Biology: Recommended Websites

The premier government agency dedicated to the conservation, protection, and enhancement of fish, wildlife and plants, and their habitats.

The Forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Forest Service manages public lands in national forests and grasslands.

Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries & research institutions contribute to this collection. There are over 2 million digitized volumes of biodiversity literature including key taxonomic data. An invaluable historical resource.

The Encyclopedia of Life is a collection of pages-one for each of the 1.8 million known species-that provide entry points to a vast array of knowledge including: taxonomy, geographic distribution, genetics, evolutionary history and more.

Database of nucleotide sequences from >130,000 organisms from the National Center for Biotechnology Information

Database of Drosophila genes & genomes

Genomic information infrastructure for biomedical researchers, including OMIM, the Human Genone Project, and many other genomic resouces

Mice as model organisms from Jackson Labs

In-depth descriptions of gene traits and disorders and access to research

gene expression profiles of normal, precancer and cancer cells from the National Cancer Institute

An index of microbiology information sources on the web, from microbiologist Al Chan

The national resource for molecular biology and biotechnology information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Research of viral organisms regarded as potential bioterrorism threats or emerging infectious diseases; from the Univeristy of Victoria and the University of Alabama at Birmingham

It provides access to scientific databases and software tools (i.e., resources) in different areas of life sciences including proteomics, genomics, phylogeny, systems biology, population genetics, transcriptomics etc.