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September 01, 2000
Crispin Taylor

BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX [1]

Next Wave Bioinformatics Resources

  • Profiles of Bioinformaticians [2]

  • Bioinformatics Skills [3]

  • Bioinformatics: Magic Technology? [4]

UK Bioinformatics Resources

  • MRC Bioinformatics Studentships [5]

    Lists places available with MRC funding for take up in October 2000.

  • Wellcome Trust Funding [6]

    Details of the Functional Genomics Development Initiative.

  • BBSRC/EPSRC [7]

    Details of a joint thematic initiative providing research grants.

  • The Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre [8]

    Funded by the MRC, the HGMP Resource Centre provides databases for the UK research community, as well as other biological resources and computing services.

  • The Sanger Centre [9]

    The Wellcome Trust/MRC genome research centre.

  • The UK Crop Plant Bioinformatics Network [10]

    The name says it all. They hold regular training events around the UK.

  • Roslin Institute Bioinformatics Group [11]

    Bioinformatics for animal scientists.

German Bioinformatics Resources

  • EMBL Comparative Sequence Analysis Group [12]

    Home page of one of the major European bioinformatics initiatives.

  • EMBL hotlist [13]

    Compiled by Peter Bork's group.

  • MDC Department of Bioinformatics [14]

    "Home" of Jens Reich.

  • GenProfile AG [15]

    Margret Höhe's employer, and largest commercial spin-off from Germany's sequencing effort.

  • DFG Bioinformatics Initiative [16]

    In German...

  • Bioinformatik.de [17]

    A Yahoo-like Web directory for bioinformatics set up by German scientists.

Canadian Bioinformatics Resources

  • University of Toronto [18]

    Program in Proteomics and Bioinformatics home page.

  • The Organelle Genome Megasequencing Program [19]

    Alex Nip's employer.

U.S. Bioinformatics Resources

  • Bonnie Diehl and Pat Cummings's article [20]

    Provides an extensive list of U.S. graduate programs in bioinformatics.

  • National Center for Biotechnology Information [21] (NCBI)

    A great place to visit to keep up with what's going on.

  • NCBI's FTP site for database and software downloads [22]

    Learn the tools of the trade by downloading and tinkering with NCBI's publicly available databases.

  • Johns Hopkins University [23]

    Bioinformatics Web server.

  • Gene Logic Inc. [24]

    Victor Markovitz's employer.

  • Motorola's Biochip Division [25]

    David Wang's employer. Check out the nifty animation on the home page!

  • Curagen home page [26]

    Martin Leach's employer.


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Links:
[1] http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2000_09_01/noDOI.5824373926528239356
[2] http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/1998/04/17/31
[3] http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/1998/04/27/1
[4] http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2000_02_25/noDOI.7830440261951439692
[5] http://www.mrc.ac.uk/left_5b6.html
[6] http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/biosfggen.html
[7] http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/opennet/structur/stg/bioinfo.html
[8] http://www.hgmp.ac.uk
[9] http://www.sanger.ac.uk/
[10] http://synteny.nott.ac.uk/
[11] http://www.ri.bbsrc.ac.uk/bioinformatics/index.html
[12] http://www.bork.embl-heidelberg.de/
[13] http://www.bork.embl-heidelberg.de/Hotlist/
[14] http://www.bioinf.mdc-berlin.de/
[15] http://www.genprofile.com/
[16] http://www.gmd.de/SCAI/dfg2/
[17] http://www.bioinformatik.de/
[18] http://p-b.med.utoronto.ca/
[19] http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/ogmpproj.html
[20] http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2000_09_01/noDOI.735439765654540470
[21] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
[22] ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/
[23] http://www.bis.med.jhmi.edu/bioInformatics.html
[24] http://www.genelogic.com/
[25] http://www.motorola.com/biochipsystems/home.htm
[26] http://www.curagen.com