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Software package for reconstructing three-dimensional models of brain structures from 2-D delineations using a customizable and reproducible workflow. 3dBAR also works as an on-line service (http://service.3dbar.org) offering a variety of functions for the hosted datasets: * downloading reconstructions of desired brain structures in predefined quality levels in various supported formats as well as created using customizable settings, * previewing models as bitmap thumbnails and (for webGL enabled browsers) interactive manipulation (zooming, rotating, etc.) of the structures, * downloading slides from available datasets as SVG drawings. 3dBAR service can also be used by other websites or applications to enhance their functionality. * Operating System: Linux * Programming Language: Python * Supported Data Format: NIfTI-1, Other Format, VRML

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The Charleston Heart Study (CHS) is a prospective cohort study of 2,283 subjects (1,394 whites, 889 blacks) in which risk factors of coronary disease have been examined for the past 43 years. The CHS began enrolling a random selection of community residents who in 1960 were 35 years of age and older ����?? including men and women, black and white. A unique feature of this cohort is the fact that 102 high socio-economic status (SES) black men were purposefully included. The primary hypothesis of the original study was to investigate racial differences in the manifestation and risk factors for coronary disease. Over the ensuing 40+ years, a variety of outcome measurements were incorporated into the re-examination of the participants, including psychosocial, behavioral, aging and functional measures. Subjects were initially interviewed and examined in 1960 and 1963. Subsequent interviews and examinations took place during the following time periods: 1974-1975, 1984-1985, 1987-1989, and 1990-1991. During the most recent questionnaire (1990-1991), the following topics were examined: general health, smoking, functional disability, physical disability, cardiovascular health, sexual dysfunction, cognitive disability, depression, coffee consumption, medication history, medical history, nutrition, and body image. In addition, serum samples and blood pressure measurements were taken, and a physical exam was performed by a physician. A search of the National Death Index was completed through the year 2000, matching individuals with date and cause of death. Vital status of the CHS study participants through 12-31-2000 is presented below. Dead * White Men 539 (82.5%) * White Women 500 (67.5%) * Black Men 281 (84.4%) * High SES Black Men 59 (57.8%) * Black Women 343 (75.6%) Data Availability: Datasets are stored in the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) in the ICPSR as Study No. 4050. Data are also available from the Medical University of South Carolina Library; contact a PI, Paul J. Nietert, nieterpj (at) musc.edu for further information. * Dates of Study: 1960-2000 * Study Features: Longitudinal, Minority Oversamples, Anthropometric Measures * Sample Size: 1960: 2,283 (baseline) Link ICPSR, http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/04050

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ishFace is an atlas of zebrafish craniofacial development. How do the elements of the craniofacial skeleton arise, grow, and reshape? Answers to this question are coming from both molecular-genetic and cell-biological approaches, which rely, first of all, on precise description of the developmental events and processes that comprise skeletogenesis. Zebrafish, with a sophisticated knowledge of its genetics and genomics, with favorable attributes for phenotypic analyses of development, and with patterns of development conserved among all vertebrates, provides a powerful animal model for learning about craniofacial development. In particular, with current transgenic approaches one can examine craniofacial skeletal elements in exquisite cellular detail during an extended period of development within living, intact embryos and larvae an investigative method unsurpassed in accuracy and sensitivity. We constructed this developmental atlas of the craniofacial skeleton, FishFace, to serve as a guide for such study. We hope that the FishFace Atlas will be particularly useful in comparative and mutational analyses where there is interest in understanding the cellular basis of early skeletogenesis. The heart of the FishFace Atlas uses high magnification (generally a 40x objective) confocal image stacks showing transgenically-labelled chondrocytes or osteoblasts, along with mineralized bone matrix, which is visualized by vital staining with Alizarin red. We present these stacks in sequences that follow particular individual cartilages and bones of the first two pharyngeal arches as they develop during embryonic and larval stages. To do so, we build on the foundation set out in the gold standard reference for describing comprehensively skeletal elements in the zebrafish craniofacial complex, Cubbage and Mabee (1996), which used fixed preparations stained for cartilage and bone through adult stages. The FishFace Atlas element development section adds considerable detail to arch one and two early development, particularly at the cellular level, but also in description of element growth and shaping. Other sections of the FishFace Atlas, at lower magnification, provide anatomical context for the element development section, including an interactive tool made by optical projection tomography (OPT) for learning the anatomy of the entire larval skull. Hence, the FishFace Atlas provides the community with an interactive resource with which the user can understand not only the cellular details, but also complex 3D anatomical relationships, of developing elements in the craniofacial skeleton of the zebrafish.

