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http://tbi.ci.uchicago.edu/

Project to define a roadmap for diffusion MR imaging of traumatic brain imaging and design an infrastructure to implement the recommendations and tested to ensure feasibility, disseminate results, and facilitate deployment and adoption. The research roadmap and infrastructure development will concentrate on three areas: 1) standardization of diffusion imaging methodology, 2) trial design and patient selection for acute or chronic therapy, and 3) development of multi-center collaborations and repositories for evaluating whether advanced diffusion imaging does improve decision making and TBI patients' outcomes. # DTI MRI reproducability: One of the major areas of investigation in this project is to study the reproducibility of data acquisition and image analysis algorithms. Understanding reproducibility defines a base level of deviation from which scans can be analyzed with statistical significance. As part of this work they are also developing site qualification criteria with the intention of setting limits on the MR system minimal performance for acceptable use in TBI evaluation. # Infrastructure for image storage, analysis and visualization: There is a continuing need to refine and extend software methods for diffusion MRI data analysis and visualization. Not only to translate tools into clinical practice, but also to encourage continuation of the innovation and development of new tools and techniques. To deliver upon these goals they are designing and implementing a storage and computational infrastructure to provide access to shared datasets and intuitive interfaces for analysis and visualization through a variety of tools. A strong emphasis has been placed on providing secure data sharing and the ability to add community defined common data elements. The infrastructure is built upon a Software-as-a-Service model, in which tools are hosted and managed remotely allowing users access through well-defined interfaces. The final service will also facilitate composition or orchestration of workflows composed of different analysis and processing tasks (for example using LONI or XNAT pipelines) with the ultimate goal of providing automated no-click evaluations of diffusion MRI data. # Tool development: The final aspect of this project aims to facilitate and encourage tool development and contribution. By providing access to open datasets, they will create a platform on which tool developers can compare and improve and their tools. When tools are sufficiently mature they can be exposed in the infrastructure mentioned above and used by researchers and other developers.

Proper citation: Diffusion MRI of Traumatic Brain Injury (RRID:SCR_001637) Copy   

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http://thea.unice.fr/index-en.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, on documented July 16, 2012. An integrated information processing system dedicated to the analysis of post-genomic data. It allows automatic annotation of data issued from classification systems with selected biological information (including the Gene Ontology). Users can either manually search and browse through these annotations, or automatically generate meaningful generalizations according to statistical criteria (data mining). Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: THEA - Tools for High-throughput Experiments Analysis (RRID:SCR_005802) Copy   

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http://galaxyproject.org/

Open, web-based platform providing bioinformatics tools and services for data intensive genomic research. Platform may be used as a service or installed locally to perform, reproduce, and share complete analyses. Galaxy automatically tracks and manages data provenance and provides support for capturing the context and intent of computational methods. Galaxy Community has created Galaxy instances in many different forms and for many different applications including Galaxy servers, cloud services that support Galaxy instances, and virtual machines and containers that can be easily deployed for your own server.The Galaxy team is a part of BX at Penn State, and the Biology and Mathematics and Computer Science departments at Emory University.Training Infrastructure as a Service (TIaaS) is a service offered by some UseGalaxy servers to specifically support training use cases.

Proper citation: Galaxy (RRID:SCR_006281) Copy   

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http://bioinformatics.ubc.ca/ermineJ/

Data analysis software for gene sets in expression microarray data or other genome-wide data that results in rankings of genes. A typical goal is to determine whether particular biological pathways are doing something interesting in the data. The software is designed to be used by biologists with little or no informatics background. A command-line interface is available for users who wish to script the use of ermineJ. Major features include: * Implementation of multiple methods for gene set analysis: ** Over-representation analysis ** A resampling-based method that uses gene scores ** A rank-based method that uses gene scores ** A resampling-based method that uses correlation between gene expression profiles (a type of cluster-enrichment analysis). * Gene sets receive statistical scores (p-values), and multiple test correction is supported. * Support of the Gene Ontology terminology; users can choose which aspects to analyze. * User files use simple text formats. * Users can modify gene sets or create new ones. * The results can be visualized within the software. * It is simple to compare multiple analyses of the same data set with different settings. * User-definable hyperlinks are provided to external sites to allow more efficient browsing of the results. * For programmers, there is a command line interface as well as a simple application programming interface that can be used to plug ermineJ functionality into your own code Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: ErmineJ (RRID:SCR_006450) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/

