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SEER Datasets and Software Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
SEER Datasets and Software (RRID:SCR_003293) | portal, data or information resource, software resource, disease-related portal, topical portal | Portal provides SEER research data and software SEER*Stat and SEER*Prep. SEER incidence and population data associated by age, sex, race, year of diagnosis, and geographic areas can be used to examine stage at diagnosis by race/ethnicity, calculate survival by stage at diagnosis, age at diagnosis, and tumor grade or size, determine trends and incidence rates for various cancer sites over time. SEER releases new research data every Spring based on the previous November’s submission of data. | NCI, cancer, statistics, epidemiology, analysis |
lists: SEER*Stat lists: NCI SEER Cancer Stage Variable Documentation is related to: Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results has parent organization: National Cancer Institute |
cancer | NCI | Free, Freely available | nif-0000-31490 | SCR_003293 | The Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program, SEER Datasets Software, SEER Datasets & Software, The Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute | 2026-02-14 02:04:29 | 28 | ||||||
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Nitime Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
Nitime (RRID:SCR_002504) | NiTime | data processing software, software library, data analysis software, software toolkit, software application, software resource | Software library for time-series analysis of data from neuroscience experiments. It contains a core of numerical algorithms for time-series analysis both in the time and spectral domains, a set of container objects to represent time-series, and auxiliary objects that expose a high level interface to the numerical machinery and make common analysis tasks easy to express with compact and semantically clear code. | eeg, meg, electrocorticography, magnetic resonance, time-series, analysis |
is listed by: NeuroImaging Tools and Resources Collaboratory (NITRC) has parent organization: Neuroimaging in Python |
Free, Available for download, Freely available | nlx_155903 | http://www.nitrc.org/projects/nitime | SCR_002504 | Nitime: time-series analysis for neuroscience | 2026-02-14 02:04:51 | 22 | ||||||
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Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) Resource Report Resource Website 10000+ mentions |
Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) (RRID:SCR_005012) | GEO | data repository, storage service resource, data or information resource, service resource, database | Functional genomics data repository supporting MIAME-compliant data submissions. Includes microarray-based experiments measuring the abundance of mRNA, genomic DNA, and protein molecules, as well as non-array-based technologies such as serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) and mass spectrometry proteomic technology. Array- and sequence-based data are accepted. Collection of curated gene expression DataSets, as well as original Series and Platform records. The database can be searched using keywords, organism, DataSet type and authors. DataSet records contain additional resources including cluster tools and differential expression queries. | gold standard, genomics, data, repository, microarray, mRNA, DNA, protein, analysis, SAGE, mass spectrometry, dataset |
is used by: ChIPseeker is recommended by: National Library of Medicine is recommended by: NIDDK Information Network (dkNET) is recommended by: NIDDK - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases is related to: Allen Institute for Brain Science has parent organization: NCBI works with: shinyGEO works with: Drug Gene Budger works with: Signaling Pathways Project works with: GEN3VA |
National Library of Medicine | PMID:23193258 PMID:21097893 PMID:18940857 PMID:17160034 PMID:17099226 PMID:16939800 PMID:16888359 PMID:15608262 PMID:11752295 |
r3d100010283, nif-0000-00142, nlx_96903, OMICS_01030, SCR_007303 | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gds http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/ https://doi.org/10.17616/R33P44 |
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gds | SCR_005012 | Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), Entrez GEO DataSets, Gene Expression Data Sets, Gene Expression Omnibus, GEO, NCBI GEO DataSets, GEO DataSets, Gene Expression Omnibus DataSets | 2026-02-14 02:04:28 | 11944 | ||||
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Onto-Compare Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Onto-Compare (RRID:SCR_005669) | Onto-Compare | data analysis service, analysis service resource, data or information resource, production service resource, service resource, database | Microarrays are at the center of a revolution in biotechnology, allowing researchers to screen tens of thousands of genes simultaneously. Typically, they have been used in exploratory research to help formulate hypotheses. In most cases, this phase is followed by a more focused, hypothesis driven stage in which certain specific biological processes and pathways are thought to be involved. Since a single biological process can still involve hundreds of genes, microarrays are still the preferred approach as proven by the availability of focused arrays from several manufacturers. Since focused arrays from different manufacturers use different sets of genes, each array will represent any given regulatory pathway to a different extent. We argue that a functional analysis of the arrays available should be the most important criterion used in the array selection. We developed Onto-Compare as a database that can provide this functionality, based on the GO nomenclature. Compare commercially available microarrays based on GO. User account required. Platform: Online tool | microarray, gene, ontology, gene expression, data-mining, browser, visualization, analysis, compare, search engine, ontology or annotation browser, ontology or annotation search engine, ontology or annotation visualization, database or data warehouse, other analysis, compare commercially available microarrays based on go |
