Science Resources

Commercial Resources

• Ambion
• AmershamPharmacia Biotech
• Bio-Rad
• BioSupplyNet
• Boehringer-Mannheim
• Continental Lab Products
• Daigger - general lab supplies
• Davis Sequencing
• Diversified Biotech
• Dynal - maker of Dynabeads for mRNA isolation
• Enzo
• Epicentre
• Eppendorf
• Eppendorf 5 Prime
• Fisher Scientific
• Glen Research - DNA research components
• Interactiva - oligo synthesis
• Invitrogen
• LabX - sells used lab equipment
• Life Technologies (Gibco BRL)
• MILLIPORE Corporation
• Molecular Probes
• New England Biolabs (NEB)
• Operon
• Promega Corporation Home Page
• Qiagen
• Research Genetics Home Page
• Sigma-Aldrich
• SPI Supplies electron microscopy supplies
• Stratagene
• TriLink Biotechnologies - oligo synthesis and labeling
• Vector Laboratories - visualization reagents
• VWR
• WebOligos - online oligo supplier from Eos biotech
• A compilation of online resources such as company catalogs, etc.

Science Journals/Publishers/Societies [Back to the Top]

• Medline Searches
  • Evaluated MEDLINE from Biomednet - direct import into EndNote
  • PubMed
  • Internet Grateful Med
  • PubCrawler - update alerting service for PubMed and GenBank
  • Medline Workbench from CSHL
• Signals - online biotech magazine
• HMSBeagle has science news
• BioMedNet library
• UC's Melvyl system
• Web of Science - includes citation index search
• PubMed Central - free online journals
• Journals
  • BioTechniques - online articles delayed
  • Biotechnology et alia - internet-only journal; free online access
  • Canadian Journal of Botany
  • Cell
  • Current Opinions - multiple journals; free online access (requires free BioMedNet account)
  • Development
  • Developmental Biology - free online access (requires free BioMedNet account)
  • EMBO Journal
  • Genes and Development
  • Genetics
  • Genome Research
  • Genomics
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Journal of Cell Biology
  • Nature
  • Nature Biotechnology
  • Nature Genetics
  • Nature Medicine
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Plant Cell
  • The Plant Journal
  • Plant Molecular Biology
  • Plant Physiology
  • PNAS
  • Science
  • Sexual Plant Reproduction
  • Trends in Biotechnology
  • Trends in Genetics
• Publishers/Societies
  • AAAS
  • Blackwell Science
  • Cell Press
  • Elsevier Science
  • FASEB - Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
  • British Society of Plant Pathology
  • Highwire - electronic publishers of Science, Cell, and many others
  • Science Direct
  • Society for Developmental Biology
  • The Company of Biologists

Institution Pages [Back to the Top]

• NSF
• NIH
• National Academy of Sciences
• The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) has databases
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) has several databases
• European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) has databases and allows for online sequence data submission.
• National Library of Medicine WWW server (aka HyperDOC)
• Cold Spring Harbor (CLIO)
• American Institute of Biological Sciences
• Scripps Research Institute
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Research Tools [Back to the Top]

Biology-related Software

• Home of NIH Image
• Map Manager WWW page and Online Instruction Manual: free genetic mapping software
• eBioinformatics
• Softsearch: for searching bio-related software
• The home of PHYLIP (Phylogeny Inference Package version)
• Genetics Computer Group (GCG): general info about the company and its software
• Visual Genomics BSML browser
• Life Science Software -

