Great Downloads for Biology

Rasmol: Free software for looking at molecular structures. It runs on Windows or Macintosh/PPC computers. You can download hundreds of molecules for viewing in 3-D. Worth the download time.

Linear Regression: How to Use Excel to perform a linear regression. This is a powerpoint presentation. If you are running MS Internet Explorer or if you have installed the Powerpoint Plug-in,, then the presentation will play when you click on the link. Otherwise, you can save the file on your hard drive by pressing the link and following instructions. You then open the file in MS Powerpoint 97 and select slideshow.
Download the Muscle Cartoon: A cute cartoon depicting the interaction of muscle proteins during contraction

Cold Spring Harbor DNA Learning Center: Contains movies for several molecular techniques including DNA sequencing, PCR, etc.
Protein Isolation Program: A Windows program simulating the isolation of a protein from a protein mixture. Program was written by Dr. Andrew Booth at Leeds University in the United Kingdom. This is a self-extracting zip file. When you click on the link, save the file protein.exe on your hard drive to a new folder called Protein.. To expand the file, press the START button with the left mouse button and select run. In the window, type c:\Protein\protein.exe and press OK. This will now expand the program into the Protein folder. To run the program, again use the START button, go to run and type c:\protein\protlab and press OK. (If you are using an ACC computer, you can save this all to a floppy disk. To do this, bring a 1.4 Mb floppy and replace 'c:' with 'a:'. Please ask your instructor for help if you have problems. An online version (with tutorials) can be found at http://bmbwww.leeds.ac.uk/archive/java102/ProteinLab.html.

Links of Interest to Biology Students

ACC Learning Resource Center: An Internet source for the Biological and Medical Sciences. Site contains Medline search capabilities, H.M.S. Beagle (online magazine), library containing free abstracts from many journals (and even some full length articles) and much more. It is free to join and worth the price!

BioMedNet: An Internet source for the Biological and Medical Sciences. Site contains Medline search capabilities, H.M.S. Beagle (online magazine), library containing free abstracts from many journals (and even some full length articles) and much more. It is free to join and worth the price!
The Biology Project: An interactive online resource for learning biology developed at The University of Arizona. Includes many tutorials and problem sets.

The Virtual Flylab: An interactive site in which you design matings between female and male fruit flies carrying one or more genetic mutations. . Virtual FlyLab will apply the correct rules of genetic inheritance to these mutations to obtain the offspring. It performs matings, scores flies, prepares statistics and you never need to prepare media or swat any lose flies.

DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor: A great site containing information and downloads related to Molecular Biology.

Scientific American: The homepage for one of the most popular science magazines. This site contains featured articles from past issues of Scientific American as well as other sources of scientific information.

Mendel's Web: MendelWeb is an educational resource for teachers and students interested in the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature of science.

Writing Laboratory Reports: U of Toronto and Virginia Polytech University.: These two sites offer guidance on how to write a lab report for your science classes. They also include general tips meant to improve all of your writing.

Sites with genetic problems: These sites have genetics problems for you to use for practice.: From Emporia State University
From MIT
From somewhere in Hawaii
From UC (this is a good one)

Yahoo: Go to Yahoo to get a free email account accessable from any browser. Follow links to Yahoo mail. Also, Yahoo is a great search engine for surfing the web.

Please email me if you find any sites to add.

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