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http://www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

International society dedicated to advancing understanding of anatomical and functional organization of human brain using neuroimaging. Primary function of society is to provide educational forums for exchange of up-to-the-minute and groundbreaking research across neuroimaging methods and applications. OHBM achieves this through its member led committees and Annual Meeting that is held in different locations throughout the world.

Proper citation: Organization for Human Brain Mapping (RRID:SCR_001978) Copy   

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https://netbio.bgu.ac.il/tissuenet3/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on 7/15/13. The Nation's one-stop resource for information about substance abuse prevention and addiction treatment offering more than 500 items to the public, many of which are free of charge. They distribute the latest studies and surveys, guides, videocassettes, and other types of information and materials on substance abuse from various agencies, such as the U.S. Departments of Education and Labor, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. They staff both English- and Spanish-speaking information specialists who are skilled at recommending appropriate publications, posters, and videocassettes; conducting customized searches; providing grant and funding information; and referring people to appropriate organizations. They are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to take your calls at 1-800-729-6686. NCADI services include: * an information services staff (English, Spanish, TDD capability) equipped to respond to the public's alcohol, tobacco, and drug (ATD) inquiries; * the distribution of free or low-cost ATD materials, including fact sheets, brochures, pamphlets, monographs, posters, and video tapes from an inventory of over 1,000 items; * a repertoire of culturally-diverse prevention, intervention, and treatment resources tailored for use by parents, teachers, youth, communities and prevention/treatment professionals; * customized searches in the form of annotated bibliographies from alcohol and drug data bases; * access to the Prevention Materials database (PMD) including over 8,000 prevention-related materials and the Treatment Resources Database, available to the public in electronic form; * rapid dissemination of Federal grant announcements for ATD prevention, treatment, and research funding opportunities.

Proper citation: SAMHSAs National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (RRID:SCR_002053) Copy   

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http://scicrunch.org

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on August 27, 2019.

Database for those interested in the consequences of Factor VIII genetic variation at the DNA and protein level, it provides access to data on the molecular pathology of haemophilia A. The database presents a review of the structure and function of factor VIII and the molecular genetics of haemophilia A, a real time update of the biostatistics of each parameter in the database, a molecular model of the A1, A2 and A3 domains of the factor VIII protein (based on the crystal structure of caeruloplasmin) and a bulletin board for discussion of issues in the molecular biology of factor VIII. The database is completely updated with easy submission of point mutations, deletions and insertions via e-mail of custom-designed forms. A methods section devoted to mutation detection is available, highlighting issues such as choice of technique and PCR primer sequences. The FVIII structure section now includes a download of a FVIII A domain homology model in Protein Data Bank format and a multiple alignment of the FVIII amino-acid sequences from four species (human, murine, porcine and canine) in addition to the virtual reality simulations, secondary structural data and FVIII animation already available. Finally, to aid navigation across this site, a clickable roadmap of the main features provides easy access to the page desired. Their intention is that continued development and updating of the site shall provide workers in the fields of molecular and structural biology with a one-stop resource site to facilitate FVIII research and education. To submit your mutants to the Haemophilia A Mutation Database email the details. (Refer to Submission Guidelines)

Proper citation: HAMSTeRS - The Haemophilia A Mutation Structure Test and Resource Site (RRID:SCR_006883) Copy   

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http://www.dkfz.de/en/mga/Groups/LIFEdb-Database.html

Database that integrates large-scale functional genomics assays and manual cDNA annotation with bioinformatics gene expression and protein analysis. LifeDB integrates data regarding full length cDNA clones and data on expression of encoded protein and their subcellular localization on mammalian cell line. LifeDB enables the scientific community to systematically search and select genes, proteins as well as cDNA of interest by specific database identifiers as well as gene name. It enables to visualize cDNA clone and subcellular location of proteins. It also links the results to external biological databases in order to provide a broader functional information. LifeDB also provides an annotation pipeline which facilitates an improved mapping of clones to known human reference transcripts from the RefSeq database and the Ensembl database. An advanced web interface enables the researchers to view the data in a more user friendly manner. Users can search using any one of the following search options available both in Search gene and cDNA clones and Search Sub-cellular locations of human proteins: By Keyword, By gene/transcript identifier, By plate name, By clone name, By cellular location. * The Search genes and cDNA clones results include: Gene Name, Ensemble ID, Genomic Region, Clone name, Plate name, Plate position, Classification class, Synonymous SNP''s, Non- synonymous SNP''s, Number of ambiguous positions, and Alignment with reference genes. * The Search sub-cellular locations of human proteins results include: Subcellular location, Gene Name, Ensemble ID, Clone name, True localization, Images, Start tag and End tag. Every result page has an option to download result data (excluding the microscopy images). On click of ''Download results as CSV-file'' link in the result page the user will be given a choice to open or save result data in form of a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file. Later the CSV file can be easily opened using Excel or OpenOffice.

