Edition 4- November 1997

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Sequence Databases, RNA & rRNA, Phylogeny

If you want to learn more about DNA and RNA Sequencing, or if you are searching for sequence databases or information on phylogeny, here are some very useful WWW addresses:

Sequence Databases:

• European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) - European Bioinformatics Institute, at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ebi_home.html
• The Belgian EMBnet Node World Wide Web server, at http://ben.vub.ac.be/
• The GenBank Sequence Database, (US. National Center for Biotechnology Information), at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
• DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ), at http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/
• Fungal Genetics Stock Center (University of Kansas), at http://www.kumc.edu/research/fgsc/
• The Genome Sequence Database (GSDB), New Mexico National Center for Genome Resources in Santa Fe, at http://www.ncgr.org/gsdb/

RNA and rRNA:

• The rRNA WWW Server at the Department of biochemistry, Molecular Biology, University of Antwerp (UIA), Belgium, at http://rrna.uia.ac.be/
• The RNA World at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMB), Jena, Germany, at http://www.imbjena.de/RNA.html
• The Ribosomial Database Project, University of Illinois, at http://rdp.life.uiuc.edu/

Phylogeny:

• The Phylogeny of Life, University of Berkeley, at http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/phylogeny.html
• The Phyltree, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, at http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/Phyltree/cover.html
• TreeBase, Harvard University Herbaria, at http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu/treebase/
• The Tree of Life, Phylogeny and Biodiversity, University of Arizona, at http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html

Enjoy surfing, and don’t forget the BCCM site at http://www.belspo.be/bccm
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