Introduction
For the purpose of this guide "biomedical engineering" is synonymous with "bioengineering" since these terms are used interchangeably by the scientific community. However, there are resources, such as BmeCentral, which recognize the term "bioengineering" to be different than "biomedical engineering," because the former may include agricultural and bio-organic engineering while the latter does not.
Agricultural Biotechnology
AgNIC
AgNIC is the web gateway to quality agricultural biotechnology information on the Internet and is the result of a collaborative effort between many academic libraries, government agencies, and international organizations. Types of resources reviewed and selected include: other Internet gateways of resources, government agencies, international organizations, societies, associations, mailing lists, discussion groups, databases, reports and publications. Search by keyword or browse by subject.
http://agnic.umd.edu/
AGRICOLA
AGRICultural OnLine Access, produced by the National Agricultural Library, is a database of 2.5 million bibliographic references to the agricultural literature. AGRICOLA covers agricultural journals, as well as United States Department of Agriculture publications, state agricultural experiment station and extension services documents, conference proceedings, books, theses, patents, software and audiovisual materials. Topics include Agriculture, Ecology, Forestry, Zoology, Veterinary science, Botany, Entomology, Food and nutrition and more. Coverage begins in 1970 and varies by title. Full text is not available. Browse by author title, subject or search by keywords or menus.
http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/
SciTechResources.gov: Agriculture and Food Technology
This site is a catalog containing descriptions of just those government web sites that are key entry points to government agriculture and food technology resources. Categories of resources include: Computer software, Expertise, Federal laboratories, Information centers, Inventions for licensing, Online databases, Sources of images and photographs, Sources of publications, reports, and data, technology transfer opportunities, and information for the science-aware citizen. Search or browse by keyword, agency and resource type.
http://www.scitechresources.gov/Search/topic.php?cat=98
WWW Virtual Library: Agriculture
This website is maintained by the National Science Foundation Center for Integrated Pest Management, located at North Carolina State University. Topics include Agrichemicals/ Biotechnology, Safety information, Equipment, Crop production, Food and Food Processing, Pest Management and many more. Categories of resources include: databases, discussion groups, government agencies, job listings, search engines/directories, research centers, foundations, associations, societies, software, journals, meetings, and other relevant links. Browse by region, type of site, subject area, and related resources. Search using keywords.
http://cipm.ncsu.edu/agVL/
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Anatomy & Physiology
American Association of Anatomists (AAA): Resource Links
A large directory of anatomy resources, it includes a listing of teaching resources, such as on-line teaching tools, and academic institutions. In addition, AAA provides a directory of Anatomy departments throughout the United States.
http://www.anatomy.org/Resources/resource_links.htm
American Physiological Society
Under its "Sites of Interest" is a directory of physiology resources, such as links to academic institutions, Physiology departments and programs, abstracts of electronic journals and scientific societies.
http://www.the-aps.org/sites
Anatomy and Histology Center
From Martindale's Virtual Medical Center Health Science Guide, this site is a "medical multimedia education and specialized information resource center." A wide and diverse range of topics is discussed, including the anatomy and function of the abdomen, digestive system, brain, brainstem, breast, chest, cardiothoracic system, eye, endocrine system, muscle, foot, knee, spinal cord, oral and temporomandibular joint and skin. Categories of resources include medical cases & grand rounds, courses, textbooks, databases, journals, tutorials, videos, and much more.
http://www.martindalecenter.com/MedicalAnatomy.html
Anatomy of the Human Body
Henry Gray's classic book presented here in the 20th edition of 1918, features 1,247 vibrant engravings-many in color.
http://www.bartleby.com/107/
Atlases of the Brain
Developed by Dr. Suzanne Stensaas of the University of Utah, this website offers Java-enabled images of the brain, brain stem and spinal cord.
http://medstat.med.utah.edu/kw/brain_atlas/
CELLS alive!
CELLS alive! provides a visual, interactive tour of cells, bacteria, viruses and their interaction. It includes movies of living cells, cell models, citosis, cell cycle, movement of substances across cell membranes, apoptosis, enhancing micrographs and phagocytosis. Updated annually, with an alphabetized index.
http://www.cellsalive.com/toc.htm
eSkeletons Project
From the University of Texas at Austin and devoted to the study of human and primate comparative anatomy, the site offers a unique set of 2-D and 3-D skeletons in color, with animations and much supplemental information. The user can navigate through the various regions of the skeleton and view all orientations of each element along with muscle and joint information, and view the bones of both human and non-human primates ranging from the gorilla to the tiny mouse lemur. All of the large apes are represented as well as other species from different parts of the world. Many of these primates are rare or endangered species.
http://www.eskeletons.org/
HealthWeb: Anatomy
A gateway to evaluated, non-commercial, Internet-accessible resources in anatomy, this site offers links to educational resources, professional associations, electronic journals, discussion groups and electronic texts. The "Special Topics" links point the reader to related subject websites of anatomical regions and systemic classification. This site is maintained by Andris Kanderovskis, University of Chicago.
http://healthweb.org/anatomy/
HealthWeb: Neuroanatomy
A gateway to evaluated, non-commercial, Internet-accessible resources in anatomy, this site offers links to educational resources, professional associations, electronic journals, atlases & images, and reference resources. The "Special Topics" links point the reader to related subject websites of the central servous system/brain, peripheral nervous system, senses and spinal cord. This site is maintained by Andris Kanderovskis, University of Chicago.
http://www.healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=57
HealthWeb: Physiology
A gateway to evaluated, non-commercial, Internet-accessible resources in anatomy, this site offers links to educational resources, professional associations, electronic journals, discussion groups, software and reference materials. This site is maintained by Kurt Munson, Northwestern University.
http://www.healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=76
Human Anatomy Online
An interactive point-and-click approach to the systems of the human body from Lifestyles Media Group includes images, animations and descriptions. Choose a system, then select a new image by moving the mouse over it. Select the text icon for information on the image being viewed.
http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html
Motor Unit Presentation
From the NeuroMuscular Research Center at Boston University, this site provides several tutorials for students: 1) Physiological introduction to the Motor Unit (MU), 2) Experimental Procedures to Measure Motor Unit Action Potentials (MUAPs) in the Human Hand, and 3) Motor Unit Action Potential Train Analysis.
http://nmrc.bu.edu/tutorials/motor_units/index.html
Muscle Database
From the Swedish Institute of Kinesiologic Medicine, this is the first complete database of muscles on the Internet. At the moment it encompasses the name of the muscle, innervations, attachments (origin-insertion) and muscle-function. Addition of more specific kinesiology medicine information is planned, such as neurolymphatic and neurovascular receptors, acupuncture-meridian associations, clinical nutrition, and manual muscle tests.
http://www.kinesiology.net/muscle1.asp
Neuroanatomy & Neuropathology on the Internet
A suite of resources compiled, designed, and maintained by Dr. Katalin Hegeds of University Medical School, Debrecen, Hungary. This web site offers several resources:
http://www.neuropat.dote.hu/
- Links is a searchable directory of web resources discussing the anatomy and function, histology and pathology of the brain and nervous system.
http://www.neuropat.dote.hu/index.html#keres
- Internet Handbook of Neurology is a compilation of links pointing to free full text articles, case studies, and lecture notes from academic institutions. This site is organized into thirteen chapters: Dementia, Demyelinating Diseases, Epilepsy, Impaired Consciousness/ Sleep Disorders, Infection, Movement Disorders, Neuromuscular Diseases, Pain, Sign and Symptoms, Stroke, Toxic/ Metabolic/ Nutritional Disorders, Trauma, and Tumor. Each chapter contains lists of categorized references specific to that subject.
http://www.neuropat.dote.hu/neurology.htm
- Online Neuropathology Atlas has images of cerebrovascular, neoplastic, degenerative, and developmental diseases. It has multiple components: http://www.neuropat.dote.hu/atlas.html
- PhysioNet provides free electronic access to PhysioBank data and PhysioToolkit, tutorials and several books intended to provide introductions to the data and software available from this resource.
- PhysioBank currently includes databases of multi-parameter cardiopulmonary, neural, and other biomedical signals from healthy subjects and patients with a variety of conditions with major public health implications, including Sudden cardiac death, Congestive heart failure, Epilepsy, Gait disorders, Sleep apnea, and Aging.
- PhysioToolkit is a large and growing library of software for physiologic signal processing and analysis, detection of physiologically significant events using both classical techniques and novel methods based on statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics, interactive display and characterization of signals, creation of new databases, simulation of physiologic and other signals, quantitative evaluation and comparison of analysis methods, and analysis of non equilibrium and non stationary processes.
Neurosciences on the Internet
A gateway of general and specific neuroscience resources that includes Neurobiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Psychology, Cognitive Science and Neurological Diseases. The "Best Bets" page lists interesting and useful sites on this topic. Search by keyword or browse by category of resources. This website is maintained by Dr. Neil A. Busis of the Division of Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
http://www.neuroguide.com/
Visible Human Project
From the National Library of Medicine comes complete, anatomically detailed, 3-D representations of the male and female human bodies. Electronic imaging techniques used include color photographs of thousands of razor-thin tissue cross-sections. The resulting datasets are enormous (altogether some 55 gigabytes) and are designed to serve as a reference for the study of human anatomy, to serve as a set of common public domain data for testing medical imaging algorithms, and to serve as a test bed and model for the construction of network accessible image libraries. Several applications using the data sets have been developed at the National Library of Medicine, including:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
- Anatquest - 3D rendered images of anatomic objects created from the cryosections. Cryosections are associated with anatomical terminology.
http://anatquest.nlm.nih.gov/
- Functional Atlas of the Visible Human - A model for educational applications based on the data sets, the site consists of six functional anatomy teaching modules: Mastication, Deglutition, Phonation, Ocular Motion, Facial Expression, and Hearing. Basic anatomy in these modules is further enhanced by the addition of clinical and surgical information. The site is extensible and is updated on an annual basis.
http://vhhn.visiblehuman.org
- Insight Toolkit - An open source public software system developed to support image analysis research in segmentation, classification, and rigid deformable registration techniques to process high dimensional medical data. Currently under active development, ITK employs leading-edge segmentation and registration algorithms in two, three, and more dimensions.
http://www.itk.org
World Wide Web Virtual Library - Biosciences: Neuroscience is a gateway to resources in neurobiology maintained by Cornell University Medical College to provide a comprehensive listing of neuroscience resources.
http://neuro.med.cornell.edu/
World Wide Web Virtual Library - Biosciences: Physiology and Biophysics is a gateway to resources in these subjects maintained by Cornell University Medical College. This site provides resources arranged in two broad subject areas: 1) Physiology & Biophysics, and 2) Biomedical & Physical Sciences Allied to Physiology & Biophysics.
http://neocortex.med.cornell.edu/VL-Physio/physioweb.html
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Amino Acid Information
A directory of information on amino acids including chemical structures, protecting groups, solvent accessibility, IUPAC naming convention, post-translation modifications; suggested amino acid substitutions (for solvent exposed residues); chemical, structural and genetic properties. This website is maintained by Dr. Ronald C. Beavis of Eli Lilly and Dr. David Feny of Rockefeller University.
http://prowl.rockefeller.edu/aainfo/contents.htm
BioChemHub: Biochemistry
This site is a science directory with links to lecture notes, tutorials, dictionaries, primers and other resources for students in General Biochemistry, Metabolism, Proteins, and Molecular Genetics.
http://biochemhub.com/biochem/biochemistry.cfm
BioChemWeb.org
"The Virtual Library of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology" is a gateway to online resources indexed by subject with annotated links. While many of the resources listed on these pages are for scientists or advanced students, there are also resources labeled "Beginner's Level" which require little or no background. The subjects covered are extensive, from Angiogenesis to Systems Biology. Search using keywords or browse by subject or type of resource. This site is maintained by Dr. Gabriel Fenteany of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
http://www.biochemweb.org/general.shtml
BioMedCentral: Biochemistry
http://databases.biomedcentral.com/browsesubject/?sub_id=1015
BioMedCentral: Molecular Biology
A catalog of databases relevant to these fields. Browse the links, or search by name, description or other information.
http://databases.biomedcentral.com/browsesubject/?sub_id=1011
Biochemistry
From BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources of the University of Strathclyde, this site is an extensive, selected, evaluated, and annotated collection of resources on biochemistry, updated monthly. It includes bibliographies, book and text collections, dictionaries, directories, mailing lists and government agencies. Browsing the subject list is recommended although a keyword search is available.
http://www.bubl.ac.uk/link/b/biochemistry.htm
Cell and Molecular Biology Online
A directory of online resources for students and researchers, this site is organized into broad sections: Research, Education, Communication, and Random. Each section contains lists of categorized links to resources specific to that subject and a "we recommend" option for the 'top picks,' The Current Research section highlights lab home pages that describe the ongoing research projects and the site also lists online courses and online textbooks. Browse only.
http://www.cellbio.com/index.html
Medical Biochemistry Page
Medical Biochemistry Page is a peer reviewed website from MedEdPortal, a project of the American Association of Medical Colleges. This site has a comprehensive collection of illustrated lecture notes designed principally as a teaching tool for students of Medical Biochemistry; however, any student taking Biochemistry will benefit as well. Topics covered include Ionic Equilibria Review, Thermodynamics Review, Basic Chemistry of Biomolecules, Protein Structure, Hemoglobin and Myoglobin, Muscle Biochemistry, and many more subjects. Browse the subject list or search using keywords. This resource was developed by Dr. Michael W. King of Indiana State University.
http://web.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/home.html
Metabolic Pathways of Biochemistry
Designed to graphically represent all major metabolic pathways, primarily those important to human biochemistry, this site is maintained by Karl Miller of George Washington University.
http://www.gwu.edu/~mpb/
PubChem
PubChem contains chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities, substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data in three primary databases, PCSubstance, PCCompound, and PCBioAssay, respectively. PubChem is integrated with the Entrez search engine, and also provides compound neighboring, sub/superstructure, similarity structure, bioactivity data, and other searching features. PubChem Help (http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/help.html) explains how to use the PubChem.
