Friday, August 28, 2009

BOTANICAL DATABASES

1
Agricultural Genome Information Server
http://www.hellers.com/steve/resume/p145.html
2
Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb
3
Atlas Florae Europaeae Database
http://www.fmnh.helsinki/map/afe/E_afe.htm?pageid=571&language=English
4
Australian Biological Resources Study
http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/index.html
5
Biodiversity Heritage Library
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/Default.aspx
6
Biological Collections of the University of Alabama
http://serfis.by.ua.edu/
7
Biota of North America Program
http://www.bonap.org/
8
Botanicus.org
http://www.botanicus.org/
9
Carnivorous Plant Database
http://www.omnisterra.com/bot/cp-home.cgi
10
Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research
http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr
11
Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
http://www.winternet.com/~chuekg/dictionary.html
12
DNA Bank Database
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/data/dnaBank/hompage.
13
Flora Danica Online
http://www.billeder.dulb.dk/
14
Flora of China
http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/
15
Flora of New Zealand
http://www.landcare.cri.nz/mwpress/catalogue/Botany/index.shtml?flora
16
Flora of North America
http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/FNA/
17
Flowering Plant Gateway
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/newgate/cronang.htm
18
GardenWeb Glossary of Botanical Terms
http://www.gardenweb.com/glossary/
19
Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) Taxonomy
http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/tax/index.html
20
Index Herbariorum
http://www.nybg.org/bsci/ih/ih.html
21
Index Nominum Genericorum
http://rathbun.si.edu/botany/in/
22
Insitute of Forest Genetics Dendrome Project
http://dendrome.ucdavis.edu/
23
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/000St.Luistitle.htm

24
International Organisation ofPalaeobotany - Plant Fossil Record
http://www.biodiversity.org.uk/ibs/palaeo/pfrz/pfr.htm
25
International Organization for Plant Information - IOPI
http://iopi.csu.edu.au/iopi/
26
International Plant Names Index
http://www.pni.org/
27
Internet Directory for Botany
http://www.botany.net/IDB/
28
Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/bibliographies/KR/KRHomeExt.html
29
Moss Flora of China
http://www.mobot.org./MOBOT/Moss/china/welcome.html
30
Plant Taxonomists Online
http://www.unm.edu/~jmgatt/waissrch2.html
31
Plants National Database
http://plants.usda.gov/
32
Poisonous Plants Database
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~gjw/readme.html
33
Provisional Global Plant Checklist
http://bgbm3.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/IOPI/GPC/default.htm
34
rECOrd
http://www.record-lrc.co.uk/
35
SMASCH Project - Specimen MAnagement System for California Herbaria
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/www-apps/smasch/
36
TAXACOM List Serve Archives
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/mail-archives/taxacom/
37
The Gray Card Index
http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu/Data/Gray/gray.html
38
TreeBASE
http://www.treebase.org/treebase/
39
UK Plant Genetic Resources Group
http://nasc.nott.ac.uk:8200/home.html/
40
Vascular Plant Families and Genera
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/data/vascplnt.html
41
W3Tropicos
http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html
42
World Checklist and Bibliography Series
http://www.kew.org/wcb/

PRAKASAN.P.M
Librarian, Dept. of Botany

BIOINFORMATICS DIGITAL LIBRARY

BIOINFORMATICS

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(a) Digital Library: Digital Surrogate Created from the traditional information sources.
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a) Genome Research: http://www.genome.org/
b) Protein Science: http://www.proteinscience.org/
c) RNA: http://rnajournal.org/
d) Bioinformatics: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/
e) Nucleic Acid Research: http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/ and so on. About more than 100 such open access journals links has been provided to access the scholarly peer reviewed journals.
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c) EMBL: http://www.ebi.ac.uk
d) DNA Databank of Japan: http://ddbj.nig.ac.jp/
e) Protein Sequence Data Bank: Swiss-Prot. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/swissprot etc.
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others.
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PRAKASAN. P.M
M.L.I.Sc., M.Phil., NET
Librarian, Dept. of Botany