A Biotechnology Science Primer | NCBI

A Biotechnology Science Primer - Education resources at NCBI:
Bioinformatics, Genome Mapping, Molecular Modeling, SNPs, ESTs, Microarray Technology, Molecular Genetics, Pharmacogenomics Phylogentics.

Podcasts in Science

Nature Podcast
http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/rss/nature.xml

Science & the City | New York Academy of Sciences
http://www.nyas.org/podcasts/nyaspodcast.xml

Subscribe podcasts with a media player, such as iTunes from Apple.

New Harrison's series

McGraw Hill recently launched its new medical professional site, Harrison's Practice. The sister Text, Harrison's Principle of Internal Medicine, is world known medicine book for its up-to-date medical info. This new practice site focuses more on clinical aspect, while Principle targets more on underneath mechanism.

DNA Microarray

DNA Microarray

• Microarrays: Chipping Away at the Mysteries of Science and Medicine, a Science Primer from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

• Educator Resources from Affymetrix, a manufacturer of microarrays. Includes, among many other things, photographs, a description of Affymetrix's unique manufacturing method, and a discussion of ethics and policy issues. You can even order your own free demonstration microarray!

• Photo of a microarray manufactured by Agilent Technologies

• Fluorescent image of a microarray manufactured by Agilent Technologies

• Find out how DNA microarray analysis is being used to study insecticide resistance in African malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

Science & the City | New York Academy of Sciences

Science & the City New York Academy of Sciences delivers a podcast featuring interviews, conversations, and lectures by noted scientists and authors. You can subscribe to our podcast feed so that our latest audio presentations are brought to your desktop, or you can preview individual presentations. In addition, you can access journalist reports with video, resource links, and more, at www.nyas.org.

Science Functional Genomics Resources: Gene Expression

Gene Expression: Pointers to selected online resources on gene expression and microarrays.

Microarray Gene Expression Data Society

Microarray Gene Expression Data Society is an international organisation of biologists, computer scientists, and data analysts that aims to facilitate the sharing of microarray data generated by functional genomics and proteomics experiments.

ImageJ

ImageJ:Image Processing and Analysis in Java. Free and available for many platforms.

《数字创世纪——人工生命的新科学》

《数字创世纪——人工生命的新科学》
作者：李建会 张江
“人工生命，是一个充满着深刻的思想、有趣的模型和丰富的隐喻的新领域。然而让人遗憾的是该领域的中文图书实在少之又少。于是，我们便萌生了写作这本书的想法。……然而计算机中的涌现模型恰恰是该领域思想方法的主要内核，如果不了解其中的细节很难把握住它的主流。所以，本书非常强调具体计算机模型的说明和讨论。”
（点击直接阅读）

Artificial Neural Networks Technology

A book on Artificial Neural Networks Technology. Prepared by Dave Anderson and George McNeil.

Read online or download the postscipt file at here

Commonly Used Force Fields

• MM2, MM3 and MM4(N. L. Allingeret al.)
  small organic molecules
  http://europa.chem.uga.edu/index.html
• MMFF(Merck Molecular Force Field, proposed by T. A. Halgren)
  biomolecules
  T.A. Halgren, J. Comput. Chem. 17, 490 (1996)
• AMBER(Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement, by P. A.
  Kollmanet al.)
  biomolecules
  http://www.amber.ucsf.edu/amber/amber.html
  
• Optimized Potentials for Liquid Simulation, W. L. Jorgensen et al)
  organic liquids
  W. Damm, A. Frontera, J. Tirado-Rives, W.L. Jorgensen, J. Comput.Chem. 18, 1955 (1997);
• CHARMM(Chemistry at HARvardMacromolecular Mechanics, by M.Karplusand coworkers)
  biomolecules
  http://www.charmm.org/
• ECEPP(Empirical Conformational Energy Program for Peptides, by H. A. Scheragaet al.)
  biomolecules
  http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Research/Biomed/CompBiologyTools/eceppak/
  http://www.chem.cornell.edu/has5/
• GROMOS(GROningenMOlecularSimulation, by W. F. van Gunsterenand coworkers)
  biomolecules
  http://www.igc.ethz.ch/gromos/

Loop Database

1. Wloop database: Profiles encode using HCA matrix + ending point distance restrictions
   http://bioserv.rpbs.jussieu.fr/cgi-bin/WLoop
   
2. Sloop classification: Profiles encoded using FUGUE matrices; only sequence
   http://www-cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk/~sloop
   
3. ArchDB classification: Profiles encoded using HMM models; only sequence
   http://sbi.imim.es/archdb
   
4. Loops in Proteins database:
   http://www.protein-design.com/LIP/

new NAS members

2006 new elected full LIST

Members in NYC
FUTUYMA, Douglas J.; Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolution, department of ecology and evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook

GILBERT, Charles D.; professor, Laboratory of Neurobiology, Rockefeller University, New York City

GOFF, Stephen P.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, department of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City

GREENGARD, Leslie; professor of mathematics and computer science, Courant Institute, New York University, New York City

McDERMOTT, Ann E.; professor of chemistry, department of chemistry, Columbia University, New York City

NOVICK, Richard P.; investigator, Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine, and professor of medicine and microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York City

O'DONNELL, Michael E.; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor, Laboratory of DNA Replication, Rockefeller University, New York City

RAVETCH, Jeffrey V.; Theresa and Eugene M. Lang Professor, and head, Laboratory of Genetics and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York City