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http://www.vistrails.org/

Open-source scientific workflow and provenance management system that provides support for simulations, data exploration and visualization. It was designed to manage these rapidly-evolving workflows. VisTrails has a comprehensive provenance infrastructure that maintains detailed history information about the steps followed and data derived in the course of an exploratory task: VisTrails maintains provenance of data products, of the workflows that derive these products and their executions. This information is persisted as XML files or in a relational database, and it allows users to navigate workflow versions in an intuitive way, to undo changes but not lose any results, to visually compare different workflows and their results, and to examine the actions that led to a result. It also enables a series operations and user interfaces that simplify workflow design and use, including the ability to create and refine workflows by analogy and to query workflows by example. VisTrails supports the creation and execution of workflows. It allows the combination of loosely-coupled resources, specialized libraries, grid and Web services. The released version comes with support for several packages including, VTK, Image Magick, Web Services, and pylab. You can also download packages contributed by users, as well as create your own packages/modules. Workflows can be run interactively, through the VisTrails GUI, or in batch using a VisTrails server. VisTrails is written in Python and it uses the multi-platform Qt library for its user interface. It runs on Mac, Linux and Windows. Provenance-rich results derived by VisTrails can be included in LaTeX, Wiki, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents.

Proper citation: VisTrails (RRID:SCR_006261) Copy   

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http://www.crowdlabs.org/

A social visualization repository for the scientific workflow management system VisTrails providing a platform for sharing and executing computational tasks. It adopts the model used by social Web sites and that integrates a set of usable tools and a scalable infrastructure to provide an environment for scientists to collaboratively analyze and visualize data. crowdLabs aims to foster collaboration but was specifically designed to support the needs of computational scientists, including the ability to access high-performance computers and manipulate large volumes of data. By providing mechanisms that simplify the publishing and use of analysis pipelines, it allows IT personnel and end users to collaboratively construct and refine portals. This lowers the barriers for the use of scientific analyses and enables broader audiences to contribute insights to the scientific exploration process, without the high costs incurred by traditional portals. In addition, it supports a more dynamic environment where new exploratory analyses can be added on-the-fly.

Proper citation: crowdLabs (RRID:SCR_006294) Copy   

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http://www.openarchives.org/ore/

Initiative which defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources. The intent of the effort is to develop standards that generalize across all web-based information including the increasing popular social networks of web 2.0. The goal of these standards is to expose the rich content in these aggregations (sometimes called compound digital objects, they may combine distributed resources with multiple media types including text, images, data, and video) to applications that support authoring, deposit, exchange, visualization, reuse, and preservation. The specific aim of the ORE effort is to promote (through creation or endorsement) effective and consistent mechanisms which: facilitate discovery of compound digital objects; reference (or link to) these objects (as well as parts thereof); obtain a variety of disseminations of these objects; aggregate and disaggregate objects; and enable processing of objects by automated agents.

Proper citation: Open Archives Initiative - Object Reuse and Exchange Initiative (RRID:SCR_006982) Copy   

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http://sobekrepository.org/

Digital repository software written in C# / ASP.net for powering digital libraries in a Windows server environment. Standards-based repository keeps all files in METS/MODS packages. Several related applications are available as well and the libraries can work independently as great digital library resources. SobekCM allows users to discover online resources via semantic and full-text searches, as well as a variety of different browse mechanisms. For each digital resource in the repository there are a plethora of display options, which may be selected by an appropriately authenticated use. This repository includes online metadata editing and online submissions in support of institutional repositories.

Proper citation: SobekCM (RRID:SCR_003225) Copy   

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http://total-impact.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on February 8, 2017. Service that aggregates altmetrics: diverse impacts from articles, datasets, blog posts, and more, to create a measure of the impact of scholarly output. * view metrics: Point to research products in Slideshare, GitHub, and Dryad. Import items from Google Scholar profiles or a BibTex file and the output is a metrics report that can be viewed and shared. * embed anywhere: Use the full-featured API to add metrics to projects. Or drop the embeddable Javascript widget into a publishing platform''s HTML. * Free - metrics data (and source code). They believe open altmetrics are key for building the coming era of Web-native science.

Proper citation: total impact.org (RRID:SCR_005952) Copy   

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http://antibodyregistry.org/

Public registry of antibodies with unique identifiers for commercial and non-commercial antibody reagents to give researchers a way to universally identify antibodies used in publications. The registry contains antibody product information organized according to genes, species, reagent types (antibodies, recombinant proteins, ELISA, siRNA, cDNA clones). Data is provided in many formats so that authors of biological papers, text mining tools and funding agencies can quickly and accurately identify the antibody reagents they and their colleagues used. The Antibody Registry allows any user to submit a new antibody or set of antibodies to the registry via a web form, or via a spreadsheet upload.

Proper citation: Antibody Registry (RRID:SCR_006397) Copy   

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http://code.google.com/p/lapdftext/

Software that facilitates accurate extraction of text from PDF files of research articles for use in text mining applications. It is intended for both scientists and natural language processing (NLP) engineers interested in getting access to text within specific sections of research articles. The system extracts text blocks from PDF-formatted full-text research articles and classifies them into logical units based on rules that characterize specific sections. The LA-PDFText system focuses only on the textual content of the research articles. The current version of LA-PDFText is a baseline system that extracts text using a three-stage process: * identification of blocks of contiguous text * classification of these blocks into rhetorical categories * extraction of the text from blocks grouped section-wise.

Proper citation: lapdftext (RRID:SCR_006167) Copy   

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https://wiki.birncommunity.org/display/NEWBIRNCC/Knowledge+Engineering+from+Experimental+Design+%28%27KEfED%27%29

Knowledge engineering software for reasoning with scientific observations and interpretations. The software has three parts: (a) the KEfED model editor - a design editor for creating KEfED models by drawing a flow diagram of an experimental protocol; (b) the KEfED data interface - a spreadsheet-like tool that permits users to enter experimental data pertaining to a specific model; (c) a "neural connection matrix" interface that presents neural connectivity as a table of ordinal connection strengths representing the interpretations of tract-tracing data. This tool also allows the user to view experimental evidence pertaining to a specific connection. The KEfED model is designed to provide a lightweight representation for scientific knowledge that is (a) generalizable, (b) a suitable target for text-mining approaches, (c) relatively semantically simple, and (d) is based on the way that scientist plan experiments and should therefore be intuitively understandable to non-computational bench scientists. The basic idea of the KEfED model is that scientific observations tend to have a common design: there is a significant difference between measurements of some dependent variable under conditions specified by two (or more) values of some independent variable.

Proper citation: Knowledge Engineering from Experimental Design (RRID:SCR_001238) Copy   

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http://impactstory.org/

A web application which provides altmetrics to help researchers measure and share the impacts of their research outputs. After making a profile, scientists can track which of their publications are most popular through number of citations, frequency of PDF downloads, etc. Information from research outputs such as journal articles, blog posts, datasets, and software contribute to a user's impact, which is viewable in their profile.

Proper citation: ImpactStory (RRID:SCR_002632) Copy   

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