BioTech: Internet Searching Tools

Search Tools

Alta Vista
This service seems to hit just about everything, and though it is more haphazard than Yahoo (below), it might yield a few gems the other search robots may overlook.
ArchiePlex
This page, maintained by Nexor, offers a list of gateways to Archie, which offers data retrieval and indexing for widely distributed collections of data.
Pedro's Research Tools
An excellent collection of tools for biomolecular researchers.
Veronica
This tool allows you to do global searching in GopherSpace.
WebCrawler
The WebCrawler is a tool for searching the Web. It operates by traversing the Web and either building an index for later user, or by searching in real-time for a query.
The WWW Virtual Library: Biosciences
Maintained by Harvard. It is an exhaustive, searchable list of all kinds of life sciences resources on the Web. It is broken down by discipline and a Spanish language mirror site is available.
The WWW Virtual Library: Biotechnology
Similar to the Biosciences Virtual Library; Biotechnology is more specialized and places more emphasis on product development and the delivery of products and services.
Yahoo
Arguably the best and most comprehensive WWW site directory. You can use keyword searches or browse by category.

MOOS (Multi-user domains, Object-Oriented) are programs that allow people around the world to converse in real time through a Telnet connection. The text-based MOO environment allows users to speak to each other as if they were in the same room. Typed responses are processed immediately and can include descriptions of facial gestures, facial expressions, and other non-verbal conversational cues that users choose with typed commands. Go to MOOBasics for more information.

BioMOO
This MOO is a meeting place for biologists.
Virtual Online University's MOO
This experimental university was begun to offer inexpensive education with innovative teaching techniques in the form of a virtual environment called a VEE, or Virtual Education Environment. The Virtual Online University hosts faculty and staff from across the globe, teaching a wide range of courses.

Newsgroups

Usenet's newsgroups are at the very heart of the Internet. In these electronic bulletin boards, you can meet people with similar interests, find out about jobs, learn about events and discoveries before they appear in newspapers or journals, and get answers to questions. Unfortunately, you may have to dig through inane, obnoxious or misleading postings, because, after all, anybody can post in Usenet, and practically everybody does. Because their nature changes daily, we at BioTech cannot hope to give you an accurate review of the newsgroups listed below (except for the clari.* groups which are moderated and contain real newspaper reports from services like the Associated Press and Reuters.) If you haven't used a newsgroup before, you might want to read Usenet: the Global Watering Hole and Using WWW to Read Usenet News. Also, if you're a Mac user and have the option of reading these newsgroups with Netscape 1.1, you might be better off using it instead of 2.0; 2.0's interface seems a bit buggy.

Last updated: July 23, 1998
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