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  • Agricultural Genome Information Server is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Agricultural Research Service and the National Agricultural Library. This server lets you browse and search the National Genetic Resources Program genome databases, AGRICOLA, and related biological information.
  • Human Genome Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Department of Energy-funded research program in large-scale production of DNA sequence from fruitfly (Drosophila) and human.
  • Univeristy of Missouri - Maize Genome Database USDA/National Agricultural Library(NAL) sponsored maize genome Sybase data base, located and curated at the Univeristy of Missouri, Columbia, MO.

Santa Barbara

Discover the city of Santa Barbara, California, the birthplace of Earth Day. A 1969 oil platform blowout off the coast of Santa Barbara led to a wave of environmental laws nationwide. That gave impetus to what we consider now the cornerstones to the modern environmental movement. A year later, the first Earth Day was held followed by the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. A succession of other laws protecting water, marine life and endangered species followed.