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Registry to assist individuals conceived as a result of sperm, egg or embryo donation that are seeking to make mutually desired contact with others with whom they share genetic ties. They are all about educating, connecting, and supporting donor families. Without any outside support, the DSR has single-handedly pioneered a national discussion about the donor conception industry and families, with it''s many media appearances and interviews. DSR advocates for the right to honesty and transparency for donor kids, and for social acceptance, legal rights and valuing the diversity of all families. The DSR''s core value is honesty, with the conviction that people have the fundamental right to information about their biological origins and identities. The donor conception industry is largely a for-profit enterprise, and after the product has been purchased, most doctors, clinics, egg donation agencies and cryobanks do not engage in discussions and activities which acknowledge the humanity and rights of the donor-conceived. It is our mission to bring these concepts to the public arena for discussion, as has been done in many European countries, as well as New Zealand and parts of Australia. Although you do not need to make a posting to browse the database, it is strongly recommended. Creating a posting in our database is the first step to ensuring the best possible chances of connecting with your biological relatives. If two users with the same donor number browse, but neither post, the connection cannot be made. Many folks are out there waiting to see someone else post for their donor number first! The DSR hope that this will be the first step in connecting with your donor relatives, but please always exercise sensible caution when making contact with those you meet through any internet website, including the DSR.

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Textensor Limited specializes in software development and consulting related to interactive web based information management systems, web services, data modeling, and scientific computing. Our flagship product, a.nnotate.com, was launched in January 2008. It allows on-line review, annotation and discussion of web pages and a wide range of document types, including PDF and DOC, via a web browser. In April 2007 we launched PublicationsList.org to facilitate access to scientific research papers. It allows researchers to easily keep complete and reliable records of their research output on the web and gained more than 3000 users in the first 8 months. In 2005, Textensor won a SMART:Scotland award for a pilot study into techniques for authoring structured content from text. The first commercial product developed from this technology is a.nnotate.com. Recent consultancy clients include the University of Edinburgh for the development of PSICS, the Parallel Stochastic Ion Channel Simulator, the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology for prototype code for stochastic diffusion, Memosyne Ltd for development of on-line memory tests for children, and Pearson Assessment for implementation of the Automated Working Memory Assessment.

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University of Foggia, located in Foggia, Italy, was founded in 1991 and was fully recognized in 1999.

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• 12 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Tissue bank that provides samples and associated clinical information to associated researchers.

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BTI is unique in being a private, not-for-profit research institute dedicated to plant biology, and located on a major university campus. Its mission is to advance and communicate scientific knowledge in plant biology to improve agriculture, protect the environment, and enhance human health. The institute was founded in Yonkers, New York, next to the home of its benefactor, William Boyce Thompson. In the mid-1970''s, however, it was recognized that a physical presence on a university campus would catapult the institute to a higher level of research, and the Cornell affiliation was born. BTI hires its own faculty, postdoctoral scholars and technicians, but also hosts undergraduate and graduate researchers from Cornell. BTI faculty generally have adjunct appointments at Cornell, and participate in graduate training and other university affairs. As envisioned in the Agreement of Affiliation, the partnership is advantageous for both parties, and contributes to a singularly strong environment for fundamental plant research on the campus. William Boyce Thompson founded BTI in 1924 on the premise that basic plant research leads to real benefits for people. Many potential applications of BTI research are to improve crops by increasing yield or nutritional content, or decreasing the need for harmful fertilizers and pesticides. Other research could lead to inexpensive plant-made vaccines, or even shed light on the human immune system. With aims like these in mind, scientists at BTI study life at the scale of genes and proteins to learn about processes such as how plants detect light, or how they respond when aphids bite into them. Along with research, BTI''s mission includes environmental responsibility and outreach to teachers, students, and community members. Though it remains an independent, non-profit institution, BTI is affiliated with Cornell University and is located on its Ithaca, New York campus.

