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http://cnas.ucr.edu/guppy/

A project that observes the processes of adaptive evolution in nature, and tests evolutionary hypotheses, by studying populations of guppies on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. Darwin thought that evolution by natural selection occurred very slowly, over hundreds if not thousands of years. Evolutionary biologists now know that evolutionary changes in species can happen very quickly, over a relatively few generations. The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) program, is funding a 5-year study by 13 biologists from colleges, universities, and research institutions throughout the United States and Canada, to study the relationship of adaptive evolution and environmental circumstances. The Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) is an excellent species for these purposes because: * It matures rapidly (one generation = 3-4 months) * It inhabits different ecological environments that can be easily manipulated On Trinidad, guppies live in streams, or portions of streams, that can differ in the species of predators that the guppies have to contend with. Some streams are high-predation environments, others low-predation. Different predation environments are often right next to one another, separated by a waterfall (which neither guppies nor predators can cross). Guppies from high-predation environments experience much higher mortality rates than do guppies in low-predation environments. High mortality is associated with the following characteristics, all of which have a genetic basis: * Earlier maturity * Greater investment of resources in reproduction * More and smaller offspring. We have found that mortality rates can be manipulated by: * Transplanting guppies from high-predation localities into sites from which they and their predators had previously been excluded by natural waterfalls, thus lowering mortality rates; * Introducing predators into low-predation sites, thus increasing mortality rates. Such experiments have shown that species evolve as predicted by theory. We have also found that evolution by natural selection can be remarkably fast, on the order of four to seven orders of magnitude faster than had been inferred from the fossil record.

Proper citation: Guppy Project (RRID:SCR_006255) 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.plantontology.org

Ontology and database that links plant anatomy, morphology and growth and development to plant genomics data.Plant Ontology Consortium develops, curates and shares controlled vocabularies (ontologies) that describe plant structures and growth and developmental stages, providing semantic framework for meaningful cross species queries across databases. PO is under active development to expand to encompass terms and annotations from all plants.

Proper citation: Plant Ontology (RRID:SCR_006494) Copy   

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http://rdp.cme.msu.edu

A database which provides ribosome related data services to the scientific community, including online data analysis, rRNA derived phylogenetic trees, and aligned and annotated rRNA sequences. It specifically contains information on quality-controlled, aligned and annotated bacterial and archaean 16S rRNA sequences, fungal 28S rRNA sequences, and a suite of analysis tools for the scientific community. Most of the RDP tools are now available as open source packages for users to incorporate in their local workflow.

Proper citation: Ribosomal Database Project (RRID:SCR_006633) Copy   

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http://ligand-expo.rutgers.edu/

An integrated data resource for finding chemical and structural information about small molecules bound to proteins and nucleic acids within the structure entries of the Protein Data Bank. Tools are provided to search the PDB dictionary for chemical components, to identify structure entries containing particular small molecules, and to download the 3D structures of the small molecule components in the PDB entry. A sketch tool is also provided for building new chemical definitions from reported PDB chemical components.

Proper citation: Ligand Expo (RRID:SCR_006636) Copy   

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http://rice.plantbiology.msu.edu/

Database and resource that provides sequence and annotation data for the rice genome. This website provides genome sequence from the Nipponbare subspecies of rice and annotation of the 12 rice chromosomes. All structural and functional annotation is viewable through our Rice Genome Browser which currently supports 75 tracks of annotation. Enhanced data access is available through web interfaces, FTP downloads and a Data Extractor tool developed in order to support discrete dataset downloads. Rice is a model species for the monocotyledonous plants and the cereals which are the greatest source of food for the world''s population. While rice genome sequence is available through multiple sequencing projects, high quality, uniform annotation is required in order for genome sequence data to be fully utilized by researchers. The existence of a common gene set and uniform annotation allows researchers within the rice community to work from a common resource so that their results can be more easily interpreted by other scientists. The objective of this project has always been to provide high quality annotation for the rice genome. They generated, refined and updated gene models for the estimated 40,000-60,000 total rice genes, provided standardized annotation for each model, linked each model to functional annotation including expression data, gene ontologies, and tagged lines. They have provided a resource to extend the annotation of the rice genome to other plant species by providing comparative alignments to other plant species. Analysis/Tools are available including: BLAST, Locus Name Search, Functional Term Search, Protein Domain Search, Anatomy Expression Viewer, Highly Expressed Genes

