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Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (GARD) is a collaborative effort of two agencies of the National Institutes of Health, The Office of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to help people find useful information about genetic conditions and rare diseases. GARD provides timely access to experienced information specialists who can furnish current and accurate information about genetic and rare diseases. So far, GARD has responded to 27,635 inquiries on about 7,147 rare and genetic diseases. Requests come not only from patients and their families, but also from physicians, nurses and other health-care professionals. GARD also has proved useful to genetic counselors, occupational and physical therapists, social workers, and teachers who work with people with a genetic or rare disease. Even scientists who are studying a genetic or rare disease and who need information for their research have contacted GARD, as have people who are taking part in a clinical study. Community leaders looking to help people find resources for those with genetic or rare diseases and advocacy groups who want up-to-date disease information for their members have contacted GARD. And members of the media who are writing stories about genetic or rare diseases have found the information GARD has on hand useful, accurate and complete. GARD has information on: :- What is known about a genetic or rare disease. :- What research studies are being conducted. :- What genetic testing and genetic services are available. :- Which advocacy groups to contact for a specific genetic or rare disease. :- What has been written recently about a genetic or rare disease in medical journals. GARD information specialists get their information from: :- NIH resources. :- Medical textbooks. :- Journal articles. :- Web sites. :- Advocacy groups, and their literature and services. :- Medical databases.

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The aim of Psychology Page is to provide a concise introduction in a broad range of psychological topics. From Alzheimers disease to Z-scores, from cognitive dissonance to mirror neurons. It is an open resource for students, or for people who are just interested in psychology and science in general. If you click ARTICLES in the navigation bar at the top, you will get an overview of all the articles that have been written so far. For more information on a wide variety of themes in psychology, click LINKS. To get in touch with the webmaster, click CONTACT. Click HOME to return to the homepage. Every article consists of approximately 500 words, so it fits on one page (hence the name of the site). All of them are accompanied by a clarifying picture, a funny cartoon or an interesting video clip. Used references and date are added on the right, as well as related articles. Besides, every article is available for download in a convenient PDF-format. Keywords: Psychology, Alzheimer''s, Disease, Mirror, Neuron, Student, Science,

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The purpose of this database is to make it easy for psychology students (and also researchers and journalists) to find and discuss: peer-reviewed articles on scientific psychology, that don''t require a paid subscription to access, and places on the web where these articles have been discussed/blogged about. There are other excellent sites which do a similar job (e.g., Research Blogging), but this one is aimed at psychology, and specifically at the curriculum covered by psychology students.

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The BioInformatics Resource Inventory (B.I.R.I.) is a public online searchable index of bioinformatics resources developed at the Biomedical Informatics Group. Information describing the resources has been automatically extracted from the literature and indexed using Natural Language and Text Mining techniques. The index is automatically updated by analyzing new papers describing existing resources (databases, tools, services). Sponsors: BIRI is supported by the Biomedical Informatics Group, Spain. Keywords: Resource, Bioinformatics, Inventory, Searchable, Database, Index, Biomedical, Literature, Language, Mining, Analysis, Tool,

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on February 18, 2014. <br/><br/>A networking site for investigators using animal models to study aging, developed to provide a venue for sharing information about research models for aging studies. If you have tissue or data from animal models relevant to aging research that you are willing to share with other investigators, D-SARM allows you to identify the model and provides a secure, blinded email contact for investigators who would like to contact you about acquiring tissue or related resources. Investigators looking for resources from a particular model enter search terms describing the model of interest and then use the provided link to send emails to the contacts (names blinded) listed in the search results to initiate dialog about tissue or resources available for sharing. The database is housed on a secure server and admission to the network is moderated by the NIA Project Officer and limited to investigators at academic, government and non-profit research institutions. The goal is to provide a secure environment for sharing information about models used in aging research, promoting the sharing of resources, facilitating new research on aging in model systems, and increasing the return on the investment in research models.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 16, 2013. The International Observatory on Neuro-Information is the central source of knowledge, research and data on all skills and issues for Neuroscience applied in Information Sciences. It is an initiative of the Documentation Sciences Foundation, from Spain, which aims to gather information, express opinions, prepare documents, make comparative research, support and promote policy-making, evaluate trends, and take other appropriate action relating to the Neuroscience and its application to the Information Sciences (Libraries, Archives, Documentation centers), and how the traditional knowledge of Information Sciences can bring expertise in data visualization and retrieval techniques, records management, quality assurance and usability in Neuroscience. The Observatory may work together, or in agreement with other national or international organizations pursuing similar or compatible aims.

