Other Biomedical Information Services
(The following lists are not intended to be systematic or complete; nor does the
National Library of Medicine endorse any of the services listed. These lists are merely
intended to point the reader toward a variety of potentially interesting archive sites,
and to demonstrate the burgeoning amount of biomedical information that is becoming
available via the Internet)
Academic Medical Centers
- University of California San Diego Healthcare Network
- F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)
- Faculty of Medicine,
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
- HealthLinks, University of Washington
Health Sciences Center
- Division of General Internal Medicine, University of
California (San Francisco)
- University of Texas (Houston) Health Science
Center World-Wide Web server
- Stanford University Medical Research
- Stanford University Medical Center World-Wide
Web server
- Stanford University School of Medicine Information
Systems Group World-Wide Web server
- Duke University Medical Center
- Marshall University School of Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
- BMEnet Biomedical Engineering Resource
at Purdue University
Biological Sciences
- Virtual Frog
Dissection Kit
- Visible Embryo Project
- BIOSCI mailing lists and
newsgroup archives
- Museum of Paleontology of the
University of California at Berkeley (currently contains an exhibit of pictures from a
shark research project)
- The Australian National Botanical Gardens
- University of Delaware Botanic
Gardens
- Usenet
newsgroups dealing with biology
- "A Biologist's Guide to the Internet" is updated approximately monthly, and is
available via gopher
and ftp
- Johns Hopkins provides a Bio-Gopher server
which contains a list of FTP Sites
For Biology; it also offers a service known as BOING (Bio Oriented INternet Gophers),
along with helpful hints
for searching the list
- The Botany Department of the
University of Georgia (Athens, GA) has a Web server
- Texas Plant Diversity Information
Center (Texas A & M University)
- Australian National University (ANU) Bioinformatics
Hypermedia Service
- The Department of Biological Sciences at
SUNY Plattsburgh offers an experimental Web server
- The Harvard Biological Laboratories
offers a World Wide Web server dealing primarily with basic research in the biological
sciences
- School of Biological Sciences,
Macquarie University.
- USGC listing of Biology
servers
Cardiology
- Cardiac Arrhythmia Advisory System;
EKG teaching and review (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center)
- Heart Sounds: murmurs
and pathology (Synapse Publishing)
Clinical Medicine
- Gustavus Adolphus Family
Practive Medical References
- University of Montana Student Health Services HEALTHLINE
- Warwick University Nursing Server
- The Interactive Patient from
Marshall University
Commercial Biomedical Enterprises
- BioData Information navigator (presenting, among
other things, the Democratic side of the health care debate, as well as the Mitchell Bill,
S.2357
Dentistry
- School of Dental and Oral
Surgery, Columbia University
- Faculty of Odontology, Lund University (Sweden)
- Department of Periodontology and
Synoptic Dentistry, Medical Faculty (Charité) of the Humboldt-University Berlin,
Germany
Environmental Science & Medicine
- HOLIT - Israel Ecological
& Environmental Information System (Hebrew University; English & Hebrew)
- INTER NATURA natural and environmental studies
- Australian Environmental Resources Information
Network
- Australian Environmental Resources
Information Network (ERIN)
- CIESIN Human Dimensions Kiosk,
dealing with global environmental change
- The Daily Planet (University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign), an environmental information server
- NOAA
National Environmental Data Referral Service, NEDRES
History of Medicine
- Virtual Library for
the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Australian National University,
Canberra)
- Michigan Digital Historical Initiative in
the Health Sciences (history of the University of Michigan with regard to health
sciences)
- Scientific and Medical Antique Collecting
System
Hospitals
- HospitalWeb
Human Genetics
- National Bioethics Advisory Commission
- OMIM, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man is available both by Gopher
and via the World-Wide
Web
- MendelWeb (The history and science behind
Gregor Mendel's classical work in genetics; Brown University)
- Johns Hopkins Genome Data Base (GDB) Server
- Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Center
- Univerity of Michigan Human Genome Center
- DOE Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories (LBL) Human Genome
Center
- National Center for Genome Research
Internal Medicine
- Baseline Project; A
Handbook of Primary Care (University of Florida)
International Organizations
- World Health Organization (WHO, Geneva)
Libraries
- Countway Library, School of Medicine, Harvard
University
- Document entitled "Use of email
to transfer scanned images between libraries"
- Johns Hopkins University, Welch Medical
Library
- The Eccles Health Sciences Library at the
