WebWise: Guide to the Stanford Human Genome Center and the Whitehead/MIT Genome Center Web Sites

This installment of the WebWise series reviews two web sites: (1) the Stanford Human Genome Center (SHGC;http://www-shgc.stanford.edu/), and (2) the Whitehead/MIT Genome Center (W/MIT; http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/). Although the overall organization and style of these two web sites are quite different, the centers share an important feature. Both sites make available a large amount of physical map data and supportive mapping-related resources. Although these data and resources are extremely valuable to the research community, the objective of this series is to highlight the data and resources pertaining to the sequencing effort; therefore the physical mapping component of these web sites will not be covered in detail here. When comparing these web sites to the site maps depicted in Figures 1 and 2 (below), you may notice that some of the internal physical map-related links have been omitted from the site. In addition, many duplicate and minor links have also been omitted from Figures 1 and 2. The main features of these web sites, as well as the features of those sites already reviewed, are indicated in Table1.