University of Tennessee Life Science Pages

This collection of Life Science Pages has been organized by E. Dobos, L. Gross and C. Zimmermann at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with support from National Science Foundation Undergraduate Course and Curriculum Program through Grant #USE-9150354.

Please reference this grant if you copy any appreciable portion of these pages.
More complete information on this project is at: http://www.math.utk.edu/~gross/quant.lifesci.html

List of Directories of Biological Servers

• Biodata Client Navigator
• Biologist's Guide to the Internet
• CSUBIOWEB (California State University)
• FTP Sites For Biology
• Guide to Internet Medical Resources
• INFOMINE Biological Resources (University of California, Riverside)
• Medical and Biology Related Gophers (via Welchlab/Johns Hopkins)
• Stanford University Gopher Directory
• University of Lyons (France) Directory
• University of Tennessee Library
• USGS Servers List

Specific Interesting Biological Sites

• ANU Bioinformatics Hypermedia Service
• Cambridge University Server
• Computational Biology at SDSC
• Cornell: Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server
• CTI Center for Biology: Life Sciences Resources
• DENDROME: Forest Tree Genome Project
• European Bioinformatics Institure
• Forest Ecosystem Dynamics (NASA)
• John Hopkins Bioinformatics Server
• Mathematical Mimics (Cornell University)
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Primordial Soup Kitchen
• The Virtual Hospital
• World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Biosciences

Biological and Medical Software Sites and Directories

• Archives for Biological Software and Databases Around the World
• Australian Bioinformatics Archive of Artificial Life and Complex Systems Software
• Biomedical Shareware Archive (Texas Med School)
• European Bioinformatics Institute
• Genethon Software Archive
• Illinois Natural History Survery Wildlife Ecology Software Server
• INFOMINE Software Directory
• IUBio Software Archive
• John Hopkins Bioinformatics Server
• Macintosh Artificial Life Software Archive
• Medical Education Software
• MIT Press Archive of Artifical Life Software
• University of Manchester Software Archive
• University of Georgia Institute of Ecology

Biological Software By Subject

Molecular Biology

• Able - Analysis of branch length errors
• ClustalV - Multiple sequence alignments
• ACEBB - DENDROME Project tree genetics database software
• DNA Workbench
• DoLink - Linkage anaysis software
  --- Readme
• FirstOrd - Preliminary loci ordering software
  --- Readme
• Lamarc - Within population genealogies analysis software
• Melanie - 2D page computer analysis
• Modeller - Protein modelling package
• Pap - Pedigree analysis package
• PeDraw - Pedigree mapping sofware
  --- Help File
  --- Readme
• Perch - NMR software
• Phylip - Package of programs for inferring phylogenies
• Polsta - Time series analysis for pollen data
  --- Ascii source
  --- Readme
  
• Population genetics for mating systems
  --- Readme
• Quest II - 2D gel protein analysis
• Ramha - Monte carlo simulation of random mutagenesis
• RAPDistance Package - RAPD package
• Relatedness - Macintosh genetic relatedness program
  --- Readme
• Simple34 - Nucleic acid sequence repetition detection software
• Winamova - Analysis of molecular variance for Windows
  --- Readme
  --- Documentation

Organismal, Ecological and Evolution Software

• Bachmap - Landscape dispersal model
• Blight - Effects of infestations on crop production
• BonyParts - ??????
• BSim - Portable Package for Distributed Ecological Modelling
• Readme
  
• Chaos - ??????
• Coda - Conservation options and decision analysis
• Readme
  
• Contrast - Analyzes survival or recovery rate estimates
  --- Documentation
  
• Crown of Thorns - Crown of Thorns starfish outbreaks on coral reefs
• Curacao - Sterile release method of pest control
• Density Estimation - Analyzes line transect data
• Distance - Distance sampling: estimates abundances of biological populations
  --- Readme
  
• Delta - Descriptive languange for taxonomy
• Epidemic - Spread of simple epidemics through a landscape
• Flight performance - Analyzes bird flight performance
• Gapps - ??????
• Jolly - Capture-recapture software
  --- Documentation
  
