Plant Genome I Conference
Town & Country Conference Center, San Diego, CA, November, 1992.
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PLANT GENETICS INFORMATION ON STN INTERNATIONAL
Linda J. Carter and Bruce M. Benjamin. Chemical Abstracts
Service, P.O. Box 3012, 2540 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, OH
43210.
Information on genome structure and function in plant
systems is distributed among a massive number of journals,
patents, monographs, electronic databases, and secondary
information databases. STN International offers quick and
convenient access to information of interest to plant molecular
geneticists and biotechnologists including specific sources of
plant bibliographic and biosequence structural information, via
interactive online searches. STN International, the scientific
and technical information network, is operated jointly by
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in North America; by FIZ
Karlsruhe in Europe; and by the Japan Information Center of
Science and Technology in Japan. As a network of more than 130
databases, STN International offers information on a broad range
of scientific fields, including not only biology and
biotechnology, but also engineering, thermodynamics, materials
science, physics, and chemistry, etc. Access to plant genome
publications is available from STN International through
databases such as BIOSIS (all biological and life sciences), CA
(all chemical and biochemical sciences, including published
information in the areas of plant biochemistry and biotechnology,
molecular genetics, and gene mapping), CABA (agriculture and
related sciences), FETA (food science and technology), JICST-E
(Japanese literature on chemistry, life sciences, medicine, and
pharmacology), and EMBASE and MEDLINE (biomedical and
pharmaceutical fields). All areas of plant science are covered
in these related databases. The CAS REGISTRY database provides
search and display access to over 11 million substances,
including more than 200,000 protein and 100,000 nucleic acid
sequence records covering both the patent and journal literature.
CAS Registry Numbers offer convenient links between databases on
STN, providing a simple connection to the researcher seeking
comprehensive access to worldwide information about plant genome
mapping and genetic engineering. A brief introduction to the
diversity of plant genome information on STN will be presented,
as well as examples of search strategies and descriptions of some
of the available databases.
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