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• 2nd Annual Retreat for the Center took place October 16-17.

February 9, 2024October 23, 2015 by Oksana Polesskaya

Twenty three Center members and 10 Advisory Board members came to Chicago to hear reports and discuss progress and future  directions.

Visit meeting page for details.

Categories Events
• A paper describing PrediXcan method, by Hae Kyung Im and co-authors, is published in Nature Genetics
• 4th Brain Awareness Day, October 24, 2015

Links & Resources

Rat Genomic Resources and Tools

• RatGTEx portal
• Ratlas snRNA-seq datasets
• PhenoGen Informatics
• Rat genome browser at UCSC mRatBN7.2/rn7
• Rat Genome Database (RGD)
• Rat Genome Project (RGP)
• The Hybrid Rat Diversity Panel (HRDP)

Databases and Addiction Resources

• Center for GWAS in Outbred Rats Database (C-GORD)
• Preclinical Addiction Research Consortium (PARC)
• Omics Portal for Addiction Research (OPAR)
• ZSTAT: Genome-Wide Transcriptional Network Architecture of Drug Use Disorders
• Addiction Biobanks (alcohol, cocaine, and oxycodone)

Genomic and Model Organism Resources

• Rat Resource & Research Center (RRRC) Rat Models
• The Optogenetics and Transgenic Technology Core at NIDA
• GeneNetwork2, a framework for web-based genetics
• Alliance of Genome Resources
• Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI)
• Rat models of human diseases and related phenotypes: a systematic inventory of the causative genes
• Mouse Phenome Database
• GeneWeaver
• GenomeMUSter

Educational Resources

• Cellular Biology of Addiction Course by the Cold Spring Harbor Meeting and Courses program
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Upcoming Events

CTC 2025

10/21/25
Centre for Genomic Regulation - Barcelona, Spain

11th Annual HS Rats Retreat

11/20/25
UC San Diego

Get ready for Ratstock!

11th Annual HS Rats Retreat: November 20, 2025
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