DATABASES AND DATA COLLECTIONS


NIST
NIST ONLINE Reference Databases

AgDB
The Directory of Agriculture-Related Databases, Datasets, and Information Systems (AgDB) is a project of the Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) of the National Agricultural Library.
URL: http://www.agnic.nal.usda.gov/agdb/

The Agricultural Genome Information Servers (AGIS).
Sequences from the Genome Informatics Group of the USDA, National Agricultural Library. Also provides access to AGRICOLA. URL: http://probe.nalusda.gov/

AIDSLINE
The National Library of Medicine's AIDSLINE database is now available for searching at no cost. However, a loginid and password must be obtained to search the database. Gopher gopher.nlm.nih.gov to find an "Application for MEDLARS User Id restricted to AIDS databases."

Atomic and Molecular Core-Edge Excitation Database
The Atomic and Molecular Core-Edge Excitation Database is compiled by A. P. Hitchcock and prepared for electronic distribution by D. C. Mancini.
URL: http://xray.uu.se/hypertext/corexdb.html

Atomic scattering factors for the elements
A periodic table/form-based data resource.
URL: http://xray.uu.se/hypertext/ptable.html

The University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/ Biodegradation Database
A database prototype featuring information on biocatalytic reactions and biodegradation pathways for selected chemicals. "The goal of the UM-BBD is to provide information on microbial enzyme-catalyzed reactions that are important for biotechnology."
URL: http://dragon.labmed.umn.edu/~lynda/index.html

Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database (BMCD)
The Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database (BMCD) contains crystal data and the crystallization conditions, which have been compiled from literature. These include proteins, protein:protein complexes, nucleic acid, nucleic acid:nucleic acid complexes, protein:nulceic acid complexes, and viruses.
URL: http://ibm4.carb.nist.gov:4400/bmcd/bmcd.html

BioSupplyNet
An online directory of biotech research products and services updated weekly. This WWW site offers free searching in the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Manual Source Book database of laboratory products and suppliers.
URL: http://www.biosupplynet.com/bsn/

Buckyball database.
This fullerene database is accessible via anonymous ftp at: physics.arizona.edu. login: anonymous passwd: your email ad dress. It is found in: /afc/ibmpc. The site has a program called PCBIB that allows searches of the database by keywords. The resource is based on materials from Professor Richard E. Smalley's BuckyBall Bibliography. It can also be searched by telnetting to: sabio.arizona.edu. Choose "Other databases" from the menu, then BuckyBall Database.

ChemFinder WebServer (tm)
The ChemFinder WebServer (CambridgeSoft Corp.), a chemical database, contains over 3500 compounds searchable by name, by chemical formula and by substructure.
URL: http://chemfinder.camsoft.com

Chemical Safety: Hazardous Materials Classification.
Telnet forsythe.tn.stanford.edu and login as SOCRATES. Answers to the questions eventually lead you to Folio, Stanford's Campus Information System. Enter at the prompt:
Your Response: SEL CHEM
The database contains information on hazardous properties such as flammability and corrosivity, toxic effects such as carcinogenicity, toxicity, and target organ.

Chemistry and Materials (NASA SCAN).
Electronic Selected Current Aerospace Notices (E-SCAN): World Wide Web access to references taken from the NASA database.
URL: http://www.sti.nasa.gov/scan/chem-mat.html

Chemistry Index at Free University Berlin
This is a collection of resources, many of them data bases or files produced at FU Berlin. Included are files on Fundamental Physical Constants, Acronyms (with emphasis on chemistry and spectroscopy), and Amino Acids (arranged by name with the abbreviations and linear structural formulas).
URL: http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/index.html

EXTOXNET , Extension Toxicology Network
This source contains over 130 Pesticide Information Profiles on specific pesticides and 18 Toxicology Information Briefs covering selected concepts and terms in toxicology, all aimed at the non- expert.
URL: http://oes.orst.edu:70/1/ext/extoxnet

Fisher Scientific Chemical Catalog
The catalog features searches by chemical name, catalog number or keyword for over 2400 chemicals. It also includes MSDSs.
URL: http://www.fisher1.com

Fundamental Physical Constants
A tabulation of the 1986 CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants.
URL: http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/codata86/codata86.html

Hazardous Chemical Database (U. Akron)
This database provides access to information for any of over 1300 hazardous chemicals based on a keyword search. Keywords include names, formula and registry numbers (CAS, DOT, RTECS and EPA).
URL: http://odin.chemistry.uakron.edu/erd/

GDB: Human Genome Data Base.
The GDB Human Genome Data Base supports biomedical research, clinical practice, and professional and scientific education by providing human gene mapping information
URL: http://gdbwww.gdb.org.

The Johns Hopkins University BioInformatics Web Server.
This site contains Prot-Web, a Collection of Protein Databases (OWL, PIR, NRL_3D etc.) which contain links to one another as well as links to other databases around the world.
URL: http://www.gdb.org.

