These are links to the Internet resources discussed in the Internet OnRamp section of BioTechniques. This page was created and is maintained by Robert Horton, PhD., the regular author of the BioTechniques Internet OnRamps. The links on this page were compiled using the bookmark handling functions of Netscape. Last updated 11 Nov 1998.

Please note that On-Ramps are listed in chronological order, oldest first.

Introduction to the Internet

BioTechniques 19(6):920-922, December 1995.

NCSA Mosaic Home Page
Welcome to Netscape
Yahoo! - Computers and Internet:Internet:World Wide Web
Yahoo! - Computers and Internet:Information and Documentation:Data Formats:HTML
WebCrawler 100
listserv@ual.vm.ua.edu

 

Using Newsgroups: Virtual Conferences on Specialized Topics

BioTechniques 20(1):62-64, January 1996.

BioBit: Newsgroups of Particular Interest

METHDS-REAGNTS/bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
 

BioBit: FAQs on the Web

FAQ list for bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts Plain text version
Methods FAQ list New HTML version!
The BIONET.MICROBIOLOGY FAQ
BIOSCI/bionet Electronic Newsgroup Network for Biology
The BIOSCI/bionet Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list

 

Free Books! Free Software! Files and More using FTP.

BioTechniques 20(2):202-204, February 1996.

A Biologist's Guide to Internet Resources
 

BioBit: Obtaining the Apple Laserwriter Utilities

Apple LaserWriter Software ftp This is the new site, moved from ftp.support.apple.com
Apple Support Information Use this instead of the now-defunct ftp.support.apple.com

Net Navigation Hint: Dedicated FTP Client Programs

Macintosh "Fetch" Note that this is slightly updated from the URL in the article.

Windows: "WS_FTP"

The URLs from the article no longer appear to exist, so here are some new and better ones:
 
Download Directory for WS_FTP Note that the "LE" version is free for academic use.
Review of WS_FTP Limited Edition
 

Searching the Internet

BioTechniques 20(3):406-408, March 1996.

Example: finding "NIH Image"

NIH Image FTP site
NIH Image Home Page
Molecular Biology from the NIH Scientific Computing Resource Center
 

Net Navigation Hint: Internet Catalogs

Excite search engine
Excite: Home > Career & Education Channel > Fields of Study > Science > Life Sciences
The Excite catalog in the article is no longer available - try this one.
Yahoo! - Science:Biology
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Biosciences
Biological Sciences the galaxy.einet.net URL still works, but it bounces you here
Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools
SHAREWARE.COM -- the way to find shareware on the Internet
Understanding WWW Search Tools
Also try clicking the "search" button in Netscape Navigator 4. This takes you to a page that accesses various search engines. Links to more search engines are at the bottom of the page.
 
 

BioBit: CDC Web Pages

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Home Page
Ebola Virus Hemorrhagic Fever: General Information
Emerging Infectious Diseases Home Page
Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
Adobe Acrobat Free Reader

 

Image Processing the Internet Way

Michael J. herron, BioTechniques 20(4):626-628, April 1996.

NIH Image

 

How to Send a Picture by E-Mail

BioTechniques 20(5):818-820, May 1996.

Netscape download

 

Personalizing your Internet Environment on a Shared Computer.

BioTechniques 20(6):996-998, June 1996.

Yamada Language Center non-English font archive

 

Why to set up a laboratory web page

BioTechniques 21(1):74-76, July 1996

Templeton Lab Page
Ambros Lab at Dartmouth College
DNA Vaccine Web: Main Menu
DNA Core Facility
Woodgett Lab home page
Institute for Molecular Virology
Homemade Shaking Incubator
BIOSCI/bionet Electronic Newsgroup Network for Biology
 

BioBit: directory of laboratory web pages

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology (Biosciences)
College and University Home Pages
C elegans Labs
The Glycoscience Network's Directory of Glycoscientists
Laboratory Home Page Directory
 

BioBit: software to read sequence files (electrophoretograms) from ABI automated sequencers.

ABI PRISM EditView DNA Sequence Viewer This is an updated URL.
FTP site

 

How to write a laboratory web page: the basics

Biotechniques 21(2):240-242, August 1996.

Laboratory Home Page Directory
 

BioBit: HTML resources

MicroSoft Office Internet Assistants
HTML Editors
World Wide Web FAQ
Creating Net Sites
Introduction to HTML: Table of Contents
HTMLPrimer.html This is a new URL for this page. It crashes my computer when I try to access it under Netscape NAvigator 4 preview release 3
Corel WordPerfect 7 -- Homepage

Molecular Biology Databases on the Internet

David M. Sander, BioTechniques 21(3):438-440, September 1996.

