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An interactive computer system that utilizes cell phones and the Internet to collect real-time data about transmission rates of STDs, such as vaginosis among female sex workers, in Peru. This is tracked through the rates of precriptions of Metronidazole, an antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections of the vagina, stomach, skin, joints, and respiratory tract. Data from three communities is stored in an online database that can be accessed over secure Internet connection. This project has demonstrated that it is feasible to develop a public-health-surveillance system based on cell phones to collect data in real-time in Peru.

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A software package for the visualization and statistical analysis of DNA microarray gene expression data. The tools have been developed from the R statistical system, in C and fortran programs and Java applications. They are integrated into Excel as an add-in.

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A visualization tool with microarray data and sample descriptions from the AtGenExpress project, which contains Affymetrix microarray data for Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant related to mustard and cabbage. This plant is used as a model organism in plant biology.

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A service for preparing genetically modified mice and rats for investigators at the University of Michigan. These mice models are typically used to study gene function, gene expression, gene regulation, and for the development of animal models of human disease and gene therapy reagents. TAMC provide access to their micromanipoulation and embryos stem cell workstations along with necessary reagents such as specialized plasmids, embryonic stem (ES) cell lines, FBS, and feeder cells certified for ES cell culture.

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Company focused on animal welfare and pest prevention in the wool industry.

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Health 2.0 embraces the idea of bringing health care into the community of physicians, patients, and those in the health care industry together with technology and the Internet to provide the best possible health care environment.

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A partnership that leads and inspires the world in achieving universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. UNAIDS publishes a new Report on the global AIDS epidemic every two years. The Report draws upon and publishes the best available data from countries and provides an overview and commentary on the epidemic and the international response. UNAIDS fulfills its mission by: :- Uniting the efforts of the United Nations system, civil society, national governments, the private sector, global institutions and people living with and most affected by HIV; :- Speaking out in solidarity with the people most affected by HIV in defense of human dignity, human rights and gender equality; :- Mobilizing political, technical, scientific and financial resources and holding ourselves and others accountable for results; :- Empowering agents of change with strategic information and evidence to influence and ensure that resources are targeted where they deliver the greatest impact and bring about a prevention revolution; and :- Supporting inclusive country leadership for sustainable responses that are integral to and integrated with national health and development efforts. Sponsors: This resource is supported by: Advocacy partners; Civil society; Donors; Global Coalition on Women and AIDS; Global Fund to Fight AIDS TB and Malaria; People living with HIV; Private sector, and UN Family.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 23,2022. The Computational Cancer Genomics (CCG) group is dedicated to the development of analysis tools and databases relating molecular sequences and biological functions. Sponsors: This group is supported by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB).

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Gemina is a web-based system designed to identify infectious pathogens and their representative genomic sequences through selection of associated epidemiology metadata. Gemina supports the development of DNA signature-based assays for the detection of pathogens or sets of pathogen through the Insignia Signature Pipeline at the University of Maryland. Sponsors: This resource is supported by the US Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate. [W81XWH-05-2-005, NBCH2070002].

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The Colour & Vision Research laboratory and database are based at the Institute of Ophthalmology, which is part of University College London. The Institute and CVRL are both closely associated with Moorfields Eye Hospital. The Institute is next door to Moorfields Eye Hospital near Old Street tube station (see directions). At the Colour & Vision Research laboratory, we investigate normal and clinical human visual perception. Our research focuses on questions about colour perception, light and dark adaptation, night-time vision, and the temporal and spatial properties of vision. Our primary goal is to understand the nature of the mechanisms that underlie visual perception, and to understand how those mechanism malfunction in clinical cases. More details about our research can be found by looking at the publications of members of the laboratory. The CVRL database, first set up in 1995, provides an annotated library of downloadable standard data sets relevant to colour and vision research. The focus of this site is primarily scientific and technical, but some introductory background information is also provided. A consistent set of functions for modeling colour vision based on the Stockman & Sharpe cone fundamentals and on our more recent luminous efficiency measurements are summarized under the category CVRL functions. These functions are tabulated in 0.1, 1 and 5 nm steps and can be returned as csv, xml, or tabular data or as dynamic plots. The Stockman & Sharpe cone fundamentals are the basis of a CIE proposal for physiologically-relevant colour matching functions. These functions, which are indentical to the CVRL functions, are summarized under the category CIE 2007 functions. The CIE functions are also tabulated in 0.1, 1 and 5 nm steps, and can also be returned as csv, xml, or tabular data or as dynamic plots. Significant additions to the database are the individual colour matching measurements made by Stiles & Burch. These have been compiled and cross-checked with the help of Boris Oicherman, Alexander Logvinenko, and Abhijit Sarkar from hard copies of the original data provided by Pat Trezona and Mike Webster. They can be obtained as Excel files and are available for both 2 and 10 colour matches. Other data sets, which are provided as csv files, include cone fundamentals, colour matching functions, chromaticity coordinates, prereceptoral filter density spectra, photopigment spectra, and CIE standards. Many of these data sets can also be viewed as dynamic plots. Sponsors: CVRL is funded by BBSRC The Wellcome Trust, Fight for Sight, National Eye Institute, and NIH.

