Tutorials

• Metabolic Pathways MiniMaps by Donald Nicholson and Andrew G. McDonanld http://www.tcd.ie/Biochemistry/IUBMB-Nicholson/
• Video: The Inner Life of the Cell (3:09) by Viel, Lue, and Liebler.
• More cell biology videos from Harvard: http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/
• The BioTech web site of Indiana University and University of Texas Austin contains Biology tutorials and useful links.
• The THCME Medical Biochemistry Page by Dr. Michael W. King at Indiana University School of Medicine, Terre Haute http://web.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/home.html;
• The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory hosts the DNA Learning Center
• Bioinformatics tutorial and links by John D. Furber.
• What's a Genome? is a tutorial by Celera Genomics.
• New Science Press, a member of the Current Science Group, produces books for undergraduates and research professionals in biomedical science at a time when there is an increasing need for up-to-date authoritative synthesis in the face of a rapidly increasing volume of information. Projects include the Primers in Biology series. http://www.new-science-press.com/
• Metabolic Pathways Chart by Donald Nicholson, is available as a free PDF download from Sigma-Aldrich.
• Genetics on the Web is a site to complement the textbook Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes by Hartl and Jones.
• W.H. Freeman textbook companion web site provides supplemental information to complement their textbooks in Biology, Genetics, and Biochemistry, including Molecular Cell Biology by Lodish, Berk, Zipursky, Matsudaira, Baltimore, and Darnell.
• All the Virology on the WWW contains instructional materials and links related to viruses and virology compiled by David Sander.
• Gene Expression Analysis with Microarrays tutorial by John D. Furber.
• Molecular Structure Determination and Imaging tutorial by John D. Furber.
• Clinical trials and Searching the medical literature tutorial and links compiled by John D. Furber.

Biomedical Research References & Tools

• PubMed provides access to the Medline database of Biomedical journal articles maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
• Online medical dictionaries from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/dictionaries.html
• The Dictionary of Cell & Molecular Biology JM Lackie & JAT Dow (1999, Third edition). Academic Press, London. Allows occassional use for free. http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/~julian/
• OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders maintained by Johns Hopkins University and the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information.
• NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information provides access to sequence analysis tools, the GenBank sequence databases, the OMIM database, and Medline PubMed. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
• The National Biotechnology Information Facility at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, has 7000 annotated and categorized biotechnology links.
• Amos' WWW Links Page has links to many other information sources for life scientists with an interest in biological macromolecules. Compiled by Amos Bairoch.
• The World Health Organization (WHO) Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response web site.
• The San Diego Supercomputer Center CMS-SDSC Molecular Biology Resource (Parent site. Many mirrors are available.) "This website is a compendium of electronic and Internet-accessible tools and resources for Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Molecular Evolution, Biochemistry, and Biomolecular Modeling." http://www.sdsc.edu/ResTools/cmshp.html
• NCI Cancerlit Database - National Cancer Institute http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/
• American Association of Immunologists http://www.scienceXchange.com/aai/
• American Society for Cell Biology http://www.ascb.org/
• BioProtocol edited database of lab protocols.
• Protocol Online links to Biology and Biochemistry lab methods and protocols from many sources.
• Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools (March 1996) http://www.public.iastate.edu/~pedro/research_tools.html
• Northwest Fisheries Science Center (U.S. NOAA) links http://research.nwfsc.noaa.gov/bioinformatics.html
• The Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS) is the primary scientific society fostering research on the basic mechanisms of mutagenesis as well as on the application of this knowledge in the field of genetic toxicology.
• Mitochondria links compiled by John D. Furber

Bioinformatics, Genomics, and Proteomics

• Bioinformatics is the scientific discipline of discovering biological functions through analysis of molecular sequence information from DNA, RNA, or proteins. Tutorial and links by John D. Furber.
• Celera Genomics is a private corporation doing large-scale genomic sequencing of human, mouse, and fly genomes to develop commercial databases of sequences and SNPs. To demo the system, click http://www.accelerate.celera.com

Developmental Biology, Anatomy, and Aging

• SDB - Society for Developmental Biology http://sdb.bio.purdue.edu/
• The Virtual Embryo - University of Calgary Developmental Biology http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~browder/
• NetFrog The Interactive Frog Dissection: An Online Tutorial.
• Aging and Longevity research review and links compiled by John D. Furber.
• Growth and Form: Science and Art at the Wellcome Trust Two 10 Gallery in London http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/misexhtwo.html
• Botany Online http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/biologie/b_online/e00/contents.htm
• Australian Museum Fish Site http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes

