Bioinformatics FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) - Online Resources
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Jennifer Steinbachs runs compbiology.org which is a
general computational biology site as well as being a portal to her
own work.
BioPlanet is well worth
visiting. It describes itself as "a not-for-profit site, funded with
our resources, for [its users'] benefit"
ColorBasePair is a
densely packed portal with lots of bioinformatics links
Nick Yates runs his own informative bioinformatics site,
unsurprisingly called nick-yates.com. He doesn't aim
to make money from it, but it may have paid-for ads. Check out the
glossaries---they are better than mine.
Tutorials
A great place to start, whether you come from a biological,
physical or computational background is at Martin Vingron's superb online
bioinformatics tutorial. (Begin by choosing a section from the
left-hand-side menu bar.)
Tom Smith and Don Emmeluth have produced a nice little exploration
of bioinformatics using NCBI resources and tools.
I recently stumbled upon a promising set of online
lecture notes currently under construction by B. Steipe at the
Genzentrum (Gene
Center) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München (University of Munich).
Chemistry for all
A defiantly frames-free chemistry
tutorial site.
Mathematics for biologists
First of all, an almost completely
painless introduction to the horrors of the quadratic equation
by Peter Whalen, James Walker, and Drew Marticorena.
C. J. Schwarz of
the Department of Statistics and
Acturial Science, Simon Fraser
University has produced a course in statistics which is
accompanied by set of sound, online PDF
handouts.
Here is a great guide
to a whole array of statistical learning/teaching resources prepared
by Juha Puranen of
the University of Helsinki (English).
Computers for biologists
Programming for biologists
General introduction to biology for
computer scientists
Estrella Mountain
Community College in the States offers this excellent short
introduction to biology (actually "The Nature of Science and
Biology". It's a great place for keyboard jockeys to start their
journey to enlightenment. Thanks to Alex O'Neill for pointing out
the broken link.
Genetics
The Dolan DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor has an outstanding
interactive tutorial introducing genetics. To take full
advantage of the multimedia elements you should download the Flash and Real players.
Molecular
biology for computer scientists
The Institute of Arable Crop Research Beginner's
Guide to Molecular Biology
Protein chemistry for computer
scientists
Unilever Education Advanced Series tutorial
on proteins.
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