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Genome Information: Rats and Mice


Rat Strains and Resources

  • Rat Candidate SNP Database, Cuppen Group(http://cascad.niob.knaw.nl/) Exit NIEHS
    Investigates genetic variation (single nucleotide polymorphisms/SNPs) in relation to biological (functional) consequences and transcriptional regulatory networks
     
  • Rat Resource and Research Center(http://www.nrrrc.missouri.edu/) Exit NIEHS
    Establishes a center for distributing high quality, well characterized inbred, hybrid and mutant rats to investigators
     
  • National Bio-resource Project for the Rat in Japan(http://www.anim.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NBR/) Exit NIEHS
    Facilitates the availability of genetically and phenotypically standardized rat strains for experimental research
     
  • Biome Rat Resources(http://bioresearch.ac.uk/browse/mesh/C0034693L0034693.html) Exit NIEHS
    Provides information on rat genetic and genomic activities and resources, which includes rat databases, genomic tools, courses and scientific meetings, reports and publications, and funding opportunities.

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Genome Resources

  • University of Southern California, Genome Bioinformatics(http://genome.ucsc.edu/) Exit NIEHS
    This site contains the reference sequence and working draft assemblies for a large collection of genomes
     
  • The Institute for Genome Research(http://www.tigr.org/) Exit NIEHS
    Structural, functional and comparative analysis of genomes and gene products from a wide variety of organisms
     
  • NCBI, National Center for Bioinformatics Information(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) Exit NIEHS
    NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information
     
  • Rat Genome, EnsEMBL(http://www.ensembl.org/Rattus_norvegicus/) Exit NIEHS
    The Rat Genome project is an international collaboration to sequence the genome of the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)
     
  • Mouse Genome, EnsEMBL(http://www.ensembl.org/Mus_musculus/) Exit NIEHS
    The Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium is a joint project to provide the Mouse genome sequence to the world.

Toxicogenomics Databases

  • CEBS, Chemical Effects in Biological Systems(http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/databases/cebs/index.cfm)
    Knowledge base for genomic, proteomic and metabonomic studies on chemicals
     
  • ArrayTrack, NCTR(http://www.fda.gov/nctr/science/centers/toxicoinformatics/ArrayTrack/index.htm) Exit NIEHS
    ArrayTrack is an integrated software system for managing, mining, and visualizing microarray gene expression data
     
  • HESI Committee for the Application of Genomics to Risk Assessment(http://hesi.ilsi.org/index.cfm?pubentityid=120) Exit NIEHS
    An effort to develop a collaborative scientific program to address issues, challenges and opportunities afforded by the emerging field of toxicogenomics.

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Omics Standards Intiatives

  • MGED, Microarray Gene Expression Data(http://www.mged.org/) Exit NIEHS
    The Microarray Gene Expression Data (MGED) Society aims to facilitate the sharing of microarray data generated by functional genomics and proteomics experiments
     
  • PSI, Protein Standards Initiative(http://psidev.sf.net/) Exit NIEHS
    The HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI) defines community standards for data representation in proteomics to facilitate data comparision, exchange and verification
     
  • SMRS, the Standard Metabonomics Reporting Structure(http://www.smrsgroup.org/) Exit NIEHS
    Recommendation for an open standard for reporting metabolic data is in progress.

Biological/Toxicological Data Standards


Pathology/Phenotypes

  • Pathology Ontology, European Mutant Mouse(http://eulep.anat.cam.ac.uk/Pathology_Ontology/index.php) Exit NIEHS
    Provide a searchable database of histopathology images derived from genetically manipulated mice
     
  • SNOMED, Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine(http://www.snomed.org/) Exit NIEHS
    A division of the College of American Pathologists, focusing on patient care through the delivery of SNOMED and terminology and implementation support products and services
     
  • Mouse Phenome Database(http://aretha.jax.org/pub-cgi/phenome/mpdcgi?rtn=docs/home) Exit NIEHS
    A collection of phenotypic and genotypic data for the laboratory mouse.

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Ontology Efforts

  • MGED MAGE Ontology(http://mged.sourceforge.net/ontologies/index.php) Exit NIEHS
    Developing an ontology for describing samples used in microarray experiments
     
  • Ontology Review(http://mged.sourceforge.net/ontologies/MKreview.html) Exit NIEHS
    Review of the clinical vocabularies
     
  • SOFG Mouse Ontology Resources(http://www.sofg.org/resources/mouse.html) Exit NIEHS
    Standards and Ontologies for Functional Genomics (for mouse)

Toxicology Data

  • National Toxicology Program(http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/) Exit NIEHS
    Database for NTP Testing Information and Study Results
     
  • Endocrine Disruptor Knowledge Base (EDKB)(http://edkb.fda.gov/) Exit NIEHS
    Biological activity database, relevant literature citations, computational models, and ultimately, models for risk assessment
     
  • ToxNet(http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/) Exit NIEHS
    Cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas
     
  • DSSTox-Distributed Structure-Searchable Toxicity(http://www.epa.gov/nheerl/dsstox/) Exit NIEHS
    Community forum for publishing standard format, structure-annotated chemical toxicity data files for open public access.

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Model Organisms/Homologies

  • Generic Model Organism Construction Set(http://www.gmod.org/) Exit NIEHS
    Develop a complete set of software for creating and administering a model organism database
     
  • Homologene, NCBI(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=homologene) Exit NIEHS
    System for automated detection of homologs among the annotated genes of several completely sequenced eukaryotic genomes
     
  • Cross Species Anatomy Network, XSPAN(http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/xspan/) Exit NIEHS
    Support cross-species access to tissue-based genetic information through the development of an internet-based cross-species anatomy network.

Genetics, Pharmacogenetics

  • PharmGKB Knowledgebase(http://www.pharmgkb.org/index.jsp) Exit NIEHS
    Integrated resource about how variation in human genes leads to variation in our response to drugs
     
  • Environmental Genomics Project(http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/programs/egp/index.cfm) Exit NIEHS
    Improve understanding of human genetic susceptibility to environmental exposures
     
  • Gene Network, University of Tennessee(http://www.genenetwork.org/) Exit NIEHS
    WebQTL: Web-based complex trait analysis for mouse.

Functional Genomics, Systems Biology

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Omics Data Resources

  • NCT Microarray Group(http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/atniehs/core/mg/index.cfm)
    description of the technology as it exists at the NIEHS, how microarray technology can be applied to studies in environmental health, some sample data
     

Additional Links

  • Unified Medical Language System(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/) Exit NIEHS
    Develops and distributes multi-purpose, electronic Knowledge Sources and associated lexical programs for system developers
     
  • BioMart(http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomart) Exit NIEHS
    A simple, distributed data integration system with powerful query capabilities
     
  • Bioconductor(http://www.bioconductor.org/) Exit NIEHS
    Open source and open development software project to provide tools for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data (bioinformatics)
     
  • Directory of Units of Measurement(http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html) Exit NIEHS
    A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
     
  • NCBI cross database query(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/gquery.fcgi) Exit NIEHS
    The Life Sciences Search Engine

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Last Reviewed: June 29, 2007