Biological sciences, Internet

The Internet has become the major information resources for biological sciences (Duscart, 2002). One of the most valuable web resources for scientific literatures is PubMed (www.ncbi.nhn.nih.gov/PubMed/), which is accessible from Entrez at http //www.ncbi.nhn.nih.gov/entrez. PubMed is provided by the National Library of Medicine, which is part of the National Institute of Health (NIH). Mauy well-regarded journals in biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology and related fields as well as clinical publications of interest to medical professionals are indexed in PubMed. The resource can be searched by a keyword entry with the Boolean operators (AND, OR and NOT). Users can specify which database fields to check for each search term. The Preview/Index menu allows the user to build a detailed query interactively. The clipboard allows the user to collect and save individual search results. 

Nature Publishing Group. Encyclopedia of life sciences, http //www.els.net [an Internet encyclopedia with up-to-date overview articles in every field of biochemistry and cell biology]. 

Until now much of this information could only be garnered from books two decades old and Internet searches convoluted by uncertain nomenclature. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Compendium may not provide all the answers, but researchers will find it to be a valuable tool that will save them much time, as well as provide them with essential links to the roots of their science. 

As computer science and molecular biology merge in the new field of bioinformatics, the use of pattern expression syntax like regular expressions has been introduced to the life scientists. They see it in databases like PROSITE. They also see it in the Internet search engines like Google. 

Other abstract sources include various conference abstracts available on the Internet, such as the American Association of Cancer Research [8], the premier Biosis [9], and EMBASE [10] abstract collections. There is significant overlap between the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Biosis abstract collections. MEDLINE is focused more on medical journals, including biology journals that support medical research. EMBASE is also focused on medical research but includes more conference abstracts and European journals. Biosis is more focused on basic life sciences. 

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