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Courtesy: Dr Raghava &  Bioclues PubDNA Finder is an online repository to link PubMed Central manuscripts to the sequences of nucleic acids appearing in them. It extends the search capabilities provided by PubMed Central by enabling researchers to perform advanced searches involving sequences of nucleic acids. This includes, among other features, (1) searching for papers mentioning one or more specific sequences of nucleic acids and (2) retrieving the genetic sequences appearing in different articles. These additional query capabilities are provided by a searchable index that was created by using the full text of the 176672 papers available at PubMed Central at the time of writing and the sequences of nucleic acids appearing in them. To automatically  extract the genetic sequences occurring in each paper an original method has been developed. The database is updated monthly by automatically connecting to the PubMed Central FTP site to retrieve and index...

If you offer something of value to people for free while someone else charges a hefty sum of money for the same type of product, one would logically assume that most people would choose the free option. According to new research in the February 20 edition of the journal Science , if the product in question is access to scholarly papers and research, that logic might just be wrong. These findings provide new insight into the nature of scholarly discourse and the future of the open source publication movement. To test this theory, James A. Evans, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, and Jacob Reimer, a student of neurobiology also at the University of Chicago, analyzed millions of articles available online, including those from open source publications and those that required payment to access. The results were surprising. On average, when a given publication was made available online after being in print for a year, being published in an open source format ...

Darwin's private papers online - the largest publication of Darwin's papers in history. Read about it here . Browse the papers here . The complete works of Charles Darwin -- a god among scientists and the bane of every creationist’s existence – are finally available for anyone, anywhere to read. And it only took 126 years and another scientific revolution to make it happen. Cambridge University , where Darwin studied theology, has digitized and published on the internet its collection of some 30,000 items and 90,000 images by the man who changed the course of science by writing the evolutionary primer, The Origin of Species , in 1859. Cambridge was given the collection by the Darwin family and Pilgrim Trust after World War II. As described in 1960 : They were in parcels each containing small packets of manuscript wrapped in tissue paper on which the subjects had been noted in Darwin's hand. They were presumably just as Darwin left them, and accordingly this arrangem...