Handy Links

Campaign for Science & Engineering (ex-SBS) – CPGS and 2008 meeting – DOI resolver – Northwest Science – Met-RO – Lambert Agreements – Metabolomics phase 2 – National Centre for Text Mining – Funding opportunities – EPS Research –  EPS Research FAQs – UKMT – Journals: ChemJournals – ACS – Anal Chem – Bioinformatics – Chemolab – J.Biomol.Screening – JCS Perkin I – Nature – PNAS – Science –

Courses: MIT OpenCourseWare –

Bibliographic: AnatomyLens – Arrowsmith – Citeseer – CiteULike – Connotea – Duncan’s older blog – Duncan’s newer blog and lablog – ESI – ETBLAST – Google Scholar – GOPUBMED –  Hubmed – Journal Citation Reports – NIH grants search tool –  Other TM tools at Arrowsmith – PathBinderH – Pubchem – Pubmed – Scimago – Scopus – UKPubMedCentral – WoK –

Cheminformatics: – dynamic SMILES –

Grant finding tools:  NIH grants search tool  – UKPMC Grant Lookup Tool –

Search Engines: Google – Dogpile – MSN search – Clusty – Manchester Uni Directory –

Analytical Portals: ASDLib – CE&CEC –

Grid/Web: BioWeb Services – ^myExperiment – ^myGrid – ONDEX Wiki – ProgrammableWeb – Taverna – UTOPIA –

Conferences: ICSB2007 – SAMO2007 –

MS Windows update Info

Maps: Google maps – MS Live maps – Multi Media Mapping – UK Street Map – USNO Master Clock or World Timeserver

World Travel Guide – by Columbus Internet Association of National Tourist Organisations – world wide Met Office Weather pages for NW – Met Office Weather pages for Aberystwyth

BBC Weather pages for Manchester –  Aberystwyth – Oswestry – Wrexham – Currency Exchange Rates from xe – from Aquariussoft – Eurocompass Guide for the Independent Traveller Weather & Climate – including up to 10 day forecasts worldwide

Finite Improbability Calculator Instructions to Authors for all journals

Free animated gif files: WilsonInfo

Catalogue of 2D gel pages on the Web

HUMAN PROTEIN ATLAS

Mutliident – lots of ways of checking out proteins

PROWL – a resource for protein chemistry and mass spectrometry (and a good one for peptide mass fingerpriting)

Protein Prospector, PepSea, MOWSE, MASCOT, PepFrag, (other good ones for peptide mass fingerprinting)

Proteome, Inc – a commercial venture with good yeast and worm proteomics

Profound – Bayesian system for peptide mass fingerprinting vs NIH nr database.

Proteome gel software: PDQuest, Melanie, Phoretics.

Chip and Microarray Companies: Affymetrix, Agilent, AmershamPharmacia Biotech, Arrayit, Axon Instruments Genepix, Biorobotics, Clontech (Atlas Arrays), Eurogentec, Corning CMT, GeneLogic GeneExpress, Genomic Solutions, GSI Lumonics ScanArray, Iobion Genetraffic, Mergen ExpressChip, Microarrays.org Public Database, Oxford Gene Technology, Origene RapidScan, Research Genetics, Stratagene Gene Connection,

Companies Providing Bioinformatics Tools: BioDiscovery Genesight, Gene Data GD Expressionist, Genedata, GeneLogic Gene Express, Incyte, Lion Bioscience AG Array Scout, Research Genetics, Rosetta Resolver, Silicon Genetics Gene Spring.

Analysis Groups: Aberystwyth, Manchester, Whitehead/MIT, Stanford, NHGRI/NIH Microarray Project.

Data, Ontologies and Standards: Array XML working group MGED project, DAML, EBI Array Express, GenePix File Formats, MaxD, NCGR GeneX, NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus, Working Recommendations on Standards, MAGE-ML.

‘Free’ software (sometimes free only for non-commercial use) on the Web: EBI Expression Profiler, Michael Eisen’s Clustering Software, MaxD View, TIGR Array Viewer, TM4 including Multi-Experiment Viewer.

Portals: Microarray Data, Papers and Links at the Rockefeller, Links from the EBI, Many Transcriptomic Links at Deathstar, Inc., Microarray Software Links at Stanford, Microarray Software Comparisons by Yuk Fai Leung, Microarrays.org.

Note that many of these classification structures are are strictly hierarchical and are far from optimal. See Kell, D.B. & King, R.D. (2000) On the optimization of classes for the assignment of unidentified reading frames in functional genomics programmes: the need for machine learning. Trends Biotechnol. 18, 93-98. Pubmed abstract. The goal of the Gene Ontology consortium is to bring order and a systematic structure to these terms. Another comparison of functional annotation schemes has been published by SCG Rison, TC Hodgman & JM Thornton (2000) Functional and Integrative Genomics 1, 56-69 – see link here and a Table of links to other functional catalogues.

Bibliographic: The GP bibliography, Bibliography on GP

Tutorials: Genetic Programming FAQs, GP Tutorial at GeneticProgramming.com, GP Tutorial at Stanford.

Hardware: Adrian Stoica JPL, Anadigm, Xilinx.

Software: Academic, Commercial, Aber Genomic Computing.