is listed by: Gene Ontology Tools is related to: Gene Ontology has parent organization: Wayne State University; Michigan; USA |
PMID:12664686 PMID:15215428 |
Free for academic use | nlx_149108 | SCR_005669 | 2026-02-14 02:04:29 | 1 | |||||||
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SPM Resource Report Resource Website 5000+ mentions Issue |
SPM (RRID:SCR_007037) | SPM | data processing software, data analysis software, software application, software resource, image analysis software | Software package for analysis of brain imaging data sequences. Sequences can be a series of images from different cohorts, or time-series from same subject. Current release is designed for analysis of fMRI, PET, SPECT, EEG and MEG. | analysis, brain, imaging, data, sequence, fMRI, PET, SPECT, EEG, MEG, bio.tools |
uses: Neuroimaging Data Model uses: imcalc: SPM batch image calculator is used by: rsfMRI_fconn calculation is used by: Automatic Analysis is used by: auto_acpc_reorient is listed by: NeuroImaging Tools and Resources Collaboratory (NITRC) is listed by: 3DVC is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools is listed by: SoftCite is affiliated with: Clinical Toolbox for SPM is affiliated with: Statistical non-Parametric Mapping is related to: WFU Biological Parametric Mapping Toolbox is related to: vis: SPM Visualized Statistics toolbox is related to: LEAD-DBS is related to: CCHMC Pediatric Brain Templates is related to: IBMA toolbox is related to: ArtRepair for robust fMRI is related to: ASL data processing tool box is related to: BrainVISA / Anatomist is related to: MRIcro Software is related to: xjView: A Viewing Program For SPM is related to: BrainMagix SPM Viewer is related to: MarsBaR region of interest toolbox for SPM is related to: NIRS-SPM is related to: SPM SS - fMRI functional localizers is related to: Wisconsin White Matter Hyperintensities Segmentation Toolbox is related to: Dementia-specific FDG PET Template for SPM analyses is related to: SPM Anatomy Toolbox is related to: MIPAV: Medical Image Processing and Visualization is related to: MATLAB is related to: hMRI-toolbox is related to: Sandwich Estimator Toolbox has parent organization: University College London; London; United Kingdom is required by: MRTool provides: TSDiffAna has plug in: ICN_Atlas works with: UManitoba - JHU Functionally Defined Human White Matter Atlas works with: NIAG Addiction Data works with: ICN_Atlas works with: spm_auto_reorient_coregister works with: Computational Anatomy Toolbox for SPM works with: FieldTrip works with: POAS4SPM |
Free, Available for download, Freely available | biotools:SPM | https://github.com/spm/spm12 https://bio.tools/SPM |
https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/ | SCR_007037 | Statistical Parametric Mapping, SPM5, SPM2, SPM12, Statistical Parametric Mapping Software, SPM99, SPM8, SPM, SPM96 | 2026-02-14 02:04:48 | 8694 | |||||
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Chem Service, Inc. Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
Chem Service, Inc. (RRID:SCR_008380) | material service resource, instrument manufacture, service resource, production service resource | Chem Service, Inc. offers the convenience, cost savings and reliability of 1,000 Certified Standards Grade Organic Chemicals at your fingertips with our Organic Mini Stockroom Kit. Whether your lab is big or small, disposal fees are a concern. The Organic Mini-stockroom offers you the ability to have 1000 different chemicals at quantities ranging from 100mg to 10gm; thus, reducing disposal costs. Over 95% of their neat Standards Grade materials have a purity of 98.0% or greater, and have been analyzed by three or more (where feasible) independent methods of analysis. These do not require purity corrections when preparing a solution for use with EPA methods. Their more than 13,000 organic and inorganic standards, and solutions, support EPA Methods, ASTM Methods, State UST Methods, Air monitoring Methods, and International Methods. They offer explosive residue standards, PCB congeners, petroleum hydrocarbon standards for the petrochemical industry, pesticide standards, FAME, and vitamin standards for food analysis. Suited for identification of unknowns, product screening, optimal chemical selection and small scale chemical reactions, the O-1000A Organic Ministockroom Kit was designed for laboratories with broad chemical classification and indentification needs. Chem Service, Inc. is registered by ABS Quality Evaluations, Inc., to the internationally recognized requirements of ISO 9001 for design, development, production, distribution and servicing of organic neat and synthetic reference materials. | food, analysis, chemical, industry, method, organic, pestiide, petrochemical, solution, synthetic, vitamin | nif-0000-30016 | SCR_008380 | ChemService | 2026-02-14 02:04:33 | 10 | ||||||||||
