SBE Resources

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General Biotech Resources

Below is a list of files and links relating to the general field of biotechnology:

• 3DID-3D Interacting Domains -- Database that combines protein domain interaction data with high-resolution 3-D protein strucutres.
• Argosy Medical Animation -- Online provider for medical animation and illustration sections.
• BBSRC Life -- BBSRC explores the science and issues of modern biological research.
• Bioinformatics Links Directory -- Collection of links.
• Bio-Link -- Educating the Biotechnology workforce.
• Biology Degrees to Save the World -- Information about getting your biology degree through an online college or university, as well as glimpses at what to expect in the real world and how you can make your degree work for you.
• Biology in Motion -- Education about biology featuring activities, exhibits and tutorials.
• Biology Mad -- Biology related topics.
• BiotechJournal.com -- On-line biotech journal.
• Center for Scientific Review -- Resources for reviewers and applicants looking for funding through the NIH.
• Entrez Help-- NCBI's primary text search and retrival system.
• Pathogen Portal -- Online resource for scientists studying organisms that are harmful to human health.
• PRIDE -- PRoteomics IDEntifications database.
• Protein Lounge -- Complete systems biology with hundreds of signaling pathways.
• Statsoft Electronic Statistics Textbook -- A free, comprehensive online statistics textbook.
• Stem Cells Explained and Explored  -- An on-line tutorial by the University of Michigan.
• Sustainability -- Forum on science and technology for sustainability.
• The Arrowsmith Project Homepage -- Provides information relevant to scientific references.
• The European Initiative for Biotechnology Education -- Promote skills, enhance understanding and faciliate public debate.
• The Virtual Cell Web Page -- Website with computer graphics and scientific visualization by Brown University.
• The Wodak Lab --  An array of resources including DAnCER (Disease Annotated Chromatin Epigenetic Resource), HiveGraph, Cytoscape:GenePro, OrthoNers and more.
• Tree of Life Web Project -- Biologists explains the diversity, evolutionary history and characteristics of organisms on Earth.
• ZINC -- A database of commercially available compounds provided by the Shoichet Laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco.

Government Initiatives & Programs in Biotech

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
• Department of Energy -- Biological and environmental research programs
• Environmental Protection Agency
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) -- National resource for molecular biology information
• National Institutes of Health
• National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
• National Renewable Energy Lab -- Biomass Program
• National Science Foundation
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- Biological Systems
• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) -- Biofuels Information
• World Health Organization

Biological Software Tools

As the field of biology explodes, so have the software tools dedicated to it.  Here are some.

• Bioperl -- A collection of Perl modules that facilitate the development of Perl scripts for bioinformatics applications
• ExP€Rt -- A Tool for Automated qPCR Data Analysis -- Automatically normalize and graph your qPCR data.
• MATLAB -- Bioinformatics Toolbox software provides access to genomic and proteomic data formats, analysis techniques, and specialized visualizations for genomic and proteomic sequence and microarray analysis
• RNAFold -- The RNAfold web server will predict secondary structures of single stranded RNA or DNA sequences
• R-project -- R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
• VectorNTI -- A bioinformatics software package. Offered free for students.

Biotech Organizations

There are several organizations that are dedicated to advancing the field of Bioengineering across multiple disciplines.  Here is a brief list of them.

• AIChE Division 15 Food, Pharmaceuticals and Bioengineering
• American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS)
• American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) (SBE is a member)
• American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
• Biochemical Technology Division (BIOT) of the American Chemical Society
• Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
• Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
• Controlled Release Society (CRS)
• The Electrophoresis Society (AES)
• Institute of Biological Engineering (IBE)
• Society for Biomaterials (SFB)
• Society of Bioprocessing Professionals (SBP)
• Society for Industrial Microbiology (SIM)
• The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE)

Biological Properties Databases

Here you will find many links to a variety of resource websites related to biological data. We take no responsibility for the accuracy of this information.

• 3D-PSSM Fold Library -- Database of protein folding information.
• BioCyc -- A collection of Pathway/Genome Databases. Each database in the BioCyc collection describes the genome and metabolic pathways of a single organism.
• E.coli Cell Envelope Protein Data  -- Database including 452 signal sequences and proteins that build up an E.coli.
• External Scientific Toolkit at the Rockefeller University -- Data analysis resources.
• GenBank -- NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.
• Gene Weaver -- System for the integration of functional genomics experiments.
• HomoloGene -- A gene homology tool that compares nucleotide sequences between pairs of organisms in order to identify putative orthologs.
• MassBank -- High-resolution mass spectral database.
• NCBI's PubChem Bioassay database -- Bioactivity assay results supplied by depositors.
• NIST Human Mitochondrial Protein Database (HMPDb) -- Comprehensive data on mitochondrial and human nuclear encoded proteins involved in mitochondrial biogenesis and function.
• PharmGKB -- Individualized medicine database for genetic variations and their responses to different drugs.
• PhenomicDB -- A genotype/phenotype database for seven different species.
• ProSite -- Database containing patterns and profiles specific for more than a thousand protein families and domains.
• Toxin, Toxin-Target Database -- Information for 2,900 toxins ranging from pesticides to pollutants to drugs.
• UniGene -- Computationally identifies transcripts from the same locus; and reports related proteins and clone resources.
• Vega -- Vertebrate genome annotation (VEGA) a repository for high quality manual annotation of vertebrate finished genome sequences.
• Violin -- Vaccine investigation and online information network.