Biological Sciences

UAH Department of Biological Sciences

External Departments:

• Harvard Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
• JHU Biomedical Engineering Department

National Institute of Health:

• GenBank
• Genetics Home Reference
• National Center for Biotechnology Information
• National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
• National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
• Profiles in Science
• Stem Cell Information
• TOXNET
• The Visible Human Project

Science.gov:

• Home

Data:

• Bionumbers
  • database of biological numbers to facilitate quantitative analysis
• CDC: Data and Statistics
  • data and statistics from the Centers for Disease Control
• Data.gov Catalog
  • federal open government data site
• ExPASY: SIB Bioinformatics Resource Portal
  • access to scientific databases and software tools in the life sciences
• Finding Data Sets for the Health and Natural Sciences: Biological Sciences
  • guide to finding data sets from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • free and open access to biodiversity data
• Machine Learning Repository
  • life sciences data sets from the University of California, Irvine
• PLANTS Database
  • Information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, horn worts, and lichens of the U.S.
• Research Works
  • biology data sets from the University of Washington
• Scientific Data Repositories and Datasets: Molecular Biology​
  • resources from Duke University Libraries
• USDA Datasets
  • data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture
• Vert Net
  • biodiversity data

Multimedia:

• The Cell Image Library
• DNA Learning Center: Biology Animation Library
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Digital Library

Teaching Resources:

• Biological Sciences Education Portal
  • Education resources for biological sciences
• National Science Digital Library
  • Online educational resources for teaching and learning STEM disciplines

Other Resources:

• Animal Diversity Web
  • Online database and encyclopedia of animal natural history
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
  • Consortium of natural history and botanical libraries
• Butterflies and Moths of North America
• Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health
• Center for North American Herpetology
  • Information about North American amphibians, turtles, reptiles, and crocodilians
• Commission for Environmental Cooperation
  • Includes North American Environmental Atlas
• Discover Life
  • Tools to study natural history and track ecological factors across North America
• Encyclopedia of Life
  • Information and pictures of all species known to science
• FishBase
  • Information on 28,500 species of fish
• Flora of North America
• FlyBase
  • Database of the genes and genomes of the fruit fly, drosophila
• International Plant Names Index
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
• Learn Genetics
• National Agriculture Library
• Nature Serve
  • Network connecting science with conservation
• NatureServe Explorer
  • Information on 70,000+ plants, animals, and ecosystems in the U.S. and Canada
• Public Library of Science
  • Open access publisher of scientific and medical research
• Tree of Life Web Project
  • Information about biodiversity, organism characteristics, and evolutionary history
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Wikispecies
  • Free species directory
• World Wide Science
  • Global science gateway for scientific databases and portals