Proper citation: Rice Genome Annotation (RRID:SCR_006663) Copy   

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http://sumsdb.wustl.edu/sums/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on May 11, 2016. Repository of brain-mapping data (surfaces and volumes; structural and functional data) derived from studies including fMRI and MRI from many laboratories, providing convenient access to a growing body of neuroimaging and related data. WebCaret is an online visualization tool for viewing SumsDB datasets. SumsDB includes: * data on cerebral cortex and cerebellar cortex * individual subject data and population data mapped to atlases * data from FreeSurfer and other brainmapping software besides Caret SumsDB provides multiple levels of data access and security: * Free (public) access (e.g., for data associated with published studies) * Data access restricted to collaborators in different laboratories * Owner-only access for work in progress Data can be downloaded from SumsDB as individual files or as bundles archived for offline visualization and analysis in Caret WebCaret provides online Caret-style visualization while circumventing software and data downloads. It is a server-side application running on a linux cluster at Washington University. WebCaret "scenes" facilitate rapid visualization of complex combinations of data Bi-directional links between online publications and WebCaret/SumsDB provide: * Links from figures in online journal article to corresponding scenes in WebCaret * Links from metadata in WebCaret directly to relevant online publications and figures

Proper citation: SumsDB (RRID:SCR_002759) Copy   

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http://www.ambystoma.org/

Portal that supports Ambystoma-related research and educational efforts. It is composed of several resources: Salamander Genome Project, Ambystoma EST Database, Ambystoma Gene Collection, Ambystoma Map and Marker Collection, Ambystoma Genetic Stock Center, and Ambystoma Research Coordination Network.

Proper citation: Sal-Site (RRID:SCR_002850) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/annotation/genome/magnaporthe_comparative/MultiHome.html

The Magnaporthe comparative genomics database provides accesses to multiple fungal genomes from the Magnaporthaceae family to facilitate the comparative analysis. As part of the Broad Fungal Genome Initiative, the Magnaporthe comparative project includes the finished M. oryzae (formerly M. grisea) genome, as well as the draft assemblies of Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici and M. poae. It provides users the tools to BLAST search, browse genome regions (to retrieve DNA, find clones, and graphically view sequence regions), and provides gene indexes and genome statistics. We were funded to attempt 7x sequence coverage comprising paired end reads from plasmids, Fosmids and BACs. Our strategy involves Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS) sequencing, in which sequence from the entire genome is generated and reassembled. Our specific aims are as follows: 1. Generate and assemble sequence reads yielding 7X coverage of the Magnaporthe oryzae genome through whole genome shotgun sequencing. 2. Generate and incorporate BAC and Fosmid end sequences into the genome assembly to provide a paired-end of average every 2 kb. 3. Integrate the genome sequence with existing physical and genetic map information. 4. Perform automated annotation of the sequence assembly. 5. Distribute the sequence assembly and results of our annotation and analysis through a freely accessible, public web server and by deposition of the sequence assembly in GenBank.

Proper citation: Magnaporthe comparative Database (RRID:SCR_003079) Copy   

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http://studyforrest.org

An MRI data repository that holds a set of 7 Tesla images and behavioral metadata. Multi-faceted brain image archive with behavioral measurements. For each participant a number of different scans and auxiliary recordings have been obtained. In addition, several types of minimally preprocessed data are also provided. The full description of the data release is available in a dedicated publication. This project invites anyone to participate in a decentralized effort to explore the opportunities of open science in neuroimaging by documenting how much (scientific) value can be generated out of a single data release by publication of scientific findings derived from a dataset, algorithms and methods evaluated on this dataset, and/or extensions of this dataset by acquisition and integration of new data.

