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The American Neurological Association is a professional society of academic neurologists and neuroscientists devoted to advancing the goals of academic neurology; to training and educating neurologists and other physicians in the neurologic sciences; and to expanding both our understanding of diseases of the nervous system and our ability to treat them. Our Goals 1. To disseminate knowledge about the nervous system and its diseases by: Presenting new scientific basic and clinical information at an annual meeting Publishing a scientific journal Formulating and promoting high standards of neurologic practice 2. To promote research into the causes and treatment of diseases of the nervous system by: Attracting promising physicians into academic neurology and supporting their development Advocating financial support from government, industry and individuals for research on the nervous system and its disorders 3. To formulate and promote policies and actions which will support the goals of academic neurology by: Providing a unified voice for academic neurology Setting guidelines and assuring excellence in programs that train and educate physicians in neurology Raising the standard of neurologic training of all physicians A few highlights within the portal: Clinical Neuroscience Pathway Startling breakthroughs in molecular biology and basic neuroscience have defined the cause of many diseases of the nervous system and are transforming the practice of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry. Basic research is giving new information on how the brain works and how brain injury occurs-and how it can be prevented or improved. Recognizing the exciting opportunities now available to better understand nervous system function and to design new treatments for neurological diseases, we''ve developed an interdepartmental program: The Clinical Neuroscience Pathway to provide an enhanced exposure to the neurosciences while pursuing the Doctor of Medicine degree. Program goal: The Clinical Neuroscience Pathway provides medical students with an enriched experience in the neurosciences throughout their four years in medical school. This program will provide students interested in Neurology, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, Pathology, or Psychiatry with access to a number of stimulating clinical and research activities. In addition, students will have the opportunity to participate in activities specifically designed for medical students in the program. Pathway students will be eligible for special summer research and year-out opportunities for clinical and basic neuroscience study. John N. Whitaker Visiting Professorships About the Program The ANA offers up to five 5,000 awards annually to fund visits of several days duration by persons who will interact with medical students and by both formal and informal contacts, stimulate them to consider academic neurology careers. The ideal visitor will be a role model of an accomplished academician who is enthusiastic and will effectively illustrate the applications between basic science and clinical neurology. The ANAs Education Committee must approve the visitor. The inviting institution should have acceptance from the visitor prior to submitting the name. The ANA suggests that an honorarium in the amount of 2,000 be given to the visitor. Special consideration will be given to institutions with small departments, but this is not a requirement. The Whitaker Professorships are intended to honor the life and contributions of John N. Whitaker M.D. (1940 - 2001) whose life and career exemplified high achievement as a person, neurological physician, teacher, investigator, mentor and citizen.

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Cybase is dedicated to the study of a fascinating new class of proteins that possess a cyclic backbone in which the N and C termini have been joined with a conventional amide bond. These recently characterized molecules have now been found in organisms from all kingdoms of life and given the current rate of discovery the number of sequences could soon number in the hundreds. Research in our lab is aimed at further characterizing cyclic proteins and adapting them for commercial and medicinal use. In particular we work on a class of cyclic protein named the cyclotides. These proteins are found in the plants of the Rubiaceae and Violaceae and our specific goals include: determining the role that cyclotides play in plants, discovering the mechanism of action of the wide range of biological activities displayed by the cyclotides (including anti-HIV, anti-bacterial and insecticidal activity), characterising the genetics of the cyclotides and further discovery of novel cyclotides.

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Software package for post-processing of peaks and differential binding in ChIP-seq based on standard wiggle visualization files. The double aim of the package is to apply a functional version of principal component analysis (FPCA) to: (1) Process data in wiggle track format (WIG) commonly produced by ChIP-seq peak finders by applying FPCA over a set of selected candidate enriched regions. This is done in order to shorten the genomic locations accounting for a given proportion of variation among the enrichment-score profiles. The function ''narrowpeaks'' allows the user to discriminate between binding regions in close proximity to each other and to narrow down the length of the putative transcription factor binding sites while preserving the information present in the variability of the dataset and capturing major sources of variation. (2) Analyze differential variation when multiple ChIP-seq samples need to compared. The function ''narrowpeaksDiff'' quantifies differences between the tag-enrichment, and uses non-parametric tests on the FPC scores for testing differences between conditions.

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UK public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England with overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick university and a member of the Russell Group, an association of research-intensive UK universities.

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Public research and education university in Northern Germany with main campus located in central district of Rotherbaum, with affiliated institutes and research centres spread around city state.

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An open organization engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI''s activities include work on architecture and modeling, discussions and collaborative work in DCMI Communities and DCMI Task Groups, annual conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices. The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative provides simple standards to facilitate the finding, sharing and management of information. DCMI does this by: * Developing and maintaining international standards for describing resources * Supporting a worldwide community of users and developers * Promoting widespread use of Dublin Core solutions The major characteristics of DCMI as an organization are (the three Is): * Independent: DCMI is not controlled by specific commercial or other interests and is not biased towards specific domains nor does it mandate specific technical solutions * International: DCMI encourages participation from organizations anywhere in the world, respecting linguistic and cultural differences * Influenceable: DCMI is an open organization aiming at building consensus among the participating organizations; there are no prerequisites for participation The development and maintenance of a core set of metadata terms (the DCMI Metadata Terms) continues to be one of the main activities of DCMI. In addition, DCMI is developing guidelines and procedures to help implementers define and describe their usage of Dublin Core metadata in the form of Application Profiles. This work is done in a work structure that provides discussion and cooperation platforms for specific communities (e.g. education, government information, corporate knowledge management) or specific interests (e.g. technical architecture, accessibility). Anyone wishing to participate may do so by simply joining the appropriate mailing list for the activity of interest. The DC-General mailing list is the general forum for community participation and announcements.

