Selected Resources for Bioinformatics

Electronic indexes, full text databases and high-quality reference sources provided by the University of Minnesota libraries and especially useful to bioinformatics students and faculty.

• BIRN  
• Collaborative community offering access to researchers. 
• caBIG  
• The National Cancer Institute Biomedical Informatics Grid. Linking cancer researchers worldwide.
• Genome.Gov
  
• National Human Genome  Research Institute.
• Human Genome Project   
• Information about the Human Genome Project and the ongoing analysis of the data.
• International Society for Computational Biology
• National Center for Biotechnology Information   
• NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information.  A division of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.
• National Institute of Informatics
• Japan's only general academic research institution seeking to create future value in the new discipline of informatics.  The National Institute of Informatics (NII) seeks to advance integrated research and development activities in information-related fields, including networking, software, and content.
• Public Library of Science  
• A nonprofit organization dedicated to making scientific literature a freely available resource.  

• Biological Informatics   
• Blog monitoring biological informatics resources on the internet. 
• Biohealthmatics  
  
• Biotechnology and health IT career networking site.
• Bioinformatics Organization  
• Provides and promotes open access to materials and collaborative projects.