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The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) at the University of California, Berkeley, is a center for research and education in the biology of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Founded in 1908, the Museum''s mission is to document and increase understanding of the diversity of terrestrial vertebrates, with particular emphasis on western North America. An MVZ Video Gallery is also available. The superb collections are at the heart of the MVZ program, where methods of field biology are combined with modern laboratory techniques and analytical methods in a comprehensive, synthetic approach. Our goals are to remain at the forefront of international research on evolutionary biology from the perspectives of systematics, ecology, behavior, functional and developmental morphology, population biology, and evolutionary genomics, and to lead the way in developing and using major natural history collections for research, education, and solving problems in biodiversity conservation. Because the MVZ was founded upon a philosophy that organisms should be studied in relationship to their natural environments, its collections are supplemented by extensive ancillary information (e.g., field notes, habitat photographs, tape-recorded vocalizations) that is connected to specimens and/or tissues and enhances their value to researchers. This concept was pioneered at the MVZ and continues to be the primary focus of current research efforts. To this end, there are strong research links between the Museum and the 2,000 acre MVZ/UC field station at Hastings Natural History Reservation. In addition, the MVZ is actively engaged in developing concepts and tools for Biodiversity Informatics through collaborations across the Berkeley Natural History Museums and international consortia.

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The Department of Pharmacology at Yale University offers integrated and interdisciplinary opportunities for graduate study under the newly organized Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS). Students entering the BBS program can take courses, participate in laboratory rotations, and perform thesis research with any of the more than 200 faculty members in the biological sciences at Yale located at the closely situated School of Medicine and Science Hill ends of campus. The faculty and students of the BBS program are organized into moderately-sized, interest-based Tracks to ensure individualized attention and maximize scientific interactions. Prospective students apply to the Track that best matches their interests, although there is complete freedom to work with faculty members in any Track or to switch Tracks after arrival at Yale.

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Psychology wiki is an up-to-date, authoritative statement of knowledge, theory, and practice in the whole field of psychology reflecting generally accepted academic standards. Its intended audience includes health workers, psychologists, and students and has 60,995 pages and 28,303 articles - and growing. You can access articles by following the links in the Foundations and Applied psychology sections, search for a term by entering it into the search box, or simply browse through various categories and subcategories. This centrally consolidated information resource aims to provide a conduit for authoritative information for academic and applied training, and continuing professional development, as well as provide a vehicle for informing the general public about our discipline. We also aim to be a forum for ideas, so on each discussion page we encourage alternative opinion, proposals for hypotheses requiring verification, practitioner reports, user views, etc. We hope to win the support of the national psychology societies, and through them to develop a mechanism of appropriate peer review of all articles and to restrict contributors to those with professional qualifications. This will allow articles to achieve academic status for referencing purpose and eventually ground the content solidly in the knowledge base of the discipline.

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Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: A Closer Look Psychiatric medications, science, marketing, psychiatry in general, and occasionally clinical psychology. Questioning the role of key opinion leaders and the use of science to promote commercial ends rather than the needs of people with mental health concerns.

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Ontology that is a conceptual model for the domain of gene regulation. It covers processes that are linked to the regulation of gene expression as well as physical entities that are involved in these processes (such as genes and transcription factors) in terms of ontology classes and semantic relations between classes. GRO is intended to represent common knowledge about gene regulation in a formal way rather than representing extremely fine-grained classes as can be found in ontologies such as the Gene Ontology (GO) (created for data base annotation purposes) and various relevant databases. The main purpose of the ontology is to support NLP applications. It has a particular focus on the relations between processes and the molecules (participants) involved. The basic structure of the GRO is a direct acyclic graph (DAG) with ontology classes as nodes and is-a relations between classes as edges. The taxonomic backbone is further enriched by several semantic relation types (part-of, from-species, participates-in with the two sub-relations agent-of and patient-of).

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SNPinfo Web Server is a set of freely available web-based SNP selection tools where investigators can specify genes or linkage regions and select SNPs based on GWAS results, linkage disequilibrium (LD), and predicted functional characteristics of both coding and non-coding SNPs. The algorithm uses GWAS SNP P-value data and finds all SNPs in high LD with GWAS SNPs, so that selection is from a much larger set of SNPs than the GWAS itself. The program can also identify and choose tag SNPs for SNPs not in high LD with any GWAS SNP. We incorporate functional predictions of protein structure, gene regulation, splicing and miRNA binding, and consider whether the alternative alleles of a SNP are likely to have differential effects on function. Users can assign weights for different functional categories of SNPs to further tailor SNP selection. The program accounts for LD structure of different populations so that a GWAS study from one ethnic group can be used to choose SNPs for one or more other ethnic groups. SNP Selection and Functional Information *Candidate Gene SNP Selection (GenePipe):SNP selection for candidate genes based on Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) results, functional SNP prediction and Linkage Disequilibrium (LD) information. *GWAS Functional SNP Selection (GenomePipe):Functional SNP selection from SNPs that are in high LD with GWAS SNPs *GWAS SNP Selection in Linkage Loci (LinkagePipe):GWAS SNP selection in candidate genomic regions (such as linkage loci) *LD TAG SNP Selection (TagSNP):LD tag SNP selection and visualization for single or multiple populations. Finalization of SNP list from various queries. *SNP Function Prediction (FuncPred): Querying SNP function predictions and ethnic-specific allele frequencies. *SNP Information in DNA Sequence (SNPseq):Visualization of SNP related information in the context of DNA sequence. Preparing DNA Sequence for PCR Primer Design considering SNP information. Detailed information of CpG region.

