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http://www.medunigraz.at/en/biobank

Biobank Graz is a non-profit central Medical University of Graz (MUG) service facility that provides the logistics and infrastructure to optimally support MUG research teams in the collection, processing and storage of biological samples and their associated data. In the course of this, special attention is given to sample and data quality and to the protection of the individual rights of patients. Samples from selected patients at the Graz LKH-University Clinical Centre, who have signed an informed consent declaration, are deposited in Biobank Graz. This means that excess tissue and blood samples are collected and placed in storage. The samples are harvested in the course of routine interventions undertaken by the different departments and institutes of the Graz LKH-University Clinical Centre and approved for use in research projects only after the completion of all necessary laboratory and histopathological analyses. No additional material is removed: in other words, there are no associated drawbacks whatsoever for the patients involved. Biobank Graz operates a quality management system according to ISO 9001:2008 and offers the following services for the processing and storage of biological samples and the handling of data: * Consistently high sample quality through the processing of samples using standardized methods in accordance with written working instructions (SOPs) * Efficient use of resources through the building of shared infrastructure and the development of optimized processes * A high degree of reliability provided by the storage of samples in 24/7 - monitored storage systems. * Processing and storage of all data in accordance with data protection legislation. Biobank Graz comprises both population-based and disease-focused collections of biological materials. It currently contains approx. 3.8 mio samples from approx. 1.2 mio patients representing a nonselected patient group characteristic of central Europe. Because the Institute of Pathology was, until 2003, the exclusive pathology service provider for major parts of the province of Styria, including its capital Graz (population approx. 1.2 mio people), samples from all human diseases, treated by surgery or diagnosed by biopsy, are included in the collection at their natural frequency of occurrence and thus represent cancers and non-cancerous diseases from all organs, and from all age groups. The scientific value of the existing tissue collection is, thus, not only determined by its size and technical homogeneity (all samples have been processed in a single institute under constant conditions for more than 20 years), but also by its population-based character. These features provide ideal opportunities for epidemiological studies and allow the validation of biomarkers for the identification of specific diseases and determination of their response to treatment. Prospectively collected tissues, blood samples and clinical data comprise, on the one hand, randomly selected samples from all diseases and patient groups to provide sufficient numbers of samples for the evaluation of the disease-specificity of any gene or biomarker. On the other hand, Biobank Graz adopts a disease-focused approach for selected diseases (such as breast, colon and liver cancers as well as some metabolic diseases) through the collection of a range of different human biological samples of highest quality and detailed clinical follow-up data. Graz Medical University established the Biobank to provide improved and sustainable access to biological samples and related (clinical) data both for its own academic research and for external research projects of academic and industrial partners. It is a major interest of the university to initiate co-operative research projects. Biological samples and data are available to external institutions performing high-quality research projects which comply with the Biobank''s ethical and legal framework according to the access rules (Contact: COO Karine Sargsyan, MD, PhD).

Proper citation: Biobank Graz (RRID:SCR_004245) Copy   

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http://gmt.genome.wustl.edu/somatic-sniper/current/

Software program to identify single nucleotide positions that are different between tumor and normal (or, in theory, any two bam files). It takes a tumor bam and a normal bam and compares the two to determine the differences. It outputs a file in a format very similar to Samtools consensus format. It uses the genotype likelihood model of MAQ (as implemented in Samtools) and then calculates the probability that the tumor and normal genotypes are different. This probability is reported as a somatic score. The somatic score is the Phred-scaled probability (between 0 to 255) that the Tumor and Normal genotypes are not different where 0 means there is no probability that the genotypes are different and 255 means there is a probability of 1 ? 10(255/-10) that the genotypes are different between tumor and normal. This is consistent with how the SAM format reports such probabilities. It is currently available as source code via github or as a Debian APT package.

Proper citation: SomaticSniper (RRID:SCR_005108) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/gatk/gatkdocs/org_broadinstitute_sting_gatk_walkers_indels_SomaticIndelDetector.html

Tool for calling indels in Tumor-Normal paired sample mode.

Proper citation: SomaticIndelDetector (RRID:SCR_005107) Copy   

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https://github.com/ding-lab/msisensor

A C++ software program for automatically detecting somatic and germline variants at microsatellite regions. It computes length distributions of microsatellites per site in paired tumor and normal sequence data, subsequently using these to statistically compare observed distributions in both samples.

