INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

Presentation

• Introduction to the course

Molecular biology databases

• Presentation, exercises and links

A selection of Internet resources

• 2can . Educational resource on Bioinformatics, sponsored by the European Bioinformatics Institute.
• EMBER . Educational resource on Bioinformatics, sponsored by EMBNet.

• Amos' WWW Links . Amos Bairoch. Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.
• Bioinformatics.org
• Bioinformatics Web Sites . Pôle Bio-Informatique Lyonnais, Lyon, France.
• Biome . Internet resources in the health and life sciences.
• CMS Molecular Biology Resouce . A huge collection of links to Bioinformatics tools and databases, and to Molecular Biology resources, updated and well organized.
• Deambulum . Molecular biology - Biocomputing - Medicine - Biology. Infobiogen, France.
• Infobiogen . Internet resources for Bioinformatics, France.
• TBR Directory . The Bioinformatics Resource. Medical Research Council, UK.

• Baylor HGSC . Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, US
• Celera . Rockville, Maryland, US.
• Center for Genome Research . Whitehead Institute / MIT, US.
• CSH Laboratory - Genome Resources . Cold Spring Harbor, NY, US.
• E. coli Genome Project . Frederick Blattner Lab, at the University of Wisconsin.
• Functional Genomics . ESF programme on integrated approaches for Functional Genomics
• Functional Genomics . Y. F. Leung's Functional Genomics Web Site.
• Functional Genomics. Scientific Resources at Science magazine
• Human Genome Project Information . U.S. Department of Energy.
• HUGO . The Human Genome Organisation.
• HUPO. The Human Proteome Organisation.
• Institut Pasteur . France.
• Stanford Genomic Resources . Stanford University, US.
• SWISS-2DPAGE . 2D-PAGE images and reference maps
• TIGR . The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, US.
• Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute . Hinxton, UK.
• Yeast Proteome Database (YPD) . Saccharomyces cerevisiae proteome

Additional information

• Introduction to Bioinformatics.Teresa K. Attwood, David J. Parry-Smith. Longman Higher Education, 1999.
• Bioinformatics. A practical guide to the analysis of genes and proteins. Andreas D. Baxevanis and B.F. Francis Ouellete, Eds. Wiley InterScience, 2001.
• Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis. David W. Mount Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2001.