Science & Engineering

Agriculture

Agriculture Online

http://www.agriculture.com/ Contains current news of interest to the agricultural community. Also offers links to sites on the Internet related to agriculture issues.

AgriGator: Commercial Agriculture Sites

http://www.ifas.ufl.edu/WWW/AGATOR/HTM/AGCOMMERCIAL.HTM Contains links to businesses on the Internet related to agriculture, including subjects on gardening, farming, fishing, birds, insects, and food research.

Center for Soybean Tissue and Genetic Engineering

http://mars.cropsoil.uga.edu/homesoybean/index.htm Describes efforts to develop and refine a complete soybean genetic engineering system.

Economic Research Service

http://www.econ.ag.gov/ Provides economic and social science information and analysis for public and private decisions on agriculture, food, natural resources, and rural America. Features reports, catalogs, publications and USDA data statistics. Also offers other agriculture-related links.

Farmland Information Library

http://farm.fic.niu.edu/fic/home.html Site devoted to individuals interested in agriculture. Contains information about upcoming events, legislation, literature, Internet resources, and an agricultural library.

GrainsGenes

http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/graingenes.html Database sponsored by the USDA that provides molecular and phenotypic information on wheat, barley, rye, oats, and sugarcane.

Astronomy
Astro Web AstroWeb- Sitio relacionado con la astronomía y astrofísica - Vinculos a divesos sitio del mundo-AstroWeb - a collection of pointers to astronomy-related information available on the Internet
Links de la Univ.di Padova - Italia Dipartimento di Astronomia dell'Università di Padova - Links de la Univ.di Padova Italia

Asociación Argentina "Amigos de la Astronomía"

Asociación Argentina "Amigos de la Astronomía" - Club de astronomía de Buenos Aires, con programas de observaciones para el público en general. 

De interés para todos los aficionados a la astronomía. 

American Astronomical Society

http://www.aas.org/ Provides general astronomy information of interest to professionals and amateur enthusiasts. Maintains links to other astronomy resources on the Net.

Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective

http://bang.lanl.gov/video/stv/arshtml/lanlarstitle.html Features the life of Galileo, including many images from the period; based on a videotape entitled "The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective."

Astronomy and space science at NASA  
Astronomy and space science at ESA  
The International Astronomical Union  
The Hubble Space Telescope  
European Southern Observatory  
The Keck Telescopes  
Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century  
Cosmic microwave background: experiment  
Cosmic microwave background: theory  
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia  
Space Weather  
Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive  

Sky & Telescope 

  Sky & Telescope - Noticias de Ultima Hora- Español
Max-Planck Institute Telescopes in Calar Alto  
Link de Interés para astrónomos aficionados  
Telescopio Estudiantil Online Telescopio Estudiantil online Gracias a un nuevo programa llamado Cadena Estudiantil de Telescopios (STN), cualquier estudiante calificado puede ahora utilizar el Internet para controlar un telescopio y una cámara electrónica en la Nuevo México. Un efuerzo conjunto de la Universidad de Denver, la Liga Astronómica, New Mexico Skies, y Software Bisque
Documentos de Sky & Telecopes  
Astro!Info

http://ezinfo.ethz.ch/ezinfo/astro/astro.html Aims to provide general information about a variety of astronomical events (large portion written in German, but some parts written in English).

Astronomical Data Center

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc/adc.html Element of the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) / A World Data Center for Rockets and Satellites (WDC-A-R&S). Part of an international federation of astronomical data centers. Acquires, verifies, formats, documents, and distributes files that contain astronomical data in computer-readable form. Also develops and maintains software tools to access these data.

Astronomical Museum in Bologna

http://boas3.bo.astro.it/dip/Museum/MuseumHome.html Provides background on the history of astronomy and the instruments at this museum.

Astronomical Resources on the Internet

http://stsci.edu/net-resources.html Contains lists of sites broken down into gopher, telnet, ftp, and WWW resources. Offers many links as well.

Astronomy HyperText Book

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/text.html A hypertextual astronomy textbook written at the college level. Contains interactive information about astronomy. Also offers links to sites that offer astronomy assistance.

Astronomy-Related Web Sites

http://www.skypub.com/links/astroweb.html Offers listing of astronomy-related Web sites and includes brief descriptions.

AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet

http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~anton/astroweb/ Provides a searchable index of information about astronomy and astrophysics that you can find on the Internet. Contains a keyword or string search option.

