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Organisms & Populations

Model Organisms

  • Caenorhabditis elegans WWW Server
    University of Texas. Communications site for the study of nematode developmental genetics and neurobiology. C. elegans genome data
  • The Mouse Genome Project
    Baylor College. Gateway to the current public domain mouse genomic sequencing project.
  • Entrez Genomic Database
    NCBI. Entrez interface into the collection of genomic databases and database resources supported by NCBI.
  • E. coli Database Collection
    Universitaet Giessen. ECDC has all available information about the E.coli K12 chromosome
  • Zebrafish Information Network
    University of Oregon. Provides information, news and genetic research resources to the zebrafish research community
  • STD Sequence Databases
    Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Saccharomyces Genome Database Click for help
    Stanford. SGD is a molecular biology and genetics database for the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The complete sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, strain S288C, is now public and can be retrieved and searched through SGD
  • Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project
    UC Berkeley. Physical map of the D. melanogaster, Encyclopedia of Drosophila WWW Server
  • FlyBase
    Genetic and molecular database for Drosophila. Includes data from Drosophila Genome Projects and the literature. It is a joint project with the Berkeley and European Drosophila Genome Projects
  • Mammalian Homology to Yeast
    Stanford. Allows researchers to retrieve a yeast-against-mammal Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) report by entering a gene or ORF name

Populations

  • Population Biology Simulations
    Collection of simple simulations (written in Java) for use in teaching principles of population genetics and population ecology in various courses
  • The Global Population Dynamics Database
    One of the largest collection of animal and plant population data in the the world from the UK Natural Environment Research Council and the USA National Science Foundation
  • POPClocks
    USA and World human population clocks maintained by USA Census Bureau, Population Division
  • Ecology.com
    Comprehensive site containing a wide variety of news, information and images concerning ecology
  • Ecology WWW page
    A volunteer service to students, teachers, researchers, and others interested in the science of ecology, this list was compiled by Anthony R. Brach (Missouri Botanical Garden & Harvard University Herbaria, U.S.A.)
  • Ecological Risk Analysis: Guidance, Tools and Applications
    This site contains information and resources on a variety of topics related to the growing field of ecological risk analysis

Anatomy

Neuroscience

  • UW Human Brain Project
    The UW Human Brain Project is one project within the national Human Brain Project, a national multi-agency effort to develop informatics tools for managing the exploding amount of information that is accumulating about the human brain
  • Neuroscience Tutorial
    UW illustrated guide to the essential basics of clinical neuroscience created in conjunction with the first-year course for medical students.

Development

Phylogenetics

  • PHYLIP
    a free package of programs for inferring phylogenies
  • TreeView
    University of Glasgow. Program for displaying and printing phylogenies
  • Tree of Life Project
    University of Arizona
  • TreeBASE
    Harvard University Herbaria and UC Davis. Database of phylogenetic information

Evolutionary Biology