Bioinformatics Links
- http://www.bioinfbook.org/
This is the official website for the textbook we are using, Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics by Jonathan Pevsner. He provides sample lectures covering each chapter as well as links to the pages he references. - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
The National Center for Biotechnology Information website. This site contains many of the tools we'll be using during the course. - http://www.expasy.ch/
The Expert Protein Analysis System, a suite of proteomics tools useful for bioinformatics research. - http://workbench.sdsc.edu/
The Biology Workbench at the San Diego Supercomputing Center. This site offers a unified application for searching many web databases and running many of the bioinformatics programs discussed in the course. Free registration required.
Computational Resources
- http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
A simple UNIX tutorial for beginners. This tutorial covers the basics of how to navigate the command line in a UNIX operating system like that in the Macintosh OS X Terminal. - http://www.thinkpython.com/
A free online textbook entitled How to think like a computer scientist using python. Provided as a resource to help you learn Python, but please to not attempt to print the document from the lab.
Molecular Biology Links
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=mboc4
Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th Edition. A complete college-level textbook containing detailed information about most areas of cell biology. Offered free of charge through the National Library of Medicine, and fully searchable. - http://www.genome.gov/10002096
The talking glossary of genetic terms at the National Human Genome Research Institute. A useful place to start if you come across a word you're unfamiliar with.