ThermoDex
From the University of Texas Libraries, this index of selective thermodynamic and physical property information can be searched by properties or compounds to retrieve a list of handbooks that contain these data. The actual data are NOT contained in ThermoDex. You need to actually locate the book in the CUNY+ library catalog, using the information provided by this index. This web site offers a very use useful guide to "Finding Thermodynamic and Physical Property Information" at (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/chem/info/thermo.html).
http://thermodex.lib.utexas.edu/
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Biofluid Dynamics
Fluid Dynamics & Biofluidics
From BmeCentral, this directory of biomedical engineering information about researchers, companies and emerging technologies within this subcategory of biomedical engineering provides pointers to everything from labs and investigators to medical device companies with FDA-approved products. Academic research labs are arranged according to sub-specialty: Atherosclerosis Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics Computation & Modeling, Hemodynamics & Endothelial Dynamics, Lymphatic Mechanics & Transport Dynamics, Microvascular Dynamics, and Pulmonary Fluid & Transport Mechanisms.
http://www.bmecentral.com/specialty/viewspecialty.php?id=1
bmesource
bmesource is a gateway to biomedical engineering resources, offering high-quality information about clinical problems and biomedical technologies that address them. Links to resources are organized in a "faceted" hierarchical configuration-at the deepest level the links for a specific topic are divided into group link areas based on a specific body of work, which is identified by a key word description. Although this is a work in progress, the site contains over 10,000 links provided by 93 associate editors at 71 universities.
http://171.65.102.151/~bmesource/
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Bioinformatics & Genomics
123Genomics
This "Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics Knowledge Base" offers links to resources organized into topics ranging from Diseases & Disorders to Proteomics & Mass Spectroscopy. Types of resources include Methods & Protocols, Investors & Industry, and more.
http://www.123genomics.com/
BCM Search Launcher
BCM Search Launcher provides a single point-of-entry for Baylor College of Medicine's database of molecular biology tools, or related search and analysis services available. The Protein Sequence Search Page, for example, provides a single sequence entry form for submitting sequences to web servers that provide remote access to a variety of different protein sequence search tools, including BLAST, FASTA, Smith-Waterman, BEAUTY, PROSITE, and BLOCKS searches. Other Launch pages provide access to nucleic acid sequence searches, multiple and pair-wise sequence alignments, gene feature searches, protein secondary structure prediction, and miscellaneous sequence utilities. This website provides several Guides to Common Types of Searches: 1) Determine protein function for a DNA query, or 2) Find genomic sequence corresponding to a gene. You also find information about reading a BLAST and BEAUTY output.
http://searchlauncher.bcm.tmc.edu/
Biocatalog, from European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is a software directory of general interest to molecular biology and genetics scientists. Resources are organized into domains for easy browsing and access, and are searchable by keyword.
http://corba.ebi.ac.uk/Biocatalog/
Bioinformatics at the NIH
A gateway to Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative-supported bioinformatics projects and researchers, The BISTI Consortium serves as the focus of biomedical computing issues, and to facilitate implementation of BISTI recommendations. General Information available includes reports of biomedical computing review and advisory committees, journal articles and reports on bioinformatics, and links of interest to the bioinformatics community.
http://www.bisti.nih.gov
Bioinformatics.net
Bioinformatics.net is a catalog of online biological sciences information, specializing in bioinformatics tools, such as sequence analysis, and information, such as regulation, genetics, companies, jobs and more. Resources are also organized by subject. It serves the needs of molecular biologists and other biological scientists working in scientific research, biotechnology and medicine, in both industry and academia.
http://www.bioinformatics.vg/
Bioinformatics Web Practical
From the University of Manchester, this site has an interactive exercise which aims to provide a taste of bioinformatics resources around the world, by introducing a range of widely-used analysis utilities and databases.
http://umber.sbs.man.ac.uk/dbbrowser/bioactivity/prefacefrm.html
Biological Informatics
This blog by consultant Marcus P. Zillman is a resource directory with links to relevant sites in health informatics, neuroinformatics, biodiversity informatics and biomolecular informatics.
http://www.biologicalinformatics.info/
Biological Research & Informatics
A collective list of many resources from the National Library of Medicine website for easy access to information.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/biomedical.html
Biology WorkBench
This San Diego Supercomputer Center site enables access to a wide variety of analysis and modeling tools, simultaneous search across several databases for a single object and an operating system interface for seamless computing across platforms, all within a point and click interface that eliminates file format compatibility problems. The Workbench is a computational interface and environment that permits easy use of bioinformatics for research, teaching or learning.
http://workbench.sdsc.edu/
bmesource
bmesource is a gateway to biomedical engineering resources, offering high-quality information about clinical problems and biomedical technologies that address them. Links to resources are organized in a "faceted" hierarchical configuration-at the deepest level the links for a specific topic are divided into group link areas based on a specific body of work, which is identified by a key word description. Although this is a work in progress, the site contains over 10,000 links provided by 93 associate editors at 71 universities.
http://171.65.102.151/~bmesource/
DNA Patent Database
A joint project of Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the Foundation for Genetic Medicine, this database allows free public access to the full text and analysis of all DNA patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This searchable database allows researchers to track data or trends of patents and patent applications in categories such as the date of issue, the inventor or the receipt of government funding. Each individual patent claim has been coded into groups that relate to biological classification, function or application.
http://dnapatents.georgetown.edu/
DrugBank
DrugBank from the University of Alberta is a bioinformatics and cheminformatics database that combines detailed drug (chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical) data with comprehensive drug target sequence, structure, pathway) information. The database contains nearly 4100 drug entries, and more than 15,000 protein sequences are linked to these drug entries. DrugBank provides more than 80 data fields for each drug, including brand names, chemical structures, protein and DNA sequences, prescription information, and detailed patient information. Combined with Drug Bank's visualization software, these tools allow scientists to easily search for new drug targets, to compare drug structures, study drug mechanisms, and discover new drug leads.
http://redpoll.pharmacy.ualberta.ca/drugbank/
ExPASy
The Expert Protein Analysis System is the proteomics server of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. ExPASy provides one the best annotated protein databases and many valuable protein analysis tools. Tools are introduced for protein identification and characterization from amino acid composition, fingerprint mass spectroscopy and other mass spectroscopy techniques. Also included in this module is an introduction to profile and pattern searches, tools for predictions of post-translational protein modifications, tools for protein topology prediction, primary structure analysis, secondary structure prediction and tertiary structure prediction and visualization.
http://www.expasy.org/
GOLD: Genomes Online Database
GOLD provides the largest available and most detailed monitoring of genome sequencing projects and comprehensive access to information regarding complete and ongoing genome projects around the world.
http://www.genomesonline.org/
Human Genome Resources
From the National Center for Biotechnology Information, this interactive website serves as a one-stop genomic information infrastructure for biomedical researchers from around the world so that they may use these data in their research efforts. View and explore NCBI's assembled and annotated version of the human genome chromosome by chromosome or search for biologically important regions of the genomic sequence.
Access to The NCBI Handbook's chapters that refer to human genome resources is available as well.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/human/
Human Genome Project Information
This U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science site provides extensive information about this large scientific undertaking. Genomics:GTL is the next step-building on data and resources from the Human Genome Project, the Microbial Genome Program, and systems biology. GTL will accelerate understanding of dynamic living systems for solutions to challenges in energy and the environment.
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/home.shtml
"Molecular Biology Database Collection: 2006 Update."
Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 34, January 1, 2006, provides descriptions and updates of the most important bioinformatics databases, needed by the researchers in this field. The 2006 update includes 858 databases.
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol34/suppl_1/index.dtl#EDITORIAL
"Molecular Biology Database Collection: 2005 Update."
Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 33, January 1, 2005, provides descriptions and updates of the most important bioinformatics databases, needed by the researchers in this field.
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol33/suppl_1/index.dtl#EDITORIAL
Nature Neuroscience
Special issues provide in-depth exploration of topics of particular interest, including reviews and commentaries:
National Center for Biotechnology Information
The National Library of Medicine established this center in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information. NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information-all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Short Tandem Repeat DNA Database
STRBase, one of the free NIST databases, is an attempt to bring together the abundant literature on this subject, to facilitate of genetic mapping and identity testing by DNA typing laboratories.
http://www.cstl.nist.gov/biotech/strbase/
Neuroscience Database Gateway
This Society for Neuroscience gateway to more than 100 neuroinformatics resources is arranged in six domains: Databases of experimental data, Knowledge bases, Software tools for neuroscience, Bioinformatics resources, Providers of research materials, and all Neuroscience databases. Search based on type of database, database fields, or conduct a more advanced search using a variety of topics and keywords.
http://big.sfn.org/ndg/site/default.asp
Structural Biophysics Web Resources
From the Stephen H. White Laboratory at University of California at Irvine, this site is a collection of links to resources of value to protein scientists.
http://blanco.biomol.uci.edu/WWWResources.html
2can Bioinformatics
Developed by the European Bioinformatics Institute to reach a wide audience including newcomers to biology, experienced biologists and computer programmers, the site is divided into five main sections: Introduction to bioinformatics, Basic biology, Genes and disease, Biological databases and tutorials. The first three sections provide concise introductions to basic concepts in molecular biology and bioinformatics while the main focus of the last two is on the tools and databases developed at the Institute and by its collaborators. Links to numerous external sites provide further information about the field of bioinformatics, and to a searchable glossary of relevant terms.
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/index.html
WWW Virtual Library: Databases and Bioinformatics is a directory of databases, organizations, research sites, bioinformatics software, documentation, training and support. Links to computational tools and other useful resources.
http://www.cato.com/biotech/bio-info.html
WWW Virtual Library: Genomics, Proteomics, HTS, Drug Discovery and Drug Screening Companies is a comprehensive directory of companies that provide genomics products, services and software products.
http://www.cato.com/biotech/bio-genomics.html
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Bioinstrumentation & Devices
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
The professional association's list of resources and education programs.
http://www.aami.org/resources/index.html
Bioinstrumentation & Devices
From BmeCentral, this directory of biomedical engineering information about researchers, companies and emerging technologies provides information on labs and investigators, companies, overviews of promising technologies, companies with 2004 R&D budgets exceeding $1 billion and more. Academic research labs are arranged according to sub-specialty from Bioinstrumentation & Biomedical Circuit Design through Visual Function Monitoring & Therapy Devices.
http://www.bmecentral.com/specialty/viewspecialty.php?id=3
bmesource
bmesource is a gateway to biomedical engineering resources, offering high-quality information about clinical problems and biomedical technologies that address them. Links to resources are organized in a "faceted" hierarchical configuration-at the deepest level the links for a specific topic are divided into group link areas based on a specific body of work, which is identified by a key word description. Although this is a work in progress, the site contains over 10,000 links provided by 93 associate editors at 71 universities.
http://171.65.102.151/~bmesource/
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
CBER regulates the medical devices involved in the collection, processing, testing, manufacture and administration of licensed blood, blood components and cellular products. CBER has developed a Device Action Plan to facilitate the device provisions of the 1997 Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act and to ensure consistency between the policies and procedures of CBER and FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. Devices are listed by the Office and Division responsible.
http://www.fda.gov/cber/devices.htm
Center for Devices and Radiological Health
CDRH develops and implements national programs to protect the public health in the fields of medical devices and radiological health. These programs are intended to assure the safety, effectiveness, and proper labeling of medical devices; to promote quality in mammography services; and to control unnecessary human exposure to potentially hazardous radiation, and to ensure the safe, efficacious use of such radiation. This website offers industry assistance and consumer information.
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/
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Biomaterials
Biomaterials Network
Biomat.net acts as a resource center for information on organizations, research activity, educational initiatives, scientific events, journals, books, articles, funding opportunities, industrial developments, market analyzes, jobs, research expertise and other initiatives related to biomaterials science and associated fields such as tissue engineering. To fully access the network portion of the site, users must register as a member of the Biomaterials Network (free of charge).
http://www.biomat.net/
Biomaterials Tutorial
An Introduction to Biomaterials by Buddy D. Ratner of the University of Washington, gives an overview of key characteristics of the field of biomaterials, such as its multidisciplinary nature, magnitude, and outlines issues and major research.
http://www.uweb.engr.washington.edu/research/tutorials/introbiomat.html
bmesource
bmesource is a gateway to biomedical engineering resources, offering high-quality information about clinical problems and biomedical technologies that address them. Links to resources are organized in a "faceted" hierarchical configuration-at the deepest level the links for a specific topic are divided into group link areas based on a specific body of work, which is identified by a key word description. Although this is a work in progress, the site contains over 10,000 links provided by 93 associate editors at 71 universities.
http://171.65.102.151/~bmesource/
EEVL: Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing
Based at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh and managed by a team of information specialists from universities and institutions in the UK, EEVL covers university departmental web sites, society and institution sites, commercial information, government sites, e-journals, international agencies, databases, mailing lists, resource guides, directories, courseware/training materials, reference materials, patents, standards, research projects and centers, theses, conference documents, library catalogues and more. Search using EEVL Xtra simultaneously in 20 different collections relevant to engineering, mathematics and computing, including content from over 50 publishers and providers.
