Applied Bioinformatics Course

Courses and Tutorials

• 2CAN - EBI bioinformatics support portal which provides short and concise introductions to basic concepts in molecular and cell biology and bioinformatics.
• EMBER - An online practical course with multiple choice quiz designed and maintained by Manchester University, UK (free registration needed)
• Science Primer - NCBI science primer for various topics including bioinformatics, genome mapping, molecular biology, etc.
• SADR - An online course for Sequence Analysis with Distributited Resources, Bielefeld University, Germany.
• SwissModel - An online course for principles of protein structure, comparative protein modeling and visualization maintained by Nicolas Guex and Manuel C. Peitsch at Glaxo Wellcome.
• Swiss-Pdb Viewer - An extensive tutorial for the molecular visualization and modeling program Swiss-Pdb Viewer, created and maintained by Gale Rhodes at the University of Southern Maine.

Scientific Stories

• Molecular of the Month - A web site which presents short accounts on selected molecules from the Protein Data Bank. It was created in Jan 2000 and is being maintained by David S. Goodsell at Scripps.
• Protein Spotlight - A web site which tells short stories on protein molecules as well as the scientific research and the scientists behind these interesting stories. It was started in Jan 2000 and is being maintained by Vivienne B. Gerritsen at Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

Free Journals and Books

• NCBI Bookshelf - A growing collection of free online biomedical books that can be searched directly through the NCBI Entrez system.
• PubMed Central - The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journals.
• PubMed Central China mirror - The PubMed Central China mirror maintained by the Center for Bioinformatics, Peking University.
• BioMed Central - The web site of more than 180 opean access biomedical journals freely available, started by a UK publisher in London since 2001.
• PLOS - The web site of sevarl significant open access biological and medical journals freely available, stared by the Public Library of Science, a non-profit organization composed of many famous scientists.
• HighWire - A web site maintained by the Stanford University Libraries. It gives a list of biomedical journals which provide either immediate or 6/12/18/24 months delay of free online full-text articles.
• Amedeo - A web site maintained by Bernd Sebastian Kamps in Europe. It provides extensive links to various biomedical journal and books freely available.
• AnaTax - An online book chapter of the anatomy and taxonomy written in 1981 and being updated by Jane Richardson at Duke University.