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The Brain Biodiversity Bank refers to the repository of images of and information about brain specimens contained in the collections associated with the National Museum of Health and Medicine at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC. Atlases and brain sections are available for a variety of mammals, and we are also developing a series of labeled atlases of stained sections for educators, students, and researchers. These collections include, besides the Michigan State University Collection, the Welker Collection from the University of Wisconsin, the Yakovlev-Haleem Collection from Harvard University, the Meyer Collection from the Johns Hopkins University, and the Huber-Crosby and Crosby-Lauer Collections from the University of Michigan. What we are doing currently at Michigan State is a series of demonstration projects for publicizing the contents of the collections and ways in which they can be used. For example, the images from the collection can be used for comparative brain study. We have prepared databases of the contents of the collections for presentation and use on this site, as well as for downloading by users in several formats. We are also developing a series of labeled atlases of stained sections for educators, students, and researchers. This internet site is associated with the Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections site. All of the images are in JPEG or GIF format.

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Open source software system for capturing, storing and analyzing raw phenotyping data from SOPs contained in EMPReSS, it provides access to raw and annotated mouse phenotyping data generated from primary pipelines such as EMPReSSlim and secondary procedures from specialist centers. Mutants of interest can be identified by searching the gene or the predicted phenotype. You can also access phenotype data from the EMPReSSlim Pipeline for inbred mouse strains. Initially EuroPhenome was developed within the EUMORPHIA programme to capture and store pilot phenotyping data obtained on four background strains (C57BL/6J, C3H/HeBFeJ, BALB/cByJ and 129/SvPas). EUMORPHIA (European Union Mouse Research for Public Health and Industrial Applications) was a large project comprising of 18 research centers in 8 European countries, with the main focus of the project being the development of novel approaches in phenotyping, mutagenesis and informatics to improve the characterization of mouse models for understanding human molecular physiology and pathology. The current version of EuroPhenome is capturing data from the EUMODIC project as well as the WTSI MGP, HMGU GMC pipeline and the CMHD. EUMODIC is undertaking a primary phenotype assessment of up to 500 mouse mutant lines derived from ES cells developed in the EUCOMM project as well as other lines. Lines showing an interesting phenotype will be subject to a more in depth assessment. EUMODIC is building upon the comprehensive database of standardized phenotyping protocols, called EMPReSS, developed by the EUMORPHIA project. EUMODIC has developed a selection of these screens, called EMPReSSslim, to enable comprehensive, high throughput, primary phenotyping of large numbers of mice. Phenovariants are annotated using a automated pipeline, which assigns a MP term if the mutant data is statistically different to the baseline data. This data is shown in the Phenomap and the mine for a mutant tool. Please note that a statistically significant result and the subsequent MP annotation does not necessarily mean a true phenovariant. There are other factors that could cause this result that have not been accounted for in the analysis. It is the responsibility of the user to download the data and use their expert knowledge or further analysis to decide whether they agree or not. EuroPhenome is primarily based in the bioinformatics group at MRC Harwell. The development of EuroPhenome is in collaboration with the Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Germany, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK and the Institut Clinique de la Souris, France.

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Private graduate university in New York City. It focuses primarily on the biological and medical sciences and provides doctoral and postdoctoral education.

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• 13 years ago - submitted by Stephen Larson

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, as of October 1, 2013; however, the site is still accessible. NCBI resource that contains sequence and mapping data on short genomic landmark sequences or Sequence Tagged Sites. STS sequences are incorporated into the STS Division of GenBank. The dbSTS database offers a route for submission of STS sequences to GenBank. It is designed especially for the submission of large batches of STS sequences.