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Program designed to expose students in their first or second year of veterinary school to all phases of biomedical research. This includes development of research ideas, preparation of research proposals, performance of biomedical research, and presentation of research results in written and oral formats. Students perform full time biomedical research during months of June, July, and August, participate in weekly seminars, and present their work in oral, poster, and written presentations. Students also attend the National Merial Scholars Conference. Summer Research Program has existed at Penn Vet since 1990. The program is currently funded by Merial and by an NIH training grant. Other sources of support include funds from the office of the dean, the four departmental chairs and the Marie Lowe Cancer Center. Students present poster of their work at the conference. In September, students prepare a written manuscript of their work in the form of a research paper. The following March, all participating students submit their work to the Penn Veterinary Student Research Day. Non-Penn Vet students can receive up to an additional $500 for relocation costs and will be offered reasonably priced housing options for the summer. It is anticipated that 18-24 students will be funded each year.

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SUPREP MODEL LEARNING is a standardized credit earning academic exchange program that enables a student from any third world countries or technologically deficient institutions around the world, to attend and earn credits from the best traditional recognized accredited institutions globally, in which the credits earned are transferred to the home institution or SUPREP agency for aggregation towards successful graduation. :The goal of this program is to facilitate bringing students from the third world to reputable undergraduate and graduate neuroscience programs. Additionally, this program also aims t o grant Third World Neuroscience students Academic exchange programs worldwide.

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CPODES is a numerical integrator for solving multibody dynamics problems using coordinate projection. It is based on the CVODES integrator which is part of the DOE Sundials suite. It is a multistep integrator providing variable order Adams (up to 12th order) and BDF (up to 5th order) methods for non-stiff problems and BDF (up to 5th order) for stiff problems. It uses CVODES to advance the ODE, and then performs coordinate projection back to the constraint manifold to exactly solve the DAE. The projection is also incorporated back into the error test where it permits larger steps. Binaries of this software are bundled with other SimTK Core modules.

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A versatile 1D, 2D and 3D data viewer geared for cross-platform visualization of stereotactic brain data. It is a 3-D viewer that allows volumetric data display and manipulation of axial, sagittal and coronal views. It reads Analyze, Raw-binary and NetCDF volumetric data, as well as, Multi-Contour Files (MCF), LWO/LWS surfaces, atlas hierarchical brain-region labelings ( Brain Trees). It is a portable Java-based software, which only requires a Java interpreter and a 64 MB of RAM memory to run on any computer architecture. LONI_Viz allows the user to interactively overlay and browse through several data volumes, zoom in and out in the axial, sagittal and coronal views, and reports the intensities and the stereo-tactic voxel and world coordinates of the data. Expert users can use LONI_Viz to delineate structures of interest, e.g., sulcal curves, on the 3 cardinal projections of the data. These curves then may be use to reconstruct surfaces representing the topological boundaries of cortical and sub-cortical regions of interest. The 3D features of the package include a SurfaceViewer and a full real-time VolumeRenderer. These allow the user to view the relative positions of different anatomical or functional regions which are not co-planar in any of the axial, sagittal or coronal 2D projection planes. The interactive part of LONI_Viz features a region drawing module used for manual delineation of regions of interest. A series of 2D contours describing the boundary of a region in projection planes (axial, sagittal or coronal) could be used to reconstruct the surface-representation of the 3D outer shell of the region. The latter could then be resliced in directions complementary to the drawing-direction and these complementary contours could be loaded in all tree cardinal views. In addition the surface object could be displayed using the SurfaceViewer. A pre-loading data crop and sub-sampling module allows the user to load and view practically data of any size. This is especially important when viewing cryotome, histological or stained data-sets which may reach 1GB (109 bytes) in size. The user could overlay several pre-registered volumes, change intensity colors and ranges and the inter-volume opacities to visually inspect similarities and differences between the different subjects/modalities. Several image-processing aids provide histogram plotting, image-smoothing, etc. Specific Features: * Region description DataBase * Moleculo-genetic database * Brain anatomical data viewer * BrainMapper tool * Surface (LightWave objects/scenes) and Volume rendering tools * Interactive Contour Drawing tool Implementation Issues: * Applet vs. Application - the software is available as both an applet and a standalone application. The former could be used to browse data from within the LONI database, however, it imposes restrictions on file-size, Internet connection and network-bandwidth and client/server file access. The later requires a local install and configuration of the LONI_Viz software * Extendable object-oriented code (Java), computer architecture independent * Complete online software documentation is available at http://www.loni.ucla.edu/LONI_Viz and a Java-Class documentation is available at http://www.loni.ucla.edu/~dinov/LONI_Vis.dir/doc/LONI_Viz_Java_Docs.html