Klotho: Biochemical Compounds Declarative Database
There were 439 unique compounds in the database as of 2/19/95. It is part of an attempt to model biological processes, beginning with biochemistry. URL: http://ibc.wustl.edu/klotho/

Material Database, San Diego State University.
This is a factual database on clays, ceramics, feldspar, etc. It has such data as MW, Molecular Analysis, and Percentage Analysis. gopher gopher.sdsu.edu and follow the path: SDSU campus topics > Departmental Information > Art Department > The Ceramics Gopher > Material Database. Corrections or additions should be sent to: rburkett@ucssun1.sdsu.edu

Material Safety Data Sheets at Enviro-Net.com
A forms-searchable database of MSDS entries in the Enviro-Net Material Safety Data Sheet Index. Manual searching is supported also.
URL: http://www.enviro-net.com/msds/msds.html

MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) at Case Western Reserve University.
An archive of unlicensed/unrestricted publicly destributable Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) derived from the University of Utah archive. URL: gopher://biochemistry.bioc.cwru.edu/7sc%3a/database/utahmsds.mnu

Material Safety Data Sheets at Oregon State University
MSDS's contained at this site are intended for the sole use of employees and students of institutions in the Oregon State System of Higher Education.
URL: http://www.pp.orst.edu/MSDS.htm

Material Safety Data Sheets at Oxford University
Some MSDSs can be found at Oxford University Physical & Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory.
URL: http://physchem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/

Material Safety Data Sheets at Tachyon Communications.
Over 50,000 files from government publications or the Internet are found here. URL: gopher://quasar.tach.net/msds

MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) at the University of Utah
An archive of unlicensed/unrestricted publicly destributable Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) in ASCII text file format. The text files are given the common or product name of the mate rial. URL: gopher://atlas.chem.utah.edu:70/11/MSDS

MedChem/Biobyte WWW Server.
This server is maintained by the Medcinal Chemistry Project as a service to the chemistry community and by Biobyte Corp. to provide information about it's products. Includes:
MedChem Names Database - Over 30,000 compounds.
QSAR Database - 6,000 datasets; physical and biological systems.
URL: http://medchem.claremont.edu/

MicroPatent Web Services (PatentWEB)
U.S. Patents from 1974 forward are accessible on the PatentWEB (TM) with free Full Test searching of recent patents. Fee-based searches, translations and document delivery services are available. User registration required.
URL: http://www.micropat.com/

NMR Periodic Table
A magnetic properties database modeled after WebElements.
URL: http://hawserv80.tamu.edu/HawHomePage/NMRPerTab/NMRPerTab.html

Nucleic Acid Database (NDB) Archive.
NDB at Rutgers University is accessible also by gopher service (gopher://ndb.rutgers.edu)
URL: http://ndbserver.rutgers.edu/

Quantum Chemistry Acronyms database
SEE: Northern Illinois Chemical Gopher under GOPHERS

Questel Orbit Patent and Trademark WWW Server
This is an excellent source for information about patents, with links to the other patent sources mentioned in this section. URL: http://www.questel.orbit.com/patents/

Retrieve (GenBank) server (genetics databases).
Send the message HELP to: retrieve@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

Shadow Patent Office.
The Electronic Data Systems Shadow Patent Office offers patentability and infringement searches against the full-text of the 1.7 million U.S. patents issued since January 1972. For information about this service via e-mail, send a message to spo_patent@spo.eds.com with the word "help" as the body of the message. URL: http://www.spo.eds.com/patent.html

STN Database Summary Sheets.
STN Database Sheets (describing what data is available on STN). Either ASCII or PostScript versions of more than 160 STN Database Summary Sheets are available via anonymous FTP in the pub/data base.summaries directory at: info.cas.org or 134.243.5.70. Choose the /ascii or /postscript subdirectories.

STO Internet Patent Search System
Source Translation & Optimization's (STO) Internet Patent Search System enables patent searches and access to information on the patenting process.
URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html

Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP)
The SCOP database aims to provide a detailed, comprehensive description of the structural and evolutionary relationships between all proteins whose structures are known.
URL: http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/scop/
Mirrored in the United States at

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
or Gopher to gopher.epa.gov
Among other items is the EPA National Online Library System (found in the EPA Information Locators path) and Other Environ mental Gophers (found in the Other Environmental Information path).

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Chemical Substance Factsheets
URL: gopher://ecosys.drdr.Virginia.edu:70/11/library/gen/toxics

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Scientific and Technical Information Program.
WAIS access to the NASA RECON database, the NASA thesaurus, and SCAN (Selected Current Aerospace Notices), including topics: Chemistry and Materials, Life Sciences, Physics.
URL: http://www.sti.nasa.gov/

U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Library (access to Bibliographies, 1990-)
Gopher
to gopher.niehs.nih.gov/1/niehs-librabry and select among the technical information entries.

U.S. National Library of Medicine Gopher.
gopher to gopher.nlm.nih.gov. The NLM gopher contains informa tion about the library and selected reference materials. It also provides access to Locator, NLM's online catalog system and to MEDLARS and TOXNET (for those with access codes). WWW service is available at URL http://www.nlm.nih.gov

U.S. National Library of Medicine Publications.
FTP to nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov and login as: nlmpubs for access to items such as NLM Current Bibliographies in Medicine, AIDS Bibli ography, NLM Fact Sheets, chapters of the Online Services Refer ence Manual, Toxicology Information Program publications and others in both ASCII and PostScript formats.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database 1994- .
This database comes from Internet Town Hall, an NSF-funded project at New York University School of Business. Full-text access to patent documents is no longer available at this site due to termination of funding.
http://town.hall.org/patent/patent.html.

WAIS, Inc.
URL: http://www.wais.com

WebElements (Periodic Table) mirror at the University of California, Berkeley
This includes the Periodic Table database, an Isotope Pattern Calculator, and an Element percentage calculator. This is a true periodic table with data supplied by Mark Winter at the Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield.
Also at:
Boston College
University of Sheffield UK - The home site of WebElements
URL: http://www2.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/web-elements/web-elements- home.html
URL: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/Table/index.html
URL: http://chemserv.bc.edu/web-elements/web-elements-home.html

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