“The National Bio­log­i­cal Infor­ma­tion Infra­struc­ture (NBII) has updated its search engine to search mul­ti­ple data­bases at the same time, and now also returns clus­tered results. You can try it at NBII.gov. ”

Source: Research­Buzz, 9/3/09

From “About” NBII :

The NBII Pro­gram is man­aged by the U.S. Geo­log­i­cal Survey’s Bio­log­i­cal Infor­mat­ics Office, and “is a broad, col­lab­o­ra­tive pro­gram to pro­vide increased access to data and infor­ma­tion on the nation’s bio­log­i­cal resources. The NBII links diverse, high-quality bio­log­i­cal data­bases, infor­ma­tion prod­ucts, and ana­lyt­i­cal tools main­tained by NBII part­ners and other con­trib­u­tors in gov­ern­ment agen­cies, aca­d­e­mic insti­tu­tions, non-government orga­ni­za­tions, and pri­vate indus­try. NBII part­ners and col­lab­o­ra­tors also work on new stan­dards, tools, and tech­nolo­gies that make it eas­ier to find, inte­grate, and apply bio­log­i­cal resources infor­ma­tion. Resource man­agers, sci­en­tists, edu­ca­tors, and the gen­eral pub­lic use the NBII to answer a wide range of ques­tions related to the man­age­ment, use, or con­ser­va­tion of this nation’s bio­log­i­cal resources.”