Subject Guides: Biochemistry

General Biochemistry Instruction

• UW-Madison Biochemistry Department
  Describes the history and development of the department, faculty interests, research facilities, alumni and student profiles, course offerings and other information about the Biochemistry program and department.
  
• The Biology Project: Biochemistry
  An online interactive resource for learning biochemistry. Contains problem sets and tutorials. Developed by the University of Arizona.
  
• Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
  Searchable index with definitions of terms.
  
• Entrez (NCBI) Bookshelf
  Searchable fulltext biomedical books including 2002 Biochemistry by Berg, Jeremy M.; Tymoczko, John L.; and Stryer, Lubert.
  
• Medical Biochemistry Page
  Searchable, browsable biochemistry topics. From Dr. Michael W. King, IU School of Medicine.
  
• MIT Open Courseware
  See Chemistry and Biology courses.
  
• An On-Line Biology Book
  Outlines of freshman-level biology course. Includes many excellent images and illustrations.
  
• WebPath: The Internet Pathology Laboratory
  Over 1900 images with text, tutorials, lab exercises, and examination items from the Department of Pathology at the University of Utah. Includes a "Case of the Week" contest to diagnose.

General Biochemistry Gateways

• BUBL Link: Biochemistry and molecular biology
  Excellent resource which has catalog of selected Internet sites listed by subject. Links to journals, learning resources, essays, universities, biochemical societies, and commercial services.

Biochemical Images

• IMB Jena Image Library of Biological Macromolecules
  Visual and textual information on three-dimensional biopolymer structures. Access to Protein Data Bank and Nucleic Acid Database. Provided by the institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Jena, Germany.
  
• The Nanoworld Image Gallery
  Excellent images from the Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Arabidopsis

• The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)
  Major site funded by NSF. Provides genomic and related data about Arabidopsis, sequence analysis tools, genetic maps, international AGI sequencing efforts, and newsgroups. Major site funded by NSF. Provides genomic and related data about Arabidopsis, sequence analysis tools, genetic maps, international AGI sequencing efforts, and newsgroups.
  
• Arabidopsis Principal Investigators
  List of links to web pages of Arabidopsis researchers.
  
• Yanofsky Lab: Flower development
  Explanations and images of Arabidopsis. Links to other related informational sites.
  
• Arabidopsis Genome Analysis
  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory page with links to maps, articles and sequencing.

Biotechnology

• Human/Mouse Homology Relationships
  Major site from National Center for Biotechnology Information. Ability to select homology map of human or mouse chromosomes.
  
• Metals in Biology
  Developed by Center for Metalloenzyme Studies. Includes many bioinorganic links.

DNA

• NIH Special Interests Groups – DNA Repair Group
  Discussions of DNA Repair and many diagrams

• Dolan DNA Learning Center: Resources – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  Explanatory materials, tutorials, and exercises about DNA sequencing and analysis.

Enzymes

• BRENDA: The Comprehensive Enzyme Information System
  Enzyme functional data classified according to the Enzyme Commission list of enzymes. Some 3500 "different" enzymes are covered.
  
• Enzymes Structures Database
  Known enzyme structures that have been deposited in the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank.

Immunology

• HIV Knowledge Base
  Online textbook on HIV disease from the University of California, San Francisco and San Francisco General Hospital.
  
• HIV Knowledge Base: Natural Science of HIV
  Chapters on: Structure, expression, regulation of the HIV-1genome, and the Science of HIV vaccine development and more.

Nematodes

• USDA Nematology Lab Home Page
  Provides basic information about Nematodes, links to nematode journal articles, and a description of the USDA Nematode collection.

Proteins

• ExPASy – SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL
  Curated protein sequence database which provides annotations which include protein function, domains structure, post-translational modifications, variants, and more.
  
• BioTech: An Introduction to Proteins
  Basic information on proteins with links to protein educational sites. Provided by Indiana Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology.
  
• 3 Proteins
  Diagrams of amino acids with link to Amino Acid Repository. Links to related MIT sites.
  
• PDB WWW Home Page
  Protein Data Bank from Brookhaven National Laboratory is an archive of experimentally determined three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules. Entries are loaded weekly.
  
• The PROMISE Database home page
  The Prosthetic groups and Metal Ions in Protein Active Sites Database

Virology

• The Big Picture Book of Viruses
  Catalog of virus pictures on the web. Viruses are searchable by individual name, family name, genome type, host, and infectious disease. Links to numerous Virology web resources and online Virology courses. Maintained by Garry Lab at Tulane University.
  
• Institute for Molecular Virology
  Features a virus of the month, which includes image, news, medical information, pathogenesis, epidemiology and more. Excellent distance learning tutorials and access to multimedia library. University of Wisconsin, Institute for Molecular Virology.

Vitamins

• Vitamins and Coenzymes
  Explanations and chemical structures of vitamins and vitamin deficiencies and resultant diseases with links to more information on the specific disease. Also information on coenzymes.