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Chemistry/Biology 491 "Pharmacognosy and How Drugs
Work"
Biochemistry Resources: Biochemistry is
at the heart of pharmacology. Here are some basic metabolism and biochemistry
resources.
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Medical Biochemistry.
Here is a great site covering all basic aspects of biochemistry and metabolism.
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The Protein Data Bank. Search here
to find out if there is a known structure for a given drug target protein.
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OMIM (Online Mendelian
Inheritance In Man). The ultimate genetic disorder resource. EVERYTHING
is here.
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How
aspirin works. Here is a structural resource requiring CHIME. This
is a classic system for understanding SAR(Structure Activity Relationships).
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Biochemistry Animations.
Go to the contents page and then "studying protein structures" and you
will be rewarded with CHIME aminmations of various medically important
protein targets including G-proteins and the HIV protease.
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