Literature Searches

• PubMed
• Google Scholar
• CBioC: Collaborative Bio Curation
• iHOP - site maps the molecular interrelationships that abstracts reveal
• PubCrawler - automated PubMed searches
• HighWire - full text search of science, technology and medicine journals
• MMCRI Library Resources (internal use only)

COS, NIH, NSF and Other Grant Information and Searches

• Community of Science
• NIH Commons
• NIH Grants.gov
• NIH Award Search - CRISP ( Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)
• NIH Award Trends
• NSF Award Search
• International Cancer Research Portfolio - search cancer research awards of cancer funding organizations

Web Tools

• Webcutter - enzyme restriction analysis
• NEBcutter - enzyme restriction analysis
• Primer3 - PCR primer design
• ExonPrimer - designs intronic primers for amplification of exons
• Multiple Sequence Alignment
• ClusterDraw - a program to identify and draw binding site clusters
• TFSEARCH - search for transcription factor binding sites
• Overgo - overgo probe and primer design
• Protein Explorer - visualization of the three-dimensional structures of protein, DNA, and RNA
• PhosphoSite - phosphorylation site identification
• BRENDA - comprehensive enzyme information system
• Table of Fluorochromes
• Fluorescence Spectra Viewer
• VassarStats - tools for statistical computations
• GraphPad QuickCalcs - statistical calculators

Tool Collections

• UCSC Genome Bioinformatics
• Bioinformatics Links Directory
• NCBI Tools for Data Mining
• Baylor College of Medicine Search Launcher
• Protein Information Resource
• Microscopy & Imaging Resources on the WWW

Software (Free)

• EMBOSS - open source software for sequence analysis
• VISTA - VISualization Tools for Alignments
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Software (CalTech)
• ScanAlyze - microarray software
• WebMol - a java based PDB viewer
• NIH Image - image processing and analysis
• Genamics SoftwareSeek

Protocols

• Histosearch - searches over 20,000 web pages from histology related sites
• The Histology Page - nice descriptions of fixatives and techniques for analysis of different tissues
• Histology Protocols
• Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Jump Station
• Microarrays
• DNA Microarray (Genome Chip) Web site
• Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools

Cells

• ATCC (American Type Culture Collection)
• Coriell Cell Repositories
• NCI Developmental Therapeutics Program - Repository for HUVECs, tumor samples and cell lines, etc.

Animals

• Mouse Repositories and Databases
• JAX Mice
• Mutant Mouse Regional Resource Centers (MMRRC)
• RIKEN Bioresource Center
• NCI Mouse Repository - mouse models of human cancers consortium
• Charles River Laboratories
• Cre Transgenic Database
• Hy-Line Chicken Eggs
• Xenopus Express
• NASCO
• Xenopus I
• Xenopus laevis Frog Colony Care
• Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories

Gene Trap Projects

• International Gene Trap Consortium
  • Bay Area Resource of Mouse Mutations (BayGenomics)
    • Mutant Mouse Regional Resource Centers
  • Centre For Modelling Human Disease Gene Trap Core, University of Toronto/Mount Sinai Hospital
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center - Soriano Lab
  • Sanger Institute Gene Trap Resource
  • The German Genetrap Consortium (GGTC)
  • Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology Gene Trap Project

Molecular

• RNAi Consortium - source for Lenti-based shRNA
• Oncomine - a resource for examining gene expression in cancer
• CutDB - database and annotation of individual proteolytic events, both actual and predicted
• PrimerBank - a public resource for PCR primers
• Quantitative PCR Primer Database
• I.M.A.G.E. Consortium
• Roswell Park Cancer Institute Microarray and Genomics Core Facility
• Antibody Resource Page
• The RCAS Virus System
• The Wnt Homepage

• International Sequencing Consortium Project Database
• Ensembl Genome Browser
• ARKdb at Roslin Institute
• euGenes Genomic Information for Eukaryotic Organisms

• NEB Compilation of Databases

Database Mining Sites

• Mouse Genome Informatics
• Gene Expression Omnibus
• Stanford Online Universal Resource for Clones (SOURCE)
• DRAGON - Database Referencing of Array Genes ONline