I downloaded the Molecular Biologist’s Toolbar for Firefox from Bitesize Bio today, and I’m quite pleased with it so far. It’s nice to have an email notifier for both of my email accounts (with automatic log-in), and I have quick access to various web-based tools that I use quite often (especially sequence related tools like primer design and reverse complement). I hadn’t known that there were tools for “cleaning up” DNA sequence (basically, removing numbers and spaces), which is enormously useful and saves me the trouble of writing code for it myself.

Bitesize Bio also had a post up on biology-related iPhone applications. I don’t have an iPhone, but I do own a Mac, which is why I found this post on Free Mac Software for Molecular Biologists to be useful. I already use Papers and Geneious (albeit in its Linux form), but I’m interested in trying out Mekentosj’s other programs, especially Lab Assistant.

Your Lab Data has a nice set of iGoogle gadgets that I currently use. They include Primer3, restriction enzyme site finders, melting temperature calculator, etc.