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http://athina.biol.uoa.gr/CAST/

A novel algorithm for low-complexity region detection and selective masking. The algorithm is based on multiple-pass Smith-Waterman comparison of the query sequence against twenty homopolymers with infinite gap penalties. The output of the algorithm is both the masked query sequence for further analysis, e.g. database searches, as well as the regions of low complexity.

Proper citation: CAST (RRID:SCR_000628) Copy   

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http://www.gene-regulation.com/pub/databases.html#transpath

Database on eukaryotic transcription factors, their experimentally-proven binding sites, consensus binding sequences (positional weight matrices) and regulated genes. Its broad compilation of binding sites allows the derivation of positional weight matrices. It can either be used as an encyclopedia, for both specific and general information on signal transduction, or can serve as a network analyzer. Cross-references to important sequence and signature databases such as EMBL/GenBank UniProt/Swiss-Prot InterPro or Ensembl EntrezGene RefSeq are provided. The database is equipped with the tools for data visualization and analysis. It has three modules: the first one is the data, which have been manually extracted, mostly from the primary literature; the second is PathwayBuilder, which provides several different types of network visualization and hence facilitates understanding; the third is ArrayAnalyzer, which is particularly suited to gene expression array interpretation, and is able to identify key molecules within signalling networks (potential drug targets). These key molecules could be responsible for the coordinated regulation of downstream events. Manual data extraction focuses on direct reactions between signalling molecules and the experimental evidence for them, including species of genes/proteins used in individual experiments, experimental systems, materials and methods. This combination of materials and methods is used in TRANSPATH to assign a quality value to each experimentally proven reaction, which reflects the probability that this reaction would happen under physiological conditions. Another important feature in TRANSPATH is the inclusion of transcription factor-gene relations, which are transferred from TRANSFAC, a database focused on transcription regulation and transcription factors. Since interactions between molecules are mainly direct, this allows a complete and stepwise pathway reconstruction from ligands to regulated genes.

Proper citation: TRANSPATH (RRID:SCR_005640) Copy   

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http://www.gotaxexplorer.de/

GOTaxExplorer presents a new approach to comparative genomics that integrates functional information and families with the taxonomic classification. It integrates UniProt, Gene Ontology, NCBI Taxonomy, Pfam and SMART in one database. GOTaxExplorer provides four different query types: selection of entity sets, comparison of sets of Pfam families, semantic comparison of sets of GO terms, functional comparison of sets of gene products. This permits to select custom sets of GO terms, families or taxonomic groups. For example, it is possible to compare arbitrarily selected organisms or groups of organisms from the taxonomic tree on the basis of the functionality of their genes. Furthermore, it enables to determine the distribution of specific molecular functions or protein families in the taxonomy. The comparison of sets of GO terms allows to assess the semantic similarity of two different GO terms. The functional comparison of gene products makes it possible to identify functionally equivalent and functionally related gene products from two organisms on the basis of GO annotations and a semantic similarity measure for GO. Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: GOTaxExplorer (RRID:SCR_005720) Copy   

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http://vibez.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/

An imaging and image analysis framework for virtual colocalization studies in larval zebrafish brains, currently available for 72hpf, 48hpf and 96hpf old larvae. ViBE-Z contains a database with precisely aligned gene expression patterns (1����m^3 resolution), an anatomical atlas, and a software. This software creates high-quality data sets by fusing multiple confocal microscopic image stacks, and aligns these data sets to the standard larva. The ViBE-Z database and atlas are stored in HDF5 file format. They are freely available for download. ViBE-Z provides a software that automatically maps gene expression data with cellular resolution to a 3D standard larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) brain. ViBE-Z enhances the data quality through fusion and attenuation correction of multiple confocal microscope stacks per specimen and uses a fluorescent stain of cell nuclei for image registration. It automatically detects 14 predefined anatomical landmarks for aligning new data with the reference brain. ViBE-Z performs colocalization analysis in expression databases for anatomical domains or subdomains defined by any specific pattern. The ViBE-Z database, atlas and software are provided via a web interface.

