Biology Internet Resources

Education
Resources

Indexes and Databases

• AccessScience - The Encyclopedia of Science and Technology online
• Agricola --the Dept. of Agriculture's free online database for books or journal articles on agriculture, forestry, wildlife, etc.
• Agripedia -- An encyclopedia of agriculture developed by the University of Kentucky's College of Agriculture.
• Applied Sciences & Technology Abstracts
• Bioninformatics Links Directory
• Biology Digest
• BioOne
• BIOSOS Previews
• Clinical Pharmacology
• Health Business Fulltext Elite
• Health Source: Consumer Edition
• Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition
• MEDLINE
• National Center for Biotechnolgy Information (NCBI)
• PubMed
• PubMed Central
• ScienceDirect
• Wiley InterScience
• Yahoo Index to Biology

Online Publications

• American Journal of Botany
• Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (full text DWU campus only)
• Annual Review of Genetics (full text DWU campus only)
• Annual Reivew of Microbiology (full text DWU campus only)
• Annual Review of Plant Biology (full text DWU campus only)
• The EMBO Journal
• Darwin Online
• EMBO Reports
• Garden and Forest (1888-1897)
• Nature
• Nature Biotechnology
• Nature Cell Biology
• Nature Genetics
• Nature Immunology
• Nature Medicine
• Nature Reviews Cancer
• Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
• PLoS Biology

JSTOR Titles:

• Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
• Ecological Applications
• Ecological Monographs
• Ecology
• Journal of Animal Ecology
• Journal of Ecology
  

General Biology Resources

• Academic Info: Biological Sciences
• Biodicversity Heritage Library
• BiologyBrowser
• BioSciences Virtual Library
• Center for Bioethics
• Genome News Network
• Science Primer
• Tree of Life Web Project
• USGS Biological Resources
  

Physiology

• Harvey Project

Genetics

• Biocurator.org: information for and about biocurators, as well as links to multiple model organism databases.
  • FlyBase: fruit fly model organism database
  • ZFIN: zebrafish model organism database
• Bioinformatics Tutorial Series (BITS): tutorials from Harvard & MIT on various bioinformatics tools.
• Blast2Sequences: use to align two sequences
• ClustalW: can be downloaded or used online to align multiple DNA or protein sequences. Uses a hierarchical alignment method.
• EMBL-EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute)
• ExPASy Proteomics Server: use for analysis of protein structures
• Genetics Resources on the Web (search engine)
• Genome News Network
• Human Genome Project Education Resources
• PHYLIP: input nucleotide or protein sequences to creat evolutionary trees or hierarchies.
• Science Primer
• SWISS-MODEL: submit a protein sequence, and SWISS-MODEL searches sequence databases to locate a known sequence with a similar structure.
• T-Coffee: a package of related programs for aligning multiple DNA or protein sequences. Uses "rigorous" or mathematical alignment.
• Tomato Genetics Resource Center
• UCSC Genome Bioinformatics: search or browse for genomes of multiple different organisms.
• Wheat Genetic and Genomic Resources Center

Ecology and Environment

• Academic Info: Environmental Studies
• EnviroLink Network
• FRESC (Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center)
  A USGS site providing reserach and technical assistance in support of sound management and conservation practices for the western United States.
  
• The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
  Good source of regional information on U.S. endangered species, habits, invasive species, etc.
• NatureServe
  Not-for-profit organization. Provides reliable information about threatened species and ecosystems.

Botany

• Academic Info: Botany & Plant Biology
• Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
  Searchable set of characterizations of all orders and families of extant flowering and seed plants.
  
