Library: Biological Sciences at Webster University Library: Websites

General Science

ASAPbio (Accelerating Science and Publication in biology)
A scientist-driven nonprofit working to drive open and innovative communication in the life sciences. They promote the productive use of preprints for research dissemination and transparent peer review and feedback on all research outputs.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The mission of AAAS is to "advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people."
Scheherazade Speaks Science
Dive into "inspiring stories about space and science," with Scheherazade Speaks Science. This publication was founded by astrophysicist Ghina M. Halabi, who recognized that "the world needs science and science needs more women." (Description from Internet Scout)
ScienceDaily
A daily summary of science research news appearing in the media.
ECU Libraries - Primary & Secondary Sources
A good overview of primary and secondary sources in the biological sciences.
csvkit
Csvkit is a toolbox of command-line utilities for manipulating data in CSV format, which the csvkit authors describe as "the king of tabular data." (Description from Internet Scout)
American Institute of Biological Sciences
This major professional organization for biologists in the United States has a number of resources on their website.
National Agricultural Library
SEARCH is the USDA National Agricultural Library’s main search tool. It provides simple, one-stop access to more than 8 million records covering all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines.
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.

Data-Mining in Biology

BiomaRt is a community-driven project to provide unified access to distributed research data to facilitate the scientific discovery process. The BioMart project provides free software and data services to the international scientific community in order to foster scientific collaboration and facilitate the scientific discovery process. The project adheres to the open source philosophy that promotes collaboration and code reuse. (description is from Biomart)