Proper citation: LifeDB (RRID:SCR_006899) Copy   

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http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/externe/tetraodon/

The initial objective of Genoscope was to compare the genomic sequences of this fish to that of humans to help in the annotation of human genes and to estimate their number. This strategy is based on the common genetic heritage of the vertebrates: from one species of vertebrate to another, even for those as far apart as a fish and a mammal, the same genes are present for the most part. In the case of the compact genome of Tetraodon, this common complement of genes is contained in a genome eight times smaller than that of humans. Although the length of the exons is similar in these two species, the size of the introns and the intergenic sequences is greatly reduced in this fish. Furthermore, these regions, in contrast to the exons, have diverged completely since the separation of the lineages leading to humans and Tetraodon. The Exofish method, developed at Genoscope, exploits this contrast such that the conserved regions which can be identified by comparing genomic sequences of the two species, correspond only to coding regions. Using preliminary sequencing results of the genome of Tetraodon in the year 2000, Genoscope evaluated the number of human genes at about 30,000, whereas much higher estimations were current. The progress of the annotation of the human genome has since supported the Genoscope hypothesis, with values as low as 22,000 genes and a consensus of around 25,000 genes. The sequencing of the Tetraodon genome at a depth of about 8X, carried out as a collaboration between Genoscope and the Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research (now the Broad Institute), was finished in 2002, with the production of an assembly covering 90 of the euchromatic region of the genome of the fish. This has permitted the application of Exofish at a larger scale in comparisons with the genome of humans, but also with those of the two other vertebrates sequenced at the time (Takifugu, a fish closely related to Tetraodon, and the mouse). The conserved regions detected in this way have been integrated into the annotation procedure, along with other resources (cDNA sequences from Tetraodon and ab initio predictions). Of the 28,000 genes annotated, some families were examined in detail: selenoproteins, and Type 1 cytokines and their receptors. The comparison of the proteome of Tetraodon with those of mammals has revealed some interesting differences, such as a major diversification of some hormone systems and of the collagen molecules in the fish. A search for transposable elements in the genomic sequences of Tetraodon has also revealed a high diversity (75 types), which contrasts with their scarcity; the small size of the Tetraodon genome is due to the low abundance of these elements, of which some appear to still be active. Another factor in the compactness of the Tetraodon genome, which has been confirmed by annotation, is the reduction in intron size, which approaches a lower limit of 50-60 bp, and which preferentially affects certain genes. The availability of the sequences from the genomes of humans and mice on one hand, and Takifugu and Tetraodon on the other, provide new opportunities for the study of vertebrate evolution. We have shown that the level of neutral evolution is higher in fish than in mammals. The protein sequences of fish also diverge more quickly than those of mammals. A key mechanism in evolution is gene duplication, which we have studied by taking advantage of the anchoring of the majority of the sequences from the assembly on the chromosomes. The result of this study speaks strongly in favor of a whole genome duplication event, very early in the line of ray-finned fish (Actinopterygians). An even stronger evidence came from synteny studies between the genomes of humans and Tetraodon. Using a high-resolution synteny map, we have reconstituted the genome of the vertebrate which predates this duplication - that is, the last common ancestor to all bony vertebrates (most of the vertebrates apart from cartilaginous fish and agnaths like lamprey). This ancestral karyotype contains 12 chromosomes, and the 21 Tetraodon chromosomes derive from it by the whole genome duplication and a surprisingly small number of interchromosomal rearrangements. On the contrary, exchanges between chromosomes have been much more frequent in the lineage that leads to humans. Sponsors: The project was supported by the Consortium National de Recherche en Genomique and the National Human Genome Research Institute.

Proper citation: Tetraodon Genome Browser (RRID:SCR_007079) Copy   

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http://www.broadinstitute.org/

Biomedical and genomic research center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Nonprofit research organization under the name Broad Institute Inc., and is partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the five Harvard teaching hospitals. Dedicated to advance understanding of biology and treatment of human disease to improve human health.

