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The R package multiMiR, with web server is a comprehensive collection of predicted and validated miRNA-target interactions and their associations with diseases and drugs. Within this database, investigators can find clues to potential new treatments for various diseases, including cancer. In addition to helping researchers search for relationships between microRNAs and their genetic targets, multiMiR includes drugs that affect these microRNAs and lists associated diseases.The database combines nearly 50 million records from 14 microRNA data repositories. It also links to research results. Researchers can input names of microRNAs, genes, drugs, diseases, or any combination. Then they can ask the database for validated or predicted genetic targets of microRNAs, or for validated or predicted microRNAs that regulate specific genes (M Fillon, JNCI 106, issue 12, News 3, 2014) Registration not required.
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The database provides enhancer annotation in nine species, including human (hg19), mouse (mm9), fly (dm3), worm (ce10), zebrafish (danRer10), rat (rn5), yeast (sacCer3), chicken (galGal4), and boar (susScr3)(Andersson et al.Nature 507,455–461, 2014, Gao & Qian, Nucleic Acids Research, 48, D58, 2020). Registration not required.
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From Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research. Program provides postdoctoral scholars with a unique opportunity to perform innovative, fundamental research in a pharmaceutical setting. Postdocs design and conduct their research with guidance from a principal investigator at Novartis, and an academic advisor where appropriate. Topics cover several topics vary from cancer research to immunology, regenerative medicine etc. Registration required.
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IARC awards between eight to eleven new fellowships per year, depending on availability of funds. Fellowships are tenable at the IARC in Lyon, France working in a research Group. Applicants are eligible from any country. The IARC is particularly keen to promote the development of expertise in cancer research in low- and medium-resource countries by training postdoctoral researchers from these countries who can return to apply their new skills and expertise. Registration required.
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The EMBL International PhD Programme, originally established in 1983, represents the flagship of EMBL's commitment to first class training and education. Registration not required.
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The International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences: From Biology to Medicine, (IMPRS-LS), jointly conducted by Munich based Max Planck Institutes and Universities, is an internationally recognized center of scientific and educational excellence. Registration required.
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RxC table concerns a basic two dimensional crosstable procedure. The statistical tests include Chi-squares, Gamma, Tau, Lambda, Kappa/Bowker. Formatting table and graphs are allowed. Registration not required.
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Although addressed to pet rats, this web site is filled up with behavioural, physiological and health issues that can be of help to researchers working with laboratory rats. Registration not required.
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In the effort to test the reproducibility of academic research using independent laboratories, The goal of the SC Reproducibility Committee is to encourage and promote reproducible research within the SC community. Registration required.
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Skyline is a freely-available, open-source Windows client application for building Selected Reaction Monitoring (SRM) / Multiple Reaction Monitoring (MRM), Parallel Reaction Monitoring (PRM - Targeted MS/MS and DIA/SWATH) and targeted DDA with MS1 quantitative methods and analyzing the resulting mass spectrometer data.Skyline helps users select peptides and transitions based on mass spectra from their own experiments or imported from public proteomics data repositories (MacLean et al., Bioinformatics 2010; 26:966). Registration required.
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SRMAtlas is a database of selected reaction monitoring (SRM) transitions and mass spectra derived from synthetic peptides created for SRM assay development and analyzed on the types of mass spectrometers most frequently used for SRM/MRM experiments— triple quadrupole, Orbitrap, and quadrupole–time-offlight instruments. Users can search SRMAtlas using a protein accession number or peptide sequence, or by uploading a text file containing a list of protein names or peptide sequences Registration not required.
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The Bionimbus Protected Data Cloud (PDC), developed at the University of Chicago, is an open-source cloud-based infrastructure for managing, analyzing, and sharing large amounts of genomics and phenotypic data in a secure and compliant manner. Bionimbus is part of a larger project called the Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC) and there is a version of Bionimbus (Bionimbus Community Cloud) for open-access data and a version for controlled-access data (Bionimbus PDC). Bionimbus is based primarily upon OpenStack, which manages on-demand virtual machines that provide the required computational resources, and GlusterFS, which is a high-performance clustered file system (Heath et al., J Am Med Inform Assoc 0:1–7, 2014). Registration required.
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This site provides an interactive short course on experimental design for research scientists working with laboratory animals. The aim is to reduce the number of animals which are used, improve the quality of the science and save time, money and other scientific resources. Registration not required.
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Bioconductor provides tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data. Bioconductor uses the R statistical programming language and most bioconductor components are distributed as R packages, which are add-on modules for R. It is open source and open development. Boconductor core team is based primarily at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioconductor) Registration not required.
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Stan is a probabilistic programming language implementing statistical inference with Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling (NUTS, HMC) and ptimization-based point estimation (BFGS) Stan interfaces with the most popular data analysis languages (R, Python, shell, MATLAB, Julia, Stata) and runs on all major platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows).Stan is freedom-respecting, open-source software. Registration not required.
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Online Statistics, an interactive multimedia course of study ideated by David Lnae of Rice University, is a resource for learning and teaching introductory statistics. It contains material presented in textbook format and as video presentations. This resource features interactive demonstrations and simulations, case studies, and an analysis lab. Registration not required.
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TumorPortal, developed and maintained by the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, hosts a ‘pan-cancer’ data set from several tumor types. It provides visualization of computationally processed gene information. It shows which genes are mutated in many tumor samples and types. Registration not required.
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The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal provides visualization and analysis for working with data from TCGA and other data sets and provides download of large-scale cancer genomics data sets. You can query this user-friendly portals maintained by the Computational Biology Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center by entering the name of one or more genes. The output is a list of cancer studies of different tumor types; click on a study, and then on View Cancer Study Details, to call up a graphic—referred to as an “oncoprint”—that represents the frequency of genomic alterations. Registration not required.
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FANTOM is a large international consortium led by Japanese RIKEN that releases the first comprehensive map of gene activity across the human body. FANTOM5 has been mapping which genes are active in virtually all cell types across the human body, and the regions which determine where the genes are read from the genome. An associated data processing and visualization web system, Zenbu, enables researchers to quickly and easily integrate, visualize and compare large amounts of genomic information resulting from large-scale, next-generation sequencing experiments. Registration not required.
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The Vienna Biocenter PhD programme in Molecular Life Sciences is a programme for talented and highly motivated students of any nationality that covers a range of topics in modern biological sciences, including gene regulation, cell division, neural circuits, and evolutionary genomics. Registration required.
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