Internet databases

A significant aid in the preparation of the second edition was the tremendous resources now available on the Internet for searching references to virtually any subject or key word within the scientific literature. For this reason, adding endless references to each chapter probably only would increase the size of the book by hundreds of pages, but add very little real value. Far better is for the reader to make use of pertinent Internet databases to search for key words, structure names, or reagent acronyms which can provide lists of hundreds or even thousands of additional references or links regarding any bioconjugation technique of interest. 

E-book and electronic versions of this book are fully interactive with each of the Internet sites mentioned (clicking on a hyperlink automatically opens your browser to the site indicated). If you are using the hard copy version of this book, you can access a cited Web site by typing the provided Web address directly into your Internet browser. You may find it useful to refer to synonyms or related terms when accessing these Internet databases. NOTE At the time of publication, the Web addresses were functional. However, some links may fail due to URL address changes, which is a common occurrence on the Internet. 

And when you succeed, please post up your progress and results to some of the active watercar Internet databases such as... 

When the project was started in 2002, European exposure factor data were scattered within numerous national and international institutions. ExpoFacts has created no new data, but instead compiled the existing data into one Internet database, where it can be easily found, screened, and downloaded from. Data were collected from the EU countries, candidate countries to EU, and EFTA countries. As a result, the ExpoFacts database contains data from 30 European countries. In addition to the population time use patterns and exposure route information, e.g., dietary statistics, the database contains socio-demographic and physiologic information to enable database use as a tool for population-wide exposure modeling and risk assessment. 

These are the modern active databases that have interactive capabilities, and are often searchable for a set of properties. The floppy disks and CD-ROMs have definite dates on them, and do become obsolete with time the Internet databases can, in principle, be updated at very frequent intervals. A note of caution about Internet databases is that some of them have not been vetted for accuracy and can be unreliable. 

Sending a student to the library to carry out an old-fashioned book search in order to learn what has been achieved in a particular subject area is generally unpopular, but how else can the subject be appreciated from what might be called a classical perspective The vast majority of new students do not seem to appreciate that there was any science prior to 1990. This is about as far back as most Internet databases can reach so, in effect, the student is denied access to the pioneering work that produced the advances in the first place. 

Tang, W.Z. and Hendrix, T., An Internet Database of Kinetic Rate Constants and QSAR Models for Hydroxyl Radical Reactions and Ti02/U V, Dept, of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, 1998. 

Recently, comprehensive World Wide Web (Internet) databases have been established on insect pheromones and semiochemicals The Pherolist , a database of chemicals identified from sex pheromone glands of female lepidopteran insects and other chemicals attractive to male moths (Am et al., 1999) and The Pherobase , a database of pheromones and semiochemicals for Lepidoptera and other insect orders (El-Sayed, 2006). These large databases on behavior modifying chemicals have extensive cross-linkages for animal taxa, indexes of compounds and source (reference) indexes. The indexes include those compounds cited in this chapter and many more with pheromone and semiochemical function acetate esters, diols, epoxides, ethers, ketones and secondary alcohols. For example, The Pherolist reports approximately 90 epoxy derivatives of C17-C23 of n-alkancs, mono-alkenes and di-alkenes as insect semiochemicals. 

PDR Electronic Library [Internet database]. Greenwood Village, CO Thomson Micromedex. Updated periodically, www.micromedex.com/products/pdrhbrary/. Accessed March 20, 2007. 

COPYRIGHT Institute For Career Research 2009 CAREERS INTERNET DATABASE www.careers-internet.org... 

ITER is a free Internet database of human health risk values for over 600 chemicals of environmental concern from several organizations worldwide. The data are presented in table format with side-by-side comparisons of risk values from the various organizations, below which are synopses that provide explanations for differences among risk values as well as links to more detailed information. ITER currently contains data from the Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry (ATSDR), Health Canada, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands (RFVM), US EPA, and independent parties whose risk values have undergone peer review. Produced by Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA). (TERA, http //www.tera.org/iter TOXNET, http //toxnet.nlm.nih.gov). 