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MolecularBrain is an attempt to collect, collates, analyze and present the microarray derived gene expression data from various brain regions side by side. Transcription Profile of any gene in Mouse (online) and Human Brain (not yet) can be accessed as a histogram along with links to access various aspects of that gene. The expression levels were calculated from microarray data deposited at GEO (Gene expression omnibus). The molecular brain database could be searched using the built in search tool with the terms Entrez GeneID, gene symbol, synonym or description. Gene information along with their expression values can be also accessed from the alphabetical list of gene symbols on the footer. The protocol and GEO sample information is available.

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Library of many-to-many relationships between Affymetrix probesets transcripts and genes, by directly mapping every probe against publicly available mRNAs/cDNA sequences from RefSeq and Ensembl. You can search the database by AffymetrixProbeset ID, Transcript Accession, Gene Symbol or Gene Accession. Currently, the ADAPT database holds information on 23 Array Types containing 255771 unique Probesets, that themselves map onto 252788 entries in both RefSeq and Ensembl. ADAPT is clusterable, cross platform, runs on any Java Virtual machine after version 1.4, and utilises the following software: :- Apache Tomcat :- Apache Struts :- JBoss Application Server :- Postgresql Sponsors: ADAPT has been written with funding by Cancer Research UK. Keywords: Database, Gene, Transcript, Mapping, Probe, mRNA, cDNA, Sequence, Association, Array, Probeset,

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The Disease Ontology group has developed a set of standard representations of phenotypes associated with diseases useful in bioinformatics applications. These are formalized into an ontological structure and are encoded in OWL. Neurodegenerative diseases have a wide and complex range of biological and clinical symptoms. While neurodegenerative diseases share many pathological features in common, they also contain unique signatures. Animal models of these disorders are key to translational research. However, animal models typically replicate only a subset of disease features or display features that are only indirectly related to a given disorder, whose relationship to the human condition may be across several diseases. Matching animal models to human diseases is therefore a significant informatics challenge. We have been working to develop ontologies that capture essential features of neurodegenerative diseases and associated animal models in a way that allows more flexible matching of animal models to human disorders and in a way that makes explicit commonalities and differences among animal models and human neurodegenerative disease. Creating ontologies for diseases and disorders is a very challenging task (Gupta et al., 2003) because of the complexity of the disorders and because of the limitations of current ontology formalisms. In order to simplify the approach and make it practical for use in information systems, we have focused on formal descriptions of phenotypes associated with diseases and animal models rather than on a formal model of the disease process itself. We employ the modular ontologies developed as part of the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF: http://nif.nih.gov) and the Phenotype and Trait Ontology (PATO), an ontology of qualities associated with biological phenotypes, to create a flexible template for creating phenotypic statements at the class and instance levels. We show how these phenotypes can be used to look for commonalities across multiple neurodegenerative conditions and animal models.

