3'UTR
   Wikipedia article on the untranslated regions at the ends of mRNA.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%27_UTR

6th International Summer School "Biocomplexity from System to Gene"
   Summaries and reports from a summer school in Istambul, Turkey July 2007.
   http://www.fulton.asu.edu/%7ebioc2007/

Alternative Splicing
   Wikipedia article on the process in eukaryotes in which the splicing process of a pre-mRNA can lead to different ripe mRNA molecules and therefore to different proteins.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_splicing

Anatomy of a Comparative Gene Expression Study
   Clear explanation of the process of comparing the gene expression in two cell populations or tissue samples by fluorescent microarray technique.
   http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~jbuhler/research/array/

Biochemistry of Nucleic Acids
   Lecture notes on nucleic acid structure, DNA replication and repair, the genetic code and translation, as well as cancer genes, from Oregon State University, USA 2003.
   http://oregonstate.edu/instruction/bb492/general/schedule.html

Control of Gene Expression
   A collection of diagrams illustrating the fundamentals of molecular biology.
   http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/ecb/gene_expression.html

Enhancer
   Wikipedia article on enhancers, short pieces of DNA which bind to trans-acting factors to enhance transcription levels of genes.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhancer

Epigenetic Station
   With information, protocols and resources about epigenetics and DNA methylation and much advertising.
   http://www.epigeneticstation.com

Epigenetic inheritance
   Transmission of information from a cell or multicellular organism to its descendants without that information being encoded in the nucleotide sequence of the gene. Wikipedia article.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetic_inheritance

Epigenetics
   Article on the site of CellCentric on epigenetics.
   http://www.cellcentric.co.uk/epigenetics.htm

Epigenetics Research
   News, jobs, recent literature, lab registry and an ontologically driven database that is updated daily.
   http://www.epidna.com

Eukaryotic Gene Expression Problem Set
   Multiple choice questions about post-transcriptional modification of RNA, promoters, and nuclear RNA processing. From: University of Arizona, USA 1997.
   http://www.biology.arizona.edu/molecular_bio/problem_sets/mol_genetics_of_eukaryotes/eukaryotes.html

European Sequencing of Tobacco
   A collaboration between Advanced Technologies (Cambridge) Ltd and Tobacco Institute of Bergerac to sequence a large number of tobacco genes.
   http://www.estobacco.info

Exon
   Wikipedia article on regions in genes that are expressed in mature mRNA and in proteins.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exon

Expressed Sequence Tag
   Wikipedia article: EST are short sub-sequences of genes, used in mRNA sequencing and in construction of DNA microarrays.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressed_sequence_tag

Gene Expression
   Independent forum for discussion of gene expression.
   http://www.gnxp.com

Gene Expression: Transcription
   Resource for transcription events during gene formation including schematic diagrams.
   http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/T/Transcription.html

Gene Regulation
   Wikipedia article on the mechanisms that regulate gene expression.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_regulation

Gene Regulatory Network
   Wikipedia article on the mathematical modelling of gene expression as a network.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_regulatory_network

Genetic Code
   Wikipedia article on the relationship between the nucleic acid base sequence and the corresponding polypeptide amino acid sequence.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code

Genome-Wide Expression
   Report on a project to analyze the transcriptional regulatory circuitry of the yeast cell. From the Young Lab at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
   http://web.wi.mit.edu/young/expression/home.html

Genomes to Life
   The US Department of Energy at Oak Ridge program for research in moleular biology: goals and results.
   http://doegenomestolife.org/

Imprinting
   Wikipedia article on the suppressing of genes by chemical modification, depending on which parent they were received from.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_%28genetics%29

Intron
   Wikipedia article on sections of genes that are eliminated by splicing in the formation of mature mRNA and therefore not expressed as proteins.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intron

Laboratory of Intelligent Systems
   Project at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) creating electronic models of the evolution of gene expression, neural development and similar evolution processes.
   http://lis.epfl.ch

