Molecular Biology

Data bases on the genetics of C elegans and related nematodes.

Wikipedia article: small RNA molecules that transport amino acids to their positions on the ribosome during polypeptide synthesis.

Proteins that specifically bind to promotor or enhancer regions on DNA and thereby control the transcription of the downstream gene.

Network of research groups on heritable changes in gene expression without a change in DNA sequence, funded by the European Union.

Free of charge database of transcription factors of rice. From CBI, Peking University, China.

Database on gene function and structure, from the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation.

Data from microarray experiments, and the corresponding image files. From Stanford University, USA.

Wikipedia article: particle composed of DNA and peptide chains that effects mRNA splicing in the cell nucleus of eucaryotic cells.

Wikipedia article: short peptide sequences that direct the post-translational transport of proteins after synthesis.

Wikipedia article: signals the initiation of protein synthesis in bacteria.

Explanation of Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE), a method for analysis of gene expression patterns.

Wikipedia article: Sequence that directs translation of UGA as selenocysteine insteado of using it as a stop codon.

Illustrated explanation of the ribosomal protein synthesis by Gwen V. Childs, University of Texas, Galveston, TX.

A compilation of RNase P sequences, sequence alignments, secondary structures, three-dimensional structures, and accessory information.

Database to locate RNA genes based on the premise that stable, functional RNAs share common structural elements and that sequences corresponding to these elements would occur preferentially in RNA genes, from the Hoolbrook Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.

RiceTFDB is a public database of rice genes involved in transcriptional control. From the University of Potsdam, Berlin, Germany.

Explanation of how the information encoded in mRNA is translated into a polypeptide. Includes differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes by John W. Kimball, now retired from Harvard College.

From Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, USA

Overview of different aspects of gene expression, including transcription, chromatin modification, and analysis of whole genomes, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass, USA.

Wikipedia article: summary of the process by which the cell converts the DNA sequence proteins.