Links
The following small list of links leads to a very large pool of bioinformatics resources. We are interested in expanding this list as the field grows. Suggestions for other "favorite links" are always welcome; contact us.
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- General Bioinformatics Resources, Links pages, Portals
- Databases, Tools
- Bioinformatics Newsgroups, Email Lists
- RSS Feeds
- Books, Reviews, Journals, Indices
- Career Information
- Bioinformatics courses and training
- Glossaries
General Bioinformatics Resources, Links pages, Portals
University of Minnesota sites:
- The UMN "one-stop bioinformatics shop"
- Center for Biomedical Research Informatics (CBRI)
- Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) Computational Biology and Genomics
- DNA Sequencing and Analysis
- Undergraduate Bioinformatics Summer Institute
General Sites
- Bioinformatics.Org: hosts many open-source bioinformatics research projects, discussions - very active
- Bioinformatics.fr - knowledge, tips and information related to bioinformatics
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
- The National Institutes of Health Science and Technology Initiative
- The International Society for Computational Biology
- Best of the Web Bioinformatics
- The Human Genome Project calendar of genome and biotechnology/bioinf meetings
- Free Programming Resources - tutorials, online programming books, tools, code, ...
- Software Carpentry - an intensive introduction to basic software development practices for scientists and engineers
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital list of bioinformatics resources
- Bioinformatics Web: a nice introduction to the field, with lots of links.
- The CMS Molecular Biology Resource
- ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System) - at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)
Databases, Tools
- GenBank
- EMBL, the European Bioinformatics Institute
- The J. Craig Venter Institute
- BioPerl - open source bioinformatics project
- UMN Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database
- The Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences
- Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG)
- Bioconductor - open source software for microarray analysis
- Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre Integrated Bioinformatics Portal
Bioinformatics Newsgroups, Email Lists
RSS Feeds
- All new titles from the journals below
- Bioinformatics
- BMC Bioinformatics
- PLoS Computational Biology
- Journal of Computational Biology
- Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Nature Biotechnology
- Nature
- Science
- PNAS
- In silico biology
The feeds are "Find It" enabled for University of Minnesota users.
Books, Reviews, Journals, Indices
Indices
- UM Libraries Selected Resources for Bioinformatics
Journals
- Bioinformatics.fr Journals and Journal Search Engine
- ISCB journals
- Applied Bioinformatics
- BioMedCentral
- Bioinformatics
- Briefings in Bioinformatics and FindIt-Enabled BIB
- EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics
- Journal of Computational Biology
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- PLoS Computational Biology
- UMN E journals (access for University of Minnesota students & faculty)
Books, Reviews
- Bioinformatics Books
- ... and reviews for these books
- International Society for Computational Biology book list and reviews
- NCBI Bookshelf
- O'Reilly bioinformatics books
- Books with bioinformatics protocols
- Bioinformatics.org Books
Career Information
- International Society for Computational Biology Jobs
- Bioinformatics.ca Jobs
- Bioinformatics.org Jobs
- Bioinformatics.fr Jobs
- New Scientist Jobs
- The Bioinformatics Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin
- biohealthmatics.com - subscription health informatics career site with other links and forums
Bioinformatics courses and training
- International Society for Computational Biology: training programs
- Course syllabi:
- NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering: Training
- HGP calendar of training courses
- UMN Joint Degree Program in Law, Health and the Life Sciences
Glossaries
- What's Bioinformatics at this (UMN binf) site
- NCBI Glossary
- BLAST Glossary
- Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms
- Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) - extensive genomics and informatics glossaries:
- FOLDOC: free online dictionary of computing