BCB 444/544
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

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BCB 444/544 Fall 07

• BCB at ISU

List of Resources from ISU Librarian Andrea Dinkelman

• Link for Lab 1 Handout

• Bioinformatics and Genomics at ISU
• Information Resources for Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, & Genomics
• Andrea Dinkelman’s Homepage
• Bioinformatics Resources
• Print Resources in the Reference Collection
• Electronic Books - books about bioinformatics, genetics, genomics

Links for PPT lectures

• Links for lecture 1 and 2

Suggested Reading

Textbook links and companion sites

• J. Pevsner's Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/bookhome/109870841

Bioinformatics Centers/Servers

• NCBI
• Jena Centre for Bioinformatics Library
• ISCB

Other Bioinformatics Courses & Tutorials

• Algorithms for Molecular Biology course archive at Tel Aviv University
• BCB 444/544 Fall 05
• BCB 444/544 Fall 06

Online Resources for Cell and Molecular Biology

• NCBI Science Primer: What is a cell?

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/primer/genetics_cell.html

• NCBI Science Primer: What is a genome?

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/primer/genetics_genome.html

• BioTech’s Life Science Dictionary

• http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html

• NCBI Bookshelf

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=books

Online Statistics References

StatWeb: A Guide to Basic Statistics for Biologists

http://www.dur.ac.uk/stat.web/

Basic Statistics: http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stbasic.html

(correlations, tests, frequencies, etc.)

Electronic Statistics Textbook: StatSoft

http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html

(from basic statistics to ANOVA to discriminant analysis, clustering,

regression, data mining, machine learning, etc.)

AFM & other Scanning Probe Microscopies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_probe_microscopy

http://www.nanoscience.com/education/tech-overview.html

http://www.mobot.org/jwcross/spm/

Some nice pics:

http://www.mobot.org/jwcross/spm/applications.htm

Eric Henderson (GDCB, ISU) - Bioforce Nanotechnology Company

http://www.bioforcenano.com/

Take a look at videos illustrating practical nanotech (skip the intro), Click on Applications

http://www.bioforcenano.com/index.php?id=103

Some slides on Scanning Probe Microscopy

Some useful modules on related topics:

RNA Secondary Structure Prediction:

http://cnx.rice.edu/content/m11065/latest/

Structural Computational Biology: Introduction and Background:

http://cnx.rice.edu/content/m11614/latest/

Geometric Methods in Structural Computational Biology:

http://cnx.rice.edu/content/col10344/1.6

The complete list is here:

http://cnx.rice.edu/

try searching for "computational biology" or "systems biology"

PLoS Computational Biology Ten Simple Rules collection:

http://collections.plos.org/ploscompbiol/tensimplerules.php

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