Proper citation: Broad Institute (RRID:SCR_007073) Copy   

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http://www.chr7.org

Database containing the DNA sequence and annotation of the entire human chromosome 7, encompassing nearly 158 million nucleotides of DNA and 1917 gene structures, are presented; the most up to date collation of sequence, gene, and other annotations from all databases (eg. Celera published, NCBI, Ensembl, RIKEN, UCSC) as well as unpublished data. To generate a higher order description, additional structural features such as imprinted genes, fragile sites, and segmental duplications were integrated at the level of the DNA sequence with medical genetic data, including 440 chromosome rearrangement breakpoints associated with disease. The objective of this project is to generate a comprehensive description of human chromosome 7 to facilitate biological discovery, disease gene research and medical genetic applications. There are over 360 disease-associated genes or loci on chromosome 7. A major challenge ahead will be to represent chromosome alterations, variants, and polymorphisms and their related phenotypes (or lack thereof), in an accessible way. In addition to being a primary data source, this site serves as a weighing station for testing community ideas and information to produce highly curated data to be submitted to other databases such as NCBI, Ensembl, and UCSC. Therefore, any useful data submitted will be curated and shown in this database. All Chromosome 7 genomic clones (cosmids, BACs, YACs) listed in GBrowser and in other data tables are freely distributed.

Proper citation: Chromosome 7 Annotation Project (RRID:SCR_007134) Copy   

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http://www.visionnetwork.nei.nih.gov/

The National Eye Institute (NEI) created the VISION Public Information Network for the purpose of communicating with public information officers at NEI grantee institutions. The Network''s primary mission is to work with the NEI in disseminating research results to the national and local media. The Network also works to inform the public of the mission of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve the health of America through medical research. The NEI is part of the NIH, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). General information portal for eye and vision related resources for the public. Sponsors: This resource is supported by the National Eye Institute.

Proper citation: Vision Public Information Network (RRID:SCR_007340) Copy   

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http://nsr.bioeng.washington.edu/

Database of physiological, pharmacological, and pathological information on humans and other organisms and integration through computational modeling. Models include everything from diagrammatic schema, suggesting relationships among elements composing a system, to fully quantitative, computational models describing the behavior of physiological systems and an organism''s response to environmental change. Each mathematical model is an internally self-consistent summary of available information, and thereby defines a working hypothesis about how a system operates. Predictions from such models are subject to test, with new results leading to new models.BR /> A Tool developed for the NSR Physiome project is JSim, an open source, free software. JSim is a Java-based simulation system for building quantitative numeric models and analyzing them with respect to experimental reference data. JSim''s primary focus is in physiology and biomedicine, however its computational engine is quite general and applicable to a wide range of scientific domains. JSim models may intermix ODEs, PDEs, implicit equations, integrals, summations, discrete events and procedural code as appropriate. JSim''s model compiler can automatically insert conversion factors for compatible physical units as well as detect and reject unit unbalanced equations. JSim also imports the SBML and CellML model archival formats. All JSim models are open source. Goals of the Physiome Project: - To develop and database observations of physiological phenomenon and interpret these in terms of mechanism (a fundamentally reductionist goal). - To integrate experimental information into quantitative descriptions of the functioning of humans and other organisms (modern integrative biology glued together via modeling). - To disseminate experimental data and integrative models for teaching and research. - To foster collaboration amongst investigators worldwide, to speed up the discovery of how biological systems work. - To determine the most effective targets (molecules or systems) for therapy, either pharmaceutic or genomic. - To provide information for the design of tissue-engineered, biocompatible implants.

Proper citation: NSR Physiome Project (RRID:SCR_007379) Copy   

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https://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/victr/dcc/projects/acc/index.php/Main_Page

A national consortium formed to develop, disseminate, and apply approaches to research that combine DNA biorepositories with electronic medical record (EMR) systems for large-scale, high-throughput genetic research. The consortium is composed of seven member sites exploring the ability and feasibility of using EMR systems to investigate gene-disease relationships. Themes of bioinformatics, genomic medicine, privacy and community engagement are of particular relevance to eMERGE. The consortium uses data from the EMR clinical systems that represent actual health care events and focuses on ethical issues such as privacy, confidentiality, and interactions with the broader community.