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T-REX is a free, platform-independent online tool that allows for an integrated, rapid, and more robust analysis of T-RFLP data. Despite increasing popularity and improvements in terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) and other microbial community fingerprinting techniques, there are still numerous obstacles that hamper the analysis of these datasets. Many steps are required to process raw data into a format ready for analysis and interpretation. These steps can be time-intensive, error-prone, and can introduce unwanted variability into the analysis. Accordingly, we developed T-REX, free, online software for the processing and analysis of T-RFLP data. Analysis of T-RFLP data generated from a multiple-factorial study was performed with T-REX. With this software, we were able to i) label raw data with attributes related to the experimental design of the samples, ii) determine a baseline threshold for identification of true peaks over noise, iii) align terminal restriction fragments (T-RFs) in all samples (i.e., bin T-RFs), iv) construct a two-way data matrix from labeled data and process the matrix in a variety of ways, v) produce several measures of data matrix complexity, including the distribution of variance between main and interaction effects and sample heterogeneity, and vi) analyze a data matrix with the additive main effects and multiplicative interaction (AMMI) model.

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A web server interface of BioMart software and provides a unified view over disparate data sources that enable bioscientists to retrieve data from one or multiple sources in a simple and efficient way. This MartView web server features seamless data federation making cross querying of data sources in a user friendly and unified way. Data sources include major biomolecular sequence, pathway and annotation databases such as Ensembl, Uniprot, Reactome, HGNC, Wormbase, etc. The web server not only provides access through a web interface, it also supports programmatic access through a Perl API as well as RESTful and SOAP oriented web services.

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The new NTNU Systems Biology website showcases the different systems biology efforts at NTNU. Regular updates on new initiatives and advertisements for new PhD and Postdoc vacancies in systems biology will be posted.

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CARTA is developing two virtual libraries of books relevant to Anthropogeny * Library of Anthropogeny: A collection of book titles on human origins and human evolution, arranged chronologically. * Library of Primatology: A collection of book titles on non-human primate evolution, including basic biology, ecology and behavior. A listing of the book titles are made available for public interest.

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The Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) aims to define community standards for data representation in proteomics to facilitate data comparison, exchange and verification. As a first step, the PSI is developing standards for two key areas of proteomics: mass spectrometry and protein-protein interaction data. The document describes the molecular interaction data exchange format. PSI is following a leveled approach to building this specification. Level 1 will describe protein interactions at a basic level that covers a large amount of currently available data. Subsequent levels will add capability to represent new molecular interaction information that the community wishes to exchange. The scope of PSI MI is currently limited to protein-protein interactions. Other molecules, such as small molecules, DNA and RNA maybe taken into account in the future. The PSI MI format is a data exchange format for protein-protein interactions. It is not a proposed database structure. The purpose of the document is to describe the general structure of the PSI MI XML specification in a more user-friendly manner than the specification does itself. PSI MI was designed by a group of people including representatives from database providers and users in both academia and industry. PSI MI is supported by the DIP, MINT, IntAct, BIND and HPRD databases.

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Software providing de novo, parallel, paired-end sequence assembler that is designed for short reads. ABySS 1.0 originally showed that assembling human genome using short 50 bp sequencing reads was possible by aggregating half terabyte of compute memory needed over several computers using standardized message passing system. ABySS 2.0 is Resource Efficient Assembly of Large Genomes using Bloom Filter. ABySS 2.0 departs from MPI and instead implements algorithms that employ Bloom filter, probabilistic data structure, to represent de Bruijn graph and reduce memory requirements.

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A portal that allows users to track specific words, phrases or nearby relationships from social media sources including Twitter, Digg and others. Datasift aggregates, filters, records, and analyzes real-time data from a variety of social sources using our Curation Stream Definition Language (CSDL) allowing customers to curate their own news.

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The Human Proteome Organisation (HUPO) is an international scientific organization representing and promoting proteomics through international cooperation and collaborations by fostering the development of new technologies, techniques and training.