EEVL: Biomaterials
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/engineering/eng-browse-page.htm?my_tree_id=573&action=Class%2BBrowse&leafdata=365&my_tree_parent=568&browsestart=573
EEVL: Materials Engineering
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/engineering/eng-browse-page.htm?my_tree_id=644&action=Class+Browse&leafdata=434&my_tree_parent=1&browsestart=644
Material Safety Data Sheets
The Online Safety Library from Oklahoma State University offers an extensive collection of links to MSDS databases, fact sheets, acronyms and common terms, definitions, glossary and a Guide for Reviewing MSDS Completeness.
http://www.pp.okstate.edu/ehs/links/msds.htm
Materials Science
From BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources of the University of Strathclyde, this site is an extensive, selected, evaluated, and annotated collection of resources on materials science. It includes bibliographies, book and text collections, dictionaries, directories, mailing lists and government agencies. Browsing the subject list is recommended although a keyword search is available.
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid=9109
Materials Data Sheets
This database from the Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare in British Columbia can be searched by product or manufacturer. Narrow the search by entering both a product AND a manufacturer.
http://www.ohsah.bc.ca/index.php?section_id=393&
Materials Digital Library
A component of the National Science Digital Library of the National Science Foundation, the Materials Digital Library was established to provide organized access to collections and services from public and private institutions. MDL is a collaborative effort of more than 40 Materials Science and Engineering centers which conduct research using a three-pronged approach: (i) collection of materials content, with an emphasis on soft matter, (ii) use of materials content in a DSpace software platform and (iii) construction of authoring tools for improved delivery.
http://repository.matdl.org/index.jsp
Materials Research Society
MRS is different from any single discipline professional society because it encourages communication and technical information exchange across the various fields of science affecting materials. MRS promotes communication exchange through publication of symposium proceedings, MRS Bulletin, and Journal of Materials Research. Please note: you need to register (free of charge) to be able to access certain MRS "Materials Connections" sections.
http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/index.asp
Materials Science Center
From Martindale's Virtual Science Guide, this carefully maintained directory of everything materials-related is also organized by 1) type of material and 2) Metals and Alloys.
http://www.martindalecenter.com/GradMaterial.html
MatML
MatML is an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) developed especially for the interchange of materials information. Read about it in "MatML: A Data Interchange Markup Language," Advanced Materials & Processes, November 2003.
http://www.matml.org/downloads/matml_03.pdf
MatWeb is a searchable database of over 55,000 metals, plastics, ceramics, and composites data sheets. Searchable on property values as well as text and index pages. MatWeb's Comparison Feature, allows comparison of several materials side by side, as well as the ability to export those materials to external files. This web site has also several utilities: Unit Converter, Weight and Inertia Calculator, Hardness Converter, and Glossary of Material Terms. Stick to basic searching as MatWeb's advanced search features are unavailable without payment.
http://www.matweb.com/index.asp?ckck=1
NASA Thermal Protection Systems Expert and Material Property Database
This is a database for advanced thermal protection material properties, providing an easy user interface for retrieving material property information in a variety of forms, both graphical and text. The primary purpose is to maintain a high quality source of often-used thermal protection material properties in a convenient, easily accessible form, for distribution to government and aerospace industry communities.
http://tpsx.arc.nasa.gov/tpsxhome.shtml
NIST Data Gateway
Providing access to more than 80 National Institute of Standards and Technology scientific and technical databases, this gateway does a good job organizing and describing the various databases, which can be browsed alphabetically or according to discipline. Searching is done by keyword, property, and substance name. The Gateway includes FAQs, related information and external links.
http://www.nist.gov/data/
Several NIST materials performance property databases are now available:
NIST Ceramics WebBook which provides numeric data for physical and structural characteristics, mechanical and thermal properties, and properties of advanced ceramic materials.
http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/
NIST Oxide Glasses Collection focuses on one material only.
http://www.ceramics.nist.gov/srd/summary/glsmain.htm
NIST Property Data Summaries for Fracture Toughness
http://www.ceramics.nist.gov/srd/summary/ftmain.htm
High Temperature Superconducting Materials Database provides evaluated thermal, mechanical, and superconducting property data for oxide superconductors.
http://www.ceramics.nist.gov/srd/hts/htsquery.htm
Lead-Free Solder Database
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/div853/lead%20free/solders.html
Synthetic Polymer Mass Spectrometry Project
http://polymers.msel.nist.gov/maldirecipes/index.cfm
Phase Diagrams and Computational Thermodynamics
http://www.metallurgy.nist.gov/phase/solder/solder.html
NIST Property Data Summaries for Advanced Materials
http://www.ceramics.nist.gov/srd/summary/advmatdb.htm
NIST Structural Ceramics Database
http://www.ceramics.nist.gov/srd/scd/scdquery.htm
Polymer Maldi MS Methods Database
http://polymers.msel.nist.gov/maldirecipes/maldi.html
Polymers and Plastics
This guide to reference sources is from the University of Texas Libraries.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/chem/info/polymers.html
Materials Sciences
From SciTechResources.gov, this catalog provides easy, one-stop access to key U.S. government web sites that provide valuable links to government expertise, services, laboratories, information centers, computer software, inventions for licensing, images and photographs, echnology transfer opportunities and more. Search/browse by keyword, agency, and resource type.
http://www.scitechresources.gov/Search/topic.php?cat=71
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Biomechanics & Kinesiology
Biodynamics Database
From the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, this database contains data from approximately 7,000 acceleration impact tests, as well as information on the associated test facilities, test programs, and test subjects. The test data include measured forces, accelerations, and motions of both human and mannequin subjects. Tables containing peak values of the data, along with restraint parameters and acceleration profiles for each test, are also available. General information on test programs such as objective, investigators, test matrix and results, as well as subject anthropometry measurements and mannequin mass properties data are also provided. Registration (free) is required for the impact data bank.
http://www.biodyn.wpafb.af.mil/
Biomechanics Worldwide
Biomechanics resource directory covers: Comparative Biomechanics, Computer Simulation, Biomechanics of Dentistry, Biomechanics Education, Ergonomics, Gait and Locomotion, Motor Control, Muscle, Orthopedics, Biomedical Engineering, Prosthetics, Sport and Exercise, and more useful sites. Biomechanics Worldwide is maintained by the University of Alberta, Canada.
http://www.per.ualberta.ca/biomechanics/
bmesource
bmesource is a gateway to biomedical engineering resources, offering high-quality information about clinical problems and biomedical technologies that address them. Links to resources are organized in a "faceted" hierarchical configuration-at the deepest level the links for a specific topic are divided into group link areas based on a specific body of work, which is identified by a key word description. Although this is a work in progress, the site contains over 10,000 links provided by 93 associate editors at 71 universities.
http://171.65.102.151/~bmesource/
C3D.org
This site provides information for programmers, manufacturers and end-users of the C3D format-a public domain, binary file format used in Biomechanics, Animation and Gait Analysis laboratories to record synchronized 3D and analog data. The site includes background information, file format specifications, software tools and documentation, information on various implementations of the C3D file format, and sample files.
http://www.c3d.org/
Clinical Gait Analysis
Companion to the "Clinical Gait Analysis" discussion list, although not very up-to-date, this site provides a virtual reality tour of a gait laboratory, a normative gait analysis database and links to other biomechanics and gait analysis sites.
http://guardian.curtin.edu.au/cga/
Fundamentals of 3D Kinematic Analysis
This tutorial, developed by the Biomechanics Laboratory at Penn State University, is intended to provide the biomechanics student with a graded introduction to three-dimensional rigid body kinematics.
http://www.biomechanics.psu.edu/tutorials/Kin_tutor01.html
Internet Links to Biomechanics
This commercial site from Motion Lab Systems is a directory of society, university and commercial sites with Electromyography, Biomechanics, Gait Analysis, and Motion Capture information.
http://www.emgsrus.com/links.htm
The Kinesiology Forum
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this directory of Internet resources related to kinesiology, human movement, and health includes links to other departments, research and information centers, scientific organizations, journals, newsgroups and discussion lists.
http://www.kines.uiuc.edu/kinesforum/index.asp?uid=%7BC249DD9A%2D1FD4%2D41E0%2D8872%2D2E2002693DED%7D&save=N&fav=N&frm=Y&spawn=Y
The Kinesiology Network
The Kinesiology Network offers links to information about manual muscle testing kinesiology, addresses to schools, associations and journals, a muscle database, links to research-papers and other web sites about applied kinesiology and different specialized kinesiology methods.
http://www.kinesiology.net/
Mechanical Engineering
From BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources of the University of Strathclyde, this site is an extensive, selected, evaluated, and annotated collection of resources on mechanical engineering. It includes bibliographies, book and text collections, dictionaries, directories, mailing lists and government agencies. Browsing the subject list is recommended although a keyword search is available.
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid=9112
Orthopedic Web Links (OWL)
OWL is a directory of orthopedics, orthopedic surgery and trauma resources on the web, such as commercial sites, case discussion sites, disability sites, e-mail lists and archives, international sites, libraries, meetings information, academic departments, publications, teaching sites, and links to other sites of related interest. Search by keyword or browse the subject categories.
http://www.orthopaedicweblinks.com/
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Biomedical Engineering (Bioengineering)
bio.com
Bio.com offers information related to biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries-"In Focus" features, technology webcasts, interviews with leading scientists in the field, topical reviews and articles on cutting-edge topics in the life sciences, the latest news from academic and industrial labs, laboratory protocols, and organized collections of internet links and web-based tools, such as journals, databases, software tools, educational websites, university and institutions, and career resources.
http://www.bio.com/realm/index.jhtml?realmId=5
Biomedical Engineering Network
Much of the BMEnet consists of organized links to other resources, designed as shortcuts through the web. A database search of NSF-sponsored research projects can be done in a single step, bypassing the NSF home pages and other intermediate steps. BMEnet lists jobs in academia and industry. Original content includes news releases and annual reports.
http://www.bmenet.org/BMEnet/
BmeCentral
A directory of biomedical engineering information about researchers, companies and emerging technologies within 16 categories that offer a list of labs arranged by sub-specialty, overviews of promising technologies, large pharmaceutical companies arranged according to therapeutic concentrations, medical device companies with FDA-approved products, societies and organizations, foundations supporting BME, information for investors, career information, a clearinghouse of job offerings, and more.
http://www.bmecentral.com/
Bioengineering
From the Digital Library Network for Engineering and Technology of the National Science Foundation, this site is a gateway to education and research materials published by universities and professional associations in bioengineering and technology. It aims to (a) facilitate lifelong-learning essential to the professional development of practicing engineers and technologists, and (b) support innovative pedagogical approaches that will benefit students and educators.
http://www.dlnet.vt.edu/Browse_DLNET.jsp?Offset=0&Level1=&dlevel1=BE000000&Level2=&dlevel2=none&Level3=&dlevel3=none&Submit=Submit
Bioengineering FAQ
A FAQ from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University.
http://www.bmen.tulane.edu/BMEFAQ/
Environmental Ethics
This directory links to environmental ethics resources in genetic engineering, nanotechnology, cloning, resource allocation, animals and vegetarianism, pollution, radiation, global warming, population, indigenous peoples, and teaching about environmental ethics. The site is maintained by Prof. Ron Epstein at San Francisco State University.
http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Environ/Enviroethics.htm
EEVL: Bioengineering
Based at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh and managed by a team of information specialists from universities and institutions in the UK, EEVL provides access to resources for students, staff and researchers in higher education. Bioengineering subject resources are subdivided into four areas: General, Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering, and Biomaterials, and are arranged in an alphabetical order. Also retrievable by resource type.
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/engineering/eng-browse-page.htm?my_tree_id=568&action=Class+Browse&leafdata=361&my_tree_parent=1&browsestart=568
History of Biomedical Engineering
Broad overview prepared by the Whitaker Foundation, a major research supporter in the field. When the foundation closes, its web pages will move to www.bmes.org.
http://www.whitaker.org/glance/history.html
NIH Bioengineering Consortium (BECON)
BECON is composed of senior-level representatives from each of the NIH centers, institutes, and divisions, and its mission is to foster new basic understandings, collaborations, and interdisciplinary initiatives among the biological, medical, physical, engineering, and computational sciences. BECON coordinates and facilitates research grants, training opportunities, and scientific symposia associated with biomedical engineering.
http://www.becon.nih.gov/becon.htm
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
This newest NIH research institute was established to foster the development and application of new technologies and techniques for the delivery of health care in the 21st century. It brings together the research communities of biomedical imaging, bioengineering, the physical sciences and the life sciences to advance human health by improving quality of life and reducing the burden of disease.
http://www.nibib.nih.gov/publicPage.cfm?pageID=288
Southwest Biotechnology and Informatics Center
Its internet resource list has over 4000 annotated links arranged broad categories: Bioinformatics and Genomics; Career, Industry, and Professional; Computational Web Resources; Events, Publications, and News; Industry Register; Institutions and Federal Agencies, Minority Resources; Outreach and Education; and Research. Browse the complete list of categories or search specific words or URLs.
http://www.swbic.org/links/links.php
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Biomedical Imaging and Optics
Biomedical Imaging and Optics
From BmeCentral, this directory of biomedical engineering information about researchers, companies and emerging technologies within this subcategory of biomedical engineering provides pointers to everything from labs and investigators to medical device companies with FDA-approved products. Academic research labs are arranged according to sub-specialty, from 3D & 4D Rendering to Ultrasound Advances & Applications.
http://www.bmecentral.com/specialty/viewspecialty.php?id=6
Biophysics & Spectroscopy, from Karolinska Institutete, Sweden, offers numerous links to academic institutions, journals tutorials, and associations.
http://www.mic.ki.se/Biophys.html
bmesource
bmesource is a gateway to biomedical engineering resources, offering high-quality information about clinical problems and biomedical technologies that address them. Links to resources are organized in a "faceted" hierarchical configuration-at the deepest level the links for a specific topic are divided into group link areas based on a specific body of work, which is identified by a key word description. Although this is a work in progress, the site contains over 10,000 links provided by 93 associate editors at 71 universities.
