Computer search engine

Like applying for a library card, it is a good idea to gain access to an Internet facility or site, particularly if you don t have a computer or Internet access at home. Again, many public libraries and institutions will allow you to use the Internet and computers at no extra cost. This is also usually the case with imiver-sity libraries, especially if you explain that you are researching a topic and would like to use their Internet search engines for academic reasons. Later in the book, there will be a chapter on how to use the Internet and which sites provide what kind of information. For the moment, however, it is a good idea to find a... 

The next step will help you narrow down your topic even further and make it more specific. If you asked a librarian for information, or typed John F. Kennedy into a search engine on the Internet, either the librarian or the computer would pull up thousands of sources. Most likely, you don t have the time to sift through aU the pages and books that have been written about President John F. Kennedy. For that reason, you need to refine your search. Using the 5 W s as a guide, make yourself a chart and fill in all the information that you already know. For example, your chart might look like this ... 

The IMRD format, together with the finer organizational structure (moves) and language of the journal article, helps readers quickly locate the content that they seek. As a developing writer, it is important that you learn to present your content in these expected ways and places. As readers scan your paper, they should be able to quickly locate your topic, the nature of your work, the methods you used, and your conclusions. The use of keywords in your title and abstract and throughout the body of your paper is especially important. Because so many scientists now turn to computer-based technologies and search engines to find pertinent and current information, if you fail to use expected keywords, your work may be missed even if relevant. 

Much useful reading material about computational chemistry is available. Some self-help information can be found at various websites. These can be located with any of the common search engines (database retrieval systems) that are convenient for finding resources on the World Wide Web. Once an individual is connected to the Internet, the search engines are free. A particularly fast, up-to-date, and comprehensive search engine is at http //www.google.com/. Queries can be in the form of words or... 

SCSI (small computer system interface, pronounced skuzzy ) search engine security certificate serial communication serial port server servlet set up (verb) setup (noun)... 

There are several different clustered search engines available. A case in point is Clusty.corn s Vivisimo [38], The default setting of this engine is to search the recent literature. Repeated searches, say at monthly intervals, enables one to keep up with topics of interest. A recent (June 2006) clustered search on Computational Toxicology, the topic of this book, gave the results described in Table 1.1. 

TABLE 1.1 Results of a Clustered Search on Computational Toxicology as Divided by the Vivisimo Search Engine into Topic Clusters... 

Using the computer (Kevin manipulates the search engine to find a tutorial on making pic-tographs in Excel))... 

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. 

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