http://artedi.fish.washington.edu/okhotskia/ikip/index.htm

This website presents the International Kuril Island Project (IKIP), "an international collaboration of American, Russian, and Japanese scientists to survey the plants, insects, spiders, freshwater and terrestrial mollusks, freshwater fishes, amphibians, and reptiles of the Kuril Archipelago." The website was developed primarily "to provide easy access to project results and databases, both for participants and other interested scientists." Site visitors can link to the project proposal -- submitted by the University of Washington, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Hokkaido University -- to view text and images describing project Objectives, Rationale and Scope, Anticipated Future Research, and more. Links are also provided to project Results (including IKIP databases, publications, and presentations) and Island Info including sections on Vascular Plants, Stoneflies, Nesting Birds, and many more. Additionally, a very nicely organized photo gallery features maps and many beautiful photographs taken by project participants during collecting expeditions to the Kuril Archipelago. [NL]

http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/applied_research/dnabanking.shtml#dna

This website describes DNA Banking at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The site provides brief sections covering background, goals, and organization of the collection. A link is provided to the Applied Research DNA Specimen Database which "is organized alphabetically by plant family, genus, and species and individual taxa can be selected to display information on samples in the collection." This site also provides requisition guidelines for researchers, however the Missouri Botanical Garden makes clear that DNA Bank samples "have been collected solely for the purpose of supporting molecular phylogenetics and will be released only for the study of relationships of plants or for studies aimed at improving our understanding of evolutionary mechanisms." [NL]

http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/bsm/enzymes/index.html

This website features the Enzyme Structures Database, created by researchers Roman Laskowski and Andrew Wallace of the University College London. The database "contains the known enzyme structures that have been deposited in the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank (the PDB)." As of March 2003 the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank contained 10208 PDB-enzyme entries "involving 9873 separate PDB files - some files having more than one E.C. number associated with them. The enzyme structures are classified by their E.C. number (using the Mar 2003 v.30.0 release of the ENZYME Data Bank)." There are six classified groups of enzyme structures including Oxidoreductases, Transferases, and Hydrolases. This site also links to the PDBsum database which provides users an alternate means of accessing enzyme structures. [NL]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=OMIM

The Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database "is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information." OMIM was designed primarily for health professionals working with genetic disorders, genetic researchers, and advanced medical and science students. OMIM contains textual information, references, and many "links to MEDLINE and sequence records in the Entrez system," as well as links to other relevant resources. The site offers a search engine with a text box along with advanced search options like History, Preview/Index, and more. This website also provides links to Human Genome Resources, Allied Resources, and to more general and technical information about OMIM. [NL]

http://vega.sanger.ac.uk/

A project of the Sanger Institute, "The Vertebrate Genome Annotation (VEGA) database is designed to be a central repository for manual annotation of different vertebrate finished genome sequence. In collaboration with genome sequencing centres, Vega attempts to present consistent high-quality curation of finished sequence." The site currently links to Human, Mouse, and Zebrafish Annotation Browsers. Annotated data for all three is accessible by Browser (ContigView), BLAST (BlastView), and Search (TextView). Human and Mouse data can also be accessed by Chromosome (MapView). Additionally, this site allows users to provide feedback to the Vega team. [NL]

http://www.sciencesnaturelles.be/general/sections/amphi/

This website features Ant'Phipoda: the Biodiversity Reference Centre for Antarctic Amphipod Crustaceans which is managed by the Laboratory of Carcinology, a research group at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. This Reference Centre "includes specialised databases, reference collections, and assists a network of contributing specialists (the Antarctic Ant'Phipodologist Network) who are involved in taxonomic revision of the Antarctic amphipod fauna, and the synthesis of its geographic and bathymetric distribution and bio-ecological traits." Decorated by a dancing Ant'Phipod, the homepage contains links to an Ant'Phipod Checklist (which is available for download as a pdf file), the Ant'Phipodologist Network, and Research Activities. Site visitors can also link to a photo gallery of great Amphipod pictures and a page of Amphipod links. [NL]

http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/cw_smith/impact.htm

This website presents a report prepared by Dr. Clifford W. Smith of the University of Hawai'i regarding the Impact of Alien Plants on Hawai'i's Native Biota. This report includes sections on Terminology, Impact of Alien Plants on Hawaiian Ecosystems, Problem Alien Plants in Hawai'i by Island and Vegetation Zone, and more. The website also includes an Abstract of the report and an extensive list of Literature Cited. Notably, the report contains a link to Plant Pests of Hawaiian Native Ecosystems, a list of harmful alien plant species each linking to their own page containing photos and a brief description. This website also links -- via the Hawaiian Alien Plant Studies homepage -- to a site of photographs and text regarding the Biological Control of Miconia calvescens, and a site on the Biological Control of Guava, which is currently under construction. [NL]

http://www.onefish.org/global/index.jsp

Created by the Support unit for International Fisheries and Aquatic Research (SIFAR), this oneFish Community Directory website "is an Internet portal providing access to information on fisheries and aquatic research and development for those keen to extend the boundaries of fisheries and aquatic research, and to facilitate a more efficient and effective application of research-based knowledge to the many constraints of sustainable development." The oneFish Community Directory fosters a participatory approach encouraging information sharing, communication, and networking, as well as providing opportunities for individual researchers and groups to publish their research online. This extensive site links to information under such categories as Donors / Projects, Aquaculture, Freshwater Fisheries, Marine and Coastal Fisheries, and more. Additionally, the site provides links to relevant jobs, news, and events. The site also links to the Fish Technology Knowledge Base, a source for networking opportunities and facilities for fish technologists. [NL]