LabVelocity (TM): Online tools for life science products, protocols, technical information, MEDLINE (R) searches, and laboratory calculations

As the pace of life science discovery increases, so do the demands on resea rchers. To remain competitive in the life science industry, researchers mus t use every tool at their disposal to keep lip with new products, protocols , news, and literature in their field While there are now myriad Web sites that assist researchers with this problem, many suffer from confusing user interfaces, poorly designed search engines, and a narrow information focus. Here, we present LabVelocity(TM), a user-friendly Web site that provides a free multidisciplinary information-gathering service for the life science research community. Using LabVelocity, a researcher can quickly find the pr oducts, protocols, technical references, news, MEDLINE(R) abstracts, and in teractive software tools necessary for an experiment. This aggregation of i nformation can streamline experimental planning and is especially useful wh en researchers want to set up a new laboratory or to venture outside their field of expertise.