Links

Lab Brain (intranet only)

UCSB Links

• Neuroscience Research Institute (NRI)
• NRI logos
• Computer Support (Lifesciences)
• Computer Services (Kerr Hall)
• UCSB WebMail
• Shared equipment in MCDB
• UCen hours
• Software Depot
• Artworks Department
• UCSB Police Department
• UCSB Police, Lost and Found Division
• University of California Traveler Insurance Coverage

Santa Barbara Links

• Current weather in Santa Barbara
• S.B. weather satellite image
• S.B. Airport flight tracker
• S.B. air pollution
• Tide Predictor
• S.B. NewsPress Calendar of Events
• The S.B. Independent Newspaper
• S.B. Family Life Magazine
• SantaBarbara.com Event Calendar
• S.B. Chamber of Commerce Events Calendar
• Trixity.com Events Calendar
• S.B. Conference & Visitors Bureau Events Calendar
• Free Culture Arts Foundation
• S.B. Community Calendar
• UCSB Arts & Lectures Calendar
• UCSB Music Department
• S.B. Prideguide Events Calendar
• Downtown S.B. Calendar of Events
• Craigslist Events Calendar
• Ventura Events Calendar
• Ventura Arts Calendar
• Ventura-Today Events Calendar
• Ventura County Reporter - Happenings
• L.A. Times Events Calendar

Safety Links

• UCSB Environmental Health & Safety
• UCSB Biosafety
• UCSB Radiation Safety
• UCSB Hazardous Waste pickup
• Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
• other MSDS info

Misc. Bio-Links

• NIH Historical Resources
• Protocol Online
• Human Protein Atlas
• Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment (STKE)
• GeneAssist Pathway Atlas
• Academic Ranking of World Universities
• ISI-Highly cited scientists
• www.clinicaltrials.gov
• Biocarta Pathways
• Entrez Browser
• FASEB
• FASEB Directory of Members
  Who's who in Science
• BioSupplyNet- Biomedical Research Supply Information Source
• Selectscience.net
• CancerNet
• Postdoc Homepage
• OpenWetWare
• Science Cartoons

Pathology/Histology/EM

• ASCB Image & Video Library
• Electron microscopic atlas of mammalian tissues in the Internet
• Web Atlas of Cellular Structures Using Light and Confocal Microscopy
• The Visible Mouse
• The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
• Society for Ultrastructural Pathology
• Ultrastructural Pathology Online
• Histology Database and Course

Sequence Analysis

• BLAST Search at NCBI
• BLAST Search at ISREC
• ExPASy Proteomics tools
• ENSEMBL Databses/Tools
• Genecards
  
• Bioinformatics Tools from Amos Bairoch
• Bioinformatics Tools from the EBI
• Bioinformatics Tools at ISREC
• PSORT: prediction of protein sorting signals
• CBS Prediction servers
• CBS Prediction of subcellular location
• Unigene at NCBI
• Swiss Prot
• Multiple Sequence Alignment
• NCBI
• Ensembl Trace Server
• NCBI Trace Archive
• GENSCAN Web Server at MIT
• GeneMark - gene prediction
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
• The Sanger Centre
• Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE)
• ClustalW: multiple sequence alignment
• T-Coffee: multiple sequence alignment
• Boxshade
• Boxshade (French site)
• Transmembrane-prediction
• Vector Database
• GlobPlot (structure prediction)
• Protein Data Bank (PDB)
• HGMD (Human Gene Mutation Database)
• CALMODULIN TARGET DATABASE
• Find transcription factor binding sites: MATCH
• SUMOplot (find sumoylation sites)
• ELM - find motifs in your sequence
• Phosphorylation site analysis
• RNA folding:
  • Vienna
  • GeneBee
  • mfold

Journals

• PubMed
• Electronic Journals at UCSB
• UCSB Library Proxy Server
• Google Scholar
• ISI Web of Science
• E-print Network
• Highwire
• Journal Citation Reports
• Journal Impact Factors
• PubMed Central
• Digital Dissertations
• UCSB Library
• Online journals of special interest (to us):
  • American Journal of Physiology
  • Biochemical Journal
  • Biochemistry
  • Cell
  • Current Opinion Journals
  • EMBO Journal
  • Febs Letters
  • International Review of Cytology
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Journal of Cell Biology
  • Journal of Cell Science
  • Methods in Enzymology
  • Molecular Biology of the Cell
  • Nature
  • Nature Cell Biology
  • Neuron
  • New York Times
  • PNAS
  • Science
  • Scientific American
  • Traffic
  • Trends Journals

Teaching Resources

• ASCB iBioSeminars

Photoshop Tutorials

• Adding scale bar

Cell Biology - Methods/Protocols

• Protein A/G binding table
• Cell and Molecular Biology Online - Methods and Protocols
• Microscopy Primer

Cell Biology - Materials/Reagents 

Antibodies:

• Biocompare: Antibody search
• ANTIBODY RESOURCE Page: The source for antibody information.
• American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)
• Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank

• American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)
• German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
• NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository
• CABRI: Common Access to Biological Resources and Information

Other:

• Addgene (plasmids)
• ChemBank
• Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)
• Open Biosystems (cDNA clones etc)
• Chemfinder.com
• Chemdex
• Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
• online catalogues: VWR | Fisher

MIce:

• KOMP Repository
• European Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis Program (EUCOMM)
• Jackson Laboratory (for transgenic mice etc.)
• Mutant Mouse Regional Resource Centers (MMRRC)
• International Mouse Strain Resource
• International Gene Trap Consortium (KO mice etc)

Databases/Dictionaries/Textbooks

• ExoCarta: A compendium of exosomal proteins and RNA
• Wikigenes
• Molecule Pages (UCSD-Nature Signaling Gateway)
• Yeast subcellular localization database
• Medlineplus
• Kimball's Biology Pages
• Acronyms and Abbreviations Dictionary
• Dictionary of Cell Biology
• Libraryspot.com
• Encyclopædia Britannica
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary/Thesaurus
• Quotation Search
• Internet Oracle
• Howstuffworks.com
• 1911 Edition Enzyclopedia
• US Census Data
• Wikipedia-Enzyclopedia

Misc. Links

• Time and Date
• Personalized World Time
• Mapquest.com
• College and University Home Pages
  • College and University Home Pages (MIT)
  • Web U.S. Higher Education (U. Texas)
  • Personal Pages at Colleges and Universities

Jobs

• Jobs at hum-molgen.de
• Bionet Employment
• EMPLOYMENT LINKS FOR THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENTIST
• Sciencejobs.com
• Am. Physiol.Society-Careers
• Science Magazine Careers

Funding

• The Foundation Center
• Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities
• Community of Science (COS)
• GrantsNet
• NIH
• NIH ranking of institutions
• NIH CRISP database
• NIH Study Section Roster Index
• NIH eRA Commons
• NIH deadlines
• NSF | FastLane Login
• Grantmaker

Polycystic Kidney Disease

• ADPKD Mutation Database