Links
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| Evoldir
| Newsgroup on evolutionary biology, including announcement of conferences and job offers
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| ESEB
| Homepage of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology
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| SMBE
| Homepage of the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution
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| SSE
| Society for the Study of Evolution
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| SG Evolbio
| Studiengruppe Evolutionsbiologie der DZG
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| GfBS
| Gesellschaft für biologische Systematik
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| Tree of Life
| Tree of Life Homepage; multi-authored internet project on biodiversity and phylogeny
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| EvoTutor
| Online resource for interactive simulations of evolutionary processes
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| Darwin
| The complete work of Charles Darwin online
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| EvoBio
| Portal for Evolutionary Biology in Germany
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| Biological Dictionary
| Dictionary of Biology; only accessible from within the university
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| Leo
| English-German Dictionary by the University of Munich
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| Leo (french)
| French-German Dictionary by the University of Munich
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National
If you want the latest on positions in evolutionary biology in Germany (mainly for Ph.D. and postdocs) ask , University of Trier, to put you on the mailing list of the Studiengruppe Evolutionsbiologie of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft. Most positions in Germany in this field are posted on this list.
International
If you are looking for an international job in evolutionary biology (spanning all biological disciplines) check the biggest Email director in evolutionary biology: http://life.biology.mcmaster.ca/~brian/evoldir.html. Whether you are looking for a postdoc or postgraduate position, courses, permanent and tenure-track faculty positions, it's all there.
Webpages with information on jobs in biology
Important organisations
| DFG
| German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft)
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| DAAD
| German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Auslandsdienst)
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| BMBF
| Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung)
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| EU 1
| EU-funding, German link
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| Cordis (EU 2)
| EU-funding, main link, in German
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| Cordis (EU 3)
| EU-funding, main link, in English
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| VW
| Volkswagen-Foundation
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| Bifonds
| Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
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| Stifterverband
| Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft (Association for German Science Foundations, including information on the Gottlieb-Daimler-und-Karl-Benz-Stiftung)
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| AvH
| Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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| Studienstiftung
| Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Merit Foundation)
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| FES
| Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
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| BOELL
| Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
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| FNST
| Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung
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| KAS
| Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
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Molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis
| PAUPSTAR
| Paup* (written by David Swofford), one of the most sophisticated software packages for the inference of evolutionary trees
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| PHYLIP
| Program package PHYLIP by John Felsenstein; the site also includes a detailed list of links to other phylogenetic analysis programs
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| Z Yang
| Homepage of Ziheng Yang, author of the Sequence analysis program PAML; link to PAML-Homepage is included
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| Goldman group
| Homepage of of the Biological Sequence Analysis Group of Nick Goldman, including links to a variety of methods used in the analysis of molecular data (e.g. program PASSML)
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| EvolBio Oxford
| Homepage of the Evolutionary Biology Group from Oxford University, including links to various programs for the analysis of molecular evolution (e.g. PLATO, CAIC, SeqGen, TipDate, Genie)
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| Hyphy
| Program for comprehensive analysis of sequence evolution by Sergei Kosakovsky, Spencer Muse, Simon Frost, and Art Poon
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| Huelsenbeck
| Homepage of John Huelsenbeck's group, including software such as MrBayes, Codonbootstrap, Siminator
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| MEP
| Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics ? Page by Masatoshi Nei, Sudhir Kumar, and co-workers, including links to phylogenetic analysis programs such as MEGA or LINTREE
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| R Page
| Homepage of Rod Page, author of various programs, highly useful in molecular phylogenetics (e.g. TreeView, Component, TreeMap)
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| PHYML
| Fast program for the inference of phylogenetic trees from DNA and protein sequences using maximum likelihood, written by Stéphane Guindon and Olivier Gascuel
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| PUZZLE
| The PUZZLE - phylogenetic analysis program, developed by Korbinian Strimmer and Arndt von Haeseler
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| Modeltest
| Program by David Posada and Keith Crandall that aids in the comparison of different substitution models using likelihood ratio tests
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| ProtTest
| Program by David Posada et al. that helps to identify the optimal substitution model for protein sequences
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| Genetics software Forum
| A Forum for Questions and Answers Regarding Genetic Analysis Software, hosted by Bruce Rannala
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| DAMBE
| Data Analysis in Molecular Biology and Evolution, a multi-purpose program by Xuhua Xia
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Molecular evolution and population genetic analysis
| IBDWS
| Isolation by distance Web service (Mantel test for codominant markers or DNA sequence data)
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| LAMARCK
| The LAMARCK program package, containing maximum likelihood methods for population genetic analysis of DNA sequences (e.g. Migrate, Fluctuate)
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| Arlequin
| Arlequin, program for population genetic analysis of molecular data
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| MSA
| Microsatellite analyser; program by Daniel Dieringer and Christian Schlötterer
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| DNASP
| DNASP, program for population genetic analysis of molecular data
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| Cervus
| Program by Tristan Marchall for the analysis of microsatellite data
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| PopGene
| Program by Francis Yeh for population genetic analysis
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| network
| Phylogenetic network analysis program by Arne Röhl
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Sequence alignment and editing
| BioEdit
| Useful program for Sequence Editing
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| T-Coffee
| Efficient DNA and protein sequence alignment program
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| ClustalW
| DNA sequence alignment program, run by EBI (EMBL)
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Molecular data bases and resources
| EBI
| European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL outstation), including databases for DNA and protein sequences, and also software for the analysis of molecular data
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| SRS
| Direct link to the databases of EMBL (DNA, Protein, etc.), including database search machine
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| WU-Blast2
| Blast sequence similarity search machine of EMBL data base
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| Webin
| Submission of DNA sequence data to EMBL database
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| rRNA Server
| Comprehensive database on ribosomal RNA gene sequences
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| BiBiServ
| Bielefeld University Bioinformatics Server with links to various molecular data analysis programs (e.g. SplitsTree)
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| BioWeb Pasteur
| Server of the Institut Pasteur; France, with on-line programs for molecular data analysis
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| ncbi
| National Center for Biotechnology Information; American site including access to genbank and PubMed
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| ncbi-search
| NCBI page for sequence search
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| ncbi-blast
| NCBI page for BLAST search
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| methds-reagnts
| Newsgroup on molecular methods
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| Molbio-evolution
| Newsgroup on molecular evolution, phylogenetic and population genetic analysis
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| Microsatellites
| Introduction into microsatellite analysis, written by Brent Murray
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