• Flora of North America
  A collaborative project to compile comprehensive descriptions of plants growing in the U.S., Canada, and Greenland.
• Ferns and Flowering Plants of South Dakota (April 1899) by D. A. Saunders
  Bulletin 64. Department of Botany and Entomology, US Experiement Station, Brookings South Dakota - e-book: consists of a catalogue by family of specimens taken in the field.
• Historical Names of Great Plains Plants
  This website lists vernacular names of native and naturalized plants of the prairie and other ecosystems of the Great Plains with their current and prior scientific synonyms with approximate dates when the names were in use. It is meant to be an aid for restorationists in interpreting historical documents.
• International Plant Names Index
  A database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants.
• National Plant Data Center
  "...acquires, develops, improves, and disseminates plant information to support NRCS and other efforts to improve the ecological health of the land."
• PlantFacts
  Horticulture and crop science in virtual perspective
• PLANTS Database
  Contains information on approximately 45,000 currently recognized plant taxa, vascular and nonvascular within the US and its territories. Searchable by common name, as well as scientific name, family or genus. Limiting and sorting features are available. Few photos.
• PLANTS Image Gallery
  More than 16,000 plant photos and line drawings
• Missouri Botanical Garden Library
  Digitized copies of 57 rare, illustrated botanical and gardening books including Medizinal Pflanzen by Hermann A. Köhler.
• Smithsonian Catalog of Botanical Illustrations
• Vascular Plant Image Gallery
  Alphabetical or by family.
• w3TROPICS
  Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclature database and associated authority files. Search by scientific name.
• WISFLORA: Wisconsin Vascular Plant Species
  Searchable site for Wisconsin's vascular plants - includes photos, habitat information, distribution maps, herbariums specimen data, etc.

Zoology

• Academic Info: Zoology
• Animal Info
  Information on rare and endangered animals. Searchable by species, category and country. Also contains a glossary and fact sheets for U.S. mammals.
• BiologyBrowser
  Free guide to finding zoology information on the internet -- created by BIOSIS.
  
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  Worldwide biodiversity information hosted by the University of Copenhagen-Denmark.
• International Field Guides
  Searchable database of field guides for animals, plants and more. Not completely full text.

Biological Images

• BIODIDAC --biological images for teaching purposes. Use is free with registration.
• Cells Alive -- great microscopic images and video.
• Image Library of Biological Macromolecules
• Metabolic Pathways for Biochemistry --This site is designed to graphically represent all major metabolic pathways, primarily those important to human biochemistry.
• Molecular Expressions: Images from the Microscope
• Natural History Museums and Collections --visit every natural history museum online.
• Virtual Dissections --Yahoo's guide to online dissection sources.
• WebPath: The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education --includes over 1900 images along with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions.

Education Resources

• Animal Diversity Web
  Basic information for teachers from K-12 to college level provided by the University of Michigan Zoology Dept.
• Educator's Reference Desk
  Resources for a variety of subject areas.  Subjects > Science > Biology
• Project BIO
  Joint project among Iowa State University and community colleges, high schools, and industries to develop and share biology education resources.
• Access Excellence
  Sponsored by Genentech; designed to provide information for high school biology teachers and enable exchange of lesson plans and techniques.
• The MIT Biology Hypertextbook
  Hypertextbook designed for the MIT Introductory Biology course contains a syllabus, chapters on basic college biology, a searchable index, self quizzes, and practice problems.
• Net Frog
  Choice of two online tutorials with step-by-step instructions and pictures of a frog dissection.
• UTK Mathematical Life Sciences Archives WWW Server Home Page
  Contains reviews of mathematical and educational software for life sciences.
• Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning: Science
  Links to lesson plans, classroom materials, etc.
• The Lesson Plan Page
  Links to many sites containing lesson plans.
• National Science Teachers Association
  Official web site of the NSTA.
• Journey North
  An interactive project engaging students in a global study of wildlife migration.
• Field Trip Earth
  Field-based wildlife conservation research projects ongoing around the world.

Evolution

• Becoming Human: Paleoanthropology, Evolution and Human Origins
  A journey through the story of human evolution in a broadband documentary experience.
• The Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Institution
  Furthering scientific knowledge about the evolutionary origin of human beings.