Links to Molecular Biology Sites

NCBI (pubmed, sequence searches, BLAST): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

TIGR sequence searches: http://tigrblast.tigr.org/tgi/

BCM Search Engine: http://searchlauncher.bcm.tmc.edu/

Scientific search engine: http://www.scirus.com

Various DNA software: http://www.justbio.com/

Pedro's MolBio Tools: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~pedro/rt_1.html

MolBio software resources: http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/

Biology Workbench: http://workbench.sdsc.edu/

Genedoc (publication-quality sequence alignments): http://www.psc.edu/biomed/genedoc/

Gene Runner (free DNA program): http://www.generunner.net

Links to phylogeny programs: http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/software.html

Sequence Analysis Guide: http://www.sequenceanalysis.com/contents.html

Expasy protein tools: http://us.expasy.org/

Gene Fisher (degenerate primer design): http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/genefisher/

Primer design and other tools: http://labtools.stratagene.com/QC/QCmaster.php

Prediction Servers: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/

For secondary structure predictions: (click on English, then Contents, then paste in protein): http://sosui.proteome.bio.tuat.ac.jp/welcomeE.html

For protein secondary predictions: http://bioweb.pasteur.fr/cgi-bin/seqanal/toppred.pl

For protein domains: http://smart.embl-heidelberg.de/

Gene hunting protocols: You must have Acrobat Reader to open these files.

1. Amplification of representative cDNA samples from microscopic amounts of invertebrate tissue.
2. Amplification of cDNA ends using PCR suppression effect and step-out PCR.
3. Ordered differential display: a simple method for systematic comparison of gene expression profiles.

Handy Perl Scripts