Biological research
I. Free Academic Writing Tools and Research Software
1.1. Writing Tools and Software
Scispace - Your AI research assistant for discovering and analyzing scientific literature.
1.2. Referencing Tools and Reference Management Software
Zotero - a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials, such as PDF files
1.3. Research Tools and Softwares
ImageJ - Calculate area and pixel value statistics of user-defined selections and intensity-thresholded objects
1.4. Grammar Checkers and Sentence Correction Tools
한국어맞춤법 (Korean grammar) - Check the grammar in Korean
Wiley Editing Services - Language Checker tool uses advanced algorithms to provide a language quality score, recommend the best service to get your manuscript ready for submission and improve the likelihood of acceptance.
1.5. Graphic Tools
Photoscape- photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.
Inkscape - Free and open source vector graphics editor.
GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Photo Pos Pro - Photo Pos Pro 4 (Power of Software) - Photo editing software.
1.6. Presentation Tools
Chemix - a free online editor for drawing science lab diagrams and school experiment apparatus.
Scidraw - an open repository of science drawings
Biorender - Scientific Image and Illustration Software.
FigureLabs - AI-powered scientific illustration tool .
Canva - a free-to-use online graphic design tool.
Freepik - an image bank website
Pixabay - a free stock photography and royalty-free stock media website.
1.7. Guide for programs
LovephD- one stop guide for all research needs.
II. Bioinformatics Platform
Galaxy - photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.
III. Analysis program
PhyloSuite - an integrated and scalable desktop platform for streamlined molecular sequence data management and evolutionary phylogenetics studies
Jamovi - a free and open-source computer program for data analysis and performing statistical tests. (Korean teaching bulletin 1, 2)
Real Statistics using Excel - a practical guide for how to do statistical analysis in Excel plus free statistics software. This software package extends Excel’s built-in statistical capabilities.
VectorBee - a standalone software that helps researchers easily design and visualize DNA vectors for cloning and genetic engineering.
IV. Database
Plants of the World Online - an international collaborative programme that has as a primary aim to make available digitized data of the world’s flora
V. AI programs
5.1. Chatbot
ChatGPT- A sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response
Perplexity- Perplexity is like ChatGPT and Google combined. When you have a question, ask Perplexity and it will search the internet and write you a quick answer with cited sources.
Elicit- Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses machine learning to help automate research workflows. It can find relevant papers without needing exact keyword matches and extract key information from them.
Consensus- Consensus is an AI-powered search engine that finds and summarizes scientific research papers.
Claude - Claude is a next-generation AI assistant based on Anthropic's research into training helpful, honest, and harmless AI systems (Long pharagraphs).
AI wrtn - Rebuilding human writing and redesign human thinking Research activity, CV, Essay and so on
5.2. Graphic Tools
Seed and DNA stock center
Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center
Eurasian Arabidopsis Stock Centre
Riken Experimental Plant Division
IJPB - INRAE - Versailles-Grignon
Physiology and phenome
Natural variation/SNP/Alleles/Variants
Genomics
Proteomics
AlphaFold Protein Structure Database
Functional Analysis Tools for Post-Translational Modifications(FAT-PTM)
P3DB (Plant Protein Phosphorylation DataBase)
Gene Families
Epigenomics
Danforth Center Small RNA/PARE/Methylation
Expression/Localization
Eukaryotic Promoter Database (EPD)
The Subcellular Location of Proteins in Arabidopsis Database (SUBA)
TraVA:Transcription Variation Analysis
Gene Families
Genomics
Interactions
IntAct (Protein Interaction Database at EBI)
Other
Polymorphisms/Alleles/Variants
Proteomics
Reagents
RIKEN BioResource Research Center (Seed/DNA)
Seed and DNA stock center
Korea Bio-resource Information System (KOBIS, 국가생명연구자원통합정보시스템)
- Biological resources
Korea National Research Resource Center (연구소재중앙센터) - old
- Portal
- specimen, tissue, DNA, natural product, seed, culture
- Search (검색)
Plant Extract (한국식물추출물은행)
- 5485 native plants, 800 herbal samples (Ethanol, Methanol, Water extract)
- HPLC analysis service & Mass analysis
Korea Bioactive Natural Material Banks (생리활성물질자원은행)
- 403 samples
The National Forest Seed and Variety Center (국립산림품종관리센터 산림청)
- 3200 seeds, ~100000 leaf tissue, 128000 DNA
Warm Temperate and Subtropical Forest Research Center (국립산림과학원 난대아열대산림연구소, 임은영, 제주 시료 등록)
Plant DNA Bank in Korea (한국식물 DNA 은행)
- 2,950 domestic species and many foreign species
Medicinal Herb Garden, SNU (서울대학교 약학대학 약초원)
Plant Virus GenBank (식물바이러스은행)
- 2739 virus
Natural Agrobiodiversity Center (농업진흥청 농산물안정성부;씨앗 은행) -농업자원
- Seed and DNA
Korean Collection of Type Cultures (생물자원센터)
- DNA, Bacteria, Yeast