| The following link list is intended to help you get started in bioinformatics,
if you are new to the subject, especially if you have little or no background
in biological sciences. |
Basic science links Bioinformatics is a study of complex biological data by computer methods. To understand what is biological data and why it is studied in the first place, one needs some idea of general biology, in particular biochemistry and molecular biology. The following links provide some starting points if you feel you need to refresh your background knowledge. |
| Basic genetics and DNA, with excellent animations: DNA from the beginning http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/ Beginner's Guide to Molecular Biology (including cell biology and protein structure) http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/notebook/ Molecular biology for computer scientists, a 46-page pdf to give a biological introduction in the field of computational biology. http://compbio.ucdenver.edu/hunter/01-Hunter.pdf An introduction to biochemistry at U of Arizona, USA http://www.biology.arizona.edu/biochemistry/biochemistry.html An introduction to cell biology at U of Arizona, USA http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/cell_bio.html General biology http://www.biology-resources.com/ |
A quick view inside bioinformatics The following sites give easy introductions into some special topics that are hot spots in bioinformatics research |
| The article on Bioinformatics in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics lists major applications concisely. An article by Luscombe, Greenbaum and Gerstein from 2001 is still a better read, despite some missing new information. Genomics and Its Impact on Science and Society. Reasons for doing genome research. http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/primer2001/ Online Education Kit: Understanding the Human Genome Project Study at least How to sequence a genome and Bioinformatics http://www.genome.gov/25019879 Why are protein structures important and interesting? http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/structlife/structlife.pdf How is drug design related to bioinformatics? Read the Wikipedia article on drug design, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_design, and if your interest is still up, another one on Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_structure-activity_relationship, and on toxicity, metabolic properties etc., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADME, which is one of the goals of QSAR predictions. |
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