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http://nirc.louisiana.edu/index.html

NIRC maintains and provides available research facilities accredited by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) International; a ready source of chimpanzees of mixed ages and sex for use in biomedical and behavioral sciences, and also provides professional staff necessary to support investigators with their research needs. Current Research: Vaccine development and testing; pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, preclinical safety, and efficacy studies. Services Provided: The University of Louisiana at Lafayette-New Iberia Research Center (UL Lafayette-NIRC) is an AAALAC-International-accredited nonhuman primate research facility dedicated to the support of basic and applied biomedical and behavioral research. All proposed programs must be approved by the presenting institution and the UL Lafayette-NIRC animal care and use committees. State-of-the-art biomedical support facilities are available that include access to ultrasound, radiography with automatic processor and computer imagery for diagnostic enhancement, and endoscopy and laparoscopy with video monitors, camera and color photo imagery. Diagnostic Laboratory: A 12,000-square-foot laboratory is available for investigators'' research support requirements. Capabilities within the laboratory include but are not limited to hematology, chemistry, microbiology, urinalysis, parasitology, and histology. Among the investigator support procedures are Ficoll gradient isolation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells, platelet aggregation profiles, nonhuman primate lymphocyte proliferation assay, and flow cytometry (lymphocyte enumeration). Emergency generator power is accessible in each laboratory unit and for all major instrumentation and critical freezers. Animals: The center cares for approximately 360 chimpanzees and 5,500 New and Old World species of nonhuman primates. In addition to chimpanzees, the following species of nonhuman primates are being bred at the center: Vervet monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops), cynomolgus macaque (Macaca fascicularis), pigtailed macaque (M. nemestrina), rhesus macaque (M. mulatta).

Proper citation: New Iberia Research Center (RRID:SCR_008279) Copy   

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http://www.loni.usc.edu/Software/MultiPhase-SEG

A segmentation software that employs the implementation of the active contours without edges level set based segmentation model. Its features include: segmentation of three-dimensional brain volumes into two or more regions (for example, regions could be WM, GM, and CSF), visualization of surfaces representing boundaries of different brain regions, and being written in Matlab with the ability to run on any platform with Matlab installed.

Proper citation: MultiPhase-SEG (RRID:SCR_008275) Copy   

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http://loni.usc.edu/Software/SVT

Software tool for determining the statistically significant regions of activation in single or multi-subject human brain functional studies. It can be also applied to structural brain data for analyzing developmental, dementia and other changes of anatomy over time. This package was originally developed to work on Sun SPARC and SGI stations using the "C" language compiler provided by Sun/SGI as part of the standard system software.

Proper citation: Sub-Volume Thresholding Analysis (RRID:SCR_008272) Copy   

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http://www.hms.harvard.edu/NEPRC/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on May 12,2023. A center that focuses on performing bio-medical research on nonhuman primates to aid in human health research. The center also focuses on training young scientists for professional careers in bio-medical research and primate biology. One of the New England Primate Research School's main accomplishments was the creation of an animal model for AIDS that first demonstrated that vaccine protection could be possible. Recent research has led to the development of novel agents for brain imaging that will aid in the diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson's disease.

Proper citation: New England Primate Research School (RRID:SCR_008290) Copy   

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http://mousemutant.jax.org/index.html

Producer and supplier of a collection of mice bearing spontaneous mutations. These mice contribute to a better understanding of the genetic bases of neurological, neuromuscular, sensory, metabolic, skeletal/craniofacial and developmental disorders and conditions such as diabetes, obesity and heart disease.

Proper citation: Mouse Mutant Resource (RRID:SCR_008367) Copy   

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http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/comparative_medicine/resource_directory/primates.asp#alamo

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 17, 2013. It houses chimpanzees that have been used in biomedical research, but no active, invasive research is conducted on the site. The APF provides for the long-term care and husbandry of chimpanzees that have been used in biomedical research. Charles River Laboratories Inc. operates the facility under contract with the National Institutes of Health. To be used in continuing virological research, the animals must be transferred to active chimpanzee research settings. All chimpanzees at the APF have been exposed to various microorganisms, such as hepatitis C virus and HIV. For this reason, they may be candidates for studies related to these diseases. The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) may remove infected animals from the APF to other accredited chimpanzee facilities for research purposes. Investigators interested in the chimpanzees at the APF should contact Dr. Harold Watson in NCRR''s Division of Comparative Medicine to discuss research requirements.

