| AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| AAPS American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. |
| ABHI Association of British Healthcare Industries |
| ABPI Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry |
| ABRF Association of Biomeolecular Resource Facilities |
| ABTOX American Board of Toxicology |
| ACCP American College of Clinical Pharmacology |
| ACDM Association for Clinical Data Management UK |
| ACLAM American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine |
| ACPE American Council on Pharmaceutical Education |
| ACRO Association of Clinical Research Organizations |
| ACRP Association of Clinical Research Professionals |
ActionBioscience An education resource of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, aiming to promote literacy. The site provides peer-reviewed articles by scientists, science educators, and science students in issues related to the seven bioscience challenges: environment, biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers in science, and bioscience education. |
| ACTOX American College of Toxicology |
| AdvaMed Advanced Medical Technology Association |
| AICE American Institute of Chemical Engineers |
AIOPI Association of Information Officers in the Pharmaceutical Industry UK |
| ALSSA Analytical and Life Science Systems Association |
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| AMWA American Medical Writer's Association |
AOAC Intl. Provider and facilitator in the development, use, and harmonization of validated analytical methods and laboratory quality assurance programs and services. |
| APSGB Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Great Britain |
| ARCS Association of Regulatory and Clinical Scientists (Australia) |
| ASBMB American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
| ASCPT American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics |
| ASGT American Society of Gene Therapy |
| ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (U.S.) |
| Australian Biotechnology Association AusBiotech |
| AVMA American Veterinary Medical Association |
| BARQA British Assocation of Research Quality Assurance |
| BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (UK) |
| BIO Biotechnology Industry Organization, the trade association for biotechnology. |
BIO IT Coalition "Promoting the development of bioinformatics, the convergence of bioscience and information technology through education, collaboration, professional development and partnership." |
| BioAbility Strategic business information for the life sciences. |
| Biotechnology research and publications conducted by OSG. |
| BMBL Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (CDC/NIH) |
| BMC Biomedical Centre of Uppsala |
CAIDA Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, provides tools and analyses promoting the engineering and maintenance of a robust, scalable global Internet infrastructure |
Cancer Research Institute Funds research aimed at furthering the development of immunological approaches to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer. |
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| CaSSS California Separation Science Society - separation science and bioanlysis. |
| CDC Center for Disease Control and Prevention |
| CDISC Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium |
| Center for Biotechnology University at Stony Brook, New York. |
CFIA Canadian Food Inspection Agency Science Branch, Office of Biotechnology. The CFIA regulates biotechnology-derived products, including novel plants, livestock feeds, fertilizers, and veterinary biologics. Through the Agency's safety assessment process, new agricultural products are evaluated for efficacy and for safety for animals, the environment and human handling. |
| chemsoc Chemical science network |
| CHPA Consumer Healthcare Products Association |
| CIIT Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology |
| CNTC Canadian Network of Toxicology Centers |
| Council for Biotechnology Information |
| CRS Controlled Release Society |
DECHEMA Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Chemisches Apparatewesen, Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie e.V. |
DIA Drug Information Association, organization for professional in pharmaceutical development. |
| Division of Physics in the Life Sciences European Physical Society |
D-Lib Forum and D-Lib Magazine Digital Libraries - The D-Lib Forum is based at the Corporation For National Research Initiatives and is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on behalf of the Digital Libraries Initiative. |
| EAPB European Association of Pharma Biotechnology |
| EFB European Federation of Biotechnology |
| EFSPI European Federation of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry |
| EMEA European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products |
| EMS Environmental Mutagen Society - U.S. |
| EMWA European Medical Writers Association |
EPCglobal Developing industry-driven standards for the Electronic Product Code (EPC) to support the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). |
| EPO European Patent Office |
| EPS European Peptide Society |
| ERS/USDA Data Economic Research Service (USDA) databases, research topics, etc. |
| ESACT European Society for Animal Cell Technology. |
| EUFEPS European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| EUROPA The European Commission and the European Union |
European Science Education Media EUSEM - Specialises in presenting films on public funded European research in the areas of Genomics / Health and Food Safety. In addition, information and arguments on relevant risk issues are covered. The science subjects are treated in easy to understand modules for two major groups of users: educators and film producers. |
| Eurotox Federation of European Toxicologists and Societies of Toxicology |
| FASEB Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology |
| FDA Food and Drug Administration |
FDLI Food and Drug Law Institute An excellent and broad line of books, publications and conferences covering pharamaceutical development and biotechnology, such as the Compilation of Food and Drug Laws, and Compilation of International Laws. |
| FEMS Federation of European Microbiological Societies |
| FIP International Pharmaceutical Federation |
Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker GDCh - the largest chemical society in continental Europe with members from academe, industry and other areas; supports chemistry in teaching, research and application and promotes the understanding of chemistry in the public. |
GPhA Generic Pharmaceutical Association (formerly GPIA, NPA and NAPM) |
