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PubMed. The National Institute of Health's searchable list of abstracts and citations of most of the world's peer reviewed biomedical literature. It has some links to online publishers and online textbooks. You may access some full text articles free online.

Europe PMC. 5 million more abstracts than PubMed. Access to preprints.

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man OMIM has 20+ Megabytes of inherited disease information with references. Again, from the US National Institutes of Health. A treasure.

Mitomap.org A human mitochondrial genome database A compendium of polymorphisms and mutations of the human mitochondrial DNA.

ARVO abstracts. Search for papers presented at Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meetings.

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