Apoptosis Websites

• A well maintained bioinformatics resource provided by the Burnham Institute
• Naohiro Inohara's Apoptosis Website - very useful overview charts
• Special Topics - Apoptosis: Interesting
• Jeff's great webpages about cell cycle, apoptosis, wedding parties and more...
• Michael Knudson presents nice slide shows about basic apoptotic pathways
• Ottmar Janssen presents a slide show about AICD (in German)
• The Cell Death Society
• Apoptosis Online - Database
• Apoptosis Lecture at the University of Basel
• Nice Caspase Website by Mark Hewitson
• Kimball's Apoptosis Page
• Alzheimer et Apoptose - en francais
• Biosource Apoptosis Glossary
• Roche - Apoptosis Special Interest Site
• Apoptosis Page at Biospace.com
• ICRF's FACS in Apoptosis Research Website
• NIH - Apoptosis Interest Group
• Apoptosis in Development
• Nitric Oxide Research Group - London

Cancer Websites

• The Cancer Genome Anatomy Project (CGAP)
• CancerNet by NCI at NIH
• American Cancer Society
• Cancer Advice, a resource for patients with cancer
• OncoLink provides accurate cancer-related information
• CancerSource.com

Cancer Societies

• AACR - American Association for Cancer Research
• ACOR- Association of Cancer Online Resources
• ASCO - American Society for Clinical Oncology
• International Agency for Research on Cancer
• American Cancer Society
• International Union Against Cancer
• Association for International Cancer Research
• CaP Cure - The Association for the Cure of Cancer of the Prostate
• Children's Cancer Association
• Cancer Patients Aid Association
• Deutsche Krebshilfe - German Cancer Aid

Cell Biology Websites

• ER, Golgi, Peroxysomes, Lysosomes
• The Interactive Fly - A cyberspace guide to Drosophila genes and their roles in development
• C. elegans link site
• Cells Alive

Scientific Glossaries/Encyclopedia

• Cytokines Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia - just amazing!
• Biochemistry + Molecular Biology Glossary - Portland Press
• Biochemistry Glossary 1
• Biochemistry Glossary 2
• UCMP Glossary of Biological Terms
• Biology Hypertextbook
• Genomic glossaries & taxonomies maintained by Mary Chitty
• A Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic Terms - by Brigid Schlindwein
• Glossary at the site Primer on Molecular Genetics - DOE
• A Genetics Glossary
• Microbial Genetics Glossary
• Glossary of Genetic Terms - NHGRI
• Nature - Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (mostly commercial)

• Chemfinder - Find information about chemical compounds

• Cancer Dictionary at CancerSource.com
• Chemotherapy Drugs Infos

• Glossary of Biotechnology Terms

Scientific Databases - Resources

• GenomeNet Database Service, Japan
• CMS Molecular Biology Resource - a wealth of links to sequence and databank analysis tools
• ExPASy Link Collection

Sequence Analysis Tutorials

• A guide to Molecular Sequence Analysis
• Introduction to Sequence Analysis - Harvard Medical School
• The BLAST Statistics Tutorial at NCBI
• WU (Washington University) BLAST Archiv Background Information
• Introduction to FASTA

Sequence Databases

• Genbank at NCBI - DNA / Protein Sequence Database
• EMBL - Nucleotide Sequence Database
• DNA Databank of Japan
• SRS - Sequence Retrieval System at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
• SWISS-PROT Protein Sequence Database
• OWL - Composite Protein Sequence Database, UK
• MAFF DNA Bank, Japan
• Prosite Database of protein families and domains (ExPASy)
• PDB - Protein Data Bank: 3-D biological macromolecular structure data
• Genome Databases - Archive of Published Genomes
• Database of Genome Sizes

Organism Specific Databases

• TIGR - Databases (Microbes, Parasites, Plants)
• TAIR - Arabidopsis thaliana Database Search
• FlyBase - A Database of the Drosophila Genome
• European Drosophila Genome Project (EDGP)
• ACEDB - A C.elegans Database at The Sanger Centre
• WormBase at The Sanger Centre
• ZFIN -The Zebrafish Information Network

