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A tool that predicts the coupling specificity of G-protein coupled receptors to G-proteins. We present a method that combines hidden Markov models and a feed-forward artificial neural network to overcome these limitations, while producing the most accurate predictions currently available. Using an up-to-date curated dataset, our method yields a 94% correct classification rate in a 5-fold cross-validation test. The method predicts also promiscuous coupling preferences, including coupling to G12/13, whereas unlike other methods avoids overpredictions (false positives) when non-GPCR sequences are encountered. * The PRED-COUPLE 2.00 system predicts coupling specificty of GPCRs to all families of G-proteins (including G12/13). * Coupling to more than one G-protein families can also be predicted with this tool. * No membrane topology information is required. Furthermore, no membrane topology prediction is executed by this method. * The method is based on a refined library of highly-discriminative Hidden Markov Models. Hits from individual profiles are combined by a feed-forward Artificial Neural Network to produce the final output. * Seven (7) transmembrane receptor signatures from the Pfam database version 17.00 are also applied in order to verify a true GPCR sequence. When a query sequence is not recognized as a 7 transmembrane receptor a message is shown.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

A software application for inferring expression levels of individual transcripts from sequencing (RNA-Seq) data and estimating differential expression (DE) between conditions.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

A community database of published functional and structural neuroimaging experiments with both metadata descriptions of experimental design and activation locations in the form of stereotactic coordinates (x,y,z) in Talairach or MNI space. BrainMap provides not only data for meta-analyses and data mining, but also distributes software and concepts for quantitative integration of neuroimaging data. The goal of BrainMap is to develop software and tools to share neuroimaging results and enable meta-analysis of studies of human brain function and structure in healthy and diseased subjects. It is a tool to rapidly retrieve and understand studies in specific research domains, such as language, memory, attention, reasoning, emotion, and perception, and to perform meta-analyses of like studies. Brainmap contains the following software: # Sleuth: database searches and Talairach coordinate plotting (this application requires a username and password) # GingerALE: performs meta-analyses via the activation likelihood estimation (ALE) method; also converts coordinates between MNI and Talairach spaces using icbm2tal # Scribe: database entry of published functional neuroimaging papers with coordinate results

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Collection of all available transcription factor (TF) specificities for the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in Position Frequency Matrix (PFM) or Position Weight Matrix (PWM) formats. The specificities are evaluated for quality using several metrics. With this website, you can scan sequences with the motifs to find where potential binding sites lie, inspect precomputed genome-wide binding sites, find which TFs have similar motifs to one you have found, and download the collection of motifs. Submissions are welcome.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

Reference implementation of the Common Workflow Language standards. It provides complete features and tools and comprehensive validation of CWL. The reference implementation consists of two packages. The cwltool package is the primary Python module containing the reference implementation in the cwltool module and console executable by the same name. The cwlref-runner package is optional and provides an additional entry point under the alias cwl-runner, which is the implementation-agnostic name for the default CWL interpreter installed on a host.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Michael Crusoe

Central repository of information on neuronal cell types mainly accumulating information on: Genetically labeled cell types in mouse brain and genetically engineered mouse lines for cell type research. Mouse lines are annotated with * Atlas for examining transgene expression patterns * Information on construct used to generate transgene * Associated publications * Anatomical regions where transgene is expressed (based on Atlas) * Information on where to obtain the animals Currently, the mouse lines in the database are mostly generated at Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Scripps Research Institute, Baylor College of Medicine and Brandeis University with few other exceptions. In the future, they will incorporate more mouse lines useful for neuronal cell type research. Cell types are annotated with * Anatomical region * Properties (frequently used terms in neuroscience research) * Mouse line used to define the cell type * Genome wide transcriptome data (if available) * Specific (marker) genes (if available) * Marker immunostaining data (if available) * Associated publications * Electrophysiological characterizations (when available) * Morphological characterizations (when available)

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

An information resource for peptidases (also termed proteases, proteinases and proteolytic enzymes) and the proteins that inhibit them. The MEROPS database uses an hierarchical, structure-based classification of the peptidases. In this, each peptidase is assigned to a Family on the basis of statistically significant similarities in amino acid sequence, and families that are thought to be homologous are grouped together in a Clan. There is a Summary page for each family and clan, and these have indexes. Each of the Summary pages offers links to supplementary pages. About 3000 individual peptidases and inhibitors are included in the database, and there is a Summary page describing each one. You can navigate to this by any of several routes. There are indexes of Name, MEROPS Identifier and source Organism on the menu bar. Each Summary page describes the classification and nomenclature of the peptidase or inhibitor, and provides links to supplementary pages showing sequence identifiers, the structure if known, literature references and more.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Tool for multiple sequence alignment using various sources of external information that is particularly useful to detect local homologies in sequences with low overall similarity. While standard alignment methods rely on comparing single residues and imposing gap penalties, DIALIGN constructs pairwise and multiple alignments by comparing entire segments of the sequences. No gap penalty is used. This approach can be used for both global and local alignment, but it is particularly successful in situations where sequences share only local homologies. Several versions of DIALIGN are available online at GOBICS, http://dialign.gobics.de/

