BIOINFORMATICS RESOURCES ON THE WEB

• The BioToolKit, an annotated database of online resources: www.biosupplynet.com/cfdocs/btk/btk.cfm
• The 2003 Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research: nar.oupjournals.org/content/vol31/issue1/
• The 2002 Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research: nar.oupjournals.org/content/vol30/issue1/
• The 2001 Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research: nar.oupjournals.org/content/vol29/issue1/
• The 2000 Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research: nar.oupjournals.org/content/vol28/issue1/
• The 1999 Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research: nar.oupjournals.org/content/vol27/issue1/
• The 1998 Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research: nar.oupjournals.org/content/vol26/issue1/
• The 1997 Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research: nar.oupjournals.org/content/vol25/issue1/

RESEARCH CENTERS AND DATABANKS

• National Center for Biotechnology Information: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory: www.embl-heidelberg.de
• European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI): www.ebi.ac.uk
• DNA Data Bank of Japan: www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp
• GenomeNet server in Japan: www.genome.ad.jp
• Stanford Genomic Resources: genome-www.stanford.edu
• Genome Sequence Center, Washington University: genome.wustl.edu
• The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR): www.tigr.org
• Sanger Genome Research Center: www.sanger.ac.uk
• The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: www.isb-sib.ch
• UK Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Center: www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
• Ensembl - Automatic Annotation of Eukaryotic Genomes: www.ensembl.org

PROTEIN and DNA DATABANKS,
STRUCTURE and FUNCTION PREDICTION

• The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB): www.rcsb.org
• The PredictProtein server: www.embl-heidelberg.de/predictprotein/predictprotein.html
• ExPASy Molecular Biology Server of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: www.expasy.ch
• Curated Protein Sequence Database SWISS-PROT: www.expasy.ch/sprot/
• Database of Protein Families and Domains PROSITE: www.expasy.ch/prosite
• The Protein Information Resource (PIR): www-nbrf.georgetown.edu
• The Blocks Database - conserved regions of proteins: blocks.fhcrc.org
• Profile hidden Markov models for biological sequence analysis: hmmer.wustl.edu
• PEDANT - Protein Extraction, Description, and ANalysis Tool: pedant.gsf.de
• Munich Information Center for protein sequences: mips.gsf.de
• The IMB Jena Image Library of Biological Macromolecules: www.imb-jena.de/IMAGE.html
• Everything about amino acids: prowl.rockefeller.edu/aainfo/contents.htm and www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/bio/amino-acids_en.html
• The Periodic Table of Elements on the Web: www.webelements.com

GENETICS, LINKAGE, SNPs

• Laboratory of Statistical Genetics, Rockefeller University: linkage.rockefeller.edu
• SNP finder - The CGAP Genetic Annotation Initiative (GAI): lpg.nci.nih.gov
• Human Genic Bi-Allelic SEquences (HGBASE): hgbase.interactiva.de
• PolyPhred at the Department of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Washington, Seattle: droog.mbt.washington.edu
• PolyBayes at the Genome Sequence Center, Washington University, St. Louis: genome.wustl.edu/groups/informatics/software/polybayes

BIOINFORMATICS SOFTWARE, NEWSGROUPS AND OTHER USEFUL LINKS

• Software directory of general interest in Molecular Biology and Genetics: www.ebi.ac.uk/biocat/
• FTP servers:
  • ftp.ebi.ac.uk
  • ftp.embl-heidelberg.de
  • ftp.ncbi.nih.gov
  • ftp.genome.ad.jp
  • ftp.expasy.ch
• The Phred/Phrap/Consed System Home Page: www.phrap.org
• FASTA: ftp://ftp.virginia.edu/pub/fasta/
• WU-BLAST: blast.wustl.edu
• Clustal-W: ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/unix/clustalw/
• PHYLIP: evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip.html
• HMMER: ftp://ftp.genetics.wustl.edu/pub/eddy/hmmer/
• Pfam: ftp://ftp.genetics.wustl.edu/pub/eddy/Pfam/
• The Open Lab: www.bioinformatics.org
• The Bioperl Project: bio.perl.org
• UNIXhelp home page at the University of Edinburg: unixhelp.ed.ac.uk
• The BioNet USENET newsgroups: www.bio.net
• Web Specials at the Nature Genetics: www.nature.com/ng/web_specials/

GENOMES

• Human: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/
• Arabidopsis:
• www.arabidopsis.org/home.html
• www.tigr.org/tdb/e2k1/ath1
• mips.gsf.de/proj/thal/db
• Drosophila:
• www.fruitfly.org
• The Interactive Fly (A cyberspace guide to Drosophila genes and their roles in development): www.sdbonline.org/fly/aimain/1aahome.htm
• C. elegans: www.wormbase.org
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae: www.yeastgenome.org
• Microbial Genome Database: mbgd.genome.ad.jp