Resources

Curated tools, databases, textbooks, and communities for biosystems research.

🗄️ Databases & Repositories

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    NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Information — sequences, literature, and more.
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    UniProt Comprehensive, high-quality protein sequence and functional information database.
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    STRING Protein–protein interaction networks for systems-level analysis.
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    Expression Atlas Gene and protein expression data across species, tissues, and conditions (EMBL-EBI).
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    GBIF Global Biodiversity Information Facility — open access to species occurrence data.
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    BioModels Repository of mathematical models of biological processes (EMBL-EBI).

🛠️ Tools & Software

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    Biopython Python tools for computational molecular biology — parsing, analysis, and more.
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    Bioconductor Open-source R packages for bioinformatics and genomic data analysis.
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    Cytoscape Open-source platform for visualising and analysing complex biological networks.
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    Tellurium Python environment for modelling and simulating biochemical and biosystems networks.
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    COPASI COmplex PAthway SImulator — biochemical network simulation and analysis.

📰 Open Access Journals

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    PLOS Biology Peer-reviewed, open-access biological research across all scales of life.
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    eLife Non-profit open-access journal for outstanding advances in life and biomedical sciences.
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    bioRxiv Free preprint server for the biological sciences — immediate open access to findings.
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    PubMed Central Free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences literature.

🎓 Online Courses & Lectures

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    iBiology Free video lectures from leading biologists on a wide range of life science topics.
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    MIT OpenCourseWare — Biology Free course materials from MIT's biology, systems biology, and computational biology courses.
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    Systems Biology (Coursera) Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai specialisation in systems biology.