David's Home Page
Molecular Biology Databases
 

Molecular Biology Databases on the Internet

(Biotechniques Article - September 1996) Does the Net measures up to the hype? A lot of people think the Net is full of silly stuff (Internet Doom comes to mind), and that you can't do serious things on it. This article introduces some of the most useful
 
National Center for Biotechnology Information
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
GenBank search page
The WWW Entrez Database
The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) Gateway
Other NCBI resources demonstrate additional uses of genetic information. The first is the OMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders and was developed for the WWW by NCBI. In this database you will find pictures and references, as well as text-based information. It also contains copious links to NCBI's Entrez database of MEDLINE articles and sequence information. The NCBI Taxonomy database contains information about all the organisms present with at least one sequence in the genetic databases. This tool, like OMIM, demonstrates the power of interlaced or cross-referenced data, combining taxonomy with raw genetic information. Other databases available for searching through the NCBI site include: dbEST: Database of Expressed Sequence Tags, dbSTS: Database of Sequence Tagged Sites, and the MMDB: Molecular Modeling Database.
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
SWISS-PROT Protein Sequence Database
PROSITE pattern searches
FASTA homology searches
PredictProtein
BEAUTY
The Genome Database
Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools
bionet.software.www
BCM Search Launcher New URL.

Putting your laboratory's pages on the world wide web

BioTechniques 21(4):634-636, October 1996.

Review of web servers This site may have changed, too.
World Wide Web FAQ Server software
Stairways Shareware: NetPresenz Updated link
Laboratory Home Page Directory
Domain name registration
Homemade Shaking Incubator
 

Java and Javascript applications in biomedical research

BioTechniques 21(5):834-836, November 1996.

Esperanto FAQ
Javascript Oligonucleotide Calculator
Tm Determination
 

BioBit: Links to tutorials for HTML tables and forms

Mosaic for X version 2.0 Fill-Out Form Support
NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML, Part 1
 

BioBit: some Java and Javascript resorces for bioresearch

Rotator
The Visible Human at NPAC
Java-based Molecular Biology Work Bench
 

BioBit: The 3rd Internet World Congress on Biomedical Sciences '96

PROCEEDING First Internet Workd Congress on Biomedical Sciences, 1994
ENTRANCE Second Internet Workd Congress on Biomedical Sciences, 1995
Welcome Third Internet Workd Congress on Biomedical Sciences, 1996

Net Navigation Hint: Internet Links for Javascript

JavaScript from Netscape's server
JavaScript 411 Home Page
Newsgroup the comp.lang.javascript newsgroup 

Net Navigation Hint: Internet Links for Java

JavaSoft Home Page
The Java(tm) Development Kit 1.1.1
The Java Tutorial
comp.lang.java FAQ

Molecular Biology Databases on the Internet II

(Biotechniques Article - January 1997) Databases containing information of interest to molecular biologists continue to prosper on the internet. In a previous Internet Onramp (September 1996) a general introduction was given to molecular biology database

Simplified Access to Multiple Databases:

DBGET
 

Protein Sequences:

Protein Sequence Alignment and Database Scanning
Prot-Web
 

Protein Motifs:

BLOCKS
PRINTS PRINTS collects protein fingerprints or groups of conserved motifs used to identify protein families. These fingerprints also account for the folding of proteins and therefore PRINTS adds more flexibly and power into searches than could be achieved using single motifs. The fingerprints have been developed using the OWL database, and once again are available for WWW based interaction.
 

DNA and RNA Motifs: TRANSFAC REBASE

Multiple Sequence Alignments: MSA site

PCR Primers: PCR primers database

Conclusions: WWW-Virtual Library Biomolecule

 

Telecollaboration Software I: Reach Out and Show Someone

Michael J. Herron and Robert M. Horton, BioTechniques 22(2):284-286, February 1997

 Look@Me
 

BioBit: The RasMol Molecule Viewer

Also see the OnRamp articles devoted to RasMol and Chime, below.
 
Download - Global

 

From Pasadena to Oxford Without Leaving the Office:Electronic Conferences on the World Wide Web.

