Archive for October, 2008

Current Protocols Now Online

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Current Protocols has long provided authoritative and up-to-date methods for scientific research in print.  The new online, step-by-step manuals span the life sciences and are designed to meet the hands-on needs of researchers and contain thousands of protocols ranging from the basic to the advanced.  Protocols are thoroughly field-tested for accuracy and easy replication and include expert commentary and […]

What's a Knol?

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

“Knol” is Google’s term for a unit of knowledge.  Knols are user-written articles on a range of topics hosted on Google’s knol site. Articles are attributed to authors who must first sign in with their real names, unlike Wikipedia whose articles are anonymous.  Content is searchable by topic and not edited by Google. The knol project was […]

Vadlo

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Vadlo is a beta version of a new search engine designed to make it easier to locate biology research-related information on the web.  Users can search within five categories covering all branches of the life sciences.

Protocols:  search for methods, techniques, assays, procedures, reagent recipes, plasmid maps, etc. 
Online Tools: calculators, servers, prediction tools, sequence alignment and manipulation tools, […]