ARGH -- Biomedical Acronym Resolver
Identify acronyms/abbreviations and their definitions within MEDLINE records.
 
ATCC -- American Type Culture Collection
Browse American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) catalog for cell lines, viruses, microorganisms, plants, even ESTs and yeast genetic stocks etc.
 
AcroMed -- a database of biomedical acronyms
Search for biomedical acronyms and the associated long forms extracted from MEDLINE abstracts (2001).
 
Amino Acid Table
Find information on the molecular properties and structure for each amino acid.
 
BWS -- BIOSMILE web search
A web application for annotating biomedical entities and relations.
 
BioLit -- integrating biological literature with databases
Provides metadata describing the semantic content of all open access, peer-reviewed articles which describe research from the major life sciences literature archive, PubMed Central.
 
BioText Search Engine -- beyond abstract search
A new way to access the scientific literature.
 
Biocompare -- the Buyers' Guide for Life Scientists
Search for buyers' guide, reviews, and user comments on various lab products for life science research.
 
COPE -- Cytokines Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
Search for comprehensive information on cytokines.
 
CellSpace Knowledge Miner
search for relationships between biomolecules and cellular functions or pathological states documented in literatures.
 
CoPub -- a literature-based keyword enrichment tool for microarray data analysis
Uses information in the Medline database for the biological interpretation of microarray data.
 
Codon Usage Database
Find the frequency of codon use in various organisms.
 
Codon Usage Tables
Find the codon usage table for a particular organism using its Latin name.
 
Compound Solutions
Get the recipes for common buffers (TE,TBE,SSC) and recalculate the recipes for a user defined volume.
 
Current Comparative Table (CCT) automates customized searches of dynamic biological databases
Automate customized bioinformatics searches.
 
Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
Find current protocols from CP in Bioinformatics.
 
Current Protocols in Cell Biology
Find current protocols from CP in Cell Biology.
 
Current Protocols in Cytometry
Search for current protocols in cytometry.
 
Current Protocols in Food Analytical Chemistry
Search for Current Protocols in Food Analytical Chemistry.
 
Current Protocols in Human Genetics
Find current protocols from CP in Human Genetics.
 
Current Protocols in Immunology
Search for current protocols used in immunology research.
 
Current Protocols in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Search for Current Protocols in Magnetic Resonance Imaging research.
 
Current Protocols in Molecular Biology (Red Book)
Find current protocols from CP in Molecular Biology.
 
Current Protocols in Neuroscience
Find current protocols from CP in Neuroscience.
 
Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Find current protocols from CP in Nucleic Acid Chemistry
 
Current Protocols in Pharmacology
Search for Current Protocols in Pharmacology.
 
Current Protocols in Protein Science
Find protocols from CP in Protein Science.
 
Current Protocols in Toxicology
Search for Current Protocols in Toxicology.
 
DNA Size (kb) Protein Size (kDa) Conversion Tool
Estimate the size of the gene (kb) by the protein size (kDa) and vice versa.
 
Dragon TF Association Miner -- A System for Exploring Transcription Factor Associations Through Text-mining
Mine PubMed documents for potential functional association of transcription factors (TFs) with terms from Gene Ontology (GO) and with diseases.
 
E3Miner -- a text mining tool for ubiquitin-protein ligases
Integrates available E3 data not only from the published literature but also from the biological databases, using natural language processing techniques.
 
Entrez PubMed Abstract Search
Search PubMed to retrieve articles.
 
ExactAntigen
Find antibody/reagent information and reviews from a database organized according to genes, species, and/or reagent types.
 
Faculty of 1000
Find the most important papers published in various fields of life sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers.
 
Free tutorials sponsored by Openhelix
Access free online tutorials on UCSC Genome Browser and a few others.
 
GoPubMed -- exploring PubMed with the Gene Ontology
Conduct gene ontology based search of PubMed abstracts.
 
HubMed -- a web-based biomedical literature search interface
Conduct sophisticated PubMed biomedical literature search and management.
 
Incyte Proteome BioKnowledge® Library
Access to six protein database for human curated literature, sequence, and genetic information.
 
LitMiner and WikiGene -- identifying problem-related key players of gene regulation using publication abstracts
Identify problem-related key players of gene regulation using publication abstracts.
 
MRS -- a fast and compact retrieval system for biological data
Retrieve genetic information in a large number of flat-file data banks.
 
MedGene Database
Find and rank gene-disease relationships based on disease-gene co-citation in MEDLINE literatures.
 
