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• DNA and protein sequence databases, analysis and reference
• Genomics and disease news
• Bioinformatics and Informatics
• Microbiology and disease
• Journals, Other Publications, Patent Search, and Newsgroups
• Local (followed by other colleges and universities)
• Web search and other reference (including more comprehensive lists)

NCBI-BLAST (Includes human PSI, PHI, "compare 2 sequences", and special database searches)
NCBI-Entrez
NCBI-Taxonomy Browser

BCM (Baylor College of Medicine) Search Launcher
BIND - Biomolecular Interaction Network Database
BLOCKS
ChemFinder
CN3D and VAST - structure viewer and search for 3D structure similarity
Codon Usage Database
EBI - European Bioinformatics Institute (ClustalW, Fasta and much more...)
BioCyc
EMBL
EMBL ClustalW sequence alignment
ENZYME: ExPASy's enzyme nomenclature database (contains pathways too)
Evolution links
ExPASy Proteomics Tools (and more!)
GeneCards: human genes, proteins and diseases
GeneMark gene prediction and others
Glimmer gene prediction
Gold - Genomes Online Database
k2d (protein secondary structure prediction from CD spectra)
KEGG - Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
Macromolecular Museum
PDB (Protein Data Bank)
PHYLIP
Polysaccharide Genes Database
PRINTS
Pseudomonas Genome Project Genome Database
PSIPRED - Protein secondary structure prediction
PubCrawler - "It goes to the library. You go to the pub."(tm)
PROSITE scan
PSORT family of programs - Predicts protein localization within cells
RasMol and Chime - Molecular Visualization Freeware
RasMol (more recent version)
Sequence alerting by SWISSSHOP
SignalP: signal sequence prediction and cleavage
SRS - Sequence Retrieval System - EBI site
SwissModel
TargetP
Taxonomy Browser (NCBI)
TIGR - > now JCVI
The Bacterial "Code" (NCBI's translation table 11 and notes)
TMHMM
Vecscreen - NCBI's BLAST detection of vector sequences
Webcutter (for restriction enzyme analysis)
WebLogo

Genomics and disease news:

See our News section

Bioinformatics and Informatics:

BCCA-SFU-UBC Joint Bioinformatics Graduate Program
Biocatalog - EBI Mol. Bio. Software
Bioinform - "The Global Bioinformatics News Service"
Bioinformatics.ca
Bioinformatics (journal)
Bioinformatics.org - The Open Lab
Bioinformatics at SFU
BioJava
BioPerl
Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops
Free Software Foundation (GNU)
How to Write a Shell Script
XML - The Basics
International Society for Computational Biology
Perl Monks
PERL reference
The Register
Slashdot
Unix Commands
Unix Guru Universe
Unix - The Basics
Unix - More Basics from the UW Genome Sequence Centre
Wiley Bioinformatics

Centers and sites dealing with microbiological and general disease issues:

An Online Microbiology Textbook - From Wisconsin-Madison (Timothy Paustian)
Another Online Microbiology Textbook - From UTMB (Samuel Baron)
Another (yes, you guessed it) Online Microbiology Textbook - From USC (Richard Hunt)
American Type Culture Collection Homepage
American Society for Microbiology
"Bad Bug Book"
Biospace.com
Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canadian Society of Microbiologists
CellsAlive!
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centre for Microbial Diseases and Host Defense Research (CMDR)
CommonCold.org
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
E. coli genetic stock center
Genome Canada
Health Canada
ID Links: Communication Center for Infectious Disease
Public Health Agency of Canada
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
NIH
NSERC
Pan American Health Organization
Tree of life home page
United Nations
World Health Organization

Journals, Other Publications, Patent Search, and Newsgroups:

Academic Press Journals
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Annual Review of Microbiology
ASM journals
Biochemistry
BioEssays
Bioinformatics
BioMedNet
BioTechniques
Canadian Journal of Microbiology and other NRC journals
Cell
Current Opinion Journals
EMBO
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Evolution
Genome Research
Genomics
Immunity
Infection and Immunity
Journal of Bacteriology
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Journal of Computational Biology
Journal of Immunology
Journal of Molecular Biology
Journal of Molecular Evolution
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Molecular and Genetics and Genomics
Molecular Microbiology
Nature
Nature Biotechnology
Nature Structural Biology
Nucleic Acids Research
PNAS
Science
Scientific American
Trends in Microbiology

SFU Library - Electronic Journals (for SFU only)
UBC library - Journals Online (for UBC only)

BIOSCI/bionet
Canadian Patent Index
US patent search (Delphion)
US patent search (from qpat)

Local:

Lab Contact and Location Info

BC Centre for Disease Control
BC Ferries Info and Schedules
BCIT (B.C. Institute of Technology)
BC Translink - Bus, Skytrain etc... info
BCCA-SFU-UBC Bioinformatics Graduate Program
Bioinformatics at SFU
Centre for Microbial Diseases and Host Defense Research (CMDR)
Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT)
Discover Vancouver
Environment Canada Weather Forecast for Vancouver
Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency
MBB Department
Pathogenomics Project
Peter Wall Institute For Advanced Studies
Simon Fraser University (SFU)
SFU webmail
Society of Canadian Women in Science and Technology
University of British Columbia (UBC)
VanBUG - Vancouver Bioinformatics Users Group
VanLUG - Vancouver Linux User Group

Other colleges and universities:

Listing of all College and University Homepages

Web search and other reference:

Altavista
Google
iLOR
Yahoo
Altavista's Web Page Translation
Area Codes in US and Canada
YourDictionary (dictionaries for many different languages)
Travlang's Languages for Travellers (hear how to say phrases in different languages)
MapBlast
MapQuest
Multimap - World Atlas Online
Homefair.com (stats on cities etc...)
USA Hotel Guide
UK detailed maps and hotel guide
Online Conversion (units conversion)
SunriseSunset.com
World Time Server (find the time, anyplace in the world)
 

Links to a few pages having a more comprehensive list of relevant web sites:

Andy Kropinski's Online Analysis Tools
Bioplanets Links
Bork Group's Hotlist
Biology Links: Evolution
Molecular Biology Jump Station
Biology Links: Evolution
Virtual Library - includes other journals...

NHGRI's Glossary of Genetic Terms
NCBI's Glossary of Terms - primarily relevant to BLAST sequence analysis

Brinkman's other stuff:
Brinkpedia (lab wiki)
Google Calendar
Cypress Mountain
Whistler-Blackcomb
Soccer