PubChem: Neue Datenbanken beim NCBI

NCBI has released three new Entrez databases that link small organic molecules to bioactivity assays, PubMed abstracts, and protein sequences and structures. They are PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem Bioassay. PubChem Substance contains over 800,000 chemical samples. PubChem Bioassay allows one to search for bioactivity. For instance, the query „leukemia AND lc50[tid description]“ in PubChem Bioassay retrieves eight growth inhibition assays with measured LC50 values in various leukemia cell lines. [via Open Access News] Auch zugänglich via PubMed’s Suchpulldownmenü.

Was gibt’s zu tun in der Zukunft?

Nach Cheryl L. Davis and Barbara B. Moran, Preparing Tomorrow’s Professionals: LIS Schools and Scholarly Communication, College & Research Libraries News, January 2005, müssen Bibliothekare in der Zukunft folgendes können:

  • balancing and providing access to print and electronic serials collections
  • keeping abreast of not only current journal and database subscriptions
  • but also the growing number of accepted (and cited) open-access scholarly publications
  • copyright issues
  • implications of developing institutional repositories

[via Open Access News]

Dr. med. ungleich M.D.

In seinem Beitrag Dr. med. ungleich M.D. (DMW 51/52, 2004, 2790-3, Volltext) empfiehlt der Rechtsassessor Martin Riemer eine Angleichung der medizinischen Doktorarbeit an diejenigen der Naturwissenschaftler und im Gegenzug die automatische Verleihung einer Art (amerikanischer) M.D. mit Abschluß des Studiums.