Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology Resources on the Web

Citation Databases and Indexes
Electronic Books and Data Collections
Internet Sites
Electronic Journals

If you need assistance in finding information, please contact:
Andrea Dinkelman
Subject Librarian for Genetics, Development & Cell Biology
adinkelm@iastate.edu
(515) 294-6943

Citation Databases and Indexes

Primary Biological Science Databases

Biosis Previews -- Biosis Previews combines Biological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reviews, Reports, Meetings) into one unified database with monthly updates. It contains citations to journal articles, meetings and conference reports, patents, books and patents. Biosis Previews covers virtually every life science discipline: agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, ecology, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, pharmacology, public health, and toxicology.
Zoological Record -- Contains citations to the worldwide literature on zoology, including systematic and taxonomic references. Indexes publications from journals, books, newsletters, and conference proceedings from 1978.

Secondary Biological Science Databases

CAB Abstracts -- Covers over 10,000 international research journals, as well as books, conference papers, theses, and technical reports on all aspects of agriculture from 1972 to the present. It is the electronic version of a number of printed indexes, including AgBiotech News and Information, Plant Genetic Resources Abstracts, Protozoological Abstracts, and others.
MEDLINE -- Provides indexing to nearly 3800 international research journals in the area of medicine and allied health sciences. It does not index books or conference proceedings. An additional version of the database called OLDMEDLINE indexes the literature from 1958-1965. The paper version is generally called Index Medicus. It is the latest in a number of indexes of medical literature that began in the nineteenth century.

Other Databases with Relevant Materials

Current Contents Connect -- Database of the most recent issues of the important journals in all academic disciplines. Generally new articles will be listed here before they appear in the major subject-specific databases such as Biological Abstracts.
Dissertations & Theses -- Includes citations for dissertations produced in the United States and for some foreign universities since 1862.
NTIS -- This is the general technical report database for the U.S. government (published by the National Technical Information Service). It includes research from a wide spectrum of technical areas, including including genetics, cell biology, biotechnology, medicine, and related fields.
OAIster -- An index to Internet resources created at the University of Michigan, Digital Library Production Services. Provides access to a variety of journal articles, technical reports, theses, software programs, and other materials from a large variety of academic, society, publishers, and other sources in all subject areas. Not all materials are available as full-text.
PapersFirst -- The PapersFirst database provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide. It covers conferences in all subject disciplines, including genetics, physiology, and related fields.
Web of Science -- Database covering journal articles in all subject areas. Database has standard indexing for over 7,000 journals but also indexes the references for all articles from those journals. The references can be separately searched to find articles that have cited the same publications. The citation indexed literature covers journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, technical reports, and other forms of literature.

Electronic Books and Data Collections

American Type Culture Collection -- The ATCC collects tissue cultures of cells, bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other biological materials. It also collects data related to the various collections. These materials are then available to scientists in universities, government, and industry. This web site includes databases of the available cultures and related information.
Electronic Scholarly Publishing -- Electronic Scholarly Publishing contains electronic books on a wide range of scientific subjects, but the main focus is on the history of science, genetics, computational biology, and genome research.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences -- A basic encyclopedia of life science topics. It is focused more towards basic biological processes rather than information on different living species.
Entrez browser -- Provides access to an integrated collection of information about gene sequences, nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, and other similar material. Each item has references to the biomedical literature from PubMed, a version of Medline.
esp@cenet [Espace] -- The European Patent Office's database of information from patents and patent applications from the European Patent Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization, Japan, and the United States. Entries usually include basic bibliographic information from the patent and an abstract. There is full-text information available for some recent patent applications and United States patents in image files.
Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic Terms -- Contains short definitions of commonly used terms. Search results include the term searched for and related terms. Any term used in a definition that has its own entry in the database is hyperlinked to it.
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man -- A database of information about human genes and disorders that have been related to them. This version of the database is an integrated part of the Entrez system so related medical literature citations from PubMed are available along with gene sequences, nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, and other similar material.
Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases -- This is the official United States Patent and Trademark collection of patent information. The patents from 1976 to the present are available in a full-text, searchable file. The earlier patents are available as images of the original print (back to 1791). In addition to the patent database there is also a database of patent applications.

Internet Sites

Deep Green -- Collection of databases with genetic information on various plants.
Human Genome Project Information -- This site has extensive information about the Human Genome Project.
Internet Resource Guide to Zoology -- This site has been prepared by the editors of Zoological Record and Biosis (Biological Abstracts). This is an extensive collection of links to various resources on the Internet. It has resources on a variety of topics including general biological subjects, systematic names, conferences, and others.
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching -- MERLOT is a collection of contributed web resources in all subject areas designed for instructors and students in higher education. Items include lectures, simulations of software packages, data collections, sample animations, and other materials.
National Center for Biotechnology Information -- Has links to a number of databases of genetic and protein sequence information. Related journal article citations from PubMed (a version of Medline) accompany the sequence information.
Physiology & Biophysics (Biosciences) -- Part of the WWW Virtual Library, this is a collection of links to Internet sites with information on physiological and biophysical topics. Most of the sites are of noted institutions in these fields.
TIGR: The Institute for Genomic Research -- TIGR has at its website a number of databases with gene, DNA, protein sequence, and similar types of data for various animal and plant species and genuses.
Virtual Library of Biochemistry and Cell Biology -- A collection of links to various sites with cell biology information. The site is arranged by cell biology topics and by types of material.
WWW Virtual Library on Genetics (Biosciences) -- Lists resources available for genetics research for a wide variety of animal and plant species.

Electronic Journals

The Iowa State University Libraries subscribes to nearly 29,000 journals. Most are printed journals that can be located by searching in the Library's catalog. Some of these journals are available in electronic form. Generally the catalog's record will have the URL of journals that are available on the Internet. Another way to find the electronic journals that the library subscribes to is by going to the e-Journals & e-Books page on the Library's homepage.

The following are some of the electronic journals that are of interest to biologists researching genetics, cell biology, developmental biology, and related topics.

Last date reviewed: 9/6/05


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