Links: biology, genetics, & ecology

• A list of Virtual Courses on the web
• MIT Biology HyperTextbook and a simpler Biology 101 Lecture Notes
• Website for: "Biology 101:An Introduction to Life on Planet Earth" from the Roanoke College Department of Biology - A wacky & colorful set of pages full of interesting links and fun graphics. Wish I was in that class!
• The Biology Place and The Chemistry Place- the online resource for biology/chemistry educators and students. Has membership fees, but also has "visitor" features.
• Access Excellence - "a place in cyberspace for biology teaching and learning".
• CELLS - a colorful hypertext introduction to the world of the cell.
• CELLS Alive! - Video microscopy of living cells, bacteria, parasites, and pharmaceutical effects, plus 3D biological animation.
• The Microbe Zoo - Digital learning center for microbial ecology.
• Green Solitaire from Frank J. Regan - Tons of useful information and links. "The purpose of this web page to offer concrete actions that each person can do in their daily lives promote the health of this planet at the grassroots level."
• Thanks to Paul Thiessen for the DNA Graphics he created with his PovChem software. Thanks also to Etsuko Miyamoto for the DNA Renga Museum
• DNA From the Beginning : a multimedia primer on the basics of DNA and heridity - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• The ABCs of DNA - a simple intro to DNA, RNA and proteins
• The Invention of the Genetic Code by Brian Hayes, American Scientist January-February 1998
• Glossary of Microbiology and BioTech's free online science dictionary
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (subscription fee)
• KEGG: Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes - "an effort to computerize current knowledge of molecular and cellular biology in terms of the information pathways that consist of interacting molecules or genes and to provide links to the gene catalogs produced by genome sequencing projects." (Table of Contents)
• GeneCards - "an electronic encyclopedia integrating information about the functions of human genes and their products..."
• GeneMap'98 - A New Gene Map of the Human Genome
• Basics of DNA Fingerprinting
• Primer on Molecular Genetics - Department of Energy
• Human Genome Project Information - also has many links related to genetics
• Molecular Information Theory and the Theory of Molecular Machines from Tom Schneider
• Gamelan's Java-based biology programs
• The Institute of Biology - "The Voice of British Biology"
• The Scientist - The News Journal for the Life Scientist
• HMS Beagle: The BioMedNet webzine - free, extensive and beautiful!
  • Cutting Edge Debates in HMS Beagle
• Cell & Molecular Biology Online - good resource for professional biologists
• Elsevier Trends Journals - Elsevier Trends Journals are now available through BioMedNet. (About)
• EOWilson-Online Resource - All the online references on E.O.Wilson's published works. "unofficial" site by Frank J. Regan, creator of Green Solitaire
• The Astrobiology Web - "Space Exploration from the biological perspective" - a tremendous resource! (subpage on origin of life)
• The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
• Welcome to the SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
• NetVet/Electronic Zoo: Biology World Wide Web Sites - a HUGE alphabetical list.
• BioChemNet - biology and chemistry educational resource center
• Books
  • The Way Life Works by Bert Dodson, Mahlon Hoagland - a unique collaboration between a world-renowned molecular biologist and an equally talented artist
  • Life Itself : Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell by Boyce Rensberger - "a wonderfully readable digest of everything currently known about the mechanisms by which living cells perform their myriad tasks" --NY Times (Read about the wonders of the cell without having "intelligent design" thrown in your face every other page --John C)
  • Creating Mind: How the Brain Works by John E. Dowling
  • Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V. S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee
  • "Born That Way": Genes | Behavior | Personality by William Wright
  • Time, Love, Memory : A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner
• Newsgroups
  • bionet.microbiology