As of July 2007, these pages are no longer being maintained. There is a smaller selection of links on our new web pages, under the links menu at the far right side.

The Human Genome Project | Comprehensive Sites | Databases |
Diseases | Genetic Testing and Therapeutics

The Human Genome Project

Human Genome Project Information (Department of Energy)

National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH)

Genome News. The genome news network is a publication of the Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG), which is one of several organizations sponsored by the J Craig Venter Science Foundation. See also the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR).

Celera Publication Sites offer some free information, but use of the "Celera Discovery System" is by subscription.

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) including submitting information to GenBank, literature databases, and many other resources. Genome Map 1996 is a somewhat outdated but very attractive introduction with links to expanded disease information. GeneMap '99 is an update. The definitive view is from the MapViewer. See the Guide to Online Information Resources page or tools for data mining for information about BLAST, dbSNP, e-PCR and a dozen other databases.

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Comprehensive Sites

The Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) includes reports from research groups working in areas such as sequencing, fragment analysis, microarrays, and proteomics; discussion forums; the Journal of Biomolecular Techniques; and notices of upcoming events.

Australian National Genomic Information Service (ANGIS) is a subscription service offering software, databases, documentation, training and support for biologists (offers 30 day trial subscriptions). Has a very extensive and well-organized resource list under "links".

Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center.

Berkeley Drosophilia Genome Project. Fruitflys. Of particular interest: Genome Annotation Assessment Project.

Broad Institute. (Research collaborative of MIT, Harvard, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.) Databases, software, publications.

The goal of the NCI's Cancer Genome Anatomy Project is "to determine the gene expression profiles of normal, precancer, and cancer cells, leading eventually to improved detection, diagnosis, and treatment for the patient." A large collection of information, tools and resources.

Cell and Molecular Biology Online. Large collection of links.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the DNA Learning Center. Lots of information, aimed at different audiences, cleverly presented.

Graphics Gallery. "...a series of labelled diagrams with explanations representing the important processes of biotechnology". An excellent and growing collection from Access Excellence @ the National Health Museum, a resource for bioscience teachers K-University.

International Communication Forum in Human Molecular Genetics (HUM- MOLGEN). Bulletin boards and moderated discussions including requests for biotechnical and diagnostic help; info re upcoming meetings, news, and jobs.

The Jackson Laboratory. Mouse genome resources and data.

Computational Biology at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Data and tools available include GRAIL and text-based searching.

The Sanger Center, UK, includes links to chromosome-specific resources, lots of databases. Ensembl software (a collaborative effort with EMBL-EBI) produces and maintains automatic baseline annotation on metazoan genomes.

The Signaling Gateway. A comprehensive site for news and information on signal transduction. See also the Calcium Signalling Toolkit on the Nature pages.

Stanford Genomic Resources. Links to multiple projects, resources, laboratories and departments at Stanford University.

UCLA-DOE Lab has Database of Interacting Proteins (DIP) other servers (fold recognition, protein structure evaluation, others). See also UCSC for information on the "working draft".

University of Kansas Medical Center Genetics Education Center has grade school - college educational links. For instance, a list of almost 30 different glossaries, networking, career planning, lesson plans, upcoming TV shows, and more.

University of Nijmegen, Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics has links to databases and a number of online tutorials in bioinformatics and cheminformatics.

Washington University Genome Sequencing Center.

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Databases

The Belgian EMB Node. Genetics databases, some general links.

Cold Spring Harbor Bioservers.

EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). Search databases, get tools, submit sequences, alignments or structures. See also other databases and research groups.

MITOMAP, a human mitochondrial genome database.

The Genome Database. The official central repository for genomic mapping data resulting from the Human Genome Initiative. Developed at Johns Hopkins (1990-2002), hosted by Toronto's Hopsital for Sick Children (1998-2002), now maintained by RTI International.

Mouse Genome Databases from the University of Tennessee at Memphis. Downloadable as text or FilemakerPro files.

The Protein Data Bank operated by Rutgers, the UC San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, contains about 20,000 released atomic coordinate entries.

Stanford Microarray Database "stores raw and normalized data from microarray experiments, as well as their corresponding image files."

MRC Rosalind Franklin Center for Genomics Research. Resource Center includes Dysmorphic Human-Mouse Morphology Database and MOWSE peptide mass database, among other resources.

The WIT Project attempts to produce metabolic reconstructions for sequenced (or partially sequenced) genomes. The site appears to be undergoing renovation.

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Diseases

Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology from the University Hospital of Poitiers. Focuses on "genes involved in cancer, cytogenetics, clinical entities in cancer, and cancer-prone diseases". Searchable by any of these categories. Tumor descriptions include remarks on classification, pathology, treatment, prognosis, genes and proteins related, extensive lists of references.

BH4. Tetrahydrobiopterin deficiencies.

Genetic and Rare Conditions Site from the University of Kansas Medical Center. Links to information about conditions as well as organizations, support groups, advocacy groups, etc.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Division of Medical Genetics provides information and protocols for the International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry.

G6PD Deficiency. An introduction to the genetic, physiological, molecular and clinical aspects of "the most common human enzyme deficiency in the world."

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Genetic Testing and Therapeutics

The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) Test Directory allows searches for labs offering infectious diseases tests, solid tumors tests, hematopathology tests, and inherited diseases tests.

Biochemical Genetics, UCSD, provides information about their test offerings, links to many other sites, and a set of tools and functions (e.g. calculate body surface area).

Bio.com. News and analysis about the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Investment research. Lab protocols, tools, and links. Jobs.

The Journal of Gene Medicine website. Abstracts are posted on the day an article is accepted for publication. This is a subscription service. The related clinical trials site has information on worldwide gene therapy clinical trials and free access to the 20 articles in the special gene therapy vectors issue.

Lab-on-a-Chip.com News regarding microarrays and microfluidics, especially in commercial applications.

Medicine and the New Genetics. Pages from the Human Genome Project site. Focus on gene testing, therapy, and counseling. Many references and links.

Some companies working on molecular-level diagnostic systems, including DNA microarray systems: Affymetrix (has a small but nice collection of links for educators), Agilent, Genomic Solutions (genomics, proteomics, and high throughput screening), Invitrogen, Motorola, Nanogen, and Stratagene (their newsletter is helpful for keeping up with new developments and products).

Thanks to Dave Pasternack for help in updating this page.