Proper citation: MSIsensor (RRID:SCR_006418) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/science/programs/genome-biology/computational-rd/somaticcall-manual

Software program that finds single-base differences (substitutions) between sequence data from tumor and matched normal samples. It is designed to be highly stringent, so as to achieve a low false positive rate. It takes as input a BAM file for each sample, and produces as output a list of differences (somatic mutations). Note: This software package is no longer supported and information on this page is provided for archival purposes only.

Proper citation: SomaticCall (RRID:SCR_001196) Copy   

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http://www.capitalbiosciences.com/

Biological products including Cell Immortalization Products, Clinically Defined Human Tissue, cDNA ORF Clones, Premade Adenoviruses, Purified Proteins, Viral Expression Systems and others as well as services like Custom Recombinant Adenovirus Production, Custom Recombinant Lentivirus Production, Protein Detection and Quantification and Stable Cell Line Production for academic and governmental research institutes, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. Capital Biosciences offers most types of human tissues, normal and diseased, with extensive clinical history and follow up information. Standard specimen format: Snap-frozen(flash-frozen), Formalin fixed and paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissues, Blood and blood products, Bone marrow, Total RNA, Genomic DNA, Total Proteins, Primary cell cultures, Viable frozen tissue. Tumor tissue samples include: Bladder cancer, Glioblastoma, Medulloblastoma, Breast Carcinoma, Cervical Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Endometrial Cancer, Esophageal Cancer, Head and Neck (H&N) Carcinoma, Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC), Hodgkin's lymphoma, Kidney, Renal Cell Carcinoma, Lung Cancer, Non-Small Cell (NCSLC), Lung Cancer, Small Cell (SCLC), Melanoma, Mesothelioma, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Ovarian Adenocarcinoma, Pancreatic Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Stomach Cancer.

Proper citation: Capital Biosciences (RRID:SCR_004879) Copy   

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http://bodymap.genes.nig.ac.jp/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 17, 2013. A taxonomical and anatomical database of latest cross species animal EST data, clustered by UniGene and inter connected by Inparanoid. Users can search by Unigene, RefSeq, or Entrez Gene ID, or search for Gene Name or Tissue type. Data is also sortable and viewable based on qualities of normal, Neoplastic, or other. The last data import appears to be from 2008

Proper citation: BodyMap-Xs (RRID:SCR_001147) Copy   

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http://srv00.recas.ba.infn.it/ASPicDB/

A database to access reliable annotations of the alternative splicing pattern of human genes, obtained by ASPic algorithm (Castrignano et al. 2006), and to the functional annotation of predicted isoforms. Users may select and extract specific sets of data related to genes, transcripts and introns fulfilling a combination of user-defined criteria. Several tabular and graphical views of the results are presented, providing a comprehensive assessment of the functional implication of alternative splicing in the gene set under investigation. ASPicDB also includes information on tissue-specific splicing patterns of normal and cancer cells, based on available EST data and their library source annotation.

Proper citation: ASPicDB (RRID:SCR_002102) Copy   

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https://www.braintest.org/brain_test/BrainTest

A portal of online studies that encourage community participation to tackle the most challenging problems in neuropsychiatry, including attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. Our approach is to engage the community and try to recruit tens of thousands of people to spend an hour of their time on our site. You folks will provide data in both brain tests and questionnaires, as well as DNA, and in return, we will provide some information about your brain and behavior. You will also be entered to win amazon.com gift cards. While large collaborative efforts were made in genetics in order to discover the secrets of the human genome, there are still many mysteries about the behaviors that are seen in complex neuropsychiatric syndromes and the underlying biology that gives rise to these behaviors. We know that it will require studying tens of thousands of people to begin to answer these questions. Having you, the public, as a research partner is the only way to achieve that kind of investment. This site will try to reach that goal, by combining high-throughput behavioral assessment using questionnaires and game-like cognitive tests. You provide the data and then we will provide information and feedback about why you should help us achieve our goals and how it benefits everyone in the world. We believe that through this online study, we can better understand memory and attention behaviors in the general population and their genetic basis, which will in turn allow us to better characterize how these behaviors go awry in people who suffer from mental illness. In the end, we hope this will provide better, more personalized treatment options, and ultimately prevention of these widespread and extremely debilitating brain diseases. We will use the data we collect to try to identify the genetic basis for memory and impulse control, for example. If we can achieve this goal, maybe we can then do more targeted research to understand how the biology goes awry in people who have problems with cognition, including memory and impulse control, like those diagnosed with ADHD, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorders. By participating in our research, you can learn about mental illness and health and help researchers tackle these complex problems. We can''t do it without your help.