Proper citation: studyforrest.org (RRID:SCR_003112) Copy   

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http://bodb.usc.edu/bodb/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 4, 2023. BODB offers a way to document computational models of brain function by linking each model to Brain Operating Principles (BOPs), related brain regions, Summaries of Simulation Results (SSRs)and Summaries of Experimental Data (SEDs) used either to design or to test the model. Tools are provided to search for related models and to compare their coverage of SEDs. This allows automatic benchmarking of a model against a cluster of models addressing similar BOPs or SEDs or brain regions. Tools allow display of brain imaging results against a human brain applet; a new tool will link data to a macaque brain applet.

Proper citation: Brain Operation Database (RRID:SCR_003050) Copy   

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http://yogo.msu.montana.edu/

A set of software tools created to rapidly build scientific data-management applications. These applications will enhance the process of data annotation, analysis, and web publication. The system provides a set of easy-to-use software tools for data sharing by the scientific community. It enables researchers to build their own custom-designed data management systems. The problem of scientific data management rests on several challenges. These include flexible data storage, a way to share the stored data, tools to curate the data, and history of the data to show provenance. The Yogo Framework gives you the ability to build scientific data management applications that address all of these challenges. The Yogo software is being developed as part of the NeuroSys project. All tools created as part of the Yogo Data Management Framework are open source and released under an OSI approved license.

Proper citation: Yogo Data Management System (RRID:SCR_004239) Copy   

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http://openconnectomeproject.org/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 9, 2023. Connectomes repository to facilitate the analysis of connectome data by providing a unified front for connectomics research. With a focus on Electron Microscopy (EM) data and various forms of Magnetic Resonance (MR) data, the project aims to make state-of-the-art neuroscience open to anybody with computer access, regardless of knowledge, training, background, etc. Open science means open to view, play, analyze, contribute, anything. Access to high resolution neuroanatomical images that can be used to explore connectomes and programmatic access to this data for human and machine annotation are provided, with a long-term goal of reconstructing the neural circuits comprising an entire brain. This project aims to bring the most state-of-the-art scientific data in the world to the hands of anybody with internet access, so collectively, we can begin to unravel connectomes. Services: * Data Hosting - Their Bruster (brain-cluster) is large enough to store nearly any modern connectome data set. Contact them to make your data available to others for any purpose, including gaining access to state-of-the-art analysis and machine vision pipelines. * Web Viewing - Collaborative Annotation Toolkit for Massive Amounts of Image Data (CATMAID) is designed to navigate, share and collaboratively annotate massive image data sets of biological specimens. The interface is inspired by Google Maps, enhanced to allow the exploration of 3D image data. View the fork of the code or go directly to view the data. * Volume Cutout Service - RESTful API that enables you to select any arbitrary volume of the 3d database (3ddb), and receive a link to download an HDF5 file (for matlab, C, C++, or C#) or a NumPy pickle (for python). Use some other programming language? Just let them know. * Annotation Database - Spatially co-registered volumetric annotations are compactly stored for efficient queries such as: find all synapses, or which neurons synapse onto this one. Create your own annotations or browse others. *Sample Downloads - In addition to being able to select arbitrary downloads from the datasets, they have also collected a few choice volumes of interest. * Volume Viewer - A web and GPU enabled stand-alone app for viewing volumes at arbitrary cutting planes and zoom levels. The code and program can be downloaded. * Machine Vision Pipeline - They are building a machine vision pipeline that pulls volumes from the 3ddb and outputs neural circuits. - a work in progress. As soon as we have a stable version, it will be released. * Mr. Cap - The Magnetic Resonance Connectome Automated Pipeline (Mr. Cap) is built on JIST/MIPAV for high-throughput estimation of connectomes from diffusion and structural imaging data. * Graph Invariant Computation - Upload your graphs or streamlines, and download some invariants. * iPad App - WholeSlide is an iPad app that accesses utilizes our open data and API to serve images on the go.

Proper citation: Open Connectome Project (RRID:SCR_004232) Copy   

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http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~serghei/?q=drut

Software for Discovery and Reconstruction of Unannotated Transcripts in Partially Annotated Genomes from High-Throughput RNA-Seq Data.

