Reportergene
- 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.
- http://reportergene.blogspot.com/

Epigenetics Research
- News, jobs, recent literature, lab registry and an ontologically driven database that is updated daily.
- http://www.epidna.com

6th International Summer School "Biocomplexity from System to Gene"
- Summaries and reports from a summer school in Istambul, Turkey July 2007.
- http://www.fulton.asu.edu/%7ebioc2007/

RiboWeb Project
- 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.
- http://helix-web.stanford.edu/ribo3dmodels/index.html

Control of Gene Expression
- A collection of diagrams illustrating the fundamentals of molecular biology.
- http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/ecb/gene_expression.html

Laboratory of Intelligent Systems
- Project at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) creating electronic models of the evolution of gene expression, neural development and similar evolution processes.
- http://lis.epfl.ch

Epigenetic Station
- With information, protocols and resources about epigenetics and DNA methylation and much advertising.
- http://www.epigeneticstation.com

Epigenetics
- Article on the site of CellCentric on epigenetics.
- http://www.cellcentric.co.uk/epigenetics.htm

The Epigenome Network of Excellence
- Network of research groups on heritable changes in gene expression without a change in DNA sequence, funded by the European Union.
- http://www.epigenome-noe.net/

European Sequencing of Tobacco
- A collaboration between Advanced Technologies (Cambridge) Ltd and Tobacco Institute of Bergerac to sequence a large number of tobacco genes.
- http://www.estobacco.info

Epigenetic inheritance
- Transmission of information from a cell or multicellular organism to its descendants without that information being encoded in the nucleotide sequence of the gene. Wikipedia article.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetic_inheritance

Gene Expression
- Independent forum for discussion of gene expression.
- http://www.gnxp.com

Transfer RNA
- Wikipedia article: small RNA molecules that transport amino acids to their positions on the ribosome during polypeptide synthesis.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_RNA

Transcription Factor
- Proteins that specifically bind to promotor or enhancer regions on DNA and thereby control the transcription of the downstream gene.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_factor

Translation
- 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.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_%28genetics%29

Transcription
- Wikipedia article: in genetics the process by which a DNA sequence is converted to a corresponding RNA sequence.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_%28genetics%29

Splicing
- 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.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splicing_%28genetics%29

Spliceosome
- Wikipedia article: particle composed of DNA and peptide chains that effects mRNA splicing in the cell nucleus of eucaryotic cells.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spliceosome

Signal peptide
- Wikipedia article: short peptide sequences that direct the post-translational transport of proteins after synthesis.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_peptide

Shine-Dalgarno sequence
- Wikipedia article: signals the initiation of protein synthesis in bacteria.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine-Dalgarno_sequence

SECIS element
- Wikipedia article: Sequence that directs translation of UGA as selenocysteine insteado of using it as a stop codon.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECIS_element

Protein biosynthesis
- Wikipedia article: summary of the process by which the cell converts the DNA sequence proteins.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_biosynthesis

Promoter
- Wikipedia article: in genetics a sequence located upstream of a gene that enables its translation.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promoter

Pre-mRNA
- Wikipedia article: RNA string syntesized in the cell nucleus before modification (splicing, polyadenylation) and export to the cytoplasm.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-mRNA

Posttranslational modification
- Wikipedia article: chemical modification of polypeptide chains after synthesis.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttranslational_modification

Operon
- Wikipedia article: group of genes in primitive organisms that are controlled by one operator and one promoter to be activated together.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operon

Noncoding DNA
- Wikipedia article: sections of DNA that do not contain codes for polypeptide sequences.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noncoding_DNA

Monocistronic
- Wikipedia article: Messenger RNA that codes for one polypeptide string only.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocistronic

Messenger RNA
- Wikipedia article on the RNA that carries information from DNA to protein synthesis.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_RNA

Imprinting
- Wikipedia article on the suppressing of genes by chemical modification, depending on which parent they were received from.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_%28genetics%29

Genetic Code
- Wikipedia article on the relationship between the nucleic acid base sequence and the corresponding polypeptide amino acid sequence.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code

Gene Regulatory Network
- Wikipedia article on the mathematical modelling of gene expression as a network.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_regulatory_network

Gene Regulation
- Wikipedia article on the mechanisms that regulate gene expression.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_regulation

Expressed Sequence Tag
- Wikipedia article: EST are short sub-sequences of genes, used in mRNA sequencing and in construction of DNA microarrays.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressed_sequence_tag

Intron
- Wikipedia article on sections of genes that are eliminated by splicing in the formation of mature mRNA and therefore not expressed as proteins.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intron

Exon
- Wikipedia article on regions in genes that are expressed in mature mRNA and in proteins.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exon

Enhancer
- Wikipedia article on enhancers, short pieces of DNA which bind to trans-acting factors to enhance transcription levels of genes.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhancer

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.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_splicing

3'UTR
- Wikipedia article on the untranslated regions at the ends of mRNA.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%27_UTR

Serial Analysis of Gene Expression
- Explanation of Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE), a method for analysis of gene expression patterns.
- http://www.sagenet.org/

Anatomy of a Comparative Gene Expression Study
- Clear explanation of the process of comparing the gene expression in two cell populations or tissue samples by fluorescent microarray technique.
- http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~jbuhler/research/array/

Genome-Wide Expression
- 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.
- http://web.wi.mit.edu/young/expression/home.html

Gene Expression: Transcription
- Resource for transcription events during gene formation including schematic diagrams.
- http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/T/Transcription.html

Biochemistry of Nucleic Acids
- 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.
- http://oregonstate.edu/instruction/bb492/general/schedule.html

Mammary Genome Anatomy Project
- 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.
- http://mammary.nih.gov/

Genomes to Life
- The US Department of Energy at Oak Ridge program for research in moleular biology: goals and results.
- http://doegenomestolife.org/

Role of the Ribosome
- Illustrated explanation of the ribosomal protein synthesis by Gwen V. Childs, University of Texas, Galveston, TX.
- http://cellbio.utmb.edu/cellbio/ribosome.htm

Ribosomes
- 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.
- http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/R/Ribosomes.html

Eukaryotic Gene Expression Problem Set
- Multiple choice questions about post-transcriptional modification of RNA, promoters, and nuclear RNA processing. From: University of Arizona, USA 1997.
- http://www.biology.arizona.edu/molecular_bio/problem_sets/mol_genetics_of_eukaryotes/eukaryotes.html

Regulation of Gene Expression
- Overview of different aspects of gene expression, including transcription, chromatin modification, and analysis of whole genomes, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass, USA.
- http://web.wi.mit.edu/young/pub/regulation.html