What www sites have useful genetic-linkage information?
• http://www.genethon.fr the genethon center • http://www.chlc.org the Cooperative human linkage center • http://www.gdb.org/hopkins.html has a molecular genetics primer • http:gdbwww.gdb.org has a very useful but restricted version of GDB available. It may also be possible to access OMIM without an account here–but I haven’t tried it out. • “http://www.ai.sri.com/people/pkarp/mimbd/rsmith.html/ has the Survey of Molecular Biology Databases and Servers • http://mendel.berkeley.edu/dog.html is the home of the dog genome project. • http://www.pathology.washington.edu has human and mouse standard idiograms.The idiograms are useful for making illustrations for gene mapping, i.e. physical, and for constructing abnormal chromosome illustrations, like translocations, deletions, etc. The PostScript versions produce high quality output – can be sent to lino for publication figures. The PostScript idiograms can be manipulated band-by-band with illustration software such as Adobe Illustrator, Al
