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This page attempts to give an overview of commonly used biochemistry textbooks, starting the with the most commonly used textbooks in biochemistry and cell biology over ebooks to freely available books online.
The classics
Prices are approximate and were looked up on amazon.com and amazon.de in December 2011.
Ratings are amazon average star rating; the best score is 5; the number of reviews averaged is in brackets.
1 Lehninger & eBook [1] gives the probably false impression that an ebook is included [2]
eBooks
To date, few of the major textbooks (see above) are made available as ebooks, possibly because of fear of illegal copying or lack of demand. However, textbooks from Garland Science (Alberts, Janeway,..) are now available in cooperation with vitalsource. Unfortunately, as I was told by the European representative in 1/2012, Garland does not sell the ebook outside the US/Ca.
A few smaller textbooks and guides can be read electronically (see below). In addition, many specialised or lesser known books are available as ebooks (search for biochemistry on amazon.com or amazon.de).
Prices are approximate and were looked up on amazon.com and amazon.de in December 2011.
Ratings are amazon average star rating; the best score is 5; the number of reviews averaged is in brackets.
Principles of Biology
Over 50 undergraduate instructors, artists, researchers, and journalists are composing a new digitial only textbook called Principles of Biology. The project is a collaboration of the Nature Publishing Group who provide editorial experience and faculty members of the California State University who review the material and advise the project [3]. The book was announced to be ready for internal CSU review by September 2011 [4]. Engadget has some screenshots.
NCBI Bookshelf
- Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2002, 4th ed. by Alberts, Johnson, Lewis, Raff, Roberts, Walter
- Molecular Cell Biology, 2000, 4th ed. by Lodish, Berk, Zipursky, Matsudaira, Baltimore, Darnell
- Biochemistry, 2002, 5th ed. by Berg, Tymoczko, Stryer
- Genomes, 2002, 2nd ed. by Brown
- Human Molecular Genetics, 1999, 2nd ed. by Strachan and Rea
- Developmental Biology, 2000, 6th ed. by Gilbert
Specialised textbooks
Genetics
Medical focus
Developmental biology / Embryology
Kenneth Saladin reviews Sadler, Moore and Larsen and generally recommends Sadler.
Neuroscience
| title
| latest edition
| ebook
| € price
| rating
|
| Basic Neurochemistry (Siegel)
| 2011 (8th)
| kindle 65€
| 72-96€
| 4.5 (2!)
|
| Neuroscience (Purves)
| 2011 (5th)
|
| 58€
| 4.5 (37)
|
| From Neuron to Brain (Nicholls)
| 2011 (5th)
|
| ?
| 4.5 (16) 4th!
|
| Medical Neurobiology (Mason)
| 2011 (1st)
| no
| 56€
| 5 (4)
|
| Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain (Bear)
| 2006 (3rd)
|
| 41€
| 4.5 (33)
|
| Fundamental Neuroscience (Squire)
| 2008 (3)
|
|
| 3.5 (24)
|
| The Neuron (Levitan, Kaczmarek)
| 2001 (3rd)
|
|
| 5 (7)
|
| Principles of Neural Science (Kandel)
| 2000 (4th)
|
|
| 4.5 (47)
|
Plant biochemistry
Microbiology
| title
| latest edition
| ebook
| € price
| rating
|
| Microbiology: An Introduction (Tortora)
| 2009 (10th)
| no
| 114€
| 4.5 (48)
|
| Prescott's Microbiology
| 2010 (8th)
| $99
| 174€*
| 4.5 (8)
|
| Brock Biology of Microorganisms
| 2010 (13th)
| no
| 62€
| 4 (6)
|
| Microbiology: Principles and Explorations (Black)
| 2012 (8th)
| kindle 7th!
| 71€
| 4 (18) 7th!
|
| Microbiology: A Systems Approach (Cowan)
| 2011 (3rd)
| no
| 168€*
| 4 (24)
|
| Microbiology with Diseases by Body System (Bauman)
| 2011 (3rd)
| kindle
| 152€*
| 5 (15)
|
| Microbiology: An Evolving Science (Slonczewski)
| 2010 (2nd)
| Adobe
| 65€
| 5 (4)
|
* only hardcover as of 2012/01
Non-English textbooks
| title
| latest edition
| language
| price
| rating
|
| Biochemie und Pathobiochemie (Löffler)
| 2006 (8.)
| German
| 80€
| 3.5 (28)
|
| Biochemie (Müller-Esterl)
| 2010 (2.)
| German
| 55€
| 4 (18)
|
| Biochemie des Menschen (Horn)
| 2009 (4.)
| German
| 40€
| 4.5 (6)
|
| Pflanzenbiochemie (Heldt..)
| 2008 (4.)
| German
| 60€
| 4 (7x)
|
| Experimentator: Proteinbiochemie & Proteomics
| 2009 (6.)
| German
| 33€
| 5 (9)
|
| Experimentator: Molekularbiologie & Genomics
| 2008 (6.)
| German
| 33€
| 4.5 (14)
|
| Experimentator: Zellkultur
| 2011 (3.)
| German
| 33€
| 4 (7)
|
| Experimentator: Immunologie
| 2008 (3.)
| German
| 33€
| 5 (2!)
|
| Experimentator: Neurowissenschaften
| 2010 (1.)
| German
| 33€
| 5 (1!)
|
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