ANIMATIONS - for biology, chemisty, and biochemisty; this is a huge portal

Molecular Illustrations by Goodsell

3D molecules - aa, carbs, drugs

Essential Chemistry Animations

FOSEP: Forum on Science Ethics and Policy (local speakers)

Theg Lab - Research on Thylakoid Translocation

Wayne's Word -- great plant site

The Virtual Plant Cell

Bioinformatics

Access Excellence - site by Genetech, which has a wonderful overview

BioForest - for info on Biotech in the Northwest

Forensic Sciences - a fantastic portal

How to make transgenic Plants - animated/interactive tutorial

Seattle Biotechnology - Job listings and resources

WBBA - Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association - great directory of much of the local industry

Build a DNA Model - basic base-pairing

DNA learning Center - DNA restriction digests, electrophoresis, PCR, DNA arrays, etc.

DNA from the Beginning - resource and tutorial

WebCutter - virtual plasmid digestions

NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information (BLAST, PubMed, etc.)

ExPASy - Expert Protein Analysis System

REFERENCES / RESOURCES

Buffer Recipes - careful to use only what you understand!

CAS numbers

NIST Chemistry WebBook

The Carboy Incident - important illustration of danger in the lab

Electrophoresis - great interactive simulation of DNA agarose gel electrophoresis - pour and load a gel virtually.

How to make transgenic Plants - animated/interactive tutorial

BioTech Life Science Dictionary: on-line glossary

National Center for Science Education - resource for defense of the teaching of evolution in public schools

Beckman Rotor Calculations

3D molecules - aa, carbs, drugs

Seattle Biotechnology - Job listings and resources