Aztec Books

http://world.std.com/~aztec/ Features books on UFOs, ghosts and the spirit world, unexplained phenomena, freemasonry, ancient and lost civilizations, science, ESP and psychic phenomena, holy grail, apocrypha, Kabbalah, Gnostic texts, astral projection, occult sciences, knights templar, theosophy, Nikola Tesla, Wilhelm Reich, and more.

Brief Tour of Our Universe!

http://149.159.15.26/~space/index.html Presents an image-enhanced interactive virtual tour of the universe.

Caltech Space Society

http://www.seds.org/seds/chapters/css/CSS.html Provides information about space-related projects, such as conferences and educational programs, that are open to the public.

CCD Images of Galaxies

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/galaxy.html Presents a collection of images that specializes in photographs of galaxies. Also offers educational resources.

Center for Advanced Space Studies (CASS) Home Page

http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/CASS_home.html Provides information about this national research center, as well as general information about space science.

Compton Observatory Science Support Center

http://cossc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cossc/cossc.html Contains links to various instrument home pages, bulletin board access, announcements, and public data archives.

CyberSky

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/staff/stephen/cybersky.html CyberSky is an educational shareware program that allows you to turn your computer into an animated traditional planetarium.

Discovery Program Home Page

http://mercury.hq.nasa.gov/office/discovery/ Discover information about the different missions that NASA hopes to undertake.

HEASARC Video Archive

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/videos/videos.html Contains a directory of video clips that highlight high-energy astrophysics missions (in various formats).

Henrietta Leavitt Flat Screen Space Theater

http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~peterscc/Home.html Explores astronomy topics in a planetarium-show style, designed to present astronomy to a wide variety of readers.

High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/HEASARC_HOME_PAGE.html Contains general information on supernovae, x-ray binaries, and black holes.

Humans in Space

http://medlib.jsc.nasa.gov/intro/humans.html Provides information on physiological needs, spacecraft systems, and general information about humans living in space.

Information Leaflets

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/RGO/leaflets/ Lists online explanations of a variety of astronomy-related topics.

Institute for Space Astrophysics C.N.R.

http://titan.ias.fra.cnr.it/ias-home/ias-home.html Offer some links in Italian but the majority in English. Includes the "Electronic Atlas of Dynamical Evolutions of Short-Period Comets."

International Astronomical Union

http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/iau.html Contains access to current and past bulletins, as well as reports posted by association members.

International Occultation Timing Association (I.O.T.A.) Home Page

http://www.sky.net/~robinson/iota.htm Specializes in organizing reliable ways to view occultations and eclipses. Provides information on how nonmembers can become involved. Offers a list of members' addresses to help you locate a member near you who would be willing to help you properly view occultations and eclipses.

The Long Duration Exposure Facility

http://setas-www.larc.nasa.gov/setas/ldef.html Describes the LDEF satellite, which contained 57 experiments and spent 69 months in space. Provides the baseline on space environments and their effects.

Mount Wilson Observatory

http://www.mtwilson.edu/ Overviews several ongoing astronomy projects using innovative techniques and modern detectors. Provides information for professionals, amateurs, tourists, and educators.

NASA Astrophysics Data System Home Page—Classic System

http://adswww.colorado.edu/adswww/adshomepg.html Offers free software, developed and operated on behalf of NASA, aimed at the astrophysics community. Provides access to a variety of astronomical data for the scientific user community. Presents a tutorial that allows users to get a taste of the software.

Nasa - Science Science@Nasa  Sitio de la Nasa sobre temas científicos de interés espacial- Novedades- Ingles.
NASA World Wide Web Information Services

http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html Contains news and resources of value to a variety of people. Provides scientific information for professionals as well as educational information for teachers and students.

NASA-JSC Digital Image Collection

http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/html/home.htm Feature more than 9,000 images since the Mercury space program.

NCSA Relativity Group

http://jean-luc.ncsa.uiuc.edu/    Provides software tools, original documents (on black holes, cosmology, hydrodynamics, and so on), scientific movies, multimedia exhibits, and visualization projects.

Planetary Society Home Page

http://wea.mankato.mn.us:80/tps/ Encourages the exploration of the solar system and the search for extraterrestrial life. Provides information about organization projects, important space news, activities for the classroom, and links to information on the Internet.

Sensors and Instrument Technology Planetary Tour Guide

http://ranier.oact.hq.nasa.gov/Sensors_page/Planets.html Contains links to Web sites that have tours of the planets.

