General Biochemistry Education
Interactive Biochemistry
at the University of Virginia: protein structure, enzymology, etc.
plus other interesting links
Ergito: reviews of Great Experiments in
molecular biology, the Genes
textbook online and more!
Protein structure
RasMol Home Page Contains
software and examples of viewing biomolecules on a PC or Mac screen. The manual
is available as a Word document or PDF file; a shorter reference card is also available as a Word
document. (If you did not get a Help file, you can download it here. Save it directly as a file into your RasMol
folder.)
For those who had
difficulty navigating their site, you can download RasMol here (right-click or
option-click to download files):
PC version (UC-Berkeley version 2.6: the most
stable one for the PC)
PC version 2.7 (the more powerful version;
released Jan 2004, so should be OK) & help file.
Mac version & help file (Stuffit archive)
The Protein Data Bank Database of
3-dimensional structures of biomolecules.
List of PDB codes for proteins displayed during lectures.
Enzymes
BRENDA: The Comprehensive Enzyme
Information System (provided by Univ. of K–ln)
Pathways
Step-by-step Guide to
Glycolysis: A very nice guided tour through the reactions and logic of the
glycolysis pathway. Start with "Begin at Glucose·" or review the
Introduction and Strategy sections immediately above it. (Thanks to Juliet
Ramirez for suggesting this site.)
Selected Journals
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Trends in Biochemical Sciences
EMBO (European Molecular Biology
Organization) Journal
Biochimica
et Biophisica Acta (Bioenergetics)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Other resources
PubMed: One of the main ways
to search the biomedical literature. The National Library of Medicine maintains
this database of scientific articles from a wide variety of journals. I
recommend using the Preview/Index feature for your searches.
If you cannot find
what you are looking for with PubMed, you should try SciFinder, which is
available at Rodgers Library (or in your lab, if you are working as a
researcher).