The Alert Collector: Depository Collection Management: Databases and Web-Based Resources as Assessment Tools

IMGT-ONTOLOGY and IMGT databases, tools and Web resources for immunogenetics and immunoinformatics.

The international ImMunoGeneTics information system (IMGT; http://imgt.cines.fr), is a high quality integrated information system specialized in immunoglobulins (IG), T cell receptors (TR), major histocompatibility complex (MHC), and related proteins of the immune system (RPI) of human and other vertebrates, created in 1989, by the Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire (LIGM; Université Mon...

Web alert: health-promotion resources for obesity and overweight.

Britain is in the grip of an epidemic. Almost twothirds of adults and one-third of children are either overweight or obese. There is now widespread awareness of the significant threat that obesity and its attendant health impacts could pose to present and future generations. In particular, increasing obesity in children is likely to have profound effects on their social and emotional wellbeing,...

Chapter 1 IMGT - ONTOLOGY , IMGT ® Databases , Tools , and Web Resources for Immunoinformatics

IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system, was created in 1989 as a high-quality integrated knowledge resource specialized in immunoglobulins (IG), T cell receptors (TR), major histocompatibility complexes (MHC) of human and other vertebrates, and related proteins of the immune system (RPI) which belong to the immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF) and to the MHC superfamily (MhcSF)....

Web alert: resources to support commissioning - Part 1.

Web alert: resources to support commissioning--part 2.

In Part 1 of this two-part article on web resources to support commissioning I wrote about the radical, ongoing changes to the NHS brought about by the Government’s White Paper, Equity and Excellence: liberating the NHS. Since then, a number of consultations on different aspects of the paper have been published and the new Health and Social Care Bill has been presented to Parliament. The Bill i...