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The Comparative Genometrics website displays for sequenced genomes, three different genometric analyses: the DNA walk and the GC and TA skews during the initial phase. Although primarily focused on prokaryotic chromosomes, the CG website posts genometric information on paradigm plasmids, phages, viruses, and organelles. The genometric analyses are available via phylogenetic tree or alphabetical list. It also offers small genome information, for mitochondria, chloroplasts, viruses, bacteriophages, and plasmids.

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A read summarization program, which counts mapped reads for the genomic features such as genes and exons.

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Compute differentially bound sites from multiple ChIP-seq experiments using affinity (quantitative) data. Also enables occupancy (overlap) analysis and plotting functions.

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Database providing information on structure of assembled genomes, assembly names and other meta-data, statistical reports, and links to genomic sequence data. The Archive links the raw sequence information found in the Trace Archive with assembly information found in publicly available sequence repositories (GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ).

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Medical school and medical research center connected to Indiana University. Its principal research and medical center is on Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis campus in Indianapolis.

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This mailing list is for announcements about Bioconductor and the availability of new code and questions and answers about problems and solutions using Bioconductor.

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Database integrating collagen biological and physicochemical properties with known variants. Web-based, interactive, graphical user interface displays data as annotations on collagen protein sequences. Collagen gene-level data are provided as custom tracks for display in the UCSC genome browser. COLdb currently includes 35,582 data points spanning collagen types I, II, and III, and, importantly, users can add their own data to the display. The database is the first comprehensive integration of disparate functional information on the three major fibrillar collagens, and the first electronic collection of mutations in the COL2A1 gene. Sponsors: This data base is supported by University of Leicester.

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This blog will appeal to those dealing with the practical day to day work of biological data analysis and presentation.

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The American Parkinson Disease Association, Inc. was founded in 1961 to ease the burden and find a cure for Parkinson''s disease. The organization focuses its energies on research, patient support, education and raising public awareness of the disease.<BR/> It offers Parkinson Disease news and updates, as well as connecting users to other Parkinson-related resources, such as referral centers, Parkinson events, and research grant information for the scientific community. It also offers access to Parkinson-related publications, as well as Young Onset Parkinson-related resources.<BR/> American Parkinson Disease Association Inc. is headquartered in Staten Island, New York.<BR/> :NIF thanks the <BR/> :<A HREF=http://www.pdf.org TARGET=_blank><BR/> :<U>Parkinson''s Disease FoundationU><BR/> :A><BR/> :<A HREF=http://www.pdf.org TARGET=_blank> A><BR/> :for their referral of this resource to us. <BR/>

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CleanEx is a database which provides access to public gene expression data via unique approved gene symbols and which represents heterogeneous expression data produced by different technologies in a way that facilitates joint analysis and cross-dataset comparisons. To achieve this goal, each single gene expression experiment is regularly mapped on a permanent target identifier consisting of a physical description of the targeted RNA. There is one entry per gene. To have a complete view of the transcript and its product, we also link each entry to the corresponding protein. We further provide the genomic position of the transcription start site from EPD, when available. Otherwise we give the annotated start site position in Ensembl.

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The CFGP (Comparative Fungal Genomics Platform) was designed for comparative genomics projects with diverse fungal genomes.<BR/> The CFGP provides important bioinformatic tools, such as BLAST search, ClustalW analysis, InterPro Scan, SignalP, and PSORT2, which are very common tools for the researchers in the field of genomics. Many of them have been executed in the unix environment, so some specific computing knowledge is required. In the CFGP, users can use these tools simply by clicking their mouse button. In addition, all of the results of the analysis will be stored in the CFGP, so you can easily share those results with other members.<BR/>

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Database that describes the families of structurally-related catalytic and carbohydrate-binding modules (or functional domains) of enzymes that degrade, modify, or create glycosidic bonds. This specialist database is dedicated to the display and analysis of genomic, structural and biochemical information on Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes (CAZymes). CAZy data are accessible either by browsing sequence-based families or by browsing the content of genomes in carbohydrate-active enzymes. New genomes are added regularly shortly after they appear in the daily releases of GenBank. New families are created based on published evidence for the activity of at least one member of the family and all families are regularly updated, both in content and in description. An original aspect of the CAZy database is its attempt to cover all carbohydrate-active enzymes across organisms and across subfields of glycosciences. One can search for CAZY Family pages using the Protein Accession (Genpept Accession, Uniprot Accession or PDB ID), Cazy family name or EC number. In addition, genomes can be searched using the NCBI TaxID. This search can be complemented by Google-based searches on the CAZy site.

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The programs of study in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology are the Master of Science in Pharmacology and Toxicology and the Ph.D. programs in Biomedical Sciences and Environmental Sciences. The master&apos;s program is a research-based program that recruits students from universities as well as the military and industrial sectors. Faculty also participate in the summer research training program for minorities and persons with disabilities (STREAMS) as well as the Biomedical Science Exchange (BSE) a research and education with universities in Brazil.

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A bioinformatic application created to work on sequence analysis by using NGS (Next Generation Sequencing) and sanger sequences.

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