Proper citation: eMERGE Network: electronic Medical Records and Genomics (RRID:SCR_007428) Copy   

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http://www.aneurist.org/

Project focused on cerebral aneurysms and provides integrated decision support system to assess risk of aneurysm rupture in patients and to optimize their treatments. IT infrastructure has been developeded for management and processing of vast amount of heterogeneous data acquired during diagnosis.

Proper citation: aneurIST (RRID:SCR_007427) Copy   

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http://human.brain-map.org/static/brainexplorer

Multi modal atlas of human brain that integrates anatomic and genomic information, coupled with suite of visualization and mining tools to create open public resource for brain researchers and other scientists. Data include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), histology and gene expression data derived from both microarray and in situ hybridization (ISH) approaches. Brain Explorer 2 is desktop software application for viewing human brain anatomy and gene expression data in 3D.

Proper citation: Allen Human Brain Atlas (RRID:SCR_007416) Copy   

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http://www.brainvoyager.de/BV2000OnlineHelp/BrainVoyagerWebHelp/Talairach_brain_atlas.htm

The Talairach brain atlas visualized via BrainVoyager (Commercial software) can be used to visualize Brodmann areas as they were defined for the Talairach brain (Talairach & Tournaux, 1988) and to compare regions of subjects with respect to the Brodmann areas. The demarcated areas are based on the Talairach demon, which is a digitized version of the Talairach atlas and which has been transferred into BrainVoyager VOI files by Matthias Ruf, Mannheim. Using the Brodman.voi file you may ask questions like the following: What is the signal time course of subject N in experiment A within Brodmann area X ?. Note, however, that the defined areal boundaries should be used only as a rough guideline for determining the location of activated regions: There is substantial variation of histologically defined areas between subjects. Since cytoarchitectonically defined Brodmann areas are not available in vivo, we advise to use the provided information with care. The TalairachBrain.vmr file is located in the same folder as your BrainVoyager executable file. It can be loaded as any VMR project by using the Open... item in the File menu (or the Open icon). The TalairachBrain.vmr file is also loaded automatically when using the glass brain visualization tool.

Proper citation: BrainVoyager: Talairach Brain Atlas (RRID:SCR_008800) Copy   

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http://www.muschealth.com/multimedia/Podcasts/index.aspx?type=main

The MUSChealth.com Podcast Library, featuring podcasts on a variety of topics related to your health and our services here at MUSC. These medical podcasts are hosted by MUSC faculty, physicians and special guests and are produced and directed by Linda Austin, M.D. Current topics include: * Academics and Education * Aging, Geriatrics and Caregiving * Alcohol and Drug Dependency * Allergies and Asthma * Ashley River Tower * Bones, Joints, Muscles and Spine * Cancer * Children''s Health * Cosmetic Surgery * Dental * Dermatology/Skin Problems * Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism * Digestive Health * ENT: Ear, Nose and Throat * Executive Health * Eye Health * General Health and Wellness * Heart and Vascular Health * Hospice * Kohl''s Take a Minute for Kids * Lungs and Breathing * Men''s Health * Mental Health * MUSC News and Events * Neurological Health * Organ Transplant * Osteoporosis * Pregnancy - Week by Week * Pregnancy and Childbirth * Radiology * Research and Clinical Trials * SC Health, Leadership and Policy * Sports Medicine * Stroke * Urology * Weight Loss Surgery Follow-up * Weight Management * Women''s Health

Proper citation: MUSC Health Podcast Library (RRID:SCR_008827) Copy   

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http://www.cbtrus.org/

Voluntary, non-profit organization dedicated to collecting and disseminating statistical data. Resource for gathering and disseminating epidemiologic data on all primary benign and malignant brain and other CNS tumors.

Proper citation: Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States (RRID:SCR_008748) Copy   

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http://brainandsociety.org/the-brain-observatory

Formerly a topical portal studying the brain which collected and imaged 1000 human brains, the Brain Observatory has partnered with the Institute for Brain and Society to build virtual laboratories that will feed directly into the database of images and knowledge created in the context of the Human Brain Library. The Brain Observatory will also host exhibits, conferences, and events aimed at promoting a heightened awareness of brain research and how its results can benefit personal brain fitness and mental health.

