Biology: Internet Sites

Databases

• National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Entrez at NCBI
• PLANTS National Database
• Protein Data Bank

Government Agencies

• SciTechResearch.gov
• DOEgenomes.org--a source on the Human Genome Project, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy
• National Science Foundation
• National Institutes of Health
• Environmental Protection Agency
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services
• National Wetlands Research Center--a research center of the U.S. Geological Survey

Other Internet Sites

• All the Virology on the WWW--associated with the Gary Laboratory at Tulane University
• American Society for Microbiology
• Biodiversity Hotspots--from Conservation International, this site focuses on 25 threatened ecosystems
• Biology at the National Academies
• BiologyBrowser--from Thomson Scientific
• Biosciences Web Resources --from Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
• Entomology Index of Internet Resources--from Iowa State University
• Environmental Education on the Internet
• Federation for American Societies for Experimental Biology
• Genetics Education Center--from the Kansas University Medical Center
• Kimball's biology pages--an online reference manual designed for introductory biology students
• Life Science Dictionary--BioTech at the University of Texas at Austin
• NatureServe--from the Association of Biodiversity Information
• PCR: Polymerase Chain Reaction--hosted by U.C. Berkeley
• Savannah River Ecology Laboratory--research unit of the University of Georgia