Public archive providing a comprehensive record of the world''''s nucleotide sequencing information, covering raw sequencing data, sequence assembly information and functional annotation. All submitted data, once public, will be exchanged with the NCBI and DDBJ as part of the INSDC data exchange agreement. The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) captures and presents information relating to experimental workflows that are based around nucleotide sequencing. A typical workflow includes the isolation and preparation of material for sequencing, a run of a sequencing machine in which sequencing data are produced and a subsequent bioinformatic analysis pipeline. ENA records this information in a data model that covers input information (sample, experimental setup, machine configuration), output machine data (sequence traces, reads and quality scores) and interpreted information (assembly, mapping, functional annotation). Data arrive at ENA from a variety of sources including submissions of raw data, assembled sequences and annotation from small-scale sequencing efforts, data provision from the major European sequencing centers and routine and comprehensive exchange with their partners in the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC). Provision of nucleotide sequence data to ENA or its INSDC partners has become a central and mandatory step in the dissemination of research findings to the scientific community. ENA works with publishers of scientific literature and funding bodies to ensure compliance with these principles and to provide optimal submission systems and data access tools that work seamlessly with the published literature. ENA is made up of a number of distinct databases that includes the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (Embl-Bank), the newly established Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and the Trace Archive. The main tool for downloading ENA data is the ENA Browser, which is available through REST URLs for easy programmatic use. All ENA data are available through the ENA Browser. Note: EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (EMBL-Bank) is entirely included within this resource.

Proper citation: European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) (RRID:SCR_006515) Copy   

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http://users.loni.ucla.edu/~shattuck/brainsuite/

Suite of image analysis tools designed to process magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the human head. BrainSuite provides an automatic sequence to extract genus-zero cortical surface mesh models from the MRI. It also provides a set of viewing tools for exploring image and surface data. The latest release includes graphical user interface and command line versions of the tools. BrainSuite was specifically designed to guide its users through the process of cortical surface extraction. NITRC has written the software to require minimal user interaction and with the goal of completing the entire process of extracting a topologically spherical cortical surface from a raw MR volume within several minutes on a modern workstation. The individual components of BrainSuite may also be used for soft tissue, skull and scalp segmentation and for surface analysis and visualization. BrainSuite was written in Microsoft Visual C using the Microsoft Foundation Classes for its graphical user interface and the OpenGL library for rendering. BrainSuite runs under the Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional operating systems. BrainSuite features include: * Sophisticated visualization tools, such as MRI visualization in 3 orthogonal views (either separately or in 3D view), and overlayed surface visualization of cortex, skull, and scalp * Cortical surface extraction, using a multi-stage user friendly approach. * Tools including brain surface extraction, bias field correction, voxel classification, cerebellum removal, and surface generation * Topological correction of cortical surfaces, which uses a graph-based approach to remove topological defects (handles and holes) and ensure a tessellation with spherical topology * Parameterization of generated cortical surfaces, minimizing a harmonic energy functional in the p-norm * Skull and scalp surface extraction

Proper citation: BrainSuite (RRID:SCR_006623) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro

Service providing functional analysis of proteins by classifying them into families and predicting domains and important sites. They combine protein signatures from a number of member databases into a single searchable resource, capitalizing on their individual strengths to produce a powerful integrated database and diagnostic tool. This integrated database of predictive protein signatures is used for the classification and automatic annotation of proteins and genomes. InterPro classifies sequences at superfamily, family and subfamily levels, predicting the occurrence of functional domains, repeats and important sites. InterPro adds in-depth annotation, including GO terms, to the protein signatures. You can access the data programmatically, via Web Services. The member databases use a number of approaches: # ProDom: provider of sequence-clusters built from UniProtKB using PSI-BLAST. # PROSITE patterns: provider of simple regular expressions. # PROSITE and HAMAP profiles: provide sequence matrices. # PRINTS provider of fingerprints, which are groups of aligned, un-weighted Position Specific Sequence Matrices (PSSMs). # PANTHER, PIRSF, Pfam, SMART, TIGRFAMs, Gene3D and SUPERFAMILY: are providers of hidden Markov models (HMMs). Your contributions are welcome. You are encouraged to use the ''''Add your annotation'''' button on InterPro entry pages to suggest updated or improved annotation for individual InterPro entries.

Proper citation: InterPro (RRID:SCR_006695) Copy   

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http://www.brainvoyager.com

Brain Innovation B.V. is developing scientific software in the field of human and animal brain imaging, neural network simulation and computer-based experimental control. Our current major product, BrainVoyager QX, is a commercially available cross-platform neuroimaging tool, which is used in hundreds of labs across the planet. Turbo-BrainVoyager is an easy to use program for real-time data analysis, which allows to observe a subject''s or patient''s brain activity during an ongoing functional MRI scanning session. TMS Neuronavigator provides the hard- and software to navigate a TMS coil to desired anatomical or functionally defined brain regions. We also provide free software products. BrainVoyager Brain Tutor allows to learn about brain areas by clicking on rotatable 3D brain models. StimulDX is a powerful stimulation software based on Microsofts DirectX API, which we will make available for free download in the near future.