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A cooperative research program to explore the issues related to the complex system of offender treatment services. Nine research centers and a Coordinating Center were created in partnership with researchers, criminal justice professionals, and drug abuse treatment practitioners to form a national research infrastructure. The establishment of CJ-DATS is an outstanding example of cooperation among Federal agencies with the research community... We need to understand how to provide better drug treatment services for criminal justice offenders to alter their drug use and criminal behavior. - Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of NIDA. CJ-DATS PHASE I In 2002, NIDA launched the National Criminal Justice����������Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS). CJ-DATS is a multisite research program aimed at improving the treatment of offenders with drug use disorders and integrating criminal justice and public health responses to drug involved offenders. From 2002 through 2008, CJ-DATS researchers from 9 research centers, a coordinating center, and NIDA worked together with federal, state, and local criminal justice partners to develop and test integrated approaches to the treatment of offenders with drug use disorders. The areas that were studied included: * Assessing Offender Problems * Measuring Progress in Treatment and Recovery * Linking Criminal Justice and Drug Abuse Treatment * Adolescent Interventions * HIV and Hepatitis Risk Reduction * Understanding Systems CJ-DATS PHASE II In 2008, CJ-DATS began to focus on the problems of implementing research-based practices drug treatment practices. This research concerns the organizational and systems processes involved in implementing valid, evidence-based practices to reduce drug use and drug-related recidivism for individuals in the criminal justice system. 12 CJ-DATS Research Centers are conducting implementation research in three primary domains: * Research to improve the implementation of evidence-based assessment processes for offenders with drug problems * Implementing effective treatment for drug-involved offenders * Implementing evidence-based interventions to improve an HIV continuum-of-care for offenders

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as Talloires, France. Provides undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs.

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• 16 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Repository for chromatin interaction data. Records can be queried by genomic regions, gene names, organism, and detection technology. Database is continuously updated by curators. Contributions from scientific community.

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• 7 years ago - submitted by Ethan Badger

Ontology that represents CTX phenotypes, genetic variants, and bidirectional relationships between them though a patient model. The CTX ontology was built reusing the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) and the Snomed ct ontologies. A set of temporal clinical manifestations are semantically annotated with a domain phenotype ontology and registered with a time-stamped value.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Research university focused on natural sciences, engineering, medicine and social sciences concerning technology issues. It holds campuses in Munich, Garching, Freising-Weihenstephan, Heilbronn and Dover, Singapore.

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• 13 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Core belongs to the Institute of Chemistry of UNICAMP and are structured to accommodate works involving pathogenic bacteria and fungi or genetically modified organisms (GMO). Part of CTNBio (Brazilian National Technical Council of Biosafety) accredited areas and have research activities monitored by CIBio -IQ (Internal Commission of Biosafety).

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• 1 year ago - submitted by Edyta Vieth

A neuroscience research program that studies genes, the brain and behavior in an integrated manner, established to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of learning and memory, and shed light on the pathogenesis of disorders of cognition. Central to G2C investigations is the NMDA receptor complex (NRC/MASC), that is found at the synapses in the central nervous system which constitute the functional connections between neurons. Changes in the receptor and associated components are thought to be in a large part responsible for the phenomenon of synaptic plasticity, that may underlie learning and memory. G2C is addressing the function of synapse proteins using large scale approaches combining genomics, proteomics and genetic methods with electrophysiological and behavioral studies. This is incorporated with computational models of the organization of molecular networks at the synapse. These combined approaches provide a powerful and unique opportunity to understand the mechanisms of disease genes in behavior and brain pathology as well as provide fundamental insights into the complexity of the human brain. Additionally, Genes to Cognition makes available its biological resources, including gene-targeting vectors, ES cell lines, antibodies, and transgenic mice, generated for its phenotyping pipeline. The resources are freely-available to interested researchers.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Public research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of 10 campuses in the University of California system.

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• 17 years ago - submitted by Eddy Kim

Core provides research services in custom monoclonal antibody development (mAb) and bulk production of monoclonal antibodies from established hybridomas (somatic cell hybrids). Core has developed monoclonal antibodies against a wide variety of lymphocyte surface antigens, tumor cell antigens, purified proteins, hormones, hormone receptors and recombinant proteins and peptides.

