Biological Sciences Electronic Resources


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Cellular, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry


  • Biological Abstracts on Ovid Web 
    Web access to Biological Abstracts online: citations and abstracts from life sciences literature.
  • Biology 
    Internet version of Kimball's textbook. The site provides in-depth explanations and illustrations on basic "Bio 101" topics.
  • BRENDA 
    The main collection of enzyme functional data. Free to academic, non-profit users. From the Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne.
  • Cold Spring Harbor (CSH) Protocols 
    Provides a wealth of laboratory techniques enhanced by the latest Web tools and technology.
  • EMBO 
    Links to EMBO, EMBL, and E-Biosci resources, and to all the European Molecular Biology Laboratories.
  • Protein Data Bank 
    Protein Structural data and images.
  • Human Genome Project Homepage 
    Includes projects news, abstracts on gene sequencing and mapping, general information about the project, a molecular genetics primer and much more
  • IUMSC 
    Indiana University Molecular Structure Center.
  • Medline 
    Links to Ovid's version of the Medline, Psychinfo, HealthStar CINAHL and HAPI databases.
  • MEDLINEplus 
    The National Library of Medicine's Gateway,this includes links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, consumer health resources and the PUBMED database.Pubmed links to some fulltext journal articles.
  • Medical Biochemistry 
    Subjects list from M.W. King of Indiana state and Marchesi of the University of Brescia. Good background summaries of topics which range from basic biochemistry to molecular biology.
  • Microbelibrary.org 
    A microbiology education library.
  • NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information)  
    A national resource for molecular biology information—it includes public databases, such as GENBANK, software for molecular biology data analysis, and online tutorials.
  • PIR (Protein Information Resources)
    Data on over 200,000 proteins run by the National Biomedical Research Foundation at Georgetown University.
  • PUBMED 
    National Library's Medline site, free acess to all. Links to many full-text articles that are available to Columbia affiliates. Includes links to Online PUBMED Tutorial.
  • Web of Science
    Science Citation Index
    covers articles from 1965 to the present. Links to many full-text articles that are available to Columbia affiliates.

Biological Sciences
Collection

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