List of biology websites
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This is an annotated list of biological websites, including only notable websites dealing with biology generally and those with a more specific focus.
- Actionbioscience -- sponsored by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) -- providing articles by scientists, science educators, and science students on issues related to seven bioscience challenges: environment, biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers in science, and bioscience education
- ALISON-- free online biology courses from introduction to anatomy and human sensory systems.
- Animal Diversity Web -- created by the staff at the Museum of Zoology at the University of Michigan -- collecting the natural history, classification, species characteristics, conservation biology, and distribution information of thousands of species of animals
- Animal Genome Size Database -- created by Dr. T. Ryan Gregory of the University of Guelph in Canada -- publishing genome size estimates for vertebrate and invertebrate animals
- Animal Science Image Gallery -- a work of the United States Federal Government -- containing images, animations, and video for classroom and outreach learning
- Bioinformatic Harvester -- a bioinformatic meta search engine at KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology -- working for human, mouse, rat, zebrafish, drosophila and arabidopsis thaliana information
- Catalogue of Life -- compiled with sectors provided by 52 taxonomic databases from around the world -- planned to become a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth
- Earth Human STR Allele Frequencies Database (EHSTRAFD) -- the natural step in managing populational data reported for Short Tandem Repeat (STR) loci from all over the world...
- Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) -- with senior officers from Harvard University and other organizations -- a free, online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.8 million species of living organisms known to science
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) -- owned by John Wiley & Sons -- having both a 20-volume print edition and an online edition
- Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) -- sponsored by UNESCO -- an interdisciplinary encyclopedia, inspired by the sustainable development movement
- FishBase -- originated by biologist Daniel Pauly -- comprehensive database of information about fish
- Flora Europaea -- originally printed by Cambridge University Press; later published online by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh -- allowing any plant found wild or widely cultivated in Europe to be identified to subspecies level
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) -- involving government agencies in Canada, the US, and Mexico -- providing an automated reference database of scientific and common names for species
- Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences -- an exclusively electronic, free-of-charge peer-reviewed scientific journal
- Plant DNA C-values Database -- created in the UK -- a comprehensive catalogue of C-value (nuclear DNA content, or in diploids, genome size) data for land plants and algae
- Plants for a Future (PFAF) -- based in the UK -- for those interested in edible and useful plants of temperate regions
- Postcodes Plant Database -- based in the UK -- for identifying locally native plant and species according to postcode
- Transterm -- hosted at the University of Otago in New Zealand -- a database of mRNA sequences, codon usage, and associated cis-regulatory elements that regulate gene expression
- Tree of Life Web Project -- written by biologists from around the world -- providing information about the diversity and phylogeny of life on Earth
- VADLO -- biology-specific search engine -- biology (life sciences and biomedical) methods, databases, software and powerpoint search.l
- Wikispecies -- supported by the Wikimedia Foundation -- to create a comprehensive free content catalogue of all species
- Zooborns -- created by Andrew Bleiman -- announces animal births at AZA, EAZA, CAZA and WAZA accredited zoos and aquariums
