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1975-present. Covers journal articles, books, and reports on agricultural sciences and technology, including fisheries and aquaculture. From the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

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ALTBIB, the Bibliography on Alternatives to the Use of Live Vertebrates in Biomedical Research and Testing. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) developed ALTBIB to provide access to PubMed citations for users seeking information on alternatives to animal testing.
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ASCEND from BenchSci is a free online platform designed to help scientists find antibodies and related figures from publications. BenchSci curates published data in the form of figures to simplify the search process. The figures can then be filtered by specific experimental contexts cited in the paper such as techniques, tissue, cell lines, and more, to help users pinpoint antibodies that have been published under experimental conditions matching their study interest. NOTE: This is a free search tool but requires an account - sign up with your UCSD email.

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Collection of 14,500+ pathway/genome databases for thousands of organisms, plus a suite of software tools for analysis and visualization. Searchable by genes, proteins, enzymes, reactions, metabolic pathways, etc. E. coli is the default organism search (EcoCyc), but you can easily switch over to one of the other databases.
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An open access database of nomenclature, reaction and specificity, isolation/preparation, and structure of more than 4000 different enzymes. Data on enzyme function are extracted directly from the primary literature.

 

 

 

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Bibliographic, chemical and crystallographic information for small-molecule organic and organometallic compounds whose 3D structures have been determined by x-ray or neutron diffraction (900,000+ crystal structures).

***This link goes to the web version, WebCSD. The full Cambridge Structural Database System, which includes ConQuest, Mercury, Gold, and the other programs, can be downloaded from the UC CSD software site at http://software.chem.ucla.edu/CSD.
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Embase database covers around 8,600 journals from 100 countries, Subjects covered include all disciplines of medicine and biomedical science with particular strengths in the fields of drug research, pharmacology and toxicology. It also includes coverage of Allied Health subjects as well as Public Health topics. A key resource for systematic reviews, particularly ones involving drug therapy.
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A compilation of performance statistics and trends extrapolated from counts of articles published in scholarly journals and the citations to those articles. Data are derived from journals indexed in Web of Science Core Collection (Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index only) over a 10-year period. This database may be used to rank institutions, countries, journals, research areas in terms of Highly Cited Papers, Top Papers, and Hot Papers. Updated every other month.
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Covers the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, literature, and many other subjects.

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Science Education database is dedicated to teaching laboratory fundamentals through simple, easy to understand video demonstrations. UCSD has access to Basic and Advanced Biology sections.
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11,000+ books, encyclopedias, and databases for chemistry, earth sciences, and all engineering disciplines across multiple publishers. Along with full-text searching and downloading of PDF chapters, you can also search for properties of chemicals and materials and then export that data in table/graph form rather than PDFs.
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Database of 11,000+ chemicals, drugs, and biologicals of some significance, with basic physical properties, applications, bioactivity data, and key literature references.
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AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) serves as the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library, as well as a primary public source for world-wide access to agricultural information. The database covers materials in all formats and periods, including printed works from as far back as the 15th century. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences."
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OMIM is a comprehensive, authoritative compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes that is freely available and updated daily.
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Online version of a 3 volume text that provides online access to a compendium of genetic disorders and information. Resources include animations and images explaining different concepts.
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Databases of information about the bioactivity of small molecules: Compound (validated and non-redundant), Substance, and Bioassay. Compound records are more detailed than the substance records, with properties, drug information, safety and toxicity information, and links to additional databases and websites.
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Repbase is a database of prototypic sequences representing repetitive DNA from different eukaryotic species. Repbase is being used in genome sequencing projects worldwide as a reference collection for masking and annotation of repetitive DNA (e.g. by RepeatMasker or CENSOR). Each sequence is accompanied by a short description and references to the original contributors. Repbase Update includes Repbase Reports, an electronic journal publishing newly discovered transposable elements.
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Full-text searching across the ebooks, journals, and major reference works published by Elsevier. Note: We don't license everything from Elsevier. If the article or chapter is not accessible, check UC Library Search for a print copy, or to request the item from another library.
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Searchable database of protocols and methods in the life and biomedical sciences, including biochemistry, nanotechnology, and pharmacology. Results link out to the full-text protocols/methods at Nature Protocols, Nature Methods, and Springer Protocols (including Methods in Molecular Biology).
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Full-text searching across the ebooks, ebook series, journals, and major reference works published by Springer. Note: We don't license everything from Springer. If the article or chapter is not accessible, check UC Library Search for a print copy, or to request the item from another library.
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Database of genetic and molecular biology data for the model higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Includes the complete genome sequence along with gene structure, gene product information, gene expression, DNA and seed stocks, genome maps, genetic and physical markers, publications, and information about the Arabidopsis research community. Also provides extensive linkouts from our data pages to other Arabidopsis resources.
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WormBase is an international consortium of biologists and computer scientists dedicated to providing the research community with accurate, current, accessible information concerning the genetics, genomics and biology of C. elegans and related nematodes.

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