General Biochemistry Annotated Links


Databases
Literature Searching
Problem Sets

 

Databases
There is an incredible amount of biochemistry information available on the internet.  The best sites are comprehensive, constantly updated and provide users with an easy to use interface.

Taxonomy and Phylogeny-The Tree of Life Web Project
While many evolutionary relationships are not definitively established, this site seeks to provide a uniform and linked framework in which to publish electronically information about the evolutionary history and characteristics of all groups of organisms to aid education about and appreciation of biological diversity.

Biochemical Pathways-Roche Charts
This is an electronic version of the charts hanging on the walls on first floor in Lipman Hall.  These charts graphically combine the results of metabolic research in many fields.

Genomes-Ensembl
 Ensembl is a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on eukaryotic genomes

DNA sequences-GenBank
Genbank is one of several  annotated collections of publicly available DNA sequences.  The database contains approximately 20 million sequence records.  The data in these records contain information such as source organism, journal article in which the sequence was published, and translations to amino acid sequence.

Protein Structures-PDB
The Protein Data Bank is a centralized database containing  three dimensional structure information of biological macromolecules.  It is operated by Rutgers and two  other member organizations of the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB).  The files are deposited by researchers worldwide.  Most of the data files contain x,y,z coordinates of proteins or nucleic acids determined by x-ray crystallography or nmr spectroscopy.  Theoretical models are also accepted.
 
 

Literature Searching

Multi-journal search engine-Pubmed
Pubmed searchable abstracts from thousands of medical related journals and provides links to full text articles when available.
Pubmed is provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

Electronic Journals
The full texts of many journals are available through the library's web site.

SciFinder Scholar-
This is a search engine for Chemical Abstracts with a graphical interface and is made available through the Rutgers library system.
 
 

Biochemistry Problem Sets
Any search engine will return links to a myriad of sites providing problems and solutions to questions related to biochemistry.  Here is a small sample of what you would find.

The Biology Project

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