Guides: BCB: Summer Research Experience: Databases

Helpful Databases for BCB

PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed comprises more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Coverage: 1966-
Full Text: Yes
Titles Included | Search Tips | Tutorial
Web of Science (WPI Access ended 6/30/2021)
Interface to Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, plus ability to perform cross database searches (outside of ISI products).
IEEE Xplore Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The IEEE Xplore digital library is a resource for discovery of scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners. It contains the.full text of all IEEE and IEE journal articles, conference papers, and standards.
Coverage: 1888-
Full Text: Yes
MathSciNet Mathematical Reviews This link opens in a new window
Provides searchable access to Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications produced by the American Mathematical Society.
Coverage: 1940-
Full Text: No
Public Library of Science (PLoS) This link opens in a new window
PLOS is focused on medical and life sciences, and features a suite of journals: PLOS ONE, PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Pathogens, PLOS Clinical Trials, and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full text access to more than 2000 Elsevier science, social science, engineering and management scholarly journals.
Coverage: Varies
Full Text: Yes
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus delivers the most comprehensive overview of the world’s research output in the fields of Science, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities. As research becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary and collaborative, Scopus helps ensure that crucial research from around the world is not missed.

General Databases

Search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use GoogleScholar to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.

WPI Library Search

Search across most of Gordon Library's resources at once. Use Summon to find books, journal articles, and more. Use the filters on the left to narrow down your search results.

Search tips:

Connect your keywords using the word AND.
- Example:
  - mobile AND health
Search for synonyms using the word OR. Nest your synonyms in parentheses.
- Example:
  - (apps OR applications) AND housing
Use quotation marks around phrases.
- Example:
  - “mobile apps” OR “mobile applicatons”
If your search topic has an acronym, search on both the acronym and the full phrase.
- Example:
  - CDC OR “Centers for Disease Control"
Use the * symbol to search for words that have the same beginning letters:
- Example:
  - Search for telemed* to find results for telemedicine, telemedical, etc.

Gene and Protein Online Resources

NCBI Tools
National Center for Biotechnology Information provides a range of tools for querying many types of gene, protein & other biological sequences
BLAST
NCBI tool: Finds regions of similarity between biological sequences
DAVID via NIH
Functional annotation tools for investigators to understand biological meaning behind large lists of genes
UniProt
Protein sequence and functional information sponsored by EBI, Georgetown U and SIB
Toolbox at the EBI
From the European Institute of Bioinformatics (EBI) . Provides a comprehensive range of tools.
BioResearcher Toolkit
From University of Washington, tools on biomolecules, cells & tissues, organisms & populations as well as computer & laboratory tools.
GenePattern
Genomic analysis platform that provides access to more than 150 tools for gene expression analysis, proteomics, SNP analysis, flow cytometry, RNA-seq analysis, and common data processing tasks
OBRC: Online Bioinformatics Resources Collection
Provided by University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library
Ensembl
Software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on selected eukaryotic genomes.
UCSC Genome Browser