Links
For All Ages
- Science in the News, late breaking news reports for those interested in science
- DSV Alvin webcam, watch the rebuilding of the world’s most famouse submersible in real time!
- Deep Sea News blog, what’s going down in the deep
- Ocean Exploration Trust, international program centering around scientific exploration of the seafloor
- NOAA Okeanos Explorer, the only U.S. government vessel dedicated to exploring the ocean ("America's Ship for Ocean Exploration")
- Exploration Now, watch live streaming video and follow your favorite vessels while they explore our Oceans
- Digital Fishers/Neptune Canada
- Interactive Oceans, initiative to build a regional cabled ocean observatory in the NE Pacific Ocean
For Young Explorers (K-12)
For Undergraduates, Graduates Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
- Putnam Expedition Grants (Harvard only)
For Faculty
Science Reference Websites
- PubMed, for references
- GeneNames, to quickly cross-reference Gene Names across species and isoforms
- Annot8r, annotates partial genomes from GO/EC/KEGG Data
- Citations, rules for proper citation
- KEGG, pathway maps for genomic/proteomic data
- iPath, Interactive Pathway Map Builder
- IMG, for genomic analyses
- rrndb, a curated for 16S, 23S and 5S ribosomal RNAs in Bacteria and Archaea
- FunGene, for functional gene interrogations
- MUSCLE, for aligning a larger number of sequences
- probecheck, for checking oligo probe fidelity
- Cold Stream Harbor protocols Online (Harvard only)
- Oligo Analyzer, for desigining and ordering oligo primers
- Restriction mapper, input a DNA sequence and obtain several types of graphic and textual restriction map
- Webcutter, analyze restriction maps of sequences
- Mr. Bayes, a program for the Bayesian estimation of phylogeny
- Sequence Alignment (proteins & nucleotides), genomatix local alignments
- ClustalW2, a general purpose multiple sequence alignment program for DNA or proteins
- MG-RAST, metagenomics analysis server
- KAAS, automatic annotation server for ortholog assignment and pathway mapping
- MEGAN, metagenome analyses software
- RDP Pyrosequencing Pipeline, pipeline aims to simplify the processing of large 16S rRNA sequence libraries obtained through pyrosequencing
- Blast2Go, an all in one tool for functional annotation of (novel) sequences and the analysis of annotation data
- Expasy: Protein 1-D, 2-D, 3-D, analysis of protein sequences and structures as well as 2-D and 3-D PAGE
- Brenda Enzyme Database, a comprehensive enzyme information system
- COGnitor, compare your sequence to COG database
- Pfam, find Pfam families within your sequence of interest
- CCD, Conserved Domains and Protein Classification
- Molecular Biology Database Collection, a great database for molecular biology and biochemistry
- CAMERA, Marine Microbial Ecology, a data repository and a bioinformatics tools resource to address the challenges of metagenomic analysis
- Harvard Scriptome, the Scriptome is a toolbox helping biologists explore and manipulate their data
Taking a vent's temperature — when you're working with a robot manipulator 2 kilometers below the sea — takes a steady hand. Courtesy of D. Kelly, University of Washington.