Biology Internet Tools
Created By: dandright
Last Modified: 08/21/06
Summary: These are various and sundry tools and link resources I have found that are related to neuroscience, neuroanatomy and genetics.Link: The W.U.S.M. Neuroscience Tutorial
Summary: An illustrated guide to the essential basics of clinical neuroscience created in conjunction with a first-year course for medical students.
Link: Neuroguide.com - Neuroscience Software List and Links
Summary: Giant page-o-links. Some good, some bad, all nerdy.
Link: Morgan Genetics Tutorial
Summary: Good genetics primer. Well done.
Link: TOP 25
Summary: 25 most influential articles from either subject or journal from any period of time since they started doing the list. What's hot what's not for nerdy types. Like me.
Link: Biology Tutorials - Biology-Online.org
Summary: Entry-level stuff. Good for an overview of how things work.
Link: Allen Brain Atlas + Neuroscience Gateway
Summary: source for the latest research in neuroscience and genomics. The Allen Brain Atlas provides maps of the expression of approximately 20,000 genes in the mouse brain.
Link: The Navigable Atlas of the Sheep Brain
Summary: What it sounds like. Baaaaa. As my friend Michael said when we were dissecting in class: "So this is what it takes to run a sheep."
Link: DNA Interactive
Summary: Nifty animations of DNA, RNA, transcription and all that fun stuff!
Link: Brain Explorer - Glossary
Summary: Glossary of Neuroscience Terms. Great when you're readin an article and have no idea what something means.
Link: Biosoft: Software for Science: NeuroSim
Summary: NeuroSim contains several modules, each of which simulates a particular aspect of neural function.
HODGKIN-HUXLEY, GOLDMAN EQ, MEMBRANE PATCH, PASSIVE CONDUCTION, NETWORK, NEURON/SYNAPSE
Link: PCR Compendium
Summary: Everything you ever or never wanted to know about Polymerase Chain Reactions.
Link: Online Neuroscience Lectures
Summary: Links to lectures. Some links are dead--but many are not. Stuff you otherwise would have to attend these schools to see.
Link: Neuroscience Resources U of Wisconsin
Summary: Links to sundry neuro resources. Pretty good list.
Link: EurekAlert! - Science News
Summary: Press releases covering the gamut of science news. Hot topics.
Link: Consed--A Graphical Tool for Editing Phrap Sequencing Assemblies
Summary: Sequence and bioinformatics software. Useful for comparison of nucleotides.
Link: CiteULike: A free online service to organise your academic papers
Summary: This is a science researchers' bookmarking site. Find papers on topics you're interested in,already vetted by other science folks. Free membership.
Link: HHMI: Webcasts
Summary: A ton of video lectures on multiple science topics. Need Real Player.
Link: brainmaps.org
Summary: Interactive zoomable high-resolution digital brain atlas based on more than 10 million megapixels of scanned images.
Link: FASTA
Summary: Compare dna sequences to each other or to NCBI database for nucleotide matching. Nice.
