Web Directory

» Anthracycline Intercalation
   Details of anticancer anthracycline intercalated as DNA hexamer, illustrated from 3-D x-ray crystal images by Dr J.P. Miller at UMIST, Manchester, UK.
   http://www.jonathanpmiller.com/intercalation/

» BBC 4 Interviews - Crick and Watson
   Audio interviews with Francis Crick and James Watson on the BBC.
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/crickwatson1.shtml

» BioServers
   Contains user-friendly tools to launch DNA database searches, statistical analyses, and population modeling from a centralized workspace.
   http://www.bioservers.org/bioserver/

» DNA Double Helix
   Chime-dependent tutorial which permits image manipulation to help understand the 3-dimensional form of the structure, from John Tweedie and Massey University, New Zealand.
   http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwbioch/Helix_162101/frameset1.htm

» DNA Kin
   Resources and information for using DNA in genealogical research.
   http://www.dnakin.com

» DNA Microbiology Guide
   Provides an introduction to DNA, its chemical structure, biological function, practical applications and research.
   http://dna.microbiologyguide.com

» DNA Sequencing
   Provides information on the history of DNA, methodologies and sequencing projects.
   http://www.dnasequencing.org

» DNA from the Beginning
   An animated primer on the basics of DNA, genes, and heredity.
   http://www.dnaftb.org/

» DNA: RCSB PDB Molecule of the Month
   Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank entry on DNA. Includes discussion of the properties and structure of DNA.
   http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/static.do?p=education_discussion/molecule_of_the_month/pdb23_1.html

» Dervan's Group
   Sequence-specific recognition of DNA using high affinity synthetic molecules, for the regulation of gene expression, at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
   http://dervan.caltech.edu/

» Double helix: 50 years of DNA
   Articles, photos, and interviews from the journal "Nature" presented in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the description of the structure of DNA.
   http://www.nature.com/nature/dna50/index.html

» GenBank
   A database of nucleotide sequences maintained by the US National Center for Biology Information. Includes news, search functions and methods for submitting sequences.
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/index.html

» GeneProbes.org
   Resource introducing DNA probe technologies, listing conferences, workshops and references with focus on marine biotoxins from Nelson, New Zealand.
   http://www.geneprobes.org/

» History of Plasmid Research
   Broad range of historical material since 1903, about plasmids and application of circular DNA in molecular biology, with bibliography of early plasmid research compiled William C. Summers, for the American Society for Microbiology.
   http://histmicro.yale.edu/mainfram.htm

» Left Handed DNA Hall of Fame
   Devoted to correct and incorrect representations of left-handed DNA. Also has links related to left-handedness in nature, research, and in the news.
   http://www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/LeftHanded.DNA.html

» Obiba: Open Source Software for Biobanks
   The aim of this project is to build an open software infrastructure on which genomic epidemilogy studies can depend and to which they can contribute. It is supported by the P3G consortium.
   http://www.obiba.org

» The National Human Genome Research Institute
   US government site discusses research, grants, health, policy, and ethics of genetics.
   http://www.genome.gov/

» Wikipedia: Exon
   Article on regions in genes that are expressed in mature mRNA and in proteins.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exon

» Wikipedia: Noncoding DNA
   Article on the sections of DNA that do not contain codes for polypeptide sequences.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noncoding_DNA