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Tools for the integration of data from various sources (public and confidential), for the generation and validation of computer models for toxic effects, libraries for the development and seamless integration of new algorithms, and scientifically sound validation routines. The goal of OpenTox is to develop an interoperable predictive toxicology framework which may be used as an enabling platform for the creation of predictive toxicology applications. OpenTox is relevent for users from a variety of research areas: Toxicological and chemical experts (e.g. risk assessors, drug designers, researchers) computer model developers and algorithm developers non specialists requiring access to Predictive Toxicology models and data OpenTox applications can combine multiple web services providing users access to distributed toxicological resources including data, computer models, validation and reporting. Applications are based on use cases that satisfy user needs in predictive toxicology. OpenTox was initiated as a collaborative project involving a combination of different enterprise, university and government research groups to design and build the initial OpenTox framework. Additionally numerous organizations with industry, regulatory or expert interests are active in providing guidance and direction. The goal is to expand OpenTox as a community project enabling additional expert and user participants to be involved in developments in as timely a manner as possible. To this end, our mission is to carry out developments in an open and transparent manner from the early days of the project, and to open up discussions and development to the global community at large, who may either participate in developments or provide user perspectives. Cooperation on data standards, data integration, ontologies, integration of algorithm predictions from different methods, and testing and validation all have significant collaboration opportunities and benefits for the community. OpenTox is working to meet the requirements of the REACH legislation using alternative testing methods to contribute to the reduction of animal experiments for toxicity testing. Relevant international authorities (e.g., ECB, ECVAM, US EPA, US FDA) and industry organizations participate actively in the advisory board of the OpenTox project and provide input for the continuing development of requirement definitions and standards for data, knowledge and model exchange. OpenTox actively supports the development and validation of in silico models and algorithms by improving the interoperability between individual systems (common standards for data and model exchange), increasing the reproducibility of in silico models (by providing a quality source of structures, toxicity data and algorithms) and by providing scientifically sound and easy-to-use validation routines. OpenTox is committed to the support and integration of alternative testing methods using in vitro assay approaches, systems biology, stem cell technology, and the mining and analysis of human epidemiological data. Hence the framework design must take into account extensibility to satisfy a broad range of scientific developments and use cases.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 12,2023. Portal that provides researchers with easy access to data on rat genes, QTLs, strain models, biological processes and pathways related to neurological diseases. This resource also includes dynamic data analysis tools.

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Service that allows you to process CEL files from Affymetrix, Inc. GeneChip Exon 1.0 ST Arrays to identify alternative splicing.

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BioMedSearch is a biomedical search engine that contains NIH/PubMed documents, plus a large collection of theses, dissertations, and other publications not found anywhere else for free, making it the most comprehensive free search on the web. :Besides free-form search, users can search based on Author, Journal Title, Publication Date, the Language in which the article was published (many non-English articles have English language abstracts), MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) and more. : The goal of BioMedSearch.com is to provide free access to a massive collection of authoritative documents relating to the biomedical field. Our mission is to make these important works available to the community in a way that is fast and easy, while still offering the advanced features demanded by power users such as portfolios, collaboration features, bibliographical citation export, alerts, and more. Whether you are doctor, scientist, or someone interested in researching a medical topic out of personal interest, BioMedSearch aggregates a vast number of authoritative documents in one place to make finding medical information easy, fast and free.

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The Finite Element ToolKit (FETK) is a collaboratively developed, evolving collection of adaptive finite element method (AFEM) software libraries and tools for solving coupled systems of nonlinear geometric partial differential equations (PDE). The FETK libraries and tools are written in an object-oriented form of ANSI-C and in C , and include a common portability layer (MALOC) for all of FETK, a collection of standard numerical libraries (PUNC), a stand-alone high-quality surface and volume simplex mesh generator (GAMer), a stand-alone networked polygon display tool (SG), a general nonlinear finite element modeling kernel (MC), and a MATLAB toolkit (MCLite) for protyping finite element methods and examining simplex meshes using MATLAB. The entire FETK Suite of tools is highly portable (from iPhone to Blue Gene/L), thanks to use of a small abstraction layer (MALOC) and heavy use of the GNU Autoconf infrastructure. The primary FETK ANSI-C software libraries are: :- MALOC is a Minimal Abstraction Layer for Object-oriented C/C programs. :- PUNC is Portable Understructure for Numerical Computing (requires MALOC). :- GAMer is a Geometry-preserving Adaptive MeshER (requires MALOC). :- SG is a Socket Graphics tool for displaying polygons (requires MALOC). :- MC is a 2D/3D AFEM code for nonlinear geometric PDE (requires MALOC; optionally uses PUNC GAMER SG). Application-specific software designed for use with the FETK software libraries is: :- GPDE is a Geometric Partial Differential Equation solver (requires MALOC PUNC MC; optionally uses GAMER SG). :- APBS is an Adaptive Poisson-Boltzmann Equation Solver (requires MALOC PUNC MC; optionally uses GAMER SG). :- SMOL is a Smoluchowki Equation Solver solver (requires MALOC PUNC MC; optionally uses GAMER SG). MATLAB toolkits designed for use with MC and SG or as standalone packages: :- MCLite is a simple 2D MATLAB version of MC designed for teaching. :- FEtkLAB is a sophisticated 2D MATLAB adaptive PDE solver built on top of MCLite. Related packages developed and maintained by FETK developers (included in PUNC above): :- PMG is a Parallel Algebraic MultiGrid code for general semilinear elliptic equatons. :- CgCode is a package of Conjugate gradient Codes for large sparse linear systems. Sponsors: This resource is developed and supported by the MCP Research Group at the UCSD Center for Computational Mathematics.

