An attempt to collect a curated list of awesome learning resources, research papers, tools and other resources related to Biology. This is inspired from several such lists in programming community.
If you want to contribute to this list (please do), send a pull request, open an issue or contact through email. When sending suggestions please add a short blurb/description about each book that you have personally read/benefited from. Feel free to debate quality, headings, etc. irrespective of any particular field or subject area.
All the resources need not be freely available for download.
For Q&A type of resources that share excellent insight see here.
For a list of review research articles, see awesome-reviews.
- General Reading
- Introductory
- Biochemistry
- Biophysics
- Bioprocess Engineering
- Evolution
- Molecular Biology
- Neuroscience
- Physical Biology
- Immunology
- Genetics
- Omics & Sequencing
- Systems Biology and Genetic Networks
- Bioinformatics
- Structural Biology | Proteins
- Statistics | Data munging
- Laboratory Manuals
- Blogs/Links
- Tools
- Journals
- MOOCs
- Competitions
Books written in popular science style yet sufficiently technical in appropriate cases to provide you an interesting tour of all big and small process in universe and its biology. (Unordered list)
- The Epic History of Biology by Serafini
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- What is Life by Erwin Schrodinger (Public Domain)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
- The Richness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
- Power, Sex and Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life by Nick Lane
- Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Eighth Day of Creation by H. F. Judson
- The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris
- The Equation That Couldn't be Solved by Mario Livio
- The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio
- The Complexity Paradox by Kenneth Mossman
- The Vital Question by Nick Lane
- On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thomsom
- The Big Questions: Evolution by Francisco Ayala
- The Making of a Fly by Peter Lawrence
- Molecular Machines in Biology by Joachim Frank
- Cell Motility from Molecules to Organisms by Ridley and Peckham
- Random Walks in Biology by Howard Berg
- Elephants on Acids and Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Evolving Ourselves: Redesigning the Future of Humanity--One Gene at a Time
- Ancestors in Our Genome by Eugene E. Harris
- Campbell Biology
- Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple
- The Biology of Cancer by Weinberg
- The Deeper Genome by John Parrington
- The Developing Genome: An Introduction to Behavioral Epigenetics by Davis S. Moore
- The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
- Scitable by Nature Education