Online Information for Cell Biology

Textbooks / Course Lectures / Background Information / Ethics / Methodology / Data Analysis & Statistics /Proteins / PCR
Antibodies / Peptides / Signaling / Cell Motility / Images & Movies / LIght Microscopy / Genome Databases

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Textbooks

• Lodish et al., Molecular Cell Biology
  • Sixth edition, selected resources, via the publisher
  • Fourth edition, via NCBI
• Berg et al., Biochemistry.
  • Sixth edition, selected resources, via the publisher
  • Fifth edition, via NCBI
• Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell
  • Fifth edition, selected resources, via the publisher
  • Fourth edition, via NCBI

Podcast Lectures on Cell Biology

• Cell Biology MCB 130 at UC Berkeley, 2009. Podcasts for every lecture, via iTunes.
• iBio Seminars at Am Soc Cell Biology. Interesting topics and speakers. Some material directly relevant to our course.

Background Information

• Biochemistry Online Course
• A primer on structural biology aimed at non-experts and novices.

Ethics

• Integrity in Publications - White paper from Council of Scientific Editors
• Office of Research Integrity (ORI) of the federal government
  • Misconduct Case Summaries

Methodology Information in General

• Protocols Online.
• Cell Biology Lab Manual, Heidcamp web site.
• 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.

Data Analysis and Statistics

• Error Bars, a short clear discussion in a JCB paper.
• Standard deviation and standard error, short clear discussion from BMJ.

Proteins

• ExPASy, in Switzerland.

PCR

• Horizon Press PCR Gateway

Antibodies

• Antibody Resource Page
• Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank

Peptides

• Peptide Resource Page

Signaling

• Proteins Domains at Tony Pawson's lab web site. Succinct descriptions of structure and functions.
• STKE (Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment, at Science Magazine).

Cell Motility

• Cell Migration Consortium

Images and Movies

• ASCB Image and Video Library. Includes winning videos from "Celldance" at ASCB annual meeting, along with a collection of many other online resource sites.

Light Microscopy

• MicroManager - Free, open-source microscope software built on ImageJ
• Olympus' Microscope Resource Center
• Nikon's Microscopy Education Center
• Green Fluorescent Protein - Nobel Prize 2008 Information
• Fluorescent Proteins Chart (pdf)

Genome Databases

• NCBI. Access to many genome, sequence, and literature databases, including PubMed.
• Budding Yeast
• Nematode
• Drosophila
• Mouse
  • Ensembl
  • Jackson Lab
• Humans
  • Ensembl

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