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Molecular Movies Illustrate Science

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Genetic Engi­neer­ing & Biotech­nol­ogy News [update@genengnewsmail.com]

Feb 15, 2013 (Vol. 33, No. 4)

MolecularMovies.org

“If you get a kick out of beau­ti­fully ani­mated sci­en­tific movies, then you’ll be beside your­self with excite­ment when you visit MolecularMovies.org, a site that has com­piled a large num­ber of sci­ence ani­ma­tions from all over the web. Links to the ani­ma­tions can be found on the “show­case” page, where users can sort ani­ma­tions by sci­en­tific area, ani­ma­tor, or date added, can search all ani­ma­tions by key­word, or can jump to ani­ma­tions falling within a given sci­en­tific topic. There are 22 top­ics rep­re­sented, and they range from adhesion/extracellular matrix, to DNA/chromatin, to neu­ronal sig­nal­ing, and beyond. The ani­ma­tions are not embed­ded within this site itself, and there do exist a few prob­lems with some of the links; how­ever, most of the links worked as expected. Beyond the ani­ma­tions, the Mol­e­c­u­lar Movies site also includes some soft­ware ani­ma­tion tuto­ri­als and a news­feed cov­er­ing the lat­est in mol­e­c­u­lar animation.”

*The opin­ions expressed are solely those of the author(s) and should not be con­strued as reflect­ing the view­points of the pub­lisher, Genetic Engi­neer­ing & Biotech­nol­ogy News, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., the pub­lish­ing house, or employ­ees and affil­i­ates thereof.

 Rat­ing = 4 stars = excellent

Strong points: large col­lec­tion of animations

Weak points:  some links didn’t work

www.molecularmovies.com

 

VADLO — a search engine for the Life Sciences

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VADLO search engine, devel­oped by 2 biologists, caters to all branches of bio­med­i­cine and life sci­ences. Searchers may delve within five cat­e­gories: Pro­to­cols, Online Tools, Sem­i­nars, Data­bases and Software.

“Pro­to­cols cat­e­gory will let you search for meth­ods, tech­niques, assays, pro­ce­dures, reagent recipes, plas­mid maps, etc. Online Tools will cater cal­cu­la­tors, servers, pre­dic­tion tools, sequence align­ment and manip­u­la­tion tools, primer design etc. Sem­i­nars are essen­tially pow­er­point files for pre­sen­ta­tions, lec­tures and talks. Data­bases will take you to, well, data­bases, resources, com­pi­la­tions, lists etc. It is here that you can also search for your favorite genes and pro­teins. Soft­ware cat­e­gory is for bioin­for­mat­ics experts who are look­ing for codes, scripts, algo­rithms, exe­cuta­bles, down­load­able pro­grams and collaborations”

Direct to VADLO

Taken from the VADLO site, and repro­duced in the lat­est ResourceShelf Newslet­ter, No. 397.