Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons: Biological Engineering: Standards for Biological Engineering

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ASTM International: (formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials)

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ASTM Digital Library provides online access to approximately 12,500 standards for testing procedures, specifications, and standard practices for a wide range of materials and topics. ASTM Manuals, Monographs, STPs, Data Series, and Journals Library may also be found in this database.

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Symposia and STPs: Over 29,000 peer-reviewed papers. .All symposia papers are published in book format (known as STPs or Selected Technical Papers). You can download individual papers from any book or simply download the entire book itself.

Manuals, Monographs, and Data Series: Manuals provide practical, hands-on application information. Monographs offer advanced and highly technical information from highly-regarded experts in their respective fields. The ASTM Data Series cover specific applications, contain compiled data, and usually include explanatory text.

Journals: All journal papers are peer reviewed. Access to the complete run of each journal is included in our subscription.

Technical Reports: Provide data, recommendations, and conclusions stemming from the research of ASTM technical committees. You’ll gain insights on the current state, challenges, and processes surrounding this research.

FAO/WHO: Food and Agriculture Organization / World Health Organization

Codex Alimentarius
International food standards, guidelines and codes of practice that contribute to the safety, quality and fairness of the international food trade. Open access online.

GSC: Genomic Standards Consortium

MIxS: Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence (MIxS)
MIxS currently consists of three separate checklists; MIGS for genomes, MIMS for metagenomes, and MIMARKS for marker genes.
Standards in Genomic Sciences (2009-present)
"An open-access, standards-supportive publication for rapid dissemination of concise genome and metagenome reports that comply with the emerging MIGS/MIMS standards, detailed standard operating procedures, meeting reports, reviews and commentaries, data policies, white papers and other gray literature that is relevant to genome sciences but currently absent from the scholarly literature.The current focus of the journal is on short genome reports from Bacteria and Archaea."

WHO: World Health Organization

WHO: Guidelines for Biologicals
Provides guidance documents for specific vaccines, biotherapeutics, general topics, and regulations.

US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

The Unified Website for Biotechnology Regulation
Outlines a comprehensive Federal regulatory policy for ensuring the safety of biotechnology products governed by the EPA, FDA, and USDA.