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Human Genome Project

• Human (Homo sapiens) Genome Browser Gateway
• A Vital Legacy Booklet about the DOE program that gave rise to the HGP
• DOE and NIH Research Sites
• DOE and the Human Genome Project
• GeneCards Database human genes, products, and involvement in disease
• Genome Meetings and Reports
• Goals of the Human Genome Project
• Human Chromosome Launchpad Links to Research Resources by Chromosome
• Human Genome Project Benefits current and potential applications of genome research
• Human Genome Project Contacts
• Human Genome Project Progress
• Human Genome Project Publications
• Human Genome Project Research in Progress
• Human Genome Project Timeline
• Human Genome Project What's New
• Joint Genome Institute Department of Energy sequencing institution
• Model Organisms for Biomedical Research National Institutes of Health
• National Institutes of Health National Human Genome Research Institute
• National Science Foundation
• Nature Genetics: A Ten-Year Retrospective 1992-2002
• Research Abstracts from the DOE Genome Program Contractor-Grantee Workshop IX (2002)
• Research Abstracts from the DOE Human Genome Program Contractor-Grantee Workshop IV (1994)
• Research Abstracts from the DOE Human Genome Program Contractor-Grantee Workshop V (1996)
• Research Abstracts from the DOE Human Genome Program Contractor-Grantee Workshop VI (1997)
• Research Abstracts from the DOE Human Genome Program Contractor-Grantee Workshop VII (1999)
• Research Abstracts from the DOE Human Genome Program Contractor-Grantee Workshop VIII (2000)
• Science.gov Genetics and Molecular Biology Science Information from 14 U.S. Federal Agencies
• Taxonomy Database Browser from NCBI
• The Human Genome Project History
• Unwinding DNA: Life at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• Wellcome Trust: The Human Genome

Progress In Genome Projects

• Animal Genome Size Database
• Completely Sequenced Genomes Rockefeller University
• DNA 50th anniversary: Double helix at 50 Nature April 2003 Genome Issue
• DOGS - Database Of Genome Sizes Comprehensive list of estimated genome sizes for different organisms
• Entrez Genome: NCBI Squenced and unfinished genomes, including viruses, bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes.
• Genomic Science Program from the U.S. Department of Energy The next step at the Department of Energy to accelerate understanding of dynamic living systems
• GOLD[TM] Genomes OnLine Database monitors genome sequencing projects
• Human Genome Project History
• Human Genome Project Working Draft
• Nature article "First set of bacterial proteins mapped"
• Nature Genetics: A Ten-Year Retrospective 1992-2002
• Nature web focus: The Human Genome
• Nature's Omics Gateway
• Quick Guide to Sequenced Genomes Sequenced genome projects from the Genome News Network.
• Science April 2003 Genome Issue: Building on the DNA Revolution
• Science Article: "Realizing the Potential of the Genome Revolution: The Genomes to Life Program," Marvin E. Frazier, Gary M. Johnson, David G. Thomassen, Carl E. Oliver, and Aristides Patrinos, Science 300, 290 (2003)
• Science Article: "The Human Genome Project: Lessons from Large-Scale Biology," Francis S. Collins, Michael Morgan, Aristides Patrinos, Science 300, 286 (2003)
• Science February 2001 Genome Issue
• Science October 1996 Genome Issue
• Science October 1997 Genome Issue
• Science October 1998 Genome Issue
• Science October 1999 Genome Issue
• Science October 2001 Genome Issue
• Science.gov Genetics and Molecular Biology Science Information from 14 U.S. Federal Agencies
• Wellcome Trust: The Human Genome
• WorldWideScience Science information from 75 countries (search on 'gene' or 'genomics')

