Books & Training

Hands on Education Bioprocessing: NC State University Basic Lab Techniques: Biologue Antibodies/Immunology Antibodies: A Laboratory Manual, 2d ed. (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, 1988) Current Protocols in Immunology…

FDA links

Schools with Biomanufacturing courses:   NC State University    Worcester Polytechnique Institute     The FDA approved a total of 46 new drugs in 2017, the most since the peak of 59 in 1996.…

Links

Patent Offices:  Canada European Patent Office (general EPO site)   European Patent Registrar (contains file wrappers for European filed applications)  Great Britain     Japan   UKAustralia    USPTO (recent patent office related notices) USPTO  Global Patent Search (search Chinese and other foreign patents)  India…

Portal entry sites

General Search links:  Information hyperlinked over proteins (iHOP) (this is a useful database to find information regarding proteins as well as synonyms for the proteins) Database entry portals:  SRS SRS DBGET NCBI Cross-Ref DB (one of…

Cancer genomics & proteomics

Several goals for cancer genomics and proteomics are (1) a better understanding of cancer development, (2) providing a molecular basis for histological diagnoses, and (3) subdividing tumor types according to…

phosphoproteome

Phosphorylation is one of the most frequently occurring postranslational modifications (almost 30% of all proteins are thought to be phosphorylated). In Eukaryotes, regulation of cellular processes is achieved through reversible…

protein function

X-Refs:National Human Genome Research Institute (comparison of genomes of other species with our species to determine protein function) See also Protein-Protein Interaction assays under biotechnology. The Daunting Task of predicting Protein…

structural characterization of proteins

AlphaFold (put in amino acid sequence and obtain predicted 3D structure) More than 540,000 protein sequences have been deposited in the nonredundant database maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology…

Protein bioinformatics

Useful Links:  Human Proteome Map Portal contains translation of protein products derived from over 17k human genes.   Proteomic Data Base   world-wide Protein Data Bank (contains more than 126,000 experimentally determiend atomic level 3D structures…

Metabolomics

See also bacterial metabolism Metabolomics is the study of the entire complement of all the small molecular weight metabolites inside an organism of interest. Some metabolites which are routinely assayed in the…