NCBI Home Page (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) National Center for Biotechnology Information

Biology Workbench (http://workbench.sdsc.edu/ ) - Bioinformatics tools (sequence alignments, etc. ) on a supercomputers

Introduction to Bioinformatics course at

( http://kbrin.a-bldg.louisville.edu/~rouchka/CECS694/LectureNotes.html )

This is a good set of course notes.

Biology for Bioinformatics

Introduction to DNA Structure at

( http://www.blc.arizona.edu/molecular_graphics/dna_structure/DNA_tutorial.html )

A Molecular Graphics companion to an Introductory Course in Biology or Biochemistry.

Entrez is the integrated, text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI for the major databases, including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, and others. Click on the graphic below for a more detailed view of Entrez integration. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

For example, here is a good DNA reference:

(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Search&db=books&doptcmdl=GenBookHL&term=cloning+AND+hmg%5Bbook%5D+AND+226199%5Buid%5D&rid=hmg.section.360#364)

An On-Line Biology Bookhttp://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html

National Health Museum Website: Introduction to Nucleic Acids and Application to Infectious Disease Detection http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BA/dnaintro/index.html

An attempt to justify that junk DNA is, in fact, not junk, by looking at evidence for their functional significance: http://dragon.zoo.utoronto.ca/~J02T0301A/

Chemistry for Bioinformatics

An Introduction to the Electronic Structure of Atoms and Moleculeshttp://www.chemistry.mcmaster.ca/esam/Chapter_6/intro.html

WebElementsTM, the periodic table on the WWW: http://www.webelements.com/