Teaching & Learning Resources
Recommendations from Steven Bell, Temple University.
Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro
Elluminate
Horizon Live Wimba
Life Sciences wiki-type web pages
Waldrop M.(2008) “Big data: Wikiomics.” Nature; 455 (7209)22-5.
EcoliWiki The community-annotation component of EcoliHub, which integrates information from 19 websites relevant to E. coli.
Gene Wiki Not a site by itself, but an effort to create or update Wikipedia pages on some 9,000 human genes, using data and text from primary gene and protein databases
OpenWetWare One of the oldest and largest scientist-edited sites, OpenWetWare has evolved into an active social network for biologists, hosting blogs, links to labs and special-interest groups and, of course, a long list of lab protocols
PDBWiki A community-annotated knowledge base of biological molecular structures in the Protein Data Bank (PDB)
Proteopedia An interactive encyclopedia of three-dimensional structures of proteins, RNA, DNA and other molecules
Topsan The Open Protein Structure Annotation Network: a wiki devoted to protein three-dimensional structures, including some not yet deposited in the PDB
WikiGenes A specially designed wiki that tracks — and thus allows scientists to get credit for every contribution that's made
WikiPathways A wiki devoted to the community curation and enhancement of biological pathways
Wiki Professional Life Sciences An attempt to create a 'Concept Web' by linking publications on a given 'concept' and enabling user annotation
Each month, Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services distributes a Bates InfoTip -- a brief tip on some aspect of information research that's helpful to researchers, librarians, and other knowledge workers across the globe. These InfoTips have featured everything from great, cool sites loaded with information to free Web-based file storing and sharing tools, to the latest Web book-marking tools.
Silobreaker
Google Maps
SortFix.com
Searchme.com
PowerSet.com
A Few of My Favorite Things
Mining Technorati
Gigablast Takes Off
Clustering On Demand
All the Other Search Engines
Google Can Do That?
Compiled by Marian Dworaczek, University of Saskatchewan Library. Last updated: October 24, 2008
Alternatives to ChemBioDraw? - SUMMARY
Posted on September 4, 2008 to the CHMINF-L by Jeremy R. Garritano, Assistant Professor of Library Science, Acting Head, M. G. Mellon Library of Chemistry, Purdue University.
• A review of a number of Chemistry graphics packages can be found here (beware of pop-ups though)
• Specific programs:
ACD ChemSketch
BkChem
ISIS/Draw
KnowItAll Academic Edition (free to students, faculty, and staff at degree-granting schools, colleges, and universities)
Marvin Beans
Symyx Draw 3.1
Xdrawchem
Compiled by the CUNY Office of Academic Affairs on behalf of the CUNY Academic Council
Compiled by Claudia Lascar
Compiled by ACRL
Compiled by Rose Nelson
Rev. September 2008