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Any or all of the following fields may appear in a record, depending on the
content and type of the source document. If no data are available for a particular
field, then the field does not display.
Full Record Fields
Title
The title of an article, book, patent, or volume in a book series. If the title
has been translated from a foreign title, then the title will appear within square
brackets.
NCBI
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names that link to the National Center for Biotechnology
Information (NCBI). This option is only available for records for which a
PubMedID exists.
Visit the NCBI Web site to look for more information on a genome or nucleotide.
Explore human genome resources or bring up a Map Viewer to browse the human genome
sequence. Enhance your research and find detailed information about molecular
biology, computational biology, and more.
Foreign Title
A non-English title of an article, book, patent, or volume in a book series.
Author(s)
The author(s) of the article or book.
For documents from 2003 to the present, this field may also contain the author's
e-mail address.
Corporate Author
The name of the organization that authored the document.
Editor(s)
The editor(s) of the book or book series.
Inventor(s) (Patent Records
Only)
The name of the inventor(s) of the patent.
Source
The journal, book, or book chapter title followed by issue, part, supplement,
page span, and publication date.
Series
The name of the series that the book was issued along with volume number or
other sequential designation.
Abstract
Abstract from the source document.
Accession Number
The accession number is a unique identifying number for each record in the
product. It consists of a product identification code, a product year, and an
item number.
Document Type
The selected document type.
Some books and meeting documents are available in BIOSIS Previews.
Literature Type
The selected literature type.
Language
The selected language of the source document.
Medium
The medium in which the source document was published.
Applicable to records from 1998 to the present.
Meeting Information
The meeting title, location, and date.
Meeting Sponsor(s)
The name of the organization that supported or funded the scientific meeting
named in the meeting title.
Records published before 1998 do not contain the name of the meeting sponsor.
Address
All author addresses. Author names are included if the source publication associates
a particular author or group of authors with a particular address.
The address may contain some or all of the following information:
- Department name
- Corporate division
- Institution
- Organization name
- Street address
- City
- Town
- County
- State
- Province
- Zip Code (or postal code)
- Country
Publisher (Books Only)
The name and address of the publisher.
Patent Number (Patent
Records Only)
The patent number is a unique
identifier of a specific patent.
Patent Date Granted
(Patent Records Only)
The date found on the front cover of the issue of the Official Gazette of
the United States Patent and Trademark Office from which the patent information
was taken.
Patent Country (Patent
Records Only)
The name of the country in which the patent was granted.
Patent Assignee (Patent
Records Only)
The name of the person or organization to which the rights to the patent have
been assigned.
Patent Class (Patent Records
Only)
The US Patent Class contains the class and subclass numbers of the United States
Patent Classification Scheme that has been assigned to the source patent by the
US Patent Office. The US Patent Class may be of variable length and may include
numeric and alphabetic characters as well as embedded punctuation or spacing.
ISSN
The International Standard Serial Number is a unique eight-digit number that
identifies periodical publications such as journals and electronic publications.
If a journal has both, then the print ISSN displays. Not every record in the product
has an ISSN.
ISBN (Books Only)
The International Standard Book Number is a unique machine-readable identifier
that marks a book unmistakably.
DOI
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) is a system for permanently
identifying and exchanging intellectual property in the digital environment.
Example: DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2471062190
See http://www.doi.org for
more information.
DOI® is a registered trademark of the International DOI Foundation.
Major Concepts
Broad subject areas covered in the source document by the author. Broader terms
indicate a broader subject area and are subsets of other terms. Want
to know more?
Concept Code
Five-digit codes representing broad areas in the life sciences. A definition
follows the numeric code.
Taxonomic Data
This table displays the following information.
Super Taxa: High-level Taxonomic terms that refer to broad categories
of organisms. Super Taxa are presented in order from lowest level Taxa to highest.
Taxa Notes: Common names of broad groups of organisms and microorganisms
discussed in the source document by the author.
