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This is a collection of descriptions of software useful for molecular biology and genetics. The site is organized in a bit of a clunky way, but they describe a lot of packages, both commercial and public domain, with information on how to get ahold of them. No reviews, though. Almost all the programs are for molecular biologists, falling into categories such as DNA, Proteins, Molecular Evolution, and so on.
The Virtual Library: Biosciences
This is an interconnected set of sites, each one devoted to a different area of biology ranging from biochemistry to evolution to tibetan medicine. I think each one is maintained independently, so they vary in quality and how up-to-date they are.
This site has a ton of cross-links to different places on the internet with interesting neuroscience content. Included are links to some programs mentioned in this FAQ.
This site has a web search engine dedicated to neuroscience, and if you look a bit you can search out some neurobiology educational software, or links to other sites listing educational software.
Another reference site containing lots of links to neuroscience related stuff on the web. This one also has a search engine.
This much improved site has lots of links to other sites on various topics in biology and chemistry, teaching science, careers in science, and related topics. It also has weekly updated links to news stories involving biology and chemistry.
Quantitative Training for Life Sciences
This site contains a number of public domain programs for biology instruction, as well as links to other sites with more programs or demos. This site also contains a number of reviews of biology education software done by undergraduates at the University of Tennessee, in a format similar to the reviews in this FAQ.
Science and Mathematics Education Resources
A collection of WWW links to many science resources on the internet, including some discussed here and others which have collections of pictures of various things (as well as lots of non-biology sites). Also contains the WWW version of this FAQ.
Medical Education Software Home Page
A list of a couple dozen pieces of software related to medical education, with short descriptions and quotes from random people about each piece of software.
One of many college programs around the country working to improve science education, this one is special in that they've actually tested to see whether using software in the classroom helps learning by teaching the same class at the same time by the same instructor with and without software (and with a number of other changes in format as well). Check out the results on this web site.
Institute for Molecular Virology
This site has lots of very pretty pictures of x-ray reconstructions of viral structures. It also has a few animations of things like a virus binding to its host, and interactive pictures where you can rotate viral structures around. In addition, this site is a good source of other information on viruses and virologists.
This page put together by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has links to several interesting sites that include various educational resources, including a few where you might find references to educational software. It's part of the HHMI Beyond Bio 101 project, which has a lot of slick web pages on the biology education stuff they fund.
Eli Meir was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellow while most of this site was constructed.
Thanks to Rees Griffiths of the School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University for the initial conversion of the FAQ to html.
Eli Meir, Dept of Zoology, Univ of Washington meir@snarkware.edu or meir@ecobeaker.com
Check out my own software at snarkware.net, especially my ecology teaching software at EcoBeaker. Also send me email if you want to be on the mailing list for testing out my next educational program, an EcoBeaker like program for teaching neurobiology (due in the year 2000 - assuming NSF approves - so don't rush all those emails in at once).
Last update 14th of June 1998