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CLC Genomics Workbench Resource Report Resource Website 100+ mentions |
CLC Genomics Workbench (RRID:SCR_011853) | data visualization software, data processing software, data analysis software, software application, software resource | Commercially available software for visualization and analysis of next generation sequencing data. Used for viewing, exploring, and sharing of NGS analysis results. Complete toolkit for genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, and metagenomics in one program. | ngs, next, generation, sequencing, gene, rna, visualisation, analysis |
is listed by: OMICtools is listed by: SoftCite works with: CLC Genomics Server |
Restricted | SCR_016245, OMICS_01124 | SCR_011853 | 2026-02-14 02:04:34 | 181 | |||||||||
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GOrilla: Gene Ontology Enrichment Analysis and Visualization Tool Resource Report Resource Website 100+ mentions |
GOrilla: Gene Ontology Enrichment Analysis and Visualization Tool (RRID:SCR_006848) | GOrilla | data analysis service, production service resource, service resource, analysis service resource | A tool for identifying and visualizing enriched GO terms in ranked lists of genes. It can be run in one of two modes: * Searching for enriched GO terms that appear densely at the top of a ranked list of genes or * Searching for enriched GO terms in a target list of genes compared to a background list of genes. | gene, genetic, ontology, ontology or annotation visualization, statistical analysis, term enrichment, visualization, analysis, protein |
is listed by: Gene Ontology Tools is listed by: OMICtools is related to: Gene Ontology |
European Union FP6 ; Yeshaya Horowitz Association |
PMID:19192299 | Acknowledgement requested, Free, Public | nlx_80425, OMICS_02282 | SCR_006848 | Gene Ontology enRIchment anaLysis and visuaLizAtion tool, GOrilla: Gene Ontology Enrichment Analysis Visualization Tool | 2026-02-14 02:06:35 | 492 | |||||
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Argus Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Argus (RRID:SCR_021585) | data or information resource, software resource, portal, project portal | Portal provides software tool for analysis and quantification of both single and socially interacting zebrafish. Software data extraction and analysis tool built in open source R language for tracking zebrafish behavior. | Analysis, quantification, socially interacting zebrafish, OpenBehavior |
is listed by: OpenBehavior is listed by: SoftCite is related to: Argus |
DOI:10.3758/s13428-018-1083-y | Free, Freely available | SCR_021619 | SCR_021585 | 2026-02-14 02:05:21 | 1 | ||||||||
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gFACs Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
gFACs (RRID:SCR_022017) | software resource, data processing software, software application | Software package provides comprehensive framework for evaluating, filtering, and analyzing gene models from range of input applications and preparing these annotations for formal publication or downstream analysis. | filtering, analysis, conversion, unify genome annotations, alignment and gene prediction frameworks, | National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program of the United States 1444573 | DOI:10.1016/j.gpb.2019.04.002 | Free, Available for download, Freely available | SCR_022017 | 2026-02-14 02:05:21 | 5 | |||||||||
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RNA STRAND-The RNA secondary STRucture and statistical ANalysis Database Resource Report Resource Website |
RNA STRAND-The RNA secondary STRucture and statistical ANalysis Database (RRID:SCR_000086) | RNA STRAND | data or information resource, database | THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on July 31,2025. A scientific community-crowdsourced database containing the RNA secondary structures of known types and organisms. It is meant to provide a simple and powerful way to analyze, search and update a shared repository of information. | database, rna, analysis, scientific community, resource | has parent organization: University of British Columbia; British Columbia; Canada | PMID:18700982 | THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE | nif-0000-03415 | SCR_000086 | RNA secondary STRucture and statistical ANalysis Database | 2026-02-14 02:05:31 | 0 | ||||||
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Sumatra Resource Report Resource Website 10+ mentions |
Sumatra (RRID:SCR_001381) | software resource, software application, electronic laboratory notebook | A software tool for managing and tracking projects based on numerical simulation or analysis to support reproducible research. It can be thought of as an automated electronic lab notebook for simulation/analysis projects. Sumatra consists of: a command-line interface, smt, for launching simulations/analyses with automatic recording of information about the context, annotating these records, linking to data files, etc.; a web interface with a built-in web-server, smtweb, for browsing and annotating simulation/analysis results; a LaTeX package and Sphinx extension for including Sumatra-tracked figures and links to provenance information in papers and other documents; and a Python API, on which smt and smtweb are based, that can be used in personalized scripts in place of using smt. | simulation, analysis, python, numerical simulation, manage, track |
