Databases Centre

CCDC—Cambridge Crystallographic Database Centre, http //www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/. 

CCDC—Cambridge Crystallographic Database Centre, Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) version 5.29 updates (January 2008), http //www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/. 

Sampled scan data would be a benefit when it comes to certification of new inspectors or re-certification of existing staff. A large database of scans could be compiled and used randomly at test centres, which would help to avoid the samples becoming too familiar. Examinations could also be more easily tailored to the probes, types of materials and types of defects the inspector is likely to see. 

Pegistry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington, D.C., Issue 95-1, Eeb. 1995 CD-ROM U.S. database provided by Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, Ottawa. 

The CESARS database contains comprehensive environmental and health information on chemicals. It provides detailed descriptions of chemical toxicity to humans, mammals, aquatic and plant life, as well as data on physical chemical properties, and environmental fate and persistence. Each record consists of chemical identification information and provides descriptive data on up to 23 topic areas, ranging from chemical properties to toxicity to environmental transport and fate. Records are in English. Available online through CCINFOline from the Canadian Centre For Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) and Chemical Information System (CIS) on CD-ROM through CCIN-FOdisc. 

Cambridge Structural Database System (2000), v5.21. Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Cambridge... 

ICSD Database, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe (FIZ) Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge CB2 lEZ, fax (+44)1223-336-033 e-mail deposit ccdc.cam.ac.uk)... 

Since a large database of reports is essential to the verification of ADRs, the role of an international ADR centre in assisting dmg regulation and dmg use in member countries, particularly the smaller ones, cannot be overemphasized. 

ICDD PDF-2 Database, International centre for diffraction data. 

Ecoinvent database by Frischknecht et al. (2006) v.1.3. Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories, Switzerland. 

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS s Databases)... 

The cross-national prescribing database using the same methodology provided a useful and valid comparison of patterns of prescribing psychotropic medications in mental health services in Australia, Thailand, and Malaysia (Ng et al, submitted). The study was carried out in three outpatient mental health centres in North Western Mental Health (NWMH) in Melbourne (September to November 2002), Prince of Songkla University Hospital in Hat Yai (January to March 2003), and Hospital Kuala Lumpur (January to March 2003). The proportions of outpatients treated with a primary diagnosis of a psychotic illness were 91%, 41%, and 75% in the Australian, Thai, and Malaysian samples respectively. Considering psychotropic prescriptions in schizophrenia alone, the majority of patients were prescribed antipsychotics Australia (93.7%), Thailand (92.9%), and Malaysia (97.7%). 

Rapra also publishes books, technical journals, reports, technological and business surveys, conference proceedings and trade directories. These publishing activities are supported by an Information Centre which maintains and develops the world s most comprehensive database of commercial and technical information on rubbers and plastics. 

Precision Agriculture Centre, University of Minnesota (2002) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Precision Agriculture, Minneapolis, 14-17 My 2002 PreConsultants (2004) SimaPro database manual. The BUWAL250 library. Available at http // www.pre.nl/simapro/... 

For more background, teaching and help on the practice of EBM the database at the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM 2008) can be of help. 

It is clear that a broad mass market is not expected until after 2010 (Gummert and Suttor, 2006). But there are already a number of pilot and demonstration systems installed worldwide. It is very difficult to obtain a complete overview of installations because, on the one hand, the data are published by different players, such as utilities, manufacturers or users for their own fuel cells and, on the other hand, if an installation does not work, no data are published or sometimes the system is shut down. Nevertheless, Fuel Cells 2000 have set up a fuel cell database for stationary applications. Most entries are from the USA, but it should be pointed out that Japan installed 480 stationary plants in 2005 alone (Fuel Cell Development Information Centre, personal communication, 2006). 

ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System, www.expasy.ch) or the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI, www.ncbi.nlm.gov) websites. Both websites provide bioinformatics tools, links to sequence databases and extensive bibliographic resources. As an example of the wealth of information available on individual enzymes, at the time of writing a search based on nitrilase in the Entrez protein section of NCBI will recover more than 10000 references to nitrilase enzyme amino acid sequences. These can be rapidly screened online by organism, and the individual entries will have links to amino acid and gene sequence, relevant literature and information on protein features (such as conserved domains). 

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