BLAST servers

• Human Genome BLAST at NCBI
• BLAST NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, MD, USA
• BLAST Genestream network - Institut de Genetique Humaine at Montpellier, France
• WU BLAST2 at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
• Advanced WU (Washington University)-BLAST2 EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
• BLAST DDBJ - DNA Databank of Japan, Mishima, Japan

FASTA servers

• FASTA at Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
• TFASTA at Genestream network - Institut de Genetique Humaine at Montpellier, France
• FASTA3 at EMBL, UK
• FASTA at GenomeNet, Japan

ESTs and Gene Expression

• EST Links WebSite
• UniGene at NCBI
• SAGE - Serial Analysis of Gene Expression
• NCI Cancer Microarray Project
• mAdb - microArray database at NCI
• Stanford Microarray Database

Gene Mapping and Disease

• GenLink - links to mapping resources
• GDB Genome Database
• OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Men
• CGAP - The Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
• GeneCards at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Sequence Alignment

• Clustalw Multiple Alignments
• DIALIGN multiple alignments
• Match-Box multiple alignment
• BLAST 2 sequences
• ALIGN two sequences
• SIM- align two sequences

Signal Peptide and Transmembrane Region Prediction

• PSORT - prediction of protein sorting signals, Japan
• SignalP at CBS - signal peptide prediction, Denmark
• DAS - Transmembrane Prediction Server
• HMMTOP - prediction of transmembrane regions and topology
• PredictProtein - Transmembrane prediction
• CBS - Transmembrane Prediction
• TMpred - EMBnet Transmembrane Prediction

Protein Domains/Patterns/Motifs

• BLOCKS searcher
• Prosite at ExPASy - Database of protein families and domains, Switzerland
• ProDom - Protein Domain Database - Toulouse, France
• CD (conserved domain) Database at NCBI
• eMOTIF search, Stanford University, CA, USA
• SMART - Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool
• PRINTS - Protein Motif Fingerprint Database, UK
• PPScan at EMBL
• TEIRESIAS at IBM
• InterPro Search at EMBL
• ProfileScan Server (PFScan) - Search a protein sequence against a profile database
• P-val FingerPRINTScan
• Pfam - search for common protein domains in models for protein families
• MEME - Motif Discovery and Search
• Hits at SIB - database devoted to protein domains

Protein Interaction

• BRITE - Biomolecular Relations in Information Transmission and Expression
• KEGG - Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes: pathway and function assignment

3D Protein Structure Analysis

• PDB - Protein Data Bank: 3-D biological macromolecular structure data
• DALI - comparing protein structures in 3D
• FSSP - Fold classification based on Structure-Structure alignment of Proteins

Knockout Resources

• TBase - The Transgenic/Targeted Mutation Database

• BioCarta at IMGENEX
• TRANSPATH - Signal Transduction Browser
• Metabolic Pathways of Biochemistry
• KEGG - Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
• Biochemical Pathways - presented by Boehringer Mannheim at ExPASy

Protocols

• DoubleTwist Online Protocol Finder
• Online Protocols Link Overview

Links to Companies

• Alexis Biochemicals
• BioVision, Inc.
• Cell Pathways, Inc.
• Idun Pharmaceuticals
• Oncogene Apoptosis Catalogue
• OncoImmunin, Inc.
• Roche - Apoptosis Special Interest Site
• StressGen Biotechnology
• Trevigen
• Xantos biomedicine

Antibodies

• IMGENEX
• Oncogene
• Pharmingen
• R&D Systems
• Research Diagnostics Inc. (RDI)
• Santa Cruz Biotechnology
• Transduction Laboratories
• Upstate Biotech

Chemicals

• Merck
• Sigma-Aldrich
• Roche - Boehringer Mannheim
• Calbiochem
• Cayman Chemicals
• Pierce

Enzymes and GeneTech

• Amersham, Pharmacia
• Clontech
• Stratagene
• Invitrogen
• Qiagen
• New England Biolabs
• Promega
• Perkin-Elmer
• NEN-Lifesciences

Cell Culture

• ATCC - American Type Culture Collection
• Cambrex - BioWhittaker
• LGC-ATCC - European Distributor of ATCC biomaterials
• IBS, a non-profit organization providing clinical material (cells, tissues...) for researchers.

General / Labware

• Fisher
• Bio-Rad
• Novex