GSAS Harvard Biotech Club Non-profit, student organization that hosts events and provides services that allow members to explore the world of business and biotechnology. |
| HUPO Human Proteome Organization |
| IAEMS International Association of Environmental Mutagen Societies |
ICGEB International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (United Nations organization) |
ICH The International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use brings together the regulatory authorities of Europe, Japan and the United States and experts from the pharmaceutical industry in the three regions to discuss scientific and technical aspects of product registration. |
ICR Institute of Clinical Research, professional organization for clinical research in Europe. |
IFPMA International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations |
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ILSI International Life Sciences Institute s a global network of scientists devoted to enhancing scientific basis for public health decision-making. |
IMS Health Global information for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries |
IPEC International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council is the world wide Trade Association of Manufacturers and users of Pharmaceutical Excipients |
| ISCB International Society for Computational Biology |
| ISOP International Society for Pharmacovigilance |
| ISOQOL International Society for Quality of Life Research |
| IUPHAR International Union of Pharmacology |
| MdBio Maryland bioscience companies. |
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| NCABR North Carolina Association for Biomedical Research |
NIH Roadmap To identify major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that no single institute at NIH could tackle alone but that the agency as a whole must address, to make the biggest impact on the progress of medical research. |
NRCGEB National Research Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology of IRAN |
| NYBA The New York Biotechnology Association |
OECD Biotechnology BioTrack Online. "BioTrack Online aims, not only to help Member country governments and industries with biotechnology product notifications/assessments, but also to make the information, developed by the Expert Group on Harmonization of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology, accessible to all who need it." |
PMF Pharmaceutical Microbiology Foruma for pharmaceutical microbiologists to exchange information on microbiological issues in the pharmaceutical industry and interact with USP and regulatory agencies internationally. |
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| Databases and Bioinformatics |
2can Bioinformatics Short and concise introductions to basic concepts in molecular and cell biology and bioinformatics. The main emphasis is placed on making it as easy as possible for the user to understand which tools and databases are available from the EBI and from sites belonging to its collaborators. |
Addgene A non-profit organization dedicated to promoting sharing of plasmid constructs described in published literature. Addgene stores original plasmid samples submitted by scientists and distributes them for use in advancing life science research. |
| ALFRED Allele frequency database from the Kidd Lab at Yale Univ. |
ANGIS Australian National Genomic Information Service provides access for biologists to a comprehensive system of bioinformatics software, databases, documentation, training and support, on a subscription basis. |
BIOBASE Specialized biological databases, mainly from the field of molecular biology, including the TRANSFAC database on transcription factors, their genomic binding sites and their general binding profiles. |
| BioCarta Proteomics marketplace and resource center. |
BioChipNet More than 13.000 records on companies and institutions involved in microarray technology microarray-relevant publications, comprehensive glossary, upcoming biochip-related meetings and conferences, and hyper to public databases. |
| bioinf.org.uk Bioinformatics Web Site of Dr. Andrew C.R. Martin. |
Bioinformatic Harvester Caches and cross-links public bioinformatic databases and prediction servers to provide fast access to protein specific bioinformatic information. Presently the following databases and servers are implemented: Uniprot/SWISSprot, ensEMBL, BLAST (NCBI), SOURCE, SMART, STRING, PSORT2, CDART, UniGene and SOSUI. |
Bioinformatics Club Bioinformatics resource providing access to widely used bioinformatics databases and tools. |
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| Research Centers and Universities |
| Analytical Chemistry at Umea University, Sweden |
| Arizona Research Laboratories Univ. of Arizona |
Broad Institute Research collaboration of MIT and Harvard and affiliated hospitals, and the Whitehead Institute. |
Cabri Common Access to Biotechnological Resources and Information: aims to meet the need of European biotechnology research and development for high quality biological resources by providing common access for the user via the Internet to the resources and information of the providers within the project. |
| Center for Integrated Genomics Univ. of British Columbia |
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| Cornell Center for Advanced Technology Biotechnology Program |
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| ETH Institute of Cell Biology |
| IMB Institute for Molecular Biotechnology Germany |
| Indiana University Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics |
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| Johns Hopkins Univ. Bioinformatics |
| Laboratory for Computational Genomics Rockefeller Univ. |
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| Oxford Univ Centre for the Molecular Sciences |
QB3 The California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research is a cooperative effort among UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz, and private industry; promotes and enables the integration of quantitative and biomedical sciences to advance our understanding of living systems at all levels of complexity. |
| SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics |
The Center For Comparative Functional Genomics Univ. of Albany (New York, USA) Facilities and technical support to promote interdisciplinary research in genomics, bioinformatics, proteomics, microarray, mouse transgenesis, cell culture, FACS, and confocalimaging. |
| Univ. of Arizona Biotechnology Computing Facility |
| Yale Univ. Biophysics and Biochemistry Center for Structural Biology |