Genetics, bioinformatics, and computational biology: Recommended
Overview for genetics, bioinformatics, and computational biology
- NCBI BookshelfThe NCBI Bookshelf hosts full-text books (mostly as PDFs) that can be searched or browsed. Titles are also linked from other NCBI databases such as PubMed.
- Morgan and ClaypoolSynthesis is a collection of ebooks in engineering and the sciences. The basic component is a 50-100 page ebook called a Lecture that synthesizes important research or development topics, authored by a prominent contributor to the field that provide more synthesis, analysis, and depth than typical journal articles. Each ebook is a single PDF. Colloquium Life Sciences Lectures are organized by subject area, or Series. Each Series is edited by a prestigious Series Editor who oversees topic selection, invitation of expert authors, and scientific review to ensure quality. Links lead to series descriptions and a list of all published and forthcoming Lectures in that series.
Recommended online resources
NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information
NCBI provides a wealth of tools, resources, and learning materials to promote "...finding new approaches to deal with the volume and complexity of data and to provide researchers with better access to analysis and computing tools to advance understanding of our genetic legacy and its role in health and disease."
Key Resources in addition to PubMed include:
Gene - data, information, and literature for known and predicted genes
Protein - sequences of protein, mRNA
Structure - 3D structures database of macromolecules, with multiple tools
Nucleotide - a collection of nucleotide sequences from several sources within and outside of NCBI databases
- PubMed from NLMIndexes citations, abstracts and full text from journal articles, case studies, conference papers, clinical trial reports, news reports, and reviews in the fields of medicine,nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences. Full text available in HTML and PDF. You can limit to types of clinical queries, age, gender and species of subject, and review articles that summaries research on a topic. 1946-present.
- CAB Abstracts from CABICAB Abstracts indexes citations and abstracts from journals, books, reports, handbooks, conference proceedings, field notes, and theses in agriculture, life sciences, natural resources, veterinary sciences, applied economics, nutrition, tourism, and the environment. Includes the CAB Abstracts Archive. Some full text available as PDFs. 1910s-present.
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