Essential Resources

• BioBIKE portal
  
• Alternate routes to CyanoBIKE instances: biobike, wireless, nostoc, biobike-aux (maybe)
  
• Alternate routes to ViroBIKE instances: biobike, wireless
  
• Viral Global Metagenome Project - Web site for the community of virobiologists
  
• BioBIKE meeting rooms - Use it to meet others in the class or in the project
          Click "Presenter Login" if you have a VCU
          Click "Participant Login" if you don't
  

Other Useful Resources

• Abbreviations
  List of nucleotide, amino acid abbreviations, and genetic code
• Bioinformatics resources on web
  Annotated list of web-based programs for analyzing DNA and protein sequences
• Chi-squared calculator (courtesy of John Walker, Fourmilab)
  Chi-square test probability calculator
• Chi-squared table (courtesy of Alexei Sharov, Virginia Tech)
  Interpret Chi-square values for a given level of significance
• T-Test calculator (courtesy of Daniel Soper)
  T-Test probability calculator and explanation
• GeneMark
  Predict open reading frames in DNA sequences
• Genetic code
  Useful on line reference to recall code, types of amino acids, and their abbreviations
• ICTVdB
  International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses Database: Descriptions of taxa, pictures
• NCBI
  National Center for Biotechnology Information: Home of Blast, Entrez, much else
• t-test probability calculator
  You provide score from t-test and degrees of freedom, it returns probability of score arising if both samples were taken from the same population.