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The general purpose of ALSA is to examine how social, biomedical, psychological, economic, and environmental factors are associated with age-related changes in the health and wellbeing of persons aged 70 years and older. The aim is to analyze the complex relationships between individual and social factors and changes in health status, health care needs and service utilization dimensions, with emphasis given to the effects of social and economic factors on morbidity, disability, acute and long-term care service use, and mortality. The study was designed to have common instrumentation with US studies. ALSA collected data from a random, stratified sample of all persons (both community and institution-dwelling) aged 70 years and older living in the metropolitan area of Adelaide, South Australia, using the State Electoral Database as the sampling frame. Spouses aged 65 and older and other household members aged 70 years and older also were invited to participate. The initial baseline data collection for ALSA began in September 1992 and was completed in March 1993. In the first wave, personal interviews were carried out for 2,087 participants, including 566 couples (that is, persons 70 years of age and over and their spouse, if 65 and over). Clinical assessments were obtained for 1,620 of the participants. Respondents were recontacted by telephone a year after initial interview (wave 2). The third wave of the study began in September 1994 and involved a complete reassessment, with a total of 1,679 interviews and 1,423 clinical assessments. To date, eleven waves of data have been collected, with the latest collection in May 2010, from 168 participants. Six of these waves were conducted via face-to-face interviews and clinical assessments, and five were telephone interviews. Future waves are planned, however are dependent on grant funding. Ancillary data collection has been ongoing since the initiation of the study, e.g., from secondary providers. Lists of ALSA participants are compared biannually with the agencies'' lists to determine the prevalence and incidence of receipt of services from these organizations. Another source of information has been the collection of data from the participants'' general practitioners about the respondent''s health status, history of services received, medication use, referrals to specialists, and current services provided. Baseline Sample Size: 2087 Dates of Study: 1992����������2010 (potentially ongoing) Study Features: * Longitudinal * International * Anthropometric Measures * Biospecimens Waves 1-5 (ICPSR), http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/06707 Wave 6 (ICPSR), http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/03679

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Database compiling the detailed information on innersphere, outersphere and larger coordination environment of >70,000 metal ions of 36 elements found in >2000 structures of nucleic acids contained today in the PDB and NDB. MINAS is updated monthly with new structures and offers a multitude of search functions, e.g. the kind of metal ion, metal-ligand distance, innersphere and outersphere ligands defined by element or functional group, residue, experimental method, as well as PDB entry-related information. The results of each search can be saved individually for later use with so-called miniPDB files containing the respective metal ion together with the coordination environment within a 15 A radius. MINAS thus offers a unique way to explore the coordination geometries and ligands of metal ions together with the respective binding pockets in nucleic acids.

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GWASrap is a comprehensive web-based bioinformatics tool to systematically support variant representation, annotation and prioritization for data generated from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). Our web-based framework utilizes state-of-the-art web technologies to maximize user interaction and visualization of the results. For a given SNP dataset with its P-values, GWASrap will first provide a Circos-style plot to visualize any genetic variants at either the genome or chromosome level. The tool then combines different genomic features (SNP/CNV density, disease susceptibility loci, etc.) with comprehensive annotations that give the researcher an intuitive view of the functional significance of the different genomic regions. The detailed statistics of the underlying study are also displayed on the web page, including variant distribution in different functional categories, classic Manhattan plot and QQ plot. Users can perform interactive operations in the Manhattan panel, such as zooming in and out to search regions or markers of interest. The system can also display a comprehensive range of relevant information from variant genetic attributes to nearby genomic elements, such as enhancers or non-coding RNAs. Furthermore, researchers can obtain extensive functional predictions for various features including transcription factor-binding sites, miRNA and miRNA target sites, and their predicted changes caused by the genetic variants. Our system can re-prioritize genetic variants by combining the original statistical value and variant prioritization score based on a simple additive effect equation. Researchers can also re-evaluate the significance of a trait/disease-associated SNP (TAS) using the dynamic linkage disequilibrium (LD) panel or the tree-like network panel. The GWASrap supports input variants in different formats, not only common variants with a dbSNP rs ID but also rare variants from NGS data, which are represented by chromosome and locations. GWASrap provides a range of web services for data retrieving about the annotation information and effect prediction of each variant in dbSNP using the SOAP interface. The WSDL for each service is available in the API tab. Each service returns JSON string including all related information with key/value. GWASrap provides running results about some current published GWAS as well as a category view for each hot disease / trait. The dataset is brought from published database GWAS or curated from literature.