Proper citation: ViBE-Z (RRID:SCR_005895) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/pfa/iprscan/

Software package for functional analysis of sequences by classifying them into families and predicting presence of domains and sites. Scans sequences against InterPro's signatures. Characterizes nucleotide or protein function by matching it with models from several different databases. Used in large scale analysis of whole proteomes, genomes and metagenomes. Available as Web based version and standalone Perl version and SOAP Web Service.

Proper citation: InterProScan (RRID:SCR_005829) Copy   

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http://www.livinghuman.org/

Distributed repository of anatomo-functional data and of simulation algorithms, fully integrated into a seamless simulation environment and directly accessible. This infrastructure will be used to create the physiome of the human musculo-skeletal system.

Proper citation: LHP LHDL (RRID:SCR_005928) Copy   

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http://www.vectorbase.org

Bioinformatics Resource Center for invertebrate vectors. Provides web-based resources to scientific community conducting basic and applied research on organisms considered potential agents of biowarfare or bioterrorism or causing emerging or re-emerging diseases.

Proper citation: VectorBase (RRID:SCR_005917) Copy   

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http://www.wf4ever-project.org/

Project to addresses challenges associated with the preservation of scientific experiments in data-intensive science, including: * The definition of models to describe, in a standard way, scientific experiments by means of workflow-centric Research Objects, which comprise scientific workflows, the provenance of their executions, interconnections between workflows and related resources (e.g., datasets, publications, etc.), and social aspects related to such scientific experiments. * The collection of best practices for the creation and management of Research Objects. * The analysis and management of decay in scientific workflows. To address these challenges they are creating an architecture and tooling for the access, manipulation, sharing, reuse and evolution of Research Objects in a range of disciplines. This will result into the next generation RO-enabled myExperiment.

Proper citation: Workflow4Ever (RRID:SCR_005939) Copy   

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http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki

A free, open-source extension to MediaWiki - the wiki software that powers Wikipedia - that helps to search, organize, tag, browse, evaluate, and share the wiki''s content. While traditional wikis contain only text which computers can neither understand nor evaluate, SMW adds semantic annotations that allow a wiki to function as a collaborative database. Semantic MediaWiki introduces some additional markup into the wiki-text which allows users to add semantic annotations to the wiki. While this first appears to make things more complex, it can also greatly simplify the structure of the wiki, help users to find more information in less time, and improve the overall quality and consistency of the wiki. A large number of related extensions have been created that extend the ability to edit, display and browse through the data stored by SMW: the term Semantic MediaWiki is sometimes used to refer to this entire family of extensions.

Proper citation: Semantic MediaWiki (RRID:SCR_006246) Copy   

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https://www.infrafrontier.eu/emma/

Non-profit repository for the collection, archiving (via cryopreservation) and distribution of relevant mutant strains essential for basic biomedical research. Users may browse by strain, gene, phenotype, or human disease. Its primary objective is to establish and manage a unified repository for maintaining medically relevant mouse mutants and making them available to the scientific community. Therefore, EMMA archives mutant strains and distributes them to requesting researchers. EMMA also hosts courses in cryopreservation, to promote the use and dissemination of frozen embryos and spermatozoa. Dissemination of knowledge is further fostered by a dedicated resource database. Anybody who wants their mutant mouse strains cryopreserved may deposit strains with EMMA. However depositors must be aware that these strains become freely available to other researchers after being deposited.With more than 8400 mutant mouse strains and asmall but increasing number of rat mutant strains available, EMMA is the primary mouse repository in Europe and the third largest non-profit repository worldwide.

Proper citation: European Mouse Mutant Archive (RRID:SCR_006136) Copy   

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http://mips.gsf.de/genre/proj/yeast/index.jsp

The MIPS Comprehensive Yeast Genome Database (CYGD) aims to present information on the molecular structure and functional network of the entirely sequenced, well-studied model eukaryote, the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In addition, the data of various projects on related yeasts are used for comparative analysis.

