38 WWW resources Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man Is where you ought to start whenever you're curious about an inheritable disease.  This is a site maintained by Victor McKusick, and it has descriptions and links to all the important papers and resources.     BLAST is a fundamental tool for taking your sequence and comparing it with all the other sequences in the world.  The really weird part is that it works, and it works really fast!  This is probably the most important tool you will learn about in molecular biology.  Give it a try. There are excellent tutorials available at this site.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~pedro/research_tools.html  is the link to Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools page.  This is a classic page, one that contains useful links to all sorts of molecular biology software and resources.  Can't find it?  Start here. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories is a fantastic place in many regards.  They have lots of information at their site about summer programs for students and teachers alike.  They also have useful educational links and tools:  http://www.cshl.edu/ http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/mcclean/plsc431/linkage/linkage6.htm Expasy http://us.expasy.org/tools/ has a well organized, superb set of pointers to useful analysis packages that are available over the web.