| Molecular Genetics Webtext: An online textbook on chromosomes, principles of genetic engineering, basic molecular genetics and experimental methods. |
| 3'UTR: Wikipedia article on the untranslated regions at the ends of mRNA. |
| Alternative Splicing: Resource for intervention in the key steps in post-translocation regulatory process, with analysis tools and implications in pathologies. Maintained by Exonhit Therapeutics SA, Paris, France. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Control of Gene Expression: A collection of diagrams illustrating the fundamentals of molecular biology. |
| Enhancer: Wikipedia article on enhancers, short pieces of DNA which bind to trans-acting factors to enhance transcription levels of genes. |
| 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. |
| Epigenetic Station: With information, protocols and resources about epigenetics and DNA methylation and much advertising. |
| Epigenetics: Wikipedia article on processes that lead to inheritance that is not reflected in the sequences of the nuclear DNA. |
| Epigenetics: Article on the site of CellCentric on epigenetics. |
| 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. |
| European Sequencing of Tobacco: A collaboration between Advanced Technologies (Cambridge) Ltd and Tobacco Institute of Bergerac to sequence a large number of tobacco genes. |
| Exon: Wikipedia article on regions in genes that are expressed in mature mRNA and in proteins. |
| Expressed Sequence Tag: Wikipedia article: EST are short sub-sequences of genes, used in mRNA sequencing and in construction of DNA microarrays. |
| Gene Expression: Article in Wikipedia. |
| Gene Expression: Independent forum for discussion of gene expression. |
| Gene Expression: UCLA Molecular Biology Tutorials on gene expression and gene cloning |
| Gene Expression: Transcription: Resource for transcription events during gene formation including schematic diagrams. |
| Gene Regulation: Wikipedia article on the mechanisms that regulate gene expression. |
| Gene Regulatory Network: Wikipedia article on the mathematical modelling of gene expression as a network. |
| Genetic Code: Wikipedia article on the relationship between the nucleic acid base sequence and the corresponding polypeptide amino acid sequence. |
| 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. |
| Genomes to Life: The US Department of Energy at Oak Ridge program for research in moleular biology: goals and results. |
| Imprinting: Wikipedia article on the suppressing of genes by chemical modification, depending on which parent they were received from. |
| Induction of Repair Genes in Yeast: Mercier G., Denis Y., Marc P., Picard L. and Dutreix M.: Transcriptional induction of repair genes during slowing of replication in irradiated Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mutation Research 487 (dec 2001)157-172: article and supporting background data. |
| Intron: Wikipedia article on sections of genes that are eliminated by splicing in the formation of mature mRNA and therefore not expressed as proteins. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Messenger RNA: Wikipedia article on the RNA that carries information from DNA to protein synthesis. |
| Monocistronic: Wikipedia article: Messenger RNA that codes for one polypeptide string only. |
| Noncoding DNA: Wikipedia article: sections of DNA that do not contain codes for polypeptide sequences. |
| Operon: Wikipedia article: group of genes in primitive organisms that are controlled by one operator and one promoter to be activated together. |
| Posttranslational modification: Wikipedia article: chemical modification of polypeptide chains after synthesis. |
| Pre-mRNA: Wikipedia article: RNA string syntesized in the cell nucleus before modification (splicing, polyadenylation) and export to the cytoplasm. |
| Prokaryotic Genetics and Gene Expression: Chapter from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) introductory hypertextbook on molecular biology. |
| Promoter: Wikipedia article: in genetics a sequence located upstream of a gene that enables its translation. |
| Protein biosynthesis: Wikipedia article: summary of the process by which the cell converts the DNA sequence proteins. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| RNA Zone: Extensive catalog of links in genomics and proteomics. |
| Role of the Ribosome: Illustrated explanation of the ribosomal protein synthesis by Gwen V. Childs, University of Texas, Galveston, TX. |
| SECIS element: Wikipedia article: Sequence that directs translation of UGA as selenocysteine insteado of using it as a stop codon. |
| Serial Analysis of Gene Expression: Explanation of Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE), a method for analysis of gene expression patterns. |
| Shine-Dalgarno sequence: Wikipedia article: signals the initiation of protein synthesis in bacteria. |
| Signal peptide: Wikipedia article: short peptide sequences that direct the post-translational transport of proteins after synthesis. |
| Spliceosome: Wikipedia article: particle composed of DNA and peptide chains that effects mRNA splicing in the cell nucleus of eucaryotic cells. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Transcription: Wikipedia article: in genetics the process by which a DNA sequence is converted to a corresponding RNA sequence. |
| Transcription Factor: Proteins that specifically bind to promotor or enhancer regions on DNA and thereby control the transcription of the downstream gene. |
| Transfer RNA: Wikipedia article: small RNA molecules that transport amino acids to their positions on the ribosome during polypeptide synthesis. |
| 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. |
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