Science resources on the Internet

Databases  Open-access books  Online science magazines  Information pages on various topics  Research groups  Scientific software  Other resources

Databases

• Alberta Climate Records
• American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
• Benford Online Bibliography, a bibliography of publications on Benford's law, also known as the leading digit phenomenon
• BioArt Source, a set of free images that can be used to create biological artwork provided by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• BIODIDAC, a database of digital images for teaching biology
• BioModels Database, a database of models in SMBL format
• BioNumbers, a database of quantitative biochemical data (number of receptors of a given type in a cell, concentrations of metabolites, etc.)
• Brenda, a very detailed database of enzymes, of the metabolic pathways they function in, and of their kinetic constants
• Cell Centered Database, a database of high-resolution light and electron microscopy images hosted by the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research
• Cell Image Library
• ChEBI: Chemical Entities of Biological Interest, a database of small molecules of (as the name says) biological interest
• Chemistry Tree, an academic genealogy of chemists, and a branch of the Academic Family Tree
• CODATA: The Committee on Data for Science and Technology of the International Council of Scientific Unions
• GenBank
• Henry's Law Constants
• HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee
• MSDS Solutions
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)
  • Chemical kinetics database
  • NIST Chemistry WebBook
  • NIST-JANAF Thermochemical Tables
  • Physical Reference Data (fundamental physical constants, spectroscopic data, etc.)
  • Thermodynamics of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions
  • X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Database
• Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
• Protein Data Bank
• SABIO-Reaction Kinetics Database: a database of enzyme kinetics data
• Spectral Database for Organic Compounds
• Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, a compendium of data sets maintained by the Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network
• UNdata, a searchable portal to United Nations databases
• UniProt, a comprehensive database of sequence and functional information on proteins

Open-access books

• Chaos: Classical and Quantum
• The Feynmann Lectures on Physics
• Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems by Hiroki Sayama

Online science magazines

• ChemWeb
• Science Fare

Science information/education

• Center for Reproducible Biomedical Modeling
• Bad Science
• Calorimetry: The Universal Detector: This is a corporate site, but it contains a lot of useful tutorial material on calorimetry.
• Commission on Crystallographic Teaching Pamphlets
• Corrosion Doctors: a web site dedicated to electrochemistry
• Crystal lattice—Structures: a web site that shows three-dimensional structures for a number of common and some less-common lattice types. These structures can be rotated interactively.
• Dynamicalsystems.org, a web portal for information on dynamical systems, including an extensive catalog of software
• Electrochemical systems: a web site dedicated to batteries and related topics
• International Temperature Scale (1990) (ITS-90)
• Mathematics of Reaction Networks, a wiki that, among other things, provides access to the CoNtRol software for analyzing chemical reaction networks
• Model Order Reduction Wiki
• Museum of Unworkable Devices
• Nobel Foundation
• Ozone depletion information
• Practical Guide to Monte Carlo Simulations: This is exactly what it says, with examples in Excel.
• science.ca, a resource about Canadian science, including biographies of scientists and collections of links to important scientific web sites
• SIMIODE: resources on modeling with ODEs
• Symbolism and Terminology in Enzyme Kinetics (recommendations of the IUBMB)
• Tributes to Gregorio Weber (1916–1997)
• WebElements: Possibly the best online periodic table available.

Research projects and groups

• Algorithmic Botany, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz's research group at the University of Calgary
• Arkin Laboratory for Systems and Synthetic Biology
• The Computable Plant
• The Erdös Number Project
• Martin Feinberg Group for Chemical Reaction Network Theory, where a variety of resources on Feinberg's work can be found, including the Chemical Reaction Network Toolbox (CRNT)
• Jean-Marc Ginoux
• Andrew Krause's research group
  • VisualPDE, a web-based software system for studying the phenomenology of reaction-diffusion systems interactively
• Alan Rendall's group at Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, including a very interesting blog on various topics in science and other areas of interest
• Andre Ribeiro's Laboratory of Biosystem Dynamics
  • Software
• Virtual Human Development, a consortium looking to take steps towards building multiscale models of human developmental and physiological systems

Scientific software

• ACD/Labs freeware, including ChemSketch
• CoNtRol: software for analyzing chemical reaction networks, and documentation
• JWS Online: a systems biology tool for building and simulating biochemical models, as well as a database of curated models
• MDL Information Systems, makers of ISIS/Draw and Chime
• Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML)

Other science-related sites

• Designing Effective Poster Presentations: a list of resources gathered by the Arts and Science Libraries at the University of Buffalo (State University of New York)
• International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
  • Recommendations
• Math Archives
• MySciCareer, a web site that collects stories about people's careers in science
• ResearchGate, a professional networking site for scientists
• U.K. Nonlinear News
• Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments: The title describes the content of this page only partly. It is in fact a veritable fount of knowledge regarding microwave ovens, and includes a number of links to other sites.

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