A great science search engine

[Sarah Olivo]

Here's the link and a short description from a COSEE-West advisor.
Have a look, let us know what you think and we'll spread the word to
more teachers and schools!

"VADLO" is a very interesting new science search engine to let you
explore a great variety of subjects.
For example, it brought up some lovely PowerPoint shows when I
searched on "plankton" and "oceanography"

www.vadlo.com

from the website:
"Vadlo is brought to you by two biology scientists who wish
to make it easier to locate biology research related information on
the web.
Vadlo search engine caters to all branches of life sciences. This beta
offering allows users to search within five categories: Protocols,
Online Tools, Seminars, Databases and Software.
Protocols category will let you search for methods,
techniques, assays, procedures, reagent recipes, plasmid maps, etc.
Online Tools will cater calculators, servers, prediction tools,
sequence alignment and manipulation tools, primer design etc. Seminars
are essentially powerpoint files for presentations, lectures and
talks. Databases will take you to, well, databases, resources,
compilations, lists etc. It is here that you can also search for your
favorite genes and proteins. Software category is for bioinformatics
experts who are looking for codes, scripts, algorithms, executables,
downloadable programs and collaborations. Please realize this is beta,
or pre-beta, if you prefer. Vadlo index is expanding everyday and your
favorite link/s will be indexed pretty soon.

"Vadlo: (vud-lo) - Vadlo is a large fig tree characterized by aerial
roots that eventually become accessory trunks. This allows it to grow
horizontally to amazing proportions. Aerial roots provide for
convenient swings to the kids, who, along with eager birds, also enjoy
the ripe red figs on Vadlo, called Teta (Singular: Teto )."