| Evolution,
Phylogenetics, Molecular
Biology |
Organismal
Biology, Evolution, Phylogenetics
Teaching/Learning
Introduction
(Weston & Crisp)
Comparative
Analysis of signals in sequences (Penny)
Molecular
Systematics Course
Glossary
of
Phylogenetic Systematics
Journey
into the World of Cladistics
The
Compleat Cladist
Compiled
links to courses (Brown, Grinnell)
Tutorial (USC)
Science
Primer (NCBI)
Resources
Biodiversity links
(Tree of Life)
Evolution:
Harvard University
Phylogenetics
Resources (UCBerekeley)
Databases
RBG,
Kew - Database Introduction
IAPT
- Find plant names
Tree
of Life
TreeBASE
RiceWeb
Plant Systematics
Angiosperm
Phylogeny Website (Peter Stevens)
PBIO
450 Lecture Notes (James Reveal)
"Deep
Green"
Angiosperm fams
Line drawings
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Software
List
of Phylogeny programs (Joe Felsenstein)
PHYLIP:
Phylogeny Inference Package
PAML:
Phylogenetic
Analysis by Maximum Likelihood
DAMBE:
Data Analysis in Mol Biol and Evol
MacClade
r8s: Analysis of
rates of evolution
Molecular
Evolution (Milinkovitch lab, Belgium)
EMBOSS
(to replace
GCG)
Staden
Package
Open
Directory Project: Bioinformatics Software
Plant
Biology: Malmberg Lab
Comparative
methods software
Commercial
Phred/Phrap/Consed
(U Wash)
GCG (now Accelrys)
Sequencher
Softberry (can
test programmes online)
Online Tools
ClustalX
Nucleotide
Alignment: Genestream
Protein
structure prediction
RNA
secondary structure prediction
Protein
structure practicals (EMBO)
Motif analysis (Phylomat)
Detecting
selection
Miscellaneous
Finding
antibodies
Nanosimulation of the cytoskeleton
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Molecular
Biology, Evolution
Teaching/Learning
Molecular
Genetics (Melcher, OK State U)
Beginning
Laboratory Manual (UMBC)
Practical
Molecular Biology
Lab
preps: Stocks and solutions
Metabolic
Pathways
Molecular
Workbench (NSF-funded)
Lab Protocols
AFLP,
cloning, insitu: Stanford
NWFSC:
Molecular
Biology Protocols
Molecular
biology Protocols: Biotaq.com
Resources
BioSci (www.bio.net)
123
Genomics: genomics and bioinformatics
Biotech's
Science Resources
Art's
Biotechnology Resource
Centre of Bioinformatics
(CBI), Peking University
South Africa
National Bioinformatics Institute
BioResearch
Online
Human
Molecular Genetics
Databases
The
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Gramene: Comp. Mapping Resource
for Grains
UK CropNet Databases
TropGene
Databases
http://www.arabidopsis.org/
RNA
primers,
UCB
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| Biodiversity |
Biodiversity-itself
Natural
History Museums and Collections
Brooklyn
Botanic Garden
The
New York Botanical Garden
Tropicos:
Image Gallery
Internet
Directory for Botany
Album
of the Plants of Israel
UCMP
Express Lift to Taxa
The
Tree of Life Home Page
Natural
Diversity: Amateur
Instituto
de Biolog’a, UNAM
CETEC
Brasil
Ciencias
Naturales y
Museo U.N.L.P. (Argentina)
|
About
Biodiversity
The
Centre for Biodiversity Research at UBC
Biodiversity
Information
Global
Biodiversity Information Facility
Bioresources
Bioprospecting
Biodiversity
Research Protocols
International
Cooperative Biodiversity Program (NIH, NSF, USAID)
View
from Asia
Latin
American Student Organ., CSU
|
Policy
and
Biodiversity
Resources
Multilateral
Envir. Agreements (UNEP)
CITES
First Page
Biodiversity treaties, conventions
(Tufts U)
Environ.
Policy Studies (Columbia U)
Biodiversity
(World Resources Institute)
UNEP
World Conserv. Monitoring Centre
US
U.S.
