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Useful Pages

Here is a list of useful pages around the World Wide Web. I have included the approximate geographical locations of each page so that you can get an idea of how fast the response will be. Links to the United States tend to be the slowest but this depends on the time of day. A very general rule is that the further away the page, the slower the response.
Best time to access the Web: before 11:00am or out of hours.
Worst time to access the Web: a weekday afternoon in term time.
You can search for information on the Web by subject and keywords using various search tools. Our Computing Services has a list of search tools .

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Biology
I have written local summary pages for many of these links. The summaries are stored on the local machine here in Leeds so that you can see if an entry in this index is relevant to you or not. This can be quite a time saver particularly with slow links to elsewhere in the world. It can be quite frustrating to wait for 2 or 3 minutes for a page to load from the USA only to find that its not what you need. For more details read `About this page and instructions.
Brookhaven Protein Database A source of PDB Files. (USA)
Molecular Biology Protocols on the World Wide Web (USA)
PCR on the World Wide Web (UK)
SCOP (Cambridge, UK) A structural classification of proteins
NCBI and GenBank (USA) A large database of nucleic acid sequences. Local summary
European Informatics Institute home page (UK)
ReBase (USA) - Restriction Enzymes. Local summary
American Type Culture Collection WWW page. (USA)

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Journals
The University Library WWW gateway has an extensive list of electronic journals and text. Here is a list of some journals which are now available on-line and a summary of what an electronic journal is.
Nature (UK)
Journal of Molecular Biology (UK)
New Scientist (UK)
Science latest issue (USA)

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Tools
British Library Catalogue (UK) Find almost any book here.
Dictionary of Computing (UK) Amaze your friends with your knowledge of computing terms.
Library Catalogue at The University of Leeds (UK) This is an experimental service!
Module Catalogue (undergraduate) for The University of Leeds and index of BIOC modules. (UK)
OWL Protein sequence database. (UK)
Telephone directory for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology school and for the whole of The University of Leeds (UK)
Periodic table (UK)
Thesaurus (USA)
Websters dictionary (USA)

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List of Lists
Here is a list of places which themselves are lists of useful pages. Most of them deal with biological subjects.
Cambridge School of Biological Sciences (UK) A good biological list
College and University Home Pages. (UK) Listed by Country.
Databases for Molecular Biology (USA) Specifically DNA and proteins sequences.
European Bioinformatics Institute database services (UK)
Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools (Germany) A very extensive list.
Tagish Ltd. UK Government and Universities Directory (UK)
World Wide Web virtual library for the biosciences (USA) A large list!

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Miscellaneous
The Association of University Teachers (AUT) at Leeds and national (UK)
BBC TV and Radio schedules, programme background, weather. (UK)
CCTA Government Information Service (UK) All about the British government.
HENSA (UK) The Higher Education National Software Archives. Large amounts of free and public domain software.
HOTEL NET (UK) A selection of UK hotels.
MRC (UK) The Medical Research Council.
Railway Timetable for the UK. Updated twice a week. (UK)
Railway Timetable for the Europe (also contains additional information about UK travel). (Germany)

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If you have any pages that you use and think should be on this list then please let me know. When asking for additions to this list, bear in mind that I am trying to keep this list relevant to the school of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. If you have used any of the above pages, services and sites, and have any comments which I could add to my summary pages, please feel free to pass them on to me.
Page Author: Dr N.A.Maughan
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

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