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
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
Personal BLAST Navigator for automated high-throughput BLAST searches
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
San Diego Drosophila Species Stock Center
Baylor Drosophila pseudoobscura Genome Sequence Project
UCSC Genome Browser gateway (good for identifying microsatellites or other repetitive elements)

Safety Links

Duke University Safety Manual.
Duke University Lab Safety Manual.
MSDS Database.
Work Related injury or Illness Reporting Form.

Other labs 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
Corbin Jones' Laboratory of Molecular Evolution at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Rich Kliman's Laboratory of Population Genetics at Cedar Crest College
Carlos Machado's Laboratory of Molecular Evolution and Speciation at the University of Maryland
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
Karin Pfennig's Laboratory of Sexual Selection and Speciation at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
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

Literature Searches/ Plagiarism Detection

Biological Abstracts (Duke users only).
DOC Cop plagiarism detection tool.
eTBLAST: text similarity-based engine for searching literature collections.
Google Scholar.
PubMed search.
Web of Science (Duke users only).

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).
National Science Foundation (NSF).
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.
EMBOSS: multiple genetics applications.
Multiple applications for Zinc finger motif prediction:
    ab initio prediction
    enoLOGOS
    ZiFDB

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.