Genome/Sequence related tools

• Database Searches:
  • Entrez - from NCBI; easiest to use
  • Sequence Retrieval System - searches over 80 databases
  • DBGET - searches about 20 databases
• Sequence Searches:
  • BLAST Search from NCBI
  • INCA - Java applet that performs reiterative BLAST or FASTA searches
  • BLOCKS is for sequence searches
• Primer Design:
  • Alkami - list of primer design web sites
  • NetPrimer - analyzes individual primers
  • Oligo Calculator - analyzes individual primers and primer pairs
  • Oligos U Like - picks PCR and sequencing primers from a sequence string
  • Primer3 - picks PCR and sequencing primers from a sequence string (source code available)
  • Web Primer - picks PCR and sequencing primers from a sequence string
• Clone Databases:
  • UniGene subset of GenBank
  • TIGR database
  • IMAGEne human clone database
  • ATCC - for ordering clones
• Sequence Alignment:
  • Online pairwise sequence alignment tool
  • Another sequence alignment tool
  • 2 Sequence BLAST - from NCBI
• Human Gene Expression Index
• BioToolKit - front end to many online services
• Biology Workbench
• Guide To Moecular Biology Databases (~65K) (not hypertext and somewhat outdated)
• Vector Database
• BCM Search Launcher is a front end for various database searches
• BCM Gene Finder searches for splice sites and protein coding exons
• The ExPASy Molecular Biology Server for the analysis of protein and DNA sequences.
• The BioMolecular Engineering Research Center has protein search tools
• EMBL PredictProtein is for predicting protein structure
• Hopkins Bio-Informatics is a list of Bio-Web servers and has links to protein/DNA databases
• GeneCards - concise, comprehensive summary of human gene information

Other Science Tools

• Confocal microscopy manual for use with NIH Image
• NetMul - for multivariate analysis
• Scanning FAQ gives lots of good advice on scanning
• Pedro's Research Tools is a somewhat disorganized list of WWW research tools
• NCSA Computational Biology
• GFP page
• Molecular Biology Protocols

Genome Projects [Back to the Top]

• LocusLink - unified resource for genetic loci information
• Genethon: French human genome project.
• Japaneese GenomeNet contains info on teh human genome, along with other genomes
• Whitehead Institute (MIT) Center for Genome Research
• Cooperative Human Linkage Center
• NCGR including the Genome Sequence Database for entering sequence. *
• Saccharomyces Genomic Information Resource
• Pat Brown's microarray page
• NHGRI microarray page
• Molecular Pattern Recognition software from Whitehead Inst. Genome Center
• Microarray.org - general microarray site from Joe DeRisi
• Gene-Chips.com - general microarray site
• Mouse Gene Expression Database from the Jackson Laboratory

Arabidopsis/Plant Info

• The Arabidopsis thaliana Database at Stanford contains links to most of the following sources plus others.
• AIMS(Arabidopsis Information Management System) for searching, ordering and checking the order history of stocks.
• Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre for ordering seeds
• The Arabidopsis thaliana Genome Center at the University of Penn (Ecker lab) contains SSLP and physical map data
• A.thaliana gene functions listed by chromosome; info from AtDB; compiled by Japanese genome project
• Arabidopsis mutant info from the Meinke Lab
• Lehle Seed catalog and other Arabidopsis information
• Plant Genome Database Collaboration
• Plant Genome Information at the National Agiculture Library (USDA) - various species databases including a web interface for Arabidopsis
• Arabidopsis cDNA Sequence Analysis Project
• FlowerBase - plant reproductive development
• Internet Directory for Botany - from Univ. of Regina, Canada
• Plant families of Southern California
• WWW Virtual Library: Botany
• Treezilla
• CSUBIOWEB Fruit Key
• Flower/Ovule Development labs:Gasser, Haughn, Meyerowitz, Schneitz, Yanofsky, and Weigel

Other Science Resources [Back to the Top]

• BioMedLink - search biology-related sites
• BioSci Archives
• DNALinks
• GrantsNet - searchable database for biomedical grants by AAAS and HHMI
• CSU-BIOWEB is a list of WWW Biology teaching and research resources
• Biological Sciences Educational Resources has a hodge-podge of interesting links
• Martindale's Reference Desk
• Microscopy Page has links to all sorts of microscopy resources
• The Tree of Life is a clickable phylogeny tree
• The Zebrafish Server
• Interactive Fly - all you ever wanted to know about Drosophila
• Bio-wURLd is a searchable user-maintained list of bio-urls
• The Virtual Embryo
• WWW Virtual Library: Developmental Biology
• Cell and Molecular Biology Online - useful links
• MSDSs from the Univ. of Vermont
• Photocam CAD Spectra

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