PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA (PhRMA)
PhRMA represents the leading research-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the US. Publications, including the annual Industry Profile, are available online.

BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION (BIO)
Information on issues facing the biotechnology industry. Includes a guide to biotechnology, with information about the basics of biotechnology, and its applications and implications.

NEW YORK BIOTECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION

EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE (EBI)
Mission is ensuring molecular biology and genome research information is in public domain and accessible to scientific community. Databases and information services on molecular biology. Conducts research in bioinformatics and computational molecular biology.

INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
An international organisation dedicated to advanced research and training in molecular biology and biotechnology, with special regard to the needs of the developing world.

EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY (EFB)
Association of European nonprofit scientific and technical societies in biotechnology. Promotes biotechnology and supports its scientific, economic and applied technological development in socially and ethically acceptable manner. Publications available online.

BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Funding agency for academic biosciences training at institutions in the United Kingdom.

STANDARD & POOR'S BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY SURVEY
Access through Standard & Poor's Net Advantage link on our Databases page. From horizontal blue menu bar at top of Net Advantage home page, select "Industry." Then select HTML or PDF link for Biotechnology industry. The publication, updated twice per year, provides an industry overview and outlook, and company and industry statistics.

BIOWORLD ONLINE
Current and historical issues of many BioWorld publications, including BioWorld Today, Biotechnology State of the Industry Annual Report and BioWorld Genomics Review.

COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY (CSA) (Rensselaer at Hartford login ID and password required)
Citations and abstracts of articles, proceedings and government reports.

CORPTECH
Profiles of over 95,000+ private and public technology companies and their business units, as well as units of foreign companies, government labs, and non-profits. Includes pharmaceutical, medical, biotech and software companies.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (CSA) (Rensselaer at Hartford login ID and password required)
Citations and abstracts of articles and conference papers in fields of biology, medicine, bioinformatics and biochemistry.

AGBIOFORUM
Full text articles on economics and management of agricultural biotechnology.

NATURE
Access to journals, including Nature Biotechnology and Nature Reviews, and industry information and the genome gateway.

Materials Science (CSA) (Rensselaer at Hartford login ID and password required)
Citations and abstracts in the fields of mechanical engineering, materials science and aerospace.

SCIENCE

THE PINK SHEET from FDC REPORTS
A weekly newsletter on prescription pharmaceuticals and biotechnology industries. Summaries of stories from current issue available online.

FDA CONSUMER
Official magazine of Food and Drug Administration. Current and past issues (back to 1989) available online. Search by keyword or browse by date.

BIOCENTURY
Business intelligence on biotechnology industry. Some information is available free, but majority is subscription-based.

MOLECULAR GENETICS AND METABOLISM
Iinvestigations using biochemistry and molecular biology to study normal and diseased states. Access abstracts of articles from 1998 through the present. Search by keyword, or browse by issue date. For full-text of an article submit an interlibrary request to the Cole Library.

HEALTH, UNITED STATES
Annual report on health status of US from National Center for Health Statistics. Current and historical editions (back to 1993) available online.

MERCK MANUAL OF MEDICAL INFORMATION
Two versions: original text based version and new interactive version (includes photos, illustrations and pronunciations).

Knovel (Rensselaer at Hartford login ID and password required)
Over 600 major science and engineering reference books merged into Web interface. Quickly find and process scientific and engineering data with full-text searching, interactive "live" spreadsheet-like tables, graphing applets and calculation packages. Retrieve information as full text of book, data table, or interactive graph.

BIO ONLINE
Biotechnology, pharmaceutical research, and health sciences. With ndustry news, research news, company profiles, executive summaries from special reports, and career guide.

BURRILL & CO's PRESS RELEASES on the PERFORMANCE OF THE BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY
Private merchant bank focusing exclusively on life science companies and the biotechnology industry. Fee for annual publication on industry, but quarterly press releases with lots of information are free.

BIOSPACE
Biotechnology industry, including news, careers, investors, startups and companies.

SIGNAL, THE ONLINE MAGAZINE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
SIGNAL's publisher, Recombinant Capital, provides additional industry information on its own web site, including a company directory and valuations.

THCME MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY PAGE
Background information on many biochemistry subjects.

RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY (IMP)
Supported by pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, IMP's aims to be center of excellence in basic biomedical research.

CELERA
A definitive source of genomic and related medical and agricultural information. Its scientists published accurate assembly of human genome and initial interpretation of sequence in 2001. Read paper published in February 16, 2001 issue of the journal Science.

NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NHGRI)
Heads Human Genome Project, international consortium researching human genome. Announced publication of draft sequence and initial analysis of the human genome in 2001. Read paper published in February 15, 2001 issue of Nature.

WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE
Nonprofit, independent basic research and teaching institution to improve human health and welfare and extend boundaries of knowledge for future generations. Whitehead Institute's Center for Genome Research is part of Human Genome Project.

GENETICS LINKS from NATURE REVIEWS
Collection of genetics links, including section on genomes.

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE WEB PATENT DATABASE
Full-text of all US patents issued since January 1, 1976. With full page images of all US patents issued since 1790. Patents issued between 1790 and 1976 are searchable only by patent number and current US classifications.

esp@cenet
Over 50 million patents from 71 countries. Managed by the European Patent Office. About 40 million have full text (called "facsimile documents").

FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (FDA)
Federal agency supervising US food, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

HEALTH CARE FINANCING ADMINISTRATION (HCFA)
Federal agency administering Medicare, Medicaid and other related programs.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY (Science Direct) (Rensselaer at Hartford login ID and password required)
Illustrated articles on all aspects of biochemistry including molecular biology, genetics, and biophysics.

COMPREHENSIVE COORDINATION CHEMISTRY II (Science Direct) (Rensselaer at Hartford login ID and password required)
Second edition of original classic from 1987, surveying developments since 1980 authoritatively with greater emphasis on interdisciplinary areas like biology and materials science. Enhanced by links to PDFs of chapters from original 1987 publication.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GENETICS (Science Direct) (Rensselaer at Hartford login ID and password required)
Over 1700 entries by the world's top geneticists on all aspects of genetics.

BIOLOGY ONLINE
Collection of biological information, including dictionary, tutorials, and links to additional web sites.