Links to Resources in the Biological Sciences

courtesy of the Noor lab at Duke

High Noor lab usage links

Link to scientific journals ToCs
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST).
Genbank nucleotide query form
PubMed search.
NCBI Trace Archive MegaBLAST, which has reads from Drosophila simulans, D. yakuba, D. mojavensis, and others. (Remember to lower the expected percent identity and word size.)
IDT Oligo Analyzer
Reverse Complement a DNA Sequence
ExPASy DNA Sequence Translation Tool
NEBCutter restriction site finder
Tandem DNA sequence repeat finder
Softberry Gene Finder
National Center for Science Education homepage
National Evolution Synthesis Center homepage
Tips for applying for Sigma Xi grants-in-aid of research.
Free Interactive Web-based Statistics Calculation pages

Drosophila specific links

DroSpeGe BLAST page
DroSpeGe MapView page
FlyBase Drosophila species BLAST page
Drosophila simulans strain BLAST page, from Corbin Jones at UNC
Drosophila polymorphism database
FlyMine: integrated database for Drosophila and Anopheles genomics
Drosophila Species Genomes Page
Japan Drosophila Stock Center
Tucson Drosophila Species Stock Center
Baylor Drosophila pseudoobscura Genome Sequence Project
UCSC Genome Browser gateway (good for identifying microsatellites or other repetitive elements)

Other professors/ laboratories at Duke with similar interests

Cliff Cunningham's Laboratory of Molecular Systematics and Biogeography
David Goldstein's Laboratory of Population Genomics
Paul Magwene's Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics & Bioinformatics
Tom Mitchell-Olds's Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics
Steve Nowicki's Laboratory of Animal Communication
Mark Rausher's Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology
Marcy Uyenoyama's Laboratory of Theoretical Population Genetics
John Willis's Laboratory of Plant Evolutionary Genetics
Greg Wray's Laboratory of Evolution of Development

Other laboratories elsewhere with similar interests
These are lab homepages, not faculty websites

Chip Aquadro's Laboratory of Population Genetics at Cornell University
Mark Batzer's Comparative genomics and Human population genetics lab at Louisiana State University
Jim Cronin's Laboratory of Population and Community Ecology at Louisiana State University
Bill Etges's Laboratory of Ecological Genetics at the University of Arkansas
Jeff Feder's Laboratory of Ecological Genetics & Evolution at the University of Notre Dame
Dan Hartl's Evolutionary Biology and Molecular Genetics laboratory at Harvard University
Jody Hey's Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics at Rutgers University
Dan Howard's Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics at New Mexico State University
Rich Kliman's Laboratory of Population Genetics at Cedar Crest College
Carlos Machado's Laboratory of Molecular Evolution and Speciation at the University of Arizona
Jim Mallet's Speciation Laboratory at University College London
Jeremy Marshall's Evolutionary Biology Laboratory at Kansas State University
Pawel Michalak's Population Genomics and Speciation Genetics Laboratory at the University of Texas Arlington
Michael Nachman's Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory at U. Arizona
H. Allen Orr's Laboratory of Adaptation and Speciation at the University of Rochester
David Pollock's Evolutionary theory, Genomics, and Bioinformatics lab at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Loren Rieseberg's Laboratory of Plant Evolutionary Genetics & Speciation at the University of British Columbia
Steve Schaeffer's Laboratory of Molecular Population Genetics at Penn State University
Christian Schlotterer's Laboratory of Molecular Ecology and Evolution at Veterinaermedizinische Universitaet Wien in Austria
Malcolm Schug's Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Maria Servedio's Laboratory of Speciation at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Just for fun

Modern Synthesis evolutionary geneticists

General

Biological Abstracts (Duke users only).
Web of Science (Duke users only).
SciCentral online resources in biology
MetaCrawler power web-search tool.

Funding sources

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American Philosophical Society- see "Franklin Research grant" section.
Earthwatch Institute funds research involving volunteers.
Christensen Fund supports research in conservation biology.
Searchable engine through the Chronicle of philanthropy.
Foundation Center private funding sources.
GrantsWeb: government and private funding.
National Geographic Society research grants.
National Institutes of Health (NIH), application forms.
National Science Foundation (NSF), proposal writing guide.
Office of Sponsored Programs (Duke OSP).
Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Job searching

Search ads in Science magazine.
Search ads in Nature magazine.
Search ads in The Chronicle for Higher Education.

Genetics

Bank-It: Genbank sequence submissions.
Drosophila developmental gene expression timecourse.
Other genetic tools.

Ecology & Evolution

Evoldir lists job openings & researchers in evolutionary biology.
Global climate change links and info page.
Long-term ecological research sites worldwide.
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
National Wildife Federation.
Population genetic software packages.
Tree of Life Homepage.
US Dept. of the Interior.
WWW Virtual Library: Evolution.

Local Lagniappe

Duke homepage.
Duke Library catalogs.
Forecast for weather in Durham.
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
Movies showing in Durham.

Miscellaneous

Material Data Safety Sheets (MSDS).
Compute sunrise/sunset times worldwide.
Link to Mapquest Interactive atlas.
Look up: address/phone number, +4 zip code, or name from a phone number.
Free legal forms including wills, power of attorney, etc.
US Gazetteer provides population/latitude/longitude of cities in the US.