Proper citation: Alamogordo Primate Facility (RRID:SCR_008376) Copy   

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http://www.primate.wisc.edu/

Research center aimed towards increasing understanding of basic primate biology and improving human health and quality of life. Its goals include helping discover treatments, preventative measures and cures for human disease; gathering knowledge of primate biology and ecosystems; providing resources to scientists world wide; and collecting and disseminating research to the larger scientific community and public.

Proper citation: Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (RRID:SCR_012987) Copy   

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https://maria.stanford.edu/index.php

Web multimodal recurrent neural network tool designed to predict HLA-II (Human Leukocyte Antigen class II) peptide ligand presentation. It uses cell HLA alleles, peptide sequences, and source genes to evaluate antigen presentation. Used for predicting the likelihood of antigen presentation from a gene of interest in the context of specific HLA class II alleles.

Proper citation: MARIA (RRID:SCR_028673) Copy   

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http://bmsr.usc.edu/software/lysis/

Interactive software of a set of modular programs (each performing a specific task) that provide an integrated computing environment for data analysis and system modeling. Unique capabilities of LYSIS include input-output nonlinear system modeling and the novel methodology of Principal Dynamic Modes (PDMs). LYSIS is currently available in two versions: one for LYSIS 7.1 Windows and one for LYSIS 7.2 Matlab. Early versions are also available for UNIX environments, distributed as source code that can be compiled for each UNIX implementation (e.g., Solaris, HPUX, Linux). Specific features of LYSIS that cannot be found in commercially available packages include the efficient kernel estimation using Laguerre expansions and the use of Principal Dynamic Modes (PDMs). These enable input-output modeling of dynamic nonlinear systems with relatively short data-records (even in the presence of considerable noise). System Requirements * Operating System ** Windows XP/Vista/7 ** Sun/Unix: Solaris 2.x

Proper citation: LYSIS (RRID:SCR_001385) Copy   

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http://www.sci.utah.edu/cibc-software/scirun.html

A Problem Solving Environment (PSE) for modeling, simulation and visualization of scientific problems. SCIRun now includes the biomedical components formally released as BioPSE, as well as BioMesh3D. BioMesh3D is a free, easy to use program for generating quality meshes for the use in biological simulations. The most recent stable release is version 4.6.

Proper citation: SCIRun (RRID:SCR_002541) Copy   

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http://beetlebase.org/

A centralized sequence database and community resource for Tribolium genetics, genomics and developmental biology containing genomic sequence scaffolds mapped to 10 linkage groups, genetic linkage maps, the official gene set, Reference Sequences from NCBI (RefSeq), predicted gene models, ESTs and whole-genome tiling array data representing several developmental stages. The current version of Beetlebase is built on the Tribolium castaneum 3.0 Assembly (Tcas 3.0) released by the Human Genome Sequencing Center at the Baylor College of Medicine. The database is constructed using the upgraded Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) modules. The genomic data is stored in a PostgreSQL relational database using the Chado schema and visualized as tracks in GBrowse. The genetic map is visualized using the comparative genetic map viewer CMAP. To enhance search capabilities, the BLAST search tool has been integrated with the GMOD tools. Tribolium castaneum is a very sophisticated genetic model organism among higher eukaryotes. As the member of a primitive order of holometabolous insects, Coleoptera, Tribolium is in a key phylogenetic position to understand the genetic innovations that accompanied the evolution of higher forms with more complex development. Coleoptera is also the largest and most species diverse of all eukaryotic orders and Tribolium offers the only genetic model for the profusion of medically and economically important species therein. The genome sequences may be downloaded.