uses: Python Programming Language is listed by: INCF Software Center has parent organization: NeuralEnsemble |
Free, Freely Available | nlx_152549 | SCR_001381 | Sumatra: automated tracking of scientific computations | 2026-02-14 02:05:35 | 27 | ||||||||
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The Guardian: Science Resource Report Resource Website |
The Guardian: Science (RRID:SCR_005166) | Guardian: Science | data or information resource, narrative resource, blog | Latest science news, comment, analysis and features from guardian.co.uk, the world''s leading liberal voice. | science, news, comment, analysis, space, medicine, genetics, medical research |
is used by: NIF Data Federation is used by: Integrated Blogs |
nlx_144198 | SCR_005166 | 2026-02-14 02:05:51 | 0 | |||||||||
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Scientific American Observations Resource Report Resource Website |
Scientific American Observations (RRID:SCR_005195) | SA Observations | data or information resource, narrative resource, blog | From the editors and reporters of Scientific American, this blog delivers commentary, opinion and analysis on the latest developments in science and technology and their influence on society and policy. From reasoned arguments and cultural critiques to personal and skeptical takes on interesting science news, you''ll find a wide range of scientifically relevant insights here. | commentary, opinion, analysis, science, technology, society, policy |
is used by: NIF Data Federation is used by: Integrated Blogs has parent organization: Scientific American |
nlx_144201 | SCR_005195 | Scientific American - Observations | 2026-02-14 02:05:55 | 0 | ||||||||
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Computational Biology at ORNL Resource Report Resource Website |
Computational Biology at ORNL (RRID:SCR_005710) | Computational Biology at ORNL | data analysis service, production service resource, service resource, analysis service resource | We are the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Group of the Biosciences Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. We conduct genetics research and system development in genomic sequencing, computational genome analysis, and computational protein structure analysis. We provide bioinformatics and analytic services and resources to collaborators, predict prospective gene and protein models for analysis, provide user services for the general community, including computer-annotated genomes in Genome Channel. Our collaborators include the Joint Genome Institute, ORNL''s Computer Science and Mathematics Division, the Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium, the Joint Institute for Biological Sciences, and ORNL''s Genome Science and Technology Graduate Program. | genetics, research, system development, genomic sequencing, computation, genome analysis, protein structure, analysis, gene, protein, gene annotation, annotation, genome | has parent organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory | nlx_149161 | SCR_005710 | Computational Biology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Group at ORNL, Computational Biology Bioinformatics Group at ORNL | 2026-02-14 02:05:57 | 0 | ||||||||
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Expression Profiler Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Expression Profiler (RRID:SCR_005821) | Expression Profiler | data analysis service, production service resource, service resource, analysis service resource | THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVCE, documented September 2, 2016. The EP:GO browser is built into EBI's Expression Profiler, a set of tools for clustering, analysis and visualization of gene expression and other genomic data. With it, you can search for GO terms and identify gene associations for a node, with or without associated subnodes, for the organism of your choice. | other analysis, cluster, analysis, visualization, gene expression, genomic, gene ontology, gene association, microarray, protein-protein interaction, gene, bio.tools |
is listed by: Gene Ontology Tools is listed by: Debian is listed by: bio.tools is related to: Gene Ontology has parent organization: European Bioinformatics Institute |
European Union ; Wellcome Trust ; Estonian Science Foundation 5724; Estonian Science Foundation 5722 |
PMID:15215431 | THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE | biotools:expression_profiler, nlx_149323 | https://bio.tools/expression_profiler | SCR_005821 | Expression Profiler at the EBI | 2026-02-14 02:05:58 | 6 | ||||
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FuSSiMeG: Functional Semantic Similarity Measure between Gene-Products Resource Report Resource Website |
FuSSiMeG: Functional Semantic Similarity Measure between Gene-Products (RRID:SCR_005738) | FuSSiMeG | data analysis service, production service resource, service resource, analysis service resource | FuSSiMeG is being discontinued, may not be working properly. Please use our new tool ProteinOn. Functional Semantic Similarity Measure between Gene Products (FuSSiMeG) provides a functional similarity measure between two proteins using the semantic similarity between the GO terms annotated with the proteins. Platform: Online tool | protein, similarity, gene ontology, gene, ontology, statistical analysis, term enrichment, semantic similarity, analysis, other analysis |
