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