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A software package for the detection of copy number variants (CNVs) from whole-exome sequencing data.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on October 17,2023. Project that brings together an internationally recognized team of geo- and social-scientists, cyberinfrastructure experts and educators to explore how expert systems can mediate interactions and improve access between scientific fields. To address complex Earth system issues such as climate change and water resources, geoscientists must work across disciplinary boundaries, which requires them to access data outside of their fields. The initial focus is on hydrology, oceans, polar and weather, with the intent to make the technology applicable and available to all the geosciences. The team''s social scientists and educators will research how technology can improve knowledge exchange between scientific communities.

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Unix-like operating system that is free software. GNU (more precisely, GNU/Linux systems) are entirely free software. The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop the GNU system. A Unix-like operating system is a software collection of applications, libraries, and developer tools, plus a program to allocate resources and talk to the hardware, known as a kernel. The Hurd, GNU''s own kernel, is some way from being ready for daily use. Thus, GNU is typically used today with a kernel called Linux. This combination is the GNU/Linux operating system. GNU/Linux is used by millions, though many call it Linux by mistake.

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Software package for statistical analysis and presentation of graphics. Statistical software for data science.

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GIRI is a private, non-profit research institution founded in 1994. Our mission is to understand biological processes which alter the genetic makeup of different organisms, as a basis for potential gene therapy and genome engineering techniques. We pursue and promote original peer-reviewed, public domain research on genetic information (DNA sequence data), as well as dissemination of databases and computer software related to this research. Our research is heavily based on computer power and human skills different from those applied in classical molecular biology and genetics.

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The goal of the project is to discover novel genes and mechanisms contributing to heart, lung and blood disorders by pioneering the application of next-generation sequencing of the protein coding regions of the human genome across diverse, richly-phenotyped populations and to share these datasets and findings with the scientific community to extend and enrich the diagnosis, management and treatment of heart, lung and blood disorders. The groups participating and collaborating in the NHLBI GO ESP include: Seattle GO - University of Washington, Seattle, WA Broad GO - Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA WHISP GO - Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH Lung GO - University of Washington, Seattle, WA WashU GO - Washington University, St. Louis, MO Heart GO - University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA ChargeS GO - University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston

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Public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College making it the oldest higher education institute in South Africa.

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The OIE is the intergovernmental organization responsible for improving animal health worldwide. The need to fight animal diseases at global level led to the creation of the Office International des Epizooties through the international Agreement signed on January 25th 1924. In May 2003 the Office became the World Organisation for Animal Health but kept its historical acronym OIE. It is recognised as a reference organisation by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in 2013 had a total of 178 Member Countries. The OIE maintains permanent relations with 45 other international and regional organisations and has Regional and sub-regional Offices on every continent.

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A global evaluation of the conservation status of plant and animal species. The IUCN Red List plays a prominent role in guiding conservation activities of governments, NGOs and scientific institutions. The introduction in 1994 of a scientifically rigorous approach to determine risks of extinction that is applicable to all species, has become a world standard. In order to produce The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the IUCN Global Species Programme working with the IUCN Survival Commission (SSC) and with members of IUCN draws on and mobilizes a network of scientists and partner organizations working in almost every country in the world, who collectively hold what is likely the most complete scientific knowledge base on the biology and conservation status of species. The IUCN Red List is underpinned by information management tools (the Species Information Service) which facilitate the collection, management and processing of species data from workshop to publication on The IUCN Red List.

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International Commitee of general medical journal editors and representatives of selected related organizations working together to improve quality of medical science and its reporting.

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GDR is a curated and integrated web-based relational database. GDR contains comprehensive data of the genetically anchored peach physical map, annotated EST databases of apple, peach, almond, cherry, rose, raspberry and strawberry, Rosaceae maps and markers and all publicly available Rosaceae sequences. Annotations of ESTs include contig assembly, putative function, simple sequence repeats, ORFs, Gene Ontology and anchored position to the peach physical map where applicable. Our integrated map viewer provides graphical interface to the genetic, transcriptome and physical mapping information. We continue to add Rosaceae map data to CMap, a web-based tool that allows users to view comparisons of genetic and physical maps. ESTs, BACs and markers can be queried by various categories and the search result sites are linked to the integrated map viewer or to the WebFPC physical map sites. In addition to browsing and querying the database, users can compare their sequences with the annotated GDR sequences via a dedicated sequence similarity server running either the BLAST or FASTA algorithm, search their sequences for microsatellites using the SSR server or assemble their ESTs using the CAP3 Server.

