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Vadlo: Life Sciences Search Engine
A free, open access search engine for biology research methods, databases, online tools, software and PowerPoint search categories.

Biomedical Acronym Database
"This database was constructed in a purely automated manner, using a set of heuristics to identify acronyms/abbreviations and their definitions within MEDLINE records. Currently, it is the world's largest and most comprehensive catalog of biomedical acronyms and abbreviations, containing approximately 257,000 out of an estimated 277,000 unique acronyms within MEDLINE."
- UT Southwestern Computational Biology Group

E-BioSci
"...a European platform for access and retrieval of full text and factual information in the Life Sciences.

ExPASy: BioHunt - (dead link)
Molecular Biology Finder

ExPASy Molecular Biology Server
"This is the ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System) proteomics server of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). This server is dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences and structures as well as 2-D PAGE."

Finding [Science] Images on the Web - (dead link)
By Ruth Thomas, Boston Universities Libraries

IUBio Archive for Biology Data and Software
"The archive includes items to browse, search and fetch molecular data, software, biology news and documents, as well as links to remote information sources in biology and elsewhere."

Molecular Information Agent (M.I.A.)
"...is a web server that searches biological databases to find the existing information about a macromolecule. At the present time, the MIA supports search by molecule identification number, gene symbol, sequence, and key word."
By UCSD, SDSC, NBCR.

NLM Gateway Search
"The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE."
National Library of Medicine


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Search in the Biology Web Servers - (dead link)
"...This server searches in all the pages referenced by the Pasteur Institute Web server - (dead link) in its biology "pointers" pages, "Molecular Biology on the Web" - (dead link).
In French or English




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