Proper citation: Brain Innovation: Home of the BrainVoyager Product Family (RRID:SCR_006660) Copy   

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http://biit.cs.ut.ee/gprofiler/

Web server for functional enrichment analysis and conversions of gene lists. Web based tool for functional profiling of gene lists from large scale experiments. Has web interface with powerful visualization. Used for analyzing data from any organism.

Proper citation: g:Profiler (RRID:SCR_006809) Copy   

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https://madb.nci.nih.gov/

Microarray data management and analysis system for NCI / Center for Cancer Research scientists / collaborators. Data is secured and backed up on a regular basis, and investigators can authorize levels of access privileges to their projects, allowing data privacy while still enabling data sharing with collaborators.

Proper citation: mAdb (RRID:SCR_006677) Copy   

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http://genome.ucsc.edu/ENCODE

Encyclopedia of DNA elements consisting of list of functional elements in human genome, including elements that act at protein and RNA levels, and regulatory elements that control cells and circumstances in which gene is active. Enables scientific and medical communities to interpret role of human genome in biology and disease. Provides identification of common cell types to facilitate integrative analysis and new experimental technologies based on high-throughput sequencing. Genome Browser containing ENCODE and Epigenomics Roadmap data. Data are available for entire human genome.

Proper citation: ENCODE (RRID:SCR_006793) Copy   

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http://www.mitk.org/DiffusionImaging

A selection of image analysis algorithms for the processing of diffusion-weighted MR images. Features & Highlights * Tensor and q-ball reconstruction * Glyph visualization * Quantification and partial volume clustering of tensor and q-ball images * Global fiber tractography, visualization, and tract post-processing * Brain network statistics and visualization (connectomics) * Interactive exploration of Tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) results * Intra-voxel incoherent motion (IVIM) estimation * Synthetic data generation Additional system specific requirements: * Windows: If you have problems running the Windows application, please install the Microsoft Redistributable Packages for VS 2008: 32 bit or 64 bit * Linux: the Qt framework, version 4.6.2 or later Tested systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista; Ubuntu 12.04 and newer; OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) The OS X 10.6 installer is compatible with OS X 10.7 (Lion) so there is no dedicated disk image build under 10.7. The MITK Diffusion application is based on the MITK research platform and the most of it is open-source. The available code is embedded into the source code of MITK as a module and can be accessed through the public git repository.

Proper citation: MITK Diffusion (RRID:SCR_006846) Copy   

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http://bio.math.berkeley.edu/eXpress/index.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented January 29, 2018.
From website: "Note that the eXpress software is also no longer being developed. We recommend you use kallisto instead." Kallisto can be found at http://pachterlab.github.io/kallisto/.

Software for streaming quantification for high-throughput DNA/RNA sequencing.
Can be used in any application where abundances of target sequences need to be estimated from short reads sequenced from them.

Proper citation: eXpress (RRID:SCR_006873) Copy   

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http://sonorus.princeton.edu/hefalmp/

HEFalMp (Human Experimental/FunctionAL MaPper) is a tool developed by Curtis Huttenhower in Olga Troyanskaya's lab at Princeton University. It was created to allow interactive exploration of functional maps. Functional mapping analyzes portions of these networks related to user-specified groups of genes and biological processes and displays the results as probabilities (for individual genes), functional association p-values (for groups of genes), or graphically (as an interaction network). HEFalMp contains information from roughly 15,000 microarray conditions, over 15,000 publications on genetic and physical protein interactions, and several types of DNA and protein sequence analyses and allows the exploration of over 200 H. sapiens process-specific functional relationship networks, including a global, process-independent network capturing the most general functional relationships. Looking to download functional maps? Keep an eye on the bottom of each page of results: every functional map of any kind is generated with a Download link at the bottom right. Most functional maps are provided as tab-delimited text to simplify downstream processing; graphical interaction networks are provided as Support Vector Graphics files, which can be viewed using the Adobe Viewer, any recent version of Firefox, or the excellent open source Inkscape tool.

Proper citation: Human Experimental/FunctionAL MaPper: Providing Functional Maps of the Human Genome (RRID:SCR_003506) Copy   

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http://rulai.cshl.edu/tools/ESE

A web-based analysis service for identifying exonic splicing enhancers in eukaryotic genes. ESEfinder accept sequences in the FASTA format. A typical mammalian gene is composed of several relatively short exons that are interrupted by much longer introns. To generate correct mature mRNAs, the exons must be identified and joined together precisely and efficiently, in a process that requires the coordinated action of five small nuclear (sn)RNAs (U1, U2, U4, U5 and U6) and more than 60 polypeptides. The inaccurate recognition of exon/intron boundaries or the failure to remove an intron generates aberrant mRNAs that are either unstable or code for defective or deleterious protein isoforms. Exonic enhancers are thought to serve as binding sites for specific serine/arginine-rich (SR) proteins, a family of structurally related and highly conserved splicing factors characterized by one or two RNA-recognition motifs (RRM) and by a distinctive C-terminal domain highly enriched in RS dipeptides (the RS domain). The RRMs mediate sequence-specific binding to the RNA, and so determine substrate specificity, whereas the RS domain appears to be involved mainly in protein-protein interactions. SR proteins bound to ESEs can promote exon definition by directly recruiting the splicing machinery through their RS domain and/or by antagonizing the action of nearby silencer elements. Sponsors: ESEfinder is supported by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Proper citation: Exonic Splicing Enhancer Finder (RRID:SCR_002835) Copy   

