Links to Useful Scientific Sites

Since many sites provide comprehensive links to web resources, we mostly point you to these servers below, in addition to a few links to the most heavily trafficked web resources.

NCBI Resources

		NCBI Home page BankIt sequence submission
		The BLAST family of Basic Local Alignment Search Tools, including gapped-BLAST, Psi-BLAST and Phi-BLAST.
		The Entrez system for retreiving sequences and structures.
		The PubMed literature retreival system
		The Structure Browser
		The Taxonomy Browser

Web Resource Servers

		The Web of Science, where one can check the citation frequency of publications.
		The Expasy Molecular Biology Resource Server
		The Swiss-Prot Protein sequence database
		The SciQuest server for Internet resources
		The Microbiology Information Portal has breadth and depth of interesting information
		UCMP Phylogenetic resources
		The Infobiogen server is a resource with lots of useful links.
		The Biochemist's Toolbox, an excellent set of links from the University of Alberta
		The NBIF National Biotechnology Information Facilty, with Educational Resources (including workshops, on-line courses and educational classroom resources), Internet Resources (a searchable database of 3000+ annotated links to various internet sites with bioinformatics tools, research information, etc), and Products and Services resources.
		The TIGR home page, with links to genome sequences, maps, and BLAST interfaces for genomes in progress.
		The Virus Structure database at EMBL
		The Codon Usage Database, where codon usage tables for any organism in GenBank can be obtained.

Scientific Societies

		ASM, the American Society for Microbiology. Information on Journals, books and other publications, meeting schedules, and on membership and enrollment.
		FASEB, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
		GSA, the Genetics Society of America

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