URL

Author/ Institute

Description

CHEMISTRY

http://www.chemweb.com/databases

ChemWeb Inc.

Collection of on-line chemical structures, publications, patents, etc. Available for chemweb.com members (membership is free)

http://www.chemdex.org

University of Sheffield, England
Anaheim, California

Collection of metadata - links to collection of chemistry-related infromation on the Web

http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/orbitron/index.html

University of Sheffield, England
Anaheim, California

The Orbitron: a gallery of orbitals on the WWW
-Images representing orbitals -Animated plots of wave functions
-Animated plots of electron density
-"Dot-density" plots of electron density
-Plots of radial distribution functions

http://library.thinkquest.org/3659/reference

SUNY Stony Brook

Collection of basic data and glossary on organic, inorganic and physical chemistry.

http://www.orgsyn.org

Cambridgesoft.com

ORGANIC SYNTHESES WEBSITE AND DATA BASE. ChemDraw plugin required (available for free download)

http://www.webelements.com/index.html

University of Sheffield, England

Periodic Table of Elements with comments on each element

http://www.soils.wisc.edu/virtual_museum/

The Minerals & Molecules Project
(the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Minnesota-TC)

The Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecules™ is a web-based focal point and resource for 3-D visualizations of molecules and minerals designed for instructional use. The visualizations utilize the Chime web browser plug-in. Designed primarily for soil chemistry students

http://triton.ps.toyaku.ac.jp/~dobashi/english/index.html

Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Department of Structural Organic Chemistry.

Here you will find a comprehensive listing of 3D pharmaceutical structures which can be viewed, rotated, and animated live on your screen with Chime, the Chemscape plug-in by MDL

http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/library/related.html

New York University. Scientific visualization Center

Catalog of on-line molecular datasets

http://www.biocheminfo.org/klotho

Klotho database developed at Washington University

Structure of 439 biochemical compounds. Klotho is part of an attempt to model biological processes, beginning with biochemistry

http://www.okanagan.bc.ca/chem/molecule/molecule.html

Chemistry at Okanagan University College
Kelowna, BC, Canada

Molecular models with the search engine. The models are intended for use where exact interatomic distances and conformations (as might be determined by X-ray analysis for example) are not required. They are used with beginning students in organic chemistry as educational aids

http://www.iumsc.indiana.edu/common/common.html

Indiana University's Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) and Molecular Structure Center

Molecular and crystal structures in Java applets and Chime software

http://www.imb-jena.de/IMAGE.html

Biocomputing
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMB)
Jena , Germany

The IMB Jena Image Library of Biological Macromolecules is aimed at a dissemination of information on three-dimensional biopolymer structures with an emphasis on visualization and analysis. It provides access to all structure entries deposited at the Protein Data Bank (PDB) or at the Nucleic Acid Database (NDB). In addition, basic information on the architecture of biopolymer structures is available.

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/bio/amino-acids_en.html

Institute of Chemistry, FU Berlin, Germany

Models of amino acids in mol format

http://mc2.cchem.berkeley.edu/Smells/

ModularCHEM Consortium, UC Regents

SMELL Database of molecular structures and properties in pdb format

http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm

University of Bristol, Chemistry Dept.

Each month a new molecule is added to the list on this page. The links will take you to a page at one of the Web sites where information can be found about a particularly interesting molecule.

There are also "Molecules of the Month" sites at other universities. Links can be found at this site

http://www.wsu.edu/~wherland/wwwlist99.htm

Department of Chemistry, Washington State University

Crystal Structure Data for Common Ions, Inorganic Molecules, and Complexes Including Metalloproteins and their Metal Sites in WebLab or Chime viewer (mol or msv files)

BIOLOGY

http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/

UCSD, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

Protein Data Bank (PDB), the single international repository for the processing and distribution of 3-D macromolecular structure data primarily determined experimentally by X-ray crystallography and NMR.

http://workbench.sdsc.edu/

Department of Bioengineering, UCSD

The WorkBench allows biologists to search many popular protein and nucleic acid sequence databases.