Proper citation: Brain Test (RRID:SCR_006212) Copy   

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http://www.proteinatlas.org/

Open access resource for human proteins. Used to search for specific genes or proteins or explore different resources, each focusing on particular aspect of the genome-wide analysis of the human proteins: Tissue, Brain, Single Cell, Subcellular, Cancer, Blood, Cell line, Structure and Interaction. Swedish-based program to map all human proteins in cells, tissues, and organs using integration of various omics technologies, including antibody-based imaging, mass spectrometry-based proteomics, transcriptomics, and systems biology. All the data in the knowledge resource is open access to allow scientists both in academia and industry to freely access the data for exploration of the human proteome.

Proper citation: The Human Protein Atlas (RRID:SCR_006710) Copy   

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http://hippocampome.org

A curated knowledge base of the circuitry of the hippocampus of normal adult, or adolescent, rodents at the mesoscopic level of neuronal types. Knowledge concerning dentate gyrus, CA3, CA2, CA1, subiculum, and entorhinal cortex is distilled from published evidence and is continuously updated as new information becomes available. Each reported neuronal property is documented with a pointer to, and excerpt from, relevant published evidence, such as citation quotes or illustrations. Please note: This is an alpha-testing site. The content is still being vetted for accuracy and has not yet undergone peer-review. As such, it may contain inaccuracies and should not (yet) be trusted as a scholarly resource. The content does not yet appear uniformly across all combinations of browsers and screen resolutions.

Proper citation: Hippocampome.org (RRID:SCR_009023) Copy   

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http://www.orgids.com/

Data sets resulting from glaucoma research including visual fields, various imaging modalities and other data from both glaucomatous and normal subjects. The Longitudinal Glaucomatous Visual Fields data set contains IOP (Intraocular pressure) measurements and 24-2 Full Threshold visual fields obtained with a Humphrey Field Analyzer (Zeiss). Data of both eyes of 139 patients over a mean period of over 9 years is included, with on average more than 17 fields per eye. Local threshold and total deviation values are included.

Proper citation: Open Rotterdam Glaucoma Imaging Data Sets (RRID:SCR_003540) Copy   

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http://www.radiologyresearch.org/HippocampusSegmentation.aspx

This dataset contains T1-weighted MR images of 50 subjects, 40 of whom are patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and 10 are nonepileptic subjects. Hippocampus labels are provided for 25 subjects for training. The users may submit their segmentation outcomes for the remaining 25 testing images to get a table of segmentation metrics.

Proper citation: MRI Dataset for Hippocampus Segmentation (RRID:SCR_009597) Copy   

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https://sites.google.com/site/projectbci/

EEG motor activity data sets used for Brain Computer Interface research project in Matlab MAT format. * Dataset 1 - 1D motion: This subject is a 21 year old, right handed male with no known medical conditions. The EEG consists of actual random movements of left and right hand recorded with eyes closed. Each row represents one electrode. The order of the electrodes is FP1 FP2 F3 F4 C3 C4 P3 P4 O1 O2 F7 F8 T3 T4 T5 T6 FZ CZ PZ. The recording was done at 500Hz using Neurofax EEG System which uses a daisy chain montage. The data was exported with a common reference using Eemagine EEG. AC Lines in this country work at 50 Hz. This info is also included in the MAT file. * Dataset 2 - 2D motion: This subject is a 21 year old, right handed male with no known medical conditions. The EEG consists of actual random movements of left and right hand recorded with eyes closed. Each row represents one electrode. The order of the electrodes is FP1 FP2 F3 F4 C3 C4 P3 P4 O1 O2 F7 F8 T3 T4 T5 T6 FZ CZ PZ. The recording was done at 500Hz using Neurofax EEG System which uses a daisy chain montage. The data was exported with a common reference using Eemagine EEG. AC Lines in this country work at 50 Hz. This data consists of the following movements # Three trials left hand forward movement # Three trials left hand backward movement # Three trials left hand forward movement # Three trials left hand forward movement # 1 trial imagined left hand forward movement # 1 trial imagined left hand backward movement # 1 trial imagined right hand forward movement # 1 trial imagined right hand backward movement # 1 trial left leg movement # 1 trial right leg movement

Proper citation: Project BCI - EEG motor activity data set (RRID:SCR_001585) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/vervet_atlas/

Vervet (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) probabilistic atlas that defines an anatomical space (template) with associated tissue and regional prior probability maps. The atlas was produced from whole head MRI of 10 normal adult animal subjects. The package consists of two atlases. The Biased directory contains the average template and probabilistic atlases for selected tissue classes constructed by registering the training population to one subject. The Unbiased directory contains the atlas constructed using unbiased estimation. The atlas is suitable for use in any segmentation tool using a probabilistic atlas, for example those in Slicer.

