ISI® Honors Two Office of Science Web Sites: Microbial Cell Project and Genomes to Life (January 2002)

The Department of Energy's Microbial Cell Project and the Genomes to Life web sites will now be able to sport the ISI® logo on their web pages. ISI is a business of The Thomson Corporation. The Thomson Corporation is a leading global e-information and solutions company in the business and professional marketplace. Both web sites, developed by the Bioinformation Systems, Human Genome Management Information Systems Group in Life Sciences Division, were recently selected for inclusion in Current Web Contents, a new section of Current Contents Connect™. CC Connect offers web access to Current Contents, the ISI premier current awareness database that provides information in the fields of science, social science, technology, and the arts & humanities. The MCP and GTL web sites will now join the original Human Genome Project Information web site in the ISI index. HGPI has been indexed and presented to scientists for several years. As part of the indexing process, the ISI editors reviewed the Microbial Cell Project and Genomes to Life web sites, developed a standardized descriptive record for them, developed abstracts, and created links from CC Connect to the two web sites so that they will now be available to an even broader science community.

(Contact: Betty Mansfield, mansfieldbk@ornl.gov, 865-576-6669)