Internet Biology Resources

Tools of Genetics and Molecular Biology

General Tools

• Biology Workbench - NCSA Interface to 100 Databases.
• Bionet Newsgroup Archives - Search back issues for topics of interest.
• Calculators Online - Martindale's Calculators On-line Center.
• Codon Usage - Codon Usage Database.
• MolecularToolbox - Useful Molecular Biology Bookmarks.
• OATs - Online Analysis Tools; Molecular biology analysis programs.
• Internet Database of Periodic Tables - Dr. Mark R. Leach Presents
• Periodic Table of the Elements - Mark Winter, The University of Sheffield and WebElements Ltd, UK
• RNA Page - Michael Zuker's page on RNA folding.
• Stanford Genomic Resources - Michael Zuker's page on RNA folding.
• Statistics -Interactive statistical calculation pages.

Cell Biology

• Cell Line Databases - Biotech Organisms and Strains.
• Coriell - Coriell Cell Repositories at UMDNJ (Camden).

Chemistry

• ChemFinder - Find structure and info on any chemical.
• ChemID plus - Data and structure info on any chemical.
• Make buffer - Calculate reagent requirements for lab buffer solutions.
• NMR - The basics of NMR - by Joseph P. Hornak, Ph.D.

DNA Core Facilities

• ABRF - Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities.
• John's Hopkins DNA Sequencing - John's Hopkins DNA Core Facility.
• Automated DNA Sequencing Newsgroup Archives
• Bruce Roe's Protocol Book - Bruce Roe's DNA Protocols.
• Dana Farber - Dana-Farber molecular biology core facilities.
• Phred/Phrap/Consed Access to DNA seqeunce analysis packages.
• KGC - Kleberg Genotyping Center at Baylor.
• Leicester Univ DNA Sequencing - Leicester Sequencing Core Facility.
• Leicester Trouble-Shooting - Leicester Sequencing Core Trouble-Shooting.
• U-Penn - University of Pennsylvania Genetics Sequencing Core Facility.

Gene Structure Analysis

• BCM Gene Finder - Splice sites, Protein coding exons and Gene model construction, Promotor and poly-A region recognition.
• Brutlag Lab Projects - A collection of tools for sequence homology assessment, motif detection, etc.
• Prediction Server - Predict splice sites, protein coding exons signal cleavage sites, gene prediction, protein structure - a collection of servers.

Lab Protocols

• Best Protocols on the Web - Collection of over 3,000 bio-lab protocols from the Orbigen web site.
• Bioprotocol - Bio Online from Bio.Com.
• Molecular Biology Protocols on the WWW - Listing from Horizon Press.

Microarray Core Facilities & Info

• Affymetrix - Affymetrix array tools and resources.
• Baylor - Baylor College of Medicine Microarray Core Facility.
• GridIT - MicroArray Resources.
• NHGRL µAP - National Human Genome Research Laboratory Microarray Project (µAP).
• Roswell Park Cancer Institute - Microarray Core Facility.
• Stanford MicroArray Database - SMD stores raw and normalized data from microarray experiments.
• Univ of Michigan - University of Michigan Prostate SPORE cDNA Microarray Core Facility.

Primer Design

• CODEHOP - Web utility to design primers to ampify genes using sequence data from multiple protein alignments.
• GeneFisher - Web utility to design primers to ampify genes encoding multiple protein alignments.
• PCR Jumpstation - Everything you ever wanted to know about PCR.
• Primer 3 - Whitehead Web-based primer design from your sequence.
• PrimerDB - Database of Primers for Quantitative RT-PCR.

Real Time PCR

• ABI RealTime Cycler - ABI DNA sequence detection systems.
• LightCycler - Roche LightCycler home page.
• LightScanner - Idaho Technologies melt curve analysis system.

Sequence Analysis

• ABI Sequencing - ABI Sequencer and Genotyping Products.
• Chromas - ABI Sequence File Viewer for the PC.
• Edit View - ABI Sequence File Viewer for the Mac.
• FinchTV - Sequence Trace Viewer for the Mac and PC.
• Sequence Scanner - ABI Sequence Trace Viewer for the PC.