Fish Wildlife Service: Intl Affairs
The
National Plant Germplasm System
Information
on Govt Bills etc
CBD
Intro to CBD (IISD)
Global
Taxonomy Initiative
Access to Genetic Resources
General:
Indigenous People (Colombia)
Yellowstone
The
Yellowstone Case - Edmonds Institute
The
Intl Center for Technology Assessment |
| Genetic
Engineering, Genetic Modification |
Online
journals/databases
AgBioForum
AgBiotechNet (CABI) (Needs Subscription)
AgBiotechNet:
Developing Countries (CABI)
Asia-Pacific
Biotech
Resources
Information
Systems for Biotechnology (ISB: Virgina Tech)
Useful
Biotechnology Links
AgBioWorld
Foundation (Tuskagee)
Biotechnology
Fact
sheets (AGCare, Canada)
Third
World Network
CID
Biotech Home (Harvard Univ)
Biotech
Law Web Server
Biotech
Knowledge
Center (Monsanto)
Biotech
Bibliographies
(NAL/USDA)
Biotech
websites
and documents (NAL/USDA) |
Biotech Policy:
US
US Biotechnology
Regulation
Biotechnology Regulatory
Services , USDA-APHIS
Food and
Environment (UCUSA)
US
EPA Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
FDA/CFSAN
Federal Register 62 FR 18937 April 17, 1997
USDA
Biotechnology Permits Branch
USDA APHIS permits (Can't
enter Biotech!)
Facts
US
EPA: Biopesticides: Bt
Delta Pine & Land-Monsanto
merger (1998)
Info
Who's
Minding the Store? (EDF 1/1/'95)
|
Education
Biotechnology
Tutorials online (UCD)
Biotechnology
Information
(UCB)
Biotech.
Glossary (Technomic Publ)
Transgenic
Crops: Introduction and Resources (Colorado State University)
Plant
Genomics (UCD)
Protein
engineering
How
the Terminator Terminates
PBS
- harvest of fear
Courses
National Academy of Sciences (USA)
Designer
Seeds
|
Pest
Resistance Genes
ISB: Workshop
Proceedings
USDA on Terminator
Protecting
technology and encouraging development (USDA7/00)
Why USDA's Technology
Protection System
Benefits Agriculture (12/2001) |
Bt
protein and gene
Bt-Based
Insect Resistance (Cornell Unvi)
2000
Bollgard Cotton Performance North
Carolina
Bt
toxin (EPA document, 9/1995)
Bt
Toxin Resources (USDA 9/1997)
Increasing
the toxicity of Bt (FEBS) |
Bt News
AgBiotechNet
-Bt Plants: Resistance and other issues
Bt
Cotton Is Potential Economic Saviour
Agronomic
Problems With GM Cotton
The
Economics of Bt Cotton
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| Science &
Technology Policy |
Policy
US
House
Science Committee
US EPA FIFRA
Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP)
US
Government information
Office of the US
Trade Representative
History, Resources
The
Early Cold War and Formulation of U.S. Science Policy
Food
and Drug Law
Institute (FDLI)
Commision
on Professionals in Science and Technology
|
Policy:
National, Regional
European
Technology Assessment Network
Institute
for
Prospective Technological Studies (Europe)
Food
Safety from the Farm to the Fork (Europe)
Waiter,
there's a gene in my food (Australia)
Report
of consensus conference on gene technology in food chain (Australia)
Technology
strategy, devel. and policy (Australia)
Regulation
of
Biotechnology
in Canada
Canada: Policy.ca
|
The Public
The Loka
Institute
US
Public & Biotech1995-98 (Virginia Tech)
Alliance for
Bio-Integrity (Iowa)
Campaign to label
GE foods
Norfolk Genetic
Information Network
Genetically
Manipulated Food (Feb 8 2001)
Pusztai's
Homepage
Trading
in Genes and Genetic
Resources
for Plant Breeding (Ahloowalia)
|
Intellectual
Property Rights
IPRs and
Biodiversity (readings)
UN's
FAO Votes for Broad Limits on Crop Patents
International Union
for Protection of New
Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
International
Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources (UKabc)
World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
|
Patents
and laws
Overview of US
patent law
USPTO - search
Bad patents (US)
Patent
information from Japan
|
Biosafety Issues
Biosafety Web Pages
Cartagena,
Colombia
Plant
Exclusions (CHECK)
Other
World Conference on
Science, Budapest 1999
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| Ethics
|
- Ethics
resources, Canada
- Ethics
- Useful Links
Can
selfishness save the environment? (Ridley & Low 1993 Atlantic:
Needs
subscription)
Statement
by Bruce Alberts re Darkness in El Dorado
Ethics
in Science
Do
scientists need a code of ethics?