Proper citation: DRUT (RRID:SCR_004351) Copy   

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http://function.princeton.edu/GOLEM/index.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented July 7, 2017. Welcome to the home of GOLEM: An interactive, graphical gene-ontology visualization, navigation,and analysis tool on the web. GOLEM is a useful tool which allows the viewer to navigate and explore a local portion of the Gene Ontology (GO) hierarchy. Users can also load annotations for various organisms into the ontology in order to search for particular genes, or to limit the display to show only GO terms relevant to a particular organism, or to quickly search for GO terms enriched in a set of query genes. GOLEM is implemented in Java, and is available both for use on the web as an applet, and for download as a JAR package. A brief tutorial on how to use GOLEM is available both online and in the instructions included in the program. We also have a list of links to libraries used to make GOLEM, as well as the various organizations that curate organism annotations to the ontology. GOLEM is available as a .jar package and a macintosh .app for use on- or off- line as a stand-alone package. You will need to have Java (v.1.5 or greater) installed on your system to run GOLEM. Source code (including Eclipse project files) are also available. GOLEM (Gene Ontology Local Exploration Map)is a visualization and analysis tool for focused exploration of the gene ontology graph. GOLEM allows the user to dynamically expand and focus the local graph structure of the gene ontology hierarchy in the neighborhood of any chosen term. It also supports rapid analysis of an input list of genes to find enriched gene ontology terms. The GOLEM application permits the user either to utilize local gene ontology and annotations files in the absence of an Internet connection, or to access the most recent ontology and annotation information from the gene ontology webpage. GOLEM supports global and organism-specific searches by gene ontology term name, gene ontology id and gene name. CONCLUSION: GOLEM is a useful software tool for biologists interested in visualizing the local directed acyclic graph structure of the gene ontology hierarchy and searching for gene ontology terms enriched in genes of interest. It is freely available both as an application and as an applet.

Proper citation: GOLEM An interactive, graphical gene-ontology visualization, navigation, and analysis tool (RRID:SCR_003191) Copy   

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http://www.morphobank.org

Web application providing online database and workspace for evolutionary research, specifically systematics (the science of determining the evolutionary relationships among species). It enables researchers to upload images and affiliate data with those images (labels, species names, etc.) and allows researchers to upload morphological data and affiliate it with phylogenetic matrices. MorphoBank is project-based, meaning a team of researchers can create a project and share the images and associated data exclusively with each other. When a paper associated with the project is published, the research team can make their data permanently available for view on MorphoBank where it is now archived.

Proper citation: MorphoBank (RRID:SCR_003213) Copy   

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http://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/dbinfo/pirsf.shtml

A SuperFamily classification system, with rules for functional site and protein name, to facilitate the sensible propagation and standardization of protein annotation and the systematic detection of annotation errors. The PIRSF concept is being used as a guiding principle to provide comprehensive and non-overlapping clustering of UniProtKB sequences into a hierarchical order to reflect their evolutionary relationships. The PIRSF classification system is based on whole proteins rather than on the component domains; therefore, it allows annotation of generic biochemical and specific biological functions, as well as classification of proteins without well-defined domains. There are different PIRSF classification levels. The primary level is the homeomorphic family, whose members are both homologous (evolved from a common ancestor) and homeomorphic (sharing full-length sequence similarity and a common domain architecture). At a lower level are the subfamilies which are clusters representing functional specialization and/or domain architecture variation within the family. Above the homeomorphic level there may be parent superfamilies that connect distantly related families and orphan proteins based on common domains. Because proteins can belong to more than one domain superfamily, the PIRSF structure is formally a network. The FTP site provides free download for PIRSF.

