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Modular program for SPM (scanning probe microscopy) data visualization and analysis. Primarily it is intended for the analysis of height fields obtained by scanning probe microscopy techniques (AFM, MFM, STM, SNOM/NSOM) and it supports a lot of SPM data formats. However, it can be used for general height field and (greyscale) image processing, for instance for the analysis of profilometry data or thickness maps from imaging spectrophotometry.
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.
Database platform of an integrated view of eight databases (mouse gene expression resources: EMAGE, GXD, GENSAT, BioGPS, ABA, EUREXPRESS; human gene expression databases: HUDSEN, BioGPS and Human Protein Atlas) that allows the experimentalist to retrieve relevant statistical information relating gene expression, anatomical structure (space) and developmental stage (time). Moreover, general biological information from databases such as KEGG, OMIM and MTB is integrated too. It can be queried using gene and anatomical structure. Output information is presented in a friendly format, allowing the user to display expression maps and correlation matrices for a gene or structure during development. An in-depth study of a specific developmental stage is also possible using heatmaps that relate gene expression with anatomical components. This is a powerful tool in the gene expression field that makes easy the access to information related to the anatomical pattern of gene expression in human and mouse, so that it can complement many functional genomics studies. The platform allows the integration of gene expression data with spatial-temporal anatomic data by means of an intuitive and user friendly display., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.
Perl software for transcription factor binding site detection and analysis. It implements classes for the representation of objects encountered in analysis of these protein-binding sites.
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 23,2022. LinkHub is a software system using Semantic Web RDF that manages the graph of identifier relationships and allows exploration with a variety of interfaces. It leverages Semantic Web standards-based integrated data to provide novel information retrieval to identifier-related documents through relational graph queries, simplifies and manages connections to major hubs such as UniProt, and provides useful interactive and query interfaces for exploring the integrated data. For efficiency, it is also provided with relational-database access and translation between the relational and RDF versions. LinkHub is practically useful in creating small, local hubs on common topics and then connecting these to major portals in a federated architecture; LinkHub was used to establish such a relationship between UniProt and the North East Structural Genomics Consortium. LinkHub also facilitates queries and access to information and documents related to identifiers spread across multiple databases, acting as connecting glue between different identifier spaces. LinkHub is available at hub.gersteinlab.org and hub.nesg.org with supplement, database models and full-source code. Sponsors: Funding for this work comes from NIH/NIGMS grant P50 GM62413-01, NIH grant K25 HG02378, and NSF grant DBI-0135442.
The Biostatistics Core provides statistical support for cancer-related research at UCSF, focusing particulary on applications in clinical trials and population studies. The Computational Biology Core supports applications to genomics, genetics and molecular biology. Core faculty have expertise in study design, protocol and proposal development and review, data analysis, and publication of results. Support for Cancer Center investigators participating in established Site Committees is typically handled by the faculty member assigned to that committee. Other requests can be directed to the consulting service request page maintained by the UCSF Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI). These requests will then be assigned to a Core faculty member. Basic consulting services are generally provided free of charge to Cancer Center Members. Members requiring frequent assistance are encouraged to provide regular salary support to a Core statistician when possible to support more extensive requests and for long-term projects. Services: * Study Design * Guidance on Study Conduct * Data Analysis and Reporting of Study Results * Teaching resources
A freely available software package for comparative and evolutionary genomics that consists of about half a dozen major programs, plus more than a dozen utilities for manipulating sequence alignments, phylogenetic trees, and genomic annotations. For the most part, PHAST focuses on two kinds of applications: the identification of novel functional elements, including protein-coding exons and evolutionarily conserved sequences; and statistical phylogenetic modeling, including estimation of model parameters, detection of signatures of selection, and reconstruction of ancestral sequences. It consists of over 60,000 lines of C code.
Database of biological collections in natural history museums, herbaria, and other biorepositories resulting from a merger of Index Herbariorum (IH), Biodiversity Collections Index (BCI) and biorepositories.org. It contains more than 14,000 records for biorepository institutions, their collections, and staff members. Their two main goals are to improve access to information about biorepositories, the collections and specimens they house, and the researchers and collection managers who work there; and to facilitate electronic linkages to this information through web services that will rely on unique identifiers assigned to biorepositories and collections. The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) has developed and will manage GRBio in collaboration with IH and BCI and in consultation with GBIF and NCBI. GRBio includes four categories of data records that provide information on: * Institutional repositories such as museums, herbaria, botanical gardens, zoos, biomedical research institutes and culture centers; * Institutional collection records such as the bird, algal or insect collections within an institutional repository; * Personal collections such as field samples held by a researcher before they have been accessioned into an institutional collection, or privately owned specimens held by non-researchers; and * Staff members at institutional repositories GRBio operates as a moderated community-curated resource. The community is invited to check and update their records and to register institutions, collections and staff members that have not already been registered. GRBio offers registration of institutional collections, "personal" research collections that have not yet been accessioned into an institutional repository, and privately owned collections.
