Class Journal Week 10

Class Notes week 10

• To access database pages go through the LMU link
• journal availibility comes through PubMed central if it is funded by the government

Open Access Journals

• Authors submit article to publishers and then pay to have it published
• How well are the quality control standards?
• Copyright rules are in flux
  • most databases are public access

Google Scholar

• serves as a key word search
• date order is all over the place
  • means things can be out of date

Pubmed

• also serves as a keyword search
• Advanced search= use the meSH terms
• For our species we need to find a reference genome = the main reference strain
  • generally the earliest strain by date is the reference genome

Individual Homework

1. I used pubmed for this part of the assignment
2. The search terms I used for this were Sinorhizobium Meliloti and genome.
3. Most of the results I got were concerned with DNA probes and specific sequences of DNA
4. I got 20 results by using this database

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