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Published in final edited form as: Cell. 2016 Aug 11;166(4):822–839. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.07.050

Table 2.

Repositories and tools for aging research

Models Description Link/Reference
Yeast Saccharomyces genome database http://www.yeastgenome.org/
Published lifespan data http://lifespandb.sageweb.org/, McCormick et al, Cell Metabolism,2015
Wilcoxon rank sum test to test significance of lifespan differences http://data.kaeberleinlab.org/scripts/ranksum.php
Yeast outgrowth data analyzer (YODA) for chronological lifespan assays http://yoda.sageweb.org/
Information about yeast gene deletion collection http://www-sequence.stanford.edu/group/yeast_deletion_project/deletions3.html
Library of histone mutants (plasmid) (Nakanishi et al., 2008)
Library of histone mutants (integrated) (Dai et al., 2008)
Screen for H3 and H4 residues affecting replicative lifespan (Sen et al., 2015)
Screen for yeast genes affecting replicative lifepsan (McCormick et al., 2015)
Screen for yeast genes affecting chronological lifespan (Powers et al., 2006)
Worm C. elegans information resource https://www.wormbase.org/species/c_elegans#041--10
http://www.wormbook.org/
Genome-wide data in C. elegans http://www.modencode.org/
Published lifespan data http://lifespandb.sageweb.org/
Worm transcriptome data http://spell.caltech.edu:3000/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/IEB/Research/Acembly/index.html?worm
Fly Database for Drosophila genetics and molecular biology http://flybase.org/
http://www.fruitfly.org/
http://www.flymine.org/
Genome wide data in Drosophila http://www.modencode.org/
Published lifespan data http://lifespandb.sageweb.org/
Killifish Killifish genome browser http://africanturquoisekillifishbrowser.org/
Published lifespan data http://lifespandb.sageweb.org/
Normal mouse Mouse genome information http://www.informatics.jax.org/
Mouse ENCODE data http://www.mouseencode.org/data
Published lifespan data http://lifespandb.sageweb.org/
Lifespan of commonly used inbred strains https://www.jax.org/research-and-faculty/research-labs/the-harrison-lab/gerontology/available-data
Premature aging mouse models Targeted allele detail and overall phenotype http://www.informatics.jax.org/marker/MGI:1890508https://techtransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/NCD/20469.html
Long-lived dwarf mouse models Targeted allele detail and overall phenotype http://sageke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2001/1/tg11
Cell cultures Information about different cell types in the ENCODE project http://genome.ucsc.edu/ENCODE/cellTypes.html
Genome wide data on multiple cell types (ENCODE project) https://www.encodeproject.org/
Genome-wide epigenetic studies in human cells and tissues http://www.roadmapepigenomics.org/
Resource for Progeria research http://www.progeriaresearch.org/
https://catalog.coriell.org/
National Institute on Aging’s (NIA) Aged Cell Bank at Coriell https://catalog.coriell.org/