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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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An algorithm for de novo genome assembly with short paired-end reads.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 22, 2016. Support research in Alzheimer's disease (AD) offering pilot grants, recruitment of research subjects, access to database, tissue samples, and statistical and research study design consultation for investigators. The scientific effort of the program seeks to: promote research directed at understanding factors that influence the expression and progression of Alzheimer's disease; develop and maintain cohorts of carefully diagnosed and well characterized research subjects available for research studies on Alzheimer's disease and dementia; provide support to investigators in subject recruitment, clinical research, experimental design, and statistical analysis of data; and maintain a variety of samples (brain, DNA, serum) and an extensive electronic database suitable for developing new research and supporting existing programs.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 22, 2016.

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OKCAM (Ontology-based Knowledgebase for Cell Adhesion Molecules) is an online resource for human genes known or predicted to be related to the processes of cell adhesion. These genes include members of the cadherin, immunoglobulin/FibronectinIII (IgFn), integrin, neurexin, neuroligin, and catenin families. Totally 496 human CAM genes were compiled and annotated. We have mapped these genes onto a novel cell adhesion molecule ontology (CAMO) that provides a hierarchical description of cell adhesion molecules and their functions. It is intended to provide a means to facilitate better and better understanding of the global and specific properties of CAMs through their genomic features, regulatory modes, expression patterns and disease associations become clearer. You may browse by CAM ontology, Chromosomes and Full Gene list.

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PathServe Autopsy And Human Tissue Bank is a tissue supplier for bioresearch and educational institutions. It was established in 1990 in order to better satisfy the needs of Bay Area hospitals using inexpensive and reliable postmortem examinations. Today we''ve grown into a multidepartmental organization; serving nationwide as a human tissue supplier to biotech and neuropathological research institutions as well as a centralized autopsy provider to private citizens and local hospitals.

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A federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organization that coordinates organ and tissue donation in the six New England states and Bermuda.

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The goal of the Alzheimers Disease Center is to help reduce the human and economic costs associated with Alzheimers disease through the advancement of knowledge. The primary missions of the Center are to: conduct and facilitate cutting-edge Alzheimers disease research; enhance clinical care for Alzheimers disease patients and their families; and provide education regarding Alzheimers disease to both professional and lay audiences. The Center is made up of a multidisciplinary group of professionals dedicated to research, clinical care, and education.

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A whole genome assembly software that combines the efficiency of the de Bruijn graph and Overlap-Layout-Consensus (OLC) approaches., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest. As a national resource, we apply our expertise in systems engineering, information technology, operational concepts, and enterprise modernization to address our sponsors'' critical needs. MITRE manages Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs): one for the Department of Defense (known as the DoD Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence FFRDC), one for the Federal Aviation Administration (the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development), one for the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (the Center for Enterprise Modernization), and one for the Department of Homeland Security (the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute). We believe that each FFRDC benefits from being part of an independent, not-for-profit company managing multiple FFRDCs. MITRE also has its own independent research and development program that explores new technologies and new uses of technologies to solve our sponsors'' problems in the near-term and in the future. MITRE has 7,000 scientists, engineers and support specialists65 percent of whom have Masters or Ph.D. degrees. Staff members work on hundreds of different projects across the company, demanding a high level of technical, operational, and domain knowledge. The MITRE Corporation has two principal locations: Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia. MITRE also has additional sites across the country and around the world.

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Commercial tissue bank focused on human tissues.

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Commercial medical device company focused on developing minimally disruptive surgical products and procedures for spine.

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A database algorithm for generating protein backbone and side chain coordinates from a C(alpha) trace. The backbone is assembled from fragments taken from known structures. Side chain conformations are optimized in rotamer space using a rough potential energy function to avoid clashes.

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