Research Resources for Biology

• Library Resources for Biology at W&L: a guide

• Biology 182: Use and Understanding of Biological Literature

• INFOMINE Biological, Agricultural and Medical Resources (UC Riverside)
• The Tree of Life ("A distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity")
• Virtual Bioscience Center from Martindale's 'The Reference Desk' (links to many interesting and useful resources)
• Kimball's Biology Pages (many links, via a glossary format)
• Other Indexes of Biology Resources (collections of important links)

OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) is a continuously updated version of Victor McKusick's Mendelian Inheritance in Man, THE guide to research literature in genetic diseases.

• Search via NCBI GenBank (offers links to other databases, including gene map, MEDLINE, etc.)
• Searching OMIM: explanation and examples
• Search Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (quickest way to submit a search, via gopher, but less elegant output)

• BIOSCI Archives
• BIOSCI FAQ
• BIONET Newsgroup News Filtering Program (This utility allows you to search several Bionet newsgroups in the life sciences by key word)

Smithsonian Institution Natural History Gopher

World Wide Web Journal of Biology

Bioscene Journal of College Biology Teaching (includes 21 years of scanned page images)

MIT Introductory Biology Hypertextbook