Proper citation: Brain Observatory (RRID:SCR_010641) Copy   

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http://enhancer.lbl.gov/

Resource for experimentally validated human and mouse noncoding fragments with gene enhancer activity as assessed in transgenic mice. Most of these noncoding elements were selected for testing based on their extreme conservation in other vertebrates or epigenomic evidence (ChIP-Seq) of putative enhancer marks. Central public database of experimentally validated human and mouse noncoding fragments with gene enhancer activity as assessed in transgenic mice. Users can retrieve elements near single genes of interest, search for enhancers that target reporter gene expression to particular tissue, or download entire collections of enhancers with defined tissue specificity or conservation depth.

Proper citation: VISTA Enhancer Browser (RRID:SCR_007973) Copy   

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http://vega.sanger.ac.uk/

Central repository for high quality frequently updated manual annotation of vertebrate finished genome sequence. Human, mouse and zebrafish are in the process of being completely annotated, whereas for other species the annotation is only of specific genomic regions of particular biological interest. The majority of the annotation is from the HAVANA group at the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute. Users can BLAST, search for specific text, export, and download data. Genomes and details of the projects for each species are available through the homepages for human mouse and zebrafish. The website is built upon code from the EnsEMBL (http://www.ensembl.org) project. Some Ensembl features are not available in Vega. From the users point of view perhaps the most significant of these is MartView. However due to their inclusion in Ensembl, Vega human and mouse data can be queried using Ensembl MartView. Vega contains annotation of the human MHC region in eight haplotypes, and the LRC region in three haplotypes. Vega also contains annotation on the Insulin Dependent Diabetes (IDD) regions on non-reference assemblies for mouse.

Proper citation: VEGA (RRID:SCR_007907) Copy   

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http://mmil.ucsd.edu/

An interdisciplinary group of scientists and clinicians who study the human brain using a variety of imaging, recording, and computational techniques. Their primary goal is to bridge non-invasive imaging technologies to the underlying neurophysiology of brain neuronal circuits for a better understanding of healthy human brain function, and mechanisms of disruption of this function in diseases such as Alzheimer's, epilepsy and stroke. The other goal of the MMIL is to develop and apply advanced imaging techniques to understanding the human brain and its disorders. In order to ground these methodological developments in their underlying neurobiology, invasive studies in humans and animals involving optical and micro physiological measures are also performed. These methodologies are applied to understanding normal function in sleep, memory and language, development and aging, and diseases such as dementia, epilepsy and autism.

Proper citation: Multimodal Imaging Laboratory (RRID:SCR_008071) Copy   

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http://genome.wustl.edu/projects/detail/human-gut-microbiome/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on August 19,2022. Human Gut Microbiome Initiative (HGMI) seeks to provide simply annotated, deep draft genome sequences for 100 cultured representatives of the phylogenetic diversity documented by 16S rRNA surveys of the human gut microbiota. Humans are supra-organisms, composed of 10 times more microbial cells than human cells. Therefore, it seems appropriate to consider ourselves as a composite of many species - human, bacterial, and archaeal - and our genome as an amalgamation of human genes and the genes in ''our'' microbial genomes (''microbiome''). In the same sense, our metabolome can be considered to be a synthesis of co-evolved human and microbial traits. The total number of genes present in the human microbiome likely exceeds the number of our H. sapiens genes by orders of magnitude. Thus, without an understanding of our microbiota and microbiome, it not possible to obtain a complete picture of our genetic diversity and of our normal physiology. Our intestine is home to our largest collections of microbes: bacterial densities in the colon (up to 1 trillion cells/ml of luminal contents) are the highest recorded for any known ecosystem. The vast majority of phylogenetic types in the distal gut microbiota belong to just two divisions (phyla) of the domain Bacteria - the Bacteroidetes and the Firmicutes. Members of eight other divisions have also been identified using culture-independent 16S rRNA gene-based surveys. Metagenomic studies of complex microbial communities residing in our various body habitats are limited by the availability of suitable reference genomes for confident assignment of short sequence reads generated by highly parallel DNA sequencers, and by knowledge of the professions (niches) of community members. Therefore, HGMI, which represents a collaboration between Washington University''s Genome Center and its Center for Genome Sciences, seeks to provide simply annotated, deep draft genome sequences for 100 cultured representatives of the phylogenetic diversity documented by 16S rRNA surveys of the human gut microbiota.

Proper citation: Human Gut Microbiome Initiative (RRID:SCR_008137) Copy   

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