Organism Classifier [Biosystematic Code]: Represents the organism classifier
and the corresponding Biosystematic Code for an organism discussed in the source
document by the author. The code may be followed by an asterisk (*), which is
used to indicate the reporting of a new Taxon within the source document. In some
instances, the asterisk may be replaced with -NEW.
The following fields are applicable for records from 1993 to the present.
Organism Name: The Organism Name contains the name of an organism as
given by the author(s) in the source document.
Variant: A variant name for the organism. The variant may be a corrected
spelling (from the author) or another common or species name.
Details: Other information such as gender of the organism, its developmental
stage, and its role. It may also contain a fossil indicator and whether the organism
is a new Taxon and its type.
Disease Data
This table may contain the following information.
Term: The name of a plant, animal, human disease, disorder, or pathological
condition as discussed in the source document.
Variant: A variant name used to describe the disease term.
MeSH Term: The National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Heading
term(s) for the disease term. The MeSH term is followed by the MeSH designation
in parentheses.
Disease Affiliation: Terms to define common disease affiliations in
order to provide a consistent search key.
Detail: Other explanatory details concerning the disease term as discussed
in the source document by the author.
Chemical Data
For records published from 1969 to 1992, the Chemical Data table may contain
two columns that display the Chemical Name and a five-to-nine digit CAS
Registry No.
If your subscription includes archived records (1926 to 1968), then the Chemical
Data table may also display the Chemical Name and a five-to-nine digit CAS Registry
No.
For records published from 1993 to the present, the Chemical Data table may
contain the following information.
Chemical Name: The name of a chemical or biochemical as described in
the source document by the author.
Variant: A variant name for the chemical name.
CAS Registry No. A five-to-nine digit CAS Registry Number®
assigned to the chemical name.
Drug Modifier: Terms that are used to define high-level categories of
therapeutic actions of the chemical name as discussed in the source document by
the author.
Details: Other information such as the chemical process and the chemical
role, which describes the role of the chemical as discussed in the source document
by the author.
Gene Name Data
This table may contain the following information.
Term: The name of a plant, animal, human disease, disorder, or pathological
condition as discussed in the source document by the author.
Variant: A variant name for the Gene Name term.
Details: Additional terms used to describe details of the discussion
of the gene as discussed in the source document by the author.
Sequence Data
This table may contain the following information.
Accession No. A unique number that identifies a molecular sequence as
assigned by a data bank and as cited in the source document by the author. The
number consists of alphabetic and numeric characters.
Data Bank: The name or acronym associated with the molecular sequence
data bank to which the Sequence Accession No. refers as discussed in the source
document by the author.
CAS Registry No. A five-to-nine digit CAS Registry Number®
assigned to the chemical name.
Details: Indicates what type of molecular sequence is noted in Sequence
Accession No.
Geographic Data
This table may contain the following information.
Term: A geographic term that describes a location or place as used in
the source document by the author.
Variant: A variant name for the geographic term.
Geopolitical Terms: The names of geopolitical areas.
Zoogeographical Region: The location of the geographic term.
Geologic Time Data
This table may contain the following information.
Term: A geological time period or era mentioned in the source document
by the author.
Classifier: A variant of the term that appears in the Term cell.
Detail: Other explanatory details concerning the geologic time term
as discussed in the source document by the author.
Methods and Equipment
Data
This table may contain the following information for records published from
1998 to the present.
Term: A term describing a method, apparatus, or scientific technique
discussed in the source document by the author.
Variant: A variant name for the Methods and Equipment term.
Details: Information about the equipment, manufacturer or supplier,
and the role of the term as discussed in the source document by the author.
Parts and Structures
Data
This table may contain the following information.
Term: Components of organisms above the macromolecular level as discussed
in the source document by the author.
Variant: A variant name for the Parts & Structure term.
Organ Systems: A high-level organ system of which the Parts & Structure
term is a part.
Detail: Other explanatory details concerning the Parts & Structure
term as discussed in the source document by the author.
Miscellaneous Descriptors
Additional subject terms assigned by indexers.
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