Useful Links

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Science Links

Academic Associations and Socities
Life Science Journals
Organizations and Resources

Toxicology

Molecular Structures

ASPET

Consumer Drug Sites

General Internet Bio Resources

(adapted from Harvard University Dept. Molecular and Cell Biology
Biology Links)

• Biosciences Virtual Library
• University of Geneva (ExPASy)
• Links2Go: Biology
• Bio Netbook(Institut Pasteur)
• National Institutes of Health
• National Center for Biotechnology Information(NCBI)
• Genamics.com
• Cell & Molecular Biology Online

Banks and Tables

• NCBI Entrez
• Protein Data Bank(PDB)
• Periodic Table of the Elements
• Submit your DNA sequence to GenBank with BankIt
• Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
• Vector db-- a database containing commonly used vectors in molecular biology
• Codon Usage Tablesfor >450 species!

Selected Model Organism Databases

• The Arabidopsis Information Resoruce  - TAIR
• C.elegans
• Drosophila -- FlyBase
• Human
  • Genome Data Base& On-line Mendelian Inheritance in Man
• Mouse
  • Mouse Genome Informatics, Jackson Labratory
  • Portable Dictionary of the Mouse Genome
• Prokaryotes
  • Bacillus subtilis -Subtilist, NRSub
  • Escherichia coli
    • Institut Pasteur's Colibri
    • Stocks (CGSC)
    • E.coli Data Collection (ECDC)
    • dam, dcm and mut strains
  • The Institute for Genomic Research - TIGR  
  • M. tuberculosis
• XREF  a model organism genetics cross-reference 
• Yeasts-- Saccharomyces Genome Project

Selected Other Biological Databases

• SeqAnalRef-- a bibliography on sequence analysis  
• REBASE, the restriction enzyme database
• BIOSCI
  • BIOSCI/bionet- Electronic News

Biological Software Directories

• List of On-line and E-mail Molecular Biology Services
• BioCatalog of molecular biology/genetics software

  GCG Software Documentation

More Links

The Pasteur Institute's Search Service

• Bioinformatics
  • Bioinformatics Resource
  • Bioinformatik.de
• Botany
• Biotechnology
• Developmental Biology
• Entomology
• Fish, and other Aquatic Animals
• Genetics
• Medicine
  • Pharmacy
  • Veterinary Medicine
• Mycology(Fungi)
• Neurobiology
• Physiology and Biophysics
• Chemistry