Genetics and Life Sciences

• 1997 DOE BER Exceptional Service Awards
• About.com Biology
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Institute of Biological Sciences
• American Society for Microbiology represents 23 disciplines of microbiological specialization plus a division for microbiology educators
• Biological and Environmental Research (BER), U.S. Dept of Energy Office of Science
• BioNetbook directory of Web pages for Biology
• Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Biosciences Library Electronic information system of libraries as a tool for studies and research.
• CDC Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention
• Cell and Molecular Biology Online Collection of links for students and biologists
• Convention on Biological Diversity
• Genes 2000 Online version of Genes general life sciences resource
• Genetic Response to Global Warming North American red squirrels exhibit genetic changes in response to a warming climate
• GenomeBiology devoted to biology in the post-genomic era
• Genomic Science Program from the U.S. Department of Energy The next step at the Department of Energy to accelerate understanding of dynamic living systems
• HHMI Holiday Lectures on Science
• HUM-MOLGEN - Communication forum in Human Molecular Genetics discussion list, journal previews, meetings, news, and positions in bioscience and medicine
• Internet for the Molecular Biologist
• Medical Research Council (U.K.)
• Microbiology Jump Station collection of links for microbiologists
• Molecular Biology Gateway
• Molecular Biology Jump Station collection of links for biologists
• Molecular Genetics Jump Station collection of links for genetics
• National Library of Medicine
• National Science Foundation
• Nature Genetics: A Ten-Year Retrospective 1992-2002
• PhyloCode formal set of rules governing phylogenetic nomenclature
• Portal on Biology in Spanish
• Proteomics Glossaries and Taxonomies Evolving terminology for emerging technologies from Cambridge Healthtech Institute.
• Science.gov Genetics and Molecular Biology Science Information from 14 U.S. Federal Agencies
• Systems Genetics Group, ORNL
• Virtual Library Genetics a subject catalog covering genetics in the biosciences; includes animals, plants, microbes, human genetics and genomic research
• WorldWideScience Science information from 75 countries (search on 'gene' or 'genomics')
• WWW Virtual Library: Biochemistry and Cell Biology
• WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences searchable index
• WWW Virtual Library: Developmental Biology
• WWW Virtual Library: Model Organisms

Protein Research

• Addgene Plasmid Repository for Life Sciences non-profit organization promoting sharing of plasmid constructs
• Biozon a unified biological resource on DNA sequences, proteins, complexes and cellular pathways.
• BoLA Nomenclature Committee information source on the bovine major histocompatibility complex - its genes, proteins and polymorphism.
• BSM SearchLauncher: Protein secondary structure prediction
• Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center
• CATH: Protein Structure Classification
• Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics 3-D structure of proteins
• Comparative and Functional Genomics
• Computational Biosciences protein and DNA sequence analysis and annotation
• Computational Molecular Biology At NIH
• Cytokines Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia (COPE)
• DbBrowser at University of Manchester Bioinformatics Education and Research accesses protein sequence and structure databases
• EBI Macromolecular Structure Database European project for the collection, management and distribution of data about macromolecular structures, derived in part from the Protein Data Bank (PDB).
• European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) research center that manages databases of biological data including nucleic acid, protein sequences, and macromolecular structures.
• ExPASy Molecular Biology Server (SWISS-PROT, etc.) EBI server dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences and structure as well as 2-D PAGE
• Folding@home distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases
• Functional Genomics Jump Station
• GeneCards Database human genes, products, and involvement in disease
• Genomic Science Program from the U.S. Department of Energy The next step at the Department of Energy to accelerate understanding of dynamic living systems
• Human Mitochondrial Protein Database
• Human Proteome Organisation International group formed to further the understanding of human proteins and to realize the benefits of proteomics by encouraging cooperation among scientific, governmental, and financial communities.
• IMB Jena Image Library of Biological Macromolecules
• iProClass family relationships and structural/functional features of proteins
• KEGG BRITE Database collection of hierarchical classifications
• List of enzymes from Wikipedia
• List of proteins and protein complexes from Wikipedia
• MetaCyc: Metabolic Pathway Database describes metabolic pathways, reactions, enzymes, and substrate compounds from multiple organisms
• Molecular Station Molecular biology protocols, bioinformatics
• NHGRI Homeodomain Resource non-redundant protein sequences, 3D structures, and genomic information
• NNPREDICT server Prediction of protein sequence secondary structure
• Nucleic Acid Database (NDB) Project goal is to assemble and distribute structural information about nucleic acids
• PDBSum: Summaries and Structural analysis of PDB data files
• PEDANT: Protein Extraction, Description, and ANalysis Tool
• Peptaibol Database Crystallography Department, Birkbeck College, London
• Pfam - Protein families database of alignments and HMMs protein families database of alignments and HMMs
• PRINTS A compendium of protein fingerprints
• probeBase database of published rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probe sequences, DNA microarray layouts and associated information
• PROSPECT (PROtein Structure Prediction and Evaluation Computer Toolkit)
• Protein Data Bank (PDB) Repository for 3-D macromolecular structure data
• Protein Science a publication of the Protein Society
• Protein Structure Group, Computational Biosciences exploring protein threading, ab initio folding, and classification
• Protein Structure Initiative Better Tools and Better Knowledge for Structural Genomics
• PROTEINtools protein sequence and structure-related analysis tools
• Proteomics Standards Initiative Aims to define community standards for data representation in proteomics to facilitate data comparison, exchange, and verification.
• ProtoNet offers automatic hierarchical classification of proteins
• proWeb Project protein family documentation
• REBASE[R]: Restriction Enzyme Database information about restriction enzymes and related proteins
• RNP Databases at UTHSCSA Signal Recognition Particle Database (SRPDB), tmRNP Database (tmRDB), RNase P RNA Database, Telomerase Database (telomDB)
• SBASE: A Protein Domain Library
• SearchLauncher provides a single point of entry for related WWW search and analysis services
• Secondary structure assignment database (DSSP) program for DSSP database
• SignalP predicts signal peptides cleavage sites in amino acid sequences
• Structural Classification of Proteins database of structural and evolutionary relationships among proteins
• Swiss Proteomics Society Organization to promote research and education in the science of proteomics in Switzerland and other countries.
• SWISS-MODEL Automated Comparative Protein Modelling Server
• Swiss-Prot Annotated database of protein amino acid sequences.
• Systems Biology Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
• The Molecules of Life Simple interactive introduction to laboratory techniques used to understand the structure of protein molecules. For general audiences.
• The Proteome Society Organization to provide worldwide opportunities regarding protein study for education, networking, and information exchange among scientists.
• Transcription Regulatory Regions Database
• UniProt (Universal Protein Resource) comprehensive catalog of information on proteins
• UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot manually annotated and reviewed section of the UniProt Knowledgebase