Cell Signaling, Hormones, and Phosphorylation

• Science's Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment
• The Protein Kinase Resource at UCSD http://pkr.sdsc.edu/html/index.shtml. The comprehensive list of PK sequences is updated monthly.
• The Phosphoprotein Database (PPDB) promotes a systematic approach to the study of cellular protein phosphorylation, in order to transform 2D gel images from mere collections of spots into images that convey information about cell lineage, the activation state of the cell, the ligands that the cell has encountered, the kinases, phosphatases and substrates present in the cell, and the activation state of these enzymes.
• The Signal Transduction research web site of the Samuel Luenfeld Research Institute at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto features the work of Tony Pawson's lab.

Suppliers

• Chemdex
• Fisher Scientific
• ICN Biomedical Research Products
• The Molecular Probes web site displays information on fluorescent markers for Cell Biology research.
• Sigma-Aldrich.com

Journals and News

• Newspapers and General Science magazines
• Bio.com http://www.bio.com/
• Biospace hub site for biotechnology news: http://www.biospace.com/
• BioMedNet provides access to many Biomedical journals after you register and choose a password. Some articles are free and some require payment. http://www.bmn.com
• Biology Week, is published weekly by the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, listing biology seminars and symposia in the Boston/Cambridge area.
• British Medical Journal http://www.bmj.com/
• Cancer Online (John Wiley & Sons) http://www.canceronline.wiley.com/
• Cell http://www.cell.com/
• Developmental Biology http://www.academicpress.com/db
• The FASEB Journal http://www.fasebj.org/ is published by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
• Genetic Engineering News http://www.genengnews.com/
• High Wire Press (internet imprint of the Stanford University Libraries) Access to a large array of biomedical journals: http://highwire.stanford.edu/
• JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/public/journals/jama/jamahome.htm
• JBC - The Journal of Biological Chemistry http://www.jbc.org/
• Molecular Biology of the Cell is published by the American Society for Cell Biology and HighWire Press.
• Nature
• PNAS -- Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences http://www.pnas.org
• Science magazine of the AAAS http://www.sciencemag.org/
• Science Now daily news service from the AAAS http://www.sciencenow.org
• Scientific American http://www.sciam.com/
• Signals Magazine - the online magazine of biotechnology industry analysis http://www.signalsmag.com
• Other Reference, Web Search, and News Sources compiled by John D. Furber.

Biomedical Research Institutes

• FDA - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration http://www.fda.gov/fdahomepage.html
• Harvard University Molecular and Cellular Biology links http://golgi.harvard.edu/
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute http://www.hhmi.org/science/
• Stanford University
• WHO - OMS - The World Health Organization http://www.who.int/

Biotechnology Companies

• Amos' List compiled by Amos Bairoch http://www.expasy.org/links.html#Biotech.
• Bio Online is a portal to news, events, and companies in Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Research, and Health Sciences: http://bio.com/
• Resource Informagen directories have listings of Biotech Companies, Investment Banks, and Venture Capital Firms.
• SciWeb directory of life science companies.
• Directory of Wisconsin Biotechnology Companies http://www.biotech.wisc.edu/Companies/index.html
• Synvista Therapeutics, Inc. (formerly Alteon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) is engaged in the discovery and development of pharmaceutical products for the treatment of the complications of diabetes and age-related diseases.
• Centaur Pharmaceuticals (bought by Renovis Inc.) discovers and develops innovative drugs for diseases involving ischemia/reperfusion, inflammation, and aging.
• Genoplex Inc. is developing small molecule therapeutics for Alzheimer's Disease.
• Geron Corporation is a biopharmaceutical company studying telomerase, the genomics of aging, and cellular aging and immortalization. It is "exclusively focused on discovering, developing and commercializing therapeutic and diagnostic products to treat cancer and other age-related diseases."
• GloFish fluorescent zebrafish www.glofish.com/
• Kosan Bioscience, Inc. is developing new pharmaceuticals through the generation of novel analogs of natural products by genetic engineering of biosynthetic pathways.
• Legendary Pharmaceuticals has been established to develop therapeutic drugs and gene therapies to slow the aging processes and repair the damage which occurs during aging.
• MitoKor is studying the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in which mitochondrial dysfunction is a major contributing factor, including Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease, and non-insulin dependent diabetes.
• Orchid BioSciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company headquartered in Princeton, N.J. providing products, services and technologies for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) scoring and genetic diversity analyses.

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