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Curt Jamison knows the drill all too well. Say you have a new piece of DNA to analyze, says the University of Maryland geneticist. You're looking for sequences similar to [...]

THE VIEWS ABOUT BIODIVERSlTY DATABASES discussed in the Bioinformatics for Biodiversity special issue (29 Sept., pp. 2305-2314) and subsequently in the 15 December Letters section emphasize that the range of [...]

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. -- Biologists have been full participants in the Web mania that has swept the Internet, transforming it from a talking shop for researchers into a medium of mass [...]

Neuroscientists aim toward a confederation of databases that would let researchers wander through the brain from molecules all the way up to function At the top of the brain is [...]

Two and a half years ago, the structural biology community found itself caught in an unaccustomed furor. Charging that many of their colleagues weren't playing by the rules, disgruntled researchers [...]

When it comes to using the Internet for communicating scientific results, physicists are the undisputed front-runners. As of last week, however, human geneticists and molecular biologists can post preprints of [...]

The Web holds lots of human gene databases, but few put the information in context for researchers, doctors, and students alike. That's the premise behind Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man [...]

Besides posting your favorite journals in cyberspace, what can scientific publishers add to the Web? Elsevier Science in London is trying hard to carve its own niche with BioMedNet, a [...]

Pioneering studies in the 1930s of where genes lay along chromosomes are one reason the fruit fly remains a favorite research model. Cottoning on to the critter's value, the Web [...]

Plant taxonomists from around the world are gathering at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, just outside London, this week to examine two entities. In doing so they face the [...]