Other Overviews: Genetic Programming.org, Cluster Computing Links, Evonet.

• The trainline
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• Subway Navigator – in cities around the world

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• EUJet Manston Kent Airport for Sandwich
• Air Miles

Travel Agents/Hotels etc.

• A2B Travel Agency
• Bargain Holidays
• Hotel-UK – hotel information and booking service
• HolidayBank
• The Hotel Guide – over 60,000 hotels worldwide on the WWW
• ABTA – Association of British Travel Agents page – many useful links
• Travelocity – Internet Travel Agents
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• Campus Travel
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• EuropLogis
• Campanile Hotels in Europe – including reservation service – ideal for touring
• Premiere classe hotels – mostly in France; cheap, clean and convenient for B&B only
• Hotel Net – worldwide hotel information and reservations
• Switzerland Tourism
• The France Holiday Store
• Breizh Ma Bro – Brittany: Information, Accomodation etc.
• Motours’ home on the Web
• Individual Travellers
• Hotels in Umbria (Italy)
• Internet Travel Network Agency
• LastMinute.Com Agency
• Expedia UK Agency
• TravelWeb Agency
• Expedia Maps – addresses etc in USA, World Wide Maps
• TravelSelect Agency
• 1Ski – Agency, news & info

Road Travel/Cars etc.

• The Royal Automobile Club
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• Intercar – Buy a car in the Netherlands and save yourself thousands!
• Find a car – Autotrader
• Find a part for your car
• Car Insurance Centre
• Carquote – insurance
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• Dial Direct Car Insurance – quotes
• AutoEurope – discount car hire in Europe
• Budget Rent a Car
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• VolksWagen
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Aberystwyth

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• Getting to and from Aberystwyth

Chirk

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• Vet
• Wrexham and Wrexham Local Health Board
• Wrexham and Shropshire trains

London

• Virtual London
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• London Theatre – London Theatre Guide – London theatreland – “Official guide” –
• London restaurant guides – All In London – Best London Resataurants – London Eats – Michelin – restaurant guide – restaurant_guides – squaremeal –
• London restaurants – Chinese – Bar-shu Szechuan – Haozhan Gerrard St –
•  Fish –  Squaremeal best 10 – Bentley’s – Fishworks –  Green’s – J Sheekey – Scott’s –
•  French – Overview from France_in_London – Arbutus – Elena’s L’Etoile – Pere Michel –
•  Greek – Kalamaras –
•  Hungarian – The Gay Hussar –
•  Indian – Amaya – Bombay Palace – Chutney Mary – Jamuna – MasalaZone Soho – Noorjahan2 – Veeraswamy
•  Japanese – Yakitoria –
•  Korean – Kaya – Koba – Myung-ga – Ran –
•  Thai – I-Thai@Hempel – Nipa@Royal Lancaster –
•  Vietnamese – Bam-bou –
•  W2 – Arturo – Bombay Palace – Brasserie Paddington Hilton – Concordia Notte – Erebuni Russian/Armenian – Frontline_Club – I-Thai@Hempel – Jamuna – Kalamaras – La Maja – Levantine – Lagenda Malaysian – Nipa@Royal Lancaster –  noorjahan2 – Pearl Liang – Pere Michel – Seabass – See Cafe – Takeaways – Yakitoria –

Manchester

• Manchester.com
• Manchester online
• Lonely planet – Manchester
• Manchester online estate agents –
• Manchester restaurant guides – restaurant guide – Virtual guide – online –  Restaurants_of_Manchester – Nosh-up.com –
• Manchester restaurants: Samsi  Chaophraya – Grill on the Alley – Koreana – Lime Tree, Didsbury – Phetpailin Thai – Rajdoot – Sam’s Chop House
• Manchester pubs: Manchester Bars – A-Z – The Lass o’Gowrie –
• Manchester traffic

Swindon

• Swindon.com – Swindon leisure/sport – Swindon Town Centre –
• Swindon Estate Agents – Lettings – email4property portal – Joy Sherwood – McFarlane – NFJ – Philip Andrews –  Primelocation – Primemove –
• Swindon restaurant guides – restaurant guide
• Swindon restaurants: Italian: – The Apartment – Indian: Google summary – Aby’s –
• Swindon pubs – beer_in_the_evening –
• Out of town: Blunsdon House –  Chiseldon House – – Inglesham Forge, Inglesham, Highworth – – Pear Tree at Purton – School House, Hookk – Stanton House Hotel and its Mt Fuji and Rosemaryy restaurants –

Fun

• OED – Meriam-Webster dictionary – Brainy quotes – Wikipedia – Science quotes – Quotations – OXymoron language page – Grandiloquent dictionary –
• Cricinfo – TMS – Lancashire CCC – ECB – Cricket world cup – Man U –
• BBC: News – Sport –  Cricket – Soccer – Rugby Union – Golf
• TheyWorkForYou – website for checking on MPs activities and speeches
• ClassicFM – Radio 4 –
• London Theatre GuideIMDB movie dB –
• Dilbert
• Engrish – ok, their attempts are better than my Mandarin, but….
• The infamous exploding whale story is not an urban myth
• Factoids collected by Susan Stepney