Karen L. Allendoerfer BioTechniques 22(3):464-466, March 1997

bionet.glycosci newsgroup
NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML Home Page
 

BioBit: Recent and Upcoming Electronic Conferences in Biology and Chemistry

Updated from Hardy, B. and Sweet, D. 1996. Virtual Conferences. Trends Cell Biol 6(9):363-365.
 

 

An Introduction to Molecular Visualization: Seeing in Stereo with RasMol

Robert M. Horton and Remington J.S. Stone, BioTechniques 22(4):660-662, April 1997

 
Glaxo-Wellcome homepage
RasMol Home Page
The WWW Version of the PDB Browser - Version 1.0a
Form for PDB query
The "Molecules 'R' Us" page.
"How to See 3D: Magic Eye 3D and more"
Bungarotoxin Structure
Free Molecular Visualization Software
Universal Molecular Modeling Software List

 

Molecules on Web Pages: the Chime Molecule Viewer Plug-In

Robert M. Horton and Remington J.S. Stone, BioTechniques 22(5), May 1997

MDL Information Systems - Chime
Introduction to the Chime RasMol Scripting Tutorial
 

BioBit: Web Pages Using Chime

RasMol Home Page
Protein Secondary Structure/UMass Amherst
Interactive Biochemistry

Sharing Your Bookmarks

BioTechniques 22(6):1092-1094, June 1997

Bob's Office Bookmarks
Bookmarks for Jim Woodgett
Internet OnRamp Bookmarks

Searching Medline for Free: An Introduction to PubMed

BioTechniques 23(1):106-108, July 1997

Welcome to PubMed
Advanced PubMed Search
HealthGate home page
Medsite Navigator Medline Hub
Journal Database Browser
PubMed Journals Which Offer Full Text

Advanced Medline Searches with PubMed

Robert M. Horton and Katherine E. Gundling, BioTechniques 23(2), August 1997.

Advanced PubMed Search

Entering Sequences into GenBank

BioTechniques 23(3), September 1997

DNA Data Bank of Japan
ORF finder
Sequin FTP site
GenBank
EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database "Webin"submission form
The GenBank WWW submission form, "BankIt"
The International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration page
Genetic codes for a variety of organisms
A database of codon usage in various organisms
E. coli genome file
Genomes Division of Entrez graphical representations of chromosomes
The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR) BLAST page
Search through sequences from several unfinished microbial genomes.

 

Grant Information on the Internet

BioTechniques 23 (4), October 1997

Issac Newton biographical sketch
Sponsored Program Information Network (SPIN)
Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
 

Government Funding Sources

Overview of Federally-funded research in the U.S.
bionet.sci-resources newsgroup
NIH Office of Extramural Research funding opportunities page
NSF Funding Opportunities and Awards page
 

Small Business

Small Business Administration SBIR overview
links to agencies with SBIR programs
Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Pilot Program
Commerce Business Daily
 

Private Foundations

UIUC list of Private and Corporate Foundations
slightly shorter but better annotated list of private funding sources
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Muscular Dystrophy Association
American Cancer Society
 

Forms and Templates

Grant forms (including NIH)
Adobe Acrobat reader download
extensive collection of forms templates
volunteer effort to gather form templates
 

Personalized update notification

Strategic Defense Initiative SBIR page
FEDIX Opportunity Alert (e-mail notification)
NSF Custom News Service
 

Looking up funded grants

Animal Emancipation, Inc.
crisp (gopher site - to be replaced soon)
CRISP background information
An unofficial web-based interface to CRISP
 

Things to come?

NSF experimental “fast track” program

 

BioBit: Funding sites for Other Countries

Canadian Medical Research Council
National Cancer Institute of Canada
National Research Council of Canada
European Union Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS)
UK Joint Research Councils
Research resources for several other countries
 

BioBit: TRAM

TRAM (Texas Research Administrators Group) site
TRAM Solicitation Search page
searchlist.html list of web sites searched by the TRAM Solicitation Search page

  

Computer Viruses

BioTechniques 23(5), November 1997.

Internet Worm
Index of available VB Prevalence Tables
Microsoft AGAIN distributes Macro Virus
CIAC Internet Hoaxes
Computer Virus Myths home page
sharefun.txt Description of the Share the Fun "e-mail virus".
News.com
 

BioBit - AntiVirus Resources

Newsgroup comp.virus FAQ
alt.comp.virus FAQ Unmoderated newsgroup for combatting computer viruses.
 

