Science Links

Learning Resources for Molecular Biology, Genetics, Evolution, and Bioinfomatics

• Access Excellence @ The National Health Museum (Health and Biosciences)
• Complexity Digest
• DNA from the Beginning (Basics of DNA, Genes, and Heredity)
• Dolan DNA Learning Center
• Donald Forsdyke @ Queens University (Full Texts of Original Papers from 19th Century Onwards, on AIDS, Evolution, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Theoretical Immunology, and Sex Chromosomes)
• Evolution in Two Minutes or Less (Cool Videos)
• Evolution Matters (A Guide to the Creationism/Evolution Controversy)
• EvoTutor (Learning Evolution through Interactive Simulation)
• Genome Evolution Course (Itai Yanai)
• Glossary of Molecular Evolution
• Is Evolution Science?
• Kimball's Biology Pages (An Online Biology Textbook)
• Learn.Genetics (University of Utah)
• Microbes.info (The Microbiology Information Portal)
• No Answers in Genesis! (Ignorance as the Alternative to Evolution)
• Online Lectures in Bioinformatics (Hannes Luz)
• Protein Spotlight (Stories about Proteins, One at a Time)
• Routes (Computer Games on the Subject of Genetics, Evolution and the Human Genome)
• The Henry Stewart Talks (Animated Audio-Visual Presentations on Biomedical & Life Sciences)
• The TalkOrigins Archive (The Evidence for Evolution and the Lack of Evidence for Creation)
• Time Tree (Estimates of divergence times by using molecular data)
• Understanding Evolution
• Understanding Science and Evolution (Matthew F. Bonnan)

Databases

• DNA Data Bank of Japan (http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp)
• European Bioinformatics Institute (http://www.ebi.ac.uk)
• ExPASy Proteomics Server - Expert Protein Analysis System (http://au.expasy.org)
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
• Tree of Life

Free Online or Downloadable Software and Tools

• APE (Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution)
• Bioinfomatics Resources From the University of Manchester
• Biological Software from Institut Pasteur
• CAIcal Server (Codon Usage and Codon Adaptation Indices)
• Center for Biological Sequence Analysis
• iHOP (Information Hyperlinked over Proteins)
• Mesquite (Modular System for Evolutionary Analysis)
• Online Analysis of Data (Descriptive Statistics and Statistical Tests)
• PopG (Population Genetics Simulation Program)
• PopGen (Deterministic and Stochastic Population Genetics Simulations)
• Populus (Simulations of Population Biology)
• QuickCalcs (Online Calculators for Scientists)
• TreeFinder (Phylogenetic Trees from DNA Sequences)
• TreeSnatcher (Coding Trees from Images: A Phylogenetic Tree Capturing Tool)

History (Usage and Abusage) and Philosophy of Science

• Against Their Will (North Carolina's Eugenic Sterilization Program)
• Institute for the Study of Academic Racism
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (from Abelard to Zombies)

News and Blogs

• EveryOne (PLoSOne)
• Mike the Mad Biologist
• Paryngula
• Science Daily
• Science Watch
• The Sensuous Curmudgeo

Science = Fun

• Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature (Funny Names for Organisms and Genes)
• DiscoBlog (Serious Science is Fun, from Discover Magazine)
• Flynome (Database of Drosophila Gene Nomenclature)
• Genetic Music
• Information Aesthetics (Data Visualization)