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Some genetic and macromolecular websites

Some websites of potential interest to our readers.

Genetic Websites

Genetic Engineering News, which is published monthly, has a column entitled "http: Genetic News" written by Kevin Ahern. It is a rich source of information on websites related to Biotechnology, including analytical computing tools, searchable or downloadable data base information, FTP delivery of usable software, news, and response to user enquiries. All the links to URL's listed in the column and posted to Ahern's website http://www.orst.edu/~ahernk/bsj.html.

Typical entries include the following:

  • The Dictionary of Cell Biology - http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/~julian/Dict.html
  • Cell - http://www.cellpress.com/. The Positions Available section has one of the largest on-line collections of faculty and post-doctoral jobs.
  • New Scientists Planet Science: Sciencejobs - http://www.sciencejobs.com. An excellent site for locating a job in science; almost all of the postings are in the UK.
  • Welcome to Biotech - http://biotech.chem.indiana.edu/. The best collection of biotechnology information and an excellent collection of information about medicinal plants.
The Structural Biology in Europe Newsletter is on line at http://www.biodigm.com/strube.htm. The Drug Discovery and Structural biology meeting calendar can be found there. Appropriate meetings and courses can be advertised at no charge.

Macromolecular Websites

A compendium of web site addresses useful to macromolecule crystallographers appears in Current Biology (Vol. 6 #12, p. 1542, 1996), It included addresses for biological software including:

  • Geneworks and PC/GENE (http://www.oxmol.com/prods/).
  • PCR primer design programs at the PCR Jump Station (http://www.apollo.co.uk/a/pcr/#pcrs) and (http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/).
  • Phylogenetics relationships
  • Structural biology and The Protein Databank software (http://pdb.pdb.bnl.gov/software,html).
  • Free software archives at Johns Hopkins U. (http://www.bis.med.jhmi.edu/Dan/software/biol-links.html) at Indiana U. (ftp://ftp.bio.indiana.edu/) and the European Bioinformatics Inst. (http://www.embl.ebi.ac.uk/software.software.html).
  • The software descriptions in the archive at the EBI are fully searchable (http://www.bis.med.jhmi.edu/Dan/software/software.html).
 
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