You find yourself in a clearing in the woods. There is no mailbox here, because we wouldn't want to have copyright infringement problems with the writers of "Zork." Paths lead off in different directions to destinations around the globe. Many of these are duplicated on the departmental page, but you shouldn't have to go all the way back there just to find out what we are interested in. Choose a path and follow it, or go back inside to the Racaniello Lab.

• General Information
• Guide to New York City

This is one of many guides to America's biggest town, home of world-class attractions like the Met, Wall Street, and the Racaniello Lab.
• NYC Area Transit Information

If you are coming to town, you will need to know how to get around. This page provides information and links for transportation within and outside the New York City area.
• Science Links
• Companies

These are a few companies from which we order equipment and supplies, and whose sites are informative or interesting (sometimes both).
• Ambion, Inc.
• Boehringer Mannheim Biochemicals
• Invitrogen Web Resource
• Jackson Laboratory Home Page

The primary supplier and maintainer of laboratory animals, especially mice. Their site has information on available strains and products.
• KODAK: Product Information
• Life Technologies, Inc.
• Perkin-Elmer
• Stratagene
• Institutions
• AAAS Home Page

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes the journal Science is major advocate for scientific interests in Washington, D.C.
• Biological Mass Spectrometry, UW

If you have to ask, you probably don't need it.
• Bock Laboratories at UW-Madison

A major site for information about virology in general and several specific viruses, including the coordinates for a number of crystal structures. They also have movies and graphics of viruses - lots of fun.
• CDC Home Page

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Introduction - FDA

The Food and Drug Administration site, with information on many microbes and treatments.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

This institution is responsible for providing quite a bit of our grant money.
• Nolan Lab at Stanford

Just a Web page of another lab, but a fun one. Probably not so fun if your connection is slow or you don't have a graphical browser. Lots of cool graphics, and good interlinking of the pages within the site.
• National Science Foundation World Wide Web Server

Another major grant-provider and a source of a tremendous amount of educational information.
• Society for Amateur Scientists

This new organization is embarked on a fascinating mission: getting people who are not professional scientists interested in doing research, and providing them with the tools to do it properly. Definitely worth a close look.
• UCSF Mass Spectrometry Facility

More mass spec for aficionados.
• Washington University Mass Spectrometry Resource
• World Health Organization WWW Home Page

Under the auspices of the United Nations, these folks are charged with the enormous task of maintaining and improving the health of the world's population.
• Journals
• Cell
• Journal of Biological Chemistry
• Journal of Molecular Biology
• Journal of Neuroscience Online
• Journal of Virology
• Nature
• SCIENCE On-Line
• Virology Weblog
  A weblog about viruses and viral disease, maintained by Vincent Racaniello
• Link Pages

Rather like this, only much, much larger in scope. If you are seriously researching science on the Web, these are all good places to visit, as they are updated regularly.
• Alex's Cyber-Science links
• Biotech Links
• MedWeb: Infectious Diseases
• MicroDesign Resources Site Index
• Yahoo! - Health:Diseases and Conditions
• Reference Resources

These are the tools we use regularly, and most of them are free to the public. Enjoy.
• Careers in Science and Engineering
• Nomenclature Rules and Guidelines

Guidelines for mouse geneticists (which we occasionally pretend to be) for naming your animals. No, "Fred" and "Vera" are not favored names for laboratory mouse strains.
• Medline

This is the standard database for researching topics in the peer-reviewed biomedical literature. In addition to the articles' citations, you will also find abstracts (summaries).
• GCG Web Pages

GCG is the primary software tool for analyzing sequence information in molecular biology.
• National Center for Biotechnology Information

In addition to hosting the Medline site above, the NCBI also has links to protein and DNA sequence databases and other useful resources.
• Hobbies and Personal Picks of Lab Members

We occasionally find the time to do things other than lab work, and these are the bookmarks people have trolled up in the process of pursuing those interests.
• Newspage Stock Quotes

This item and the next two are something of a mystery. We're not sure which lab member has enough money to invest, but we'll let you know if we find out.
• Yahoo! Quotes
• Security APL Quote Server
• A few Beer recipes using extracts

This and the one below are sites for those who prefer their microbiology in drinkable form.
• Welcome To Cock's Fine Brews
• The Master Page of the Graduate Student Organization

Just in case you missed this link on the departmental page, here it is again