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FDA/CFSAN Databases

• "Bad Bug Book": Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins (FDA/CFSAN)
• Poisonous Plant Database (FDA/CFSAN)
• Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia: fish images and other information for seafood species identification (FDA/SPRC and CFSAN)
• Searchable Seafood List: market names, common names, scientific names, and vernacular (regional) names for seafood species (FDA/CFSAN and SPRC)

General Biological and Biomedical Information Sites via WWW:

• A Biologist's Guide to Internet Resources
• Biology Links at the Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
• Biological Information on the Yahoo WWW Server
• The CMS Molecular Biology Resource and information databases and software for protein and DNA analyses
• The GCG^® Wisconsin Package^TM and Accelrys (parent company)

Biological Collections and Databases via WWW:

• AgNIC (Agriculture Network Information Center): a distributed network that provides access to agriculture-related information, subject area experts, databases, and other resources
• ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory and other ARS Databases at the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
• ARS's Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases from USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
• Agricultural Search Engine from Agriculture Information (commercial)
• Agricultural Search Engine from Web-agri (commercial)
• American Association of Poison Control Centers: Directories to local U.S. Poison Control Centers
• ATCC Catalogs (searchable by genus or species) and Order Information
• Biological Research at the California Academy of Sciences.
• BioScience Productions, Inc.: an organization promoting bioscience literacy
• Biosis
• Botanical Information on the Yahoo WWW Server
• British Mycological Society
• Caenorhabditis elegans Web Site and Worm Breeders Gazette
• Chemical and Biological Defense Information Center
• Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (CSR) from WHO
• Cornell Center for Fungal Biology (CCFB)
• Cornell University Poisonous Plants Informational Database
• COST 816: Biological Control of Weeds in Europe
• The E. coli Index and a guide to Internet resources for bacteriologists at the University of Birmingham (UK)
• ECOTOX: The ECOTOXicology database from EPA
• Green Medicine: A medicinal plants site from the US National Park Service
• Guide to Poisonous and Toxic Plants (U.S. Army)
• Hawaiian Biolgical Survey or the Bishop Museum Home Page
• HerbMedŽ - an interactive, electronic herbal database provides hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an evidence-based information resource for professionals, researchers, and general public. HerbMedŽ is a project of the Alternative Medicine Foundation, Inc, provided as a freely available, public resource.
• Internet Directory for Botany
• Poisonous plants links from MEDICAL HERBALISM: A Journal for the Clinical Practitioner
• Listing of US Poison Control Centers
• Medicinal Herb Garden at University of Washington
• Microbes.Info: the Microbiology Information Portal
• Microbiological Glossary from Droycon Bioconcepts Inc.
• Microscopy: World Wide Web Virtual Library (there is also a "no-frames" version)
• Missouri Botanical Garden WWW Server (Access to TROPICOS)
• National Library of Medicine Gateway for searching databses at the National Library of Medicine, NIH
• New Crop Resources at Purdue University
• New York Botanical Garden or telnet (Login as "Library") to the New York Botanical Garden Library
• Parasites and Parasitological Resources: information about the life cycles and geographic distributions of some of the important parasites of humans and domesticated animals at Ohio State University
• PCRLinks.com: The web guide of the polymerase chain reaction technique: over 200 selected and organized links about PCR®
• Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University
• Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic at Cornell University
• The Plant Pathology Internet Guide Book from the Institute for Plant Diseases & Plant Protection, Department of Horticulture, University of Hanover
• Plants and Programs: biology and molecular biology sites, databases, software, lab protocols, etc.
• Plant Genome Data and Information Center at USDA
• Poisonous Plant List at The Maryland Poison Center
• The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, UK
• Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
• Texas Plant Disease Handbook
• World Data Centre of Microorganisms

Toxicology and Risk Assessment Information via WWW:

