Guides: Chemistry: Government Sources and Statistics

Government Sources

NLM Drug Information Portal
A gateway to selected drug information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and other key U.S. Government agencies. A good source for finding drug side-effects, drug category info, and manufacturers. Links to literature in PubMed.
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US National Library of Medicine resource.

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Electronic, full-text reports processed by the U.S. Department of Energy, topics include physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environment, energy, engineering, computer and information science, and renewable energy.

Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Comprehensive, peer-reviewed toxicology data for about 5,000 chemicals.
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US National Library of Medicine resource.

A good resource for finding LD50 values.
PubChem
Provides information on the biological activities of small molecules. Links to PubMed scientific literature and NCBI's protein 3D structure resource.
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US National Library of Medicine
ChemSpider
ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 26 million structures from hundreds of data sources
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A Royal Society of Chemistry resource.