Dear Dr. Schneider:

On occasion students ask questions whose answers they should be able to find on the web. Here I give some resources for them.

• 2004 Aug 1

  Hello Dr. Schneider, I know you are a very busy man. I just want you to have a little patience and help me with a little problem I am having. Here's the problem: How do you use the promoter/ gene/ terminator to help in finding a PROTEIN in a cell. My goal is to purify a known protein. I just want to get the basics down. If I am not clear, please let me know. PLEASE ANSWER.
  -- Ted McCall

  Clearly you do not know enough to purify a known protein. Molecular biologists and other scientists would never capitalize the word protein. They would also identify themselves; please do so in the future. I conclude that you are a student trying to do homework. While I like helping students, I won't do your homework for you and I expect you to work hard to learn.

  So here is a fantastic resource called Pubmed:

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed

  From the abstracts of the scientific papers listed there you can learn a lot. They also have a Bookshelf:

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books

  Read the books there. In particular these two are famous:

  W. H. Freeman & Co.; c1999.
  Molecular Biology of the Cell. 3rd ed.
  Alberts, Bruce; Bray, Dennis; Lewis, Julian; Raff, Martin; Roberts,
  Keith; Watson, James D. New York and London: Garland Publishing;
  c1994.
  

  Biochemistry.
  Berg, Jeremy M.; Tymoczko, John L.; and Stryer, Lubert.
  New York: W. H. Freeman and Co.; 2002.
  

  Your assignment: read BOTH BOOKS cover-to-cover!