Applied Bioinformatics Course [中文] [博士班]

Scientific Stories

• Molecule of the Month (Biology) - A web site which presents short accounts on selected molecules from the Protein Data Bank. It was created in Jan 2000 and is being maintained by David S. Goodsell at Scripps.
• Protein Spotlight - A web site which tells short stories on protein molecules as well as the the scientists behind these interesting stories. It was started in September 2000 by Vivienne B. Gerritsen at Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.
• Molecule of the Month (Chemistry) - An online chemistry educational resource developed and maintained by Paul May and his colleagues in the UK since 1996.

General Biology

• Amino Acid Propeties - A website of amino acid classification with nice pictures maintained by Rob Russel.
• TimeTree - A public resource for knowledge on the timescale and evolutionary history of life.
• Evolution 101 - An online course to understand evolution.
• ViralZone - A knowledge resource to understand viral diversity at SIB.
• AAAAA - Aho's Amazing Atlas of Antibody Anatomy.

Online Bioinformatics Courses

• EBI - EBI online training courses.
• GOBLET - Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education & Training.
• SADR - An online course for Sequence Analysis with Distributed Resources, Bielefeld University, Germany.
• Rosalind - A platform for learning bioinformatics and programming through problem solving.
• TeSS - ELIXIR's Training Portal in Europe.

Videos and Audios

• NCBI Video Vault - The web portal of NCBI Videos, including primarily tutorials and instructional videos.
• Crash Courses - The video presentations (with Chinese caption) on general biology by Hank Green.
• TWiV - This Week in Virology - a weekly netcast animated by professors Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier from the Columbia University, USA.
• Small things considered - A scientific blog for the microbiology maintained by professor Elio Schaechter and Roberto Kolter.

Free Journals

• PubMed Central - The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journals.
• BioMed Central - The web site of more than 180 open access biomedical journals freely available, started by a UK publisher in London since 2001.
• Europe PMC - A comprehensive life sciences literature source of 42.9 million publications, preprints and other documents with links to supporting data, reviews, protocols, etc.
• PLOS - The web site of several significant open access biological and medical journals freely available, stared by the Public Library of Science, a non-profit organization composed of many famous scientists.
• Sci-Hub - The first website in the world to provide mass & public access to research papers. It was created by Alexandra Elbakyan, a young Kazakhstan information scientist and listed by Nature as one of the Top 10 people who mattered in 2016.

Tutorials

• PubMed - PubMed tutorial at NLM.
• BLAST - Example-Driven Web-Based BLAST Tutorial at NCBI.
• MyNCBI - MyNCBI tutorial.
• SwissModel - An online course for principles of protein structure, comparative protein modeling and visualization maintained by Nicolas Guex and Manuel C. Peitsch at Glaxo Wellcome.
• Swiss-Pdb Viewer - User guide and tutorials of Swiss-Pdb Viewer.
• Phyre2 - Workshop examples for Phyre2.

Algorithms

• Needleman-Wunsch algorithm - A clear description of the global sequence alignment algorithm by Vladimir Likic [Local PDF]
• Needleman-Wunsch - An interactive demo for Needleman-Wunsch algorithm.
• BLAST algorithm - A detailed description of the BLAST sequence similarity database search algorithm by Mike Johnson.
• BLAST Steps - Description for the steps of BLAST search by David Mount.

Websites in Chinese

• NSII of China - National Species Information Infrastructure developed and maintained by Chinese Institutions.
• Chinese Virtual Herbarium - Chinese Virtual Herbarium developed and maintained by Chinese Institutions.
• iPlant of China - Plant taxonomy and identification platform developed and maintained by Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Scientific Blogs

• Become a contributor of literature and knowledge in UniProt (from inside UniProt)
• Cogs of data in UniProt (from inside UniProt)
• What is bioinformatics about (by Guillaume Filion)
• Once upon a Blast (by Guillaume Filion)
• A farewell to Bioinformatics (by Frederick Ross)
• Goodbye F1000, Hello Faculty of a Million (by Casey Bergman)