Most interesting scientific webs to visit

For the physic teacher

physics-animations.com/

Robert P. Crease, a member of the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, recently asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful experiment of all time. Based on the paper of George Johnson in The New York Times we list below 10 winners of this polling and accompany the short explanations of the physical experiments with computer animations.

For the biology teacher

www.pschool.com/science/biology_place

The Biology Place Classic Edition from Pearson Education. The site is divided into 3 sections BioCoach, LabBench, Glossary. LabBench walks visitors through 12 laboratory exercises. The glossary contains definitions for over 1.000 biological terms.

For the molecular biologist

- www.cathdb.info

This protein structure classification system CATH (which stands for Class, Architecture, Topology and Homologous super-family) uses the C-A-T-H parameters to hierarchically classify the protein in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). It is possible to search the Data Base by PDB codes/chains, CATH domain codes/classification codes, or by FASTA sequence.

For the protein biologist

- www.t.capsur.it/ASPIcDB/

Alternative Splicing PredIction data base (ASPI) mRNA for the gene sequence.

For the chemist

www.openbabel.org/wiki

Open Babel s a multilingual web designed to speak the many languages of chemical data. Freely downloadable for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh.

For the genetist

www.gmod.org/wiki

The Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) project has the aim to provide researchers with open-source software tools to help manage genome-scale database.

For the naturalist

www.nature.org

The people of The Nature Conservancy is a nonprofit organization working to conserve nature. By visiting this site, you can learn all about their efforts.