The first Web site (1) from the National Center for Biotechnology Information offers a brief introduction to pharmacogenomics, a new science that "examines the inherited variations in genes that dictate drug response and explores the ways these variations can be used to predict whether a patient will have a good response to a drug, a bad response to a drug, or no response at all." This Web site...

In collaboration with HighWire Press, The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics' journal Pharmacological Reviews is newly online with a free trial period that extends through the end of 1998. Full-text is available from March 1997; abstracts begin September 1975; tables of contents begin with September 1965.