BioBit - Commercial vendors with both Mac and PC products

Datawatch Home Page Virex for Macintosh ,VET Anti-Virus Software for the PC.
Welcome To Dr Solomon's On-Line Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit
McAfee Mall McAfee VirusScan
Symantec Norton AntiVirus
Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh
Anti-Virus Developer Index From Virus Bulletin, an anti-virus trade journal.
NCSA Information “National Computer Security Association” Certified Antivirus Products
Welcome To NCSA National Center for Supercomputer Applications (not affiliated with the anti-virus NCSA)
 

Software tests and reviews

Virus Test Center University of Hamburg
Virus Research Unit University of Tampere, Finland
Virus Bulletin Home Page Reviews are six months behind the printed journal, but their tests are rigorous.
Mac Virus Home Page Many Macintosh anti-virus links, including software reviews from Macintosh computer magazines.

Interactive Internet Instruction - Web Quizzes and a New JavaScript Quizmaker

BioTechniques 23(6):1048-1050, December 1997.

Javascript QuizMaker Home Page
A JavaScript program to help you write interacetive instructional "quizzes" using JavaScript methods.
HTMLjive Demo - HTML Editor in Javascript
A web page to help you write web pages.
 

BioBit: Self-Quizzes on the Web.

Molecular biology educational package
Fill-in-the-blank interactive problem pages. Perl scripts are used to create problem sets from a text file.
ExPASy - Swiss-Quiz top page
Win chocolate!
USUHS Medical Biochemistry Exams
Microbial Genetics Problems
The Biology Project
Server-side problem set on various biological topics.
Tom´s Chem Quiz Page: Quiz Page
Chemistry ConcepTests
These pages contain questions with multiple-choice answers, but they are not interactive; the correct answer is shown in bold.
diagnosis of melanoma
Hypertext server-side tutorials; answers link to different pages.
BioChemNet
Lists many sites with science problem sets.

 

BioBit: QuizMaker Quizzes

Other Quizzes will be listed on the Quizmaker Home page.
Polymerase Chain Reaction Quiz
Kinases are Fun Quiz

Powerful Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint

BioTechniques, January 1998 Helen Horton Peterson, Computing Services, Bryn Mawr College <hpeterso@brynmawr. Robert M. Horton, Attotron Biosensor Corporation <rmhorton@attotron.

Clip Art Collection
Photosynthetic Carbon Assimilation
Berkeley Lab: Image Gallery
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint Converters and Translators
Microsoft Technical Support Online Registration

BioBit: Other Commercial Presentation Softwar

Corel Presentations 8
Lotus Freelance Graphics
FileMaker, Inc. Main Page

Sequence Similarity Searches on the World Wide Web

BioTechniques, February 1998 Stuart M. Brown Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor NYU Medical Center Dept. of Cell Biology, and Research Computing Resource 550 First Ave, New York, NY 10016 Phone: (212)263-7689 FAX: (212)263-8139

WWW BLAST at NCBI
FASTA Services at GeneStream
CRBM Montpellier FRANCE
Welcome to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Note that the Oak Ridge National Laboratory bioinformatics site has moved since the article was written.
ORNL GenQuest Form
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (New URL)
Fasta3_t Database Searches at the EBI
European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK (New URL)
EMBL WWW Gateway to (T)FASTA Service
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Fasta
Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences (MIPS) at Max-Planck-Institut, Germany
IBCP WWW server form
Institute of Biology and Chemistry of Proteins Lyon, France
FASTA (W. Pearson)
Institute Pasteur, France
GenQuest - The Q server
The Johns Hopkins University (New URL)
FASTA search form
National University of Singapore, BioInformatics and BioComputing Server
NCC Homology Search
National Cancer Center of Japan
Homology Search Home Page on DISC
DNA Information and Stock Center, National Inst. of Agrobiological Resources. Tsukuba, Japan

PCR Master Mix Volume Calculators in JavaScript

BioTechniques March, 1998. Robert M. Horton Attotron Biosensor Corporation Carson City, Nevada USA rmhorton@attotron.com Remington J.S. Stone Biophysics Graduate Program University of California, Davis Davis, California USA rjstone@ucdavis.edu

PCR Master Mix Calculator
Similar to the Excel macro described in Stowe, R.P. and Pierson, D.L. Spreadsheet macro for setting up PCR assay tubes. Biotechniques 20(6):1088-1089, 1996.
PCR Box Titration Calculator v 0.91
Calculates two dimensional titrations using a protocol similar to Horton, R.M., Hoppe, B.L., and Conti-Tronconi, B.M. AmpliGrease: "hot start" PCR using petroleum jelly. Biotechniques 16(1):42-43, 1994.

