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Most useful databases

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THE database for biomedical literature. The controlled MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) vocabulary allows very accurate researches.


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Multidisciplinary scientific database with citation metrics (citation reports, h-index…)


els.jpg Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

More than 5’000 articles written by scientists, covering life sciences subjects.


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Preprints server for biology

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Agricola 

Bibliographic database in agriculture and associated subjects

Agris

Bibliographic database in agriculture and associated subjects, complementary to Agricola

Embase

Database in pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences, complementary to PubMed

GreenFile

Database in environmental sciences

Medline via Ovid

Another way to access Medline, the main database of PubMed

Nucleotide Sequences database from NCBI including data from GenBank, RefSeq, TPA et PDB
UniProt Protein knowledge database, consists of 2 sections: Swiss-Prot et TrEMBL

More resources

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eduMedia

Interactive resources for learning science

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Il était une fois... l'ADN

Educational website on classical and molecular genetics. (In French)

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Learn.Genetics

Educational material in life sciences.

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Tree of Life Web Project

Provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history.

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Encyclopedia of Life

Global access to knowledge about life on earth.