Biology Research Overview
Related Websites and Other Resources

Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER)
http://www.lternet.edu
Collaborative effort investigating ecological processes over long temporal and broad spatial scales.

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/fmt/doc?/frames.html
Facilitates integrative research to identify major ecological patterns and understand the processes that generate them.

The Institute for Genomic Research
http://www.tigr.org/tdb/
A collection of curated databases containing DNA and protein sequence, gene expression, cellular role, protein family, and taxonomic data for microbes, plants and humans.

Plant Genome Research Outreach Portal
http://www.plantgdb.org/PGROP/pgrop.php
A central place for locating plant genome research outreach activities, programs and resources.

Tree of Life
http://www.tigr.org/tol/
A cross-disciplinary study of the genealogical relationships of the 1.7 million named species of living organisms on earth, with the goal of constructing a universal genealogy -- a family "tree of life" -- using new algorithmic methods and genomic technologies.

Plant Genome Database
http://www.plantgdb.org/
Created to develop plant species-specific express sequence tags and genome survey sequences databases, to provide web-accessible tools and inter-species query capabilities, and to provide genome browsing and annotation capabilities.

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