Sky Online Home Page

http://www.skypub.com/ Contains astronomy-related information and a large number of resources. Also contains a regularly updated listing of astronomical events.

Solar System Live

http://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html Allows you to view a model of the solar system. Offers adjustable settings so you can see how the solar system would be at any given time or on any given date.

Southern Cross Astronomical Society

http://www.mangonet.com/scas/ Lets you check out the Southern Cross Astronomical Society.

Space Explorer's Guide

http://nyquist.ee.ualberta.ca/~wanigar/spacelink/space_explorer.html Contains links to space resources all over the globe by country. Provides information on space news and jobs.

Space Settlement

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/NAS/SpaceSettlement/ Provides information on developing orbital space settlements, including who, what, where, when, and how much.

StarBits—Acronyms, Abbreviations, and More

http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/~heck/sfbits.htm Furnishes a searchable dictionary/glossary of astronomy acronyms, abbreviations, and terms.

StarWorlds—Astronomy and Related Organizations

http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/~heck/sfworlds.htm Furnishes a searchable listing of the addresses of organizations, institutions, associations, companies, and other groups involved in astronomy and related space sciences.

STELAR Project Demos

http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/stelar/stelar_demos.html Study of Electronic Literature for Astronomical Research. Explores the use of electronic means for improving access to scientific literature, and using astronomical publications to evaluate distribution, search, and retrieval techniques for full text and graphics display. Contains a listing of hypertext journal articles on astronomy.

Usenet FAQs: Space

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/space/top.html   Presents FAQ list of general questions about planetary probes or information about solar system bodies.

Views of the Solar System

http://bang.lanl.gov/solarsys/ Offers an educational view of the solar system. Contains images and information about the sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.

Web Nebulae

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/top.html Contains a collection of images of various objects in our galaxy. Includes images and explains how to classify nebulae.

WebStars: Astrophysics in Cyberspace

http://www.stars.com/WebStars/ Provides information about astronomy. Contains online journals as well as searchable indexes and listings of other sites.

Welcome to Loch Ness Productions

http://www.lochness.com/ Specializes in producing planetarium program materials. Includes access to samples of planetarium music and art, as well as a listing of planetariums around the world.

Welcome to Project CLEA

http://www.gettysburg.edu/project/physics/clea/CLEAhome.html Contemporary Laboratory Experiences in Astronomy. Contains educational resources that can be used to incorporate astronomy into science curriculum.

Welcome to SkyView

http://skview.gsfc.nasa.gov/skyview.html Serves as a virtual observatory on the Net that enables visitors to view a generated image of any part of the sky in a variety of wavelengths.

Welcome to the Planets

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/ Presents collection of photos from NASA, organized by planet and the space craft that took the picture. Also includes textual explanations of the photos.

World-Wide Web Home Page of the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC)

http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/CADC-homepage.html Contains general information on astronomy. Enables users to access programs and full-text copies of articles from several CD-ROMs.

Wormhole Interactive

http://www.intr.net/bertwillco/ Serves both educational and entertaining purposes. Focuses on wormholes.

Aviation

Air Affair http://www.airaffair.com/
  Focuses on different types of flying machines. Includes a calendar of flying shows, a listing of aviation fuel prices, and an aviation library.
Airship: The Home Page for Lighter-Than-Air Craft http://spot.colorado.edu/~dziadeck/airship.html

Offers links for finding information about lighter-than-air craft. Includes information on these craft in fiction, models, and pictures; a bibliography; and links to Internet resources and discussion groups.

