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The aim is to develop a new visualization tool that allows effective comparative genome sequence analysis. The program will compare multiple sequences from putitatively homologous regions in different species. Results from various different existing analysis programs, such as gene prediction, protein homology and regulatory sequence prediction programs shall be visualized and used to find corresponding sequence domains. The program functions as an stand-alone application and also over the World Wide Web. With this in mind it is being developed using the Java programming language. A key feature of the program is to use available analysis programs relevant to comparative genome sequence analysis, combine the results of these, and graphically present them in an intuitive way, thereby facilitating the analysis of large genomic regions. We''ve decided to call this program Alfresco. We originally wanted to call it Fresco (FRont-End for Sequence COmparison) but that name was already taken. To run Alfresco you need to have jdk1.1 installed. Alfresco has only been tested on Solaris 2.5, Dec OSF 4.0D and Linux, but should run on any machine with jdk1.1. New: Alfresco now runs on Mac and Windows as well.

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Throughout its history, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew has made important contributions to increasing the understanding of the plant kingdom with many benefits for mankind. Today it is still first and foremost a scientific institution. With its collections of living and preserved plants, of plant products and botanical information, it forms an encyclopaedia of knowledge about the plant kingdom.

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As the integral bridge between researcher and patient, ProMedDx helps the world''s leading in-vitro diagnostic and research organizations fulfill the promise of disease eradication and healthier living. From a constantly evolving, high-grade Specimen Bank to a complete range of customized Clinical Services to a secure, state-of-the-art BioStorage, ProMedDx delivers the industry''s most trusted and comprehensive human biological solutions from collection to handling, storage, and transportation. Human biologics such as blood, plasma, urine, and tissue specimens possess crucial clues that can unlock the mystery of disease and lead to life altering treatments. As one of the most respected suppliers of human clinical specimens and patient samples, we are entrusted with a vital role in the advancement of medical research. ProMedDx is proud to further the scientific quest for discovery. That''s why we maintain an inventory of more than 1.8 million high quality healthy, and diseased human clinical specimens collected under IRB, ICH, and GCP guidelines and in adherence with HIPAA privacy regulations. Although our extensive Specimen Bank offers a wide ranging inventory, ProMedDx experts are also poised to help clients with clinical trial services or custom sample collections. ProMedDx has created one of the industry''s most secure, cost-efficient, and state-of-the-art specimen and tissue banks for for the storage of biological specimens. Strategically located between Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island, our on-site facility offers uncompromised Safety & Security. Best-in-class Technology runs our BioStorage facility and our centralized Logistics procedures have set new industry standards in packaging and shipping.

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If Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, or Physical Therapy is not just a career choice for you - if it''s a calling - then you may belong at Creighton University. For our students, it''s about more than career training. It''s about serving patients. Restoring health. Changing lives. Health care is a serious career, perhaps a lifelong calling. Creighton seeks the cream of the crop for these programs - men and women who feel a genuine calling to serve patients, restore health, and save lives. There''s more for you in Omaha than a vibrant university community. It''s true that U.S. News & World Report lists us as among the best colleges in the Midwest. And that we''ve been educating health professionals for more than a century. We''re also home to one of the world''s leading medical communities. That means training in leading edge facilities and in one of the nation''s best teaching hospitals. Perhaps our greatest distinction, however, is our university-wide commitment to creating an ever better and more just world. You''ll find our PT doctoral students staffing a free clinic for the underserved our pharmacy students conducting drug and alcohol education seminars ... and our OT students volunteering for the Special Olympics. It''s all tied to the values we strive toward as a Jesuit institution.

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A company which specializes in producing calcium-based products, particularly hydroxyapatite and tricalcium phosphate. Their activities are focussed on synthetic bone graft substitutes, sustained-release drug delivery devices, and applications of HAP for protein purification.

