Life Sciences Subject Guide

This is the main collection of enzyme functional data available to the scientific community. It is available free of charge for academic, non-profit users via the internet. The database is searchable via enzyme, organism and EC-number.

ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 34 million structures from hundreds of data sources.

Scitable is a free online library and personal learning space provided by the publishers of the journal Nature. It concentrates on genetics, cell biology and ecology. It includes ebooks, links to articles (often in Nature) and a blog. There's also advice on careers in the life sciences, and help with scientific communication.

Gramene is a curated, open-source, integrated data resource for comparative functional genomics in crops and model plant species.