Australia s NPI is an Internet database designed to provide the community, industry, and government with information on the types and amounts of certain substances emitted to the environment. In total, 90 substances are reported to the NPI. A limited reporting started in 1998-99, but the coverage of all present 90 substances commenced in 2001-02. Greenhouse gases, ozone depleting substances, and transfers of waste/chemicals are not reported to the NPI. However, releases from diffuse sources will be included on the database. 

Butler JM, Reeder DJ. STR DNA Internet Database. http //www.cstl.nist.gov/div831/strbase (accessed April 4, 2004). 

The reference sequences used for our pharmacogenetic studies are as follows KRAS (NM 004985 and M54968), EGFR (NM 005228.3.), CKIT (NM 000222.2), PDGFRA (NM 006206), and BRAF (NM 004333) mRNA sequences from GeneBank (http //www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). To compare all detected sequence variants we previously identified the most widely used mutations Internet databases listed in Table 3. 

A good starting reference for this exploration is Eric R. Scerri. (1998). The Evolution of the Periodic System. Scientific American, 279, 78-83 and references provided at the end of this article. The website The Internet Database of Periodic Tables fhttp //www.meta-svnthesis,com/webbook/35 pt/pt database.php) is also useful. 

EPO—Patent Information on the Internet. URL http //www. european-patent-office.org/onhne/index.htm. An extensive collection of links to patent offices aroimd the world, patent databases, patent information providers, patent laws and regulations, patent information organizations, and lists of lists. Information about the content of Internet databases and the commerciaUy available INPADOC database. Includes the EPO s gateway to the esp cenet database. 

Due to the intrinsic characteristics of flow analysis mentioned above, more and more attention is being given to this family of techniques. This is reflected in the numerous articles, books, reviews, and conference proceedings that have been published on flow analysis (see e.g.. Appendices 1.1 and 1.2). Internet databases, web pages of prominent researchers, tutorials, as well as standard, recommended, and/or official methods have recently been highlighted [22]. The ultimate objectives of this book are therefore to provide a sound scientific foundation for those interested in flow-based techniques and to familiarise a wide community of potential end-users, e.g., researchers, students and technical staff, with the... 

S.J. Chalk, Flow analysis and the internet — databases, instrumentation and resources, in M. Trojanowicz (Ed.), Advances in Flow Analysis, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2008, p. 321 (Chapter 12). 

In 1970 van Vucht et al. [41], in the Netherlands, discovered practical hydrides such as LaNis, and in 1974 Reilly and Wiswall, in the United States, discovered Fe-Ti hydrides [42]. In LaNis and other rare earth compounds such as YNis, NdNis and others, the plateau pressures are affected by the A-atom (example La atom) substitution. This led to numerous studies around the world and development of practical hydride work really started. There have been several excellent reviews over the years, among them notably references [2, 26,43-68]. Other notable papers on intermetallics in general, are those of Anderson and Maeland [63], Lou et al. [65, 66, 69], Bowman et al. [70], Cerney et al. [71], Percheron-Guegan and co-workers [29, 72], and Latroche et al. [73]. More recently an internet database has been set by Sandrock and Thomas (lEA/DOE/Sandia National Laboratory) [23], Jai-Young Lee and co-workers [74, 75], Uchida et al. [76], Yvon and Fichner (structural properties) [77], Gupta and Schlapbach (electronic properties) [78], and Flanagan and Oates (thermodynamic properties) [79]. 

NAPRALERT (Internet database, March 29, 2004), Ethnopharmacology, Biological Activity and... 

The conductivities of the tissues (muscle with pulsating blood content. Table 1) were obtained from the internet database of dielectric properties of body tissues [12-14]. Three frequencies—1 kHz, 10 kHz and 100 kHz— were chosen for this initial simulation run... 

For a number of reasons it would be unrealistic to attempt to cover here the topic of available Internet databases in the form of a specific list, with a description of their contents. In the first place, such a list would quickly become out of date, and secondly it would extend far beyond the purpose of this article. However, to give an impression of the lists of databases which are available publicly, the following list of one site s resources recommendations is presented without further comment, except to note that URLs may have already changed by the date of publication of this article. 

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