Environmental Science

This course uses the basic principles of biology and earth science as a context for understanding environmental policies and resource management practices.

This open textbook covers the most salient environmental issues, from a biological perspective. The text is designed for an introductory-level college science course. Topics include the fundamentals of ecology, biodiversity, pollution, climate change, food production, and human population growth.

This open online textbook on Environmental Toxicology aims at covering the field in its full width, including aspects of environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, toxicology and risk assessment.

The Dryad Digital Repository is a curated resource that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of data types.

The International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) is a long-standing foundational initiative that operates between DDBJ, EMBL-EBI and NCBI.
INSDC covers the spectrum of data raw reads, through alignments and assemblies to functional annotation, enriched with contextual information relating to samples and experimental configurations.

EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) maintains the world’s most comprehensive range of freely available and up-to-date molecular data resources.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.

The Genome Sequence Archive (GSA) is a data repository for collecting, archiving, managing and sharing raw sequence data, which is the first repository of the genome sequence data with international journal recognition in China.

Expasy is the bioinformatics resource portal of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. It is an extensible and integrative portal which provides access to over 160 databases and software tools, developed by SIB Groups and supporting a range of life science and clinical research domains, from genomics, proteomics and structural biology, to evolution and phylogeny, systems biology and medical chemistry.

The journal, Nucleic Acids Research, annual database summary with 1512 databases organized into 15 categories, including: human genes and diseases, protein sequences and immunology.

PLOS Biology requires article authors to make their research data available in open repositories. These links are recommended by PLOS Biology for authors who seek publication in their journal.