Proper citation: BeetleBase (RRID:SCR_001955) Copy   

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http://www.loni.usc.edu/Software/ShapeTools

Software library that is a collection of Java classes that enable Java programmers to model, manipulate and visualize geometric shapes and associated data values. It simplifies the creation of application programs by providing a ready-made set of support routines. * File format readers that implement ShapeIO interface (modeled after Java ImageIO) are automatically used when appropriate. * Storage of additional metadata of arbitrary type (other than shape vertices and interconnections) is enabled by the use of data attributes. * Shapes may contain a set of child shapes allowing for the construction and manipulation of complex hierarchies of shapes. * The various components of a shape are specified as interfaces with specific implementations, making it easy to create specialized implementations of a shape component when different performance characteristics are required.

Proper citation: LONI ShapeTools (RRID:SCR_002697) Copy   

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http://superfly.ucsd.edu/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on June 23, 2013. Homophila utilizes the sequence information of human disease genes from the NCBI OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) database in order to determine if sequence homologs of these genes exist in the current Drosophila sequence database (FlyBase). Sequences are compared using NCBI's BLAST program. The database is updated weekly and can be searched by human disease, gene name, OMIM number, title, subtitle and/or allelic variant descriptions.

Proper citation: Homophila (RRID:SCR_007717) Copy   

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http://www.geneatlas.org/gene/main.jsp

This website allows visitors to search for genes of interest based on their spatial expression patterns in the Postnatal Day 7 mouse brain. Geneatlas provides two searching tools: A graphical interface for customized spatial queries; A textual interface for querying annotated structures. Geneatlas is the product of a collaboration between researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, and University of Houston.

Proper citation: Gene Atlas (RRID:SCR_008089) Copy   

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http://mouseatlas.caltech.edu/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented May 10, 2017. A pilot effort that has developed a centralized, web-based biospecimen locator that presents biospecimens collected and stored at participating Arizona hospitals and biospecimen banks, which are available for acquisition and use by researchers. Researchers may use this site to browse, search and request biospecimens to use in qualified studies. The development of the ABL was guided by the Arizona Biospecimen Consortium (ABC), a consortium of hospitals and medical centers in the Phoenix area, and is now being piloted by this Consortium under the direction of ABRC. You may browse by type (cells, fluid, molecular, tissue) or disease. Common data elements decided by the ABC Standards Committee, based on data elements on the National Cancer Institute''s (NCI''s) Common Biorepository Model (CBM), are displayed. These describe the minimum set of data elements that the NCI determined were most important for a researcher to see about a biospecimen. The ABL currently does not display information on whether or not clinical data is available to accompany the biospecimens. However, a requester has the ability to solicit clinical data in the request. Once a request is approved, the biospecimen provider will contact the requester to discuss the request (and the requester''s questions) before finalizing the invoice and shipment. The ABL is available to the public to browse. In order to request biospecimens from the ABL, the researcher will be required to submit the requested required information. Upon submission of the information, shipment of the requested biospecimen(s) will be dependent on the scientific and institutional review approval. Account required. Registration is open to everyone.. Documented on October, 01, 2019.
3D digital atlas of normal mouse development constructed from magnetic resonance image data. The download is a zipped file containing the six atlases Theiler Stages (ts) 13, 21,23, 24, 25 and 26 and MRI data for an unlabeled ts19 embryo. To view the atlases, download and install MBAT from: http://mbat.loni.ucla.edu Specimens were prepared in aqueous, isotonic solutions to avoid tissue shrinkage. Limited specimen handling minimized physical perturbation of the embryos to ensure accurate geometric representations of developing mouse anatomy. Currently, the atlas contains orthogonal sections through MRI volumes, three stages of embryos that have annotated anatomy, photographs of several stages of development, lineage trees for annotated embryos and a gallery of images and movies derived from the annotations. Anatomical annotations can be viewed by selecting a transverse section and selecting a pixel on the displayed slice.

Proper citation: 3D MRI Atlas of Mouse Development (RRID:SCR_008090) Copy   

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http://brainmap.wisc.edu/monkey.html

NO LONGER AVAILABLE. Documented on September 17, 2019. A set of multi-subject atlas templates to facilitate functional and structural imaging studies of the rhesus macaque. These atlases enable alignment of individual scans to improve localization and statistical power of the results, and allow comparison of results between studies and institutions. This population-average MRI-based atlas collection can be used with common brain mapping packages such as SPM or FSL.