http://171.65.102.151/~bmesource/
BMRB
BioMagResBank, from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, provides data derived from NMR spectroscopic investigations of biological macromolecules. It contains NMR chemical shifts derived from proteins and peptides, reference data, and amino-acid sequence. Records include a description of the protein-source and the NMR conditions. Shift assignments for hemes, cofactors, and substrates of a protein are also included, when they are reported as part of a complex. The site includes software for data-format conversions and visualization. This site has an" Educational Outreach" section which provides an introduction to Macromolecular NMR and Solid-State NMR and more.
http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/
Encyclopedia of Laser Physics and Technology
This open access encyclopedia of photonics and laser technology covers topics in laser physics with some additional content from general optics, nonlinear optics and quantum optics. It contains well over 400 articles on optical pulses, nonlinear optics, quantum optics and quantum effects, and more. It also includes some acronyms and formulae. Terms are cross-referenced. The resource is maintained by Dr. Rudiger Paschotta of RP Photonics.
http://www.rp-photonics.com/encyclopedia.html
IonSource
This mass spectrometry and biotechnology site, edited by Dr. Andrew Guzzetta, includes principles of MS quantization, small molecule drug metabolism and more. It includes a series of tutorials and a "card index."
http://www.ionsource.com/
ISP Knowledge Portal
Maintained by the International School of Photonics at Cochin University of Science and Technology in India, this directory provides information about photonics careers, societies, industries, conferences, free journals, books, optical communication, light sources, spectroscopy, spectral data, libraries and archives, software, national institutes, and scientific data. The "Just for Students" section provides resources for thesis writing, poster and oral presentations, and more.
http://www.photonics.cusat.edu/Knowledge%20Portal.htm
MedlinePlus Diagnostic Tests
This National Library of Medicine site provides links to specific conditions, research organizations and institutes, dictionaries, directories and organizations under relevant topics such as CT scans, diagnostic imaging, MRI scans, nuclear scans and X-rays.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/diagnostictests.html
Molecular Expressions
This collection of optical microscopy and general science education resources is a joint project of Florida State University, the University of Florida and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. There are links to glossaries of optical terms, newsgroups, journals and other type of publications, societies, tutorials and much more. "Science, Optics and You" is a science curriculum package designed to promote the asking and answering of questions related to light, color, and optics.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/index.html
OpticsNotes.com
This index of optics and photonics tutorials, references and resources contains links to reference material around the world, although it is rapidly getting out of date.
http://www.opticsnotes.com/
Sam's Laser FAQ
Designed as a practical guide to lasers for experimenters and hobbyists by Samuel M. Goldwasser, this site has information on a variety of laser related topics including a comprehensive treatment of diode, helium-neon, argon/krypton ion and CO2 lasers as well as amateur laser construction with examples of truly home-built lasers.
http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/lasersam.htm
The Science of Spectroscopy
A NASA-sponsored project, which uses technology to explain spectroscopy, the use of light to study matter, it uses wiki technology to make the entire library of content editable by any user. The structure of the site is based on three domains: applications, techniques, and theory. "Theory" describes light, its properties, how light is created, the effect of light on matter, laser theory and more. Under "technology," there are links to sites that describe common spectroscopic analysis techniques. In "Applications" examples are provided of consumer products in medicine and space science, such as cardiovascular imaging systems allowing efficient, non-invasive examination of cardiac systems.
http://scienceofspectroscopy.info/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
SPIE: International Society for Optical Engineering
This optics, photonics, fibers and lasers site features the latest news and progress in this field, information on conferences and events, and a database with the abstracts of the articles published in SPIE conference proceedings and journals. The "Photonics Gateway" section is arranged by technology areas: Astronomy, Electronic Imaging, Ellipsometry, Fiber Optics, Heat Transfer Measurements, Holography, Lasers, Lighting, Materials, Semiconductors, X-ray Technology, Semiconductors and Virtual Reality. In addition there are links to national laboratories and government organizations, societies and professional associations and universities.
http://spie.org/
WWW Virtual Library: Microscopy
This University of Oklahoma site covers all aspects of light microscopy, electron microscopy and other forms of microscopy, including applications in medicine and biology. It also provides examples of equipment and technology, such as crystallography and Diffraction, Ion Beans, and more.
http://www.ou.edu/research/electron/www-vl/long.shtml
WWW Virtual Library: Optical Science & Engineering
Administered by SPIE, links to societies and professional associations, universities, corporate and industry, national laboratories & government organizations, conferences, teaching tools, and the Technical Library, a searchable bibliographic database of 4,100 journals and technical publications are found here.
http://spie.org/CommunityServices/PhotonicsGateway/
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Biometrics Technology
The Biometric Consortium
The Biometric Consortium is the U.S. government's primary source of technical information for biometric considerations, containing extensive information on biometrics technologies, research results, biometric system examples, federal and state applications and other topics. This website provides an introduction to biometrics, and contains articles, book reviews, and links to research on various areas of biometrics. There are also pages on meetings, government activities, standards activities and links to related organizations, and commercial sites on these topics.
http://www.biometrics.org/
Biometrics
This Department of Defense site offers a number of informative tools for better understanding biometric technologies and how they may be applied within the department. These tools include a number of informative tutorials, reference articles, white papers, and other documents for better understanding biometric technologies.
http://www.biometrics.dod.mil/SiteComponents/References.aspx
Biometrics Catalog
A U.S. Government sponsored directory of information about biometric technologies, this site features Biometrics FAQs, a glossary, academic research centers, biometric implementations programs, NIST information, government documents and legislative reports and more. Applications include face recognition, fingerprints, hand geometry, IRIS, and speech recognition.
http://www.biometricscatalog.org
Biometrics Resource Center
From the National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory, the focus of Biometric Resource Center is on the development of measurement, evaluation and standards.
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div893/biometrics/index.html
Specific areas of research include:
findBIOMETRICS.com
This commercial site is a TopickZ site that highlights leading industry products by type, offers guides and a glossary, articles, news and other useful links.
http://findbiometrics.com/
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Biophysics & Bioelectromagnetism
Anemaw
Animal Electromagnetism and Waves examines how specific zoological specimens employ the use of electromagnetism, infrasonic and ultrasonic waves, and bioluminescence for the betterment of their lives and survival. This site provides a clear and concise explanation and applications of bioelectricity.
http://members.fortunecity.com/anemaw/bioelectricity.htm
Bioelectricity
Resources collected by the factbites search engine includes links to encyclopedia-style content matched to the basis of a whole topic area, not just keywords.
http://www.factbites.com/topics/bioelectricity
Bio-Energetics
"The Body Electric" collects studies, sites and news articles pertaining to human health from the perspective of interactions with externally applied electro-magnetic stimuli, either as a matter of intentional modalities or environmentally-imposed factors.
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Bio-Energetics#Introduction
Biophysical Society: Educational Resources
This site provides a good description of the field and a selection of websites containing information about education and career opportunities. Biophysics is divided into molecular structures, biophysical techniques and biological mechanisms. Each topic area has an annotated list of specific resources, available as text files or web sites. A selection of websites containing information about the history of selected topics or personalities in biophysics and related disciplines, are also provided.
http://www.biophysics.org/education/
Biophysics & Spectroscopy, from Karolinska Institutete, Sweden, offers is an extensive directory to resources, such as academic institutions, journals, tutorials, and associations.
http://www.mic.ki.se/Biophys.html
bmesource
bmesource is a gateway to biomedical engineering resources, offering high-quality information about clinical problems and biomedical technologies that address them. Links to resources are organized in a "faceted" hierarchical configuration-at the deepest level the links for a specific topic are divided into group link areas based on a specific body of work, which is identified by a key word description. Although this is a work in progress, the site contains over 10,000 links provided by 93 associate editors at 71 universities.
http://171.65.102.151/~bmesource/
BMRB
BioMagResBank, from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, provides data derived from NMR spectroscopic investigations of biological macromolecules. It contains NMR chemical shifts derived from proteins and peptides, reference data, and amino-acid sequence. Records include a description of the protein-source and the NMR conditions. Shift assignments for hemes, cofactors, and substrates of a protein are also included, when they are reported as part of a complex. The site includes software for data-format conversions and visualization. This site has an" Educational Outreach" section which provides an introduction to Macromolecular NMR and Solid-State NMR and more.
http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/
Electromagnetic Waves and Antennas
A textbook by Sophocles J. Orfanidis of Rutgers University, now available online, that provides a broad and applications-oriented introduction to electromagnetic waves and antennas. Current interest in these areas is driven by the growth in wireless and fiber-optic communications, information technology and materials science.
http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/%7Eorfanidi/ewa/
Elemental Data Index
This site provides access to NIST Physics Laboratory online data to simplify the process of retrieving online scientific data for a specific element.
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Elements/cover.html
Encyclopedia of Laser Physics and Technology
This open access encyclopedia of photonics and laser technology covers topics in laser physics with some additional content from general optics, nonlinear optics and quantum optics. It contains well over 400 articles on optical pulses, nonlinear optics, quantum optics and quantum effects, and more. It also includes some acronyms and formulae. Terms are cross-referenced. The resource is maintained by Dr. Rudiger Paschotta of RP Photonics.
http://www.rp-photonics.com/encyclopedia.html
HyperPhysics
Created by C. R. Nave at Georgia State University, this exploration environment for concepts in physics employs "concept maps" and other linking strategies to facilitate smooth navigation among topics. Physics topics are linked to related topics in chemistry, geophysics and biology.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
ISP Knowledge Portal
Maintained by the International School of Photonics at Cochin University of Science and Technology in India, this directory provides information about photonics careers, societies, industries, conferences, free journals, books, optical communication, light sources, spectroscopy, spectral data, libraries and archives, software, national institutes, and scientific data. The "Just for Students" section provides resources for thesis writing, poster and oral presentations, and more.
http://www.photonics.cusat.edu/Knowledge%20Portal.htm
NIST: Physics
The NIST collection of atomic energy levels, transition probabilities and collision data is widely used by groups for characterizing and modeling all types of gaseous systems, including plasmas, planetary atmospheres and astrophysical media, and for health physics applications. The NIST Chemistry WebBook now contains electronic and vibrational spectra for over 4000 compounds. The WebBook also contains constants of diatomic molecules.
http://www.nist.gov/srd/physics.htm
OpticsNotes.com
This index of optics and photonics tutorials, references and resources contains links to reference material around the world, although it is rapidly getting out of date.
http://www.opticsnotes.com/
Photonic & Sonic Band-Gap Bibliography
This bibliography has more than 1,000 entries of computer codes, reports, books and journal articles compiled by Jonathan P. Dowling at Louisiana State University.
http://phys.lsu.edu/~jdowling/pbgbib.html
Photonic Band Gap Links (PBG Link.com) is a gateway to photonic band gap research in particular, and microphotonics in general. Types of resources include: Groups, Conferences, Patents, articles, Theses, and others. This website has not been updated, since 2001, however the resources are current, since they are maintained by different parties.
http://www.pbglink.com/
Structural Biophysics Web Resources
From the Stephen H. White Laboratory at University of California at Irvine, this site is a collection of links to resources of value to protein scientists.
http://blanco.biomol.uci.edu/WWWResources.html
ThermoDex
From the University of Texas Libraries, this index of selective thermodynamic and physical property information can be searched by properties or compounds to retrieve a list of handbooks that contain these data. The actual data are NOT contained in ThermoDex. You need to actually locate the book in the CUNY+ library catalog, using the information provided by this index. This web site offers a very use useful guide to "Finding Thermodynamic and Physical Property Information" at (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/chem/info/thermo.html).
http://thermodex.lib.utexas.edu/
WWW Virtual Library: Physiology and Biophysics
Offering links to companies, research institutes, professional journal abstracts and educational programs, this site is maintained by the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
http://neocortex.med.cornell.edu/VL-Physio/
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Bioprocessing
bmesource
bmesource is a gateway to biomedical engineering resources, offering high-quality information about clinical problems and biomedical technologies that address them. Links to resources are organized in a "faceted" hierarchical configuration-at the deepest level the links for a specific topic are divided into group link areas based on a specific body of work, which is identified by a key word description. Although this is a work in progress, the site contains over 10,000 links provided by 93 associate editors at 71 universities.
http://171.65.102.151/~bmesource/
Google Directory: Biopharmaceuticals
Google's search offers links to commercial products and services in Antibodies, Cancer Research, Chemokines and Cytokines, Consulting, Delivery Systems, Gene therapy, Genetic Testing, Pharmacogenetics, Tissue Engineering and Vaccines.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Business/Biotechnology_and_Pharmaceuticals/Pharmaceuticals/Biopharmaceuticals/
Google Directory: Remediation Technology
Google's search provides links to resources about biogeochemistry, hydrology, bioremediation, hazardous waste, and other environmental topics.
http://directory.google.com/alpha/Top/Science/Environment/Hazardous_Waste/Remediation_Technology/
Pharmabase 1.1
This database of cellular physiology and pharmacology, maintained by the BioCurrents Research Center, is a research tool, a resource for students and an ongoing interactive forum on the use of pharmacological compounds in cellular research. It has several navigational routes, including membrane transport, which also illustrates the diversity of mechanisms that are covered. Users have access to detailed compound records with interactive features, and a form to send comments to the editor.
http://zeus.mbl.edu/brc/browser/index.php?func=explode&myID=181
WWW Virtual Library: Biotechnology Information Directory
Sections of relevance on this site include Antibodies, Peptides, Reagents; Drug Discovery and Related Services; Clinical Trials, Legal Services and Regulatory Affairs; and Product Development and Clinical Trial Support.
http://www.cato.com/biotech/
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Biosafety & Biotechnology Regulation
AgBIOS
AgBIOS is a Canadian company dedicated to providing public policy, regulatory, and risk assessment expertise for products of biotechnology. The site offers access to a database of safety information on all genetically modified plant products that have received regulatory approval, information on the implementation of biosafety systems, including case studies for food and environmental safety assessments, and a searchable library of biosafety related bibliographic references in key topic areas.
http://www.agbios.com/main.php
Agriculture/Biotechnology
This USDA site provides an introduction to the complex issues related to agricultural biotechnology, offering pointers to law and regulations from the USDA, EPA and FDA; trade information and reports from various organizations.
