Wednesday, October 24, 2007

New database for dietary supplements

The National Library of Medicine has released a new resource focused on
dietary supplements. The Dietary Supplements Labels Database
http://dietarysupplements.nlm.nih.gov includes information from the
labels of over 2,000 brands of dietary supplements in the marketplace,
including vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids,
and other specialty supplements.

The database is designed to help both the general public and health care
providers find information about ingredients in brand-name products,
including name, form, active and inactive ingredients, amount of active
ingredient/unit, manufacturer/distributor information, suggested dose,
label claims, warnings, percentage of daily value, and further label
information.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

New database for searching reactions

Read about this free database for finding literature about specific chemical reactions in
Depth First
, a blog about chemical information sources. You can also add Depth First to your feed reader here.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Classes on the gene & protein databases from NCBI

Learn about the molecular biology databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Friday, November 2, 2007 at 12:30 pm. Read more...

Classes are open to all health sciences students and faculty.