Codes
of Ethics Online
Thesaurus
of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (AAAS)
Workshop of
Access and Benefit Sharing
CBD-ethics
|
AIBS
ICOM
Code of ethics for Museums
Manual
of Natural History Curatorship
Smithsonian: Ethics
course, documents
Amer. Zoo and
Aquarium Association
Museums
Herpetologists,
Queensland
New
Zealand Native Orchid Group
Society
of Integrative and Comparative Biology
Ecological
Society of America
|
Alberta Society of Prof.
Biologists
Society for in viro
Biology
American
Society for Biochemists and Molecular Biologists
Bioethics UK
CBD:
Article 8 (j)
Ethics
in Anthropology
American
Anthropological Association
International
Society of Ethnobiology
Inter-American
Biodiversity Information Network
National
Herbalists Association of Australia
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| Food,
Agriculture, Development |
FAO
World Agriculture: towards 2015/2030
FoodFirst.org
(USA)
Cuba: Sustainable
Agriculture
National
Center for Food Agr Policy (USA)
International
Food Policy
Research Institute (USA)
Key Trends in
Feeding the World, 1970-95
Plants
and Population: Is There Time? (PNAS 96, 1999)
The
Globalization of Science (ISNAR)
The
Corporate Expropriation of
Species (1998)
UK
Food Group
FAO
Statement on Biotechnology
GM
Crops Containing Pesticide Genes (NAS)
Can Biotechnology help
(CGIAR)?
OECD
publications on Biotechnology
Biotech.
in Crops: Issues for the developing world (Oxfam)
Transgenic
Plants and
World Agriculture (NAS etc)|
Remarks
by Charles M. Benbrook
Agricultural
Biotechnology for Eastern and Central Africa
Food
safety issues (Europe) |
Agricultural
Research
ICAR-Indian
Council of Agricultural Research
IITA
| Home page
Henry
A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture
The Energy
and Resources Insitute, New Delhi, India
M.S.Swaminathan
Research Foundation, Chennai, India
CGPRT
(UN) Centre, Bogor, Indonesia
Major
World Crop Areas and Climate (USDA)
Australian
New Crops Web Site
The
Intl Centre for Genetic Engg and Biotechnology (ICGEB)
International
Plant Genetic Resources Institute
Central Tuber Crops Research
Insititute (CTCRI)
Development
Association
for India's Development (AID)
Welcome
to SRISTI
International
Development Research Centre (Canada)
World Bank
|
Journals online
Geneflow:
IPGRI journal
AGRIS/CARIS
- FAO journal
New Agriculturist
(UK)
Science
Functional Genomics Home
News, stories on
GM foods
Environment News Service
Yahoo!
Genetically Modified Food Debate
News
on Genetic Engineering (last 2001)
Genetech
ETC group
Guardian: Genes,
Climate
change, agriculture
New
Scientist: GM
BBC: 3rdWorld,
Food
fears
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| Miscellany:
India/Asia/Other |
Who's
Who among South Asian Women
SAJA:
South Asian Journalists Association
SOUTH
ASIAN INITIATIVE
India
Together
Frontline
India
Today
Outlook
HAMARA-CD
Old Hindi songs
IndoWindow.com
Census
of India, Govt. of India
Indology: John Smith
CIA
-- The World Factbook -- India |
Afghan
News Channel (A.N.C.)
Afgha.com
- Site of the Afghan Resistance
The
Patrin Web Journal - Romani (Gypsy) Culture and History
|
Indus Valley:
Discoveries 1995-1998
Jomo
K. S.: Winner and Losers of Globalization
Spices (French)
A
Rum Site: Bay Oil and Rum
Sorting
Piper name
King's
American Dispensatory: Piper Methysticum
Indian Horticulture: Spices
History of English Cookery Glossary
Unani Medicinal
Plants
Spices in Medieval Europe: Economics
SE
Asia, Korea, and Japan (1453) |
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Global Bioscience
Develop. Institute
African Biotech and
Agriculture
The African
Agri. Technol
Foundation |
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