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http://ccb.jhu.edu/software/FLASH/

Open source software tool to merge paired-end reads from next-generation sequencing experiments. Designed to merge pairs of reads when original DNA fragments are shorter than twice length of reads. Can improve genome assemblies and transcriptome assembly by merging RNA-seq data.

Proper citation: FLASH (RRID:SCR_005531) Copy   

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http://skatebase.org/

Portal supporting the North East Bioinformatics Collaborative''s project to sequence the genome of the Little Skate. Provided is a clearinghouse for Little Skate Genome Project and other publicly available Skate and Ray (Batoidea) genome data, and tools for data visualization and analysis. Little Skate Genome Project The little skate (Leucoraja erinacea) is a chondrichthyan (cartilaginous) fish native to the east coast of North America. Elasmobranchs (Skates, Rays, and Sharks) exhibit many fundamental vertebrate characteristics, including a neural crest, jaws and teeth, an adaptive immune system, and a pressurized circulatory system. These characteristics have been exploited to promote understanding about human physiology, immunology, stem cell biology, toxicology, neurobiology and regeneration. The development of standardized experimental protocols in elasmobranchs such as L. erinacea and the spiny dogfish shark (Squalus acanthias) has further positioned these organisms as important biomedical and developmental models. Despite this distinction, the only reported chondrichthyan genome is the low coverage (1.4x) draft genome of the elephant shark (Callorhinchus milii). To close the evolutionary gaps in available elasmobranch genome sequence data, and generate critical genomic resources for future biomedical study, the genome of L. erinacea is being sequenced by the North East Bioinformatics Collaborative (NEBC). As close evolutionary relatives, the little skate sequence will facilitate studies that employ dogfish shark and other elasmobranchs as model organisms. Skate tools include the SkateBLAST and the Skate Genome Browsers: Little Skate Mitochondrion, Thorny Skate Mitochondrion, and Ocellate Spot Skate Mitochondrion.

Proper citation: SkateBase (RRID:SCR_005302) Copy   

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https://simtk.org

A National NIH Center for Biomedical Computing that focuses on physics-based simulation of biological structures and provides open access to high quality simulation tools, accurate models and the people behind them. It serves as a repository for models that are published (as well as the associated code) to create a living archive of simulation scholarship. Simtk.org is organized into projects. A project represents a research endeavor, a software package or a collection of documents and publications. Includes sharing of image files, media, references to publications and manuscripts, as well as executables and applications for download and source code. Simulation tools are free to download and space is available for developers to manage, share and disseminate code.

Proper citation: Simtk.org (RRID:SCR_002680) Copy   

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http://bioportal.bioontology.org/

Open repository of biomedical ontologies that provides access via Web browsers and Web services to ontologies. It supports ontologies in OBO format, OWL, RDF, Rich Release Format (RRF), Protege frames, and LexGrid XML. Functionality includes the ability to browse, search and visualize ontologies as well as to comment on, and create mappings for ontologies. Any registered user can submit an ontology. The NCBO Annotator and NCBO Resource Index can also be accessed via BioPortal. Additional features: * Add Reviews: rate the ontology according to several criteria and describe your experience using the ontology. * Add Mappings: submit point-to-point mappings or upload bulk mappings created with external tools. Notification of new Mappings is RSS-enabled and Mappings can be browsed via BioPortal and accessed via Web services. * NCBO Annotator: Tool that tags free text with ontology terms. NCBO uses the Annotator to generate ontology annotations, creating an ontology index of these resources accessible via the NCBO Resource Index. The Annotator can be accessed through BioPortal or directly as a Web service. The annotation workflow is based on syntactic concept recognition (using the preferred name and synonyms for terms) and on a set of semantic expansion algorithms that leverage the ontology structure (e.g., is_a relations). * NCBO Resource Index: The NCBO Resource Index is a system for ontology based annotation and indexing of biomedical data; the key functionality of this system is to enable users to locate biomedical data linked via ontology terms. A set of annotations is generated automatically, using the NCBO Annotator, and presented in BioPortal. This service uses a concept recognizer (developed by the National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics, University of Michigan) to produce a set of annotations and expand them using ontology is_a relations. * Web services: Documentation on all Web services and example code is available at: BioPortal Web services.

