Surfing the Internet: World Wide Web Resources for Parasitologists

Prof. Dr. Werner Kunz, Prof. Dr. Heinz Mehlhorn, Prof. Dr. Frank Wunderlich

The Internet, particularly the World Wide Web (WWW), became increasingly important for scientists during the past few years. It provides a forum for interactive communication and allows the transfer of data and programs among your own PC and the network users worldwide. WWW even enables the display and transfer of images in the net. A growing multitude of bioinformation is offered worldwide. More and more this concerns parasitologists, tropical medicine doctors or veterinarians.

The Internet yields the following information relevant for parasitologists:

parasite-specific research groups and scientific societies,
other specific institutions and addresses,
parasite-related Internet-newsgroups,
scientific journals for parasitologists,
sequence databases and codon usage tables,
parasite genome projects,
figure-archives of parasites,
phylogeny of parasites,
frozen tissue collection survey,
vaccine programs and actual disease information,
detailed information on malaria, schistosomes, trypanosomes and nematodes.

The following four servers contain comprehensive information about these topics and enable the reader to go to the sites of his interest:

Parasitology in Düsseldorf: http://www.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/WWW/MathNat/Parasitology/

American Society of Parasitology: http://www-museum.unl.edu/asp

World Health Organization: http://www.who.ch/

Pasteur Institute Paris: http://www.pasteur.fr/Bio/parasito/Parasites.html

Peter Schüßler, Dr. Christoph G. Grevelding, Prof. Dr. Werner Kunz

Genetic Parasitology, Institute for Genetics of the University, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany, Tel. and FAX: (49)211 81 12333, E-Mail: Werner.Kunz@uni-duesseldorf.de