Biological Sciences

Federal agency that supports the sciences with resources, publications, research funding and the communication of important info and opportunities.

The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

A free webservice much like Facebook or LinkedIn that allows academics to share their research and research interests.

A free reference manager and academic social network that organize, collaborate and discover research projects.

ADW is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology sponsored by University of Michigan

Access to browse collections and search the taxonomic literature of multiple natural history and botanic libraries.

Content from 200+ taxonomic databases searchable by species and distribution locale.

A digital resource that attempts to collect information on every known species from museums, scientists and institutions.

The Gene Ontology project is a major bioinformatics initiative with the aim of standardizing the representation of gene and gene product attributes across species and databases. The project provides a controlled vocabulary of terms for describing gene product characteristics and gene product annotation data from GO Consortium members, as well as tools to access and process this data.

A partnership of US, Mexican and Canadian Agencies that provide authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

Global geographic information to support biodiversity efforts.

NCBI is a multi-disciplinary research group composed of computer scientists, molecular biologists, mathematicians, biochemists, research physicians, and structural biologists concentrating on basic and applied research in computational molecular biology providing research through a variety of free databases.

Supported currently by the NSF, this non-profit site provides occurrence and taxonomic data for organisms of geologic ages.

Silhouettes of plants and animals that allow reuse through Creative Commons

Database from the Center for Open Science that searches multiple preprint and institutional repositories.

Collective effort to group data, images and phylogenetic trees for species both living and extinct.

Find online educational resources for teaching and learning in STEM disciplines at all grade levels.

Created by Stanford researchers, bio-protocol is a freely available peer-reviewed e-journal/database of protocols in the life sciences

A free archive for unpublished preprints. Like arXiv- but for life sciences.