http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~gjlk/mediator

University of Aberdeen, UK

Mediator which will integrate access to heterogeneous, distributed biological databases for amino acid sequencing, analysis and mass spectrometry and for proteomics, while making use of existing search engines and indexes, without infringing on the autonomy of the underlying databases.

http://psyche.uthct.edu/dbs/SRPDB/SRPDB.html

University of Texas Health Center at Tyler

SRPDB (Signal Recognition Particle Database) Provides Aligned, Annotated and Phylogenetically Ordered Sequences Related to Structure and Function of SRP.

http://gdbwww.gdb.org/

The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario Canada

Genome database (part of International Human Genome Project)

http://insectweb.inhs.uiuc.edu/Pathogens/EDWIP/

Illinois Natural History Survey's Center for

Economic Entomology

Ecological Database of the World's Insect Pathogens (EDWIP) provides with information on fungi, viruses, protozoa, mollicutes, nematodes, and bacteria (other than Bacillus thuringiensis) that are infectious in insects, mites, and related arthropods.

http://www.expasy.ch/

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)

ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System) proteomics server is dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences and structures

SWISS-PROT Annotated protein sequence database

http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/

Department of Biochemistry University of Wisconsin-Madison

BioMagResBank A Repository for Data from NMR Spectroscopy on Proteins, Peptides, and Nucleic Acids

http://tbase.jax.org/docs/tbase.html

The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, Maine

The Transgenic/Targeted Mutation Database

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Database/index.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/GenbankSearch.html

NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information)

Entrez is a search and retrieval system that integrates information from databases at NCBI. These databases include nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, macromolecular structures, whole genomes, and MEDLINE, through PubMed.

http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/ogmp/ogmpid.html

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR), Program in Evolutionary Biology

Informatics tools for genomic sequence analysis and megasequencing project management.

http://rebase.neb.com/rebase/rebase.html

New England BioLabs
Beverly, Massachusetts

REBASE The Restriction Enzyme Database is a collection of information about restriction enzymes, methylases, the microorganisms from which they have been isolated, recognition sequences, cleavage sites, methylation specificity, the commercial availability of the enzymes, and references

http://pir.georgetown.edu/

National Biomedical Research Foundation,
Protein Information Resource
Georgetown University

The Protein Information Resource (PIR), in collaboration with the Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences (MIPS) and the Japanese International Protein Sequence Database (JIPID) maintains the PIR-International Protein Sequence Database --- a comprehensive, annotated, and non-redundant protein sequence database in which entries are classified into family groups and alignments of each group are available. On May 5, 2000 it contained 181026 entries

http://www.blocks.fhcrc.org/

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.

A service for biological sequence analysis

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/DataSearch/

The Sanger Centre (a genome research centre) at Wellcome Trust genome Campus at Hinxton Hall , England

Blast Servers (Human Combined or chromosome specific), Sequence Retrieval System (SRS), Protein Searches

http://www.kazusa.or.jp/codon/readme_codon.html

Laboratory of Gene Structure 2, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Japan

Codon Usage Database is an extended WWW version of CUTG (Codon Usage Tabulated from NCBI GenBank). The frequency of codon use in each organism is made searchable through this World Wide Web site.

http://mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks.html

Harvard University, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Catalog of molecular biology links

http://www-pdg.lbl.gov/1999/contents_sports.html

Particle Data Group (PDG) including Berkeley Lab (USA), CERN (Switzerland), KEK (Japan), INFN (Italy), IHEP (Russia), SLAC (USA), e.a.

Database of physics constants, particle properties and fundamental laws

http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/OP.html

Strasbourg University, France

Extensive atomic database required to estimate stellar envelope opacities and to compute Rosseland-mean opacities and other related quantities. It contains energy levels, f-values and photoionization cross sections for astrophysically abundant elements.

http://www-amdis.iaea.org/databases.htm

International Atomic Energy Agency

Nuclear Data Section/Atomic and Molecular Data Unit

Vienna, Austria

ALADDIN -- Numerical databases of atomic and molecular (A+M) collisional and radiative properties (cross sections, spectroscopic data), particle-surface interactions (PSI) processes (such as physical sputtering, erosion, etc.) and bulk material properties (e.g. thermomechanical properties, particle diffusion, retention, etc.).