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Stunning scientific discoveries have opened the possibilities for us to preserve our unaltered youth and healthy genome almost indefinitely. To do this, we propose to our clients to allow us to isolate and cryopreserve a small piece of tissue from their body in our unique tissue bank via a simple skin biopsy procedure. Our methods provide 100% assurance that the tissues we preserve will remain viable, healthy and young. We guarantee that these tissues will correspond to the age and physical status from the time when they were collected and can be preserved for many decades to come. In that way we strive to accomplish mankind''s most important dream ������?? to stop the hands of time and reduce the effects of aging. We will bring to a standstill the genetic program that is encoded in our cells that cause us to age and grow older. What is unique about this procedure, from a biological perspective, is that even as a person continues to live longer and get older, at the same time, part of his body remains invariably young. This well-preserved critical piece of tissue contains all the vitally important genetic material that harnesses the potential for invigorating one''s health. It will play an essential role in the rehabilitation and rejuvenation of human beings in the future. Recent studies have shown that certain parts of our skin are the most optimal material to be used for our program. For this purpose we utilize fibroblasts, the cells of the connective tissues located at the bottom side of our epidermis. In order to properly extract fibroblasts from our skin we have to perform a basic skin biopsy procedure. If you decide to participate in our program, StemCure will send to you the standard Tissue Collection Kit. This Kit contains detailed instructions for how your doctor should perform the biopsy procedure, as well as all the necessary components for the collection and transportation of a biopsy sample. StemCure will immediately start processing your biopsy samples once they arrive by overnight shipment to one of our laboratory facilities. We perform this very elaborate procedure because we understand perfectly well that our ultimate goal is not just the preservation of your tissue samples, but rather their subsequent utilization for the production of embryonic stem cells, which is the next stage of our program. Before subjecting the samples of your tissue to freezing, we will use the skin tissue to initiate the growth of the cell culture. After initial testing of the cell culture for viability and physiological activity, we will start its preparation for cyropreservation. StemCure will do everything in its power to ensure that the ������??Youth Genome������?? of our clients is safely protected and will remain a viable source for their healthy disease-free future.

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The National Psoriasis Victor Henschel BioBank is a collection of biological samples and clinical information used by qualified scientists to further the field of psoriasis genetics. Once completed, the National Psoriasis BioBank will be the largest collection of psoriasis DNA samples in the world, moving us closer to understanding the causes of psoriatic diseases, discovering more and better treatments and finding a cure. The BioBank is currently collecting DNA from people with and without psoriasis and/or psoriatic arthritis. Simply by donating your DNA����??a blood sample and a swab of your cheek cells����??and providing us with your medical history, you can help us find a cure. Samples will be processed and stored at a private laboratory and not at the National Psoriasis Foundation. The National Psoriasis BioBank is part of the Genetic Alliance BioBank (GA BioBank), a centralized repository for the collection, storage and distribution of biological samples (including DNA, serum, cells and tissues) and clinical data for genetic researchers.

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FTP site to access Schizosaccharomyces pombe protein data.

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Files of the full release and daily updates of the GenBank database are available for anonymous FTP. The full release in flat-file format is available as compressed files in the directory genbank. It is created every two months. Individual files for each day''s new or updated sequence entries processed since close of data for the latest release are located in the sub-directory daily-nc. ASN.1 formatted data is in the directory ncbi-asn1. Lists of all nucleotide and protein accession numbers, generated each Sunday evening, are available in the Live lists directory.

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I''m studying how the brain works on various levels; this blog chronicles some of my informal notes along the way. I previously went to Vassar College, majoring in Neuroscience and Behavior with a minor in Math. Now I work at a biology lab in Maryland. I appreciate any feedback that you may have, good or bad. You can email me at amckenz at g mail dot com. What I write on here is obviously my opinion. Everything on the site is filed under a Creative Commons License v. 3.0. That means that you can copy and re-publish this stuff anywhere without my permission. Thanks for reading. Essay titles include: * A Loss of Agency Following Use of ADHD Medications in College Aged Adults * An Evolutionary Account of the Environmentally Programmed Stress Response * Changes in protein structure of myelin sheaths throughout vertebrate evolution * Effect of Glucocorticoids on the Attenuation in Neurogenesis due to Sleep Deprivation * Insulin sensitivity and age-related memory changes due to caloric restriction * Is Neurogenesis in the Hippocampus Linked to Depression? * Novelty-Seeking and Associative Learning of Chemotaxis in C. Elegans * The Effects of D2 Receptors on the Inverted U-Shape Response Curve to Psychostimulants * Three Applications of Optogenetics The author has included some tricks and illusions from around the web that reveal fascinating facets of our thought processes including: The Checker, Sensory Homonculus Picture, A Blindspot Demonstration, A Ball in a Box, Iterated Choices, The Max Plank Institute for Biological Cybernetics, The Motion Aftereffect Illusion, The Phi Phenomenon, The Common Fate Phenomenon, A Double Face, The Troxler Effect

