PLoS Biology is an open-access, peer-reviewed general biology journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource. PLoS Biology's web site provides additional news and forums, as well as background information. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
Our goal is to contribute to the development of a network of sustainable and ecological agricultural systems, which provide food, renewable resources and energy. The environmentally friendly nature of these systems ensures optimal soil and plant health, and promotes animal welfare, biodiversity, an efficient energy flow and nutrient cycle balance. ... [Information of the supplier]
F1000 Posters, an open access poster repository, provides a permanent, structured environment for the deposition of posters as well as a trustworthy venue for ongoing discussion and development of the information being presented. The early scientific information presented in conference posters is universally agreed to be an important resource but, unfortunately, it is almost always completely lost once a conference is over. As a result, posters are only viewed by a handful of people before they disappear, either forever or until the research is later published as a paper. The system of removing posters from view after a conference is over represents a vast loss to the scientific community of unique and potentially valuable information. The rise of social networking as a channel for communication is enabling the scientific community to learn more about conference posters and presentations and is extending the reach of the data presented at meetings. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The European Commission issued a call to coordinators of large scale European infrastructure projects to submit a proposal for funding for a preparatory planning period. The European Bioinformatics Institute, part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI), has prepared and submitted a proposal under the acronym "ELIXIR" (European Life sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information). The mission of ELIXIR is to construct and operate a sustainable infrastructure for biological information in Europe to support life science research and its translation to medicine and the environment, the bio-industries and society. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
PubCrawler is a free "alerting" service that scans daily updates to the NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases. PubCrawler helps keeping scientists informed of the current contents of Medline and GenBank, by listing new database entries that match their research interests. [Information of the supplier]
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help organize research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Users can automatically generate bibliographies, collaborate easily with other researchers online, easily import papers from other research software, find relevant papers based on what he’s reading, access papers from anywhere online, or read papers on the go, with Mendeley’s new iPhone app. In the Biological Sciences, Mendeley comprises 12,459,724 papers and 8,127 research groups (as of March 2012). ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
BioVeL is a virtual e-laboratory that supports research on biodiversity issues using large amounts of data from cross-disciplinary sources. BioVeL offers the possibility to use computerised "workflows" (series of data analysis steps) to process data, be that from one's own research and/or from existing sources. A researcher can build his own workflow by selecting and applying successive "services" (data processing techniques). Or, he can re-use existing workflows available from BioVeL's library. This virtual e-laboratory cuts down research time and overhead expenses. BioVeL also provides access to a worldwide network of expert scientists who develop, support, and use workflows and services. It pools interests and shared-knowledge on biodiversity research, and fosters an international community of researchers and partners on biodiversity issues. At the core of BioVeL is a consortium of fifteen partners from nine countries, as well as an outer circle of ‘Friends of BioVeL’. BioVeL is funded through the European Community 7th Framework Programme and is free and available to use via the Internet. ... [Information of the supplier]
eLife is a unique collaboration between funders and practitioners of research to communicate influential discoveries in the life and biomedical sciences in the most effective way. We are a joint initiative of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust. Along with a growing number of public and private research funders worldwide, these three organisations recognise that the communication of research results is as fundamental a component of the research process as the experiments themselves. Disseminating new findings as widely and effectively as possible maximises the value of research investments. The first step in the initiative is to establish a new, top-tier open-access journal covering basic biological research through to applied, translational and clinical studies. The eLife journal will be a platform for extending the reach and influence of new discoveries and to showcase new approaches to the presentation, use, and assessment of research. ... [Information of the supplier]
Biologists can't deviate from their objective to make a detailed study of available resources while choosing bioinformatics resources for their specific needs. In fact, the selection of databases and tools has often been very unscientific. Shodhaka has initiated a need-based categorization of the resources to assist scientists, and brings you the initial results, after 3 years of research, in the form of a web-portal. The unique features would make the newly created portal a very useful starting point for most biologists bioinformatics work. ... [Information of the supplier]
This website is a database for Bioprojects. A BioProject is a collection of biological data related to a single initiative, originating from a single organization or from a consortium of coordinating organizations. BioProjects aggregate pointers to data to provide users with an entry point into diverse data types. [Information of the supplier]