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The LSU Department of Psychiatry is committed to the finest quality medical student education, post-medical school training for residents and fellows in all aspects of psychiatry: general psychiatry, infant, child and adolescent psychiatry, emergency and administrative psychiatry, and consultation liaison psychiatry. This department also provides excellent graduate and post-graduate training in social work and psychology. The department provides major leadership in research spanning our field and makes important advances in the understanding of psychopharmacology and neuroscience, developmental disorders, psychodynamic psychiatry, and treatment of children and families exposed to community and family violence. It plays key roles related to transmission and treatment of HIV infection, prevention of school failure and incarceration among high risk youth and maintaining mental health in our senior citizens, to name but a few areas. Their nationally recognized Harris Infant Mental Health Center trains professionals in several states to understand and treat the most vulnerable of our children and their families during the first three years of life. The Harris Center for Infant Mental Health of the LSUHSC Department of Psychiatry is devoted to the study and treatment of infants and young children. The goals of the Center are: - To develop a crucial number of mental health professionals locally, nationally, and internationally trained to evaluate and treat infants. - To develop networks to provide support for individuals working with infants. - To bring together individuals from different mental health disciplines who will have a core set of skills and knowledge to assess and treat infants. - To develop expertise in evaluation and treatment for high-risk infants. - To educate the judges, lawyers and court personnel on the effects of violence on young children.

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It is a database for molecular surfaces of proteins'' functional sites. It displays the electrostatic potentials and hydrophobic properties together on the Connolly surfaces of the active sites, for analysis of the molecular recognition mechanisms. The Connolly surfaces were made by using the MSP program and the electrostatic potentials were calculated by solving Poisson-Boltzmann equations with the self-consistent boundary method.

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An independent federal agency created by Congress to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense They are the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America''s colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing. NSF leadership has two major components: a director who oversees NSF staff and management responsible for program creation and administration, merit review, planning, budget and day-to-day operations; and a 24-member National Science Board (NSB) of eminent individuals that meets six times a year to establish the overall policies of the foundation.The director and all Board members serve six year terms. Each of them, as well as the NSF deputy director, is appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. At present, NSF has a total workforce of about 2,100 at its Arlington, Va., headquarters, including approximately 1,400 career employees, 200 scientists from research institutions on temporary duty, 450 contract workers and the staff of the NSB office and the Office of the Inspector General. NSF is the only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. They are tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in areas from astronomy to geology to zoology. So, in addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports high-risk, high pay-off ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow. And in every case, they ensure that research is fully integrated with education so that today''s revolutionary work will also be training tomorrow''s top scientists and engineers NSF''s task of identifying and funding work at the frontiers of science and engineering is not a top-down process.

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Wake Forest School of Medicine (WFSM) occupies a firm position among the best medical schools in the United States. The desire to teach excellence in clinical medicine, promote strong clinical and basic research, render exemplary patient care, and stress service to the community has continued as an integral part of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, a leading research and teaching hospital. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is a preeminent, internationally recognized academic medical center of the highest quality primary care physicians with balanced excellence in patient care, research and education. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Teaching Hospital''s mission is to improve the health of our region, state and nation by: * Generating and translating knowledge to prevent, diagnose and treat disease. * Training leaders in health care and biomedical science. * Serving as the premier health system in our region, with specific centers of excellence recognized as national and international care destinations.

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Public university founded in 1966, which is based in Adelaide, South Australia. Its main campus is located at Bedford Park in Adelaide's inner south, with sites at Victoria Square in the centre of the city,Tonsley,regional South Australia, south-west Victoria and throughout the Northern Territory.

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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.

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The Department of Neurology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans provides state-of the-art clinical evaluation and care for patients with neurological diseases. Its educational and research programs share the common goals of enhancing the knowledge of neuroscience and improving the diagnosis and care of patients. One of their primary missions is to educate and train medical students, physicians and other health care providers. Their residency and fellowship programs provide physicians with comprehensive training and experience in general and subspecialty neurology. Furthermore, their research programs encompass diverse areas and expertise in neurology and neuroscience. And additionally, many of the department''s faculty have established collaborative multi-disciplinary research projects, especially with members of the LSU Neuroscience Center of Excellence. The Neurology Residency Program at LSU Health Sciences Center is fully accredited by the ACGME. The Department of Neurology is a component of the nationally respected LSU Health Sciences Center, which is the major medical training institution for the State of Louisiana. The LSU Health Sciences has many components, one of which is the Neuroscience Center of Excellence, a state of the art research center for the neurosciences. The LSU Health Sciences Center not only sponsors medical education, but also has a School of Nursing, Dentistry, Physical and Occupational Therapy. This allows for the flourishing of multidisciplinary research and innovative thinking. It accepts three residents per year; residents must complete one year of internal medicine prior to entering into our program. Additionally, LSUHSC Neurology has fellowship available in: - Child Neurology - Pain Management - Neurophysiology

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Software to infer the posterior distributions of microRNA targets by probabilistically modelling the likelihood microRNA-overexpression fold-changes and sequence-based scores.

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Software for power computation for ChIP-Seq data based on Bayesian estimation for local poisson counting process.

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A commercial antibody supplier which supplies primary and secondary antibodies, biochemicals, proteins, peptides, lysates, immunoassays and other kits.

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Statistical tools for the analysis of ChIP-seq data.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SEVICE. Documented on August 19,2019.It hosts records of currently available essential genes among a wide range of organisms. For prokaryotes, DEG contains essential genes in more than 10 bacteria, such as E. coli, B. subtilis, H. pylori, S. pneumoniae, M. genitalium and H. influenzae, whereas for eukaryotes, DEG contains those in yeast, humans, mice, worms, fruit flies, zebra fish and the plant A. thaliana. Users can Blast query sequences against DEG, and can also search for essential genes by their functions and names. Essential gene products comprise excellent targets for antibacterial drugs. Essential genes in a bacterium constitute a minimal genome, forming a set of functional modules, which play key roles in the emerging field, synthetic biology.

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A software program for peak-calling and visualization for ChIP-seq analysis.

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A database of curated, integrated and reusable high-throughput genomics experiments and a web-based, graphical software suite that allows users to analyse data produced using high-throughput sequencing platforms (RNA-seq and ChIP-seq; Next-Generation Sequencing or NGS). Algorithm developers and computer programmers can develop their own modules and extend the functionality of GeneProf. Existing software can be easily wrapped and integrated in the GeneProf framework and data from GeneProf may be used externally.

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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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• 15 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

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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• 15 years ago - submitted by Stephen Larson

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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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous