Databases for Postgraduate Students and Undergraduates

ByОлена Коновалова

Databases for postgraduate students, candidates, and students

    PubMed – a database of medical and biological publications (in English) from the National Library of Medicine of the USA, containing over 21 million references to biomedical literature from approximately 3,800 scientific journals

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includes references from the MEDLINE, PubChemCompounds, PubChemSubstance, Taxonomy databases, and others.
PubMed includes data on medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, public health, psychology, biology, genetics, biochemistry, cytology, biotechnology, biomedicine, etc. The PubMed database grows by 500,000 documents annually.
The database was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

      PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez

 

NEWT – a taxonomic database in English

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integrates taxonomic data accumulated in PubMed and data related to UniProt. The database is maintained by the UniProt group (UniProt is the result of collaboration between the European Bioinformatics Institute, UK (EBI), SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, and the Protein Information Resource, USA (PIR)).

      Taxonomy Database: http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/

The Knapsack database of natural compound formulas in English includes 50,048 formulas of natural compounds with indications of the natural raw material source and literature data.

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For some compounds, pharmacological effects are also provided. The database was developed by the Laboratory of Computational Systems Biology at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan (NAIST).

      Knapsack: http://kanaya.naist.jp/knapsack_jsp/top.html

The Formula Browser database in English allows for the characterization of chemical substances (both organic and inorganic) based on their structural formulas.

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Developed by the Materials Measurement Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA.

      Formula Browser: http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/formula/

The Plant Constituents database in English allows obtaining data on the chemical composition of a plant based on its Latin species name.

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Developed at the Southwest College of Botanical Medicine, Arizona, USA.

      Plant Constituents: http://www.swsbm.com/Constituents/Constituents.html

 

Compendium Online – a specialized medical internet publication for doctors, pharmacists, pharmacy students, and medical students. The database contains complete information on 1,888 drugs and 182 manufacturers.
Compendium Online: http://compendium.com.ua//search_atc?search_name=&type_search=3&search=%CF%EE%E8%F1%EA

 

Catalog of medical websites in Ukraine: http://ukrmed.org.ua/index.php

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