Reference

AllExperts Biology Q&A - Directory of scientists and scholars volunteering to answer questions in a variety of biological fields.
www.allexperts.com/browse.cgi?catLvl=2&catID=229

Amino Acid Repository - Properties and images of amino acids, hydrophobicity scales, solvent accessibility of amino acids in known protein structures, mutation mass shifts, links to the NIST Chemistry WebBook for Amino Acids.
www.imb-jena.de/IMAGE_AA.html

Arctic Theme Page - Arctic sea ice ecology, organisms from bacteria, viruses, and unicellular algae to mammals (polar bears, reindeer, fox, whales) text, maps and photographs (current and historical). NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) site provides access to widely distributed Arctic data and information for scientists, managers, decision makers and the general public on one of the last remaining frontiers.
www.arctic.noaa.gov/essay_krembsdeming.html

BelgoBiotech - Educational biotech web site, selected links, biotech glossary, timeline, basic principles, and applications.
www.belgobiotech.be

BioABACUS - Biotechnology ABbreviation and ACronym Uncovering Service. Searchable database of biotechnology and bioinformatics abbreviations and acronyms for biological and computer science terminology, journals, and organizations (about 6000 terms).
darwin.nmsu.edu/~molbio/bioABACUShome.htm

Bioinformatics.ca Links Directory - Features curated links to molecular resources, tools and databases.
bioinformatics.ubc.ca/resources/links_directory/

Biology Glossary - Definitions for about 400 biotechnology terms, from Bio-Informer software.
www.angelfire.com/nv/biology/dictionary.html

Biology Online - Dictionary, links and tutorials on cell biology, genetics, genetics and evolution, control of growth and development, regulation of biological systems, adaptation and freshwater ecology.
biology-online.org

Biology Reference - Explains biological concepts in hundreds of illustrated articles arranged alphabetically.
www.biologyreference.com/

BioScience - Provides a biological encyclopedia, dictionary, search facility, lab manual and links to organize biological science information and make it universally accessible.
www.bioscience.ws/

BioScience WebRing - Ring of biological scientists devoted to increasing traffic to their sites and helping internet users find sites of interest by providing useful links.
j.webring.com/hub?ring=biosci

2can Support Portal: Glossary - Provides a glossary of common words found in bioinformatics and molecular biology literature.
www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/glossary/

Cell and Molecular Biology Online - An all-around reference site for the field with educational, technical, and professional net resources.
www.cellbio.com/

Classic/obscure Science Texts The Book Page - Classic - obscure antiquarian science texts 19th and 20th century: Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle,Thomas Huxley's Lectures on Evolution, George Grant McCurdy, John Tyndall Lectures on Light, Alfred Russel Wallace, Erwin Schrodinger's What is Life?, EW Maunder's Are the Planets Inhabited? JBS Haldane's Daedalus, Bertrand Russell's Icarus, William Paley's Natural Theology
home.att.net/~p.caimi/oremia.html

Community of Science - Network of scientists and their institutions geared toward publicizing research, collaboration, and funding opportunities - from Johns Hopkins Univ.
www.cos.com

Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology - Provides definitions of a large number of terms associated with these fields.
www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/~julian/Dict.html

Ecology Dictionary - Provides definitions of words used in the study of ecology to enable people to better understand discussions on environmental subjects.
www.ecologydictionary.org/

Entrez PubMed - Direct public access to the National Library of Medicine's Medline Biomedical literature search engine through the NCBI.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/

EverythingBio - Provides a searchable glossary of biological terms and invites users to edit poorly rated definitions.
www.everythingbio.com/

EverythingBio.com: Life Science Glossary - Glossary of genetic, molecular, cell and developmental biology definitions.
www.everythingbio.com/glos/index.php

FAO Biotechnology Glossary - Food and Agriculture Organization (UN)'s consolidated yet comprehensive list of terms and acronyms in applied biotechnology, especially plant and animal genetic resources, food quality and plant protection. About 5000 terms.
www.fao.org/biotech/index_glossary.asp

Functional Genomics - All inclusive areas of functional genomics including analysis of mutagenesis and gene disruption, proteomics, microarrys, bioinformatics, SNP analysis, expression profiling, mutations detection, structural genomics,in silico methods, standardisation and benchmarking, data management and ontologies, and integration of data. Sponsored by the European Science Foundation
www.functionalgenomics.org.uk

Functional Genomics Resources - Glossaries in genetics and genomics, molecular biology and biochemistry, post-genomics, biotechnology and bioinformatics (including proteomics)and medical genomics from Science Magazine Online.
www.sciencemag.org/feature/plus/sfg/education/glossaries.shtml

GenBank - Text and similarity searching of the GenBank sequence database provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/GenbankSearch.html

Genomics Glossaries - Genomic terminology defined and hierarchically related, from Cambridge Healthtech Institute. Emphasis is on biotechnology and pharmaceutical applications, proteomics, informatics, technologies, instrumentation and molecular biology.
www.genomicglossaries.com

Institute for Scientific Information - Publishes scholarly research databases, including Current Contents, in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Online access is available for most publications, usually by subscription.
www.isinet.com/

Model Organisms WWW Virtual Library - Guide to web resources for all major model organisms, including Drosophila (fly), C. elegans (worm), mouse, zebrafish, E. coli, Dictylostelium, and Arabidopsis.
ceolas.org/VL/mo

OpenWetWare - Aims to promote the sharing of information among researchers and groups who are working in biology and biological engineering. Provides information on labs and groups, courses, protocols and blogs.
openwetware.org

Science Advisory Board - Online panel of 5,000 life scientists and physicians who convene electronically to voice their opinions on emerging technologies.
www.scienceboard.net

The snoRNP Database - The snoRNP Database is a collection of snoRNAs and their associated proteins.
evolveathome.com/snoRNA/snoRNA.php

The SNP Consortium Ltd. - A non-profit foundation organized to develop up to 300,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) distributed evenly throughout the human genome and to make the information related to these SNPs available to the public without intellectual property restrictions.
snp.cshl.org/

Table of Standard Genetic Code - Translation table of nucleotide codon sequences to amino acids.
molbio.info.nih.gov/molbio/gcode.html

Virtual Library: Biosciences - Directory of the Virtual Library, an expert-run catalog of sections of the web.
www.vlib.org/Biosciences.html