NLProt -- Extracting protein names and sequences from papers
Find protein-names and sequences in natural language-text.
 
PIE -- Protein Interaction information Extraction
An online prediction system for protein-protein interactions from text.
 
PaLS -- Pathway and Literature Strainer
Filter common literature, biological terms and pathway information.
 
Pathguide -- a pathway resource list
Search for database and tools relevant to biological pathway study from this comprehensive resources list.
 
Patome -- a database server for biological sequence annotation and analysis in issued patents and published patent applications
Search for biological sequence data disclosed in patents and published applications, as well as their analysis information.
 
Peptide sequence and literature database
Search for information on peptide sequence and literature.
 
PolySearch -- comprehensive biomedical text searching
A web-based text mining system for extracting relationships between human diseases, genes, mutations, drugs and metabolites.
 
Protocol Online
Search for protocols for molecular biology and medical research.
 
PubCrawler -- An Automatic New Content Alert System for PubMed and GenBank
Create a personalized free automatic alert system on newly added literatures or sequences in PubMed/GenBank that are specific to customized queries.
 
PubFinder -- a tool for improving retrieval rate of relevant PubMed abstracts
Search PubMed abstracts with improved retrieval rate.
 
PubGene Literature and Sequence Network Browser
Find literatures or sequences associated with a given gene of human, mouse, or rat.
 
PubGene Mesh Associations
Search for MeSH terms associations for a set of genes.
 
PubMatrix -- A Tool for Multiplex Literature Mining
Mine PubMed Literatures for genomic and proteomic datasets.
 
Random Nucleic Acid Sequence Generator and Sequence Mixer
Generate either mixed or random nucleotide sequence.
 
Rotor Calculation
Convert the speed of centrifugation [krpm] in relative centrifuge force (RCF)[kg]. The radius of rotor [mm] should be known for the calculation.
 
Rotor Calculation (Beckman)
Convert the speed of centrifugation [krpm] in relative centrifuge force (RCF)[kg} for any centrifuges made by Beckman Coulter.
 
SaRAD -- A Simple and Robust Abbreviation Dictionary
Search for information of biomedical abbreviations in MEDLINE.
 
Science STKE Literature
Find perspectives, reviews, protocols and journal articles focused on cell signaling.
 
Search Current Protocols
Search for protocols within individual titles or search all available titles simultaneously.
 
Search PubMed Abstracts Containing Aliases and Synonyms of Proteins
Search PubMed for abstracts containing all aliases and synonyms of a given, and find associated proteins.
 
Standard Genetic Code
Consult the standard genetic code table.
 
Stanford Biomedical Abbreviation Server
Search for longer forms of abbreviations in MEDLINE or the context in MEDLINE for biomedical abbreviations.
 
Textpresso -- An Ontology-Based Information Retrieval and Extraction System for Biological Literature
Mine biological literatures via a very sophisticated system that goes far beyond what a simple keyword search engine can do.
 
The Bioinformatics Links Directory -- a compilation of molecular biology web servers.
Search a directory of database and web servers previously published in Nucleic Acids Research.
 
UMLS -- The Unified Medical Language System
Search for standardized biomedical vocabularies, concepts, and their relationships.
 
Unit Conversion Tool
Convert units of measurements, cm to inch, Celsius to Fahrenheit, gm to ounce, mCi to CPM etc.
 
Weight to Molar Quantity (for proteins)
Convert the weight into the molar quantity and vice versa; calculate concentrations using weight and volume.
 
Whatizit -- Text processing through Web services
A text processing system that allows you to do textmining tasks on text.
 
WormBook -- the online review of Caenorhabditis elegans biology
Search for literature information on biology of Caenorhabditis elegans and related nematodes from this online collection of original, peer-reviewed chapters.
 
XplorMed -- a web server for exploring scientific literature
Use this web tool to aid MEDLINE searching by summarizing the subjects contained in the results.
 
bioProtocol
Search for protocols used in a wide variety of life science disciplines.
 
botXminer -- mining biomedical literature with a new web-based application
Mine biomedical literatures in PubMed.
 
e-LiSe -- e-Literature Searcher
An online tool for finding needles in the '(Medline) haystack'.
 
eTBLAST--A web server to identify expert reviewers, appropriate journals and similar publications
When preparing a manucript, use this free resource to select an appropriate journal for submission, to identify potential reviewers, and to estimate the novelty of an article.
 
iHOP -- Information Hyperlinked Over Proteins
Assess automatically retrieved literature linked to genes and proteins.
 

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