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All the Virology on the WWW
http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/garryfavweb.html
An extensive directory of virology research, virus servers, organizations, news, and links to information on diseases/vaccines, etc. Housed by Tulane University and maintained by David M. Sander, Ph.D., who welcomes new link suggestions. For students and researchers alike
http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/BNB/bnb-en.html
An Internet directory, compiled and updated by the Institut Pasteur, which has become a popular biology reference locator. A search form presents a word search box (type in a term or phrase); a topic search (set preferences to organism type, etc.); and a browse-the-whole-database (a starting point for becoming familiar with the organization of the entries). The words-and-topics option is an alternate search form that combines the search term box with the scrolling topic preferences.
Creation of Al Chan (Ph.D. Microbiology, Iowa, State). Manageable access to information about microbes on the internet.
There are a number of groups serving the sciences that have assumed responsibility for maintaining comprehensive directories to scientific societies. The two sites listed below were selected because they complement each other in their coverage.Immunology Societies and Associations
http://www.invitroallergy.org/societ.htm
Sort this list by region or by subject.Resources of Scholarly Societies - Biology
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/biol_soc.html
The librarians of the University of Waterloo referee and maintain this list. A society's web site must meet guidelines for acceptance and the criteria include standards such as scholary nature, standard domain-name format, and at least two links to other documents relating to the same society. Part of the Scholarly Societies Project.
http://mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks.html
This departmental web page offers an eclectic selection of links categorized to help the reader browse through its vast contents. Major categories include Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomolecular and Biochemical Databases, Educational Resources, Evolution, Jobs, Online Journals (accessible by Harvard users), and Zebrafish. Other subheadings lead to look-up sites such as the Online Mendelian Inheritance of Man (OMIM), the Genome Database. Also, there are lots of connections to biotechnology and biodiversity source pages.
These three agencies exchange data on a daily basis in an effort to collect and make available up-to-date sequence data through each others' databases:GenBank (at NCBI)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Nucleotide
GenBank is the nucleotide sequence database overseen by NCBI. Searching GenBank is through the Entrez search and retrieval system. A Submit to GenBank data entry form allows scientists to contribute new sequences to the database.DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ)
http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/
DDBJ is the sole DNA data bank in Japan officially certified to collect DNA sequences from researchers and to issue the internationally recognized accession number to data submitters.European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
http://www.embl.org/
EMBL is an international network of research institutes dedicated to research in molecular biology. In 1980, EMBL established the Nucleotide Sequence Data Library (the first of its kind) at its headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany . Since then, the European Bioinformatics Institute < http://www.ebi.ac.uk> has assumed responsibility for managing the EMBL database contents.
http://www.nbii.gov/index.html
The "Infrastructure" serves as a combination website directory, publications clearinghouse, and coordinating agency for bringing government, academic, and private enterprises together into a "partnership." It is a combination browsing tool (the margin links are easy to follow) and database (with its own Search form) to a vast collection of resources. Developed and maintained by the Center for Biological Informatics of the U.S. Geological Survey.
http://www.nih.gov/
This is a network of United States health information, grant opportunities, news, scientific resources, and a list of all the agencies governed by NIH (each of which has its own website). There is an Advanced Search form, but the site is designed more as a browsing utility. Academics and researchers from biochemistry, biotechnology and biomedicine will want to familiarize themselves with the NIH's NCBI and NLM sites described below.National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI's activities now include facilitating public access to information on human health and disease. To this end, NCBI oversees development of the Entrez search and retrieval system. Entrez allows retrieval across systems using these browsers:PubMed for MEDLINE
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man from Johns Hopkins
Protein Sequences
Nucleotide Sequences (GenBank)
Structures from MMDB (Molecular Modeling DataBase)
LocusLinkfor genetic loci
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
The nation's central collector and indexer of materials on medicine. From NLM's home page, follow the links to these resources:Gateway
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd
A simplified one-search of NIH resources retrieves records from PubMed, LOCATORplus, and MEDLINEplus.LOCATORplus
http://locatorplus.gov/
NLM's online catalog.MEDLINEplus
http://medlineplus.gov/
NLM's consumer health information site.PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
NLM's current search and retrieval interface to MEDLINE.PubMed Central
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
NCBI's digital archive of life sciences journals.
http://www.vlib.org/Biosciences.html
Serves as the general biology directory for the WWW Virtual Library. Its opening page lists links to specialized biology sites, each one a self-contained component of the Virtual Library managed by a participating institution. A components which has been favorably reviewed within the molecular biology community are:Virtual Library | Genetics
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/genetics.html#omim
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) curates this site which receives its funding from the Department of Energy. The main attraction is the link to the ORNL <http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/> site which contains a diverse array of resources on the Human Genome Project.