- Planning your NCC courses
- Preparing Poster Presentations
- Applications and Résumés
- Doing Research
- Scholarships
- NCC Computer Resources
- Software
- Finding research articles
- Excel tutorials
- Bioinformatics
- Major requirements for Biology and Biochemistry
- Sample four-year plans and downloadable planning guides
- How to develop and print a poster at NCC
- Planning for a career in medicine or the health sciences
- Extensive suggestions for poster design
- Downloadable basic PowerPoint template
- Writing a clear and compelling c.v. (from Science)
- How to write a winning résumé
- Résumé writing: Mind the details!
- How to apply for off-campus research programs (REUs)
- Developing a c.v.: Good example
- Developing a c.v.: Bad example
- Responsible Conduct of Research training
- On Being a Scientist: professionalism and ethics in research
- Leadership Experience and Advancement Program in STEM (LEAPS) scholarships
- North Central College scholarships
- Microsoft Office 365: Word, Excel, PowerPoint free to students through NCC
- Irfan View: easy-to-use program for basic image viewing and editing
- ImageJ: NIH-maintained program for image analysis; many plugins available
- Fiji: Easy installation of ImageJ with the major plugins used in the life sciences
- Zotero reference manager: Collect references and easily create citations and references in lab reports
- Dr. Boaz's guide to using Zotero
- Zotero style file: Format citations and references in NCC Biology style
- Veusz: Scientific 2D and 3D plotting software
- North Central College catalog (official major requirements and course descriptions)
- Search for an NSF-sponsored summer research program
- North Central College's Chemical Hygiene plan
- PubMed: Database of research in biomedical areas
- Help with searching PubMed
- CardinalSearch at NCC's Osterele Library
- Biological Abstracts (log in with NCC credentials)
- Excel tutorial #1: Formulas, mean, and median
- Excel tutorial #2: Variance and standard deviation
- Excel tutorial #3: Standard error and confidence interval
- Excel tutorial #4: Scatter graphs and trendlines
- Box.com: NCC's cloud storage provider
- Online access to NCC e-mail (Outlook)
- Web-based printing to any NCC campus printer with PaperCut
- How to get Office 365 for your personal computer (free)
- North Central College Information Technology Services (ITS)
- Google Drive: Online spreadsheets and word processing with cloud storage
- GIMP: Image manipulation software similar in function to Photoshop
- BoxDrive software to access Box files from desktop
- FinchTV: DNA sequence trace viewer (for Mac)
- FinchTV: DNA sequence trace viewer (for PC)
- Search GenBank for nucleotide sequences
- MEGA: DNA and protein sequence analysis software
- Notepad++ text editor for PC
- BBEdit text editor for Mac
- Search GenBank for protein sequences
- BLAST sequence comparison
- NCBI Gene database: Integrated information for well-studied genes
- OMIM database: Human genes associated with disease
- PDB: Protein structure database
- NCBI Genome Data Viewer
- NCBI Structure database
- PubChem database of chemical structures and information
- PubMedCentral: Open-source articles from research funded by NIH grants
- The Commandments of Cover Letter-Writing
- Writing a Winning Cover Letter