Relevant Internet Links
Paper on Systems Biology:
Scaling of Differentiation in Networks: Nervous Systems, Organisms, Ant Colonies,
Ecosystems, Businesses, Universities, Cities, Electronic Circuits and Legos
M. A. Changizin, M. A. McDannald and D. Widders
J. Theor. Biol. (2002) 218: 215–237
Available at:
http://www.geocities.com/changizi/org.pdf
Internet web pages and figures used in the class
Web sites you may find interesting
Programs for analyzing transcription factor binding sites:
TRANSFAC
and S/MARt DB
Bioinformatics
Tools at Weizmann Institute
TESS: Transcription Element
Search System
Network modeling sites:
Biocarta Cell Signaling Pathways
Stella software
Vensim software
Other useful sites and software:
Mouse Atlas of Gene Expression (* takes a while to load *)
Merck Manual for medical information
The IARC TP53 database
Contains all TP53 gene mutations in human cancers that have been published
in peer-reviewed literature.
A useful list of molecular biology databases
ExPASy Life Sciences Directory
Dolan DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor
Discovery of DNA structure. Celebrating 50 years
TESS: Transcription
Element Search System
Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
The Institute for Genomic ResearchHow to extract DNA from anything living
BioTechniques Molecular Biology Forum
Primarily Proteins
A Protein Degradation Resource
MODELLER program to compare proteins