Proper citation: PIRSF (RRID:SCR_003352) Copy   

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http://mouseNET.princeton.edu

A functional network for laboratory mouse based on integration of diverse genetic and genomic data. It allows the users to accurately predict novel functional assignments and network components. MouseNET uses a probabilistic Bayesian algorithm to identify genes that are most likely to be in the same pathway/functional neighborhood as your genes of interest. It then displays biological network for the resulting genes as a graph. The nodes in the graph are genes (clicking on each node will bring up SGD page for that gene) and edges are interactions (clicking on each edge will show evidence used to predict this interaction). Most likely, the first results to load on the results page will be a list of significant Gene Ontology terms. This list is calculated for the genes in the biological network created by the mouseNET algorithm. If a gene ontology term appears on this list with a low p-value, it is statistically significantly overrepresented in this biological network. The graph may be explored further. As you move the mouse over genes in the network, interactions involving these genes are highlighted.If you click on any of the highlighted interactions graph, evidence pop-up window will appear. The Evidence pop-up lists all evidence for this interaction, with links to the papers that produced this evidence - clicking these links will bring up the relevant source citation(s) in PubMed.

Proper citation: MouseNET (RRID:SCR_003357) Copy   

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http://www.socr.ucla.edu/

A hierarchy of portable online interactive aids for motivating, modernizing probability and statistics applications. The tools and resources include a repository of interactive applets, computational and graphing tools, instructional and course materials. The core SOCR educational and computational components include the following suite of web-based Java applets: * Distributions (interactive graphs and calculators) * Experiments (virtual computer-generated games and processes) * Analyses (collection of common web-accessible tools for statistical data analysis) * Games (interfaces and simulations to real-life processes) * Modeler (tools for distribution, polynomial and spectral model-fitting and simulation) * Graphs, Plots and Charts (comprehensive web-based tools for exploratory data analysis), * Additional Tools (other statistical tools and resources) * SOCR Java-based Statistical Computing Libraries * SOCR Wiki (collaborative Wiki resource) * Educational Materials and Hands-on Activities (varieties of SOCR educational materials), * SOCR Statistical Consulting In addition, SOCR provides a suite of tools for volume-based statistical mapping (http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/SOCR_EduMaterials_AnalysesCommandLine) via command-line execution and via the LONI Pipeline workflows (http://www.nitrc.org/projects/pipeline). Course instructors and teachers will find the SOCR class notes and interactive tools useful for student motivation, concept demonstrations and for enhancing their technology based pedagogical approaches to any study of variation and uncertainty. Students and trainees may find the SOCR class notes, analyses, computational and graphing tools extremely useful in their learning/practicing pursuits. Model developers, software programmers and other engineering, biomedical and applied researchers may find the light-weight plug-in oriented SOCR computational libraries and infrastructure useful in their algorithm designs and research efforts. The three types of SOCR resources are: * Interactive Java applets: these include a number of different applets, simulations, demonstrations, virtual experiments, tools for data visualization and analysis, etc. All applets require a Java-enabled browser (if you see a blank screen, see the SOCR Feedback to find out how to configure your browser). * Instructional Resources: these include data, electronic textbooks, tutorials, etc. * Learning Activities: these include various interactive hands-on activities. * SOCR Video Tutorials (including general and tool-specific screencasts).

Proper citation: Statistics Online Computational Resource (RRID:SCR_003378) Copy   

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http://rostlab.org/services/nlsdb/

A database of nuclear localization signals (NLSs) and of nuclear proteins targeted to the nucleus by NLS motifs. NLSs are short stretches of residues mediating transport of nuclear proteins into the nucleus. The database contains 114 experimentally determined NLSs that were obtained through an extensive literature search. Using "in silico mutagenesis" this set was extended to 308 experimental and potential NLSs. This final set matched over 43% of all known nuclear proteins and matches no currently known non-nuclear protein. NLSdb contains over 6000 predicted nuclear proteins and their targeting signals from the PDB and SWISS-PROT/TrEMBL databases. The database also contains over 12 500 predicted nuclear proteins from six entirely sequenced eukaryotic proteomes (Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans, Arabidopsis thaliana and Saccharomyces cerevisiae). NLS motifs often co-localize with DNA-binding regions. This observation was used to also annotate over 1500 DNA-binding proteins. From this site you can: * Query NLSdb * Find out how to use NLSdb * Browse the entries in NLSdb * Find out if your protein has an NLS using PredictNLS * Predict subcellular localization of your protein using LOCtree

Proper citation: NLSdb: a database of nuclear localization signals (RRID:SCR_003273) Copy   

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