Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
£14.99
Makes molecular, development and biochemical biology easy - I would have been lost without this book. I used it so much during my biology degree that the spine has fallen apart. It was great for short definitions, like what are PH domains or how does the Complement cascade work, or what DAG-lipase does. It also gives a list of all Restriction Enzymes, current database URLs for DNA/ protein sequences. It explained the most complex protein interactions with clarity and precision. It is better than any other text book and covers biomedical, biochemical, biophysical definitions. I would not have got a first class honours degree without it. If the publishers read this, I am waiting for the next edition to come out.
Love it. - One of my lecturers once told me that molecular biology really isn t that difficult, it s a language that you need to learn. As an undergraduat student of molecular biology this book is the one I use the most. It gives clear, concise and understandable explanations to most of the terms that has me puzzeled. Extremely useful!
one to keep handy when reading the scientific literature - As someone involved in biochemical research, I spend loads of time reading a variety of life science journals. Just keeping up with the latest research is hard enough, but as my areas of interest become ever larger and intermeshed with other disciplines such as medicine and physics, I ve found myself delving into this book more and more. But the pace of research is also a problem for a book like this, because to remain useful, new editions cannot appear fast enough to keep up with the latest batch of techniques, genes and proteins. Ultimately an Internet version of this book that gets updated on a regular basis would be the most useful. Never the less, once you get in the habit of using this dictionary, you ll want to keep it nearby when you re browsing the life science literature. Is this book good value? I think it s expensive compared to all other books, but well priced for an academic textbook. I find that using this book is still more rapid and direct than browsing the web for the definition of a word I don t know, and the brief definition given in this book is a good starting point for hunting down more detailed information.
Indispensable aid to the study of molecular biology! - From the novice undergraduate to the expert researcher, this book is a great at giving precise definitions of almost all the terms you will encouter in biochemisrty and molecular biology. Simply explained, the definitions are also great for jogging the memory if some topics have become a bit rusty. The most useful resource book I have bought..a scientist s dream dictionary!I d definitely recommend it for anyone involved in Biochemistry and its various disciplines.