Biological Sciences: Library Resources

A comprehensive catalog of major data collections maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and the Mexican National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity jointly coordinate the program, which provides reliable population data and trend analyses on more than 500 bird species.

An enzyme nomenclature database based on the recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) and it describes each type of characterized enzyme for which an EC (Enzyme Commission) number has been provided.

Collection of data on over 6500 enzymes.

A collection of information about restriction enzymes, methylases, the microorganisms from which they have been isolated, recognition sequences, cleavage sites, methylation specificity, the commercial availability of the enzymes, & references.

BLAST finds regions of similarity between biological sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance.

The Nucleotide database is a collection of sequences from several sources, including GenBank, RefSeq, TPA and PDB.

Lists of additional databases from Oxford University's webpage.

Describes & provides access to a comprehensive collection of protein-related databases & research tools.