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BioWidgets, anyone? Widgets for medical scientists.

When I moved over to Mac, one of the clear differences I noted in the operating system was the Dashborad. It is controversial and some people hate it, but I have settled into using it for a couple of calculators that I use semi-regualrly. It saves me searching the internet, or managing my bookmarks. Here is a list of medically-helpful widgets. Do you have any more to suggest?

1. Acronym finder - searches AcronymFinder.com
2. Journal article widget - This widget offers a shortcut to look up article abstracts by journal volume and page number.
3. ProteinGlimpse - Downloads macromolecule structures from the RCSB Protein Data Bank.
4. PubMed Search widget - This widget provides quick access to the PubMed database. Enter in your search terms (Boolean terms and nesting are okay) and results are displayed in a new browser window.
5. Pubmed Search - Another Pubmed search tool that displays the results within dashboard.
6. Pubmed Search Tags - This is a simple reference list of Pubmed search tags to help you structure your searches properly.
7. PubMedRSS.wgt - This one lets you read RSS-formatted search results for a saved query.
8. Rat Genome Database Search Engine - This is a specific tool for those working with rat genome data. Searches can include genes, quantitative trait loci, rat strains and literature references.
9. Public Health Widget - This widget publishes up to date research news from the Johns Hopkins Bloomburg School of Public Health.
10. Science Centric Widget - shows the latest news from Science Centric (www.sciencecentric.com)
11. Body Mass Index Calculator, BMI calculator, BMICalc - Take your pick.
12. Crockford-Gault Calculator - for BMI and creatinine clearance
13. Pregnancy Calculator - This is a little buggy, but it is a simple calculator. I used it when I was pregnant and couldn’t remember how pregnant I was (second child).
14. TimeCalc - I always have to figure out time differences for presentations, and this widget, though not pretty, is a great help. So for example, you can figure out the hour difference between an admission time and time of death or surgery or other event.Technorati Tags:
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