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An open community platform for bioimage informatics providing the software resources to visualize, annotate and quantify bioimaging data. To bridge the gap between developers and users, it combines: a) an open-source image analysis software, offering a powerful and flexible environment for developers such as applied mathematicians to write algorithms fast and efficiently; b) a common set of tools to view and manipulate data, and a set of plugins to perform specific quantification or analysis on images; c) a community-based website centralizing all plugins and resources to facilitate their management and maximize their visibility towards users. Workspaces are virtual groups of plugins dedicated to a specific application or image processing domain. By downloading a workspace, ICY automatically installs all corresponding plugins. The workspaces are enabled, but the editing section is not ready yet. If you want to publish a plugin on this website, its code has to be GPL. Source code is available and provided in each application download.

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International Cognition and Culture Institute

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Pathema is one of the eight Bioinformatics Resource Centers designed to serve as a core resource for the bio-defense and infectious disease research community. Pathema strives to support basic research and accelerate scientific progress for understanding, detecting, diagnosing and treating an established set of six target NIAID Category A-C pathogens: Category A priority pathogens; Bacillus anthracis and Clostridium botulinum, and Category B priority pathogens; Burkholderia mallei, Burkholderia pseudomallei, Clostridium perfringens and Entamoeba histolytica. Each target pathogen is represented in one of four distinct clade-specific Pathema web resources and underlying databases developed to target the specific data and analysis needs of each scientific community. All publicly available complete genome projects of phylogenetically related organisms are also represented, providing a comprehensive collection of organisms for comparative analyses. Pathema facilitates the scientific exploration of genomic and related data through its integration with web-based analysis tools, customized to obtain, display, and compute results relevant to ongoing pathogen research. Pathema serves the bio-defense and infectious disease research community by disseminating data resulting from pathogen genome sequencing projects and providing access to the results of inter-genomic comparisons for these organisms. The Pathema BRC contract ends in December 2009. At that time JCVI will cease maintenance of the Pathema web resource and data. The PATRIC team, located at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, created and maintains a consolidated BRC for all of the NIAID category A-C priority pathogenic bacteria. The EuPathDB team at the University of Pennsylvania will support all eukaryotic pathogens. Pathema transferred all data and software to PATRIC and EuPathDB for incorporation into their new Web-based bioinformatics resource.

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Mouse finder is a beta product that uses the phenotype ontology to search for the best mouse models for a particular OMIM disease. The phenotype ontology gives a score function for the similarity of two phenotypes based on ontology distance.

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Stem Cell Banking stores non-embryonic stem cells from wisdom or baby teeth Dental Stem Cells are also known as DSC, DASC, DPSC, or SHED cells and are classified as a type of adult stem cells.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 16, 2013. The NeuroLOG consortium is addressing: *Management and access of partly structured data, heterogeneous and distributed in an open environment. *Access control and protection of private medical data. *Control of workflows implied in complex computing process on grid infrastructures. *Extraction and quantification of relevant parameters for different pathologies: Multiple sclerosis, Brain Vascular Stroke, Brain tumors Four application pipelines have been proposed in the context of the project. The pipelines are formalized using the Scufl data flow language. *Multiple Sclerosis image analysis pipelines *Brain Stroke application pipeline (from GIN) *Stroke / tumours Anacom application pipeline (from IFR49) Different softwares developed and/or used in this project are presented., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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Makes DNA sequencing services, Real Time PCR access and custom DNA products available to scientists. It provides automated fluorescent sequencing and oligonucleotides to the Hopkins Community. Using the JHU Finch Server facility staff capture orders, to distribute and store data indefinitely. Data produced using the Applied Biosystems 3730xl DNA Analyzer is then made available for download, for online or offline viewing, and for editing through the conveniences of the web-based JHU Finch Server. The facility also offers oligonucleotides through Sigma-Genosys.

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A compendium of over 7.2 million unique 20 base transcript tags profiled from 81 tissues acquired from the cow L1 Dominette 01449 , her male fetus, her 255 day old heifer calf, and her father. The BGA tags were generated on Illumina''s GA1 sequencing platform. L1D''s genome (build: 3.1) was sequenced at the Baylor College of Medicine and Genome Canada sequenced EST and full-length transcripts from the same tissues used for the BGA. Tissues were chosen as a source of total RNA to minimize sequence differences between cDNA tags and genomic or expressed sequence and increase the probability of unequivocally mapping tags to build 3.1. The BGA is comprised of cardiovascular, digestive, endocrine, lymphatic, muscular, nervous system, reproductive and urinary tissues sampled from animals in the fetal, juvenile, and adult stages of development. This cover is a portal to view the tags positioned on the 3.1 build using GBrowse, and a new database schema for positional and functional queries.

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An Antibody supplier. Now called Xtant Medical.

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One of three primary databases of PubChem (Pcsubstance, Pccompound, and PCBioAssay), PubChem Compound Database contains validated chemical depiction information provided to describe substances in PubChem Substance. Structures stored within PubChem Compounds are pre-clustered and cross-referenced by identity and similarity groups. Additionally, calculated properties and descriptors are available for searching and filtering of chemical structures. A PubChem FTP and structure download are available. New data are accepted into the repository.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented September 15, 2017.<br/><br/>Not yet vetted by NIF curator

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