low quality in the consensus. The Neurospora crassa sequencing project reflects a close collaboration between the Broad Institute and the Neurospora research community. Principal investigators include Bruce Birren and Chad Nusbaum from the Broad Institute, Matt Sachs at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Chuck Staben at the University of Kentucky and Jak Kinsey at the Fungal Genetics Stock Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center. In addition, we have a larger Advisory Board made up of a number of Neurospora researchers. Sponsors: They have been funded by the National Science Foundation to sequence the N. crassa genome and make the information publicly available.

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