CiteBank is a repository of scientific citations and community-vetted bibliographies, complementing the BHL Portal. "CiteBank allows users to upload and share bibliographies containing material related to their specific interests and upload files associated with these bibliographies, including PDFs of the articles and links to the books containing the articles within the BHL portal. As such, CiteBank is a crowd-sourced, user-dependant service" (Garnett 2009 in BHL-Europe Newsletter # 1). A full release of CiteBank is planned for October 2009. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The Rat Genome Database RatMap is focused on presenting rat genes, DNA-markers, QTL:s etc that is localized to chromosome. The database is dedicated to rat gene nomenclature and should be consulted for queries in such. RatMap is formally sorting under the (RGNC) and is maintained at the Dept for Cell and Molecular Biology, Göteborg University, Sweden. Within RatMap you can find information on: rat gene nomenclature, chromosomal positions for genes, DNA-markers, QTL:s etc., predicted position for more than 6000 rat genes (see GAPP), gene function, literature references, DNA-sequences with links to DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank, unigene and Locus Link ID:s and links. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Gene Expression Literature Query Form allows you to query for references that include data on endogenous gene expression in the mouse. The Gene Expression Database (GXD) curators create content records that contain information on the genes and ages analyzed and assay types used in each reference; the query form queries these content records. To the best of our knowledge, all publications containing embryonic expression data from 1993 to the present for all pertinent journals, and from 1990 to the present for the major development journals, have content records. However, expression assays using knock-in reporter genes have only been included in the content records since May 2002. Curators add content records to GXD daily. ... [Information of the supplier]
The purpose and function of the DGGTB (German Society for the History and Theory of Biology) is to promote the communication of the history and theory of all biological subjects by means of scientific events such as colloquia, symposia, working groups, and to foster scientific exchange between its members and younger developing scientists, to build up relationships with the corresponding foreign and domestic associations, especially in the neighbouring European states, and to build up and effectively represent publicly, common aims. Since, contrary to other countries in the European Community, and especially in contrast to the USA, there are no institutes or professorial chairs for the history and theory of biology in Germany the DGGTB advocates that the history and theory of biology be established as an independent field of work in biological research and teaching in all German universities that have a faculty of biology. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
The Tephritid Workers Database (TWD) deals with fruit flies and was re-established from the Insect Pest Control Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture to facilitate collection and sharing of data between researchers and other interested parties worldwide. It includes more than 1200 researchers and 5000 publications and be maintained by the participants. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
ViBRANT recognised the need for a bibliography of life, i.e. a freely accessible bibliography of every taxonomic paper ever published. None of the currently available aggregators were satisfactory, so we have chosen to extend the Plazi bibliographic tool, RefBank. There are two primary reasons for this choice, first the original developer, Guido Sautter, is a partner in ViBRANT and second, RefBank contains a parsing tool that will turn Rod Page's "cryptic text strings" into structured references that can be easily transformed into any of the other conventional forms (see the Data Format Report). The bulk of RefBank's growth to date has come from ViBRANT contributed references, with 80,000 references being accumulated in the first six months of operation and another 85,000 references in the second six months. Work continues within ViBRANT to extract bibliographies from published works and parse them to generate more references. This work is to ensure that RefBank is seeded with sufficient references at launch so as to engage users. There was a significant development for RefBank in Autumn 2012 when it was the subject of a presentation and demonstration at TDWG 2013. Since when we have seen the addition of community contributed references. A more formal launch of RefBank, probably in conjunction with related ViBRANT developed tools, is planned for Summer/Autumn 2013. (http://vbrant.eu/content/communal-literature) ... [Miscellaneous as indicated]