Biology Online Resources

Overview of the Carleton College Biology Department

The biology department has 8 full time faculty and 4 staff members. Currently there are 117 junior and senior majors in this department, making it the biggest major at Carleton College.

Courses with Web Pages and Faculty Research Interests

Local Biological Web Resources

• The Mussel Survey Page
• Ants of the Cowling Arboretum and McKnight Prairie

Topics for off campus web resources

• Information from the Greenhouse.
• Biochemistry
• Biodiversity
• Environmental Studies
• Evolution and Ecology
• Genetics
• Health Sciences
• Marine Biology
• Geographic Information Systems
• Other Interesting Servers

Biology Related Online Resources

Biochemistry

• Brookhaven National Laboratory, home of the Protein Data Bank (protein 3Dstructures).
• NCBI Blast Sequence Search Database for nucleotide and protein queries.
• NCBI WWW Entrez Browser.
• OWL-a non-redundant protein sequence database.
• Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools.
• Protein Identification Resource (PIR).

Biodiversity

• Information Center for the Environment at UC Davis.

Evolution and Ecology

• Conservation Ecology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal for publication on: conservation of ecosystems, landscapes, species and genetic diversity, habitat restoration; and management of parks, endangered populations and harvested populations.
• Missouri Botanic Gardens.
• National Biological Service's Office of Inventory and Monitoring Section.
• Principia Cybernetica Project is aimed at providing a computer-supported collaborative development of an evolutionary-systemic philosophy.
• Theory of Evolution is discussed in a series of essays from the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology.

Genetics

• Arabidopsis cDNA Sequence Analysis Project at University of Minnesota.
• Caenorhabditis elegans Server at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
• CGSC: E. coli Genetic Stock Center at Yale University.
• Maize Genome Database WWW Server.
• Saccharomyces Genomic Information Resource at Stanford University.
• The Transgenic/Targeted Mutation Database.

Health Sciences and Medicine

• Harvard Medical Web.
• Center for Disease Control.
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center -- BLOCKS Server.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH).
• Stanford University Medical School.
• The Virtual Hospital (Iowa).

Marine Biology

• Austrailian Oceanographic Data Centre.
• Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
• Northwest Fisheries Science Center.

Other Interesting Biology Home Pages

• Biological Journals from Harvard University.
• Biological Server at California State University.
• Botany at University of Georgia.
• EINet Galaxy's Searchable Index For Biology.
• Neuroscience at UCSD.
• University of Washington Science Departments.

Last modified: Monday, 15-Dec- 98, 2:45:46 CDT

Thursday, 16-Mar-2000 09:07:16 CSTby: J. Dwyer