| Definition: biotechnology portal
A biotech portal is a site featuring a suite
of commonly used services, such as search engines, directories, news services,
forums, chats, online-shops, career centers and others. The biotechnology portal
serves as starting point and frequent gateway to biotechnology information resources on
the web. Biotechnology information portals cover nearly the whole range of biotechnological
issues (horizontal portal) or can focus on specific niche topics (vertical
or niche portal).
source: biotechnology glossary |