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A publicly accessible database of experimentally derived topological models of transmembrane proteins. It contains experimental information about the topology of 2143 transmembrane proteins. This information was collected from studies in the literature that reported the use of biochemical methods for the determination of the topology of transmembrane proteins. Each record contains unique information about the given protein, such as its sequence, cross-references to many publicly available databases worldwide, the protein''s name and organism source. The web interface of the database offers the user the ability to submit advanced queries for text search within ExTopoDB''s protein entries and there is also an interface for running BLAST against the database. Furthermore, the results of topology prediction using the HMM-TM algorithm are included for each protein in the database (unconstrained prediction) and we also incorporated the experimental information about the topology of the proteins in the HMM-TM prediction procedure, producing more reliable topology models (constrained prediction).

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Repository that serves to coordinate searches across data and biospecimen collections from participants in numerous clinical trials and epidemiologic studies and to provide an electronic means for requests for additional information and the submission of requests for collections. The collections, comprising data from more than 80 trials or studies and millions of biospecimens, are available to qualified investigators under specific terms and conditions consistent with the informed consents provided by the individual study participants. Some datasets are presented with studies and supporting materials to facilitate their use in reuse and teaching. Datasets support basic research, clinical studies, observational studies, and demonstrations. Researchers wishing to apply to submit biospecimen collections to the NHLBI Biorepository for sharing with qualified investigators may also use this website to initiate that process.

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Community site to make brain imaging research easier that aims to build software that is clearly written, clearly explained, a good fit for the underlying ideas, and a natural home for collaboration.

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A wide-ranging representative longitudinal study of private households that permits researchers to track yearly changes in the health and economic well-being of older people relative to younger people in Germany from 1984 to the present. Every year, there were nearly 11,000 households, and more than 20,000 persons sampled by the fieldwork organization TNS Infratest Sozialforschung. The data provide information on all household members, consisting of Germans living in the Old and New German States, Foreigners, and recent Immigrants to Germany. The Panel was started in 1984. Some of the many topics include household composition, occupational biographies, employment, earnings, health and satisfaction indicators. In addition to standard demographic information, the GSOEP questionnaire also contains objective measuresuse of time, use of earnings, income, benefit payments, health, etc. and subjective measures - level of satisfaction with various aspects of life, hopes and fears, political involvement, etc. of the German population. The first wave, collected in 1984 in the western states of Germany, contains 5,921 households in two randomly sampled sub-groups: 1) German Sub-Sample: people in private households where the head of household was not of Turkish, Greek, Yugoslavian, Spanish, or Italian nationality; 2) Foreign Sub-Sample: people in private households where the head of household was of Turkish, Greek, Yugoslavian, Spanish, or Italian nationality. In each year since 1984, the GSOEP has attempted to re-interview original sample members unless they leave the country. A major expansion of the GSOEP was necessitated by German reunification. In June 1990, the GSOEP fielded a first wave of the eastern states of Germany. This sub-sample includes individuals in private households where the head of household was a citizen of the German Democratic Republic. The first wave contains 2,179 households. In 1994 and 1995, the GSOEP added a sample of immigrants to the western states of Germany from 522 households who arrived after 1984, which in 2006 included 360 households and 684 respondents. In 1998 a new refreshment sample of 1,067 households was selected from the population of private households. In 2000 a sample was drawn using essentially similar selection rules as the original German sub-sample and the 1998 refreshment sample with some modifications. The 2000 sample includes 6,052 households covering 10,890 individuals. Finally, in 2002, an overrepresentation of high-income households was added with 2,671 respondents from 1,224 households, of which 1,801 individuals (689 households) were still included in the year 2006. Data Availability: The data are available to researchers in Germany and abroad in SPSS, SAS, TDA, STATA, and ASCII format for immediate use. Extensive documentation in English and German is available online. The SOEP data are available in German and English, alone or in combination with data from other international panel surveys (e.g., the Cross-National Equivalent Files which contain panel data from Canada, Germany, and the United States). The public use file of the SOEP with anonymous microdata is provided free of charge (plus shipping costs) to universities and research centers. The individual SOEP datasets cannot be downloaded from the DIW Web site due to data protection regulations. Use of the data is subject to special regulations, and data privacy laws necessitate the signing of a data transfer contract with the DIW. The English Language Public Use Version of the GSOEP is distributed and administered by the Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University. The data are available on CD-ROM from Cornell for a fee. Full instructions for accessing GSOEP data may be accessed on the project website, http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/PAM/Research/Centers-Programs/German-Panel/cnef.cfm * Dates of Study: 1984-present * Study Features: Longitudinal, International * Sample Size: ** 1984: 12,290 (GSOEP West) ** 1990: 4,453 (GSOEP East) ** 2000: 20,000+ Links: * Cornell Project Website: http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/PAM/Research/Centers-Programs/German-Panel/cnef.cfm * GSOEP ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/00131