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Blog where you will find a genomics resources news portal with daily postings about genomics resources, genomics news and research, science and more.

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The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) facilitates dialogue and mutual understanding between the research-based pharmaceutical industry and other global health stakeholders. Our objective is to build trust and help to find broadly supported solutions to the huge and complex issues facing society in the arena of human health. The IFPMA was founded in 1968 as a global, non-profit, non-governmental organization. With members across the world and a secretariat based in Geneva, Switzerland, the IFPMA represents the research-based pharmaceutical industry, including the biotechnology and vaccine sectors. Our members comprise leading international companies as well as national and regional industry associations, in both developed and developing countries, across all five continents. Our primary role is to represent our members'' views in dialogue with global intergovernmental organizations, the diplomatic missions of national governments and specialized non-governmental organizations. The IFPMA advocates policies that encourage discovery of and access to life-saving and life-enhancing new medicines to improve the health of patients everywhere. To fulfill its mission, the IFPMA has established a number of key guiding principles: * To encourage a global policy environment that is conducive to innovation in medicine, both therapeutic and preventive, for the benefit of patients around the world; * To promote and support principles of ethical conduct and practices voluntarily agreed upon, as exemplified by the IFPMA Code of Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices; * To promote and support the adoption of high standards of manufacturing practices and quality assurance for pharmaceutical products; * To contribute industry expertise and foster collaborative relationships and partnerships with international organizations that are dedicated to the improvement of public health, especially in developing and emerging countries; and * To assure regular contact and experience-sharing and coordinate the efforts of its members towards achieving these objectives.

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R functions for the normalization of Exiqon miRNA array data.

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Software for normalization of Agilent miRNA arrays.

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GABI-Kat is a database of flanking sequence tags (FSTs) from T-DNA mutagenised A. thaliana plants. Over time, an increasing number of lines will become available from NASC. The "show sequence" page of SimpleSearch will display if a GABI-Kat line for a given FST has already been donated to NASC. Lines that have so far not been regrown and confirmed are only available from GABI-Kat directly. We have used four vectors: pAC106 (GenBank:AJ537513), pAC161 (GenBank:AJ537514), pGABI1 (GenBank:AY529716) and pADIS1 (GenBank:AY529717). Sequence and overview map data of all vectors are available from the download page. Features of interest which are not included in the map should be deduced from the sequence. For a specified line, the vector is displayed in the "Show Sequence" page of SimpleSearch.

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The aim of the project is to provide contemporary estimates of the incidence of, mortality and prevalence from major types of cancer, at national level, for 184 countries of the world. The GLOBOCAN estimates are presented for 2012, separately for each sex. 1-, 3- and 5-year prevalence data are available for the adult population only (ages 15 and over). Please note that: These estimates are based on the most recent data available at IARC and on information publically available on the Internet, but more recent figures may be available directly from local sources. Because the sources of data are continuously improving in quality and extent, estimates may not be truly comparable overtime and care should be taken when comparing these estimates with those published earlier. The observed differences may be the result of a change in the methodology and should not be interpreted as a time trend effect.