Aviation Enthusiast Corner http://omni.brooklyn.cuny.edu/rec/air/air.html Provides many resources, including picture libraries, airshow information, and aircraft locators.
  http://www.landings.com/aviation.html
Aviation Image Archives Contains links to many aviation images and movies, including aircraft, aerobatics, combat, hang gliding, and logos from around the world.
  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/
Basics of Space Flight Learners' Workbook Provides orientation to space flight and related topics, including the solar system, gravity and mechanics, interplanetary trajectories, orbits, electromagnetic phenomena, space craft types, telecommunications, onboard subsystems, navigation, and phases of flight.
  http://www.intercom.net/local/aviation/
Canard's Aviator's Page Provides information for the aviation enthusiast. Offers links to Canard aircraft that provide information on each aircraft and other related information.
  http://www.landings.com/aviation.html
Federal Aviation Regulations Furnishes searchable database of FAA regulations.
  http://aviation.jsc.nasa.gov/
First General Aviation WWW Server Offers a resource on aviation. Provides information about learning to fly, piloting tips, model airplanes, simulator information, FAA information, and other aviation-related items.
  http://www.dfrf.nasa.gov/dryden.html
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Provides information about the activities of this research center. Includes a photo archive of research aircraft, research documents, and program information.
  http://www.nasa.gov/
NASA Information Services via World Wide Web Acts as the starting point for all of NASA's Web-based information. Offers links to resources, including space shuttle information, home pages for the NASA centers around the country, space images, and educational resources.
  http://btree.lerc.nasa.gov/NASA_TV/NASA_TV.html
NASA Television on CU-SeeMe Helps visitors learn how to access live images and audio from NASA using CU-SeeMe software. Provides a link for obtaining the CU-SeeMe software.
  http://shuttle.nasa.gov/
On Board STS-70 Provides data about the current space shuttle mission. Includes images, schedules, mission information, video clips, technical information. Lets you access status reports for every day for the last two years, including things to be done, concerns, and activities undertaken that day.
  http://www.aviation.uiuc.edu/institute/contents.html
University of Illinois—Institute of Aviation Wx Page Offers list of several aviation-related images and textual information.

Aviation 


http://www.airaffair.com/

Focuses on different types of flying machines. Includes a calendar of flying shows, a listing of aviation fuel prices, and an aviation library.

Airship: The Home Page for Lighter-Than-Air Craft
http://spot.colorado.edu/~dziadeck/airship.html

Offers links for finding information about lighter-than-air craft. Includes information on these craft in fiction, models, and pictures; a bibliography; and links to Internet resources and discussion groups.

Aviation Enthusiast Corner
http://omni.brooklyn.cuny.edu/rec/air/air.html

Provides many resources, including picture libraries, airshow information, and aircraft locators.

Aviation Image Archives
http://www.landings.com/aviation.html

Contains links to many aviation images and movies, including aircraft, aerobatics, combat, hang gliding, and logos from around the world.

Basics of Space Flight Learners' Workbook
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/

Provides orientation to space flight and related topics, including the solar system, gravity and mechanics, interplanetary trajectories, orbits, electromagnetic phenomena, space craft types, telecommunications, onboard subsystems, navigation, and phases of flight.

Canard's Aviator's Page
http://www.intercom.net/local/aviation/

Provides information for the aviation enthusiast. Offers links to Canard aircraft that provide information on each aircraft and other related information.

Federal Aviation Regulations
http://www.landings.com/aviation.html

Furnishes searchable database of FAA regulations.

First General Aviation WWW Server
http://aviation.jsc.nasa.gov/

Offers a resource on aviation. Provides information about learning to fly, piloting tips, model airplanes, simulator information, FAA information, and other aviation-related items.

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
http://www.dfrf.nasa.gov/dryden.html

Provides information about the activities of this research center. Includes a photo archive of research aircraft, research documents, and program information.

NASA Information Services via World Wide Web
http://www.nasa.gov/

Acts as the starting point for all of NASA's Web-based information. Offers links to resources, including space shuttle information, home pages for the NASA centers around the country, space images, and educational resources.

NASA Television on CU-SeeMe
http://btree.lerc.nasa.gov/NASA_TV/NASA_TV.html

Helps visitors learn how to access live images and audio from NASA using CU-SeeMe software. Provides a link for obtaining the CU-SeeMe software.

On Board STS-70
http://shuttle.nasa.gov/

Provides data about the current space shuttle mission. Includes images, schedules, mission information, video clips, technical information. Lets you access status reports for every day for the last two years, including things to be done, concerns, and activities undertaken that day.

University of Illinois—Institute of Aviation Wx Page
http://www.aviation.uiuc.edu/institute/contents.html

Offers list of several aviation-related images and textual information.

