The bibliographic instruction program at the Library of the University of California, San
Francisco, has added a new class that introduces faculty and students to the use of the …

Describes the National Institute of Health's GenBank DNA sequence database and how it
can be accessed through the Internet. A real reference question, which was answered …

Information sources in the biological sci ences have grown far beyond journals and books.
Sequencing projects and new molecu lar biology tools are creating vast amounts of new …

Support for molecular biology researchers has been limited to traditional library resources
and services in most academic health sciences libraries. The University of Washington …

Recent advances in genetic engineering, and especially recombinant DNA technology,
have widespread applications to medicine and agriculture, and this impact has been felt by …

Abstract The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), part of the National
Library of Medicine, was established in 1988 to perform basic research in the field of …

This article describes the World Wide Web (WWW) Entrez server which is based upon the
National Center for Biotechnology Information's (NCBI) Entrez retrieval database and …

This book contains analyses centred on genomes, databases and their applications. It
consists of four parts and twelve chapters. Part I and Part II discuss several molecule …

During the past year, the number of biological databases that can be queried via Internet
has dramatically increased. This increase has resulted from the introduction of networking …

Setting: In summer 2002, the Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) at the University of
Pittsburgh initiated an information service in molecular biology and genetics to assist …