Proteomics

• ABIM Organism Databases links to many different databases
• BGI (formerly known as Beijing Genomics Institute)
• Biological Biochemical Image Database searchable database of images of putative biological pathways, macromolecular structures, gene families, and cellular relationships
• Brutlag Bioinformatics Group located in the Biochemistry Department at Stanford University and affiliated with the Stanford Medical Informatics program
• Cytokines Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia (COPE)
• Folding@home distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases
• GenomeWeb -- New Media for the New Biology print and electronic provider of news and information on the business and technology of genomics and bioinformatics
• Genomic Science Program from the U.S. Department of Energy The next step at the Department of Energy to accelerate understanding of dynamic living systems
• Human Mitochondrial Protein Database
• Human Proteome Organisation International group formed to further the understanding of human proteins and to realize the benefits of proteomics by encouraging cooperation among scientific, governmental, and financial communities.
• Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology and Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences (mips)
• Journal of Proteome Research
• Kolker Lab - Bioinformatics & High-throughput Analysis Lab
• probeBase database of published rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probe sequences, DNA microarray layouts and associated information
• Protein Information Resource A Division of National Biomedical Research Foundation
• Protein Structure Initiative Better Tools and Better Knowledge for Structural Genomics
• Proteomics Standards Initiative Aims to define community standards for data representation in proteomics to facilitate data comparison, exchange, and verification.
• Proteomics World
• proWeb Project protein family documentation
• REBASE[R]: Restriction Enzyme Database information about restriction enzymes and related proteins
• SBASE: A Protein Domain Library
• Swiss Proteomics Society Organization to promote research and education in the science of proteomics in Switzerland and other countries.
• Swiss-Prot Annotated database of protein amino acid sequences.
• Systems Biology Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
• The Proteome Society Organization to provide worldwide opportunities regarding protein study for education, networking, and information exchange among scientists.
• UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot manually annotated and reviewed section of the UniProt Knowledgebase

Models

• Caltech List of Model Organism Databases
• Comprehensive Microbial Resource
• EMAP: The e-Mouse Atlas Project
• Entrez Structure (MMDB: Molecular Modelling Database) Three-D macromolecular structure data.
• euGenes: Genomic Information for Eukaryotic Organisms
• European Mouse Mutant Archive (EMMA) repository for collection, archiving (via cryopreservation) and distribution of mutant strains
• Gene Expression Nervous System Atlas (GENSAT) brain slice images of BAC transgenic mice
• Generic Model Organism Database Project
• Genomic Science Program from the U.S. Department of Energy The next step at the Department of Energy to accelerate understanding of dynamic living systems
• Homology Maps Page from NCBI
• International Mammalian Genome Society
• Jackson Laboratory
• Model Organisms for Biomedical Research National Institutes of Health
• Mouse BAC Sequencing Program Program to Sequence Regions of Mouse DNA of High Biomedical Importance
• Mouse Genome Centre Mammalian Genetics Unit, UK
• Mouse Genome Informatics at Jackson Laboratory includes Mouse Genome Database (MGD) and Encyclopedia of the Mouse Genome
• NC3Rs - National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research
• NIH Plan for Mouse Genomics and Genetics Resources
• Report of a 1998 NIH Workshop on Model Organism Databases
• Systems Genetics Group, ORNL
• Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium
• Transgenic Animal Web
• Transgenic Animal Web Links to Useful Resources
• U.S. Dept. of Energy Microbial Cell Project (Archive)
• Virtual Library Genetics a subject catalog covering genetics in the biosciences; includes animals, plants, microbes, human genetics and genomic research
• WWW Virtual Library: Model Organisms