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A computerized data set of demographic, economic and social data for 227 countries of the world. Information presented includes population, health, nutrition, mortality, fertility, family planning and contraceptive use, literacy, housing, and economic activity data. Tabular data are broken down by such variables as age, sex, and urban/rural residence. Data are organized as a series of statistical tables identified by country and table number. Each record consists of the data values associated with a single row of a given table. There are 105 tables with data for 208 countries. The second file is a note file, containing text of notes associated with various tables. These notes provide information such as definitions of categories (i.e. urban/rural) and how various values were calculated. The IDB was created in the U.S. Census Bureau''s International Programs Center (IPC) to help IPC staff meet the needs of organizations that sponsor IPC research. The IDB provides quick access to specialized information, with emphasis on demographic measures, for individual countries or groups of countries. The IDB combines data from country sources (typically censuses and surveys) with IPC estimates and projections to provide information dating back as far as 1950 and as far ahead as 2050. Because the IDB is maintained as a research tool for IPC sponsor requirements, the amount of information available may vary by country. As funding and research activity permit, the IPC updates and expands the data base content. Types of data include: * Population by age and sex * Vital rates, infant mortality, and life tables * Fertility and child survivorship * Migration * Marital status * Family planning Data characteristics: * Temporal: Selected years, 1950present, projected demographic data to 2050. * Spatial: 227 countries and areas. * Resolution: National population, selected data by urban/rural * residence, selected data by age and sex. Sources of data include: * U.S. Census Bureau * International projects (e.g., the Demographic and Health Survey) * United Nations agencies Links: * ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/08490

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iPhone and iPad app that provides a good overview of the brain and its structures allowing you to rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures with your touch screen. Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness. Each detailed structure comes with information on functions, disorders, brain damage, case studies, and links to modern research. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.

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Research forum portal to address brain status by acquiring comprehensive, multimodal data from healthy humans across the lifespan to characterize brain status, assess its change over time, and associate composite descriptors of brain status. Specifically, the measurements are acquired noninvasively by existing neuroimaging technologies (structural MRI, functional MRI, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, diffusion MRI, and magnetoencephalography); in addition, genetic, cognitive, language, and lifestyle data are acquired. Goals: * Derive the Brain Health Index- An integrative assessment of brain status derived from multimodal measurements of brain structure, function, and chemistry. * Continue acquiring data to construct the first-ever databank on brain, cognitive, language and genetic measurements for healthy people across the lifespan. * Provide a novel and unique dataset by which to: characterize brain status, assess its change over time, and associate it with genetic makeup, cognitive function, and language abilities. * Forecast future brain health and disease based on current measurements and guide physicians towards new interventions and evaluate interventions as they develop. * Extend to siblings and other family members to further assess the genetic influences and inheritability.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 24,2023. Software application for statistical methods for disease and genetic marker associations using cases and their parents. These methods include an extension of the transmission/disequilibrium test (TDT) for multiple marker alleles, as well as additional general tests sensitive to associations that depend on dominant or recessive genetic mechanisms. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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Software application for inference of genealogical relationships from genetic data, including sibship inference.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 24,2023. Software application that simultaneously estimates a trait-locus position and its genetic effects for affected relative pairs (ARP) by one of two methods. Either allow a different trait-locus effect for each ARP type, or constrain the trait-locus effects according to the marginal effect of a single susceptibility locus. We include a goodness of fit statistic for the constrained model. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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Software application (entry from Genetic Analysis Software) for a method for detecting gene-gene interactions. It allows examining all pairwise interactions in genome-wide case-control studies.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 24,2023. Software application to compute composite measures of linkage disequilibrium, their variances and covariances, and statistical tests, for all pairs of alleles from two loci when linkage phase is unkown. An extension of Weir and Cockerham (1989) to apply to multi-allelic loci. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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A statistical based program for association mapping of disease genes. It utilises the Malecot model and the linkage disequilibrium (LD) map for the candidate region to analyse the genotypes derive from large sample of matched cases and controls. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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A set of three programs, preproc, eclipse2 and eclipse3 which analyze genetic marker data for genotypic errors and pedigree errors. Using a single preprocessing program (preproc), eclipse2 analyzes data on pairs of individuals, and eclise3 analyzes data jointly on trios. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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Web-based, relational database driven data management software package for the management of large scale genetic studies. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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Software application that is a GLF-based variant caller for next-generation sequencing data. It takes one/three/multiple GLF format genotype likelihood files as input and generates a VCF-format set of variant calls as output. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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Software package in S-PLUS and R to test genetic linkage with covariates by regression methods with response IBD sharing for relative pairs. Account for correlations of IBD statistics and covariates for relative pairs within the same pedigree. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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