Proper citation: BioPortal (RRID:SCR_002713) Copy   

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https://simtk.org/home/foldvillin

An archive of hundreds of all-atom, explicit solvent molecular dynamics simulations that were performed on a set of nine unfolded conformations of a variant of the villin headpiece subdomain (HP-35 NleNle). It includes scripts for accessing the archive of villin trajectories as well as a VMD plug-in for viewing the trajectories. In addition, all starting structures used in the trajectories are also provided. The simulations were generated using a distributed computing method utilizing the symmetric multiprocessing paradigm for individual nodes of the Folding_at_home distributed computing network. The villin trajectories in the archive are divided into two projects: PROJ3036 and PROJ3037. PROJ3036 contains trajectories starting from nine non-folded configurations. PROJ3037 contains trajectories starting from the native (folded) state. Runs 0 through 8 (in PROJ3036) correspond to starting configurations 0 through 8 discussed in the paper in J. Mol. Biol. (2007) 374(3):806-816 (see the publications tab for a full reference), whereas RUN9 uses the same starting configuration as RUN8. Each run contains 100 trajectories (named clone 0-99), each with the same starting configuration but different random velocities. Trajectories vary in their length of time and are subdivided into frames, also known as a generation. Each frame contains around 400 configurational snapshots, or timepoints, of the trajectory, with the last configurational snapshot of frame i corresponding to the first configurational snapshot of generation i+1. The goal is to allow researchers to analyze and benefit from the many trajectories produced through the simulations.

Proper citation: Molecular Simulation Trajectories Archive of a Villin Variant (RRID:SCR_002704) Copy   

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http://cytoscape.org

Software platform for complex network analysis and visualization. Used for visualization of molecular interaction networks and biological pathways and integrating these networks with annotations, gene expression profiles and other state data.

Proper citation: Cytoscape (RRID:SCR_003032) Copy   

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http://pir.georgetown.edu/pro/

An ontological representation of protein-related entities, explicitly defining them and showing the relationships between them. Each PRO term represents a distinct class of entities (including specific modified forms, orthologous isoforms, and protein complexes) ranging from the taxon-neutral to the taxon-specific. PRO encompasses three sub-ontologies: proteins based on evolutionary relatedness (ProEvo); protein forms produced from a given gene locus (ProForm); and protein-containing complexes (ProComp).

Proper citation: PRO (RRID:SCR_002902) Copy   

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http://www.bioperl.org

BioPerl is a community effort to produce Perl code which is useful in biology. This toolkit of perl modules is useful in building bioinformatics solutions in Perl. It is built in an object-oriented manner so that many modules depend on each other to achieve a task. The collection of modules in the bioperl-live repository consist of the core of the functionality of bioperl. Additionally auxiliary modules for creating graphical interfaces (bioperl-gui), persistent storage in RDMBS (bioperl-db), running and parsing the results from hundreds of bioinformatics applications (Run package), software to automate bioinformatic analyses (bioperl-pipeline) are all available as Git modules in our repository. The BioPerl toolkit provides a library of hundreds of routines for processing sequence, annotation, alignment, and sequence analysis reports. It often serves as a bridge between different computational biology applications assisting the user to construct analysis pipelines. This chapter illustrates how BioPerl facilitates tasks such as writing scripts summarizing information from BLAST reports or extracting key annotation details from a GenBank sequence record. BioPerl includes modules written by Sohel Merchant of the GO Consortium for parsing and manipulating OBO ontologies. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: BioPerl (RRID:SCR_002989) Copy   

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https://bioxtas-raw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Software tool as GUI based Python program for reduction and analysis of small-angle X-ray solution scattering (SAXS) data.Small-angle scattering data reduction and analysis. Available on Windows, macOS (and OS X), and Linux.

Proper citation: BioXTAS RAW (RRID:SCR_025769) Copy   

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https://discover.nci.nih.gov/rsconnect/cellminercdb/

Web application integrating cancer cell line pharmacogenomics. Enables exploration and analysis of cancer cell line pharmacogenomic data across different sources. Focuses on cancer patient-derived human cell line molecular and pharmacological data. CellMinerCDB (v1.2) includes several improvements.

Proper citation: CellMinerCDB (RRID:SCR_025649) Copy   

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https://sourceforge.net/p/mageck/wiki/Home/

Software tool to identify important genes from genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 screens. Used for prioritizing single-guide RNAs, genes and pathways in genome-scale CRISPR/Cas9 knockout screens.

Proper citation: MAGeCK (RRID:SCR_025016) Copy   

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https://github.com/mwang87/MassQueryLanguage

Software application for universal searching of Mass Spectrometry data. Open source MS query language for flexible and mass spectrometer manufacturer-independent mining of MS data. Implements common MS terminology to build consensus vocabulary to search for MS patterns in single mass spectrometry run. Enables set of mass spectrometry patterns to be queried directly from raw data.