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?navid=BIOTECH&parentnav=AGRICULTURE&navtype=RT
American Biological Safety Association
This association represents the interests and needs of practitioners of biological safety worldwide, and provides a forum for the continued and timely exchange of information. This site provides links to Applied Biosafety, a peer reviewed quarterly journal; regulations; federal agencies; a Biosafety Compendium on International Regulations & Guidelines; and links to relevant full-text documents.
http://www.absa.org/restool.html
Biotechnology Regulatory Services
This unit of the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service regulates the field testing, movement, and importation of genetically engineered organisms that are known to be, or could be, plant pests. Links to resources such as an overview of how Federal regulatory agencies regulate biotech products, international organizations, and state biotechnology regulatory officials are found here.
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/brs/
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
The "Devices" component of this FDA divisional site is responsible for medical devices involved in the collection, processing, testing, manufacture and administration of licensed blood, blood components and cellular products. CBER has developed a Device Action Plan to facilitate the provisions of the 1997 FDA Modernization Act and to ensure consistency between policies and procedures. On this web site devices are listed by the Office and Division responsible for the device.
http://www.fda.gov/cber/devices.htm
Center for Devices and Radiological Health
This FDA division is responsible for medical device regulation, especially Title 21 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 800 to Part 1299. In addition CDRH developed specialized databases to guide the industry and the consumers.
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/
Center for Veterinary Biologics
This USDA center has a searchable database that covers crop plants developed through the use of modern biotechnology that have completed the recommended or required reviews for planting, food, or feed use in the U.S. This database lists only products that have completed evaluations by all relevant federal agencies for a particular use. The database may be searched by common or scientific name, trait (insect resistance, herbicide tolerance, etc.), applicant, event, or keyword, including trade name. Each record has product and regulatory information
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/cvb
Code of Federal Regulations
The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the federal government.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html
Environmental Health and Toxicology
This comprehensive toxicology and environmental health gateway of resources is maintained by the National Library of Medicine. It offers U.S. federal and state government resources, major national scientific societies and professional organizations, international organizations, glossaries, tutorials, journals, full-text documents, and much more.
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro.html
Nanotechnology
This EPA topic page highlights research activities in nanotechnology and provides facts sheet on the environmental applications and implications of this technology, research efforts conducted on its behalf , "Frontiers" lecture series, proceedings and technical reports and relevant meetings.
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/nano/
i-bio's Biotechnology Regulatory Atlas
An easy-access guide to the main technical regulations affecting biotech companies within the UK, this atlas contains nine main maps which can all be reached through the Route Planner.
http://plus.i-bio.gov.uk/ibioatlas/
Information Systems for Biotechnology
This resource in Agbiotech information provides a balanced view of the potential benefits and concerns of this powerful technology to support the environmentally responsible use of agricultural biotechnology products. Topics include the development, testing and regulatory review of genetically modified plants, animals and microorganisms within the U.S. and abroad.
http://www.isb.vt.edu/
Medical Device Safety
This resource from MedlinePlus provides information for the consumer.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medicaldevicesafety.html
Office of Biotechnology Activities
This NIH office monitors scientific progress and ethical issues in basic and clinical research involving recombinant DNA, human gene transfer, genetic technologies and xenotransplantation.
http://www4.od.nih.gov/oba/
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NIOSH provides national and world leadership to prevent work-related illness, injury, disability and death by gathering information, conducting scientific research, and translating the knowledge gained into products and services. The NIOSH website provides information on topics such as nanotechnology, chemical safety and electric and magnetic fields.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/
RegSource.com
This gateway organizes worldwide regulatory, clinical, toxicological, and other drug/device development-related information on the Internet, by providing links to regulatory affairs information from agencies.
http://www.regsource.com/Medical_Devices/medical_devices.html
United States Regulatory Agencies Unified Biotechnology Website
This site focuses on the agricultural products of modern biotechnology and the U.S. government agencies responsible for oversight of these products. A searchable database covers crop plants developed through the use of modern biotechnology that have completed the recommended or required reviews for planting, food, or feed use in the United States. Products may be searched by common or scientific name, trait applicant, event, or keyword, including trade name. Each record has product information, including reviewed uses within the United States, and regulatory agency review summaries.
http://usbiotechreg.nbii.gov
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Biosensors and BioMEMS
BioMEMS
Maintained by the University of Cincinnati, this site provides information on conferences, journals, societies, government sites, research institutes and companies.
http://www.biomems.uc.edu/index.html
bmesource
bmesource is a gateway to biomedical engineering resources, offering high-quality information about clinical problems and biomedical technologies that address them. Links to resources are organized in a "faceted" hierarchical configuration-at the deepest level the links for a specific topic are divided into group link areas based on a specific body of work, which is identified by a key word description. Although this is a work in progress, the site contains over 10,000 links provided by 93 associate editors at 71 universities.
http://171.65.102.151/~bmesource/
Electrochemical Science and Technology Information Resource
This site, maintained by Zoltan Nagy at Case Western Reserve, has voluminous links to electrochemistry information, including an Electrochemistry Encyclopedia and an Electrochemical Dictionary.
http://electrochem.cwru.edu/estir/
MEMS and Nanotechnology Clearinghouse
This site provides introductory information about MEMS, including a beginner's guide to MEMS processing, a materials database, industry news, a glossary, a materials database, job listings, and related resources.
http://www.memsnet.org/
Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) - Micromachines
From Martindale's Virtual Engineering Center comes this "medical multimedia education and specialized information resource center" with topics such as MEMS databases, courses and teaching modules, microelectronics calculators, applets, animation, and stimulation.
http://www.martindalecenter.com/GradEngineering_6_MZ.html#MEMS
Semiconductor Subway
The Semiconductor subway from MIT provides links to all manner of semiconductor and microsystems related information, including fabrication facilities, research activities and standards work. Navigation can be via a clickable subway map showing the various stations or a textual table of contents.
http://www-mtl.mit.edu/semisubway/
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Biotechnology
Access Excellence Resource Center
This program, now a part of the National Health Museum, is designed to enable high school health, biology and life science teachers across the country to access their peers as well as experts. "Graphics Gallery" is a series of labeled diagrams with explanations representing the important processes of biotechnology. Each diagram is followed by a summary of information, providing a context for the process illustrated. The "About Biotech" section focuses on issues, ethics, practical applications of biotechnology, and history and profiles of pioneers.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/
AgNIC
AgNIC is the web gateway to quality agricultural biotechnology information on the Internet and is the result of a collaborative effort between many academic libraries, government agencies, and international organizations. Types of resources reviewed and selected include: other Internet gateways of resources, government agencies, international organizations, societies, associations, mailing lists, discussion groups, databases, reports and publications. Search by keyword or browse by subject.
http://agnic.umd.edu/
bio.com
Bio.com offers information related to biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries-"In Focus" features, technology webcasts, interviews with leading scientists in the field, topical reviews and articles on cutting-edge topics in the life sciences, the latest news from academic and industrial labs, laboratory protocols, and organized collections of internet links and web-based tools, such as journals, databases, software tools, educational websites, university and institutions, and career resources.
http://www.bio.com/realm/index.jhtml?realmId=5
BioChemHub: Biochemistry
This site is a science directory with links to lecture notes, tutorials, dictionaries, primers and other resources for students in General Biochemistry, Metabolism, Proteins, and Molecular Genetics.
http://biochemhub.com/biochem/biochemistry.cfm
Biochemical Science Division
This NIST Biotechnology program covers four areas of research: DNA technologies, bioprocess engineering, structural biology, and materials.
http://www.cstl.nist.gov/div831/Biotechnology_Div.htm
Bioinformatics
From the BioTech lab at the University of Texas at Austin, this hybrid biology/chemistry educational resource is a very good basic explanation of Bioinformatics, plus annotated links to related computer science topics and to courses, conferences, documents, and institutes that deal with bioinformatics or medical informatics. One of the main goals of this website is to evaluate and explain the features of some of the more popular related sites.
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/pages/bioinfo.html
Biopharmaceutical Glossary and Taxonomies
Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Biopharmaceutical Glossary and Taxonomies encompasses over 5,000 definitions, additional related terms, narrower terms and broader terms. Links are also provided to a number of useful websites with excellent introductory material, some specifically aimed at people without any technical background. Definitions of relevant technologies and instrumentation are provided, with various links and contexts. Registration is required in order to access this resource, which also includes the email monthly newsletter, GenomeLink.
http://www.genomicglossaries.com/default.asp
BioSpace
BioSpace is a site for the bioscience industry with company links, career center, event calendar, plus a discussion area.
http://www.biospace.com/
Biotech Primer
Monsanto UK offers information about the basics of food biotechnology.
http://www.monsanto.co.uk/primer/primer.html
Biotechnology
From BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources of the University of Strathclyde, this site is an extensive, selected, evaluated, and annotated collection of resources on biotechnology, updated monthly. It includes bibliographies, book and text collections, dictionaries, directories, mailing lists and government agencies. Browsing the subject list is recommended although a keyword search is available.
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/b/biotechnology.htm
Biotechnology Calendar
Meetings calendar from Cato Research Institute.
http://www.cato.com/fyi/
Biotechnology Outreach Education Center
This site at Iowa State University provides links to educational resources.
http://www.biotech.iastate.edu/Educational_resources.html
Embryonic Stem Cells
This University of Wisconsin-Madison site provides information on Stem cells basics, cultivating stem cells, related web sites, and news.
http://www.news.wisc.edu/packages/
Guide to Biotechnology
The 2005-2006 edition, compiled by the Biotechnology Industry Organization, provides updated product, financial and scientific information, as well as extensive discussions of the industry's key technologies, economic performance and ethical issues.
http://www.bio.org/speeches/pubs/er/
Human Genome Project Information Resources
This site provides introductory information on the project.
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/education/education.shtml
Information Systems for Biotechnology
This resource in Agbiotech information provides a balanced view of the potential benefits and concerns of this powerful technology to support the environmentally responsible use of agricultural biotechnology products. Topics include the development, testing and regulatory review of genetically modified plants, animals and microorganisms within the U.S. and abroad.
http://www.isb.vt.edu/
National Center for Biotechnology Information
The National Library of Medicine established this center in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information. NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information-all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Principles of Biotechnology
This site from the Iowa State University extension service covers the basic concepts, giving some background of genetics and genetic engineering to transfer desired traits. It includes a glossary of trade words and their meanings.
http://warp.nal.usda.gov/bic/Education_res/iastate.info/bio1.html
Science.gov
This gateway to science information provided by U.S. Government agencies includes research and development results. Biotechnology subtopics are found under multiple main topics. Search this website by keyword(s) or keyword(s) limited by topic; browse by topic or subtopic.
http://www.science.gov/index.html
SciTechResources.gov
This catalog of government science and technology websites provides easy, one-stop access to key U.S. government web technology resources. SciTechResources.gov uses the same topics/subtopics as Science.gov. Search this website by keyword(s) or keyword(s) limited by topic; browse by topic or subtopic.
http://www.scitechresources.gov/
Southwest Biotechnology and Informatics Center
Single-point access to a vast collection of widely distributed biotechnology information as well as developing new educational and bioinformatics services is available, divided into three main sections: educational resources, internet resources searchable database of more than 4000 annotated links in broad categories, and products and services. Browse the complete list of categories or search to find resources containing specific words or URLs.
http://www.swbic.org/
SPIE: International Society for Optical Engineering
This optics, photonics, fibers and lasers site features the latest news and progress in this field, information on conferences and events, and a database with the abstracts of the articles published in SPIE conference proceedings and journals. The "Photonics Gateway" section is arranged by technology areas: Astronomy, Electronic Imaging, Ellipsometry, Fiber Optics, Heat Transfer Measurements, Holography, Lasers, Lighting, Materials, Semiconductors, X-ray Technology, Semiconductors and Virtual Reality. In addition there are links to national laboratories and government organizations, societies and professional associations and universities.
http://spie.org/
ucbiotech.org
The Agriculture and Natural Resources Statewide Biotechnology Workgroup at U.C. Berkeley provides information and resources on biotechnology, and facilitates scientific evaluation, education, and fact-based public discussion on GM foods. The "Biotechnology Information" section contains commonly raised issues associated with a variety of topics relating to agriculture, foods, agricultural practices and biotechnology. The issues are linked to responses, which contain additional links to relevant scientific references from the "Scientific Database" of 1,000 publications with summaries or abstracts that can be searched. The site also has a "Resources" section that provides aids to enter the dialogue (downloadable images and videos) and "Education" and "News" sections.
http://ucbiotech.org/
ViFaTec
This engineering subject gateway from the University of Hanover in Germany provides structured access to relevant technical online information for engineers, technicians and scientists, especially European resources. There are ten menu options, each with a browse option and a list of specific resource categories.
http://vifatec.tib.uni-hannover.de/index.php3?L=e
Whybiotech?
