Category Archives: Web links

Science website

F1000Prime

http://f1000.com/prime

A web that recommends articles in biology and medicine by scientists or researchers.

ScienceDaily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/

An American news website for topical science articles.

Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/

An American popular science magazine.

Retraction Watch

http://retractionwatch.com

A blog that reports on retractions of scientific papers.

Bitesize Bio

http://bitesizebio.com/

A knowledge-sharing platform for Bioscientists in the lab.

New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/

A UK-based weekly English-language international science magazine.

BioNumbers – The Database of Useful Biological Numbers

http://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/

A database of key numbers in molecular and cell biology.

myIDP – a free, Web-based career-planning tool

https://myidp.sciencecareers.org/

Naturejobs : Science Jobs of the Week

http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/

Biology – Useful Websites

Journal search website:

PubMed – NCBI

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/

ScienceDirect.com

http://www.sciencedirect.com/

PolySearch – Wishart Research Group

http://wishart.biology.ualberta.ca/polysearch/

HighWire

http://highwire.stanford.edu/

JSTOR

http://www.jstor.org/

 

Molecular biology tools website:

GenBank Home

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/

MaizeGDB

http://www.maizegdb.org/

GENEVESTIGATOR – shaping biological discovery

https://www.genevestigator.com/gv/plant.jsp

Protein domain – NCBI conserved domain database

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/cdd.shtml

Motif analyses – Motif Scan

http://myhits.isb-sib.ch/cgi-bin/motif_scan

STRING: functional protein association networks

http://string90.embl.de/newstring_cgi/show_input_page.pl?UserId=ENIQs7SM22HE&sessionId=MMccjVibfQhu

MINT, the Molecular INTeraction database

http://mint.bio.uniroma2.it/mint/Welcome.do

BioGRID | Database of Protein and Genetic Interactions

http://thebiogrid.org/

Tm Calculator | Thermo Scientific

http://www.thermoscientificbio.com/webtools/tmc/

EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/

ExPASy: SIB Bioinformatics Resource Portal

http://www.expasy.org/

NEBcutter V2.0 – NEB tools

http://tools.neb.com/NEBcutter2/

Gene Structure Display Server
http://gsds.cbi.pku.edu.cn/

Exon-Intron Graphic Maker
http://wormweb.org/exonintron

PSORT.ORG – protein subcellular localization resources

http://www.psort.org/

UniProt

http://www.uniprot.org/

The BAR and other Data Analysis Tools for Plant Biology
http://bar.utoronto.ca/welcome.htm

PHYRE2 Protein Fold Recognition Server
http://www.sbg.bio.ic.ac.uk/phyre2/html/page.cgi?id=index

The Mfold Web Server

http://mfold.rna.albany.edu/?q=mfold

Fluorescent protein-tagged maize lines – Characterizing Sub-Cellular Compartments in Maize

http://maize.jcvi.org/cellgenomics/index.php

Multiple primer analyzer | Thermo Scientific

http://www.thermoscientificbio.com/webtools/multipleprimer/

PHYRE2 Protein Fold Recognition Server

http://www.sbg.bio.ic.ac.uk/phyre2/html/page.cgi?id=index

(Select intensive modeling mode to predicted full length protein structure)

 

Mutant resources website:

TAIR – Home Page

http://www.arabidopsis.org/

Rice Insertion Mutant Search Page

https://tos.nias.affrc.go.jp/

POPcorn: PrOject Portal for corn

http://popcorn.maizegdb.org/main/index.php

Rice Mutant Database

http://rmd.ncpgr.cn/

Rice Mutant Resources for Gene Discovery

http://irfgc.irri.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=44

 

Useful website:
The logic of molecular approaches to biological problems

http://www-users.med.cornell.edu/~jawagne/

Duke University Scientific Writing Resource

https://cgi.duke.edu/web/sciwriting/index.php

Protocol Online – Your lab’s reference book

http://www.protocol-online.org/

Cell and Molecular Biology Online

http://www.cellbio.com/

Academic Writing in English (AWE)

http://sana.tkk.fi/awe/style/sentence/weakverbs/index.html