(Part 2) Top products from r/Biochemistry

• This website for some software that I use (Scaffold by Proteome Software) has some good information about proteomics.
  
  
• Also, the website for the American Society for Mass Spectrometry has some good information about mass spectrometers. Start with the video about Mass Analyzers (if you are new to mass spec, the other videos might be a bit over your head).
  
  
• This article is a bit dated but it's still pretty good if your school has access to the article:
  > Dunn, Warwick B. "Mass spectrometry in systems biology an introduction." Methods Enzymol 500 (2011): 15-35.
  
  
• This book (especially the first chapter) does a pretty good job of helping bridge mass spec concepts concepts with biology
  
  
  

Interesting:

Life on the Edge: The Coming age of Quantum Biology by Jim Al-Khalili
Great, easy read on a fascinating topic of quantum biology; topics from animal migrations and photosynthesis elegantly discussed.

The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic
by Nathan D. Wolfe
Seat-of your pants virology that explores the coming viral pandemic. Great reading in view of the Ebola crisis in West Africa.

Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code by Matthew Cobb

Lilting historical re-telling of a well-worn story of the discovery of DNA, the genetic code, and the winners and losers of the race.

Useful:

Bioenergetics Paperback – by David G. Nicholls

The go-to text on Bioenergetics, useful for every aspect of biochemistry in my humble opinion.

Based on your post, I think you need more knowledge of biology and chemistry before you can really approach pharmacology. Gotta walk before you can run, if you will. But you're taking organic this year and hopefully biochem and a biology class next year so that will come with time.

If you're really excited about PK though, check out this youtube primer on the subject (~30min total). I also suggest checking out Derek Lowe's blog (/u/dblowe) In the Pipeline. There are over a decade of posts and especially since it's become associated with Science Translational Medicine, he does a great job introducing topics for those not directly in the field. He's made 73 posts tagged PK, and it may also give you insight about what your future career will be like and controversies in medicinal chemistry.

My undergrad med chem professor sadly passed away shortly before the course began, so I bought Richard Silverman's "The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action." Amazon has the 2nd edition (the one I have) for $13 and you may enjoy flipping through it when you take organic. However, it's a pretty advanced book (probably for folks who have already taken a med chem class) so you can also consider the legend EJ Corey's short book "Molecules and Medicine" or Patrick (the standard med chem textbook) if you want to see medicinal applications of organic while you take the course.

My favorite science-related leisure reading is Derek Lowe's blog In The Pipeline. He covers new developments in chemistry/biology, the drug discovery industry, and occasionally some other stuff. He writes it in a way would be interesting to anyone that like chemistry and biology regardless of their level of education. I always look forward to reading it over lunch.

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If you are looking for a book, The Disappearing Spoon is a great set of true short stories about chemistry that is a really fun read.

I have pretty limited experience with more advanced enzyme kinetics, but the scenario you described seems pretty straightforward and I imagine it would be covered in pretty much any book on the subject. I've used Cornish-Bowden's Fundamentals of Enzyme Kinetics as a reference before and found it to be well written and clear. I know Segel is kind of an encyclopedia of enzyme kinetics and is certain to have the formulas you need, though might not be best as a text to actually learn the subject properly.

This little book really helped me out in terms of how to do basic things and WHY you're doing them (for organic chem, which can come in handy for biochem). It tries a little too hard to be 'hip' (it's aimed at 1st and 2nd year college kids), but it's definitely worth it to have it laying around or as a reference since most of the techniques are pretty standard to any experiment. I don't know why it's so damn expensive now though, I got it new for $30 a few years ago. I'd suggest getting a used copy.

Glad to help! I was actually doing a bit of snooping and you can get the entire book for only 6 bucks used!!! I feel so ripped off having bought it for way more back when I was taking classes haha

There's actually a Bioinformatics for Dummies, and it's a pretty good and inexpensive introduction.

I can strongly reccommend The Chemistry of Life by Steven Rose - I read it when I was about 16 and trying to decide what degree to do at university as well. It assumes no scientific knowledge or vocabulary, and covers most of the basic areas of biochemistry and cell biology. Because it was written in 1966, it doesn't have any "cutting edge" science in it - however, it's easy to read, and what's in there is still required knowledge for first-year biochem exams!

Saw The Manga Guide to Biochemistry on this sub a while ago, maybe it will help!

One of the books he's written: Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves.

For anyone interested.

The best textbook I've had during my three years as a biochem/molecular bio major was Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, hands down. Molecular Biology of the Cell was also decent, but not as clearly laid out in my opinion.

In my biochemistry degree, we used Fundamentals of Biochemistry: Life at the Molecular Level by Voet et al.
It talks about kinetics, the various biochemical products in the human body, to the way they are created, etc. It may be overly detailed at times, but then, we used it for senior level biochemistry courses.
Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Fundamentals-Biochemistry-Life-Molecular-Level/dp/0470129301

Life on the edge

Voet and Voet. I swear by this book. It's damn near encyclopedic.