University of Utah College of Medicine
- Arizona Health Sciences Library
(University of Arizona, Tucson)
- Miscellaneous Medical
Library Gopher servers
Medical Education
- Interactive Medical Student Lounge
(University of Kansas)
- CHORUS teaching project (Medical
College of Wisconsin)
Medical Informatics & Biomedical Computing
- Department of Medical Informatics, University of
Paiva (Italy)
- Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia
University
- The entire text of the book Mathematics & Biology
- U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) Laboratory
of Mathematical Biology
- Monash University Medical Informatics Server,
Melbourne, Australia
- University of Rochester Division of Medical
Informatics
- Stanford University Center for Advanced
Medical Informatics (CAMIS)
- Scientific Accomplishments at the NSF
HPCC Centers
Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
- Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane
University
- Stanford University Center For Tuberculosis
Research
- International Travelers Clinic at
the Medical College of Wisconsin
- Institute for Molecular Virology,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
- American Type Culture
Collection
- Mycobacterium DataBase, maintained
by the Unité de Génétique Moléculaire Bactérienne at the Institut Pasteur
- The database of the World Data Center on
Microorganisms(WDC) in Riken, Japan
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
- BioMolecular Engineering Research Center &
Molecular Biology Computer Research Resource (Boston University)
- Molecular Biology Sampler
(Pasteur Institute)
- SEQuence NETwork (SEQNET), (U.K. node
of EMBnet)
- Department of Molecular
Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Scripps Research Institute
- The Jackson Laboratory
- The Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) offers a Bioinformatics server via either the
Web, Gopher, or anonymous ftp
- Peter Karps CompoundKB
database of 981 metabolic intermediate compounds
- The Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge
University offers a Web server
- The EC enzyme
database of Amos Bairoch
- Oxford University Molecular Biology Data
Centre
- GrainGenes, the Triticeae Genome Gopher
- Baylor College of Medicine Genome Center
- The QUEST Protein Database Center at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory provides a Web server which offers a rat 2-D gel
electrophoresis database and various Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) authoring tools
- EMBnet has a network of computers, as described in an online brochure, including one at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel
- The Human Genome Centre (Généthon;
Paris, France) and its Catalog of Bio-Software, in both English and French
- University of Geneva ExPASy Experimental Molecular
Biology Server
- Literature
references to algorithms related to molecular biology
- The REBASE restriction enzyme
WAIS database of Richard Roberts
- Annotation of the GenBank(R) DNA sequence database
(Bacterial Division)
- Periodical
references to journals in the area of molecular biology
- A Caenorhabditis elegans Data Base
(ACeDB)
- Database of molecular
biologists working in the field of artificial intelligence
- GRIN, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National
Genetic Resources Program USDA-URS database
Neurology and Neuroscience
- Alzheimer Web (University of Melbourne)
- Department of Neurology, (Massachusetts General
Hospital)
- The Whole Brain Atlas (Harvard
University)
- Neil A. Busis's Neurosciences on the Internet
- Work on computational modeling of
intracranial blood flow by George Foutrakis, Laboratory for Computatonal Neuroscience,
University of Pittsburgh
Nuclear Medicine
- Harvard Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Teaching Files
- LARG*net Nuclear Medicine
Resources
Oncology
- OncoLink: The University of Pennsylvania
Multimedia Oncology Resource
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
(Seattle, Washington)
On-Line Biomedical Publications
- Journal of Biological Chemistry
- British Medical Journal
- Information about the AAAS journal Science
- Journal of Medical Imaging (Johns
Hopkins University)
- The Scientist, a bi-weekly dealing with the politics and working conditions of
modern science (with an emphasis on BioTechnology) is available via ftp, gopher, telnet, and WAIS
- Global Emergency Medicine Archives (GEMA) an
experimental on-line journal (ISSN # 1077-4378) edited by Jack Ellis MD, Department of
Emergency Medicine, Highland General Hospital, Oakland CA
- Psychiatry On-Line, Dentistry
On-Line, and General Practice On-Line
Pathology
- Surgical Pathology Cases from
Bowman Gray University
- Dr. Greenson's Gastrointestinal
and Liver Pathology, includes "Cases of the Month"
- Department of Pathology at the University of Rochester
- The Urbana Atlas of Pathology
(University of Illinois)
- Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), including CME-accredited online courses
- WebPath: Internet
Pathology Laboratory
Pharmacology/Pharmaceutics
- PharmInfoNet® (Pharmaceutical Information
Associates, Ltd.)
