Biomolecular Chemistry 504

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Web Sites are listed below:

http://www.accessexcellence.org/

This page is maintained by a large biotechnology firm called Genentech.

"Access Excellence" is their public relations/education tool. The "About

Biotech" page is the most useful. Check out the "Graphics

Gallery" and the "Issues" pages.

http://www.dnalc.org/resources/BiologyAnimationLibrary.htm

 This is a link to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory resources.    The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) one is fun.
 

http://www.faseb.org/opar/bloodsupply/pcr.html

This page is maintained by the Federation of American Societies for

Experimental Biology (FASEB), a non-profit professional organization. They

produce articles on breakthroughs in science for general audiences. This

one describes the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).

 

http://www.hhmi.org/genetictrail/

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) uses a huge bequest from the

aviation entrepreneur to support biomedical research and education. They

have produced this very readable booklet on applied human genetics.

 

http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/

This is the homepage for the U.S. government's Human Genome Project, run by

the NIH and DOE. It is more technical than the other web pages listed

above, but has some useful basic information.

http://www-genome.stanford.edu/Saccharomyces/
This is the Saccharomyces Genome Database. S. cerevisiae is a model eukaryotic organism.


www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/primer/snps.html


A primer on SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) put together by the National Center for Biotechnology Information. 
This is relevant to the Human Genetic Typing Lab.


www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/
The Merck Manual is a source for general clinical information.