STRFPak is a Matlab toolbox for estimating the linear and nonlinear stimulus-response mapping function of sensory systems. This mapping function is commonly called the spatio- or spectro-temporal receptive field (STRF). A quantitative estimate of the STRF can be used in subsequent computational modeling studies or to predict future responses of the system. STRFPak implements several general STRF estimation techniques and can be used with any stimuli (including natural scenes and sounds). The theoretical basis for STRF estimation has been known for some time, but estimation software has not been widely available. This project aims to develop appropriate software and make it available to the wider community of sensory neuroscientists. Although STRFPak is based on established methods it incorporates two important innovations. First, STRFPak can be used to characterize a sensory system from its response to arbitrary stimuli including natural signals (e.g., vocalizations, natural scenes). Second, STRFPak incorporates several methods for estimating nonlinear STRFs. STRFPak also includes tutorial examples and documentation.
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on February 28,2023. Software that uses partition function posterior probability estimates to compute maximum expected accuracy multiple sequence alignments. Computes maximal expected accuracy multiple sequence alignments from partition function posterior probabilities.Produces accurate alignments on long and heterogeneous length datasets containing protein repeats.
A community-defined, uniform, generic description of the core attributes of biological databases. The BioDBCore checklist is overseen by the International Society for Biocuration (ISB), in collaboration with the BioSharing forum. A catalogue of databases, described according to the BioDBcore guidelines, along with the standards used within them have been partly compiled with the support of Oxford University Press and Re3Data.org. Database providers are encouraged to either create or claim their BioDBCore entry and update it as appropriate., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 15,2026.
Software application - part of the LINKAGE auxiliary programs (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)
Software R package for RNA-Seq Differential Expression Analysis.
THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented May 10, 2017. A pilot effort that has developed a centralized, web-based biospecimen locator that presents biospecimens collected and stored at participating Arizona hospitals and biospecimen banks, which are available for acquisition and use by researchers. Researchers may use this site to browse, search and request biospecimens to use in qualified studies. The development of the ABL was guided by the Arizona Biospecimen Consortium (ABC), a consortium of hospitals and medical centers in the Phoenix area, and is now being piloted by this Consortium under the direction of ABRC. You may browse by type (cells, fluid, molecular, tissue) or disease. Common data elements decided by the ABC Standards Committee, based on data elements on the National Cancer Institute''s (NCI''s) Common Biorepository Model (CBM), are displayed. These describe the minimum set of data elements that the NCI determined were most important for a researcher to see about a biospecimen. The ABL currently does not display information on whether or not clinical data is available to accompany the biospecimens. However, a requester has the ability to solicit clinical data in the request. Once a request is approved, the biospecimen provider will contact the requester to discuss the request (and the requester''s questions) before finalizing the invoice and shipment. The ABL is available to the public to browse. In order to request biospecimens from the ABL, the researcher will be required to submit the requested required information. Upon submission of the information, shipment of the requested biospecimen(s) will be dependent on the scientific and institutional review approval. Account required. Registration is open to everyone., documented September 6, 2016. Sage Bionetworks video podcasts feature the plenary talks from the April 2011 Commons Congress in San Francisco. The Keynote and project update video posts are in reverse chronological order; the full agenda is available at www.sagecongress.org. There are also several excellent podcasts from the January 2011 Symposium on Human Data Interoperability. The podcasts are also available on iTunes where you can subscribe and receive new podcasts automatically when posted. Upcoming posts will feature presentations and interviews on network biology, genomics, healthcare and open science. All these podcasts feature research and thought leaders as well as policy advocates, scientists working at the coal-face and patients. The topics span technical and strategic issues and include fact and opinion. The goal is to engage, educate and inspire non-scientists and scientists alike.
The Collaboratory of AIDS Researchers for Eradication (CARE) is a consortium of scientific experts in the field of HIV latency from several U.S. and European academic research institutions as well as Merck Research Laboratories working together to find a cure for HIV.
Software tool for windowed adaptive trimming for fastq files using quality. Supports quality values like Illumina, Solexa, and Sanger. Takes the quality values and slides a window across them whose length is 0.1 times the length of the read.
Non-profit biomedical research organization developing predictors of disease and accelerating health research through creation of open systems, incentives, and standards. Formed to coordinate and link academic and commercial biomedical researchers through Commons that represents new paradigm for genomics intellectual property, researcher cooperation, and contributor evolved resources.
The Osteoarthritis Biomarkers Project (OABP) is a consortium designed to identify and classify biological markers of progression of knee osteoarthritis. Their goal is to advance the ability to predict the individual risk of developing severe OA and to monitor progression of OA.
Software tool for base and quality calling of trace files from DNA sequencing instruments.
Key Driver Analysis (KDA) is an analysis tool, as both an R package and Cytoscape plugin, for identifying key regulators of a gene regulatory network. It takes as input a gene network N (directed or undirected) and a gene set (module) G. The gene set is any subset of genes from the network N (e.g. pathway, module, ontology), permitting focus on a particular biological context. The KDA archive contains the plugin source, the plugin jar file, and several example datasets. Prerequisites: *Java, 5.0+ (www.javasoft.com) *Cytoscape, 2.6+ (www.cytoscape.org)