Searching ESTs (Expressed Sequence Tags)

BioTechniques, April 1998 Stuart M. Brown Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor NYU Medical Center Dept. of Cell Biology, and Research Computing Resource 550 First Ave, New York, NY 10016 Phone: (212)263-7689 FAX: (212)263-8139

NCBI dbEST
WWW BLAST at NCBI
BLAST Search
UniGene-Human
TIGR Human Gene Index
Stack launch
The I.M.A.G.E. Consortium
Human and Murine cDNA Clones (TASC/I.M.A.G.E)

Conference Information on the Internet

Robert M. Horton, Attotron Biosensor Corporation, Carson City, Nevada 89706 USA, rmhorton@attotron.com

American College of Physicians
 
FASEB's Guidelines for Effective Slides
 
1999 AAAS Annual Meeting "Early Bird" registration form
 
American Society for Microbiology
on-line abstract submission
NIH policy on sponsoring conferences
 
National Cancer Institute's page on R13 grants
grants to sponsor meetings
FASEB Travel Grants
 
American Society for Microbiology
Travel grants in a variety of categories, including grants for junior and senior high school biology teachers, undergraduate faculty, as well as graduate students and postdocs.
Minority Travel Award Programs
NIAMS, NIDDK
SBNet - Foreign travel grants
While these grants are only for structural biology PhD students in Sweden, the site is interesting for how it uses the Internet: Proposals are made by e-mail only, and the grantees must write a report on the trip in HTML for posting to the web site.
International Science Foundation Conference Travel Grant Program
for scientists from the former Soviet Union and the Baltic states
US.Civilian Research and Development Foundation Travel Grant Program
limited to first-time visitors to the United States from the non-Russian countries of the former Soviet Union.

Sequence Alignment on the Web

June, 1998, Stuart M. Brown, Ph.D., NYU Medical Center, Dept. of Cell Biology, and Research Computing Resource browns02@MCRCR6.MED.NYU.EDU

FASTA program download site
free package of DNA sequence analysis programs. Includes both a global (ALIGN) and a local alignment program (LALIGN). Available for a variety of computer systems.
 

Pairwise Alignment Web Servers

National Center for Biotechnology Information - BLAST
 
Baylor College of Medicine - ALIGN, LALIGN, LFASTA, SIM
 
GENESTREAM, EERIE - ALIGN, LALIGN
Montpellier France
ExPASY, University of Geneva - SIM
Geneva, Switzerland
Michigan Tech. - SIM, GAP, GAP2, LAP2
Houghton, MI
Institut Pasteur - ALIGN, LALIGN
Paris, France
Institut Pasteur - Wise2
 

Multiple Alignment Web Servers

Baylor College of Medicine - CLUSTALW, MSA, PIMA, MAP
 
European Bioinformatics Institute - ClustalW
Cambridge, UK
Mathematical and Statistical Computing Laboratory - CLUSTALW
National Institutes of Health
Mathematical and Statistical Computing Laboratory - MUSEQAL2
Mathematical and Statistical Computing Laboratory, NIH
Institut Pasteur - CLUSTALW
Paris, France
Institut Pasteur - DALIGN
 
Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing - ToPLign
German National Research Center for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Michigan Tech. Univ. - MAP
Houghton, Michigan
BioMolecular Engineering Research Center - pimaII
Boston University, Massachusetts
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - MultAlign
ETH-Z, Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - AllAll
 
University of California, Santa Cruz Computational Biology - SAM
 

Making Client-side Image Maps

July 1998, Robert M. Horton, Attotron Biosensor Corporation, and Michael J. Russell, University of California, Davis

ImageMapper
 
Example Image Map
Coronal cross section of one hemisphere of the brain from a dog with Alzheimer's disease.

Advanced similarity searches on the Web: Gapped BLAST, PSI BLAST, FASTA 3.0, and INCA

August 1998, Stuart M. Brown, Ph.D., NYU Medical Center, Dept. of Cell Biology, and Research Computing Resource browns02@MCRCR6.MED.NYU.EDU

 NCBI BLAST
Two new options:<ul> <li>Gapped BLAST allows the introduction of gaps into alignments. <li>PSI-BLAST is able to find highly diverged members of protein families.</ul>
Complete FASTA 3.0 package
at the DNA DataBase of Japan web site.
European Bioinformatics Institute FASTA 3.0 web server
 
Another EBI FASTA 3.0 web server
 
Dr. Pearson's anonymous FTP server
Download FASTA 3.0 for your very own.
INCA (Iterative Neighborhood Cluster Analysis )
INCA is a Java applet that runs inside a web browser. It runs a BLAST search with a given query sequence, then runs another BLAST on each of the significantly similar sequences found in the first iteration.

