Research
The Center for North American Herpetology (CNAH) "serves as a data bank for information about North American amphibians, turtles, reptiles, and crocodilians, and promotes the study and conservation of them by financial support of selected publications, photography, and any other appropriate medium, as well as the establishment of awards for excellence in research about these fascinating creatures." The CNAH website lists annotated, hyperlinked websites regarding salamanders, turtles, snakes, frogs, lizards, and more. The site also links to online collections, museums, funding sources, journals, field stations, and universities. In addition, the CNAH provides a PDF Library, as well as brief descriptions of current research and new publications. Other site offerings include a Directory of Herpetologists, a Literature Database, job listings, information about upcoming meetings, and CNAH Discussion Forums. [NL]
http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/pubs/westnile/westnilebib.htm
From the USDA Animal Welfare Information Center, this online Bibliography features an extensive array of scientific literature relating to West Nile virus published between 1965 and 2004. The literature "deals with the virus, its effects on animals, how the mosquito harbors and maintains the virus, how the virus is maintained over the seasons and how disease spreads. The major topics include: techniques of viral isolation and purification, viral genetics and strain differentiation, mosquito vector biology and behavior, transmission factors, animal species susceptible to the disease, animals as disease sentinels, disease reservoirs, surveillance programs, vector control programs, etc." Site visitors may view the Bibliography in separate sections, or as one entire document. [NL]
The Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC) is "the newest of the 17 science centers that are part of the U.S. Geological Survey's Biological Resources Discipline." Research at the SBSC "includes water use and the effects of livestock grazing, wild land fires, invasive species, environmental contaminants, declining populations of native species, and urban development on the Southwest region." The four main research stations that operate under the auspices of the SBSC include the Canyonlands Research Station, Colorado Plateau Research Station, Grand Canyon Monitoring & Research Station, and Sonoran Desert Research Station. In addition to links to the different research station sites, the SBSC site contains contact information for its many staff members, and a Products Database with nearly 1,500 references for technical reports, journal articles, book chapters, webpages, and more. A number of the documents are available in PDF. Note: Sections of the website are still under development, and SBSC should be offering more information about its research activities in the future. [NL]
http://www.reefcheck.org/datamanagement/
The Web Reef Advisory System (WRAS) was developed by ReefBase and Reef Check, in collaboration with the Coastal Resources Center at the University of Rhode Island and the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California, as "an online application to input, view, and analyse Reef Check survey data. It calculates indicators of how good or bad a shape a particular reef is in, and what the underlying causes may be, based on Reef Check surveys." WRAS allows users to view, analyze, and add (registration required) data. Please note that site users must complete a free and brief registration process before they are granted full access to the Reef Check website. Other site offerings include an interactive Reef Check GIS feature (see website for browser requirements), and The Reef Check Barometer of Global Reef Condition which provides assessments of different regions based on Reef Check Indicators. [NL]
http://www.ciliate.org/Literature.shtml
Tetrahymena Literature is one of the services offered by the Tetrahymena Genome Database (TGD), a joint project of The Institute of Genomic Research (TIGR), Stanford University, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. TGD is currently "in the initial stage of development, but will be a web-accessible database for the genomic sequence information determined at TIGR, plus information on the genome, genes, and proteins of Tetrahymena collected from the scientific literature, research community and many other sources." The Tetrahymena Literature of the website allows visitors to search for "800 full-text Tetrahymena research articles, 3200 abstracts, and 5000 titles using keywords, categories (gene name, organism, etc.), or a combination of the two to retrieve sentences from the original text." The site also links to Tetrahymena Gene Nomenclature Guidelines, a list of Landmark Tetrahymena Papers, and an extensive list of pertinent full-text articles from PubMed Central. [NL]
http://www.genome.duke.edu/research
The Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) is "dedicated to the study of life through scientific inquiry involving interdisciplinary research in genome sciences and policy." The Research section of the IGSP website links to descriptions of several focus areas such as Breast Cancer Genomics, Public Genomics & Intellectual Property, and Environmental Genomics. The site also links to information about the seven IGSP Centers including the Center for Models of Human Disease; the Center for Genome Ethics, Law, & Policy; The Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; and more. Lists of recent research publications by primary author are available as well. In addition, site visitors will find information about a variety of IGSP resources including Sequence Data, Business & Funding Data, Research Software, and, in the near future, a Pharmacogenetics Database. [NL]
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels/
Hosted by the European Bioinformatics Institute, the BioModels Database is a collaborative, "new effort to develop a data resource that will allow biologist to store, search and retrieve published mathematical models of biological interests. The models in the BioModels Database are annotated and linked to relevant data resources, such as publications, databases of compounds and pathways, controlled vocabularies, etc." The website allows visitors to browse and search the Database for models. The site also provides information about submitting models for the Database. It should be noted that submitted models must undergo tests conducted by BioModels Database curators before they are incorporated. [NL]
http://www.stri.org/english/research/bibliography/index.php
The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) is located in Panama (first reported on in the March 26, 2004, Scout Report), and hosts hundreds of "visiting scientists from academic and research institutions in the United States and around the world every year." The STRI Bibliography "cites publications by the staff, visitors, fellows and students that result from research supported by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute." The Bibliography contains thousands of references to theses, books, and articles ranging from 1911-2004. Scientists who are interested in conducting research at STRI can link from the Bibliography to the Research Applications section for an application form and information about scientific permits, fees, visiting Panama, and underwater diving. [NL]