Proper citation: Vervet Probabilistic Atlas (RRID:SCR_000426) Copy   

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http://www.zfatlas.psu.edu/

Atlas containing 2- and 3-dimensional, anatomical reference slides of the lifespan of the zebrafish to support research and education worldwide. Hematoxylin and eosin histological slides, at various points in the lifespan of the zebrafish, have been scanned at 40x resolution and are available through a virtual slide viewer. 3D models of the organs are reconstructed from plastic tissue sections of embryo and larvae. The size of the zebrafish, which allows sections to fall conveniently within the dimensions of the common 1 x 3 glass slide, makes it possible for this anatomical atlas to become as high resolution as for any vertebrate. That resolution, together with the integration of histology and organ anatomy, will create unique opportunities for comparisons with both smaller and larger model systems that each have their own strengths in research and educational value. The atlas team is working to allow the site to function as a scaffold for collaborative research and educational activity across disciplines and model organisms. The Zebrafish Atlas was created to answer a community call for a comprehensive, web-based, anatomical and pathological atlas of the zebrafish, which has become one of the most widely used vertebrate animal models globally. The experimental strengths of zebrafish as a model system have made it useful for a wide range of investigations addressing the missions of the NIH and NSF. The Zebrafish Atlas provides reference slides for virtual microscopic viewing of the zebrafish using an Internet browser. Virtual slide technology allows the user to choose their own field of view and magnification, and to consult labeled histological sections of zebrafish. We are planning to include a complete set of embryos, larvae, juveniles, and adults from approximately 25 different ages. Future work will also include a variety of comparisons (e.g. normal vs. mutant, normal vs. diseased, multiple stages of development, zebrafish with other organisms, and different types of cancer)., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: Zebrafish Atlas (RRID:SCR_006722) Copy   

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http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesAtlases/Cyno

A reference atlas of cynomolgus macaque monkey magnetic resonance images. The template brain volume that offers a common stereotaxic reference frame to localize anatomical and functional information in an organized and reliable way for comparison across individual cynomolgus monkeys and studies. We have used MRI volumes from a group of 18 normal adult cynomulgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) to create the individual atlas. Thus, the atlas does not rely on the anatomy of a single subject, but instead depends on nonlinear normalization of numerous cynomolgus monkey brains mapped to an average template image that is faithful to the location of anatomical structures. Tools for registering a native MRI to the cynomolgus macaque atlas can be found in the Software section. Viewing the atlas and associated volumes online requires Java browser support. Additionally, you may download the atlas and associated files in your chosen format.

Proper citation: McConnell Brain Imaging Center MNI Cynomolgus Macaque Atlas (RRID:SCR_008793) Copy   

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http://www.nitrc.org/projects/dti_rat_atlas/

3D DTI anatomical rat brain atlases have been created by the UNC- Chapel Hill Department of Psychiatry and the CAMID research collaboration. There are three age groups, postnatal day 5, postnatal day 14, and postnatal day 72. The subjects were Sprague-Dawley rats that were controls in a study on cocaine abuse and development. The P5 and P14 templates were made from scans of twenty rats each (ten female, ten male); the P72, from six females. The individual cases have been resampled to isotropic resolution, manually skull-stripped, and deformably registered via an unbiased atlas building method to create a template for each age group. Each template was then manually segmented using itk-SNAP software. Each atlas is made up of 3 files, a template image, a segmentation, and a label file.

Proper citation: 3D DTI Atlas of the Rat Brain In Postnatal Day 5 14 and Adulthood (RRID:SCR_009437) 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://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MCCL

A comprehensive ontology on primary and established cell lines-both normal and pathologic. It covers around 400 cell lines. This ontology has been built to include the major domains in the field of biology like anatomy, bio-molecules, chemicals and drugs, pathological conditions and genetic variations around the cell lines. An extensive network of relations has been built across these concepts to enable different combinations of queries. The ontology covers all cell lines from major sources like ATCC, DSMZ, ECACC, ICLC etc. and is built in OWL format.

Proper citation: Cell Line Ontology by Mahadevan (RRID:SCR_010281) Copy   

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