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A web-based central resource that integrates vaccine literature data mining, vaccine research data curation and storage, and curated vaccine data analysis for vaccines and vaccine candidates developed against various pathogens of high priority in public health and biological safety. The vaccine data includes research data from vaccine studies using humans, natural and laboratory animals.VIOLIN extracts and stores vaccine-related, peer-reviewed papers from PubMed. Several powerful literature searching and data mining programs have been developed. These include an advanced keywords search program, a natural languagae processing (NLP) based literature retrieval program, a MeSH-based literature browser, and a literature alert program. Registered users can subscribe to our email alert service and will be notified of any newly published vaccine papers in the areas of interest. These literature mining programs are designed to help the user and VIOLIN database curators to find efficiently needed vaccine articles and sentences within full-text articles that contain searched keywords or categories.A web-based literature mining and curation system (Limix) is available for registered users/curators to search, curate, and submit structured vaccine data into the VIOLIN database. The curated vaccine-related information contains many categories such as general pathogenesis, protective immunity, vaccine preparation and characteristics, host responses including vaccination protocol and efficacy against virulent pathogen infections. All data within the database is edited manually and is derived primarily from peer-reviewed publications. The curated data is stored in a relational database and can be queried using various VIOLIN search programs. Vaccine-related pathogen and host genes are annotated and available for searchs based on a customized BLAST program. All VIOLIN data are available for download into an XML-based data exchange format.VIOLIN is designed to be a vital source of vaccine information and will provide researchers in basic and clinical sciences with curated data and bioinformatics tools to facilitate understanding and development of vaccines to fight infectious diseases. Category: Other Molecular Biology Databases Subcategory: Drugs and drug design

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The NIH is comprised of the Office of the Director and 27 Institutes and Centers. The Office of the Director is the central office at NIH. The OD is responsible for setting policy for NIH and for planning, managing, and coordinating the programs and activities of all the NIH components. The NIH Director provides overall leadership to NIH activities in both scientific and administrative matters. Although each institute within the NIH has a separate mission, the NIH Director plays an active role in shaping the agency''s research agenda and outlook. With a unique and critical perspective on the mission of the entire NIH, the Director is responsible for providing leadership to the institutes for identifying needs and opportunities, especially for efforts that involve several institutes. The NIH Director is assisted by the Principal Deputy Director, who shares in the overall direction of the agency''s activities. In carrying out these responsibilities, the NIH Director stays informed about program priorities and accomplishments through regular staff meetings, discussions, and briefing sessions with OD and institute staff. The Director also receives input from: * the extramural scientific community, including both individual researchers and scientific organizations * patient advocacy and voluntary health groups that deal directly with NIH or indirectly through Congress and the media * the Congress and the Administration the Council of Public Representatives, which brings public views to NIH. Ongoing discussions with these groups and others provides the basis for an established framework within which priorities for the agency are identified, reviewed, and justified. Dr. Francis Collins, the NIH Director, has outlined five key themes for NIH: * Applying high throughput technologies to understand fundamental biology, and to uncover the causes of specific diseases * Translating basic science discoveries into new and better treatments * Putting science to work for the benefit of health care reform * Encouraging a greater focus on global health * Reinvigorating and empowering the biomedical research community Program offices in the Office of the Director are responsible for stimulating specific areas of research throughout NIH and for planning and supporting research and related activities. Current program areas are: minority health, women''s health, AIDS research, disease prevention, and behavioral and social sciences research. Program offices within the Office of the Director fund research through the institutes.

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The Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center (CNADC) is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to conducting research to discover how the brain coordinates mental functions such as memory, language, attention, and emotion; transferring the benefits of this research to patients with brain diseases that impair cognitive function; and training researchers and clinicians who want to work in this field. The CNADC's mission is to investigate the neurological basis of cognitive function, to elucidate causes of dementia, and to ensure that the patients and their families are the beneficiaries of resultant discoveries. * Clinical Services: Neurobehavior and Memory Health Clinical Services * Annual Grant Opportunities: Annual Core Pilot Project Funding Opportunities * Research Areas & Faculty: Alzheimer's Disease / Primary Progressive Aphasia / Frontal Dementia, Brain Endowment (Brains are permanently stored, and requests for tissue for research purposes are submitted to Dr. Bigio for review by the Northwestern Alzheimer's Disease Center); Cognitive Brain Mapping Group, Volunteer For A Study * Fellowships: Neuropathology Fellowship, Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Fellowship * Training Programs: Mechanisms of Aging and Dementia (M.A.D.) Training Program; Training Program in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition

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