Biology

Univ. di Pavia Dipartemento di Biologia di la Universita di Pavia Italia. - Excelentes link de cienciabiológicas

ftp://grind.isca.uiowa.edu/image/gif/anatomy/

Anatomy Images Contains a directory of anatomy images.
http://www.atcg.com/atcg/
Anderson's Timesaving Comparative Guide Serves as reference for molecular biologists, providing the world's most comprehensive listing of restriction enzymes, modifying enzymes, commercial DNA libraries, and more.
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~welch/auditory/Auditory.html
Auditory Perception Offers a multimedia document about auditory perception, including demonstrations, discussions, and experiments.
http://biochemweb.slu.edu/
BiochemWeb Provides a service for people involved in biochemistry and molecular biology: those considering applying to the St Louis University graduate program, those involved in the graduate program, and professors.
http://muse.bio.cornell.edu/
Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server Provides information about specimens in biological collections, taxonomic authority files, directories of biologists, reports by various standards bodies (IOPI, ASC, SA2000, and so on), an archive of the Taxacom (MUSE-L and CICHLID-L listservs), access to online journals (including Flora On-line), and MUSE and Delta.
http://mac10201.zool.iastate.edu
BioForce Labs Focuses on expanding the use of scanning probe microscopy and molecular force detection in basic and applied research and molecular diagnostics. Focuses in particular on manufacturing and selling BioTipsä, biologically modified force transducers for molecular detection. Includes the following services and activities: on-site SPM setup and training, collaborations, providing services, and supply sales.
http://www.biosupplynet.com/bsn/
BioSupplyNet Serves as an online product directory for the biomedical/lifescience research community. Offers searchable database that contains more than 15,000 products from 1,400 vendors. Provides information on new products and special offers, an opportunity for users to share expertise through product user groups, and immediate access to suppliers via e-mail for technical support and ordering information.

http://130.17.2.215/index.html

CSU BIOWEB Consolidates existing WWW biological science teaching and research resources and creates and distributes original multimedia resources for teaching biology. Offers general biology links and short descriptions of the sites as well as the separate category for multimedia sites related to biology, which consist mostly of image databases on the Internet.
http://www.apollo.co.uk/a/horizon
Horizon Scientific Press: Molecular Biology Books A resource for books in molecular biology and microbiology. Contains useful links to other sites of interest to molecular biologists.
http://www-bio.llnl.gov/bbrp/bbrp.homepage.html
LLNL Biology and Biotechnology Research Program Introduces you to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Biology and Biotechnology Research Program (BBRP). Provides information related to their research projects in the areas of the human genome project, DNA repair, x-ray crystallography, and more.
http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/
Microworlds: Exploring the Structure of Materials Explores scientific issues being investigated at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in an understandable and fun way. Provides information on research dealing with issues such as light, conductivity, and wetlands.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
National Center for Biotechnology Information Responsible for building, maintaining, and distributing GenBank, the NIH genetic sequence database that collects all known DNA sequences from scientists worldwide. Also provides searchable database for DNA sequences.
http://www.bri.nrc.ca/irbgenen.html
NRC Biotechnology Research Institute Provides information about the Biotechnology Research Institute (BRI) of the National Research Council of Canada. BRI has more than 400 specialists and state-of-the-art facilities and equipment to perform cutting-edge R&D in biopharmaceuticals, environmental biotechnology, and bioprocess.
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html
Tree of Life Serves as "a map to biological information," a cooperative group of WWW sites on the Internet. Provides information on biology arranged like a phylogenetic tree; the further along you go, the more specific the information becomes.
http://life.anu.edu.au/viruses/welcome.html
Virus Databases Online Provides links to Internet resources on biological viruses. Includes links to plant and animal viruses, tutorials, genome sequences, and virus news.
Proyecto de biología
 
Dinámica poblacional
 

 

Biology

Anatomy Images
ftp://grind.isca.uiowa.edu/image/gif/anatomy/

Contains a directory of anatomy images.

Anderson's Timesaving Comparative Guide
http://www.atcg.com/atcg/

Serves as reference for molecular biologists, providing the world's most comprehensive listing of restriction enzymes, modifying enzymes, commercial DNA libraries, and more.

Auditory Perception
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~welch/auditory/Auditory.html

Offers a multimedia document about auditory perception, including demonstrations, discussions, and experiments.

BiochemWeb
http://biochemweb.slu.edu/

Provides a service for people involved in biochemistry and molecular biology: those considering applying to the St Louis University graduate program, those involved in the graduate program, and professors.

Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server
http://muse.bio.cornell.edu/

Provides information about specimens in biological collections, taxonomic authority files, directories of biologists, reports by various standards bodies (IOPI, ASC, SA2000, and so on), an archive of the Taxacom (MUSE-L and CICHLID-L listservs), access to online journals (including Flora On-line), and MUSE and Delta.

