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Finding scientific papers for free, one more experiment
One last experiment with PubMed (for now).Posted on May 24, 2007 2:34 PM • 2 Comments •
Finding scientific papers for free, part III: my new favorite method
Instructions for using my new favorite method.Posted on May 23, 2007 10:06 AM • 14 Comments •
Finding scientific papers for free, part II: comparing methods
We do an informatics experiment with PubMed to compare different search techniques.Posted on May 22, 2007 9:01 AM • 10 Comments •
Finding scientific papers for free, part I
The trials of an English physician.Posted on May 21, 2007 8:38 AM • 2 Comments •
That which cannot be mentioned by name
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MeSH part I. Where can you find the meaning of "life"?
The best place for biology words.Posted on February 9, 2007 11:58 AM • 3 Comments •
Digital Biology Friday: Searching for synonyms
In last week's episode, your assignment was to think of an interesting plant trait and find a description about a gene, related to that trait, by searching PubMed....Posted on October 13, 2006 12:00 PM • 0 Comments •
Digital Biology Friday: Finding genes with PubMed
Many of you might take this for granted, and I know it seems amazing today, but I when first started teaching, our access to scientific literature was pretty limited. I could go to the UW and use Grateful Med to search Medline, but we didn't have anything like it at my college and web browsers, like Mosaic, had yet to...Posted on October 6, 2006 2:00 AM • 1 Comments •