Proper citation: MassQL (RRID:SCR_025106) Copy   

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https://fmug.amaral.northwestern.edu/

Software data-driven tool to identify understudied genes and characterize their tractability. Users submit list of human genes and can filter these genes down based on list of factors. Code to generate Find My Understudied Genes app for Windows, iOS and macOS platforms.

Proper citation: Find My Understudied Genes (RRID:SCR_025047) Copy   

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https://github.com/bmvdgeijn/WASP/

Software allele-specific pipeline for unbiased read mapping and molecular QTL discovery. Allele-specific software for robust molecular quantitative trait locus discovery.

Proper citation: WASP (RRID:SCR_025497) Copy   

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https://pepatac.databio.org/en/latest/

Software standardized pipeline for ATAC-seq data analysis with serial alignments. Leverages unique features of ATAC-seq data to optimize for speed and accuracy, and provides several unique analytical approaches. Downstream analysis is simplified by standard definition format, modularity of components, and metadata APIs in R and Python. Restartable, fault-tolerant, and can be run on local hardware, using any cluster resource manager, or in provided Linux containers. We also emphasize the advantage of aligning to the mitochondrial genome serially, which improves alignment and quality control metrics. Includes quality control plots, summary statistics, and variety of data formats.

Proper citation: PEPATAC (RRID:SCR_024758) Copy   

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http://megasoftware.net/

Software integrated tool for conducting automatic and manual sequence alignment, inferring phylogenetic trees, mining web based databases, estimating rates of molecular evolution, and testing evolutionary hypotheses. Used for comparative analysis of DNA and protein sequences to infer molecular evolutionary patterns of genes, genomes, and species over time. MEGA version 4 expands on existing facilities for editing DNA sequence data from autosequencers, mining Web-databases, performing automatic and manual sequence alignment, analyzing sequence alignments to estimate evolutionary distances, inferring phylogenetic trees, and testing evolutionary hypotheses. MEGA version 6 enables inference of timetrees, as it implements RelTime method for estimating divergence times for all branching points in phylogeny.

Proper citation: MEGA (RRID:SCR_000667) Copy   

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http://pilgrm.princeton.edu

PILGRM (the platform for interactive learning by genomics results mining) puts advanced supervised analysis techniques applied to enormous gene expression compendia into the hands of bench biologists. This flexible system empowers its users to answer diverse biological questions that are often outside of the scope of common databases in a data-driven manner. This capability allows domain experts to quickly and easily generate hypotheses about biological processes, tissues or diseases of interest. Specifically PILGRM helps biologists generate these hypotheses by analyzing the expression levels of known relevant genes in large compendia of microarray data. PILGRM is for the biologist with a set of proteins relevant to a disease, biological function or tissue of interest who wants to find additional players in that process. It uses a data driven method that provides added value for literature search results by mining compendia of publicly available gene expression datasets using lists of relevant and irrelevant genes (standards). PILGRM produces publication quality PDFs usable as supplementary material to describe the computational approach, standards and datasets. Each PILGRM analysis starts with an important biological question (e.g. What genes are relevant for breast cancer but not mammary tissue in general?). For PILGRM to discover relevant genes, it needs examples of both genes that you would (positive) and would not (negative) find interesting. Lists of these genes are what we call standards and in PILGRM you can build your own standards or you can use standards from common sources that we pre-load for your convenience. PILGRM lets you build your own literature-documented standards so that processes, disease, and tissues that are not well covered in databases of tissue expression, disease, or function can still be used for an analysis.

Proper citation: PILGRM (RRID:SCR_004749) Copy   

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http://biomedicalcomputationreview.org

Magazine published by Simbios, a National NIH Center for Biomedical Computing, covering the latest research wherever computation, biology, and medicine intersect. In addition to disseminating information about the latest research in biomedical computation, they aim to foster community amongst the wide audience interested in any and all aspects of biomedical computing. Whether you are a long time researcher in this area or new to it, please consider joining those who have already started to participate in Biomedical Computation Review. You are encouraged to: * Write a letter to the editor on any relevant topics * Suggest your favorite topics that should receive more attention * Suggest an idea for a feature article * Propose an idea for an Under the Hood tutorial * Tell us any other way in which we can better serve this community

Proper citation: Biomedical Computation Review (RRID:SCR_004866) 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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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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