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Protein biosynthesis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_biosynthesis
Wikipedia article: summary of the process by which the cell converts the DNA sequence proteins. |
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Messenger RNA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_RNA
Wikipedia article on the RNA that carries information from DNA to protein synthesis. |
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Mammary Genome Anatomy Project - http://mammary.nih.gov/
Forum to integrate various aspects of mammary gland biology, including cellular and developmental aspects, and to promote collaborations and the exchange of ideas, knowledge and resources at NIH, Maryland. |
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Monocistronic - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocistronic
Wikipedia article: Messenger RNA that codes for one polypeptide string only. |
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Gene Regulatory Network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_regulatory_network
Wikipedia article on the mathematical modelling of gene expression as a network. |
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Translation - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_%28genetics%29
Wikipedia article: in genetics, the process by which ribosomes in the cytoplasm transfer the genetic code from a m-RNA sequence to an amino acid sequence in a polypeptide chain. |
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Gene Expression: Transcription - http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/T/Transcription.html
Resource for transcription events during gene formation including schematic diagrams. |
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Splicing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splicing_%28genetics%29
Wikipedia article: in genetics, the process of removing introns from mRNA in the cell nucleus before export to the cytoplasm and use as master for protein synthesis. |
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Serial Analysis of Gene Expression - http://www.sagenet.org/
Explanation of Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE), a method for analysis of gene expression patterns. |
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Posttranslational modification - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttranslational_modification
Wikipedia article: chemical modification of polypeptide chains after synthesis. |
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Exon - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exon
Wikipedia article on regions in genes that are expressed in mature mRNA and in proteins. |
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Operon - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operon
Wikipedia article: group of genes in primitive organisms that are controlled by one operator and one promoter to be activated together. |
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Eukaryotic Gene Expression Problem Set - http://www.biology.arizona.edu/molecular_bio/problem_sets/mol_genetics_of_eukaryotes/eukaryotes.html
Multiple choice questions about post-transcriptional modification of RNA, promoters, and nuclear RNA processing. From: University of Arizona, USA 1997. |
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Epigenetics Research - http://www.epidna.com
News, jobs, recent literature, lab registry and an ontologically driven database that is updated daily. |
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Pre-mRNA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-mRNA
Wikipedia article: RNA string syntesized in the cell nucleus before modification (splicing, polyadenylation) and export to the cytoplasm. |
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Alternative Splicing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_splicing
Wikipedia article on the process in eukaryotes in which the splicing process of a pre-mRNA can lead to different ripe mRNA molecules and therefore to different proteins. |
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Ribosomes - http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/R/Ribosomes.html
Explanation of how the information encoded in mRNA is translated into a polypeptide. Includes differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes by John W. Kimball, now retired from Harvard College. |
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Spliceosome - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spliceosome
Wikipedia article: particle composed of DNA and peptide chains that effects mRNA splicing in the cell nucleus of eucaryotic cells. |
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Imprinting - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_%28genetics%29
Wikipedia article on the suppressing of genes by chemical modification, depending on which parent they were received from. |
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Shine-Dalgarno sequence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine-Dalgarno_sequence
Wikipedia article: signals the initiation of protein synthesis in bacteria. |
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SECIS element - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECIS_element
Wikipedia article: Sequence that directs translation of UGA as selenocysteine insteado of using it as a stop codon. |
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Epigenetic Station - http://www.epigeneticstation.com
With information, protocols and resources about epigenetics and DNA methylation and much advertising. |
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Regulation of Gene Expression - http://web.wi.mit.edu/young/pub/regulation.html
Overview of different aspects of gene expression, including transcription, chromatin modification, and analysis of whole genomes, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass, USA. |
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Genome-Wide Expression - http://web.wi.mit.edu/young/expression/home.html
Report on a project to analyze the transcriptional regulatory circuitry of the yeast cell. From the Young Lab at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. |
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Anatomy of a Comparative Gene Expression Study - http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~jbuhler/research/array/
Clear explanation of the process of comparing the gene expression in two cell populations or tissue samples by fluorescent microarray technique. |
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Epigenetics - http://www.cellcentric.co.uk/epigenetics.htm
Article on the site of CellCentric on epigenetics. |
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Reportergene - http://reportergene.blogspot.com/
Information and news related to reporter genes, that are used to monitor activation of genes and groups of genes that are otherwise difficult to follow. |
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European Sequencing of Tobacco - http://www.estobacco.info
A collaboration between Advanced Technologies (Cambridge) Ltd and Tobacco Institute of Bergerac to sequence a large number of tobacco genes. |
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Alternative Splicing - http://www.exonhit.com/alternativesplicing/
Resource for intervention in the key steps in post-translocation regulatory process, with analysis tools and implications in pathologies. Maintained by Exonhit Therapeutics SA, Paris, France. |
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Biochemistry of Nucleic Acids - http://oregonstate.edu/instruction/bb492/general/schedule.html
Lecture notes on nucleic acid structure, DNA replication and repair, the genetic code and translation, as well as cancer genes, from Oregon State University, USA 2003. |
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6th International Summer School "Biocomplexity from System to Gene" - http://www.fulton.asu.edu/%7ebioc2007/
Summaries and reports from a summer school in Istambul, Turkey July 2007. |
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Role of the Ribosome - http://cellbio.utmb.edu/cellbio/ribosome.htm
Illustrated explanation of the ribosomal protein synthesis by Gwen V. Childs, University of Texas, Galveston, TX. |
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Molecular Genetics Webtext - http://opbs.okstate.edu/~melcher/MG/FMG01.html
An online textbook on chromosomes, principles of genetic engineering, basic molecular genetics and experimental methods. |
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Control of Gene Expression - http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/ecb/gene_expression.html
A collection of diagrams illustrating the fundamentals of molecular biology. |
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RiboWeb Project - http://helix-web.stanford.edu/ribo3dmodels/index.html
Knowledge base that combines data on the structure of the prokaryotic 30S ribosomal subunit that initiates the translation of mRNA into protein, its function and related links and references. |