Biochemistry & Molecular Biology: Online Tools

This site functions as a portal for a number of different databases/resources pertaining to biomedical and genomic information. While some of these databases focus on the scholarly literature (such as PubMed, mentioned above) many of them are instead tools to help you with tasks such as locating information on a particular DNA sequence or searching an organism's complete genome.

The NIH genetic sequence database containing all publicly available DNA sequences.

A DNA sequence search and similarity tool that can be used to infer functional and evolutionary relationships between sequences.

A collection of tools for computing, evaluating and manipulating multiple alignments of DNA, RNA, protein sequences and structures.

General purpose multiple sequence alignment program for DNA or proteins.

From the University of Washington School of Medicine. Produces software for studying and graphically rendering biomolecular structures.

Contains over 45,000 entries in the Protein Data Bank.

Helpful overviews for common topics in neuroscience and molecular biology from Cell Press.

Promotes the advancement of the science of biochemistry and molecular biology and the understanding of the molecular nature of life processes.

Promotes the advancement of molecular bioscience.

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research. This resource can be browsed by topic or organism, and it also contains a wealth of information on the Human Genome Project.

Provided by the National Library of Medicine. Focuses on providing consumer-friendly information about the effects of genetic variations on human health.

Created by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to help people understand the terms and concepts used in genetic research. Specialists in the field provide descriptions of terms, and many of these terms include images, animation and links to related terms.

Provided by the Center for Disease Control.

Focuses on four main topics: Macromolecular structures, Conserved domains and protein classification, Small molecules and their biological activity and Biological Systems.

The preprint server for Biology. Produced by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.