Professional Societies
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS)
Public Health
- Arizona Health Sciences Library Public Health
Information Guide
- Boston University School of Public Health
Pulmonary Medicine
- Clinical Policies and Protocols,
Chest Clinics, Bureau of Tuberculosis Control, New York City Department of Health
- Lung Diseases
Telemedicine System; a joint Project of the National Jewish Center for Immunology and
Respiratory Medicine (Denver, CO) and Los Alamos National Laboratory to assist physicians
at the NJCIRM in combatting the effects of tuberculosis and other lung diseases
Radiology, X-Rays, & Biomedical Imaging
- University of WashingtonDepartment of Radiology
(includes Radiology Teaching File, with Cat I CME Credit Available)
- The Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology,
Washington University
- Medical Image Processing Group, Department
of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania
- Penn State Department of Radiology; includes
documents about the DICOM imaging standard
- Department of Physics, Uppsala University, Sweden: X-Ray
Server
- University of Wisconsin Collaborative
Hypertext of Radiology and Ultrasonography (CHORUS)
- Department of Physics, Uppsala University, Sweden X-Ray
Server
- The Virtual Hospital
is an offering from the Department of Radiology at the University of Iowa
- LBL Imaging and Distributed Computing Group
(including whole
frog project
- NASA's 3D Reconstruction Program
Surgery & Critical Care Medicine
- Critical Care Medicine at the
University of Western Ontario
Government (U.S.)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Resources
Locator
- The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the CDC's Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
(PDF format)
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: information for
veteran's, including benefits and facilities.
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Biology and Biotechnology Research
Program (BBRP)
- Health Care Financing Administration
(HCFA)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- The National Health Security Plan
(executive summary) is available online
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Bulletin Board
Service (BBS)
- ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
(U.S. Department of Education)
Government (Other)
- Australia's Department of Human Services and
Health
Miscellaneous & General Interest
- Bright
SPARCS, a database with information on over 2,000 Australian scientists (Australian
National University, Canberra)
- Pathology. Molecular Biology, and Radiology images
from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Net Connections
for Communication Disorders and Sciences
- Sleep Medicine
- University of Iowa
Hospitals and Clinics Medical Museum
- Museum, Physics Department,
University of Naples (includes historical microscopes)
- Thomas E. Jones' treatment of the "History
of the Light Microscope," part of his larger Scientific and Medical Antique Collecting
System
- Presentation by William Detmer, M.D.: WWW and the
Electronic Medical Record
- Medical Photography Forum
- Industry Canada's HealthNet
demonstration project
- Pedro's Research
Tools, one worker's assessment of WWW resources for biomedical research
- WWW in Biology, a World-Wide
Web archive of the bionet.software.www Usenet news group
- Palo Alto Medical Foundation