Harper’s Illustrated Biochemistry, 29th Edition (2012)

Selected Worldwide Web Sites

The following is a list of web sites that readers may find useful. The sites have been visited at various times by one or more of the authors. Most are located in the United States, but many provide extensive links to international sites and to databases (eg, for protein and nucleic acid sequences) and online journals. RKM would be grateful if readers who find other useful sites would notify him of their URLs by e-mail (rmurray6745@rogers.com) so that they may be considered for inclusion in future editions of this text.

Readers should note that URLs may change or cease to exist.

Access to the Biomedical Literature

High Wire Press: http://highwire.stanford.edu/ (Extensive lists of various classes of journals—biology, medicine, etc.—and offers also the most extensive list of journals with free online access.)

National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ (Free access to Medline via PubMed.)

General Resource Sites

Access Medicine from McGraw-Hill: http://accessmedicine.com/features.aspx

A subscription site containing online basic science and medical texts and many other resources.

The Biology Project (from the University of Arizona): http://www.biology.arizona.edu/default.html

(Contains excellent biochemical coverage of enzymes, membranes, etc.)

Harvard University Department of Molecular & Cellular

Biology Links: http://mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks.html

(Contains many useful links.)

Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications: http://www.lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/

(Includes Profiles in Science, Genetics Home Reference, information on clinical trials, and a comprehensive guide to newborn screening codes).

Medical Encyclopedia in MedlinePlus: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html

(Includes several thousand articles about diseases. Also tests, medical photographs, and illustrations.)

MITOPENCOURSEWARE: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology

(Various Biology Courses given at MIT are accessible via this web site.

The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/

(The site contains the Nobel Lectures of Nobel Prize winners and thus provides a rich source of biomedical information.

Sites on Specific Topics

American Heart Association: http://www.heart.org/

(Valuable information on nutrition, on the role of various biomolecules—eg, cholesterol, lipoproteins—in heart disease, and on the major cardiovascular diseases.)

Cancer Genome Anatomy Project (CGAP): http://www.cgap.nci.nih.gov/

(An interdisciplinary program that helped generate information and technical tools to assist in deciphering the molecular anatomy of the cancer cell.)

Carbohydrate Chemistry and Glycobiology: A Web Tour: http://sciencemag.org/site/feature/data/carbohydrates.xhtml

(Contains links to organic chemistry, carbohydrate chemistry, and glycobiology.)

European Bioinformatics Institute: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/

(Contains databases on genomes, nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, etc.)

GeneCards: http://www.genecards.org/

(A database of human genes, their products, and their involvements in disease; from the Weizmann Institute of Science.)

GeneTests: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/GeneTests

(A medical genetics information resource for physicians and others with comprehensive articles [under GeneReviews] on many genetic diseases.)

Genetics Home Reference: http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/

(A guide to understanding genetic conditions, primarily for lay people, containing information on more than 550 health conditions and more than 800 genes).

Howard Hughes Medical Institute: http://www.hhmi.org/

(An excellent site for following current biomedical research. Contains a comprehensive Research News Archive.)

Human Gene Mutation Database: http://www.hgmd/org

(An extensive tabulation of mutations in human genes from the Institute of Medical Genetics in Cardiff, Wales.)

Human Genome Project Information: http://www.genomics.energy.gov

(From the U.S. Department of Energy; also contains general information on genomics and on microbial genomes.)

J. Craig Venter Institute: http://www.jcvi.org

(Contains information on synthetic biology, sequences of bacterial genomes, and other information).

Karolinska Institute: Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics http://www.mic.stacken.kth.se/Diseases/

(A comprehensive site containing links to information on most classes of disease).

Lipids Online: http://lipidsonline.org/

(A resource from Baylor College of Medicine containing educational resources on atherosclerosis).

MITOMAP: http://www.mitomap.org/

(A human mitochondrial genome database.)

National Cancer Institute: http://www.cancer.gov/

(Contains information on various types of cancer and also on current research on cancer)

National Center for Biotechnology Information: http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

(Provides access to biomedical and genomic information)

National Human Genome Research Institute: http://www.genome.gov/

(Extensive information about the Human Genome Project and subsequent work.)

National Institutes of Health: http://www.nih.gov/

(Includes links to the separate Institutes and Centers that constitute NIH, covering a wide range of biomedical research.)

Office of Rare Diseases: http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov

(Access to information on most rare diseases, including current research, and a Program on Undiagnosed Diseases)

OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim

(An extremely comprehensive resource on human genetic diseases, initiated by Dr. Victor A. McKusick, considered by many to be the Father of modern human genetics.)

RCSB Protein Data Bank: http://www.pdb.org

(A repository for the processing and distribution of three-dimensional biologic macromolecular structure data.)

Society for Endocrinology: http://www.endocrinology.org/

(The site aims to advance education and research in endocrinology for the public benefit.)

Society for Neuroscience: http://www.sfn.org

(Contains useful information on a variety of topics in neuroscience.)

The Broad Institute: http://www.broad.mit.edu/

(The Broad Institute is a research collaboration of MIT, Harvard and its affiliated hospitals—created to bring the power of genomics to medicine.)

The Endocrine Society: http://www.endo-society.org/

(The Society is devoted to research on hormones and to the clinical practice of endocrinology.)

The Protein Kinase Resource: http://pkr.genomics.purdue.edu/

(Information on the protein kinase family of enzymes.)

The UCSD-Nature Signaling Gateway: http://www.signalinggateway.org/

(A comprehensive resource for anyone interested in signal transduction.)

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/

(A genome research center whose purpose is to increase knowledge of genomes, particularly through large-scale sequencing and analysis.)

Biochemical Journals and Reviews

The following is a partial list of biochemistry journals and review series and of some biomedical journals that contain biochemical articles. Biochemistry and biology journals now usually have Web sites, often with useful links, and some journals are fully accessible without charge. The reader can obtain the URLs for the following by using a search engine.

• Annual Reviews of Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology, Genetics, Genomics and Human Genetics

• Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics (Arch. Biochem. Biophys.)

• Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.)

• Biochemical Journal (Biochem J.)

• Biochemistry (Biochemistry)

• Biochemistry (Moscow) (Biochemistry [Mosc])

• Biochemistry and Cell Biology (Biochem. Cell Biol.)

• Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (Biochim. Biophys. Acta)

• Biochimie (Biochimie)

• European Journal of Biochemistry (Eur. J. Biochem.)

• Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics (Indian J. Biochem. Biophys.)

• Journal of Biochemistry (Tokyo) (J. Biochem. [Tokyo])

• Journal of Biological Chemistry (J. Biol. Chem.)

• Journal of Clinical Investigation (J. Clin. Invest.)

• Journal of Lipid Research (J. Lipid Res.)

• Nature (Nature)

• Nature Genetics (Nat. Genet.)

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA)

• Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journals; PLOS One and the journals on Biology, Genetics, Medicine, and other subjects are available free online (e.g. http://www.plosone.org)

• Science (Science)

• Trends in Biochemical Sciences (Trends Biochem. Sci.)