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Aathavan's page

Hi... Welcome to my home page. I'm Aathavan, a PhD student in the Biophysics program at the University of California Berkeley. This page is mostly a bunch of links that I use frequently... but you may well find something of interest to you in here.. so feel free to browse on

If you for whatever reason you want to contact me, email: aathavan@ocf.berkeley.edu

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Academics

The Bustamante Lab home page (where I work)
Biophysics at Berkeley
University of California- Berkeley
Bear Link
Search the Berkeley Library through GLADIS
BioSciences Library Electronic Journals
Physics Library Electronic Journals
Chemistry Library Electronic Journals
Search Pubmed
Search JSTOR
Search Web of Science
MCB290- Molecular motors course web site

Work Related

Phages
All virology links on the WWW
Viral Diseases (kcom.edu)
Viral Diseases (Karolinska Inst)
Rossmann Group, Purdue
Dwight Anderson, U Minnesota
Restriction Enzyme Analysis
Restriction Mapping
OLIGO-ANALYZER
Biopolymer Calculator
Constructing your own Dual Beam Optical Trap
Bay Area RNA Club
Expert Protein Analysis System

Science Links

Yeast Genetics
Project Guttenberg
Physics hypertextbook
Biology Hypertextbook (MIT)
Biophysics Text Online
Kauffmann on Complexity and Self Organisation
Virial Theorem made easy
Introduction to Optical Tweezers
WLC model
Mathmoments - in nature
Do Integrations
Quickmath
NSF (National Science Foundation)
Biophysics links on the WWW

Dictionaries Online

Yourdictionary.com (many languages)
Merriam Webster - English
UK French-English Dictionary (awesome!)
Hachette - French-French
Alta Vista's Babel Fish (Tis as good as the one in HHGTG!)

News

Samachar - the one stop news stand for all Indian News
The Hindu (the only non-sensationalist newspaper from India)
NY Times
BBC
CNN
Al Jazeera
Le Monde
Berkeley Science Review
The Daily Californian

Outdoors

CHAOS, Berkeley
Cal cycling- rides around berkeley
Topozone
Thomas Driemeyer's biking page
Adventure Cycling
Care-E: SF to LA bike ride
John Leo's bicycling page
Mike Vermeulen's bicycling page
Crazy guy on bike - great touring resource page
FelixWong's ultra-marathon bicycling page!
Jan Ullrich

Travel

GreyHound
Amtrak
Travel Agents in the SF Bay Area
Hop on Bus (Traveling by bus in California)
International Students Tavel Consortium

Buy Books + others on Net

Amazon
FNAC (France)
Half.com
Bestbookbuys.com
Fabmart, India
Craigslist (bay area)
BIGZOO (telephone) numbers

Tamizh links

Project- Madurai : Tamizh literature online
Tamizh Computing Group - tamizh fonts
Murasu anjal Tamil fonts
Sujatha stories

Weather

World Time Server
Chennai weather
Kanniyakumari weather
Chitrakoot (Satna) weather
Tamil Calendar

History

History.com
Indo-China war, 1962
Indo-Pak War, 1971

...trail

National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
Jayant Udgaonkar's Protein Folding Group
Anna University, India (my undergrad instituition)
Centre for Biotechnolgy, Anna Univ
Wurstbatch (my buddies from undergrad)
Vana Vani on Alumni.net

Friends

Wurstbatch (my buddies from undergrad)
Venkatanand's home page
Java's home page
Vasant's home Page
Arvind's home page
Wurstbatch photos
Kaka - Saravanamoorthy's page
Tony (in the Koelle Lab, Yale)
Krishna (at the Karlstorm lab), UMass Amherst
Sunil Laxman at seattle

Generally Useful

World Telephone Directory (ringthem.com)
India Country Facts (About.com)

Fun Stuff

Piled higher and Deeper (PhD) Comic Strip
Pirate Flags
Pirate Image Archive
War Flags

Music

Music India Online... All the Indian Music you would want to know.
Catnatic music - Sangeetham
Parikrama (a great Indian Rock Band) and the Indian Rock scene)
PearlJam (a great band and have never seen a cooler home page!)

Movies

my collection of movies
SUPERB
The Princess Bride (script)
Media Resources Centre, Berkeley
Movies in Berkeley and neighbourhood
The Internet movie database
PAcific Film Archive, Berkeley

More weblinks

Some Poems

Personal library

Campanille, click for more The Campanille with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background