Books

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Here are a list of the "must-have" books for labs in biological science and engineering. Please edit/comment/revise.

Can't live without

1. The Merck index. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck, 2006. isbn:978-0-911910-00-1. [Merck]

   reference for precise, comprehensive information on chemicals

2. Joseph Sambrook, David W. Russell. Molecular cloning. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2001. isbn:978-087969577-4. [MolecularCloning]

   molecular biology

3. Benno Muller-Hill. The Lac Operon. Walter de Gruyter. isbn:978-3110148305. [Lac]

   short history of research on lac operon

4. Mark Ptashne. A genetic switch. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2004. isbn:978-0879697167. [GeneticSwitch]

   short history of research on λ

Other useful texts

5. Michael L. Shuler, Fikret Kargi. Bioprocess engineering. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002. isbn:978-0130819086. [Shuler]

   bioprocess engineering