Mammary Genome Anatomy Project
   Forum to integrate various aspects of mammary gland biology, including cellular and developmental aspects, and to promote collaborations and the exchange of ideas, knowledge and resources at NIH, Maryland.
   http://mammary.nih.gov/

Messenger RNA
   Wikipedia article on the RNA that carries information from DNA to protein synthesis.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_RNA

Monocistronic
   Wikipedia article: Messenger RNA that codes for one polypeptide string only.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocistronic

Noncoding DNA
   Wikipedia article: sections of DNA that do not contain codes for polypeptide sequences.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noncoding_DNA

Operon
   Wikipedia article: group of genes in primitive organisms that are controlled by one operator and one promoter to be activated together.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operon

Posttranslational modification
   Wikipedia article: chemical modification of polypeptide chains after synthesis.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttranslational_modification

Pre-mRNA
   Wikipedia article: RNA string syntesized in the cell nucleus before modification (splicing, polyadenylation) and export to the cytoplasm.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-mRNA

Promoter
   Wikipedia article: in genetics a sequence located upstream of a gene that enables its translation.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promoter

Protein biosynthesis
   Wikipedia article: summary of the process by which the cell converts the DNA sequence proteins.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_biosynthesis

Regulation of Gene Expression
   Overview of different aspects of gene expression, including transcription, chromatin modification, and analysis of whole genomes, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass, USA.
   http://web.wi.mit.edu/young/pub/regulation.html

Reportergene
   Information and news related to reporter genes, that are used to monitor activation of genes and groups of genes that are otherwise difficult to follow.
   http://reportergene.blogspot.com/

RiboWeb Project
   Knowledge base that combines data on the structure of the prokaryotic 30S ribosomal subunit that initiates the translation of mRNA into protein, its function and related links and references.
   http://helix-web.stanford.edu/ribo3dmodels/index.html

Ribosomes
   Explanation of how the information encoded in mRNA is translated into a polypeptide. Includes differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes by John W. Kimball, now retired from Harvard College.
   http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/R/Ribosomes.html

Role of the Ribosome
   Illustrated explanation of the ribosomal protein synthesis by Gwen V. Childs, University of Texas, Galveston, TX.
   http://cellbio.utmb.edu/cellbio/ribosome.htm

SECIS element
   Wikipedia article: Sequence that directs translation of UGA as selenocysteine insteado of using it as a stop codon.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECIS_element

Serial Analysis of Gene Expression
   Explanation of Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE), a method for analysis of gene expression patterns.
   http://www.sagenet.org/

Shine-Dalgarno sequence
   Wikipedia article: signals the initiation of protein synthesis in bacteria.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine-Dalgarno_sequence

Signal peptide
   Wikipedia article: short peptide sequences that direct the post-translational transport of proteins after synthesis.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_peptide

Spliceosome
   Wikipedia article: particle composed of DNA and peptide chains that effects mRNA splicing in the cell nucleus of eucaryotic cells.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spliceosome

Splicing
   Wikipedia article: in genetics, the process of removing introns from mRNA in the cell nucleus before export to the cytoplasm and use as master for protein synthesis.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splicing_%28genetics%29

The Epigenome Network of Excellence
   Network of research groups on heritable changes in gene expression without a change in DNA sequence, funded by the European Union.
   http://www.epigenome-noe.net/

Transcription
   Wikipedia article: in genetics the process by which a DNA sequence is converted to a corresponding RNA sequence.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_%28genetics%29

Transcription Factor
   Proteins that specifically bind to promotor or enhancer regions on DNA and thereby control the transcription of the downstream gene.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_factor

Transfer RNA
   Wikipedia article: small RNA molecules that transport amino acids to their positions on the ribosome during polypeptide synthesis.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_RNA

Translation
   Wikipedia article: in genetics, the process by which ribosomes in the cytoplasm transfer the genetic code from a m-RNA sequence to an amino acid sequence in a polypeptide chain.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_%28genetics%29