Interesting or Valuable Online Material
Practical Advice on How to Succeed
- Career advice for students
- How to...
- How to Study - test yourself! Science article NYTimes article
- How to Write a Scientific Paper ASCB newsletter
- How to Construct and Present a Poster
- Advice to undergrads from a Swarthmore professor. Lots of good detailed information, including not to wear Axe.Templates and examples.
- Do'sand Don'ts. Older but still good.
- Memoirs of scientists
- Council of Scientific Editors Web Site
- Office of Research Integrity (ORI) of the federal government
- Protocols Online.
- Biosci/BIONET, a collection of USENET newsgroups. Many topics, including methods. Searchable archives.
- BioChemWeb.org, a collection of online resources organized by topics in cell biology, biochemistry and molecular biology
- Error Bars, a short clear discussion in a JCB paper.
- Standard deviation and standard error, short clear discussion from BMJ.
- Techniques Summer Course. Powerpoint files for lectures, covering topics from basic to advanced. Several recent years available.
- Fluorescent Proteins: Poster at Nature web site
Proteins
- ExPASy, in Switzerland.
- Antibody Resource Page (Facebook)
- MicroManager Software (Vale Lab UCSF)
- Olympus' Microscope Resource Center. Good, well-organized information. Demonstrations of how to do things, e.g. adjust the phase rings. Illustrations of processes, e.g. molecular rearrangements associated with GFP fluorescence.
- ImageJ, at NIH
- NCBI. Access to many genome, sequence, and literature databases, including PubMed.
- Budding Yeast
- Nematode
- Drosophila
- Mouse
- Humans