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on February 28,2023. C++ long-read aligner for PacBio reads.

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A database for maternal gene expression information for ascidia, colloquially known as sea squirts. Information available includes DNA sequences, expression patterns of ESTs, and cDNA data from uncleaved fertilized eggs. The goal is to utilize the database to understand molecular mechanisms of establishment of embryonic body plans of chordates and to understand evolution from invertebrates to vertebrates in the future.

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This website contains a lot of images and slides of the nervous system. Most images are of the central nervous system histology and peripheral nervous system histology. Computation Neuroscience

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A division of the Stanford University Libraries, which produces the online versions of journals and other scholarly content.

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A database of conserved sequence elements, identified by a systematic genomic sequence comparison between a set of human genes involved in the pathogenesis of genetic disorders and their murine counterparts. Human and mouse genomic sequences were compared by BLASTZ. Sequences longer than 100 and with identity better than 70 were selected as CSTs and imported into the database. CSTs are extensively annotated with respect to exon/intron structure and other biological parameters. CST counterparts in other species were identified by using BLAST to scan genomes from other species, and selecting on the basis of homology and co-linearity. The database can be accessed by gene, chromosomal location, graphic browser, DNA features, and coding regions.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 16, 2013. This database is intended to serve as a learning tool to obtain curated information for the design of microarray targets to scan collecting duct tissues (human, rat, mouse). The database focuses on regulatory and transporter proteins expressed in the collecting duct, but when collecting duct proteins are a member of a larger family of proteins, common additional members of the family are included even if they have not been demonstrated to be expressed in the collecting duct. An Internet-accessible database has been devised for major collecting duct proteins involved in transport and regulation of cellular processes. The individual proteins included in this database are those culled from literature searches and from previously published studies involving cDNA arrays and serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE). Design of microarray targets for the study of kidney collecting duct tissues is facilitated by the database, which includes links to curated base pair and amino acid sequence data, relevant literature, and related databases. Use of the database is illustrated by a search for water channel proteins, aquaporins, and by a subsequent search for vasopressin receptors. Links are shown to the literature and to sequence data for human, rat, and mouse, as well as to relevant web-based resources. Extension of the database is dynamic and is done through a maintenance interface. This permits creation of new categories, updating of existing entries, and addition of new ones. CDDB is a database that organizes lists of genes found in collecting duct tissues from three mammalian species: human, rat, and mouse. Proteins are divided into categories by family relationships and functional classification, and each category is assigned a section in the database. Each section includes links to the literature and to sequence information for genes, proteins, expressed sequence tags, and related information. The user can peruse a section or use a search engine at the bottom of the web page to search the database for a name or abbreviation or for a link to a sequence. Each entry in the database includes links to relevant papers in the kidney and collecting duct literature. It uses links to PubMed to generate MEDLINE searches for retrieval of references. In addition, each entry includes links to curated sequence data available in LocusLink. Individual links are made to sequence and protein data for human, rat, and mouse. Links are then added as curated sequences become available for proteins identified in the renal collecting duct and for proteins identified in kidney and similar in function or homologous to proteins identified in the collecting duct.

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