1. Bioinformatics Algorithms Website

2. Conferences, Journals, Organizations

• ISMB'2005 (sponsored by ISCB)
• Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
• RECOME 2005
• CSB 2004 (sponsored by IEEE)
• Past ISMB, RECOMB, and PSB conferences

• Bioinformatics
• Journal of Computational Biology
• BMC Bioinformatics
• Briefings in Bioinformatics
• Comparative and Functional Genomics
• Computers in Biology and Medicine
• In Silico Biology (ISB)
• Journal of Theoretical Biology

• International Society for Computational Biology
• NLP of Biology Text
• CS-related societies: ACM , AAAI, IEEE

3. Some randomly collected tools and databases

• Bioinformatics Tools Survey
• Tools for Multiple Sequence Alignments
• Sequence Databases: Finished sequences available Entrez Genomes ( Human genome working draft)
• Annotation Database:
  • Assignment of proteins to a particular family
  • Structural Assignment of proteins
  • Protein-Protein Interaction Database Database for interacting proteins:
  • Functional classification of yeast proteins
  • Protein three-dimensional structure database
  • Yeast functional and microarray data
• Mutation Databases:
  • Example GPCR
  • Other mutation databases including the Mouse Mutation Index
• Evaluation Data Sets
  • Data Set from UC Berkeleye
  • Machine Learning Data Set
  • CASP Experiments
  • EST-confirmed
  • Gene functional classification from heterogeneous data

4. Learning Bioinformatics: Tutorials/Reviews/References (many more available on the Internet)

• A Tutorial on Genes, Genomes, and Bioinformatics
• Online Book (Hunter)
• Overview
• Protein Sequence Analysis
• Bioinformatics (Genomics)
• Course at Univ. of Washington
• CP99 Tutorial on Bioinfomatics and Constraints
• What is bioinformatics?
• Bayesian Bioinformatics
• References for Gene Identification
• Gene Recognition Literature
• DNA Sequence Analysis
• Gene finding Review
• Computational Analysis of Protein Sequence and Structure
• MicroArray Data Mining: A Survey"
• Analysis of data from microarray experiments, the state of the art in gene network reconstruction
• MEME and MAST
• Bioinformatics (by Lloyd Allison)

5. Job Opportunities

6. Other Resources

• Helmholtz Network for Bioinformatics
• GenomeWeb Bioinformatics Course Information
• Canadian Bioinformatics Course Listings
• World of Bioinformatics Links
• UCSF Resources