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Platform for sharing data, with very large storage capability for electrophysiological data, EEG data is included. This service is provided for neuroscientists to facilitate data access, data storage, data analysis and data sharing. This service is developed and maintained by the German Node of the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility. The global scale of neuroinformatics offers unprecedented opportunities for scientific collaborations between and among experimental and theoretical neuroscientists. To fully harvest these possibilities, coordinated activities are required to improve key ingredients of neuroscience: data access, data storage, and data analysis, together with supporting activities for teaching and training. Focusing on the development and free distribution of tools for handling and analyzing neurophysiological data, G-Node aims at addressing these aspects as part of the International Neuroinformatics Coordination Facility (INCF) and the German Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience (NNCN). G-Node also serves as an international forum for Computational Neuroscientists that are interested in sharing experimental data and tools for data analysis and modeling. G-Node is funded through the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and hosted by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit-Munchen.

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A follow-up of the 1976-1977 MFLS-1 dataset covering the respondents'' and spouses'' marriage, fertility, employment, education and migration histories as well as extensive information on the household economy. The MFLS-2 contains a supplementary sample of persons age 50 or older. The data permit analysis of intergenerational transfers to the elderly and their covariates; the living arrangements of the elderly; the health of the elderly; labor supply, occupation and retirement status of the elderly; and their migration patterns. This supplement fills the gap left by many standard sources of demographic and economic information about Third World populations, such as fertility surveys and labor force surveys, which effectively exclude the elderly. Field work for MFLS-2 began in Aug. 1988 and was completed in Jan. 1989. The survey was fielded in four samples: * The Panel Sample Women who were the primary respondents to the MFLS-1, who at that time (1976) were ever-married women aged 50 or younger. There are 926 panel households in MFLS-2, a follow-up rate of 72%. * The Children Sample Children aged 18 or older in 1988 of the women interviewed as primary respondents for MFLS-1; i.e. adult children of the women eligible for the MFLS-2 Panel sample. There were interviews with one child, selected at random, inside the Panel household and two children, selected at random, living elsewhere in Peninsular Malaysia. There are 1,136 respondents in the Children sample. * The New Sample A sample of households with a woman aged 18-49 (regardless of her marital status) or an ever-married woman under age 18. There are 2,184 respondents in MFLS-2 New Sample. * The Senior Sample Selected households with a person age 50 or over. There are 1,357 respondents in the Senior Sample. Data Availability: The MFLS-2 (and MFLS-1) data files and documentation are available on-line or from NACDA at ICPSR as Study No. 9805. * Dates of Study: 1988-1989 * Study Features: International * Sample Size: Seniors (aged 50+): 1,357 Link: * ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/09805

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An R extension to ANTs that performs multivariate statistical parametric mapping of DTI, T1 and other datatypes for the purpose of both performing clinical studies and for tracking the performance of ANTs (and other) image processing methodologies. ANTsR depends upon the R statistical language, bash scripts and the ANTs toolkit. Some branches of ANTsR will also depend upon pipedream and specific datasets. Some of these datasets will be open access and, in that case, ANTsR will provide a 100% reproducible neuroimaging study on that data.

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Open-source turnkey software for automatic hippocampus segmentation. Its primary use is for delineating hippocampus in T1-weighted MRI images. AHEAD is developed by Jung W. Suh, Hongzhi Wang, Sandhitsu Das, Brian Avants, Philip Cook, John Pluta and Paul Yushkevich, and colleagues at the Penn Image Computing and Science Laboratory (PICSL) at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Data set from a long-term population-based prospective study of non-institutionalized residents (aged 21 or older, or aged 16-21 and older if married) in Alameda County, California investigating social and behavioral risk factors for morbidity, mortality, functioning and health. Questions were asked on marital and life satisfaction, parenting, physical activities, employment, health status, and childhood experiences. Demographic information on age, race, height, weight, education, income, and religion was also collected. Included with this dataset is a separate file (part 2) containing mortality data. With the aging of this cohort, data are becoming increasingly valuable for examining the life-long cumulative effects of social and behavioral factors on a well-characterized population. The first wave collected information for 6,928 respondents (including approximately 500 women aged 65 years and older) on chronic health conditions, health behaviors, social involvements, and psychological characteristics. The 1974 questionnaire was sent to 6,246 living subjects who had responded in 1965, and were able to be located. The third wave provides a follow-up of 2,729 original 1965 and 1974 respondents and examines health behaviors such as alcohol consumption and smoking habits, along with social activities. Also included is information on health conditions such as diabetes, osteoporosis, hormone replacement, and mental illness. Another central topic investigated is activities of daily living (including self-care such as dressing, eating, and shopping), along with use of free time and level of involvement in social, recreational, religious, and environmental groups. The fourth wave is a follow-up to the 1994 panel and examines changes in functional abilities such as self-care activities, employment, involvement in community activities, visiting friends/family, and use of free time since 1994. * Dates of Study: 1965-1999 * Sample Size: 1965: 6,928; 1974: 4,864; 1994: 2,729; 1995: 2,569, 1999: 2,123 * Study Features: Longitudinal Links: * 1965 ICPSR, http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/06688 * 1974 ICPSR, http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/06838 * 1994 and 1995 ICPSR, http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/03083 * 1999 ICPSR, http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/04432#summary