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 22, 2016. The NIEHS Genetic Alterations in Cancer (GAC) knowledgebase is a comprehensive collection of data compiled from studies reported in the published literature on genetic alterations in tumors associated with exposure to specific chemical, physical, or biological agents that can be linked to genes implicated in the development of cancers. GAC provides access to data from peer reviewed journals for hundreds of studies of gene mutations, loss of heterozygosity, and/or chromosome changes in tumors from humans, mice, or rats. Results are summarized in tables and graphic profiles that show the incidence (percent) of tumors with alterations in each gene that has been studied. Detailed data tables display results for each subject studied in the cited reference and the reference ID is hyperlinked to its PubMed abstract for more information. A mutation spectrum for individual genes and links to gene information from The Cancer Genome Anatomy Project and the Rat Genome Database are also provided.

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MTBBASE is a database about the physiology of the tuberculosis bacterium, in widely-used formats, and publicly accessible. Available already is MTB-GOA, paper-centric Gene Ontology (GO) annotations. Pathway data on reactome is in progress. This is a private effort because I am not affiliated with a university nor a company. Nevertheless, I am putting a constant part of the day into the work. The annotations were checked by the UniProt-GOA group at the EBI (after passing my own checks) and pathways are checked by a reactome editor. This work would not have been possible without NCBI''s Entrez service, the german national licence, UniProt, and tuberculist at epfl.ch.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE This is the website for a weekly social event called Dangerous Ideas, to promote more cross talk and cross pollination of ideas. There is a list of links to interesting new tools and technologies in the realm of computation and science. We'll be experimenting with webcasting this so others who can't physically join us can share in seeing what we think is cool. Its a completely open event-- anyone is welcome to join in, but should be prepared to present!

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Biological material management services provider including biospecimen storage, biobanking services, specimen collection kits, sample processing, DNA /RNA extraction and amplification, sample storage, distribution, and clinical trial support. They also offer transport and storage of active pharmaceutical ingredient(s) (API and bio-API), including cryogenic. They can assist with public health research, phase I???????????????IV studies, prospective and retrospective studies, IND/NDA submissions to the FDA, and entry of biotherapeutics into the commercial marketplace.

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At Puget Sound Blood Center, when we talk about the work of our Research Institute, what we are really talking about is saving lives. Many recognize the lifesaving work of the Blood Center for its role in maintaining the blood supply for Western Washington. But that is only the beginning of how the Blood Center touches the lives of people all over the world. The Blood Center is widely considered the premier knowledge source on blood research and transfusion medicine and has been developing cutting-edge technologies and establishing best practices in this field for over sixty-six years. Medical institutions worldwide rely on the Blood Center''s research work. Scientific equipment manufacturers, as well as pharmaceutical companies turn to the Blood Center for help in developing effective equipment and successful therapies that are saving lives around the world every day.

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Barbara J. King''s Research Blog

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For computational modeling to become more widely used in biological research, researchers must be able to exchange and share their results. The development and broad acceptance of common model representation formats such as SBML is a crucial step in that direction, allowing researchers to exchange and build upon each other''s work with greater ease and accuracy. The BioModels.net project is another step: an international effort to: 1. define agreed-upon standards for model curation 2. define agreed-upon vocabularies for annotating models with connections to biological data resources 3. provide a free, centralized, publicly-accessible database of annotated, computational models in SBML and other structured formats To facilitate assembling useful collections of quantitative models of biological phenomena, it is crucial to establish standards for the vocabularies used in model annotations as well as criteria for minimum quality levels of those models. The BioModels.net project aims to bring together a community of interested researchers to address these issues. We are working towards defining these standards through white papers and process definitions. All of the products of our efforts are open and freely available through this site.

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