This site from the Council for Biotechnology Information aims to improve understanding and acceptance of biotechnology by collecting balanced, science-based information and communicating it through a variety of channels. This website provides overviews on a variety of topics with bibliographies.
http://www.whybiotech.com/
World Lecture Hall
Maintained by the University of Texas at Austin, this site lists pages created by faculty using the web to deliver course materials in any language, and in a series of subjects, such as biotechnology and biomedical engineering.
http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/browse.cfm
WWW Virtual Library: Biotechnology Information Directory
Sections of relevance on this site include Antibodies, Peptides, Reagents; Drug Discovery and Related Services; Clinical Trials, Legal Services and Regulatory Affairs; and Product Development and Clinical Trial Support.
http://www.cato.com/biotech/
yourgenome.org
Produced by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, this site aids in understanding genomes and genomic science and the implications for us all.
http://www.yourgenome.org/
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Databases
To locate journal articles search in a library database for the journal literature in the field. A library database, or an online index, is an organized collection of articles from scholarly journals (peer-reviewed/ refereed), magazines, and national and regional newspapers. All database resources available at http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Menu.html are restricted to CCNY or CUNY users only.
Specialized Engineering databases found there include:
Ei Engineering Village 2
Ei provides access to Compendex, the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research literature, containing abstracts from all areas of engineering, including 2,600 scholarly journals, conferences and reports. The 1990s segment of the database includes citations from an additional 2,500 sources. Approximately 22% of the database is made up of indexed conference literature, while 90% of all source documents are in English. Coverage: 1969 to present. Full text is available through SFX ("Find it!") link to external databases; bear in mind that not all articles will be linked to full text resources.
INSPEC
INSPEC indexes and abstracts Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It provides abstracts to nearly 4,000 scholarly journals as well as about 2,000 conference proceedings, books, dissertations and reports on physics, electrical engineering and electronics, control theory and technology, computers & computing, and biomedical instrumentation. Coverage: 1969 to present. Full text is available through SFX ("Find it!") link to external databases; bear in mind that not all articles will be linked to full text resources.
MathSciNet
The American Mathematical Society database covers the world's mathematical literature. MathSciNet provides access to the "Mathematical Reviews Database" and "Current Mathematical Publications." Mathematical Reviews Database has bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature since 1940. The "Current Mathematical Publications" is published 17 times per year and contains the bibliographic information and classifications (using the Mathematics Subject Classification) of the classified items in the Mathematical Reviews.
Web of Science
Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary database that enables searching of nearly 6,000 scholarly journals and magazines in all areas of science, engineering, and medicine. The primary purpose of Web of Science is to find cited references (the footnotes or bibliographies), although many users search it for authors and topics. Coverage: 1995 to present. Full text is available through SFX ("Find it!") link to external databases; bear in mind that not all articles will be linked to full text resources.
Please request the software from the Science/Engineering Library for the following database:
SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar is a comprehensive database indexing the literature of chemistry and all related sciences. SciFinder Scholar is particularly useful for locating articles concerned with specific chemical substances and reactions.
Open Access Databases:
AGRICOLA
AGRICultural OnLine Access, produced by the National Agricultural Library, is a database of 2.5 million bibliographic references to the agricultural literature. AGRICOLA covers agricultural journals, as well as United States Department of Agriculture publications, state agricultural experiment station and extension services documents, conference proceedings, books, theses, patents, software and audiovisual materials. Topics include Agriculture, Ecology, Forestry, Zoology, Veterinary science, Botany, Entomology, Food and nutrition and more. Coverage begins in 1970 and varies by title. Full text is not available. Browse by author title, subject or search by keywords or menus.
http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/
E-BioSci
Europe's Gateway to the Life Sciences, developed by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), searches abstracts in the field of molecular biology and genetics, with a focus on human genetics. E-BioSci searches the PubMed database(1960-2005) and the Pascal database (1999-2004), across different content types - Literature, Patents, Genes and Proteins, using an interactive search refinement and allows for human gene recognition in full text, with links to popular gene databases.
http://e-biosci.embo.org:8080/index.jsp
Entrez is a powerful search engine that can be applied to any of the large databases maintained by the National Center of Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Entrez also integrates the scientific literature, DNA and protein sequence databases, 3D protein structure and protein domain data, population study datasets, expression data, assemblies of complete genomes, and taxonomic information into a tightly interlinked system.
Environmental Health and Toxicology
This comprehensive toxicology and environmental health gateway of resources is maintained by the National Library of Medicine. It offers U.S. federal and state government resources, major national scientific societies and professional organizations, international organizations, glossaries, tutorials, journals, full-text documents, and much more.
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro.html
GOLD: Genomes Online Database
This database provides access to information regarding complete and ongoing genome projects around the world. GOLD provides the largest available and most detailed monitoring of genome sequencing projects.
http://www.genomesonline.org/
NIOSHTIC-2
This site is a bibliographic database of occupational safety and health publications, documents, grant reports, and other communication products supported in whole or in part by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
http://www2a.cdc.gov/nioshtic-2/AdvSearch2.asp
Nucleic Acid Research: Database Issue, Volume 34, January 1, 2006 provides descriptions and updates of the most important bioinformatics databases, needed by the researchers in this field. This is an annual compilation The 2006 issue presents 94 new databases and updates of 68 existing databases from the 2005 edition.
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol34/suppl_1/index.dtl
Nucleic Acid Research: Database Issue, Volume 33, January 1, 2005
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol33/suppl_1/index.dtl#EDITORIAL
Toxicology Tutorials
From the National Library of Medicine's Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program, this is an ideal resource for undergraduates, as well as professionals and the public with a basic science background.
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/toxtutor.html
TOXNET
TOXicology Data NETwork is a cluster of databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and related areas from the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program of the National Library of Medicine. TOXNET is designed as an easy way to search databases of varying formats and content. It can be used to locate toxicology data, literature references, and toxic release information on particular chemicals s well as to search to identify chemicals that cause specific effects. The TOXNET "Multiple Databases" option allows for simultaneous searching of HSDB, IRIS, CCRIS, and GENE-TOX.
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
TOXNET Frequently Asked Questions
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/toxnet_faq.html
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Dictionaries & Glossaries
BioABACUS
A searchable database of abbreviations and acronyms in biotechnology that provides data on the name of the term, its meaning, the category in which it is mostly used and, when available, a link in which additional information for the term can be found.
http://biotech.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nmsu.edu%2F%7Emolbio%2FbioABACUShome.htm
Biomechanics: A Glossary of Terms
From the Department of Podiatry at Curtin University of Technology, this glossary provides help when reading a biomechanical text. It is not intended to be exhaustive.
http://www.podiatry.curtin.edu.au/glossary/
Biopharmaceutical Glossary and Taxonomies
Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Biopharmaceutical Glossary and Taxonomies encompasses over 5,000 definitions, additional related terms, narrower terms and broader terms. Links are also provided to a number of useful websites with excellent introductory material, some specifically aimed at people without any technical background. Definitions of relevant technologies and instrumentation are provided, with various links and contexts. Registration is required in order to access this resource, which also includes the email monthly newsletter, GenomeLink.
http://www.genomicglossaries.com/default.asp
BioTech Life Science Dictionary
An outgrowth of the BioTech project at Indiana University, this site aims to provide a hybrid biology/chemistry educational resource and research tool on the Web. More than 7,000 terms deal with subjects that involve biochemistry and biotechnology, and includes bioengineering terms as well as ecology, botany and medical terms.
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html
Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture
This e-book by Zaid, Hughes and Nicholas is "A revised and augmented edition of the Glossary of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering" published in 2001 and currently available in English, French and Spanish.
http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/DOCREP/004/Y2775E/Y2775E00.HTM
MedBioWorld
These Online Medical & Bioscience Dictionaries, Glossaries and Terminologies provide links to general, bioscience and medical dictionaries, glossaries, and other reference tools.
http://www.sciencekomm.at/advice/dict.html
Medical Dictionaries, Abbreviations, Eponyms
From Martindale's Virtual Medical Center, this site has links to multilingual and language specific medical and dental dictionaries.
http://www.martindalecenter.com/MedicalD_Dict.html
MediLexicon
From Pharma-Lexicon International (UK) is a dictionary of over 200,000 acronyms and abbreviations from the fields of medicine, pharmacy, biotechnology, agrochemicals and healthcare. It also includes medical news and searches for the medical, pharmaceutical or healthcare professional.
http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/
WWW Virtual Library: Biotechnology Information Directory
This site includes a compilation of data standards and glossaries.
http://www.cato.com/biotech/bio-info.html
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Dissertations
Dissertation Abstracts
Citations to dissertations from U.S., Canadian, British, and other European institutions in all academic subjects from 1861 to the present are found in this resource. Abstracts are provided for doctoral dissertations beginning in July 1980, while selected master's thesis abstracts are available beginning in 1988. The database is updated monthly.
http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Menu.html
DSpace at MIT
Access to MIT research in digital form, including preprints, technical reports, working papers, conference papers, and images is available on this site.
https://dspace.mit.edu/index.jsp
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
NDLTD is an international non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. It offers the world's largest union catalog of theses and dissertations of academic institutions, and aims to cover all significant graduate research results, in all areas, all nations and all languages. Browse the catalog by theses and dissertation author, subject, title and library call number. The Expert search function allows you to use Boolean operators in a command mode.
http://www.ndltd.org/
Scirus
Scirus is a science-focused search engine available on the Internet that has indexed more than 200,000 electronic theses and dissertations that are currently made available via the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. Use the "Advanced Search" option, and select "NDLTD" from "Preferred Web sources."
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/advanced/index.jsp
Virtual Technical Reports Center
Developed and maintained by Gloria Lyles Chawla of the University of Maryland Libraries, this site contains links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds, either as full-text reports or as searchable extended abstracts. Some sites are listed by subject categories, as well as by institution.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html
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E-Books
Anatomy of the Human Body
Gray's 20th ed.,1918. This classic book features 1,247 engravings-many in color.
http://www.bartleby.com/107/
Assayer
Maintained by Benjamin Crowell, this website provides books offered free for online viewing by their authors/copyright holders. Some of the books have restrictions on printing, sharing, and reusing them. Become a member (free) to post your own reviews, add books to the database, or participate in discussions of books.
http://www.theassayer.org/
Atlases of the Brain
Developed by Dr. Suzanne Stensaas at the University of Utah. Note: This website requires a newer browser and Java
http://medstat.med.utah.edu/kw/brain_atlas/
Bioelectromagnetism: Principles and Applications of Bioelectric and Biomagnetic Fields
The 1995 edition by Malmivuo and Plonsey from Oxford University Press.
http://butler.cc.tut.fi/~malmivuo/bem/bembook/
Direct and Inverse Bioelectric Field Problems
From the Computational Science Education Project, sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy, the 1995 ed.
http://csep1.phy.ornl.gov/bf/bf.html
EEVL: Engineering E-Books
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/engineering/resource-results.htm?sect=eng&res=FULT02
FreeBooks4Doctors!
Dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books over the Internet, this site has 650 books sorted by medical specialty.
http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/index.htm
FreeTechBooks
Lists online computer science and engineering books (+lecture notes), offered free for online viewing by their authors/copyright holders. Some of the books have restrictions on printing, sharing, and reusing them.
http://www.freetechbooks.com/
Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture
This e-book by Zaid, Hughes and Nicholas is "A revised and augmented edition of the Glossary of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering" published in 2001 and currently available in English, French and Spanish.
http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/DOCREP/004/Y2775E/Y2775E00.HTM
Online Book Page
Maintained by John Mark Ockerbloom of the University of Pennsylvania Library, this site provides access to books offered free for online viewing by their authors/copyright holders. Some of the books have restrictions on printing, sharing, and reusing them. Search by author or title; browse by Library of Congress call numbers and subjects.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Online Neuropathology Atlas
From the Department of Neurology, University Medical School, Debrecen, Hungary, this site has images of cerebrovascular, neoplastic, degenerative and developmental diseases.
http://www.neuropat.dote.hu/atlas.html
National Academies Press
The National Academies Press publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health and the database contains more than 3,000 titles. Many titles are in electronic Adobe PDF format. Hundreds of these books can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book, while others are available for purchase.
http://www.nap.edu/
National Center for Biotechnology Information Bookshelf
The NCBI Bookshelf provides a collection of searchable biomedical books, including titles on asthma, cancer, high blood pressure, obesity, and retroviruses. There are also more general works on topics including the cell, developmental biology, glycobiology, genes and disease, immunobiology and neurochemistry. Bookshelf is part of the Entrez search and retrieval system.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books
NCBI Handbook
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowTOC&rid=handbook.TOC&depth=2
Netlibrary
CUNY's NetLibrary collection contains more than 800 online books in all subject areas. Also included is the Project Gutenberg database of over 3,400 books from all historical periods. The majority are works of fiction and other literature.
http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Menu.htm
NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods
An engineering statistics handbook on the Internet, this book has chapters in both html and pdf format for easy printing.
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/index.htm
Samizdat Press
Samizdat Press is devoted to the free distribution of books, lecture notes and software. Everything is free and may be freely copied and distributed.
http://samizdat.mines.edu/
Textbook Revolution
The Textbook Revolution website maintained by Jason Turgeon provides access to books offered free for online viewing by their authors/copyright holders. Some of the books have restrictions on printing, sharing, and reusing them. The subject with the most coverage is computer science with 196 texts.
http://www.textbookrevolution.org/
Virtual Hospital: Multimedia Textbooks
A digital health sciences library which may be used to answer patient care questions, books are authored and peer-reviewed by academic experts at the University of Iowa.
http://www.janela1.com/vh/docs/v0000051.htm
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
The Duke University Medical Center's Division of Orthopaedic Surgery provides this key reference in an easy to read outline format with 11,000 pages with more than 5,000 images. Each topic is fully searchable by alphabetical, anatomical and keyword searches. It is updated daily.
http://www.wheelessonline.com/
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E-Journals
Access to nearly 30,000 full text e-journals, including bioengineering e-journals is available through http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Menu.html:
- Click the Alphabetical List of Journal Titles Online link at the top of the page to search a specific journal title or keyword or browse by subject. Listings include the journal title, links to the database or databases providing full text, and coverage.