BioForce Labs
http://mac10201.zool.iastate.edu

Focuses on expanding the use of scanning probe microscopy and molecular force detection in basic and applied research and molecular diagnostics. Focuses in particular on manufacturing and selling BioTipsä, biologically modified force transducers for molecular detection. Includes the following services and activities: on-site SPM setup and training, collaborations, providing services, and supply sales.

BioSupplyNet
http://www.biosupplynet.com/bsn/

Serves as an online product directory for the biomedical/lifescience research community. Offers searchable database that contains more than 15,000 products from 1,400 vendors. Provides information on new products and special offers, an opportunity for users to share expertise through product user groups, and immediate access to suppliers via e-mail for technical support and ordering information.

CSU BIOWEB
http://130.17.2.215/index.html

Consolidates existing WWW biological science teaching and research resources and creates and distributes original multimedia resources for teaching biology. Offers general biology links and short descriptions of the sites as well as the separate category for multimedia sites related to biology, which consist mostly of image databases on the Internet.

Horizon Scientific Press: Molecular Biology Books
http://www.apollo.co.uk/a/horizon

A resource for books in molecular biology and microbiology. Contains useful links to other sites of interest to molecular biologists.

LLNL Biology and Biotechnology Research Program
http://www-bio.llnl.gov/bbrp/bbrp.homepage.html

Introduces you to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Biology and Biotechnology Research Program (BBRP). Provides information related to their research projects in the areas of the human genome project, DNA repair, x-ray crystallography, and more.

Microworlds: Exploring the Structure of Materials
http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/

Explores scientific issues being investigated at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in an understandable and fun way. Provides information on research dealing with issues such as light, conductivity, and wetlands.

ational Center for Biotechnology Information
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Responsible for building, maintaining, and distributing GenBank, the NIH genetic sequence database that collects all known DNA sequences from scientists worldwide. Also provides searchable database for DNA sequences.

NRC Biotechnology Research Institute
http://www.bri.nrc.ca/irbgenen.html

Provides information about the Biotechnology Research Institute (BRI) of the National Research Council of Canada. BRI has more than 400 specialists and state-of-the-art facilities and equipment to perform cutting-edge R&D in biopharmaceuticals, environmental biotechnology, and bioprocess.

Tree of Life
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html

Serves as "a map to biological information," a cooperative group of WWW sites on the Internet. Provides information on biology arranged like a phylogenetic tree; the further along you go, the more specific the information becomes.

Virus Databases Online
http://life.anu.edu.au/viruses/welcome.html

Provides links to Internet resources on biological viruses. Includes links to plant and animal viruses, tutorials, genome sequences, and virus news.

Botany

 

Balogh Scientific Books

   
 

http://www.balogh.com/~balogh/

  Publisher and book seller specializing in botany. Features information on books, an online ordering desk, new book releases, and news about botany. Also offers a mailing list and book trading list.
  Brief Overview of the National Herbarium
   
  http://nmnhwww.si.edu/botany/collover.html
  Includes information about the National Herbarium, a government organization. Includes searchable databases of plants and historical documents.
  Geobotanical Institue
   
  http://www.geobot.umnw.ethx.ch/
  Feautres an overview of the institute and contact information. Also includes research topics, plant ecology, systematics, mycology, archeobotany, libraries, and a herbarium.
  National Institue of Agricultural Botany
   
  http://www.open.gov.uk/niab/niabhome.htm
  Includes comprehensive index to the science and study of botany. Features articles on training, lab tests, and chemical and plant diseases.
  Nature Described: Learning to Look at the World
   
  http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/g-nature/Nature.html
  Provides historical data about nature and botany.
   
   

Botany

Balogh Scientific Books

http://www.balogh.com/~balogh/

Publisher and book seller specializing in botany. Features information on books, an online ordering desk, new book releases, and news about botany. Also offers a mailing list and book trading list.

Brief Overview of the National Herbarium

http://nmnhwww.si.edu/botany/collover.html

Includes information about the National Herbarium, a government organization. Includes searchable databases of plants and historical documents.

Geobotanical Institue
http://www.geobot.umnw.ethx.ch/

Feautres an overview of the institute and contact information. Also includes research topics, plant ecology, systematics, mycology, archeobotany, libraries, and a herbarium.

National Institue of Agricultural Botany
http://www.open.gov.uk/niab/niabhome.htm

Includes comprehensive index to the science and study of botany. Features articles on training, lab tests, and chemical and plant diseases.

Nature Described: Learning to Look at the World
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/g-nature/Nature.html

Provides historical data about nature and botany.