Useful Bioinformatics Links

NIU DNA Sequencing Core facilty (lots of useful protocols and links)

Simple sequence analysis tools:

WebCutter Finds restriction sites.

Translation of DNA sequence to protein

Primer design for PCR

Tool for checking primers for bad characteristics

Other useful DNA sequence tools (from IDT)

Sequence Comparison Tools

National Center for Biological Information (NCBI) Entrez, BLAST, Taxonomy, and more. This is the main site in the US for sequence comparison work.

ExPASy Major site for protein information. I like the PROSITE and ENZYME sections a lot.

Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) database at NCBI

Clustal site Multiple sequence alignments.

Search OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) for specific traits, diseases, genes, etc.

Arabidopsis Information

The main Arabidopsis information site

Arabidopsis genes sequenced at TIGR

Cold Spring Harbor Arabidopsis course

List of Arabidopsis database links

Map your clone on the Arabidopsis genome

Lab Protocols on the Web

Various protocols.

More protocols

Still more

Big list of protocol links

Sources of reagents (and technical information):

BRL (aka Lifetech or Gibco) website. Source of plasmid vector, labelling kits, other molecular reagents we are using.

Promega Biotech site. Common source of molecular biology reagents; good technical information.

New England Biolabs site. Good technical information, especially for restriction enzymes.

Links to Other Resources:

BioToolKit List of links to various tools.

Excellent site for biotech related links