Proper citation: CYGD - Comprehensive Yeast Genome Database (RRID:SCR_002289) Copy   

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http://www.gudmap.org/Resources/Ontologies.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 14,2026. A high-resolution ontology has been developed by members of the GUDMAP consortium to describe the subcompartments of the developing murine genitourinary tract. This ontology incorporates what can be defined histologically and begins to encompass other structures and cell types already identified at the molecular level. The GUDMAP ontology encompasses Theiler stage (TS) 17-27 of development as well as the sexually mature adult. It has been written as a partonomic, text-based, hierarchical ontology that, for the embryological stages, has been developed as a high-resolution expansion of the existing Edinburgh Mouse Atlas Project (EMAP) ontology. It also includes group terms for well-characterized structural and/or functional units comprising several sub-structures, such as the nephron and juxtaglomerular complex. Each term has been assigned a unique identification number. Synonyms have been used to improve the success of query searching and maintain wherever possible existing EMAP terms relating to this organ system.

Proper citation: GUDMAP Ontology (RRID:SCR_002637) Copy   

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http://www.imexconsortium.org/

Interaction database from international collaboration between major public interaction data providers who share curation effort and develop set of curation rules when capturing data from both directly deposited interaction data or from publications in peer reviewed journals. Performs complete curation of all protein-protein interactions experimentally demonstrated within publication and makes them available in single search interface on common website. Provides data in standards compliant download formats. IMEx partners produce their own separate resources, which range from all encompassing molecular interaction databases, such as are maintained by IntAct, MINT and DIP, organism-centric resources such as BioGrid or MPIDB or biological domain centric, such as MatrixDB. They have committed to making records available, via PSICQUIC webservice, which have been curated to IMEx rules and are available to users as single, non-redundant set of curated publications which can be searched at the IMEx website. Data is made available in standards-compliant tab-deliminated and XML formats, enabling to visualize data using wide range of tools. Consortium is open to participation of additional partners and encourages deposition of data, prior to publication, and will supply unique accession numbers which may be referenced within final article. Submitters may send their data directly to any of member databases using variety of formats, but should conform to guidelines as to minimum information required to describe data.

Proper citation: IMEx - The International Molecular Exchange Consortium (RRID:SCR_002805) Copy   

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http://funsimmat.bioinf.mpi-inf.mpg.de

FunSimMat is a comprehensive resource of semantic and functional similarity values. It allows ranking disease candidate proteins for OMIM diseases and searching for functional similarity values for proteins (extracted from UniProt), and protein families (Pfam, SMART). FunSimMat provides several different semantic and functional similarity measures for each protein pair using the Gene Ontology annotation from UniProtKB and the Gene Ontology Annotation project at EBI (GOA). There are several search options available: Disease candidate prioritization: * Rank candidate proteins using any OMIM disease entry * Compare a list of proteins to any OMIM disease entry * Compare all human proteins to any OMIM disease entry Functional similarity: * Compare one protein / protein family to a list of proteins / protein families * Compare a list of GO terms to a list of proteins / protein families Semantic similarity: * For a list of GO terms, FunSimMat performs an all-against-all comparison and displays the semantic similarity values. FunSimMat provides an XML-RPC interface for performing automatic queries and processing of the results as well as a RestLike Interface. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: FunSimMat (RRID:SCR_002729) Copy   

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http://www.geneontology.org/

Computable knowledge regarding functions of genes and gene products. GO resources include biomedical ontologies that cover molecular domains of all life forms as well as extensive compilations of gene product annotations to these ontologies that provide largely species-neutral, comprehensive statements about what gene products do. Used to standardize representation of gene and gene product attributes across species and databases.

Proper citation: Gene Ontology (RRID:SCR_002811) Copy   

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

International functional genomics data collection generated from microarray or next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms. Repository of functional genomics data supporting publications. Provides genes expression data for reuse to the research community where they can be queried and downloaded. Integrated with the Gene Expression Atlas and the sequence databases at the European Bioinformatics Institute. Contains a subset of curated and re-annotated Archive data which can be queried for individual gene expression under different biological conditions across experiments. Data collected to MIAME and MINSEQE standards. Data are submitted by users or are imported directly from the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus.

