Symposium Resources

Symposium Resources

Session Guides, References, Resources Lists, and Glossary compiled and written by Daniela Calcagnotto, FAPESP Post Doctoral Fellow, Molecular Systematics Laboratories, American Museum of Natural History; Mary G. Egan, Ph.D., Molecular Systematics Laboratory, American Museum of Natural History; and Cathi Lehn, Conservation Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society.

Web Sites of Interest

National Center for Biotechnology Information This website contains the links to the Nature and Science Human Genome Issues
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

American Zoo and Aquarium Association
http://www.aza.org/

Biotechnology Industry Organization
http://www.bio.org/news.html

Biotechnology Information Resource site from the National Agricultural Library of the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service
http://www.nal.usda.gov/bic/

Chicago Zoological Society’s Brookfield Zoo
http://www.brookfieldzoo.org/0.asp?nSection=13&PageID=195&nLinkID=30

Conservation Breeding Specialist Group
http://www.cbsg.org/about.htm

Human Genome Project Information
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/home.html

Information Systems for Biotechnology
http://www.nbiap.vt.edu/

Institute for Social, Economic and Ecological Sustainability
http://www.fw.umn.edu/isees

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

A Resource List in Conservation Genetics

University of Minnesota: The Conservation Biology Graduate Program
http://www.consbio.umn.edu/ConsGen/

Society for Conservation Biology
http://conbio.net/scb/

Primer on Molecular Genetics (Department of Energy)
http://www.bis.med.jhmi.edu/Dan/DOE/intro.html

Principle of PCR
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~avierstr/principles/pcr.html

A Reader's Guide to James D. Watson's The Double Helix http://biocrs.biomed.brown.edu/Books/Chapters/Ch%208/DH-Reader-Guide.ht

Glossaries on the Web

BioTech's Life Science Dictionary
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html

Genetics Glossary, Biology Teaching Organization, University of Edinburgh
http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/glossary/

The Genomics Lexicon
http://209.52.56.28/lexicon/index.html

Glossary of Genetic Terms, National Human Genome Research Institute
http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/DIR/VIP/Glossary/pub_glossary.cgi

The Human Genome Project Information, Genome Glossary
http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/glossary.html

Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic Terms
http://www.weihenstephan.de/~schlind/genglos.html

U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment Document: "Mapping Our Genes–The Genome Projects: How Big, How Fast?" Glossary
http://www.bis.med.jhmi.edu/Dan/DOE/prim6.html

Sites:

http://www.brookfieldzoo.org/0.asp?nSection=13&PageID=195&nLinkID=30

http://www.cbsg.org/about.htm

http://www.aza.org/

Databases

Fly Base
http://flybase.bio.indiana.edu

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

Smithsonian Mammal Species of the World web site
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/msw/

Tree Base: A Database of Phylogenetic Knowledge
http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu/treebase/

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

Software

Arlequin population genetics data analysis software
http://lgb.unige.ch/arlequin/

Phylogeny Software
http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/software.html

Population Biology Simulations
http://darwin.eeb.uconn.edu/simulations/simulations.html

Other Useful Information

Glossary of scientific terms from the University of California Museum of Paleontology
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/glossary.html

International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
http://www.ipgri.cgiar.org/

The Natural History Museum of London searchable index of natural history resources on the web
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/portal/index.html

Species survival plan
http://www.brookfieldzoo.org/0.asp?nSection=13&PageID=195&nLinkID=30

Information Systems for Biotechnology
http://www.nbiap.vt.edu/

Biotechnology Information Resource (BIC) WWW site from the National Agricultural Library of the US Department of Agriculture - ARS
http://www.nal.usda.gov/bic/

BioTech's life science dictionary
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html