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This project encompasses development of novel biological network analysis methods and infrastructure for querying biological data in a semantically-enabled format, and aims to create a semantic interactome model. Research within the BioMANTA project will focus on computational modelling and analysis, primarily using Semantic Web technologies and Machine Learning methods, of large-scale protein-protein interaction and compound activity networks across a wide variety of species. A range of information such as kinetic activity, tissue expression, and subcellular localization and disease state attributes will be included in the resulting data model. Protein interactions are a fundamental component of biological processes. Many proteins are functional only in multimeric complexes, or require interaction partners to achieve their correct localisation or function. For this reason, the study of protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks has become an area of growing interest in computational biology. Through the use of Semantic Web technologies such as Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL), interaction data is modelled to create a knowledge representation in which meaning is vested in the ontology rather than instances of data. Stochastic and computational intelligence methods are applied to this data to infer high coverage networks. Semantic inferencing is used to infer previously unknown and meaningful pathways. Major project components: - The BioMANTA Ontology:- An OWL DL ontology incorporating the PSI-MI Ontology, the NCBI Taxonomy, and elements of BioPax ontology and Gene Ontology (describing subcellular localisation). This allows us to re-use existing ontologies, thereby reducing overheads associated with knowledge acquisition in the ontology development process. We are able to integrate existing public data that contain annotation in these formats. - Data conversion & semantic protein integration:- A set of software components that convert protein-protein databases (DIP, MPact, IntAct, etc.) from PSI-MI XML to RDF compliant with the BioMANTA ontology. These software allow us to make these protein-protein interaction datasets (and more generally, any PSI-MI XML data) semantically available for querying and inference within BioMANTA. - A RDF triple store based on RDF Molecules and the MapReduce architecture:- A proof-of-concept RDF triple store using RDF molecules and Hadoop scale-out architectures. Regular RDF graphs are deconstructed into RDF molecules, which are distributed over distributed compute nodes in the MapReduce architecture, and are subsequently combined to form equivalent RDF graphs. Such an approach makes the distributed SPARQL querying and reasoning on RDF triple stores possible. - A quantitative framework to integrate networks extracted from independent data sources (gene expression, subcellular localization, and ortholog mapping):- The model is multi-layer, with a first layer based on Decision Trees where each Decision tree is built on each dataset independently. The tree nodes are cut using Shannon''s entropy (mutual information); the decision of these independent trees is integrated using logistic regression, and the parameters are optimised using maximum likelihood. Sponsors: This resource is supported by the Pfizer Global Research and Development, the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), and the University of Queensland, Australia.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Public research university in Ohio that offers degree programs in a variety of fields such as business, music and arts, and medical and human service.

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• 14 years ago - submitted by Stephen Larson

Core offers advanced single and combined services including genomics, imaging, metabolomics and lipidomics, in vivo disease modelling, cell-based alternative methods, drug screening, and bioinformatics, providing researchers with essential tools for scientific exploration. Expert staff members offer advice on experimental design, data processing, and troubleshooting, as well as training to facilitate the use of our technologies.

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• 1 year ago - submitted by Manuel Buttini

An ontology for describing clinical signs and symptoms.

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Public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Founded in 1456, it is one of the oldest universities in Europe, with generations of notable alumni and staff having studied or worked in Greifswald.

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• 15 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Houston Methodist Hospital is the flagship quaternary care hospital of Houston Methodist academic medical center.Houston Methodist Hospital is ranked among the country's top hospitals

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Detailed multidimensional digital multimodal atlas of C57BL/6J mouse nervous system with data and informatics pipeline that can automatically register, annotate, and visualize large scale neuroanatomical and connectivity data produced in histology, neuronal tract tracing, MR imaging, and genetic labeling. MAP2.0 interoperates with commonly used publicly available databases to bring together brain architecture, gene expression, and imaging information into single, simple interface.Resource to visualise mouse development, identify anatomical structures, determine developmental stage, and investigate gene expression in mouse embryo. eMouseAtlas portal page allows access to EMA Anatomy Atlas of Mouse Development and EMAGE database of gene expression.EMAGE is freely available, curated database of gene expression patterns generated by in situ techniques in developing mouse embryo. EMA, e-Mouse Atlas, is 3-D anatomical atlas of mouse embryo development including histology and includes EMAP ontology of anatomical structure, provides information about shape, gross anatomy and detailed histological structure of mouse, and framework into which information about gene function can be mapped.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous