7.13 | Fall 2008 | Undergraduate

Experimental Microbial Genetics

Related Resources

Laub Lab Homepage

Newman Lab Homepage

PA14 Non-Redundant Transposon Insertion Mutant Library

More Information on PA14 Tn Mutant Library

Pseudomonas Genome Database

General Background on Pseudomonas aeruginosa

MIT Sequencing Facility

Expasy/Prosite 
Tools for the bioinformatic analysis of protein sequences and structures.

SMART 
Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool. Allows the identification and annotation of genetically mobile domains and the analysis of domain architectrues.

NCBI/BLAST 
NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information.

Vendor Web Sites

Students in the class ordered the supplies necessary for their labs from the following vendors:

VWR 
The first place to look for lab materials and supplies.

Sigma-Aldrich 
The first place to look for chemicals

Invitrogen 
Source for molecular biology material such as PCR reagents, DNA ladders, competent cells, etc.

New England Biolabs 
Source for molecular biology reagents, particularly restriction enzymes. Also has many useful tools like double digest finder and NEB cutter.

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