Every four hours, scientists publish a research paper about autism, but how can this enormous volume of research help you? We have an app for that. Brought to you by a team of interdisciplinary scientists, the Autism Decoder app is a new mobile interface that describes the latest autism research findings in easy-to-understand
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Category Archives: News: Product Launch
Updates to Autism Quiz App
To spread public knowledge of autism, we recently created a social media application (“app”) which allows the general public to share facts about autism with friends. Freely available on iTunes, our Autism Quiz app features four challenging quizzes: Basic, Advanced, In the News, and Misconceptions. We have now
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Public Launch of Autism Reading Room
Our new outreach website, Autism Reading Room, will be publicly released on April 15, 2012. Designed to enhance public understanding of autism research, Autism Reading Room is explains scientific advances in autism to a general audience. Its mission is to assist affected families in understanding their diagnosis, introduce the field
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Public Release of SFARI Gene 2.0
Public release of SFARI Gene 2.0, featuring a new integrated interface and two new modules: CNV and Gene Scoring
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Autism Quiz App Released
To enhance public knowledge of autism, we have created a social media application (“app”) called Autism Quiz which allows the general public to share facts about autism with friends. Freely available on iTunes, our Autism Quiz app features four challenging quizzes: Beginner, Advanced, In the News, and Misconceptions.
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Public release of Protein Interaction (PIN) module,
Public release of Protein Interaction (PIN) module, a database of direct protein interactions for all known autism candidate genes.
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AutDB Animal Model module published
MindSpec published a description of the AutDB Animal Model module in BMC Medical Genomics. This module provides a comprehensive resource of ASD-related animal models which are linked to corresponding candidate genes in the original Human Gene module. Notably, animal models are annotated with a new standardized vocabulary of phenotypic terms
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Animal Module Released
AutDB offers a new Animal Model module that stores information for any human autism-linked genes studied in an animal model such as mouse, which provides a framework for studying how a gene functions.
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Public Launch of AutDB
Initial launch of AutDB with release of the Human Gene module, a database which compiles information for all known autism candidate genes
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