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My Archive - A collection of times long past.

Some sites I use while working on my MSc:

The protein engineering and proteomics group, Dept. of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, IKBM, at The Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

Web services:
Streptomyces.org.uk - “Provides access to a wide range of information relevant to Streptomyces research.”
Bizon - “Biozon is a unified biological resource on DNA sequences, proteins, complexes and cellular pathways.”
SignalP - “Predicts the presence and location of signal peptide cleavage sites in amino acid sequences from different organisms.”
National Center for Biotechnology Information - “Provides an integrated approach to the use of gene and protein sequence information, the scientific literature (MEDLINE), molecular structures, and related resources, in biomedicine.”
EMBOSS at the Norwegian National EMBnet node - A collection of bioinformatics tools.
RCSB - Protein Data Bank - “Provides a variety of tools and resources for studying the structures of biological macromolecules and their relationships to sequence, function, and disease.”
Pfam - “A large collection of multiple sequence alignments and hidden Markov models covering many common protein domains and families.”
ExPASy Proteomics Server - “The ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System) proteomics server of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) is dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences and structures as well as 2-D PAGE.”
Protein Explorer - “Protein Explorer is free software for visualizing the three-dimensional structures of protein, DNA, and RNA macromolecules, and their interactions and binding of ligands, inhibitors, and drugs.”
SoftBerry - A team “dedicated to developing and improving bioinformatics software to help identify genes and functional signals, determine gene function, decipher gene expression data and select disease-specific genes and drug target candidates”.

Magazines/Literature:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Nature
NCBI Bookshelf - A free online collection of several biomedical books, searchable, with illustrations/pictures!
Nobel Intent - “Nobel Intent is Ars Technica’s science-centric journal.”

Searching literature:
EBIMed - “Combines Information Retrieval and Extraction from Medline.”
Medline - The world’s largest medical library.
Scirus - “Search engine that fetches only scientific websites.”
Google Scholar - “Stand on the shoulders of giants.”

Protocols:
Protocol Online - “A database of research protocols in a variety of life science fields.”
BioProtocol - Lab protocols, and more.

Communities:
SIPHS - “A peer enabled search engine and online reference for the life sciences research community.”
OpenWetWare - “An effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering.”
Biotech-Talk - “A place for people from all around the world to discuss issues related to biotechnology at both technical and speculative levels.”
Orkut - “orkut makes it easy to find people who share your hobbies and interests.”
Wikiomics Bioinformatics Wiki.

Biotechnology news:
Biosingularity - “To chronicle the remarkable advances in biological systems and hopefully also to provide a conceptual framework to discuss reverse engineering biological systems and its profound ramifications for the future of humanity.”

Software:
Coot - A tool for crystallographic model building, model completion and validation.
pDRAW32 - “Freeware DNA cloning, sequence analysis and plasmid/DNA plotting software.”
BioEdit - “Sequence alignment editor and sequence analysis program.”
FastPCR - Excellent in silico PCR.
PyMOL - “Real-time visualization and rapid generation of high-quality molecular graphics images and animations.”
ClustalX - A multiple sequence alignment program.
Cn3D - “A helper application for your web browser that allows you to view 3-dimensional structures from NCBI’s Entrez retrieval service.”
Evolution related software.

Norske bioteknologi-lenker:
NorBioBase - “A major aim of NorBioBase is to showcase the strong growth of biotechnological innovation in Norway.”
Scandinavian
Life Science Database - “A comprehensive database presenting the power of the Scandinavian Life Science industry.”
Biotekforum - “The Association is an independent member organization with purpose to promote development of Norwegian biotechnological trade and research.”
MedCoast Scandinavia - “MedCoast Scandinavia aims to establish the Göteborg Oslo (GO) Region as one of the leading bioregions in Europe where world-class researchers, a well-developed health service and excellent working conditions form an attractive environment for investors within the biotechnological and healthcare sector.”
Bioteknologinemda - “Bioteknologinemnda er en høringsinstans for norske myndigheter i forbindelse med saker som vedrører moderne bioteknologi. Bioteknologinemnda skal bidra med informasjon til publikum og forvaltningen, og fremme debatt omkring de etiske og samfunnsmessige konsekvensene ved bruk av moderne bioteknologi.”
Forskning.no - “En nettavis om norsk og internasjonal forskning.”

Hobbies:
Dykking - Diving.
Telemark - Telemark skiing.
“Cycliste Professionnel” - Cycling.
Scandinavian Virtual Airlines - Virtual Aviation.
Scandinavian VACC - “The virtual Air Traffic Control organisation for Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland. We simulate and provide ATC over the internet for simulator pilots.”
FlightSim.no - Norsk forum for flysimulatorinteresserte.

Webdesign, hosting, training courses, server administration, …:
Copyleft México

Mostly random links:
Ubuntu - “Linux for Human Beings.”
Free Software Foundation
Google
gNOME
Ogg Vorbis
Scientology
Unisys
Nat
Netmusique
Petre Digital
The Onion
Spammagnet project
Molecular Workbench