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Secure seed bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago to preserve wide variety of plant seeds that are duplicate samples, or "spare" copies, of seeds held in gene banks worldwide. The seed vault is attempt to ensure against loss of seeds in other genebanks during large-scale regional or global crises.

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Molecular Biology news and views for research scientists and advanced students. Keep up-to-date on current research, forthcoming conferences, hot research topics, high impact publications, and much more.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented May 10, 2017. A pilot effort that has developed a centralized, web-based biospecimen locator that presents biospecimens collected and stored at participating Arizona hospitals and biospecimen banks, which are available for acquisition and use by researchers. Researchers may use this site to browse, search and request biospecimens to use in qualified studies. The development of the ABL was guided by the Arizona Biospecimen Consortium (ABC), a consortium of hospitals and medical centers in the Phoenix area, and is now being piloted by this Consortium under the direction of ABRC. You may browse by type (cells, fluid, molecular, tissue) or disease. Common data elements decided by the ABC Standards Committee, based on data elements on the National Cancer Institute''s (NCI''s) Common Biorepository Model (CBM), are displayed. These describe the minimum set of data elements that the NCI determined were most important for a researcher to see about a biospecimen. The ABL currently does not display information on whether or not clinical data is available to accompany the biospecimens. However, a requester has the ability to solicit clinical data in the request. Once a request is approved, the biospecimen provider will contact the requester to discuss the request (and the requester''s questions) before finalizing the invoice and shipment. The ABL is available to the public to browse. In order to request biospecimens from the ABL, the researcher will be required to submit the requested required information. Upon submission of the information, shipment of the requested biospecimen(s) will be dependent on the scientific and institutional review approval. Account required. Registration is open to everyone., documented September 6, 2016. Set of orthogonal controlled vocabularies that unifies gene expression data by facilitating a link between the genome sequence and expression phenotype information. The system associates labelled target cDNAs for microarray experiments, or cDNA libraries and their associated transcripts with controlled terms in a set of hierarchical vocabularies. eVOC consists of four orthogonal controlled vocabularies suitable for describing the domains of human gene expression data including Anatomical System, Cell Type, Pathology and Developmental Stage. The four core eVOC ontologies provide an appropriate set of detailed human terms that describe the sample source of human experimental material such as cDNA and SAGE libraries. These expression terms are linked to libraries and transcripts allowing the assessment of tissue expression profiles, differential gene expression levels and the physical distribution of expression across the genome. Analysis is currently possible using EST and SAGE data, with microarray data being incorporated. The eVOC data is increasingly being accepted as a standard for describing gene expression and eVOC ontologies are integrated with the Ensembl EnsMart database, the Alternate Transcript Diversity Project and the UniProt Knowledgebase. Several groups are currently working to provide shared development of this resource such that it is of maximum use in unifying transcript expression information.

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Provides human tissue for drug discovery scientists. * Human Biospecimens: Frozen & Fixed Human Tissues; Human RNA/DNA; Human Primary Cells / Cell lines; Custom Procurement; Oncology tissue, biofluid and RNA sets at special prices * Human Tissue-Based Services: Gene Expression, Molecular Pathology, Biochemical Pharmacology, Metabolism and Toxicity * Predictive Human Disease Models

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVCE, documented September 2, 2016. A commercial tissue bank focusing on human tissue.

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Dictyostelium discoideum is a great organism to use to teach cellular biology. It exhibits very interesting behaviors, such as chemotaxis and phagocytosis, that can readily be studied in standard laboratories without the need for expensive equipment. Lists of labs being used in real courses settings and all necessary information for performing those experiments are provided. Major headings: * Dictyostelium cell biology course, by Dr. David Knecht, University of Connecticut * Dictyostelium cell biology, by Dr. Derrick Brazill, Hunter College, New York * Report on the number of cells in a slug, contributed by John Bonner * Practical on chemotaxis, by Dr. Thierry Soldati, University of Geneva * Comments from Researchers * References suggested by contributors

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