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Core facility that provides the following services: Biospecimen processing and analysis, DNA/RNA extraction and banking, Genotyping. The Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory provides genotyping and other lab services for large-scale studies to Vanderbilt investigators related to biological specimen collection and storage, as well as biomarker and genetic marker assays.

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The CSB maintains a variety of instruments for studying the conformation and stability of macromolecules and for measuring the affinity and thermodynamics of biomolecular interactions.

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Core facility that provides the following services: Experiment design assistance. The principal mission of the Biomolecular NMR Center is to provide instrumentation for, and aid in obtaining data on the structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules. The Facility offers state-of-the-art instrumentation, training, software and assistance in designing experiments

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The Automation and Informatics Core is responsible for integrating automation and instrumentation with downstream data handling and reporting. Duties of the group include: a) maintaining the laboratory computer network and technology infrastructure, including maintaining network security, performing data backups, managing data access, and trouble-shooting b) database management and information processing, including management of the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) c) performing systems analysis and programming as needed for instrument interfaces and integration, as well as extracting, reformatting, uploading, aggregating and/or analyzing data gathered in the course of HTS experiments d) maintaining the automation and robotics, including configuration, calibration, implementation, and trouble-shooting, to ensure maximum uptime/availability and utmost precision and accuracy e) assisting laboratory and scientific personnel with all their informatics needs, including overseeing data exchanges with our collaborators.

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Core facility that provides the following services: Custom Polyclonal Antibody Services, Monoclonal antibody isotyping, Hybridoma Services, Antigen production and purification, Peptide Synthesis, Peptide conjugation to protein carriers (ex. KLH, BSA), Recombinant Protein Expression and Purification Services, Kinetic Analyses for Protein:Protein and Protein:Small Molecule Interactions, Sample Lysis and Preparation. The Vanderbilt Antibody and Protein Resource (VAPR) partners both with scientists locally and from across the country to design and develop reagents for research, diagnostics, and large-molecule therapeutics.

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Fosters, promotes, and develops the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improves working conditions; advances opportunities for profitable employment; and assures work-related benefits and rights.

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The Informatics Shared Resource catalyzes the research productivity of VICC investigators by providing a flexible physical and electronic infrastructure for acquiring, storing, communicating and analyzing data arising from wet bench, translational, and clinical cancer research as well as senior staff and faculty level assistance in the interpretation of research datasets using state-of-the-art analysis.

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VANTAGE (Vanderbilt Technologies for Advanced Genomics) is a genomics core laboratory consolidation initiated by an $8.6 million ARRA funded NIH grant award to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, with an overall goal of creating a new collaborative shared resource that accelerates discovery in genome sciences and personalized medicine, providing state-of-the art research shared resource facilities and technology.

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Core facility that provides the following services: Single crystal growth service, Cambridge Structural Database access. The X-ray diffraction facility, under the supervision and care of Dr. Hadi Arman, offers the chemistry department with the means of X-ray diffraction analysis which is the most reliable route for ascertaining the structure of crystalline materials. The facility maintains a state of the art Rigaku diffractometer. This sealed tube system is equipped with a CCD area detector and can analyze samples at various temperatures. Data processing and analysis are executed on PCs running Microsoft Windows. In addition to the diffractometer, the facility also has access to the electronic Cambridge Structural Database.

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The mission of The Neurostatistics Core is to promote the use of the most effective and current biostatistical methods among Neuroscience faculty and students, and to make these methods more generally available. It is designed to overcome the communication gap between experimental neuroscientists and statisticians by integrating statistical experts, in the form of Applied Biostatistics PhD students, directly into the laboratories of SNRP Project Investigators.

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The Image Analysis Core provides state-of-the-art techniques and software for making use of 3-dimensional images acquired via the RCMI Advanced Imaging Center. Our existing facility, like other centers of its kind, offers investigators the capability to acquire large, high resolution, three dimensional data sets, often as time series. The Core assists investigators in establishing methods for reducing these complex data sets to a form suitable for statistical analysis. The Core draws on the computational resources of The Computational Biology Initiative (CBI) at UTSA to implement standard best practices in image analysis and deliver state of the art image storage, visualization, and quantification to users of the image center, or to users obtaining similar images from equipment in their own laboratories.

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Core provides routine and custom mass spectrometry-based support. Services include High-resolution, high mass accuracy mass analysis (HRMS), Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS), Proteomics-based analyses.

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The Nanotechnology and Human Health Core is part of the RCMI program at UT San Antonio. It focuses on the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for imaging, labels for bioassays, and active targeting for in vivo or in vitro diagnostics. The Core studies the interaction of nanoparticles with living cells for application in the targeted delivery of drugs, genes, and proteins; tissue engineering scaffolds; artificial organs and implants; and bioimaging and cell labeling. Additionally, the Core supports development of new advanced characterization methods to study biological tissue using nanoparticles and advanced electron microscopy techniques to produce three-dimensional structural information for imaging cell membranes, organelles, and other subcellular structures.

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A bilingual (English-French) domain ontology for modeling knowledge about Alzheimer's Disease and Related Syndromes.

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Core facility that provides the following services: Computational systems biology data analysis assistance, Biological computational software installation service. The objective of the Computational Systems Biology Core facility (CSBC) is to provide computational support for basic and translational health research at UTSA with the following specific aims: - Build the computational infrastructure to support modeling and simulation of biological systems - Live cell imaging - Protein Biomarker research

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Core provides access to instrumentation in flow cytometry, confocal microscopy, and consultative scientific services. Offers comprehensive training in cross-translational cytometry and imaging, including experimental design, sample preparation, instrument operation, and data analysis.

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This laboratory houses an impressive collection of high-end microscopes including one of the most powerful transmission electron microscopes in the world. The microscope is kept in a specially designed space that inhibits intrusive vibrations. Its atomic resolution is propelling world-class research in nanotechnology, biology, chemistry, geology, engineering and medicine. The laboratory''s microscopes are accessible to trained collaborators from other institutions.

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The High Performance Computing Center/Computational Biology Initiative (HPC/CBI) is a new interdisciplinary initiative at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) and the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) which was launched in January 2005. The overall goal of the initiative is to build infrastructure to significantly advance collaborative interdisciplinary bioscience research in San Antonio.

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These laboratories are dedicated to ''Cellular and Tissue Engineering'' research activities which focus on in vitro studies of mammalian cell and protein interactions with material substrates, biomaterials (including nanostructured ones), biocompatibility, and the effect of select biochemical and biophysical (specifically, sustained and cyclic pressure and electrical) stimuli on mammalian cell function pertinent to new tissue formation and regeneration.

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The new Biophysics facility is committed towards providing computational biology tools and software designed to study the physical phenomena underlying the behavior of biological systems. Shortly, this facility will be furnished with a 6-quadcore server and 4 workstations with high resolution graphics capabilities and support for many simultaneous remote users. All these computing resources will be linked via 10GB optical wires. On the other hand, the Departmental network provides high speed access to the University Computer Center main-ports and Internet. As an extension of its functionality and performance, this facility will also share resources with the Computational Biology innovative at the Biology Department. A major goal is devoted to establishing the connection between this facility and the supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at 10GB data rate. This facility is currently used by the computational and theoretical biophysics researchers at the Department of Physics to study the properties of biomolecules that are strongly affected by their surrounding aqueous and ionic environment.

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