Biotechnology Resource Portal

Core

• PubMed
  
  PubMed, developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), provides free access to MEDLINE, a database of more than 11 million bibliographic citations and abstracts from nearly 4,500 journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, health care systems, and pre-clinical sciences. In addition, PubMed provides access and links to the integrated molecular biology databases maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). These databases contain DNA and protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes in an integrated system. Additional NLM bibliographic databases, such as AIDSLINE, are being added to PubMed.
• Biological Abstracts
  
  The Biological Abstracts database indexes 4,200 journals from over 100 countries with over11 million records back to 1969. The subject matter covers anatomy, bacteriology, behavioral sciences, bioengineering, biotechnology, cell biology, clinical medicine, genetics, immunology, microbiology, nutrition, parasitology, pathology, pharmacology, physiology, radiation and systematic biology, toxicology, virology, and zoology.
• Biotechnology & Bioengineering Abstracts
  
  Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts indexes 539 journal titles covering research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering. It surveys biotechnological aspects of medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, the environment and marine biology
• Web of Knowledge
  
  The Web of Knowledge is a combination of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It indexes more than 8,000 peer-reviewed journals, providing complete bibliographic data and author abstracts.

Patent

• United States Patent & Trademark Office
  
  USPTO provides full access to issued US patents starting in 1790 to the present and to patent applications starting in 2001. The USPTO provides full access to active and inactive trademarks that are searchable using the Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS). You can also use the site to search the Trademark Document Retrieval (TDR) system. Through TDR, you can view and download any or all documents contained in the electronic file wrapper of almost all pending trademark applications, as well as many registrations.
• esp@cenet
  
  esp@cenet is the gateway to searching Europe's network of patent databases. The site provides access to free access to more than 60 million patent documents from all over the world containing information about inventions and technical development from 1836 to the present.
• Patent Abstracts of Japan
  
  Using the PAJ service, you can retrieve the Patent Abstracts of Japan (PAJ) published since 1976 onward by keywords, publication numbers, and other methods. PAJ from January 1990(in application) onward includes the legal status information as well. PAJ data can vary from the official gazette of the Japan Patent Office so it is recommended that additional resources are used when needed. It is estimated that Japan holds nearly 25% of the world's patents.
• Patent Lens
  
  This site provides access to nearly 10 million patents, with links to PDFs from the U.S., Europe, Australia and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). A separate search function is available for finding sequences in patents.
• National Institutes of Health, Office of Technology Transfer
  
  The NIH Office of Technology Transfer evaluates, protects, markets, licenses, monitors, and manages the wide range of NIH and FDA discoveries, inventions, and other intellectual property. They oversee patent prosecution and negotiate and monitor licensing agreements. OTT performs similar functions for patenting and licensing activities for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
• World Intellectual Property Organization
  
  The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It is dedicated to developing a balanced and accessible international intellectual property (IP) system, which rewards creativity, stimulates innovation and contributes to economic development while safeguarding the public interest. WIPO provides a gateway, called PatentScope, which enables you to do full-text search in over 1.6 million published international patent applications from the first publication in 1978.
• Google Patents
  
  Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of issued patents and millions of patent application made available by the USPTO from patents issued in the 1790s through those most recently issued in the past few months. To date, the USPTO has made available approximately 7 million patents and over a million patent applications.

Business

• Hoovers
  
  Hoovers is a business information resource to research specific companies, business people, and industries. NOTE: Access is limited to campus users. Use the link from the E-Resources page to access.
• LexisNexis Academic
  
  LexisNexis Academic Universe is an online service composed of approximately 5,000 legal, news, reference, and business sources, most full text. It includes international and U.S. newspapers, ethnic and regional news sources, magazines, wire services, newsletters, trade journals, SEC filings, company and industry analyst reports, and broadcast transcripts.
• Google Finance
  
  Google's Finance pages provide a summary of company information, market trends, business news, and information on world markets. Information is not as robust as subscribed to resources but it provides a nice overview and it is updated regularly.

Genetic and Chemical

• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
  
  NCBI is a suite of resources developed by the National Library of Medicine for a number of nucleotide and genome-specific databases. The site also provides a number of tools for data mining, sequence analysis, and 3-D structure display.
• BioBase Knowledge Library
  
  BioBase Knowledge library provides access to the foremost integrated knowledge resource containing up-to-date information for genes, the proteins they encode, and the diseases with which they are associated. With the BKL you will be able to determine how genes are regulated, which promoters are bound by which transcription factors, which signal transduction events proteins take part in, which biomarkers are associated with which disease, and much more.
• ENZYME
  
  ENZYME is a repository of information relative to the nomenclature of enzymes. It is primarily based on the recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) and it describes each type of characterized enzyme for which an EC (Enzyme Commission) number has been provided. There are many other proteomic databases available from the home site of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.
• Interpro
  
  InterPro is a database of protein families, domains, regions, repeats and sites in which identifiable features found in known proteins can be applied to new protein sequences. Interpro is one of many resources available from the European Bioinformatics Institute.
• WorldWide Protein Data Bank
  
  The Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) consists of organizations that act as deposition, data processing and distribution centers for PDB data. The mission of the wwPDB is to maintain a single Protein Data Bank Archive of macromolecular structural data that is freely and publicly available to the global community.
• PubChem
  
  PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. It is a component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative. PubChem includes substance information, compound structures, and BioActivity data in three primary databases. Pcsubstance contains more than 61 million records. Pccompound contains more than 25 million unique structures. PCBioAssay contains more than 1600 BioAssays.
• ZINC
  
  ZINC is a free database of commercially-available compounds for virtual screening. ZINC contains over 13 million purchasable compounds in ready-to-dock, 3D formats. ZINC is provided by the Shoichet Laboratory in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
• BRENDA
  
  BRENDA is a collection of enzyme functional data maintained and developed at the Institute of Biochemistry and Bioinformatics at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. The enzymes are classified according to the Enzyme Commission list of enzymes and some 4000 "different" enzymes are covered.

Drug

• Stat!Ref
  
  Full-text books including AHFS Drug Information, Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, Ellenhorn's Medical Toxicology, Handbook of Adverse Drug Interactions, and USP-DI I and II
• MD Consult
  
  Full-text of reference books, journals, medication handouts for patients, Drug names, indications, contraindications, and more
• TOXNET
  Toxicology Data Network from NLM. Includes databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases

Biotechnology Industry Organization

BIO is the world's largest biotechnology organization, providing advocacy, business development and communications services for more than 1,200 members worldwide. BIO members are involved in research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial, and environmental biotechnology technologies.

BioForward

BioForward is a member-driven state association that is the voice of Wisconsin's biotechnology industry. Their members include biotechnology companies, universities, non-profits, service providers, and state, regional and local government representatives.

BioIndustry Association

The BioIndustry Association (BIA) is the trade association for innovative enterprises in the UK's bioscience sector. Established in 1989, their mission is to encourage and promote a thriving, financially sound sector of the UK economy, built upon developments across the biosciences.

UNIDO - United Nations Industrial Development Organization

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. Its mandate is to promote and accelerate sustainable industrial development in developing countries and economies in transition, and work towards improving living conditions in the world's poorest countries by drawing on its combined global resources and expertise.

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture)

The FAO has a division devoted to biotechnology issues in the areas of food and agriculture of primary interest to their members. The site provides links to a number of information resources devoted to the topic of biotechnology in food and agriculture.

Remote Access

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