Links
For All Ages
Science in the News, late breaking news reports for those interested in science
DSV Alvin webcam, watch the rebuilding of the world’s most famouse submersible in real time!
Deep Sea News blog, what’s going down in the deep
For Young Explorers (K-12)
For Undergraduates, Graduate Students and Postdocs
Harvard Graduate student resources
C-DEBI graduate and postdoctoral opportunities
MBARI postdoctoral opportunities
Putnam Expedition Grants (Harvard only)
Science Reference Websites
PubMed, for references
GeneNames, to quickly cross-reference Gene Names across species and isoforms
Annot8r, annotates partial genomes from GO/EC/KEGG Data
Citations, rules for proper citation
KEGG, pathway maps for genomic/proteomic data
iPath, Interactive Pathway Map Builder
IMG, for genomic analyses
rrndb, a curated for 16S, 23S and 5S ribosomal RNAs in Bacteria and Archaea
FunGene, for functional gene interrogations
MUSCLE, for aligning a larger number of sequences
probecheck, for checking oligo probe fidelity
Cold Stream Harbor protocols Online (Harvard only)
Oligo Analyzer, for desigining and ordering oligo primers
Restriction mapper, input a DNA sequence and obtain several types of graphic and textual restriction map
Webcutter, analyze restriction maps of sequences
Mr. Bayes, a program for the Bayesian estimation of phylogeny
Sequence Alignment (proteins & nucleotides), genomatix local alignments
ClustalW2, a general purpose multiple sequence alignment program for DNA or proteins
MG-RAST, metagenomics analysis server
KAAS, automatic annotation server for ortholog assignment and pathway mapping
MEGAN, metagenome analyses software
RDP Pyrosequencing Pipeline, pipeline aims to simplify the processing of large 16S rRNA sequence libraries obtained through pyrosequencing
Blast2Go, an all in one tool for functional annotation of (novel) sequences and the analysis of annotation data
Expasy: Protein 1-D, 2-D, 3-D, analysis of protein sequences and structures as well as 2-D and 3-D PAGE
Pymolwiki, the community-run support site for the PyMOL molecular viewer
Brenda Enzyme Database, a comprehensive enzyme information system
COGnitor, compare your sequence to COG database
Pfam, find Pfam families within your sequence of interest
CCD, Conserved Domains and Protein Classification
Molecular Biology Database Collection, a great database for molecular biology and biochemistry
CAMERA, Marine Microbial Ecology, a data repository and a bioinformatics tools resource to address the challenges of metagenomic analysis
Harvard Scriptome, the Scriptome is a toolbox helping biologists explore and manipulate their data
Taking a vent's temperature — when you're working with a robot manipulator 2 kilometers below the sea — takes a steady hand. Courtesy of D. Kelly, University of Washington.
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