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<Title> World-Wide Web Introduction for Biologists </Title>

<H1> WWW INTRODUCTION </H1>
<P>
<HR>
<P>
<H2> PART 15: Exploring the Web </H2>
<P>
This is the fifteenth part of a series of postings describing the concept
of the World-Wide Web and guiding anyone who is interested in obtaining and
setting up the software required to access the Web. Previous parts of this
introduction have been posted to the newsgroups
<A HREF = "news:bionet.software.www"> bionet.www.software </A> and
<A HREF = "news:unibas.seminars"> unibas.seminars </A>. Both an 
<A HREF = "http://www.ch.embnet.org/bio-www/archive/florianW3_1.html">
english </A> and a
<A HREF = "http://www.ch.embnet.org/bio-www/archive/florianW3_sp.html">
spanish </A> version, contributed by Pablo Liendo, Venezuela
can be accessed via the
<A HREF = "http://www.ch.embnet.org/bio-www/info.html">
archive </A> of the newsgroup bionet.www.software, a newsgroup/WWW server
maintained by <A HREF = "http://beta.embnet.unibas.ch/basel/reinhard.html"> 
Reinhard Doelz </A> and
<A HREF = "http://beta.embnet.unibas.ch/basel/chris.html">
Christopher Wadley.</A><P>

The Internet provides a vast array of information but there is no
easy way to access this information if you don't know where to search for it.
This document is intended to give you some starting points for an
exploration of resources currently available on the Web. <P>

Information about the Internet can be retrieved from the
<A HREF = "http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html"> InterNIC </A>
WWW server. Services that provide pointers to Internet resources of general
interest include the  World-Wide Web
<A HREF = "http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html">
Virtual Library </A>, the Internet
<A HREF = "http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/MetaIndex.html">
Resources Meta-Index </A>, <A HREF = "http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~jj9544/">
Joel's Hierachical Subject Index </A>, and the
<A HREF = "http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/start.html">
Nova-Links</A>. <P>  

A List of <A HREF = "http://golgi.harvard.edu/biopages.list"> WWW services
for biologists </A> is maintained by Keith Robinson at Harvard University.
BioServers including interactive interfaces to database search servers
can be accessed via
<A HREF = "http://www.cs.unc.edu/bioscan/biowww.html"> BioSCAN </A>.
Reinhard Doelz's <A HREF = "gopher://gopher.embnet.unibas.ch:70/">
European Biology
Gopher tree </A> and Don Gilbert's <A HREF = "gopher://ftp.bio.indiana.edu">
IUBio Archive </A> provide links to biology-specific gopher services.
<P>
Molecular Biologists might be interested in the information accessible via
the <A HREF = "http://www.gdb.org/hopkins.html">
Bioinformatics Web server </A> at Johns Hopkins University, 
the <A HREF = "http://expasy.hcuge.ch/">
ExPASy WWW server </A> in Geneva, and the WWW services of the  European
Molecular Biology Network,
<A HREF = "http://beta.embnet.unibas.ch/embnet/info.html"> EMBnet. </A>
A survey of <A HREF = "http://www.ai.sri.com/people/pkarp/mimbd/rsmith.html">
molecular biology databases </A> and servers is provided by Randall F. Smith.
Further biology relevant services including
<A HREF = "http://www.ch.embnet.org/teaching/biocomputing/oct94.html">
Biocomputing courses, </A> the
<A HREF = "http://www.ch.embnet.org/jam/jam.html">
Biocomputing Survival Guide </A> and an on-line version of the 
<A HREF = "http://www.ch.embnet.org/embnet.news/info.html"> EMBnet Newsletter 
</A> is available at the
WWW site of <A HREF = "http://beta.embnet.unibas.ch/">
EMBnet Switzerland </A>, maintained by Reinhard Doelz. Pointers to other 
<A HREF = "http://golgi.harvard.edu/journals.html"> on-line journals
and periodicals </A> in Biology and Medicine are provided by Keith Robinson.
<P>

<A HREF = "http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/guides.html"> Guides and
Tutorials </A> available on the Web include:
<UL>
<LI> A Biologist's Guide to Internet Resources by Una Smith
<UL>
<LI>  <A HREF = "file://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/biology/ecology+evolution/bioguide/bioguide.faq"> Version 1.7 </A>
<LI>  <A HREF = "file://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/biology/ecology+evolution/bioguide/bioguide.new"> Version 1.8 </A> 
</UL>
<LI> <A HREF = "file://192.87.45.1/earn/resource-tool-guide.txt">
Guide to Network Resource Tools </A> by the EARN Association
<LI> <A HREF = "file://ftp.rpi.edu/pub/communications/internet-tools.html">
John December's Internet Tools Summary </A>
<LI> World-Wide Web FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions):
<UL>
<LI> <A HREF = "http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/List.html">
Tim Berners-Lee's FAQ list </A>
<LI> <A HREF = "http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/www_faq.html">
Thomas Boutell's FAQ list </A>
</UL>
<LI> <A HREF = "http://tbone.biol.scarolina.edu/~dean2/kit/kit.html">
The DOS Internet Kit </A> by Dean Pentcheff <P>
</UL>
As the Web is expanding so rapidly, the articles found in the newsgroups
<A HREF = "news:bionet.announce"> bionet.announce </A>, 
<A HREF = "news:bionet.software.www"> bionet.software.www </A> and
<A HREF = "news:comp.infosystems.www.users"> comp.infosystems.www.users </A>
should be read to stay up do date.
<P>
<HR>
<P>
<ADDRESS>
<A HREF="http://beta.embnet.unibas.ch/basel/florian.html">
Florian Eggenberger </A> <P>
EMBnet Switzerland, Biozentrum, Basel University <P>
CH-4056 Basel, SWITZERLAND
</ADDRESS>
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