Biol 207 Bookmarks

Educational Sites
Current Events and News
Pages with links to lots of interesting sites
On-line Databases
Molecular Visualization

Educational Sites

Web Companion for Concepts of Genetics by Klug and Cummings: This web site has supplemental material including on-line multiple choice quizzes and updates about current research and controversial topics.


Index to Glossary of Genetic Terms: A large glossary of genetic terms (this one can take a while to download)
MendelWeb: Want to read Mendel's paper? In German or an annotated English translation. A good place to brush up on your Mendelian genetics.

Classic Papers in Genetics: Copies of original genetics papers written by Mendel, Morgan, Hardy, etc.
Biology Labs On-Line: A collection of web based simulations for teaching biology, including FlyLab, TranslateIt, EvolveIt and DemographyLab

Primer on Molecular Genetics (Department of Energy): A good tutorial on subjects like Southern blots, RFLP mapping, DNA sequencing, etc.

Blazing a Genetic Trail: Lots of information about mapping and cloning genes responsible for human genetic disorders
Genome Analysis: A Laboratory Manual: A tutorial on what do do after you've cloned a gene (how to search the database, analyse your sequence, etc.)
BioTech: A collection of links to various resources including some nice bioinformatics courses

BioInformatics: A very well written online course in bioinformatics, primarily text

KUMC Genetics Education Center: Kansas University site with links to many other educational genetic sites.

Current Events and News

ScienceDaily Magazine: A very nice site with current Science news

InScight: A current news site produced by Academic Press and Science magazine

EurekAlert: Another good current news site that collects links to news bulletins released by various organizations
Discover: Discover magazine, has lots of popular stories about biology and genetics
Science's Next Wave: Career information for young scientist - want to know what's happening in the science job market? Produced by Science magazine.
News in Bioscience and Medicine: News about molecular genetics, in particular what's happening online (new web sites, newsgroups, new services, etc.)
Reviews of hot topics in Biology (CSA): Abstracts and reviews of "hot" areas in biology from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

Pages with links to lots of interesting sites

Genetics (VL): Virtual Library page on genetics. Has links to all of the different organism databases (look here for dog, cat, tree, etc. databases).
CSUBIOWEB - GENETICS/MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: This site has links to many different genetic sites with descriptions of the sites.

BioChemNet: Another site with lots of links, including links to Biochemistry sites and other Biolgy sites
Agricultural Genome Information Server (AGIS): Links to many agricultural sites (wheat genome, cow genome, etc.)

Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools - Part 1: A collection of links to all of the sites that will help you analyse a DNA or protein sequence. Do you want to search for intron exon boundaries in a genomic sequence? Check for a transmembrane domain in your gene? Compare your gene to other genes? etc. This is a very large site and may take a little while to load.

On-line Databases

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM): This is a searchable database with information about most known human genes and genetic diseases. It includes phenotypes, inheritance (dominant, recessive, etc.), chromosomal location, different alleles, information about the gene (if it has been cloned), and a bibliography.
Search OMIM -- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man: NCBI version of OMIM (use this one if the one above is busy)
Mouse gene database (also OMIM): This includes mouse genes along with OMIM and can also be used to search for information about human genes.
FlyBase: This is a searchable database with information about most known Drosophila genes. It includes phenotypes, inheritance (dominant, recessive, etc.), chromosomal location, different alleles, information about the gene (if it has been cloned), and a bibliography.
KEGG: Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes: a database that links genes with metabolic pathway information. This site also has links to databases for all of the completed genomes (mainly various bacterial genomes at this time, although there is one yeast genome).
Entrez: This is a search engine that will search a database of jornal articles about cloned genes or the GenBank database of DNA sequences and protein sequences (if you know the name of the gene). You get the citation of the article and links to the DNA and protein sequences. It will also search for related papers based on DNA sequence similarity (e.g., it can find a paper about a similar gene even if the authors were unaware of the similarity).

BLAST Database Searches at NCBI: If you have a DNA or protein sequence you can search the entire genbank database for any similar sequences.
GenLink: A human genetics resource: More human chromosome maps with locations of all mapped genes.
Transgenic Mouse Database: A database with information about all of the different genetically altered mouse strains.

Molecular Visualization

Chime: A plugin that will let you view molecular structures embedded in web pages. Useful for veiwing some tutorials on the web, I will have some of these for you also.

Rasmol: A program for viewing molecules, if the structure file is available. You must downlaod the structure file from a separate site (PDB, etc.) and then open it in this program. harder to use than Chime, but you can look at any structure in the public databases, not just what someone else has on their web site

Molecular Structure Sites: Links to various databases of molecular structures that can be viewed with Rasmol

Chime Tutorials: An extensive list of links to various molecular tutorials viewed using the Chime plugin

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