• Microarrays and Gene Expression
• Software and Annotation Tools
  • Freely Available Software for Analyzing Affymetrix Microarrays
• Search Engines
• SNPs and Genotyping
• Mouse Physiology
• Ethical and Legal Issues in Genomic Research
• Other Resources

Microarrays and Gene Expression:

• Affymetrix, Inc - oligonucleotide microarray technology http://www.affymetrix.com
• NetAffx - correlates the Affymetrix GeneChip® array results to a catalog of array design and annotation information http://www.affymetrix.com/analysis/
• Agilent Technologies, Inc. - 60-mer in situ synthesized oligo microarrays http://www.agilent.com/chem/dna
• Human Gene Expression Index (HuGE Index)- a comprehensive database of human gene expression data http://www.hugeindex.org
• Mouse Genomic Information at the Jackson Lab http://www.informatics.jax.org

Software and Annotation Tools:

• Haploview - software for use in analysis and visualization of linkage disequilibrium and SNP haplotype maps. http://www.broad.mit.edu/mpg/haploview/index.php
• Fantom (Functional Annotation of Mouse) - a collection of functional annotations for the RIKEN full-length cDNA clones http://www.gsc.riken.go.jp/e/FANTOM/
• Gene Ontology Consortium - definitions of a vocabulary that can be applied to functionally annotate genes and proteins http://www.geneontology.org/
• A List of Freely Available Software for Analyzing Affymetrix Microarrays

Search Engines:

• Biological resources: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - links to many useful resources including LocusLink, GenBank, Blast and PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

SNPs and Genotyping:

• The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard - http://www.broad.mit.edu
• Sequenom- A discovery genetics company with the tools, information and strategies for determining the medical impact of genes and genetic variations - http://www.sequenom.com
• dbSNP Home Page - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/
• International HapMap Project - http://www.hapmap.org
• UCSC Human Genome Project Working Draft - http://genome.ucsc.edu
• Ensembl- Ensembl is a joint project between EMBL - EBI and the Sanger Institute to develop a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on eukaryotic genomes. Ensembl is primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust - http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/

Mouse Physiology:

• PhysioNet - an online resource for recorded physiologic signals and related open-source software http://www.physionet.org

Ethical and Legal Issues in Genomic Research:

• The Human Genome Project Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Database http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/elsi/elsi.html
• The U.S. National Human Genomic Research Institute Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Page http://www.genome.gov/10001618

Other Resources:

• Nature http://www.nature.com
• Nature's Genome Gateway http://www.nature.com/genomics/