Updated on 10 December, 2010
The companion web site to
this book (publisher's)
Search on-line texbooks
On-line journals, databases,
and internet resources in biology
Learned societies
Cell and nuclear structure
Software
Company sites
How to write clearly
The companion web
site to this book (publisher's)
Web link:
http://www.wiley.com/cook
Search on-line texbooks
Web link:
Biochemistry Berg, Tymoczko, and Stryer) at NCBI
Developmental
Boiology (Scott) at NCBI.
Genes
and Disease at NCBI.
Genomes (Brown) at NCBI.
Molecular
Biology of the Cell (Alberts et
al.) at NCBI.
The
Cell: A Molecular Approach (Cooper) at NCBI.
On-line
journals, databases, and internet
resources in biology
Web link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ The National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, MD, USA) is the world's
largest. This site provides a search service to its contents through
MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and related
databases.
http://intl.highwire.org/ Highwire Press - the imprint of the library of Stanford University -
provides access to many biomedical journals.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ The National Center for Biotechnology Information provides a gateway to
various databases (eg genome maps, OMIM - a catalogue of genetic
disorders).
http://www.ensembl.org/index.html Genome databases.
http://ndbserver.rutgers.edu/
Database of nucleic acid structures.
http://www.imb-jena.de/IMAGE.html The IMB Jena Image Library of Biological Macromolecules contains visual
and other information on biopolymers like DNA. .
Additional link:
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/default.html Biology project of the University of Arizona, with tutorials and tests.
http://www.nature.com/genomics/ Nature's Genome Gateway.
http://www.reactome.org/ A
curated resource of core pathways and
reactions in human biology.
http://www.pdg.cnb.uam.es/UniPub/iHOP/ Look up a protein, and see its interaction partners.
http://www.biowizard.com/ A Biomedical research portal to products, methods, tools, blogs, etc.
Learned
societies
Web link:
http://www.ascb.org/ The American
Society for Cell Biology.
http://www.bscb.org/ The British
Society for Cell Biology.
http://www.nobel.se/ The website of
the Nobel foundation, with links to web pages of prize-winners.
Cell
and nuclear structure
Web link:
http://www.chromatin.us/chrom.html Chromatin.
http://www.chromosome.net/ Chromosomes.
http://www.mendelweb.org/
An educational resource for those interested in the origins of
classical genetics, and introductory data analysis.
Additional link:
http://www.cellnucleus.com/ Links to tutorials, movies, and references on nuclear structure and
dynamics.
http://www.bio.davidson.edu/courses/movies.html Links to various movies of molecules and cells.
http://bio.ltsn.ac.uk/imagebank Searchable image bank.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ Various tutorials in cell and molecular biology.
http://medicalbillingandcodingcertification.net/resources/medical-resources-all-about-genetics/ All about genetics.
Software
Web link:
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/ NIH Image is a public domain image processing and analysis
program.
http://www.nrcam.uchc.edu Software for the creation and analysis of a 'virtual cell'.
Company sites
Web link:
http://www.probes.com/ The site
of Molecular Probes Inc (a supplier of fluorescent reagents) which
contains an extensive gallery of images of cells and nuclei.
http://www.mwrn.com/ Guide
to microscopy.
How to
write clearly
Web link:
http://www.counsell.com/ This
page directs you to 'Word for the wise', an introduction on how to use
Microsoft Word to write an extended essay.
http://www.bartleby.com/people/Strunk-W.html 'Elements of style' by William Strunk.
http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/ Links to 'Politics and the English Language' by George Orwell.