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Software for isoform-specific gene expression quantification in RNA-Seq by modeling non-uniform read distribution. Instead of making parametric assumptions, they give adequate weight to the underlying data by the use of a non-parametric approach. The rationale is that regardless what factors lead to non-uniformity, whether it is due to hexamer priming bias, local sequence bias, positional bias, RNA degradation, mapping bias or other unknown reasons, the probability that a fragment is sampled from a particular region will be reflected in the aligned data. This empirical approach thus maximally reflects the true underlying non-uniform read distribution.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

User-contributed list of biological databases available on the internet. Currently there are 1,801 entries, each describing a different database. The databases are described in a semi-structured way by using templates and entries can carry various user comments and annotations. Entries can be searched, listed or browsed by category. The site uses the same MediaWiki technology that powers Wikipedia, The Mediawiki system allows users to participate on many different levels, ranging from authors and editors to curators and designers. MetaBase aims to be a flexible, user-driven (user-created) resource for the biological database community. The main focuses of MetaBase are: * As a basic requirement, MB contains a list of databases, URLs and descriptions of the most commonly used biological databases currently available on the internet. * The system should be flexible, allowing users to contribute, update and maintain the data in different ways. * In the future we aim to generate more communication between the database developer and user communities.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Software as collaborative, open source application dedicated to analysis of brain recordings: MEG, EEG, fNIRS, ECoG, depth electrodes and animal invasive neurophysiology. User-Friendly Application for MEG/EEG Analysis.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

The Physiome Project is a worldwide public domain effort to provide a computational framework for understanding human and other eukaryotic physiology. It aims to develop integrative models at all levels of biological organization, from genes to the whole organism via gene regulatory networks, protein pathways, integrative cell function, and tissue and whole organ structure/function relations. Additionally, an important goal of the project is to develop applications for teaching physiology. Current projects include the development of: - ontologies to organize biological knowledge and access to databases - markup languages to encode models of biological structure and function in a standard format for sharing between different application programs and for re-use as components of more comprehensive models - databases of structure at the cell, tissue and organ levels - software to render computational models of cell function such as ion channel electrophysiology, cell signaling and metabolic pathways, transport, motility, the cell cycle, etc. in 2 & 3D graphical form - software for displaying and interacting with the organ models which will allow the user to move across all spatial scales Sponsors: This project is supported by the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS), the IEEE Engineering. in Medicine and Biology (EMBS), and the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE)

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

A Markov Chain based software tool for haplotyping, genotype imputation and disease association analysis that can resolve long haplotypes or infer missing genotypes in samples of unrelated individuals.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Private research university in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia that offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE), Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE), and Physical Science and Engineering (PSE).

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• 15 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Open source whole genome association analysis toolset, designed to perform range of basic, large scale analyses in computationally efficient manner. Used for analysis of genotype/phenotype data. Through integration with gPLINK and Haploview, there is some support for subsequent visualization, annotation and storage of results. PLINK 1.9 is improved and second generation of the software.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Software that allows large scale neuron simulators to communicate during runtime. It allows exchange of data among parallel applications in a cluster environment, interconnects large-scale neuronal network simulators with each other or with other tools, participates in multi-simulations, and is continuously developed and extended. Three simulators currently have MUSIC interfaces: Moose, NEURON and NEST. Three applications execute in parallel while exchanging data via MUSIC. The software interface promotes interoperability by allowing models written for different simulators to be simulated together in a larger system. It enables re-usability of models or tools by providing a standard interface. As data are distributed over a number of processors, it is non-trivial to coordinate data transfer so that it reaches the correct destination at the correct time. Current and future simulators can make use of MUSIC - compliant general purpose tools and participate in multi-simulations, for example when: * Different parts of a complex nervous system model are optimally implemented in different simulators, and need to communicate with each other. * Post-processing of generated data is needed, where the amounts of data are too large for intermediate storage, and requires the simulator to pass the data directly to the post-processing module. A standard interface enables straight-forward independent third-party development and community sharing of interoperable software tools for parallel processing. * Library and utilities are written in C++, uses MPI. * It is possible to add a MUSIC interface to existing simulators. * Works independently, no assumptions are made about other applications to facilitate development of general purpose tools. * Performance Data transport with high bandwidth and low latency.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Through this site, INCF provides he neuroinformatics community with access to an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer. INCF owns a share of a BlueGene/L (BG/L) supercomputer located at the Parallel Computer Center (PDC) at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. Allocations are now available through the INCF Secretariat. During an initial evaluation phase, a limited numbers of large-scale computing projects will be selected, based on the suitability of the project for supercomputing. Research groups with limited access to supercomputers at their home institutions are given priority. Approved projects are regularly re-evaluated. New projects are approved based on availability and usage load of the BG/L. The Blue Gene/L supercomputer project is aimed at expanding the horizon of high-performance computing to unprecedented levels of scale and performance. Blue Gene/L is the first supercomputer in the Blue Gene family. The full Blue Gene/L consists of 64 racks containing 65,536 high-performance compute nodes. Each node (nodes and chips are the same in the Blue Gene system) contains two embedded 32-bit PowerPC processors. Furthermore, the same chip that is used for compute nodes is also used for the 1,024 I/O nodes. A three-dimensional torus network and a collective network are used to interconnect all nodes. The full system contains 33 terabytes of main memory; it is designed to achieve 183.5 teraflops peak performance using one of the processors of each node for computation and the other processor for communication, and 367 teraflops using both processors for computation. Another key architectural feature of this supercomputer is the link chip component and five Blue Gene/L networks, the PowerPC 440 core and floating-point enhancements, the on-chip and off-chip distributed memory system, the node- and system-level design for high reliability, and the comprehensive approach to fault isolation. One of the key objectives in Blue Gene/L design is to achieve cost/performance comparable to the COTS (Commodity Off The Shelf) approach, while at the same time incorporating a processor and network combination so powerful that it revolutionizes the performance of supercomputer systems. Sponsors: This resource is supported by the INCF.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on January 19. 2022. 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