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Pipeline developed for delineating the association between multiple diffusion properties along major white matter fiber bundles with a set of covariates of interest, such as age, diagnostic status and gender, and the structure of the variability of these white matter tract properties in various diffusion tensor imaging studies. FADTTS can be used to facilitate understanding of normal brain development, the neural bases of neuropsychiatric disorders, and the joint effects of environmental and genetic factors on white matter fiber bundles. The advantages of FADTTS compared with the other existing approaches are that they are capable of modelling the structured inter-subject variability, testing the joint effects, and constructing their simultaneous confidence bands.

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A native Java-based imaging processing environment similar to the ITK/VTK paradigm. Initially developed as an extension to MIPAV (CIT, NIH, Bethesda, MD), the JIST processing infrastructure provides automated GUI generation for application plug-ins, graphical layout tools, and command line interfaces. This repository maintains the current multi-institutional JIST development tree and is recommended for public use and extension. JIST was originally developed at IACL and MedIC (Johns Hopkins University) and is now also supported by MASI (Vanderbilt University).

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DNAtraffic database is dedicated to be an unique comprehensive and richly annotated database of genome dynamics during the cell life. DNAtraffic contains extensive data on the nomenclature, ontology, structure and function of proteins related to control of the DNA integrity mechanisms such as chromatin remodeling, DNA repair and damage response pathways from eight model organisms commonly used in the DNA-related study: Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Escherichia coli and Arabidopsis thaliana. DNAtraffic contains comprehensive information on diseases related to the assembled human proteins. Database is richly annotated in the systemic information on the nomenclature, chemistry and structure of the DNA damage and drugs targeting nucleic acids and/or proteins involved in the maintenance of genome stability. One of the DNAtraffic database aim is to create the first platform of the combinatorial complexity of DNA metabolism pathway analysis. Database includes illustrations of pathway, damage, protein and drug. Since DNAtraffic is designed to cover a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines it has to be extensively linked to numerous external data sources. Database represents the result of the manual annotation work aimed at making the DNAtraffic database much more useful for a wide range of systems biology applications. DNAtraffic database is freely available and can be queried by the name of DNA network process, DNA damage, protein, disease, and drug.

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A twin study characterizing the importance of genetic factors for dementia and using discordant twin pairs to study other putative risk factors which control for genetic propensity to develop the disease. Molecular genetic studies have identified a number of mutations and other markers associated with early age of onset Alzheimer''''s disease. However, most cases of late age of onset dementia are considered sporadic, that is, without a clear genetic basis. Twin studies provide a unique opportunity to characterize the importance of genetic factors for dementia. Discordant twin pairs additionally provide the opportunity to study other putative risk factors which controlling for genetic propensity to develop the disease. In the first wave of the Study of Dementia in Swedish Twins, all SATSA twins born before 1935 have been screened for dementia symptoms. Over 190 suspects have been identified. This pilot study has been expanded to the entire registry in the study known as HARMONY. All twins aged 65 and older were invited to participate in a computer assisted telephone screening interview. A total of 13,519 individuals completed the interview (response rate = 75.9%). Dementia screening was based on the TELE, which includes the 10-item MSQ, other cognitive items (counting backwards, recalling three words, and similarities), and questions about health and daily functioning; or on Blessed scores obtained from a proxy interview. Among those screened, 1565 were positive for suspicion of dementia and were referred for complete clinical evaluation by a physician and a nurse. Once the preliminary in-person evaluation suggested that the suspected case was demented, the twin partner was also invited for an identical clinical work-up. Response rate for clinical evaluations is 71.4%. Approximately half of those visited for evaluation have been diagnosed as demented according to DSM-IV criteria, of which two-thirds have Alzheimer''''s disease. An extensive assessment of probable risk exposure is also included. Longitudinal follow-up is yet another feature of the study. Association studies with candidate genes are also being performed. Types of samples * DNA Number of sample donors * 1154 (sample collection completed)