http://lpgp23.lpgp.u-psud.fr/gaphyor/index.html

GAPHYOR (GAz-PHYsics-ORsay) Data Center, Orsay Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas LPGP, France

Database on properties of atoms, molecules and neutral or ionized gases, including chemical reactions. Five domains of physics, chemical physics and plasma physics are dealt with:
Properties of isolated atoms and molecules.
Collisions with photons.
Collisions with electrons.
Collisions and reactions between atoms and molecules.
Macroscopic properties of gases

http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/contents.html

The Physics Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Atomic Spectroscopy Database
NIST Atomic Spectra Database
Bibliographic Database on Atomic Transition Probabilities
Electron-Impact Ionization Cross Section Database

http://xray.uu.se/

Uppsala University, Sweden

Repository of the COREX bibliography and database, the Henke atomic scattering factors, and other information of interest to x-ray spectroscopists.

http://www.esrf.fr/cgi-bin/DBIntro

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France

This data base is a compilation of useful tables for X-ray applications together with a collection of programs to access, visualize and process these tables.

http://wwwsolar.nrl.navy.mil/chianti.html

The Solar Physics Branch is part of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Science Division.

CHIANTI: A Database for Astrophysical Emission Line Spectroscopy. The data consists of atomic energy levels, atomic radiative data such as wavelengths, weighted oscillator strengths and A values, and electron collisional excitation rates.

http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/DBtable.html

Plasma Laboratory, Department of Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science,Israel

Annotated list of atomic datasets on-line

http://durpdg.dur.ac.uk/HEPDATA/HEPDATA.html

Durham database group based at Durham University, UK.

HEPDATA databases. Numerical values of cross-sections, structure functions, polarisations, etc.
Review of particle properties

http://intel.si.umich.edu/sparc/index.htm

Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory (SPARC), University of Michigan

Real-time and archival astrophysical observation data

http://physun.physics.mcmaster.ca/~harris/mwgc.dat

McMaster University, Canada

Catalog of parameters for Milky Way globular clusters

GEOGRAPHY

http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu

University of California at Santa Barbara.

Alexandria Digital Library (collections of geographically referenced materials and services for accessing those collections.)

http://www.grida.no/

GRID - United Nations Environment Program in Arendal, Norway.

Large collection of on-line maps and geospatial datasets

http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com

Microsoft Corp., US Geological Survey.

Collection of international demographic and environmental datasets

http://www.ciesin.org/data.html

Center for International Earth Science Information Netowrk, Columbia Uninversity.

The Microsoft TerraServer Web site is one of the world's largest online databases, providing free public access to a vast data store of maps and aerial photographs of the United States. TerraServer is operated by the Microsoft Corporation as a research project for developing advanced database technology, and was born at the Microsoft Bay Area Research Center. TerraServer's foundation is Microsoft SQL Server 2000

http://redhook.gsfc.nasa.gov/~imswww/pub/imswelcome/

NASA Earth Observartion System (EOS).

The EOS Data Gateway (EDG) is the primary interface to all data available in NASA's Earth Observation System Data Information System, and related data centers. With EDG, a user can search for and acquire a large variety of earth, ocean, and atmospheric science data obtained from EOS instruments such as MODIS and MISR, as well as other satellites such as Landsat and TRMM.

http://www.popnet.org/

Population Reference Bureau

PopNet is a resource for population information.

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

CIA

The world Fact Book – General geographical, demographic, socioeconomic data by countries

http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/population/www/

US Census Bureau

World population data by countries and years, US Census database

http://census.ac.uk/cdu/datasets/

MIMAS - Manchester University, England.

UK Census data in various formats

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html

US Census Bureau

The International DataBase (IDB) is a computerized source of demographic and socio-economic statistics for 227 countries and areas of the world.

PSYCHOLOGY

http://www.psy.uwa.edu.au/MRCDataBase/uwa_mrc.htm

Department of Psychology, The University of Western Australia

Psycholinguistic Database

ART

http://www.amico.org/home.html

US and Canadian art museums

The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a not for profit association of institutions with collections of art, collaborating to enable educational use of museum multimedia.