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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)
 Addiction Biobanks:
  • Alcohol
  • Cocaine
  • Oxycodone
• Behavioral & Substance Use
 Disorder Portal (RGD)
• Omics Portal for Addiction Research  (OPAR)
• ZSTAT: Genome-Wide
 Transcriptional Network Architecture
 of Drug Use Disorders

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"
 (table)
• Mouse Phenome Database
• GeneWeaver
• GenomeMUSter

Educational Resources

• Cellular Biology of Addiction Course  (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory:
 Meetings and Courses Program)
• National Institute on Drug Abuse
 (NIDA)

Upcoming Events

CTC-RG 23nd Annual Meeting

Complex Trait Community in collaboration with the Rat Genomics Community

November 8–12, 2026
Location to be announced!

Neuroscience 2026

November 14–18, 2026
Washington, D.C.
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