Biomedical Research & Informatics
Printer-friendly VersionMEDLINE/PubMed Biomedical Journal Literature
Provides access to over 15 million references from 5000 biomedical journals. Many of these references link to abstracts and in some cases, the full text of articles.
MEDLINE Fact Sheet | PubMed Fact Sheet | Tutorial | FAQs | Journal Selection | Serials Indexed in PubMed | Leasing MEDLINE data | MEDLINE/PubMed Baseline Repository (MBR) | Licensee Research Use of NLM MEDLINE/PubMed Data | MEDLINE/PubMed Resources GuidePubMed Central
A digital archive of full-text articles from over 130 life sciences journals.
Additional Biomedical Literature Databases: Genes and Disease | Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
NLM Gateway
A single Web interface that searches multiple NLM retrieval systems.
More about NLM Gateway (Fact Sheet)Computational Molecular Biology
Databases and software tools for analyzing data from molecular sequences to protein structures to complete genomes. Includes:
BLAST | Molecular Structure and Function | Taxonomy | Conserved Domain Database (CDD) | Reference Sequences (RefSeq) | UniGene | Vector Alignment Search Tool (VAST)Visible Human Project®
Complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies.
More about the Visible Human Project (Fact Sheet)Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®)
The UMLS aids the development of systems that help researchers retrieve and integrate electronic biomedical information. See also:
UMLS Knowledge Source ServerDigital Library Research and Initiatives
Explorations of innovative digital libraries research and applications. Features:
Internet Access To Digital Libraries (IADL) Grants (Assist health-related organizations provide their clients access to digital health information resources and information services of the highest quality)
Profiles in Science(Archival collections of prominent biomedical scientists)
Regional Medical Programs (Documents highlighting the Regional Medical Programs of the 1960's and 1970's)Communications Engineering
Research and development in image engineering of biomedical documents and medical imagery. Includes:
Web-based Medical Information Retrieval System (WebMIRS) | DocView (software aiding document imaging)Telemedicine
NLM initiatives to evaluate the impact of telemedicine on cost, quality, and access to health care.
Next Generation Networking
Learn about innovative medical projects that demonstrate uses of next generation networks.