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The Swedish Registry was established in the 1960s to study how smoking affects our health. Then little was known about the dangers of smoking. There is, at present, information on approximately 85 000 twin pairs, both monozygotic and dizygotic. As described by Lichtenstein et al., 2002, Pedersen et al., 2002 and Lichtenstein et al., 2006, the Swedish Twin Registry (STR) is the largest and most comprehensive twin registry in the world. Founded in 1961, the registry covers all like-sexed twin births since 1886, and all twin births (like- and unlike-sexed) since 1906. There are currently 89,000 pairs of twins registered, of which both members of 65,000 pairs are alive, with regular updates concerning vital status, addresses, hospital discharges, tumors, and causes of death, through subscriptions to national registries. Furthermore, there is extensive epidemiological data (exposures, symptoms and disease through questionnaires or interviews) on all pairs born 1986 or earlier, for most individuals involving 30 year baseline to follow-up information. Furthermore, data from the cohort of twins born since 1991 have been or will be contacted with a telephone interview with the parents of twins as they turn 9 (CATSS). Because the STR is an (inter)national resource, we are receptive to collaboration academic and industry-based researchers. Regardless of the type of research all potential collaborations or data access agreements must be first reviewed Steering Committee of the STR.

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We''re bringing Web-based research into the Internet Era by empowering people to mark up web pages in the browser and manage and collaborate on them online. And that''s just the start... We''ve got much more planned in a variety of areas to help people manage the mounds of info they''re pulling off the Web everyday. Simply drag the scrible bookmarklet to your browser''s Bookmarks toolbar. Click it later to mark up, save or share web pages. Even though the world uses the Internet to research nearly everything for work, school and home (job postings, press releases, Wikipedia articles, medical info, etc.), most folks still use old-school ways of annotating, organizing and sharing online info (printing to mark by hand, copying/pasting into Word, etc.). It''s archaic, laborious and a waste of time. We''re changing that. A bookmarklet is a bookmarked link that, when clicked, adds functionality to your browser. When the scrible Bookmarklet is clicked, it loads the scrible Toolbar atop the current webpage you''re viewing. Adding the scrible Bookmarklet to your browser is a breeze. Simply drag it to your browser''s Bookmarks Toolbar.

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A fully integrated platform for processing microarray data.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 23, 2016. The aim of the study is to improve the understanding of psychiatric co-morbidity and personality traits as a means to improving prevention and treatment for women with hereditary vulnerability to develop alcohol and / or drug dependence. In depth phenotypic assessment through structured interviews with women with alcohol or drug abuse in order to assess history, psychiatric morbidity and personality traits potentially related to environmental and/or hereditary alcoholism. Association studies of polymorphic markers in candidate genes. Blood samples and interviews performs on 200 women with alcohol dependents to examine mental illness and specific personality characteristics associated to environment and/or hereditary form of alcoholism. Blood samples are also collected from 200 healthy women which functions as controls.

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Comprises 3 registries of cancer patients in Norway: the Incidence Registry, the Clinical Registry and Cancer Statistics. The Incidence Registry contains the basic data items collected from clinicians and pathologists, as well as from administrative discharge and mortality sources. It is updated continuously with information on both new cases, as well as cases diagnosed in previous years. All medical doctors in the country are instructed by law to notify new cancer cases. Clinical Registries: Registration of treatment and follow-up of Norwegian cancer patients. Clinical registries comprehensive registration schemes dedicated to specific cancers have been established to include detailed information on diagnostic measures, therapy, and follow-up. Cancer Statistics: Database of cancer statistics. The Cancer Registry of Norway is maintained by the Institute of Population-based Cancer Research and established in 1951. It is one of the oldest national cancer registries in the world. This, combined with the unique personal identification number used in Norway, makes the Cancer Registry''s data suitable, also internationally; by establishing new knowledge through research and spreading information on cancer.

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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. Features of Google Scholar * Search diverse sources from one convenient place * Find articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions * Locate the complete document through your library or on the web * Learn about key scholarly literature in any area of research How are documents ranked? Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature. * Publishers - Include your publications in Google Scholar * Librarians - Help patrons discover your library''s resources

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The Brain Bank was developed with two service-minded objectives: provide a free brain autopsy to confirm clinical diagnosis of dementia, and collect, bank and provide brain tissue to qualified scientific researchers studying diseases related to dementia. By working together, patients and researchers can help us understand the origins of neurodegenerative disease and eventually improve the treatment and care of dementia. The clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can only be confirmed by brain autopsy, or the examination of brain tissue after death. This examination will determine a patients's precise type of dementia. To confirm the diagnosis of Alzheimer's, for example, the brain tissue is examined for amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles by a neuropathologist. The presence of these plaques and tangles will verify the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. While it is important to us to enroll patients with dementia, it is equally important to enroll people with no dementia. These subjects are termed as controls and the brain tissue from controls will enable researchers to make comparisons to brain tissue from dementia patients. We are seeking donations from individuals who have had an age-related neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Lewy Body or other related dementia.

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