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select list of resources available on the Internet
and World Wide Web
JCU Library Resources
- InfoHelp home page
- questions answered, assistance given online, or by phone or email
Catalogue
- Tropicat
- JCU's library catalogue
Databases - General Information
- Electronic
Databases - a listing of all databases available through JCU
- How
To Guides - read them online or print out for help on how to use
internet resources better
Indexing/Abstracting Databases
Off
campus access is available for most databases and electronic
journals. Simply click on this link, and follow the instructions. You
will be returned to this page and can then simply click on the required
resource to access it. If a password is required, this can be obtained
from InfoHelp
- MEDLINE via Ovid - the premier database for every aspect of health
- Medline
- the premier biomedical database along with nucleotide, protein, genome
etc databases [via PubMed]
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- Biological Abstracts is a major source of references to the life science journal literature (use BIOSIS Previews for 2002+)
- CAB Direct - covers many
aspects on the bio-sciences
- Ingenta.com - search for journal
articles (was UnCover Plus): online articles searches c5,500
electronic journals; fax/Ariel articles searches the Tables of
Contents of c.28,000 print titles
Full text databases and electronic journals
- Blackwell Scientific
- full text of Blackwell Scientific journals via Synergy
- ScienceDirect
- online access to 290 Elsevier, Harcourt and Academic Press journals
(subsumes IDEAL)
- Wiley Interscience
- full text of Wiley journals
- InfoTrac
- indexes over 2,000 journals with full-text articles from over half
available online
- ProQuest 5000 - another
indexing and full-text database complementing InfoTrac
- Electronic
journals - hot-linked, alphabetical listing of full-text journals
available to members of James Cook University
- You can also link directly to journals via Tropicat:
the JCU Library Catalogue using the web (but not the text) version
- Links
to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Journals - and indicating
what's available free (Australian mirror)
Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology Community
General
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Resources on the WWW
- BioMedNet - an "Internet community
for biological & medical researchers" with Evaluated Medline (allows
downloads into Endnote etc), databases, lab methods, tips for molecular
biologists etc. Requires free registration
- BioWeb - resources for molecular
and cell biologists
- CMS Molecular Biology Resource
- consistently recommended compendium of Internet tools and resources
for molecular biology, biotechnology, molecular evolution, biochemistry,
and biomolecular modelling
- ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System)
Molecular Biology Server - protein databases and tools and molecular
biology resource links including Amos' WWW Links to Biomolecular
Servers - excellent site
- Genetics
on the Internet - collection of genetics/genome/sequencing web resources
- Human
Genome Project Information - resources upon resources - major site
- Interactive
Fly - a cyberspace guide to Drosophila genes and their roles in
development
- MBS - Molecular
Biology Shortcuts! - search molecular biology websites, protocols,
tools and databases
- Molecular Biology
Gateway - protocols, PCR, genetics, PNA, ribozymes, genomics, bioinformatics
and more.
- Molecular Biology
Notebook Online - online courses (Beginner's Guide, Advanced Level),
annotated resources etc
- Pedro's
BioMolecular Research Tools - a famous site and still very useful
but in urgent need of updating.
- Photosynthesis
and the world wide web - an online review article with links to
sites
- Simulation of
ion channels and membrane proteins - technical information and lots
of academic resource links
- WWW Resources for Students
of Biochemistry - especially glycolysis and TCA cycle
Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology Databases on the WWW
- Australian National Genomic Information
Service ANGIS - free mirror access is provided to many overseas
genome databases - including GDB, Flybase, OMIA,
OMIM, OCOA, COGNOSAG, PDP, SCOP, FHC, MHCPEP, SRS etc
- Baylor College of Medicine
Search Launcher - a one-stop-shop for nucleic acid and general protein
sequence searches.
- Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project
- decoding the fruit fly
- Biology Workbench - search
popular protein and nucleic acid sequence databases with integrated
analysis and modelling tools and tutorials
- Biomolecular
and Biochemical databases - two dozen general, DNA, RNA and protein
databases
- Computational Molecular
Biology at NIH - molecular biology databases, desk reference and
other resources
- Cyanobase
- genome database for Synechoceptis 6803 mutant information.
- European Bioinformatics Institute:
EMBL - databases including nucleic acid, protein and macromolecular
structures
- GeneCards:
human genes, proteins and diseases - GeneCards is a database of
human genes, their products and their involvement in diseases with particular
relevance to functional genomics and proteomics.
- Genome Database GDB - official
central repository for genomic mapping data from the Human Genome Initiative
(Australian mirror).
- GenomeNet - includes the Kyoto
Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) with the LIGAND database for
enzyme reactions and metabolic and regulatory pathways data
- Molecular
Biology Database List - annual listing and review of molecular biology
database resources appearing in the first issue of each volume of Nucleic
Acids Research. Essential reference.
- National Center for Biotechnology
Information - one of the great biochemistry and molecular biology
websites offering free databases and information on molecular processes
affecting human health and disease. Resources include PubMed, GenBank,
gene taxonomy database, 3D structural databases, OMIM, Blast, Entrez,
EMBL, DDBJ, PIR, SWISS-PROT, PRF, PDB and many more. It's too big to
describe - just go there!
- Nucleic Acid Database Biological
Structure Resource - nucleic acid database, structure finder, 'a
la mode' & mmCIF
- Protein data bank and international
repository for 3-D macromolecular structure data
- Saccharomyces
Genome Database - molecular biology and genetics of Saccharomyces
cerevisiae (baker's yeast).
- Sanger Centre - genome research
and sequencing site (Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council)
- Sequence
Analysis Resources for Molecular Biologists - from the Baylor College
of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center
- TIGR: The Institute for Genomic Research
- databases containing DNA and protein sequence, gene expression, cellular
role, protein family and taxonomic data for microbes, plants and humans
and gene indices from humans to c.elegans
Reference
Works and Tutorials on the WWW
Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology Directories
Search Engines
- Google - simple, fast with
excellent results (Australian Site)
- Alta Vista - good for
complex searches (Australian Site)
- Ixquick Metasearch - gets selected
results from 12 search engines simultaneously
- Searching
the Internet - check out some other good search engines (and how
to use them)
Research,
Study and Assignment Aids
Feedback, including suggested additions, excisions and corrections
is welcome.
Send it to Stephen Anderson
Produced for Information and Research Support,
part of the Information Services program of the
Academic Support Division at James
Cook University
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