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Literature Search Engines
Bioinformatics
Breast Cancer
Cancer - International
Cancer - New Zealand
Cancer - Genetics
Cytogenetics
Genes
Gene Expression - Transciptome - Proteome
Gene Ontology
Genomes
Structural Variation and Disease
Haematology and Leukaemia
Pathology Links
Protocols & Research Tools
Research Ethics
Scientists and Science History
Educational Resources

Online References and Dictionaries

• Acronym Finder
• NIST Scientific and Technical Databases
• English - Maori Dictionary
• Onelook Dictionary (search 973 dictionaries at once)
• Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia - Online

Literature Search

• NCBI PuBMed (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)

Bioinformatics

• Biometric Research Branch (Richard Simon) (NCI, MD, USA)
• EMBL-EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, GBR)
• GenePattern (Broad Institute, MIT, MA, USA)
• NCBI Tools for Data Mining (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
• Nucleic Acid Database (Rutgers University, NJ, USA)
• Stanford Microarray Resources (Stanford University, CA, USA)
• Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Switzerland)
• UCSC Genome Bioinformatics (University of California, CA, USA)

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Breast Cancer Links

• BreastCancer.org (PA, USA)
• Breast Cancer (National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
• Clinical Practice Guidelines (American Society for Oncology - ASCO)
• MedlinePlus: Breast Cancer (US National Library of Medicine and NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
• New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
• Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation - Fast Facts (Dallas, TX, USA)
• virtualmedicalcentre.com: Breast Cancer (AUS)

Cancer - International

• American Association for Cancer Research (USA)
• British Columbia Cancer Agency Research Centre (Vancouver, BC, CAN)
• CaBIG (National Cancer Institute, MD, USA)
• Cancer Research UK
• German Cancer Research Center (Heidelberg, DEU)
• Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (Melbourne, VIC, AUS)
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (NY, USA)
• National Cancer Institute (Bethesda, MD, USA)
• Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Melbourne, VIC, AUS)
• virtualmedicalcentre.com: Cancer Centre (AUS)

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Cancer - New Zealand

• Cancer Society of New Zealand
• Child Cancer Foundation
• CureKids (Child Health Research Foundation)
• Genesis Oncology Trust
• Leukaemia & Blood Foundation of New Zealand
• New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
• New Zealand Cancer Control Strategy
• New Zealand Cancer-Related Websites (Pipers NZ)

Cancer - Genetics

• Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology (University Hospital, Poitiers, FRA)
• Cancer Genome Anatomy Project - CGAP (NCI, Bethesda, MD, USA)
• Cancer Genome Project (Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, GBR)
• COSMIC - Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, GBR)
• Mitelman Database of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer (CGAP, NCI, USA)
• Progenetix Array CGH Database (University of Zurich, CH)

Cytogenetics

• Cytogenetics Resources (University of Kansas, KS, USA)
• Using Karyotypes to Predict Genetic Disorders (Learn.Genetics, University of Utah, UT, USA)

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Genes

• GeneCards (Weizmann Institute of Science)
• Entrez Gene (NCBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
• Human Gene Nomenclature- HUGO (European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, GBR)
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man - OMIM (Victor McKusick, NCBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals - OMIA (Frank Nicholas, University of Sydney, AUS)

Gene Expression - Transcriptome - Proteome

• ArrayExpress (EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, GBR)
• Genevestigator (meta-analysis of transcriptomes) (ETH Zurich, CH)
• Gene Expression OmniBus - GEO (NCBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
• Microarray Gene Expression Data Society (focus on standards)
• ExPASy Proteomics Server (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, CH)
• Jena Library of Biological Macromolecules (Leibnitz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, DEU)
• Protein Data Bank (PDB) (Rutgers University, NJ, USA)
• Proteomics Identifications Database - PRIDE (EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, GBR)
• SOURCE (Genetics Department, Stanford University, CA, USA)
• Serial Analysis of Gene Expression- SAGE (John Hopkins Oncology Center, Baltimore, MD, USA)
• The Human Transcriptome Map (SAGE-based; Academic Medical Center, NL and Columbia University, NY, USA)

Gene Ontology

• the Gene Ontology (Gene Ontology Consortium, NHGRI, NIH, MD, USA)
• Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes - KEGG (Kyoto University and University of Tokyo, Japan)

Genomes

• 1000 Genomes Project (international consortium)
• Chromosome-Specific Launchpad (Department of Energy, Washington, DC, USA)
• Ensembl (EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, GBR)
• Human Genetics (Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, GBR)
• Mouse Genome Informatics (Jackson Lab, Bar Harbour, USA)
• NCBI Entrez Genome (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
• Omics Gateway (Nature Publishing Group)
• UCSC Genome Bioinformatics (University of California, CA, USA)
• VISTA (comparative analysis of genomes)

Structural Genome Variation and Disease

• Chromosomal Variation in Man (Digamber S. Borgaonkar)
• Chromosome Anomaly Collection (J. Barber, University of Southhampton, GBR)
• Database of Genomic Variants (hosted by Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, CAN)
• DECIPHER (Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, GBR)
• Genetic Variation Databases (comprehensive list) (Leiden University Medical Centre, LDN)
• Human Genome Variation Society (HGVS, Victoria, AUS)
• dSNP (NCBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
• SNP and Copy Number Variation Databases (Leiden University Medical Centre, LDN)
• see also Cancer Genetics

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Haematology and Leukaemia Links

• About Leukaemia (Children with Leukaemia, London, UK)
• Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology (University Hospital, Poitiers, FRA)
• Atlas of Hematology
• Mayo Clinic: Leukemia
• National Cancer Institute: Leukemia Home Page (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
• Wikipedia: Haematological Malignancy

Pathology Links

• LUMEN Histology (Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, IL, USA)
• Virtual Pathology Museum (PathWeb, University of Connecticut, CT, USA)
• WebPath Neoplasia (Florida State University College of Medicine, FL, USA)

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Protocols & Research Tools

• BioWWW.net (protocols, troubleshooting, reagents)
• Primer3Plus (Whitehead Institute/MIT, MA, USA)
• Protocol Online (comprehensive)
• REBASE (restriction enzyme database) (New England BioLabs open access resource)
• Tavi’s FISH Page (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA)
• The PCR Suite (Primer3 interactive) (Erasmus University Medical Center, NL)
• Webcutter (online restriction enzyme cutter) (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA)

Research Ethics

• New Zealand HRC Guidelines on Ethics in Health Research
• Bioethics Web Resources (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
• Plagiarism (Learning Center developed for the informational age)

Scientists and Science History

• NobelPrize.org (Nobel Web AB, Stockholm, SWE)

Educational Resources

• Access Excellence (The National Health Museum, Washington DC, MD, USA)
• Basic Molecular Biology (Andy Vierstraete, University of Ghent, BEL)
• Biointeractive (Howard Hughs Medical Institute, Boston, MA, USA)
• Becoming Human (Arizona State University, AZ, USA)
• CancerQuest (Emory University, GA, USA)
• Cells Alive! (Jim Sullivan, Quill Graphics)
• Gene Almanac (Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA)
• Genetics Science Learning Center (University of Utah, UT, USA)
• Genetics Virtual Library (Oak Ridge National Library, TN, USA)
• Human Genome Project Information (Department of Energy, Washington, DC, USA)
• Inside Cancer - Multimedia Guide to Cancer Biology (Dolan DNA Learning Center, CSHL, NY, USA)
• Multidimensional Human Embryo (University of Michigan, MI, USA)
• Scitable - Learn about Genetics (NatureEducation, Nature Publishing Group)

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