September, 2008--Around the Web
Dental health and oral biology dominated Kevin’s selections this month. As he put it “I am not sure which month is National Dental Health month but the first three selections here will make it seem like it now.” His first selection was the Human Oral Microbiome Database (www.homd.org) website which is hosted by Forsyth Institute and offers visitors (as its name suggests) information about genomes of common oral biology microorganisms. The Oralgen Databases (www.oralgen.lanl.gov) website offers similar information to that of Microbiome’s but places more emphasis on the genomes and biochemistry of oral bacterial pathogens. The third selection of the dental trilogy websites was BROP (www.brop.org) also hosted b y Forsyth, which is almost identical to Microbiome which prompted Kevin to suggest that BROP was probably a predecessor of Microbiome that was overlooked and not removed from the web.
Continuing with the genomics theme, Kevin reviewed the CMR Home Page (http://cmr.tigr.org) which is the latest rendition of the Institute of Genomic Research (TIGR) website. Shifting gears the National marrow donor program (www.nmdp.org) and the Moffitt Cancer Center’s angiogenesis and cancer control websites were also reviewed.
My favorite: was the Oralgen site mostly because I spent more than 30 years of my life studying bacterial pathogenesis.
Until next time…
Good Luck and Good Web Surfing!!!!!!