- Search more than 40 e-journal collections such as the American Chemical Society, IEEE and the American Society for Microbiology by clicking on the collection title.
- Click on BioMed Central for more than 140 open access journals covering all areas of biology and medicine.
- Click on the Directory of Open Access Journals for access to 1,986 quality-controlled, unrestricted, scientific and scholarly journals, of which 490 are searchable at the article level. Browse by title or by an expandable list of subjects.
- Click on Google Scholar to search full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and fields. Today, the index includes virtually all peer-reviewed journals available online, except those published by Elsevier, the world's largest scientific publisher. Google Scholar covers peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, technical reports, abstracts, and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research. Google Scholar may also include multiple versions of an article and is the world's largest index of the "Deep Web" or content that is only available to entitled users.
- Search HighWire Press from the Stanford University Libraries, a repository of 919 free, full-text, peer-reviewed journals. Browse this list by topic, alphabetically, or by publisher.
- Click on the Public Library of Science for peer-reviewed, open access, scientific and medical journals in Biology, Medicine, Computational Biology, Genetics, Pathogens and Clinical Trials.
- Search PubMed Central's digital archive of life sciences journal literature developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Library of Medicine.
Other open access e-journals:
arXiv e-Prints
e-Print "preprints" in physics, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computer sciences, and quantitative biology are available from Cornell University with assistance from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute for Theoretical Physics and the University of Adelaide. Formats include PDF, PostScript, and DVI.
http://www.arxiv.org
E-print Network
Research Communications for Scientists and Engineers from the Department of Energy aim to facilitate and encourage the exchange of strategically important research communications. It is a gateway to over 18,200 web sites and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics but also including chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear sciences and engineering, energy research, computer and information technologies, and other disciplines of interest to DOE. This site is browsable by subject area via the subject pathways, and searchable by subject and full text.
http://www.osti.gov/eprints/
eScholarship Repository
This post-print service offers works of authors currently affiliated with the University of California. The author must have the legal right (copyright or permission) to include the paper in the Repository.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/
Free Full Text
Direct links to over 7,000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by anyone for free (though some may require free registration). The issue(s) which are available for free are indicated for each title on the alphabetical periodical lists. Please Note: Many commercial publishers may allow one issue at a time to be open access for perusal. Those titles are also included in this directory.
http://www.freefulltext.com/
Free Medical Journals
An open access digital archive offering journals indexed by specialty and language.
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
Internet Scientific Publications
ISPUB currently publishes 62 open access medical online journals. Some titles of interest to bioengineering are: Internet Journal of Bioengineering, Internet Journal of Genomics and Proteomics, Internet Journal of Stimulation, Internet Journal of Stimulation and Technology; Internet Journal of Nanotechnology.
http://www.ispub.com/
OAIster
A service from the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service, OAIster provides access to 5.2 million metadata records from over 450 institutions. It offers one-stop-shopping for users in search of e-prints and other electronic documents in archives and repositories worldwide.
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/
SciELO
SciELO is a open access digital archive with a focus on developing countries (especially in Latin America and the Caribbean).
http://www.scielo.org/index.php?lang=en
Scirus
This is Elsevier's science-specific search engine providing access to e-prints, open access journal articles, technical reports, and other freely available electronic documents from selected archives, open access journal publishers, and repositories as well as science-oriented web pages and ScienceDirect articles.
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/
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History & Bioethics
Access Excellence Resource Center
From the National Health Museum, this site's "About Biotech" section includes three areas-Biotech Applied, Biotech Chronicles and Issues and Bioethics-which look at the practical applications of biotechnology, history of biotechnology discoveries and the impact of biotechnology on complex decisions that affect a few individuals or an entire social group or society.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/
ActionBioscience.org: Issues in Biotechnology
This non-commercial, educational web site aims to promote an understanding of critical issues in the field, providing articles by scientists, science educators, and science students on issues related to cloning, genetically modified organisms, medical biotechnology, transgenic animals, fetal stem cells, and others.
http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/index.html
Bibliography on the History of Mechanical Engineering and Technology
http://www.asme.org/Communities/History/Resources/Bibliography_History.cfm
Bioethics in Brief
A full-text quarterly publication from the Office of Biotechnology at Iowa State University, each issue features an article by the bioethics outreach coordinator about a bioethics topic, articles about bioethics outreach efforts at the university, and a list of opportunities and events for further development in bioethics.
http://www.bioethics.iastate.edu/publications.html
BIO 2005-2006 Guide to Biotechnology
Compiled by the Biotechnology Industry Organization communications staff, this 156-page booklet provides updated product, financial and scientific information, as well as extensive discussions of the industry's key technologies, economic performance and ethical issues.
http://www.bio.org/speeches/pubs/er/BiotechGuide.pdf
Biotechnology Regulatory History
This unit of the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service regulates the field testing, movement, and importation of genetically engineered organisms that are known to be, or could be, plant pests.
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/brs/brs_history.html
CloneSafety.org
Sponsored by animal cloning and livestock genetics companies, in cooperation with the Biotechnology Industry Organization, this site provides information on the facts of animal cloning.
http://www.clonesafety.org/
Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research
CAMR is the nation's leading pro-cures coalition, comprised of nationally-recognized patient organizations, universities, scientific societies, and foundations advocating for the advancement of breakthrough research and technologies in regenerative medicine - including stem cell research and somatic cell nuclear transfer - in order to cure disease and alleviate suffering for individuals with life-threatening illnesses and disorders.
http://www.camradvocacy.org/fastaction/default.asp
ETHX on the Web
This searchable database maintained by National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature offers approximately 145,000 bibliographic citations to journal and newspaper articles, reports, legal materials, and book chapters.
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/databases/ethx.htm
Genetics.ca
A genetics and ethics page edited by Bryn Williams-Jones at University of British Columbia, this site serves as a clearinghouse for information on the social, ethical and policy issues associated with genetic knowledge and technology. This site organizes a diversity of web resources (websites, online articles, position statements, etc.) on genetics and ethics by topic. Under the "People and Places" category is an international list of research centers, public action groups, and government bodies involved in the study or discussion of issues broadly related to genetics and ethics.
http://www.genethics.ca/index.html
History of Biomedical Engineering
Broad overview prepared by the Whitaker Foundation, a major research supporter in the field. When the foundation closes, its web pages will move to www.bmes.org.
http://www.whitaker.org/glance/history.html
History of Biotech
This site from DuPont Biotechnology, provides a concise history and information about the science behind biotechnology, safety, its promise, FAQs and a glossary.
http://www2.dupont.com/Biotechnology/en_US/intro/history.html
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A volunteer collaboration by its editors, authors, and technical advisors, this site provides original signed contributions by specialists on key topics and philosophers and some temporary, or "proto articles," that have largely been adapted from public domain sources. Some of the topics relevant to biomedical engineering are:
Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers
This online exhibit in the NLM Profiles in Science series provides access to portions of the papers of Marshall W. Nirenberg, an American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on deciphering the genetic code.
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/JJ/
Mass Spectrometry History
The Scripps Center for Mass Spectrometry provides a historical perspective highlighting major technical advances and influential scientists in the field. The site also focuses on biomolecules characterization (both structure and activity) through the use of novel mass spectrometry technology. Many representative papers are included.
http://masspec.scripps.edu/
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
This site at Case Western Reserve provides engineers, scientists and students with resources for understanding and addressing ethically significant problems that arise in their work, and to serve those who are promoting learning and advancing the understanding of responsible research and practice in science and engineering. It has a topic index, codes of ethics and conduct from professional societies, cases, essays, educational resources, a glossary and much more.
http://onlineethics.org/
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This online encyclopedia contains extended articles on a range of topics in philosophy from classical times to the modern day, including topics of relevance to biomedical engineering, such as: Automated Reasoning, Causation and Manipulability, ethics, genetics, heredity, scientific realism, turing machines, and more.
http://plato.stanford.edu/
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Implants & Prosthetics
bmesource
bmesource is a gateway to biomedical engineering resources, offering high-quality information about clinical problems and biomedical technologies that address them. Links to resources are organized in a "faceted" hierarchical configuration-at the deepest level the links for a specific topic are divided into group link areas based on a specific body of work, which is identified by a key word description. Although this is a work in progress, the site contains over 10,000 links provided by 93 associate editors at 71 universities.
http://171.65.102.151/~bmesource/
Biomaterials Network
An interactive collection of online resources, searchable by keyword, after free registration.
http://www.biomat.net/
Implants & Prosthetics
From BmeCentral, this directory of biomedical engineering information about researchers, companies and emerging technologies within this subcategory of biomedical engineering provides pointers to everything from labs and investigators to medical device companies with FDA-approved products. Academic research labs are arranged according to sub-specialty, including prosthetic limbs, Artificial Heart, Artificial Lung, Bladder Prosthetics, Cardiovascular Implants & Prosthetics, Hearing Aids & Cochlear Implants, Neural Implants & Neuroprosthetics, Orthopedic & Dental Implants, Retinal & Corneal Implants & Prosthetics, Spinal Implants & Prosthetics, Vascular Stents & Neural Stents.
http://www.bmecentral.com/specialty/viewspecialty.php?id=15
Orthopedic Web Links (OWL)
OWL is a directory of orthopedics, orthopedic surgery and trauma resources on the web, such as commercial sites, case discussion sites, disability sites, e-mail lists and archives, international sites, libraries, meetings information, academic departments, publications, teaching sites, and links to other sites of related interest. Search by keyword or browse the subject categories.
http://www.orthopaedicweblinks.com/
Prostheses and Implants
From OMNI, this UK gateway links to evaluated quality resources in multiple formats, along with news services, clinical practice guidelines, systematic reviews, position statements, and organizational home pages. OMNI is aimed at students, researchers, academics and practitioners in the health and medical sciences.
http://130.88.13.169/browse/mesh/D019736.html
Prosthetics History
An historical overview from the Prosthetics-Esthetics Center at Northwestern University.
http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/depts/nupoc/proshistory.html
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Institutes & Societies
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
http://www.aimbe.org/about/index.htm
ASME Nanotechnology Institute
http://nano.asme.org/
Foresight Nanotech Institute
http://www.foresight.org/
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
http://www.hhmi.org/
Institute of Biological Engineering
http://www.ibeweb.org/
Nanotechnology Institute
http://www.nanotechinstitute.org/nti/index.jsp
National Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov/
National Institute of Standards and Technology
http://www.nist.gov/
National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/
Open Bioinformatics Foundation
http://www.open-bio.org
Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation
http://www.oref.org/site/PageServer
Scholarly Societies Project
A directory with links to websites for a selection of scholarly societies around the world, sponsored by the University of Waterloo Library, including "Science and Engineering."
http://www.scholarly-societies.org/subjects_soc.html#SCIENG
Societies - a brief selection:
American Academy of Orthotists & Prosthetists http://www.oandp.org/
American Society for Healthcare Engineering http://www.ashe.org/ashe/index.jsp
American Society of Biomechanics http://www.asbweb.org/
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation http://www.aami.org/
Biomedical Engineering Society http://www.bmes.org/
Biophysical Society http://www.biophysics.org/
Biotechnology Industry Organization http://www.bio.org/index.asp?stay=yes
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society http://www.hfes.org/Web/default.aspx
International Association of Nanotechnology http://www.ianano.org/
International Cartilage Repair Society http://www.cartilage.org/
International Society for Optical Engineering http://www.spie.org/
International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics http://www.ispo.ws/
International Society of Biomechanics http://www.isbweb.org/
International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering http://www.biomaterials.ca/ius-bse.html
Materials Research Society http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/index.asp
Orthopaedic Research Society http://www.ors.org/
Society for Biomaterials http://www.biomaterials.org/Membership/join.htm
Tissue and Cell Engineering Society http://www.tces.org/
Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society http://www.tesinternational.org/
Surfaces in Biomaterials Foundation
http://www.surfaces.org/
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Laboratory Equipment & Supplies
bioProtocol
From bio.com, this site provides an A to Z list of laboratory instrumentation, equipment and supplies.
http://www.bio.com/protocolstools/researchTools.jhtml
BioSupplyNet
This commercial site is the yellow pages for life science and biomedical research products.
http://www.biosupplynet.com/
Sigma-Aldrich
Sigma-Aldrich produces and sells a broad range of biochemical, organic and inorganic chemicals and related products.
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/Area_of_Interest/The_Americas/United_States.html
WWW Virtual Library: Biotechnology
Product catalogs and laboratory instrumentation, equipment and supplies may be found here.
http://www.cato.com/biotech/bio-prod.html
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Nanotechnology
e-drexler.com
A directory of nanotechnology resources maintained by American engineer Dr. K. Eric Drexler, who helped establish nanotechnology, this site focuses on the science behind technologies of broad importance, summarizing research results and offering technical perspectives on research directions. It includes tutorial material, new results and annotated bibliographies on topics such as nanotechnology-based production systems and secure, distributed computing.
http://e-drexler.com/
Foresight Nanotech Institute
This educational organization aims to help prepare society for anticipated advanced technologies in molecular nanotechnology: the coming ability to build materials and products with atomic precision. It features background and history of nanotechnology for the general and technical Reader, a newsletter (back to 1987) and other publications, and a discussion board about nanotechnology.
http://www.foresight.org/
How Nanotechnology Will Work
This site explains how nanomachines will manufacture products and what impact nanotechnology will have on various industries in the coming decades.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/nanotechnology.htm/printable
International Council on Nanotechnology
ICON, from Rice University, is the only global organization aimed at providing effective nanotechnology stewardship through risk assessment, research and communication.
http://icon.rice.edu/index.cfm
Nanotechnology
From Martindale's Virtual Engineering Center, this site is a gateway to resources on nanostructure materials, nanoelectromechanical systems, carbon nanotubes and more. Categories of resources include courses & teaching modules, nanotechnology images & videos/movies, calculators, applets, animations, and stimulation.
