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Biology Guide

Biology Guide

Contents:

Coursepages | Databases & Indexes | Journals | Journal Tools | Handbooks, encyclopedias, etc. | Biology News | Web Directories | Dissertations | Basic Biology Web Resources | Taxonomy Resources | Species Specific Resources | Biotechnology Tools | Multiple Sequence Alignment Tools | Phylogenetic Tree Tools | Societies & Organizations | Careers | UMich links | Print resources

Coursepages

• NCBI Databases & Tools
• ANTHRO 368/PSYCH 338

Databases and Indexes

• Find Databases (Search Tools)
• AGRICOLA
• Biosis Previews
• BRENDA: Enzyme Information System
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
• UM-MEDSEARCH
• ISI Web of Science
• Wilson Select Plus [FirstSearch]
• Zoological Record Plus
• INFOMINE
• Scifinder Scholar software for Windows, Macs, and via UM Library Terminal Services. (Chemical Abstracts, etc.).
• Mirlyn (for UM book, journal, electronic resources)
• Nucleic Acids Research annual Databases review issue

Journals

• UM ejournals - all (alpha)
• UM ejournals - Biological Chemistry
• UM ejournals - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
• UM ejournals - Genetics
• UM ejournals - Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
• UM ejournals - Natural Resources & Environment
• Journal Supplementary Materials Guide (UM Science Library)
• How to find journals you can get at UM

Journals - by selected publishers:

• American Chemical Society ejournals
• American Society for Microbiology ejournals
• BioOne ejournals
• Cambridge University Press journals
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Elsevier/ScienceDirect ejournals
• HighWire Press ejournals
• J-STOR ejournals
• Springer LINK ejournals

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Journal tools:

• All That JAS (list of Journal Abbreviation resources)
• PubMed Single Citation Matcher
• Current Contents Connect
• DOI Interpreter. Put in a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and get the citation.
• ISI Journal Citation Reports
• Journal Supplementary Materials Guide (UM Science Library)
• ProCite, EndNote, etc. UM Library Guides to EndNote, etc. Create and maintain citation lists/bibliographies.
• PubCrawler. Free individualized alerting service for PubMed and GenBank
• RefWorks
• CiteTrack (Science Magazine alerting service)
• Ulrich's Perodicals Directory

Handbooks, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.

• AccessScience @ McGraw-Hill
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
• Knovel: Engineering & Scientific Online References

Biology/Science News

• Beyond Discovery (from the National Academies)
• Science Now (from Science magazine).
• Scientist (personal registration required).

Web Directories

• Bioinformatics Links Directory (University of British Columbia)
• Nucleic Acids Research annual Databases review issue

Dissertations

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses @ University of Michigan

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Basic Biology Web Resources

• Biology Online
• Kimball's Biology Pages
• Biology Browser
• Biodirectory
• BIOSCI-Electronic Newsgroup Network for Biology
• Ecology Society of America's EcoEdNet
• MyBio

Taxonomy Resources

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST (VAScular Tropicos)
• Smithsonian’s Mammal Species of the World (MSW)
• World Biodiversity Database 
• University of Michigan's Animal Diversity Web

Species Specific Resources

• Arabidopsis Information Resource
• Phytome (plant comparative genomics resource)
• WormBase
• Mouse Genome Informatics
• ZFIN: The Zebrafish Information Network
• FlyBase
• Saccharomyces Genome Database
• Finding Species Information

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Biotechnology Tools

• International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Nomenclature page
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory -European Bioinformatics Institute
• National Center for Biotechnology Information
• University of British Columbia Bioinformatics Centre
• University of Michigan's DNA Sequencing Core
• DNA Data Bank of Japan
• Protein Data Bank
• Swiss-Prot
• Ensemble (Software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on selected eukaryotic genomes)
• Gene Context Tool
• BLOCKS WWW Server
• UniProt
• DMAPS (Database of Multiple Alignments for Protein Structures)

Multiple Sequence Alignment Tools

• ClustalW via EMBL
• T-Coffee via EMBL
• MUSCLE via EMBL
• DCA: Divide-and-Conquer Multiple Sequence Alignment
• DIALIGN (Constructs pairwise and multiple alignments by comparing whole segments of the sequences)
• MAP: Multiple Sequence Alignment
• AMPS: Alignment of multiple protein sequences
• PRALINE (Multiple sequence alignment program with many options to optimize the information for each of the input sequences)
• STRAP (Align your proteins by sequence and 3D-structure)
• MAFFT(Multiple aligment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences)
• DMAPS (Database of Multiple Alignments for Protein Structures)

Phylogenetic Tree Tools

• PHYLIP (Package of programs for inferring phylogenies)
• MEGA: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis
• Phylo_win (Graphical colour interface for molecular phylogenetic inference)

• Biological Sciences Societies & Organizations links
• Laboratories and Research Institutes links
• United States and Michigan government links

• NatureJobs
• New Scientist Jobs
• ScienceCareers.org (includes Science's Next Wave)

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UMich Biology Related Links

• University of Michigan Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• University of Michigan Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
• University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and the Environment
• University of Michigan Herbarium
• University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology
• University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Birds Division
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Fish Division
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Insects Division
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Mammals Division
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Mollusks Division
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Reptiles and Amphibians Division

Print Resources

• Science Library onsite reference collection. Browse the QH, QK, and QP sections.
• Science New Books Lists
• Library to Library Delivery. Use the request form or the Get This button in Mirlyn (validated signon only).

Related onsite print collections:

• Art, Architecture & Engineering Library - biotechnology.
• Taubman Medical Library - biomedical, pharmaceutical.

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Need More Help?

For suggestions or biological literature research assistance contact Scott Martin (webpage).