Database Searching Tips for IACUC Protocols

Collections of Internet Sites:

• Academic Information Research Tools
  http://www.hmc.psu.edu/research_tools/research_tools.htm
• BiologyBrowser   
  http://www.biologybrowser.org/
• BioToolKit
  http://www.biosupplynet.com/biotoolkit/
• Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  http://www.broad.mit.edu/
• Chemical Biology Virtual Journal (Royal Society of Chemistry Gateway)
  http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/cb/index.asp
• Chemical Biology Forum (Biosciences Gateway)
  http://www.rsc.org/Gateway/Subject/Biosciences/Index.asp
• ExPasy Life Sciences Directory
  http://us.expasy.org/links.html
• Genamics
  http://genamics.com/software/
• Infomine: Biological Agricultural and Medical Science
  http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?bioag
• Molecular Biology Gateway from Horizon Press
  http://www.horizonpress.com/gateway/

Databases:

• Entrez from National Library of Medicine
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Database/
• GenBank-National Center for Biotechnology Information
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/GenbankOverview.html
• The Protein Data Bank (PDB)
  http://www.rcsb.org/
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man:
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=omim

Molecular Biology Sites

• Codon Usage Database
  http://www.kazusa.or.jp/codon/
• Computational Molecular Biology at NIH
  http://molbio.info.nih.gov/molbio/desk.html
• Ecoli Stock Center
  http://cgsc.biology.yale.edu/cgsc.html
• European Bioinformatics Institute Biocatolog
  http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biocat/

Molecular Modeling Web Sites

• PDB Protein Data Bank
  http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/
• Rasmol Shareware Molecular Modeling
  http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/
• Swiss-PDB Viwer Program
  http://us.expasy.org/spdbv/
• Kinemage Homepage
  http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/
• NIH Center for Molecular Modeling
  http://cmm.info.nih.gov/modeling/
• Bioinformatics Tutorial
  http://www.usm.maine.edu/~rhodes/Goodies/Matics.html
   

Organizations/ Associations:

• Biotechnology Industry Organization- Educational Guide
  http://www.bio.org/
• European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) (genome view)
  http://www.ensembl.org/
• National Center for Biotechnology Information
     Genomic Biology
     http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/
      call=bv.View..ShowSection&rid=coffeebrk.TOC
• NCBI Newsletter
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/newsletter.html
• NCBI Education Page
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Education/index.html
• University of California at Santa Cruz (genome view)
  http://genome.ucsc.edu
• American Cancer Society:
  http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp
• National Science Foundation
  http://www.nsf.gov/
• National Center for Biotechnology Information:
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

News Sources:

• BIOSCI - Bionet Electronic Newsgroup Network for
  Biology
  http://www.bio.net/

Grants Information:  

• CRISP: Computer Retrieval of Information on
  Scientific Projects  
  http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/
• University of Washington Research Funding Service:
  http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/federal.html
• National Institute of Health:
  http://www.nih.gov

Many of the Links contributed by Bruce A. Stanley Ph.D.        9/05/08

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