• The Carcinogenic Potency Database (CPDB) at UC/Berkeley
• Carcinogenicity and Risk-Related research at Lawrence Berkeley National Labortory
• CDC/Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry
• Envirofacts Data Warehouse and Applications at EPA
• EPA's Toxic Release Inventory
• EXTOXNET-EXTention TOXicology NETwork toxicology resources from Cornell University
• EXTOXNET-EXTention TOXicology NETwork toxicology resources from Orgeon State University.
• ICGEB Biosafety WebPages: a scientific bibliographic database from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology on "Biosafety and risk assessment for the environmental release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)"
• International Cancer Information Center at NCI
• Retrospective on U.S. Health Risk Assessment at Franklin Pierce Law Center
• MedWeb: Medical Resources at Emory University
• MedWeb Plus from y-DNA, Inc.
• The National Toxicology Program at NIH
• NLM TOXNET: Toxicology Data Network, National Library of Medicine
• Toxicology at the Karolinska Institute, Department of Bioscience, Center for Nutrition and Toxicology (Sweden).
• Toxikon Multimedia Project at the University of Illinois at Chicago
• Tri-Service Toxicology Consortium: (US Military)
• USDA Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis (ORACBA) and Risk Assessment Calendar

Biotechnology Information Sites via WWW:

• Agricultural Biotechnology Information Center: AgNIC Gateway at University of Maryland
• Biotech-related headlines and news articles from worldwide news sources, including Bloomberg, CNN, the BBC and Reuters (continuously updated)
• AgBioForum: a quarterly on-line newsletter with articles on the economics and management of agricultural biotechnology
• AgBiotechNet: AgBiotech News and Information
• Biotechnology Information at FDA and CFSAN
• Biotechnology Resources WWW Directory and Searchable Online Dictionary at University of Texas
• Biotechnology Information on the Yahoo WWW Server
• Information Systems for Biotechnology at Virginia Tech
• Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Human Genome Center
• The National Center for Biotechnology Information and the NCBI GeneBank: Human Genome Gene Map

Biological Meeting Announcements and Internet-based Courses via WWW:

• BioView Biology Meetings Calendar
• BioView Listing of Associations and Socities
• 2003 FDA Science Forum - Protecting America's Health April 24-25, 2003, Washington, DC. (Abstracts and Programs from prior FDA Science Forums are also available)
• Harmful Algae Management and Mitigation: Information on HAMM 2001 - the Second International Conference to be held 12-16 November, 2001, in Qindao, PRC and Program and Abstracts from the First International Conference, May 10-14, 1999
• Information on Seminars, Courses, and Grant Opportunitites from The Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN), a partnership between FDA/CFSAN and the University of Maryland, College Park
• Mycotoxin Meetings and information on the Mycotoxin Working Group, Food Chemistry Commission, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
• Conference Schedules for Photochemistry and Photobiology and promotion of the use of the internet in the communication of research and education in all areas of Photochemistry and Photobiology

Biological and Medical Journals via WWW:

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• Selected Journals
  • American Society of Microbiology News On Line
  • British Medical Journal
  • Centers for Disease Control
    • Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
    • Emerging Infectious Diseases
    • Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
  • The FASEB Journal Online from The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
  • JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association, other AMA Journals and Publications, and The American Medical Association
  • The Lancet
  • The Merck Manual: Medical Reference from Merck & Co. (first time users should register)
  • The New England Journal of Medicine
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and other publications from the National Academy of Sciences
  • Weekly Epidemiological Report from the World Health Organization.
    Reports are also available via E-mail subscription from majordomo@who.ch: leave the subject field blank; the body of the message should contain only the line subscribe wer-reh
  
  
• Resources and Links for Biomedical Journals
  
  • BioView: Search for databases, journals, meetings, scientific companies, etc.
    • BioView: Links to ~ 1800 biology journals
  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Journals Page maintained by Jim Beasley at geocities.com
  • CABWeb: online access to pest management journals
  • Medbioworld: Links to ~2800 bioscience journals, ~6000 medical journals and other references
    • Allergy Medicine/Allergology Journals
    • Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cell Biology & Molecular Biology Journals
    • Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Journals
    • Dermatology Journals
    • Developmental Biology, Embryology & Teratology Journals
    • Genetics, Genomics & Biotechnology Journals
    • Immunology Journals
    • Infectious Diseases, AIDS & Epidemiology Journals
    • Laboratory Science, Forensic Science & Pathology Journals
    • Microbiology Journals
    • Molecular Medicine Journals
    • Mycology Journals
    • Neurology & Neuroscience Journals
    • Parasitology & Protozoology Journals
    • Veterinary Journals

Biological Listservs

• subscription forms for various biological Listservs