Transgenic

• Environmental Health Perspectives
• Gene Expression Nervous System Atlas (GENSAT) brain slice images of BAC transgenic mice
• Homophila human disease to drosophila gene database: uses OMIM to determine if sequence homologs exist in FlyBase using BLAST
• Nucleics custom-made transgenic mice models
• Transgenic Animal Web
• Transgenic Animal Web Links to Useful Resources
• Virtual Library Genetics a subject catalog covering genetics in the biosciences; includes animals, plants, microbes, human genetics and genomic research

Homology

• Homology Maps Page from NCBI
• Homophila human disease to drosophila gene database: uses OMIM to determine if sequence homologs exist in FlyBase using BLAST
• Virtual Library Genetics a subject catalog covering genetics in the biosciences; includes animals, plants, microbes, human genetics and genomic research

Research Sites

• Australian Genome Research Facility
• Australian National Genomic Information Server
• Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Center
• Biological and Environmental Research (BER), U.S. Dept of Energy Office of Science
• Biological X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy at SSRL
• Broad Institute fulfulling the promise of genetics for medicine
• Brown Lab, Stanford University, California
• Canadian Genetic Diseases Network consortium of genetic scientists and core technology facilities
• Cancer Genome Anatomy Project interdisciplinary program to establish the information and technological tools needed to decipher the molecular anatomy of a cancer cell
• Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• Cooperative Human Linkage Center (CHLC)
• Department of Genome Analysis, GBF
• DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center)
• DNA Sequence and Technology Center Stanford University
• DOE and NIH Research Sites
• EBI Research and Services Groups
• Eccles Institute of Human Genetics University of Utah
• Eleanor Roosevelt Institute at the University of Denver
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory
• Généthon gene therapy treatments for rare diseases
• Genome Canada
• Genome Information Research Center Osaka University
• Genome Sequencing Centre Jena
• GenomeNet
• Genomic Science Program from the U.S. Department of Energy The next step at the Department of Energy to accelerate understanding of dynamic living systems
• Genoscope
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute major U.S. philanthropic organization that supports research in genetics, cell biology, immunology, structural biology, and neuroscience.
• HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center
• Human Genome Organisation (HUGO)
• Human Genome Project Research in Progress
• Institute of Genetics Supports research on the genetic and biochemical basis of health and disease
• Japan Science and Technology Corporation ( JST ) Advanced Lifescience Information System ( ALIS )
• Joint Genome Institute Department of Energy sequencing institution
• Kazusa DNA Research Institute
• Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)
• M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Genetics
• Mammalian Genoytping Service (MGS)
• Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
• Merck Genome Research Institute Gene function studies
• MITOMAP A human mitochondrial genome database
• National Center for Genome Resources
• National Institutes of Health National Human Genome Research Institute
• National Laboratory for the Genetics of Israeli Populations national repository for human cell lines
• National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing (NRBSC)
• NIH Center for Molecular Modeling 3-D structure and physiochemical properties
• Oklahoma University
• Sandia National Laboratories, California
• Sanger Center a genome research centre set up by the Wellcome Trust
• Science.gov Genetics and Molecular Biology Science Information from 14 U.S. Federal Agencies
• Telethon Institute for Genetics and Medicine
• University of Michigan Sequencing Core
• University of Oklahoma Advanced Center for Genome Technology
• University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioinformatics
• University of Victoria, Biology Department
• Utah Genome Center Projects at the center encompass large-scale sequencing, capillary, genotyping, and ELSI.
• Washington University Genome Sequencing Center
• WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) - Melbourne, Australia
• Wellcome Trust
• World Health Organization: Genetic techniques

Links updated 09-Feb-12