is listed by: Gene Ontology Tools is related to: Gene Ontology is related to: ProteInOn has parent organization: University of Lisbon; Lisbon; Portugal |
Free for academic use | nlx_149198 | SCR_005738 | Functional Semantic Similarity Measure between Gene-Products, Functional Semantic Similarity Measure between Gene Products (FuSSiMeG) | 2026-02-14 02:05:53 | 0 | |||||||
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Lists2Networks Resource Report Resource Website 1+ mentions |
Lists2Networks (RRID:SCR_006323) | L2N | data analysis service, production service resource, service resource, analysis service resource | A web-based software system that allows users to upload lists of mammalian genes/proteins onto a server-based program for integrated analysis. The system includes web-based tools to manipulate lists with different set operations, to expand lists using existing mammalian networks of protein-protein interactions, co-expression correlation, or background knowledge co-annotation correlation, as well as to apply gene-list enrichment analyses against many gene-list libraries of prior biological knowledge such as pathways, gene ontology terms, kinase-substrate, microRNA-mRAN, and protein-protein interactions, metabolites, and protein domains. Such analyses can be applied to several lists at once against many prior knowledge libraries of gene-lists associated with specific annotations. The system also contains features that allow users to export networks and share lists with other users of the system. | high-throughput sequencing, analysis, gene, protein |
is listed by: OMICtools has parent organization: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; New York; USA |
PMID:20152038 | Free, Public, Account required | OMICS_02231 | http://www.lists2networks.org | SCR_006323 | Lists2Networks: Integrated analysis of gene/protein lists | 2026-02-14 02:06:26 | 3 | |||||
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Blast2GO Resource Report Resource Website 5000+ mentions |
Blast2GO (RRID:SCR_005828) | B2G | software resource, software application | An ALL in ONE tool for functional annotation of (novel) sequences and the analysis of annotation data. Blast2GO (B2G) joins in one universal application similarity search based GO annotation and functional analysis. B2G offers the possibility of direct statistical analysis on gene function information and visualization of relevant functional features on a highlighted GO direct acyclic graph (DAG). Furthermore B2G includes various statistics charts summarizing the results obtained at BLASTing, GO-mapping, annotation and enrichment analysis (Fisher''''s Exact Test). All analysis process steps are configurable and data import and export are supported at any stage. The application also accepts pre-existing BLAST or annotation files and takes them to subsequent steps. The tool offers a very suitable platform for high throughput functional genomics research in non-model species. B2G is a species-independent, intuitive and interactive desktop application which allows monitoring and comprehending the whole annotation and analysis process supported by additional features like GO Slim integration, evidence code (EC) consideration, a Batch-Mode or GO-Multilevel-Pies. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible | annotation, visualization, analysis, functional genomics, editor, statistical analysis, slimmer-type tool, ontology or annotation editor, functional analysis, direct acyclic graph, analysis, high throughput, functional genomics |
is listed by: Gene Ontology Tools is listed by: OMICtools is related to: Gene Ontology has parent organization: Principe Felipe Research Centre; Valencia; Spain |
MCyT GEN 2001 - 4885-C05-03; eTumour Project FP6-2002-LIFESCIHEALTH 503094 |
PMID:16081474 | Free for academic use | OMICS_01475, nlx_149335 | SCR_005828 | Blast2GO (B2G) | 2026-02-14 02:06:38 | 8422 | |||||
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ALEA Resource Report Resource Website 50+ mentions |
ALEA (RRID:SCR_006417) | ALEA | software resource, software toolkit | A computational software toolbox for allele-specific (AS) epigenomics analysis. It incorporates allelic variation data within existing resources, allowing for the identification of significant associations between epigenetic modifications and specific allelic variants in human and mouse cells. It provides a customizable pipeline of command line tools for AS analysis of next-generation sequencing data (ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, etc.) that takes the raw sequencing data and produces separate allelic tracks ready to be viewed on genome browsers. ALEA takes advantage of the available genomic resources for human (The 1000 Genomes Project Consortium) and mouse (The Mouse Genome Project) to reconstruct diploid in-silico genomes for human or hybrid mice under study. Then, for each accompanying ChIP-seq or RNA-seq dataset, it generates two Wiggle track format (WIG) files from short reads aligned differentially to each haplotype. | allele, epigenomics, analysis, chip-seq, rna-seq, allelic variation, next-generation sequencing |
is listed by: OMICtools has parent organization: BC Cancer Agency |
PMID:24371156 | Academic Free License | OMICS_02193 | SCR_006417 | 2026-02-14 02:06:40 | 95 |
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