Clinical Cancer Trial Information and Specimen Resources

September 1998.Robert M. Horton, Attotron Biosensor Corporation, Carson City, Nevada, rmhorton@attotron.com, and Katherine E. Gundling, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California, kegundling@ucdavis.edu

Cancer Trials

National Cancet Institute - Information on Cancer Trials
Describes background of clinical trials, with links to search the Physician’s Data Query (PDQ) database of ongoing trials.
OncoLink: Clinical Trials Information
Lists trials at the University of Pennsylvania, with a collection of links to related sites.
 

Specimen Resources

Cooperative Human Tissue Network (CHTN)
 
Cooperative Breast Cancer Tissue Resource (CBCTR)
 
Breast Cancer Specimen and Data Information System
From the NCI National Action Plan on Breast Cancer (NAPBC)
Cooperative Family Registry for Breast Cancer Studies
National Cancer Institute
NCI's AIDS Malignancy Bank Database
Tissue fluid samples from patients with various HIV-associated malignancies, with associated clinical and follow-up data.
NCI Cancer Diagnosis Program’s Resources Site
 
American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)
 
NCI's “Tissue Expediter”
Contact a human being to help you find tissue sample resources.
 

Analyzing Protein Families and Domains on the Web

October 1998, Stuart M. Brown, Ph.D., NYU Medical Center, browns02@MCRCR6.MED.NYU.EDU

The PROSITE Database and its Derivatives

PROSITE search form
European Bioinformatics Institute
ScanProsite
a tool on the Expasy/Prosite web server to search a query sequence for patterns from the PROSITE database
PROSITE database
"The Dictionary of Protein Sites and Patterns." Maintained by Amos Bairoch at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Profile Analysis

ProfileScan
 
Another ProfileScan
 
BLOCKS database
Database created automatically by taking the most highly conserved regions from groups of proteins in the PROSITE database and using them to search the SWISS-PROT database. From the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
PRINTS database of protein motifs
similar to BLOCKS, but using alignments of conserved protein regions based on the functional categorization of proteins in the OWL non-redundant protein database.
Pfam - Sanger Center
Pfam domains are computed from hand crafted multiple alignments of groups of proteins that are known to share functional homology.
Pfam - University of Washington in St. Louis
 
ProDom database
a completely automatic grouping of all of the proteins in SWISS-PROT into domains using the program DOMAINER.
Motif
Search a query sequence with PROSITE, PROSITE, BLOCKS, ProDom, or PRINTS. Also searches DNA sequences with the TRANSFAC database of promoter sites. From the GenomeNet web server at the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University.

Computer Hardware Resources on the Internet

November 1998, Robert M. Horton, Attotron Biosensor Corporation, Carson City, Nevada, rmhorton@attotron.com

Memory selector
A vendor's site for finding the right menory for your machine.
GUide to RAM Upgrades - GURU
A downloadable program to find the right memory for your Macintosh.
Universal Serial Bus (USB)
includes a searchable database of available USB products.
Intel/Microsoft "PC99" System Design Guide
Describes Intel and Microsoft's expectations for minimum system requirements for PCs in 1999. These are the requirements systems must meet in order to earn the "Designed for Windows 98" (or NT) logo.
 

Computers on a Budget

The Usenet Marketplace FAQ Advice for buying and selling via newsgroups.
uBid OnLine Auctions
ebay OnLine Auctions
 

Computer Terminology

FOLDOC Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
Webopaedia Online Encyclopedia of Computer Technology
"Click & Learn" self-study guide to PC hardware
 

Hardware Reviews and Price Searches

Ziff-Davis Mac and PC hardware and software reviews from “MacWeek”, “PC Magazine”, “Computer Shopper”, etc.
Review Finder links to reviews on other sites
C/Net Reviews
Tom's Hardware Guide
PriceWatch Search for a specific computer hardware item or browse through equipment categories.; vendors on the system who offer that item are returned, lowest price first.
PricePulse Price searches for Macintosh products.