The quest for knowledge never ends. Here's what we've found to be useful. Let us know other resources to include and why they are significant.

One of our principals, Sanjaya Joshi, has published papers on LECIS and the biopharma community in Seattle. General resources that are always usefule include dictionaries, thesauruses and encyclopedias. Standards for life sciences and engineering cover a broad spectrum. A critical knowledge area is federal regulations governing how companies interact with individuals and patients; two examples are PDMA and HIPAA. Government agencies include federal agencies concerning health and welfare of the people, while organizations listed are non-profits and other independent bodies.

• Creating a Biotechnology Hub: Lessons from the BioForest by Sanjaya N. Joshi, Userspace Corporation
• LECIS Commentary by Sanjaya N. Joshi and R. Pillai, Userspace Corporation

• CancerWeb On-line Medical Dictionary
• Dicionary.com
• MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary
• Thesaurus.com
• Wikipedia -- Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
• Worldwidescience.org -- "a global science gateway...accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases."
• USA.gov -- "The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
• Science.gov -- "Gateway to authoritative information published by U.S. Government agencies"
• Regulations.gov -- allows you "to view and submit comments and documents concerning Federal regulations, adjudications, and other actions"
• Business.gov -- "Official Business Link to the U.S. Government"
• eGov.gov -- "Official Web Site of the President's E-Government Initiative"

• LECIS -- Laboratory Equipment Control Interface Standard
• LECIS summary
• AUTO3-A -- Laboratory Automation: Communications with Automated Clinical Laboratory Systems, Instruments, Devices, and Information Systems; Approved Standard
• AUTO5-A -- Laboratory Automation: Electromechanical Interfaces; Approved Standard

• DICOM -- Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
• HL7 -- Health Level 7
• HRQL -- Health-related quality of life methods

• CDISC standards -- Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium -- SDTM (submissions), ODM (operational), ADaM (analysis), LAB (laboratory), PRG (protocol), SEND (non-clinical), CRT-DDS (case report tabulation)
• AnIML -- Analytical Information Markup Language

• FCS2.0 (Cytometry 1990; 11(3): 323-32). -- Search PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/).
• FCS3.0 (Data File Standard for Flow Cytometry 3.0) published by the Murphy Lab at Carnegie Mellon University and ISAC, the International Society for Analytical Cytology

• NIST -- NIST/ EPA/ NIH Mass Spectral Library with Search Program
• Standard terms relating to Mass Spectrometry from IUPAC -- International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
• mzData XML Schema at sourceforge.net
• mzXML Analytical Software Map developed through the Sashimi project at sourceforge.net
• mzXML standard Schema links provided by the Sashimi project at sourceforge.net

Code of Federal Regulations

• National Archives and Records Administration, Government Printing Office (GPOAccess)
• Search CFR through NARA
• Office of Federal Registrar

Electronic Records; Electronic Signatures

• FDA Part 11 Home Page
• FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health
• Search for 21CFR11 on NARA CFR

Good Laboratory Practice for Nonclinical Laboratory Studies

• FDA on Part 58
• FDA Bioresearch Monitoring GLP
• Search for 21CFR58 on NARA CFR

21 CFR Part 203 -- Prescription Drug Marketing (PDMA)

• FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health on PDMA
• Search for 21CFR203 on NARA CFR

21 CFR Part 820 (Quality System Regulation)
Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Quality System (QS)

• FDA Search on Part 820
• FDA Device Advice Article-- GMP QS Regulation
• FDA Compliance Activities
• Search for 21CFR58 on NARA CFR

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

• HIPAA-DSMO.org-- Designated Standard Maintenance Organization (DSMO) Administrative Simplification
• DHHS-- Administrative Simplification in the Health Care Industry
• Search for HIPAA on NARA CFR to view regulations pertaining to HIPAA
• DHHS-- HIPAA FAQ
• DHHS-- HIPAA Privacy Rule and Its Impact on Research

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• CDC Home Page (http://www.cdc.gov/)
• CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• DHHS Home Page (http://www.hhs.gov/)
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Office for Civil Rights -- HIPAA

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• EPA Home Page (http://www.epa.gov/)
• Statutory Programs Compliance Monitoring
• GLP-- Good Laboratory Practices Standards
• EPA paper-- "Profile of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Industry"
• Parntership for Sustainable Healthcare
• Protecting Our Children

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

• FDA Home Page (http://www.fda.gov/)
• FDA/ORA Bioresearch Monitoring Information Page
• cGMP (http://www.fda.gov/cder/gmp/) -- Current Good Manufacturing Practices

National Institute of Standards and Technology

• NIST Home Page (http://www.nist.gov/)
• CSD-- Computer Security Division
• CSD "ITL Bulletin," April 2005, "Implementing the HIPAA Security Rule"

U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration

• OSHA Home Page (http://www.osha.gov/)

• OMB WATCH (http://www.ombwatch.org) -- "...a nonprofit government watchdog organization located in Washington, DC..." whose mission "...is to promote open government, accountability and citizen participation."
• ANSI (http://www.ansi.org/) -- American National Standards Institute
• ASMS (http://www.asms.org/) -- American Society for Mass Spectrometry
• ASTM International (http://www.astm.org/)
• CDISC (http://www.cdisc.org/) -- Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium
• ISAC (http://www.isac-net.org/) -- International Society for Analytical Cytology
• IUPAC (http://www.iupac.org/dhtml_home.html) -- International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
• NCCLS (http://www.nccls.org/) -- Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
• PSI-MS (http://psidev.sourceforge.net/ms/) -- Proteomics Standards Initiative Mass Spectrometry Standards Working Group
• Sashimi Project (http://sashimi.sourceforge.net/) -- free open source software tools for the downstream analysis of mass spectrometric data