Biology and life sciences

The US National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, has announced dbGaP, a database designed to archive and distribute data from genome wide association studies.

Three new country modules — India, Israel and Turkey — are now available in IDRAC, the global pharmaceutical regulatory intelligence database from Thomson Scientific.

BioMed Central has launched an open-access journal focusing on the emerging subject of systems biology.

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has launched two new freely-available information resources. The Functional Glycomics Gateway is a collaboration between the Consortium for Functional Glycomics and NPG.

The EMBO Journal and EMBO reports, which are published by Nature Publishing Group, will accept open-access articles as of January 2007, subject to payment of a publication fee.

Wiley-VCH will launch Proteomics – Clinical Applications (PCA), a new journal intended to cover information in the field of applying proteomics to the study of human disease and translation to the clinic.

Text analytics provider TEMIS has introduced the first industry-specific edition of its recently launched information intelligence solution, Luxid. The first industry targeted is life sciences.

Springer has entered into a partnership with the Society for In Vitro Biology and the International Association for Plant Biotechnology to publish two In Vitro journals.

International Journal of Biomedical Sciences (IJBS) is a new quarterly, open-access journal focusing on theories, methods and applications in biomedical sciences, computational and systems biology.

Ovid has expanded its partnership with Oxford University Press (OUP) to add more than 180 titles in medicine, neurosciences, social and behavioural sciences to Books@Ovid, its e-books search and discovery platform.