Oxford LibGuides: Biochemistry: Free Online Resources

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Biochemical Society
The Biochemical Society promotes the future of molecular biosciences; facilitating the sharing of expertise, supporting the advancement of biochemistry and molecular biology, and raising awareness of their importance in addressing societal grand challenges.
British Society for Cell Biology
The British Society for Cell Biology (founded 1965; registered charity no. 265816) exists to promote the advance of research in all branches of cell biology and to encourage the interchange of information. The Society organizes and supports meetings and conferences relevant to cell biology and plays an increasing role in raising awareness of science policy issues in the UK.
The Society for Experimental Biology (SEB)
The Society for Experimental Biology is a learned society that was established in 1923 at Birkbeck College in London to "promote the art and science of experimental biology in all its branches".

A great deal of scientific information is freely available on the internet. Using the web for academic research requires you to adopt a critical attitude to the material you find. Always think about who is writing the material and for what purpose, how old it is, if the material is biased in any way, and consider if information is properly referenced to peer-reviewed academic sources that you can check independently.

RADAR Framework
The RADAR framework is a set of principles you can use to help evaluate the quality and reliability of information you find on the web (and elsewhere). This guide from the University of Utah provides a helpful summary of how and why to apply RADAR.
WorldWideScience.org
WorldWideScience allows you to search for a range of scientific research outputs such as papers, software, data sets and multimedia content available on the internet. It is maintained by US Office of Scientific and Technical Information.
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers.

Department of Biochemistry
Website for the Department of Biochemistry at Oxford University providing details about the department and current research.
CBRG
The Computational Biology Group is based at Oxford and provides the University with a range of bioinformatics resources and support services.

The Human Protein Atlas
The Human Protein Atlas is a Swedish-based program initiated in 2003 with the aim to map all the human proteins in cells, tissues, and organs using an integration of various omics technologies, including antibody-based imaging, mass spectrometry-based proteomics, transcriptomics, and systems biology. All the data in the knowledge resource is open access to allow scientists both in academia and industry to freely access the data for exploration of the human proteome.
BRENDA - The comprehensive enzyme information system
BRENDA is the main collection of enzyme functional data available to the scientific community. It is available free of charge via the internet
Cell Image Library
This library is a public and easily accessible resource database of images, videos, and animations of cells, capturing a wide diversity of organisms, cell types, and cellular processes.

Biochemistry: Free Online Resources

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