LibGuides: Biological Engineering: Home

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Contains resources to support research in bioscience, healthcare and medicine, business and regulatory resources, and tools for managing information.

Featured resources:

Selected reference collection that contain expert introductions to bioscience topics. Great starting points for research on unfamiliar topics.

Cochrane Library
A resource for high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
clinicaltrials.gov
Publicly available registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the US and around the world. Sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health.
Comprehensive Physiology
Includes complete content from the Handbook of Physiology from the American Physiological Society; updated quarterly.
Encyclopedia of Bioethics
5v, 3rd ed., 2004.
Merck Index
Authoritative and reliable source of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals.
Encyclopedia of Drug Metabolism and Interactions
Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Industry Information
A guide with links for company information, market research and industry overviews, regulatory policies and intellectual properties.
Patents Guide
Where and how to search for patent information in sources available at MIT.

ChemBioDraw
A chemistry and biology drawing tool
GeneGo MetaCore
an integrated software suite for functional analysis of experimental data such as microarray, SNPs, and pathway analysis. GeneGo MetaCore is available ONLY to the MIT community. You must register to access GeneGo MetaCore.
NCBI Entrez
NCBI search system integrating PubMed, nucleotide and protein sequences, protein structures, genomes, and more.
Reaxys
Comprehensive information about organic, inorganic, and organometallic compounds, their syntheses and properties - includes Beilstein & Gmelin.

**Manage your Information**
Manage your Information - Contains links to research guides for managing citations, personal digital content, publications, copyright, and research data.	Endnote - Helps organize citations and create a bibliography. MIT does not offer a site license for EndNote but there is a free web version for MIT users through Web of Science.
Mendeley - Manage citations and PDFs using a desktop client that syncs with web-based account that supports small group collaboration. Mendeley Institutional Edition gives MIT users additional storage and other features.	Zotero - A free, open-source program that works with Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. For many databases and websites, it can tell when a list of books or articles is displayed, so citation information can be saved with just a few clicks:

Connect from on and off-campus
Connect to licensed resources from on and off campus.
Overleaf
Overleaf is an online LaTeX and Rich Text collaborative writing and publishing tool. Access Overleaf Pro+ accounts through MIT Libraries.
Scholarly Publishing
Resources to support questions about MIT's Open Access policy, copyright issues, publisher policies, and compliance with federal OA mandates.

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Pubmed - Research in medicine and biosciences. Includes links to NCBI genomic databases.	Web of Science - Indexes high-impact science, social science, engineering, art & humanities research journals.
Scifinder - Comprehensive chemical information database. Covers scientific journals, patents, conference proceedings, and technical papers.	Scopus - Articles, books, reports, and patents in science, engineering, social science, and arts and humanities.