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http://bisearch.enzim.hu

BiSearch is a primer-design algorithm for DNA sequences. It may be used for both bisulfite converted as well as for original not modified sequences. You can search various genomes with the designed primers to avoid non-specific PCR products by our fast ePCR method. This is especially recommended when primers are designed to amplify the highly redundant bisulfite treated sequences. It has the unique property of analyzing the primer pairs for mispriming sites on the bisulfite-treated genome and determines potential non-specific amplification products with a new search algorithm. The options of primer-design and analysis for mispriming sites can be used sequentially or separately, both on bisulfite-treated and untreated sequences. In silico and in vitro tests of the software suggest that new PCR strategies may increase the efficiency of the amplification.

Proper citation: BiSearch: Primer Design and Search Tool (RRID:SCR_002980) Copy   

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http://babelomics.bioinfo.cipf.es

An integrative platform for the analysis of transcriptomics, proteomics and genomic data with advanced functional profiling. Version 4 of Babelomics integrates primary (normalization, calls, etc.) and secondary (signatures, predictors, associations, TDTs, clustering, etc.) analysis tools within an environment that allows relating genomic data and/or interpreting them by means of different functional enrichment or gene set methods. Such interpretation is made not only using functional definitions (GO, KEGG, Biocarta, etc.) but also regulatory information (from Transfac, Jaspar, etc.) and other levels of regulation such as miRNA-mediated interference, protein-protein interactions, text-mining module definitions and the possibility of producing de novo annotations through the Blast2GO system . Babelomics has been extensively re-engineered and now it includes the use of web services and Web 2.0 technology features, a new user interface with persistent sessions and a new extended database of gene identifiers. In this release GEPAS and Babelomics have integrated into a unique web application with many new features and improvements: * Data input: import and quality control for the most common microarray formats * Normalization and base calling: for the most common expression, tiling and SNP microarrays (Affymetrix and Agilent). * Transcriptomics: diverse analysis options that include well established as well as novel algorithms for normalization, gene selection, class prediction, clustering and time-series analysis. * Genotyping: stratification analysis, association, TDT. * Functional profiling: functional enrichment and gene set enrichment analysis with functional terms (GO, KEGG, Biocarta, etc.), regulatory (Transfac, Jaspar, miRNAs, etc.), text-mining, derived bioentities, protein-protein interaction analysis. * Integrative analysis: Different variables can be related to each other (e.g. gene expression to gnomic copy number) and the results subjected to functional analysis. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: Babelomics (RRID:SCR_002969) Copy   

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http://www.tmanavigator.org/

A free web-based service open to all users for analysis of tissue microarray (TMA) data and related information, accommodating categorical, semi-continuous and continuous expression scores. There is no login requirement.

Proper citation: TMA Navigator (RRID:SCR_005599) Copy   

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http://biit.cs.ut.ee/graphweb/

GraphWeb allows the detection of modules from biological, heterogeneous and multi-species networks, and the interpretation of detected modules using Gene Ontology, cis-regulatory motifs and biological pathways. GraphWeb is a public web server for graph-based analysis of biological networks that: * analyses directed and undirected, weighted and unweighted heterogeneous networks of genes, proteins and microarray probesets for many eukaryotic genomes; * integrates multiple diverse datasets into global networks; * incorporates multispecies data using gene orthology mapping; * filters nodes and edges based on dataset support, edge weight and node annotation; * detects gene modules from networks using a collection of algorithms; * interprets discovered modules using Gene Ontology, pathways, and cis-regulatory motifs. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: GraphWeb (RRID:SCR_005746) Copy   

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http://www.animalgenome.org/bioinfo/tools/catego/

CateGOrizer takes batch input of GO term IDs in a list format or unformatted plain text file, allows users to choose one of the available classifications such as GO_slim, GOA, EGAD, MGI_GO_slim, GO-ROOT, or a self-defined classification list, find its parental branch and performs an accumulative classification count, and returns the results in a sorted table of counts, percentages, and a pie chart (if it takes longer than standard time out period, it will email the user with a URL link to the results). This tool is comprised with a set of perl CGI programs coupled with a MySQL DBMS that stores the GO terms DAG data. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: CateGOrizer (RRID:SCR_005737) Copy   

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