INTERNET RESOURCES FOR BIOCHEMISTRY

An incredible wealth of information pertaining to biological molecules is now available on the Internet. Click the appropriate hypertext below to find:

GENERAL BIOCHEMISTRY

• A great interactive site accompanying Garrett and Grisham's text:   Biochemistry
• Interactive tutorial accompanying Lehninger, Principle of Biochemistry, 3rd edition
• Biochemistry on the Web.
• Biochemistry Clip Art
• Biological Biochemical Image Database

MOLECULAR MODELING

• Web Molecules:  Over 210,000 in VRML or Chime Formats
• Explorer, a Chime based program to explore protein homology
• The NEW HOMEPAGE  of the - PROTEIN DATA BANK
• The Gateway to the - NIH GUIDE TO MOLECULAR MODELING
• A guide to - COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY at the NIH
• For online - SUPPORT FOR QUANTA/CHARMM, from Molecular Simulations
• The home page of the - CHEMISTRY HYPERMEDIA PROJECT AT VIRGINIA TECH
• The home page for - VISUAL MOLECULAR DYNAMICS
• For amazing images and animations from the - VIRTUAL REALITY ROOM
• For biochemical examples of - VIRTUAL REALITY MODELING LANGUAGE IN CHEMISTRY
• Interactive lessons on AMINO ACID AND PROTEIN STRUCTURE
• The ONLINE MACROMOLCEULAR MUSEUM - featuring interactive tutorials
• IMAGE LIBRARY OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES - in stereo and virtual reality
• The DATABASE OF MACROMOLECULAR MOVEMENTS showing protein movement in cells and conformatiional changes.
• The BioToolKit now provides 774 annotated links to web tools for the study of nucleic acid, genome, and protein structure.
• WebMol:   Viewing Proteins on the WWW
• Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics

PROTEINS

• The homepage and the online journal of the - PROTEIN SCIENCE
• For a list of suppliers of enzymes
• Great information on proteases
• Another database of proteases
• Information on - SCOP: STRUCTURAL CLASSIFICATION OF PROTEINS
• For information on the - EC: THE ENZYME COMMISSION - ENZYMES CATAGORIES
• For information on - AMINO ACID PROPERTIES
• For information on - PROTEIN CLEAVAGE RECIPES
• For information on - PROTEIN DOMAINS
• A movie of ACETYLCHOLINERESTERASE binding with acetylcholine
• the INTEGRIN homepage
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DNA/MOLECULAR BIOLOGY/BIOTECHNOLOGY

• Human Genome Central from the Human Genome Sequencing Consortium - brief listing of links so some of the most useful poublic resources related to the human genome. 
• Human Genome Browser - Search the database using a gene ID number, position, or key word.
• Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Information
• The GENOME GATEWAY from Nature
• Exhaustive Biomolecule Data Web Links!
• The NATIONAL CENTER FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY INFORMATION
• The GENE ALMANAC, an educational web site on the human genome from Cold Spring Harbor
• The HUMAN GENOME PROJECT
• Genomics:  A GLOBAL RESOURCE: updated daily
• HUMAN GENOME RESOURCES from the National Center for Botechnology Information
• The Kegg: Kyoto encyclopedia of GENES AND GENOMES
• The MOLECULAR BIOLOGY RESOURCE
• Multimedia materia on GENETICS from Cold Spring Harbor
• DNA CHIPS (DNA Microarrays)
• Microarray Gene Chips
• WIT - WHAT IS THERE - an Argonne National Lab site that allows input of a DNA sequence with output of what the gene product might do.
• National Biotechnology Information Facility
• Molecular Biology Databases
• the RNA WORLD
• Biotech Crops:
  • A
  • B
  • C
• Blast Searchs
• Human Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
• Chromatin Structure and Function Page
• Sense Lab:  Olfactory and Neuronal Databases 
• Epigenetics

LIPIDS

• For a database of the physical and chemical property of LIPIDS

CARBOHYDRATES

• Glycoscience Network Page - Select Information Resources

USEFUL REAGENTS/PROCEDURES/TECHNIQUES

• The home page for - BIOLOGICAL REAGENTS
• For information on - FLUOURESCENT PROBES - from Molecular Probes
• The BIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES ONLINE
• the NMR INFORMATION SERVER
• Methods in Molecular and Cell Biology from Protocol Online
• Tutorial on medical MRI

U. OF MN

• The home page of the - U. OF MINNESOTA BIOCATALYSIS/BIODEGRADATION DATABASE,
  which has an unbelievable amount of information available
• The list of interesting seminars at the - U. OF MINNESOTA COLLEGE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,which houses the Biochemistry Department at the University of Minnesota

BIOMEDICAL INFORMATION/INSTITUTIONS

• Dictionary of - BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOMEDICAL WORDS
• For interesting links to - TRADITIONAL AND NONTRADITIONAL MEDICAL INFORMATION
• Access to various biological - DATA BASES
• The homepage of the - NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH (NIH)
• Electronic newsgroups for - BIOSCIENTISTS
• FRONTIERS IN BIOMEDICINE lecture series from George Washington University
• The official MAD COW DISEASE home page.
• The WHY FILES: explaining the "science behind the news".
• Information on STD'S - sexually transmitted diseases
• The National Center for Biotechnology Information on INHERITED DIESEAE IN PEOPLE
• A government site on DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS including herbal remedies
• DNA VACCINES
• HOT MOLECBASE - which show updated news about "hot" molecules involved in human disease
• ACS MODERN DRUG DISCOVERY homepage
• Information About DRUGS
• Emailed MEDLINE searchs for key words
• WHO's COMMUNICABLE DISEASE AND SURVEILLANCE AND RESPONSE Web Site
• GABA Receptors
• Neurosciences - the Brain Connection
• Cancer Gene Expression DATA
• NEUOROMUSCULAR DISEASE CENTER
• GeneClinics -  is a medical knowledge base relating genetic testing to the diagnosis, management, and genetic counseling of individuals and families with specific inherited disorders.
• Antibodies Online

Web Software:  Genomics and Proteomics

• ExPASy Molecular Biology Server
• ExPASy Proteomics tools
• Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools

Calculators:

• Bioscience Calculator