• JollyAge - Age structured capture-recapture software
  --- Readme
  
• Leslie - Expanded version of Leslie matrix analysis program
• Polsta - Pollen model time series statisitcs software
• Populus - Population biology simulation package
• PopGen - Population genetics simulation
• Prefer - Resource preference assessment software
• Readme
• Resistant
• Ricker - Macintosh Ricker stock recruitment program
• Sortie - ??????
• Treecon - User-friendly construction of an evolutionary tree
• Zelig - Generic forest gap model

Artificial Life and Complex Systems

• Behavioral Evolution Simulations and Tutorials
• BioMorph - Darwinian evolution simulator
• Bugs - Observe distribution of genes in a changing "bug" population
• CellSim - Interactive cellular automata package
• CA - Macintosh cellular automata
• CALife - Cellular automata software
• CAMac - Macintosh cellular automata
• EasyLife - Macintosh version of LIFE
• Echo - Ecological simulator
• HodgePodge - Macintosh cellular automata
• Neoterics - Creatures evolve neural nets to gather food and mate
• Netlife - Artificial Life simulation
• PolyWorld - Artificial world for evolutionary studies
• Primordial Soup - Artificial life simulator
• Swarm - Multi-agent simulation of complex systems
• Tierra - Tierra software
• WinCA - Windows Cellular Automata Package
  --- Documentation
  
• Xerion - Neural network simulator

Statistics Software

• GraphMu - Graphical presentation of MacMulti and MacDendro results
• GMDH - Group method of data handling
  --- Readme
• Interactive statistics
• MacDendro - Macintosh cluster analysis program
• MacMul - Macintosh multivariate analysis program
• Multivariate statistics
• MVSP- Multivariate statistical package
  --- Readme
  
• NetMul - WWW interface for MacMul and ADE programs
• SimFit - Comprehensive statistical analysis package
  --- Readme
  
• Stplan - Macintosh program for calculating power, sample size and related calculations for study planning
  --- Readme
  

Teaching Materials

Tutorials

• Biochemical genetics - Macintosh tutorial for middle and high school students
• Biosequence comparison
• Cellular automata
• Cell Biology
• Critical connectivity
• L-systems
• Nervous system
• Statistics

Educational Software

• Bacterial Identification
  --- Readme
• BioEss - Evolutionary stable strategies software
  --- Readme
• Bird Anatomy - Macintosh bird anatomy software
• Virtual Frog Dissection Kit
• IntroPop - Introductory population dynamics courseware modules
• Software Demos
  Brainiac - Neuroanatomical atlas
  --- Documentation
  SymBioSys - Physiological simulator
  --- Documentation
  Dynamic Spine - Part 1 - Tutorial on the axial skeleton
  --- Part 2
  --- Part 3
  --- Documentation
  
• Wa-Tor - Fish and shark game for Windows
  --- Readme
  

Other Teaching Resources

• Berkeley Page on Evolution
• Biological Images (Cornell)
• Biologist's Guide to the Internet
• Bioscene - Journal of College Biology Teaching
• Bionet Teaching & Learning Technology Program
• Complexity International - Electronic journal of complex systems research
• CTI Center WWW page for teaching
• Encyclopedia of Gap Analysis
• Great Smoky Mountains Bibliography
• INFOMINE Courseware Directory
• "Mathematics in Biology" Document
• MendelWeb Homepage - Genetics educational page
• Museums
  American Museum of Natural History
  Australian National Botanical Garden
  Field Museum of Chicago
  Florida Museum of Natural History
  Houston Museum of Natural Science
  Missouri Botanical Gardens
  The Museum of Natural History & Cormack Planetarium, Providence, RI
  The Natural History Museum, Berne, Switzerland
  Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  North Carolina Museum of Life and Science
  The Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon
  Peabody Museum of Natural History Gopher Service
  Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
  Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
  Swedish Museum of Natural History
  The Texas Natural History Collections
  UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
  World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums
  
• Plant science education network
• UNC Directory of Teaching Materials
• University of Delaware Brain and Behavior Page
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Educational Technology