Biotech Web Resources
The following is list in no
particular order of useful biotechnology Web resources. In most cases the descriptions are taken
from the sites themselves, with the most egregious hyperbole edited out.
Burrill & Company is a private
merchant bank, focused exclusively on life science companies (biotechnology,
pharmaceuticals, healthcare, related medical technologies, agricultural technologies,
animal health, and nutraceuticals).
Publishers of annual biotech review.
The Pharmaceutical Research and
Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading research-based
pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies,
http://www.biospace.com/startup_company_alpha.cfm List of Startups
http://www.biospace.com/biotech_bay.cfm SF Bay Area
News
BioSpace is a specialized provider of
web-based products and information services to the life sciences. The company’s
premier Website, www.biospace.com, is the Internet’s most comprehensive life
sciences-related information and service resource, attracting over 800,000
unique visitors and over 4 million page views monthly.
In 1993 two small Washington-based
biotechnology trade organizations merged to create the Biotechnology Industry
Organization, better known as BIO. One of the founding organizations, the
Industrial Biotechnology Association (IBA), primarily represented larger, established
companies on Capitol Hill and before federal regulatory agencies; the other,
the Association of Biotechnology Companies (ABC), represented emerging
companies and universities, and focused on technology transfer issues, meetings
and other business development activities.
http://www.bioworld.com/ (mostly subscription)
Worldwide biotechnology news and
information source
http://www.biocentury.com/ (also subscription)
Provider of business intelligence
about the biotechnology industry through high value-added newsletters,
conferences and research services. With offices in the San Francisco Bay Area,
Washington D.C., Chicago, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, BioCentury
supports an international audience of senior company managers and the finance
community. Focus is on analysis and data about corporate strategy, management
decisions, partnering, emerging technology, clinical data, the public policy
environment and the financing markets that are key to understanding how value
is created by biotechnology companies.
A subscription is available through
the Haas Biotech Club.
A single, centralized "industry
filing cabinet" of biotechnology information and analysis.
eyeforpharma
is an on- and off-line Pharma community. eyeforpharma offers up-to-the-minute
e-business forums, information and news for the pharmaceutical industry.
Virtually, eyeforpharma.com, provides free up-to-the-minute industry news,
webcasts of past conference presentations and video interviews, information on
upcoming conferences, industry research and reports, and in depth analysis of
the latest industry trends.
GenomeWeb.com is the real-time online
news division of GenomeWeb LLC, an independent print and electronic provider of
news and information covering the business and technology of genomics and
bioinformatics.
GenomeWeb.com offers breaking news coverage, original reporting, in-depth
interviews, and commentary from celebrated researchers and industry leaders.
BioMed
Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate
free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
Bio.com
is an up-to-date information resource for those working in the life sciences
and associated industries. The editorial focus is on the technology of the life
sciences. They publish daily news, information and research tools for life
science professionals and students.
The content is both created in-house by their editorial staff under
consultation with Bio.com’s editorial
board, and aggregated from numerous reputable sources. They produce
live panel discussions and one-on-one interviews with leading scientists
representing the diversity of research in biology and biotechnology, topical
reviews and articles on cutting-edge topics in the life sciences, the latest
news from academic and industrial labs, high quality laboratory protocols, and
organized collections of internet links and web-based tools resulting from
their research of the leading companies and organizations involved in
biotechnology. The overall aim is to aggregate, organize and deliver quality
information to today’s time- and resource-pressed professional.
This
directory contains well over 1000 URLs of companies, research institutes, universities,
sources of information and other directories specific to biotechnology,
pharmaceutical development and related fields. It places emphasis on product
development and the delivery of products and services.
The
Southwest Biotechnology and Informatics Center (SWBIC) provides a single-point
access to a vast store of widely distributed biotechnology information as well
as developing new educational and bioinformatics services. SWBIC encourages
information sharing between researchers in Academia, Industry, Government, and
the Department of Defense, promotes biotechnology in Historically Black
Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions (HBCU/MIs), and provides
training in biotechnology. SWBIC also supports biotechnology research at New
Mexico State University and the local southwest region by providing computing
and laboratory infrastructure and expertise to researchers.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/swain/libguides/biotechnology/table.html
A
guide to selected biotechnology resources at Stanford University.
http://www.stanford.edu/class/siw198q/websites/genomics/genomefirms.htm
A
list of every biotech firm known to man.
BioExchange
is a biotechnology and pharmaceutical portal. They provide timely information,
comprehensive resources and e-commerce systems designed to showcase their
platform of technology and services. BioExchange is an advanced platform of
modular e-business component architecture that is provided as an ASP or
licensed service.
Our career section is
an advanced HRIS system that is horizontal, yet is simple to customize for any
industry. Our procurement and liquidation marketplaces provide a trading
environment which can also be provided as ASP or licensed components. The
BioExchange.com custom e-commerce centers, such as the combinatorial chemistry
marketplace, internet mall, intellectual property marketplace and the
BioExchange.com Services Network provide the Life Sciences sector with a
cost-effective solution for securing talent, asset recovery, collaborations and
partnerships, product sales and a venue for outsourcing needs.
BioExchange is strongly
positioned to cater to the Bio-Pharmaceutical community as a whole, providing a
one-stop, aggregate information resource for the community while also providing
e-commerce solutions, tools, and unique software offerings as we extend our
technology platform.
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.
The
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) was originally established in
1989 as The National Center for Human Genome Research (NCHGR). Its mission is
to head the Human Genome Project for
the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NHGRI
is one of 24 institutes, centers, or divisions that make up the NIH, the federal
government's primary agency for the support of biomedical research. The
collective research components of the NIH make up the largest biomedical
research facility in the world. NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The
Human Genome Program of
the U.S. Department of Energy funds this suite of Web sites.
The
website of the Food and Drug Administration.
Responding to the need for a transparent and informed public exchange of information, the ISAAA has established the Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology in association with the ISAAA SEAsiaCenter based in the Philippines. The Knowledge Center envisions itself as a virtual science-based information network responding dynamically to the needs of developing countries on all aspects of crop biotechnology particularly genetically modified (GM) crops. ISAAA is a not-for-profit international organization co-sponsored by public and private sector institutions with the aim of facilitating the acquisition and transfer of agricultural biotechnology applications from the industrial countries, particularly proprietary technology from the private sector, to developing countries for their benefit.
http://www.biotactics.com/default.htm
Reference
site for Biotech Marketing and Business Development Professionals
News,
research, and resources on genomics and postgenomics from the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (publishers of Science magazine).
The
Intel® Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program combats life-threatening illnesses by
linking millions of PCs like yours into one of the most powerful computing
resources in the world. This "virtual supercomputer" uses peer-to-peer technology to make
unprecedented amounts of processing power available to medical researchers,
thus accelerating the development of treatments and drugs with the potential to
cure diseases.
Biotech Books
Modern Genetic Analysis, Griffiths, Anthony J.F.; Gelbart, William M.; Miller, Jeffrey H.; Lewontin, Richard C., New York: W H Freeman & Co; c1999. Available online at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowSection&rid=mga.
Molecular Cell Biology. 4th ed., Lodish, Harvey; Berk, Arnold; Zipursky, S. Lawrence;
Matsudaira, Paul; Baltimore, David; Darnell, James E., New York: W
H Freeman & Co; c2000.
Available online at
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowSection&rid=mcb.
Molecular Biology of the Cell. 3rd ed., Alberts, Bruce; Bray, Dennis; Lewis, Julian; Raff, Martin; Roberts, Keith; Watson, James D., New York and London: Garland Publishing; c1994. Available online at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowSection&rid=cell.
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