Proper citation: ArrayExpress (RRID:SCR_002964) Copy   

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http://www.interaction-proteome.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on January 28, 2013. (URL is no longer valid) A platform for high-throughput proteomic analysis. Major objectives of IPP include the establishment of a broadly applicable platform of routine methods for the analysis of protein interaction networks in bio-medical research. A multidisciplinary approach will address; * their validation by cell biological, biochemical and biophysical methods. * their collection in a new type of public database. * their exploitation and use for in silico simulations of protein-interaction networks. The innovations generated in IPP will provide the basis for an efficient analysis and systems modeling of fundamental biological processes in health and disease. It will develop novel technology, including a high-end mass spectrometer with extremely large dynamic range, high-density peptide arrays, and improved visualization technology for light and electron microscopy. Additionally, the novel technologies will be validated with selected model systems of high relevance to medicine and biotechnology. Extensive bioinformatics support is a key element in the project to cope with the massive increase in experimental data on protein interactions obtained using the novel technologies. In particular, the efficient integration of disparate data sets represents a key challenge in proteomics and functional genomics. Therefore, the consortium includes the creator of the only European protein-interactions database, MINT. The multi-disciplinary efforts required in the scientific program of IPP are organized into four sub-projects (SP): * SP1: Tools for interaction analysis - SP1 is dedicated to the development of innovative proteomics technology to map protein-interaction networks and their cellular topology for the interaction analyses in SP2 and SP3. * SP2: Identification of interaction partners for protein domains - SP2 will generate (high throughput) data for important protein-protein interactions defined by bioinformatics and biomedical interest and by SP3, utilizing technology developed in SP1. * SP3: Functional analysis of interactions - SP3 focuses on the validation of technologies and tools developed in SP1. It will perform functional analyses of protein-interactions in medically and biochemically relevant prokaryotic and eukaryotic (mammalian) model systems. * SP4: Interactome database and modelling - SP4 provides the required bioinformatics infrastructure for the project, comprising the improvement of the public MINT database for the collection and dissemination of the interactome data; modelling and simulation of protein-interaction networks characterised in SP2 and SP3; and the dissemination of the technology developments to the scientific community.

Proper citation: Interaction Proteome Project (RRID:SCR_008043) Copy   

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http://prodom.prabi.fr/

Comprehensive set of protein domain families automatically generated from UniProt Knowledge Database. Automated clustering of homologous domains generated from global comparison of all available protein sequences., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: ProDom (RRID:SCR_006969) Copy   

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http://www.dkfz.de/en/mga/Groups/LIFEdb-Database.html

Database that integrates large-scale functional genomics assays and manual cDNA annotation with bioinformatics gene expression and protein analysis. LifeDB integrates data regarding full length cDNA clones and data on expression of encoded protein and their subcellular localization on mammalian cell line. LifeDB enables the scientific community to systematically search and select genes, proteins as well as cDNA of interest by specific database identifiers as well as gene name. It enables to visualize cDNA clone and subcellular location of proteins. It also links the results to external biological databases in order to provide a broader functional information. LifeDB also provides an annotation pipeline which facilitates an improved mapping of clones to known human reference transcripts from the RefSeq database and the Ensembl database. An advanced web interface enables the researchers to view the data in a more user friendly manner. Users can search using any one of the following search options available both in Search gene and cDNA clones and Search Sub-cellular locations of human proteins: By Keyword, By gene/transcript identifier, By plate name, By clone name, By cellular location. * The Search genes and cDNA clones results include: Gene Name, Ensemble ID, Genomic Region, Clone name, Plate name, Plate position, Classification class, Synonymous SNP''s, Non- synonymous SNP''s, Number of ambiguous positions, and Alignment with reference genes. * The Search sub-cellular locations of human proteins results include: Subcellular location, Gene Name, Ensemble ID, Clone name, True localization, Images, Start tag and End tag. Every result page has an option to download result data (excluding the microscopy images). On click of ''Download results as CSV-file'' link in the result page the user will be given a choice to open or save result data in form of a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file. Later the CSV file can be easily opened using Excel or OpenOffice.

Proper citation: LifeDB (RRID:SCR_006899) Copy   

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http://hendrix.imm.dtu.dk/software/lyngby/

Matlab toolbox for the analysis of functional neuroimages (PET, fMRI). The toolbox contains a number of models: FIR-filter, Lange-Zeger, K-means clustering among others, visualizations and reading of neuroimaging files.

Proper citation: Lyngby (RRID:SCR_007143) Copy   

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