http://www.bacterio.net/
This is another website for checking bacteria, with names, strains and accession numbers
http://www.bacterio.net/ This is another website for checking bacteria, with names, strains and accession numbers
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Today, I am looking at some German words, and I have found a useful site:
http://www.linguee.com/english-german/ It finds examples of translations of different texts, which helps with context. http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Oxford-Companion-To-Music/dp/B000QDFXNA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1383327579&sr=8-3&keywords=The+Oxford+Companion+to+Music
I picked this dictionary up as part of a special offer; it has quite a lot of useful information, easily laid out, although the edition I have is a little dated in some places. The longer items are sometimes a little quaint. Recommended reference:
I have mentioned the Library of Congress Catalog before, but they have updated it. http://catalog2.loc.gov/ http://www.straininfo.net/
This is useful if you have to check a whole lot of bacteria names, strains and accession numbers. If you're editing a medical text in Word, you'll need to install a medical custom.dic, to avoid having a lot of correct words red-lined. These are easy to find on the Internet. I have installed one called MTH-MedSpelCheck.dic, and one called en_US_OpenMedSpel100.dic. (You do have to watch out for the US/UK variations.)
Instructions on installing a custom dictionary are also available at http://davidrothman.net/2010/02/21/how-to-add-a-free-medical-dictionary-to-word-20032007/ For editing biology, you'll maybe want to look things up. I still have my university copy of Tortora and Anagnostakos, which our lecturer always referred to as 'Tortora and his Greek brother'.
Long considered the ultimate anatomy textbook, there is an online version of the 1918 edition (which Wikipedia says is in the public domain) at
http://www.bartleby.com/107/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
It can't always be relied on, for example: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1895939/Village-of-Denshaw-falls-victim-to-Wikipedia-hackers.html but the more academic parts are more likely to be correct and, as a first port of call, it can rescue you from daft mistakes, or highlight possible errors. Google Maps is usually fine, but sometimes it is more convenient to have an atlas in book form. The larger and more up-to-date the better. We have the Readers Digest Atlas of the World.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=reader%27s+digest+illustrated+atlas+of+the+world&index=blended&link_code=qs&sourceid=Mozilla-search&tag=firefox-uk-21 |
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