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The Ensembl Genomes project produces genome databases for important species from across the taxonomic range, using the Ensembl software system. Five sites are now available, one of which is Ensembl Fungi, which houses fungal species. Sponsors: EnsembFungi is a project run by EMBL - EBI to maintain annotation on selected genomes, based on the software developed in the Ensembl project developed jointly by the EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

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Ensembl Genomes project produces genome databases for important species from across the taxonomic range, using the Ensembl software system. Five sites are now available, one of which is Ensembl Plants, which houses plant species. Sponsors: EnsembPlants is a project run by EMBL - EBI to maintain annotation on selected genomes, based on the software developed in the Ensembl project developed jointly by the EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

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The Ensembl Genomes project produces genome databases for important species from across the taxonomic range, using the Ensembl software system. Five sites are now available, one of which is Ensembl Bacteria, which houses bacterial species. All bacterial collections in Ensembl Bacteria have been updated with the latest data from ENA and UniProtKB. New genomes have been added to Escherichia/Shigella (3 additional genomes) and Staphylococcus (3 additional genomes). The mapping of array probes has been expanded to all genomes in the Escherichia/Shigella and Staphylococcus collections. Ensembl Bacteria also now features improved interfaces for selecting regions of circular molecules a new visualisation allowing the large scale comparison of multiple genomes. In multi-synteny view, users can select multiple genomes and observe the syntenic relationships between them. Sponsors: EnsembBacteria is a project run by EMBL - EBI to maintain annotation on selected genomes, based on the software developed in the Ensembl project developed jointly by the EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

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Portal for gerontology research with a variety of clinical, research and educational programs, with the aim of improving the lives of those affected by Alzheimer's Disease and memory losses associated with normal aging. The Center investigates the nature of Alzheimer's Disease, its progression over time, its response to treatments, and problems patients and caregivers experience in dealing with the changes that occur. It also conducts studies that look at changes that occur over the course of normal aging and have a Normal Aging Brain Donor Program. The Aging Clinical Research Center puts out a newsletter that showcases various projects and includes informative articles on dementia.

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• 15 years ago - by Anonymous

A neuroscience training program for Minnesota students and teachers. It provides teachers with three years of neuroscience training, materials, and staff support to bring brain science to their students. In these professional workshops, participants receive updates on the latest in neuroscience research -- discussion is complemented with hands-on activities and lab work. Teachers also receive curriculum materials to aid them in using neuroscience topics in support of Minnesota Intermediate and Middle Level standards. The program was expanded in 2008 to include high school teachers.

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Quertle is a biomedical search engine focused on delivering informative results to biomedical researchers using advanced linguistic technologies, along with an in-depth understanding of the biomedical field. Quertle''s friendly interface makes it simple to search and refine results. Using advanced semantics, Quertle finds quality results, not just long lists. And it hods: all of PubMed, a growing number of full-text documents, news, and more. Features: :- Find Relationships, not Just :- Focus on Core Concepts: Since Quertle searches for Relationships, all the terms in your query must be found together in a meaningful way. Thus, Quertle immediately gives you results with more relevance. :- Unleash the Strength of Power Terms: Use Power Terms to search for categories of objects. For instance, you can use Protein to search for any protein, rather than the occurrence of the term, protein. View all Power Terms. :- Search Full-text Documents: The Quertle search engine has been optimized to search full-text documents, including the Material and Methods section (but not the Bibliography). :- Use Real Biology &amp; Chemistry Terms: Quertle recognizes capital TWIST as the transcription factor (not the verb), and capital NO as nitrous oxide(not a negative). So, use proper capitalization in your query, and you won''t be lost in a sea of irrelevant results. :- Look for the Quertle Difference on the Results Page : More relevant results : Easy filtering and breadcrumb tracking : Automatic identification of key concepts : Single-click access to PDFs of full-text documents :Keyword: Biomedical, Search engine, Database, Researcher, Linguistic, Technology, Semantic, Relationship, Protein, Biology, Chemistry, :

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