microbiology LInks

HERE, YOU CAN FIND A LIST OF USEFUL LINKS FOR STAFF, STUDENTS & VISITORS

Bacteriology

• The Journal of Bacteriology
• International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
• Bacterial Nomenclature Up-to-Date
• The E. coli Index

Biofilms

• Biofilms (online manual –ASM).
• Biofilms Glossary (ASM- glossary).
• The Center for Biofilm Engineering.

Biotechnology

• Biotechnology - An information resource.
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Biotechnology.
• National Center fro Biotechnology Information - Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.

Culture Collections

• American Type Culture Collection (ATCC).
• Bioguide: Culture Collections.

Environmental Microbiology

• Applied and Environmental Microbiology (ASM Journal).
• ENFO - Irelands public information service on the environment.
• EPA - Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency.
• EEA - European Environment Agency.
• US EPA.

Epidemiology

• A Dictionary of Epidemiology
• Yahoo’s Epidemiology Resource Page

Food Microbiology

• FDA/CFSAN  "Bad Bug Book".

This handbook provides basic facts regarding foodborne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins. It brings together in one place information from the Food & Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service, and the National Institutes of Health (excellant food micro. resource).

General Microbiology

• Annual Review of Microbiology.
• Microbiology (SGM Journal).
• WWW Virtual  library – Microbiology and virology.
• World Data Centre for Microorgansisms.

Genetics and Molecular Biology

• Genetics (Journal).
• The Human Genome Project: Extensive resources to help you understand the most ambitious scientific project ever undertaken, to map the 3 billion chemical bases that make up the 80,000 human genes.
• European Molecular Biology Network.
• Molecular Biology Gateway.
• National Center fro Biotechnology Information - Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease. Inlcudes BLAST, GenBank, Molecular Databases, Literature Databases and Genomic Biology Information.
• World Data Centre for Microorgansisms.
• Molecular Diagnostics Research Group.
  

Immunology

• ImmunoFacts.com

Industrial Microbiology

• UCD Industrial Microbiology Page.

Journals

• Annual Review of Microbiology.
• ASM Journals Online (Includes the following):
  • Journal of Clinical Microbiology.
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
  • Journal of Bacteriology.
• Bioline Publications - Biofilm Journal.
• BioMedNet (online internet community and library).
• Genetics (Journal).
• Microbiology.
• Molecular Biology Journals.
• SGM Journals Online.

Journal Search Enginesl

• Entrez-PubMed

Medical / Biomedical

• BioMedNet (Online internet community and library).
• Clinical Microbiology Reviews (ASM).
• Journal of Clinical Microbiology (ASM).

Microbiological Societies and Associations

• American Society for Microbiology.
• The Biochemical Society – UK.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Federation of European microbiological societies (FEMS).
• Society for Applied Microbiology.
• Society for General Microbiology.

Microbiologial Suppliers

• AGB Scientific
• Oxoid

Mycology

• Doctor Fungus.

Microbiology Departments and Laboratories

• Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory.
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
• Trinity College Dublin Dept. of Genetics.
• UCD Industrial Microbiology Page.

Protocols

• Protocol-Online: Large online protocol database contain information on the following Cell Biology, Immunology and Developmental Biology.
• Learn about Clinical and Laboratory Standards

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Search Engines

• About.com (Excellant topic specific search engine).
• AltaVista.
• Excite.
• Lycos.
• SciCentral - your gateway to the best online science resources and breaking research news.
• Vadlo.com
  
• WebCrawler.
• Yahoo.
• http://www.icademic.org/97445/Microbiology - Online resources in the Microbiology field, covering lists of Microbiology departments, websites, journals, books and reviews, employment opportunities and events  

Virology

• All the Virology on the WWW.
• Index Virum - an Index to ICTV approved Virus Families, Subfamilies. Genera and Species.
• WWW Virtual  library – Microbiology and virology.

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