Other useful sites

Links to useful web sites

• Amphibian development tutorial with online movies, figures, data on amphibian development. An incredible teaching resource
• The virtual embryo, Leon Browder's web site at Calgary
• Urodele newsgroup
• axolotl colony, Indiana University
• FishNet, the zebrafish www server
• Zebrafish newsgroup
• Society for Developmental Biology
• Xenopus Express page, Xenopus supplier with lots of info on frogs
• Cell and molecular biology on-line, a collection of links to just about everywhere
• Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank, get your antibodies here!
• Xenopus myogenesis lab
• The homeobox page
• the kidney marker database
• Harvard Biolabs
• The mouse targeted mutation database
• FedEx, track it!

Browsers and Search engines

• Genbank search page
• View most recent 200 references with Xenopus in the title, or listed as key word (link supplied by P.Good)
• latest Xenopus entries in Genbank (link supplied by P.Good)
• Academic Press Dictionary of Cell Biology on-line
• NetScape
• World Wide Web Worm search service
• The Lycos search engine

On-line journals

• Annual Reviews. 12 years or Annual Reviews including Abstracts. Search function.
• Current Opinions in Genetics and Development
• Development Includes 2 months in advance publication of abstracts, and full text with pictures of 1994 volumes. These are PDF files with excellent resolution and full colour figures.
• BioEssays
• Genes & Development
• Journal of Biological Chemistry
• Nature
• Science
• Nucleic Acids Research
• Cell online

Government/grants

• NIH
• NIH grant statistics
• NSF
• NSF electronic forms. Templates in Word 6.0 (why in Word? good question!) and postscript form for standard NSF application.
• NCI
• The NIH White Pages

Books, University Press

• Individual University Press on line catalogs
• Cold Spring Harbor Press

Conferences

ftp and gopher sites for software

• UT Austin
• for NeXT computers try ORST

• Molecular Biology Suppliers Index
• Promega Good for downloading plasmid sequences and maps.
• the vector database. Collection of over 2,500 vector sequences, maps, etc.