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators4_D_MiNa.html#NANO
Nanotechnology
From BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources of the University of Strathclyde, this site is an extensive, selected, evaluated, and annotated collection of resources on nanotechnology, updated monthly. It includes bibliographies, book and text collections, dictionaries, directories, mailing lists and government agencies. Browsing the subject list is recommended although a keyword search is available.
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid=9110
Nanotechnology
This EPA topic page highlights research activities and provides a fact sheet on the environmental applications and implications of this technology; research efforts; the "Frontiers in Nanotechnology" lecture series; and proceedings and technical reports.
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/nano/
Nanotechnology
A NIOSH page that highlights research activities and provides information on occupational health risks of this technology, current ultrafine particle and related research, and the NIOSHTIC-2 a searchable bibliographic database of occupational safety and health publications, documents, grant reports, and journal articles.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/nanotech/
Nanotechnology Industries
A commercial site to distribute information and provide resources about nanotechnology and related emerging technologies, it is geared toward promoting the research development and application of nanotechnology.
http://www.nanoindustries.com/links/index.html
The Nanotube Site
Developed by Prof. David Tomnek at Michigan State University, this site provides full information on the nanotube field.
http://www.pa.msu.edu/cmp/csc/nanotube.html
National Nanotechnology Initiative
The NNI coordinates the integrated partnership of thirteen user facilities supported by National Science Foundation to provide nanotech facts, governmental organizations involved in this initiative, news, materials related to the societal, economic, workforces, educational, ethical, and legal implications of this technology, and an education center with career information.
http://www.nano.gov/index.html
NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer
The National Cancer Institute provides a scientific bibliography on categories linked to and abstracts related to nanotechnology, such as nanobiology and cancer nanotechnology, nanotechnology-enabled therapeutics development and delivery and more. The site is designed to accelerate the application of the best capabilities of nanotechnology to cancer.
http://nano.cancer.gov/resource_center/scientific_bibliography.asp
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Patents
Canadian Patents Database
The bibliographic database of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office offers access to 75 years of patent descriptions and images. Search, retrieve and study more than 1,500,000 patent documents.
http://patents1.ic.gc.ca/intro-e.html
DNA Patent Database
This Georgetown University site allows free public access to the full text and analysis of all DNA patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This searchable database allows researchers to track data or trends of patents and patent applications in categories such as the date of issue, inventor or receipt of government funding. Each individual patent claim has been coded into groups that relate to biological classification, function or application.
http://dnapatents.georgetown.edu/
Engineering Library Resources for Patents
A guide to patent beb sites and printed resources from James W. Clasper, Engineering Reference Librarian at the University of Cincinnati.
http://www.engrlib.uc.edu/guide/patent.html
European Patent Register
The register provides information on all European and Euro-PCT patent applications. Records include bibliographic data and legal status information but no description of the invention.
http://www.european-patent-office.org/epidos/epr.htm
FreePatentsOnline.com
Free PDF downloads of all patents published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since number 4,000,000 may be found here. From the full-text page of any patent, click "View Patent Images."
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
Genome and Genetic Research, Patent Protection and 21st Century Medicine
A primer on patents from the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
http://www.bio.org/ip/primer/main.asp
International Patent Classification
The Strasbourg Agreement of 1971 provides for a common classification for patents for invention including published patent applications, utility models and utility certificates. The International Patent Classification is a hierarchical system in which the whole area of technology is divided into a range of sections, classes, subclasses and groups.
http://www.wipo.int/classifications/ipc/en/
Patent Searching Tutorial and Guide to Online Resources and Information
From the University of Texas Libraries.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/engin/patent-tutorial/index.htm
Patenting
Biotechnology patents in light of precedent and current trends are found in "A Jurist's Guide to 21st Century Biotechnology," covering opinions, laws, and other supporting documents.
http://www.biojudiciary.org/
SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar is a comprehensive database indexing the literature of chemistry and all related sciences, including patents, from 1991 to-present. Please request the software from the Science/Engineering Library.
Search U.S. Patents
The Community of Science database is fully searchable for all of the approximately 2.6 million U.S. patents issued since 1975. Search by state, country, and classification classes. In addition, the database tracks the "lineage" of each patent - how each patent cites previous patents or is cited by subsequent ones. No images provided. Search instructions are found at: http://patents.cos.com/docs/pathelp_toc.shtml
http://patents.cos.com/
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Database
A freely searchable database of full text patents, issued from January 1976 to present, while 1790-1975 is only searchable by patent numbers and current U.S. classifications. Full-page images are available for most patents in a TIFF file format. Install and use a browser plug-in on a workstation in order to view these files, one page at a time.
http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
"General Information Concerning Patents"
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/index.html
"Manual of Patent Classification"
http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/classification/
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Standards
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI): Standards
http://www.aami.org/standards/index.html
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME): Codes and Standards
http://www.asme.org/Codes/
American National Standards Institute
ANSI is a non-profit organization that administers and coordinates the U.S. voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. ANSI facilitates the development of American National Standards by accrediting the procedures of standards developing organizations. Accreditation by ANSI signifies that the procedures used by the standards body in connection with the development of ANS meet the Institute's essential requirements for openness, balance, consensus and due process.
http://www.ansi.org/
ASTM International
Originally the American Society for Testing and Materials, ASTM is composed of more than 132 technical standards writing committees. Together, they have published more than 9,100 standard specifications, tests, practices, guides, and definitions for materials, products, systems, and services.
http://www.astm.org/ABOUT/aboutASTM.html
Center of Devices and Radiological Health Standards Database
Access to those national and international standards recognized by the FDA to be conformity standards for the medical devices manufacturing industry.
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfStandards/search.cfm
European Committee for Standardization
This site focuses on the objectives of the European Union with voluntary technical standards which promote free trade, the safety of workers and consumers, interoperability of networks, environmental protection, exploitation of research and development programmers and public procurement.
http://www.cenorm.be/cenorm/aboutus/index.asp
IEEE Standards Association
The leading developer of global industry standards in a broad range of industries, IEEE Xplore provides full-text access to all current standards. Limit a search by Publications: "IEEE Standards."
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.ccny-proxy1.libr.ccny.cuny.edu/search/advsearch.jsp
International Electrotechnical Commission
IEC is the leading global organization that prepares and publishes standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies. These serve as a basis for national standardization and as references when drafting international tenders and contracts.
http://www.iec.ch/
International Organization for Standardization
ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 156 countries, one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system and establishes international standards through consensus agreements between national delegations. Between 1947 and the present day, ISO has published more than 15 000 International Standards.
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage
National Electrical Manufacturers Association Standards
NEMA publishes over 500 standards, application guides, and technical papers. Search by keyword.
http://www.nema.org/stds/
National Resource for Global Standards
This is a one-stop information repository for 250,000 references to standards from more than 600 developers worldwide.
http://www.nssn.org/index.html
NIST Standards and Technical Regulations
NIST provides technical support that contributes to the development of high-quality domestic and international standards.:
http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/210/ssd.htm
Occupational Safety and Health Administration Standards
OSHA aims to ensure worker safety and health in the U.S. by working with employers and employees to create better working environments.
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owasrch.search_form?p_doc_type=STANDARDS
Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Technical Society (RESNA) Standards
http://www.resna.org/ProfResources/Publications/Publications2.php
Safety Link
Safety Link is a large collection of electrical product safety and standards resources.
http://www.safetylink.com/
World Standards Services Network
Through the web sites of its members, WSSN provides information on international, regional and national standardization and related activities and services.
http://www.wssn.net/WSSN/index.html
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Technical Reports
DSpace at MIT
Access to MIT research in digital form, including preprints, technical reports, working papers, conference papers, and images is available on this site.
https://dspace.mit.edu/index.jsp
Google Scholar
Use this search engine to find technical reports from a wide variety of academic publishers and professional societies, as well as across the web.
http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Menu.html
GrayLIT Network
Access to the gray literature collections of U.S. federal agencies, without first having to know the sponsoring agency, may be found through this portal for technical report information generated through federally funded research and development projects.
http://www.osti.gov/graylit/
Information Bridge
This DOE site provides access to 85,000 research reports and over 4.3 million pages of full-text documents and bibliographic citations in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics of interest related to DOE's mission. Documents are primarily from 1994 forward.
http://www.osti.gov/bridge
NASA Technical Reports Server
Search here for NASA's technical information, such as research reports. http://ntrs.larc.nasa.gov/?method=home
National Environmental Publications Information System
11,000 EPA full-text documents are available on topics such as water quality, wastewater, pesticides, ecological issues, wetlands and more.
http://nepis.epa.gov/
National Technical Information Service
NTIS makes available more than 2,000,000 publications and technical reports. NTIS began optically scanning all of the technical reports that it receives in 1997. Because of this effort, NTIS is now able to provide the full text of many reports as downloadable PDF files. Publications under 20 pages are free; others have a fee, starting at $8.95 each.
http://www.ntis.gov
Public STINET
The Scientific & Technical Information Network provides access to citations and some electronic full-text of unclassified documents that have been entered into Defense Technical Information Center's Technical Reports Collection
http://stinet.dtic.mil/
SAIL-eprints
SAIL-eprints is a search engine for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, in chemistry, physics, engineering and other sciences. SAIL enables searching over 70 institutional open access archives around the world.
http://eprints.bo.cnr.it/
Scirus
Scirus is a science-focused search engine available on the Internet that has indexed more than 200,000 electronic theses and dissertations that are currently made available via the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. Use the "Advanced Search" option, and select "NDLTD" from "Preferred Web sources."
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/advanced/index.jsp
Virtual Technical Reports Center
Developed and maintained by Gloria Lyles Chawla of the University of Maryland Libraries, this site contains links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds, either as full-text reports or as searchable extended abstracts. Some sites are listed by subject categories, as well as by institution.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html
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Tissue Engineering/ Regenerative Medicine
ARC Research Network for Tissue Engineering
Universities and research institutes have joined with the Australian government to establish a network of hundreds of Australian professionals in academia, industry, government and elsewhere who are experts in the production and use of living tissue in humans. The network is designed to stimulate new research by cross-fertilization of ideas. This website offers links to relevant resources on this subject, such as: conferences, other relevant websites, laboratories, researchers, journals, societies, governmental and non governmental research centers, etc.
http://arnte.iaaf.uwa.edu.au/
Background on Tissue Engineering
This tutorial is from Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/tissue/tutorial.html
bio.com
Bio.com offers information related to biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries-"In Focus" features, technology webcasts, interviews with leading scientists in the field, topical reviews and articles on cutting-edge topics in the life sciences, the latest news from academic and industrial labs, laboratory protocols, and organized collections of internet links and web-based tools, such as journals, databases, software tools, educational websites, university and institutions, and career resources.
http://www.bio.com/realm/index.jhtml?realmId=5
Biomaterials: Body Parts of the Future
Article by Cheryl R. Blanchard in Technology Today, Fall 1995.
http://www.swri.org/3pubs/ttoday/fall95/implant.htm
Foresight Nanotech Institute
The "Artificial Cells, Tissues and Organs" component of this site features many pointers to associations, institutes, academic centers devoted to these technologies.
http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Artificial.html
How Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Are Made
This online animation from the Dolan DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory requires the use of Flash player.
http://www.dnalc.org/stemcells.html
National Tissue Engineering Center
Established by Congress and administered by PTEI, the center's mission is to further develop and deliver new regenerative tissue engineering therapies for far-forward medical care to improve survival and minimize morbidity after life-threatening injuries.
http://www.ptei.org/NationalTissueEngineeringInitiative.asp
Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative
PTEI is a consortium of major research institutes and universities in southwestern Pennsylvania, with linkages to regional biotechnology companies. Potential training sites for fellows encompass all programs and laboratories within the PTEI network in artificial organs, bioimaging, biomaterials, bone and muscle, gene therapy, stem cell biology, and transplantation. PTEI's focus is to offer vertically integrated, educational programs and resources for K-12 students and teachers, continuing through undergraduate and postdoctoral training.
http://www.ptei.org/
SCDb
The Stem Cell Database, a joint project of Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania, contains data on the molecular phenotype of hematopoietic stem cells.
http://stemcell.princeton.edu/
Stem Cell Information
This NIH official site provides an overview of stem cell technology, FAQs, ethical issues, a glossary, an annotated bibliography, and links to databases, directories, advocacy groups, educational resources, international research, news sources, news web logs, professional associations, related federal government sites, and research programs at universities and institutions.
http://stemcells.nih.gov/
Stem Cell Information and Resources
This Stanford University School of Medicine site explains Stanford's involvement and perspective on stem cell issues, with links to related sites, such as background information, Stanford's stem cell research developments, national/international stem cell developments, and more.
http://mednews.stanford.edu/stemcell-index.html
Stem Cells and Stem Cell Transplantation
This MedlinePlus subsection provides information for the consumer.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/stemcellsandstemcelltransplantation.html
Stem Cells in the Spotlight
From the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah.
http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/stemcells/
Tissue Engineering Pages
The Tissue Engineering Pages provide up to date information on conferences and organizations as well as international tissue engineering projects.
http://www.tissue-engineering.net
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