ScienceIndex.com, a Web 2.0 sciences social network established in 1998, has announced that it has added Genetics and Microbiology Sciences to the categories it covers. The site indexes the latest news, headlines, references and resources from science journals, books and websites worldwide. It covers news in all fields of biology, business, chemistry, engineering, geography, health, mathematics and society.
ScienceIndex.com currently contains over 1.3 million stories distributed among 75 categories. Over 75,100 users monitor nearly 8,200 journals covering the broad spectrum of sciences. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceIndex.com is stated to be no more than two days.
ScienceIndex.com's Biology Category covers life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution. Besides Genetics and Microbiology, its 10 subsections include Ecology, Environment, Agriculture, Forestry, Anatomy, Biotechnology, Physiology and Zoology. This category currently contains 77,600 stories partly derived from 400 science journals publishing in these two disciplines.
The Genetics Sciences category deals with the genetic composition of populations during successive generations, natural selection, genetic variation among individuals, and development of new species. It currently contains over 20,000 articles partly deriving from over 110 scientific genetics journals.
The Microbiology Sciences Category covers microorganisms and their effects on other living organisms. One recent article in this category covers the combined use of whole-cell protein extracts for the identification (SDS-PAGE) and enzyme activity screening of lactic acid bacteria isolated from traditional Greek dairy products.
ScienceIndex.com's content is divided into 'Popular' and 'Upcoming' sections. While content in the 'Upcoming' section is rarely older than a few minutes, the 'Popular' section contains approved articles approved between 20 to 60 minutes after submission by users. All articles can be bookmarked with the AddThis Sharing tools which include the Google+1 button. The website provides an advanced search feature which suggests up to 10 closely related articles for a search and also for a selected story. The latter list is sorted primarily by relevancy and secondarily by publishing date. This helps users compiling lists of related references for literature retrieval purposes.
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