Proper citation: Rhesus Macaque Atlases for Functional and Structural Imaging Studies (RRID:SCR_008650) Copy   

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http://biositemaps.ncbcs.org/rds/search.html

Resource Discovery System is a web-accessible and searchable inventory of biomedical research resources. Powered by the Resource Discovery System (RDS) that includes a standards-based informatics infrastructure * Biositemaps Information Model * Biomedical Resource Ontology Extensions * Web Services distributed web-accessible inventory framework * Biositemap Resource Editor * Resource Discovery System Source code and project documentation to be made available on an open-source basis. Contributing institutions: University of Pittsburgh, University of Michigan, Stanford University, Oregon Health & Science University, University of Texas Houston. Duke University, Emory University, University of California Davis, University of California San Diego, National Institutes of Health, Inventory Resources Working Group Members

Proper citation: Resource Discovery System (RRID:SCR_005554) Copy   

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http://www.informatics.jax.org/home/recombinase

Curated data about all recombinase-containing transgenes and knock-ins developed in mice providing a comprehensive resource delineating known activity patterns and allows users to find relevant mouse resources for their studies.

Proper citation: Recombinase (cre) Activity (RRID:SCR_006585) Copy   

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https://open.med.harvard.edu/display/SHRINE/Community

Software providing a scalable query and aggregation mechanism that enables federated queries across many independently operated patient databases. This platform enables clinical researchers to solve the problem of identifying sufficient numbers of patients to include in their studies by querying across distributed hospital electronic medical record systems. Through the use of a federated network protocol, SHRINE allows investigators to see limited data about patients meeting their study criteria without compromising patient privacy. This software should greatly enable population-based research, assessment of potential clinical trials cohorts, and hypothesis formation for followup study by combining the EHR assets across the hospital system. In order to obtain the maximum number of cases representing the study population, it is useful to aggregate patient facts across as many sites as possible. Cutting across institutional boundaries necessitates that each hospital IRB remain in control, and that their local authority is recognized for each and every request for patient data. The independence, ownership, and legal responsibilities of hospitals predetermines a decentralized technical approach, such as a federated query over locally controlled databases. The application comes with the SHRINE Core Ontology but it can be used with any ontology, even one that is disease specific. The Core Ontology is designed to enable the widest range of studies possible using facts gathered in the EMR during routine patient care. SHRINE allows multiple ontologies to be used for different research purposes on the same installed systems.

Proper citation: SHRINE (RRID:SCR_006293) Copy   

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http://www.wakehealth.edu/Research/WFUPC/Cynomolgus-Breeding-Colony-Request-Form-Instructions.htm

The Wake Forest Cynomolgus Breeding Colony (CBC) is a colony of cynomolgus macaques (crab-eating macaques, Macaca fascicularis). The cynomolgus colony is designed to produce specific pathogen free (SPF) cynomolgus monkeys for use in biomedical research. The colony, supported by a grant from the NCRR, addresses the growing need for investigators to use in their protocols animals defined for the absence of specific diseases including CHV-1 (Herpes B), simian immunodeficiency virus, and simian retroviruses. An additional important characteristic of this colony is that, unlike many breeding colonies, the NHPs will be fed two defined diets. The first diet is a soy-free diet, not commercial monkey chow. The second diet has the same macronutrients but the protein source is from soy; similar in isoflavone content. A drawback of chow diets is that the exact nutritional product composition is unknown from lot to lot. However, they are always rich in soy bean meal, isoflavones and other constituents of soy bean meal that are known confounders of several types of research projects. All research using the cynomolgus colony must be reviewed and approved by the colony''s scientific board and the Wake Forest Animal Care and Use Committee (ACUC) before any work can be initiated. The scientific board meets regularly to assess the scientific value of each request and to determine whether or not animals/samples/data can be made available. This includes all requests for: # The purchase of animals for use outside the colony # The use of animals within the colony for the collection of blood/tissue samples, behavioral observations or other kinds of testing # The use of the CBC sample/tissue repository # The use of the CBC data repository

Proper citation: Wake Forest Cynomolgus Breeding Colony (RRID:SCR_006605) Copy   

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