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 15, 2013. AOBase is a database for antisense oligonucleotides (AOs) selection and design. AOBase is a database developed to facilitate Antisense Oligonucleotides (ODNs) selection for gene expression modulation and to provide a free data source for computer aided ODNs design. Information about valid and invalid ODNs reported in literature are collected and stored in the database, including oligo sequences, target sequences, secondary structures of the target sites, oligo activity measured, and the assay type used for activity measurement. The details on target RNA molecules and reference literature can be explored through the hyperlinks linked to GenBank and PubMed respectively. Each record can be searched for via two web retrieval interfaces: 1) TargetSearch interface, which allows users to query ODNs by name, accession number, or only imprecise descriptions of its target RNA; 2) AOSearch interface, which allows users to search ODNs with several parameters combined, such as oligo activity measured, oligo concentration applied, and motifs involved in oligo sequences. With these two retrieval interfaces, AOBase can be used to select effective ODNs for gene function exploration without expensive in vitro screening experiments, and contribute to mining rules for rational ODNs design. A user friendly interface to encourage data submission is provided.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Online portal and image database of coronal sections of the sheep brain. Each image contains stained sections of cell bodies and myelinated fibers; nuclei and tracts are labeled.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

This resouce will centralize development of tools for interaction with medical imaging data in immersive virtual environments (based on the Vizard platform).

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Database with quantitative binding data for peptides binding to various cells including MHC Ligand, TCR-MHC complexes, T-cell epitopes, TAP, B-cell, and immunological protein-protein interactions. Information in each entry includes peptide libraries, copy numbers, and diffusion coefficient data.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Data management software that runs the Pathway Commons web service. It makes it easy to aggregate custom pathway data sets available in standard exchange formats from multiple databases, present pathway data to biologists via a customizable web interface, and export pathway data via a web service to third-party software, such as Cytoscape, for visualization and analysis. cPath is software only, and does not include new pathway information. Main features: * Import pipeline capable of aggregating pathway and interaction data sets from multiple sources, including: MINT, IntAct, HPRD, DIP, BioCyc, KEGG, PUMA2 and Reactome. * Import/Export support for the Proteomics Standards Initiative Molecular Interaction (PSI-MI) and the Biological Pathways Exchange (BioPAX) XML formats. * Data visualization and analysis via Cytoscape. * Simple HTTP URL based XML web service. * Complete software is freely available for local install. Easy to install and administer. * Partly funded by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, via the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) and aims to meet silver-level requirements for software interoperability and data exchange.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Database of trait mapping data, i.e. QTL (phenotype / expression, eQTL), candidate gene and association data (GWAS) and copy number variations (CNV) mapped to livestock animal genomes, to facilitate locating and comparing discoveries within and between species. New data and database tools are continually developed to align various trait mapping data to map-based genome features, such as annotated genes. QTLdb is open to house QTL/association date from other animal species where feasible. Most scientific journals require that any original QTL/association data be deposited into public databases before paper may be accepted for publication. User curator accounts are provided for direct data deposit. Users can download QTLdb data from each species or individual chromosome.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Online portal resource with hierarchically-organized list of links to web resources concerning neurological disorders.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

A collection of omics datasets (mRNA, proteins and miRNA) that have been extracted from PubMed and other related renal databases, all related to kidney physiology and pathology giving KUP biologists the means to ask queries across many resources in order to aggregate knowledge that is necessary for answering biological questions. Some microarray raw datasets have also been downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus and analyzed by the open-source software GeneArmada. The Semantic Web technologies, together with the background knowledge from the domain's ontologies, allows both rapid conversion and integration of this knowledge base. SPARQL endpoint http://sparql.kupkb.org/sparql The KUPKB Network Explorer will help you visualize the relationships among molecules stored in the KUPKB. A simple spreadsheet template is available for users to submit data to the KUPKB. It aims to capture a minimal amount of information about the experiment and the observations made.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

This portal leads to the Internet Atlas of Histology. This atlas allows you to explore the complete set of histological specimens that features many excellent plastic sections prepared by Aulikki Kokko-Cunningham, M.D. Also called University of Illnois at Urbana-Champaign, the College of Medicine: Internet Atlas of Histology Over 1000 labeled histological features are labeled and have accompanying functional descriptions. All of this information is accessible though an alphabetical index and a search engine. This resource has images categorized in: - Slides: Links to all of the specimens - Objects:Index of histological features Sponsors: This resource is supported by UIUC.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Public research university located in London, United Kingdom that offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs in medicine, economics, social sciences, etc.

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• 13 years ago - submitted by Christie Wang