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 17, 2013. International interdisciplinary Internet based unbiased forum for review of medical literature. Very much like an on-line journal club, we aim to provide a venue which will improve communication amongst physicians and lead to better understanding and interpretation of medical literature. In the academic world, Journal Clubs are a common way to discuss and critically question medical literature. The knowledge gained by this activity can be immeasurable, and often leads to ideas both relating to patient care and to future research. However, many clinicians are unable to participate in these academic activities. In addition, information shared within an individual journal club is seldom disseminated. Here you will find a free, user-friendly website where you can rate and discuss medical literature. It offers innovative and powerful search tools that will allow you to quickly query the medical literature and identify the information you need. In addition, their exclusive tools will help identify the most important and controversial articles. It is their hope to bring both insight and questions to the literature -- both of which will be used to shape future research. Clinicians will have a better understanding of the evidence, and ability to partake in a venue that fosters communication between peers.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

STAP refinement of NMR Database is based the Statistical Torsion Angles Potentials to refine the NMR structure. It stored original solution NMR structures from the Protein Data Banks and our refined structures. Currently we carried out 2,405 refined NMR structure (until Sept 20, 2011). According to several studies, some nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) structures are of lower quality, less reliable and less suitable for structural analysis than high-resolution X-ray crystallographic structures. STAP of NMR Refinement Database is a public database of 2405 refined NMR solution structures from the Protein Data Bank (PDB). A simulated annealing protocol was employed to obtain refined structures with target potentials, including the newly developed STAP. The refined database was extensively analyzed using various quality indicators from several assessment programs to determine the nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) completeness, Ramachandran appearance, (1)-(2) rotamer normality, various parameters for protein stability and other indicators. Most quality indicators are improved in our protocol mainly due to the inclusion of the newly developed knowledge-based potentials. This database can be used by the NMR structure community for further development of research and validation tools, structure-related studies and modelling in many fields of research.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

A software toolkit including statistics tool for illumina high-throughput sequencing data, and filtration tools for sequence quality, length, tail quality, etc..

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Software toolkit to run modern molecular simulations. It can be used either as a standalone application for running simulations, or as a library that enables accelerated calculations for molecular dynamics on high-performance computer architectures.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Software designed to display most medical images, including MRI, CT, X-ray, and ultrasound. All versions of ezDICOM can automatically detect the format of a medical image and display it on the screen. The software is easy to use, mature, and can view a wide range of medical images including proprietary formats as well as images in the DICOM standard. The software will also automatically recognize and display Analyze, GE (LX, Genesis), Interfile, Siemens (Magnetom, Somatom) and NEMA images.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

About the LAGAN Toolkit The LAGAN Tookit consists of four components: CHAOS CHAOS is a pairwise local aligner optimized for non-coding, and other poorly conserved regions of the genome. It uses both exact matching and degenerate seeds, and is able to find homology in the presence of gaps. LAGAN LAGAN is our highly parametrizable pairwise global alignment program. It takes local alignments generated by CHAOS as anchors, and limits the search area of the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm around these anchors; Multi-LAGAN Multi-LAGAN is a generalization of the pairwise algorithm to multiple sequence alignment. M-LAGAN performs progressive pairwise alignments, guided by a user-specified phylogenetic tree. Alignments are aligned to other alignments using the sum-of-pairs metric. Shuffle-LAGAN Shuffle-LAGAN is a novel glocal alignment algorithm that is able to find rearrangements (inversions, transpositions and some duplications) in a global alignment framework. It uses CHAOS local alignments to build a map of the rearrangements between the sequences, and LAGAN to align the regions of conserved synteny. The website uses scripts written by Alex Poliakov. The website was designed by Marina Sirota.

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• 17 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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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Software tool for viewing, analyzing, and registering volumetric medical imaging data sets. It has been written on top of GTK+ and runs on any system that supports this toolkit (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, etc.). The program incorporates automatic non-orthogonal data reslicing, allowing multiple data set to be fused without imposed constraints on the dimensions, anisotrophy, or voxel sizes of the data. Additional features include 3D ROI (ellipses, cylinders, boxes, and isocontours), multi-slice viewing, volume rendering, and data importing through the (X)MedCon library.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

A free, open-source GUI software application written in Perl that designs primers for standard PCR, bisulphite PCR, real-time PCR (QPCR) and sequencing.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

A consortium created to support the provision of optimal care and education for veterans diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and related movement disorders through professional education, collaboration and advocacy.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on April 12,2024. Software application for pedigree drawing (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Software tool that removes adapter sequences from DNA sequencing reads., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous