UCSD Biochemical Genetics and Metabolomics Laboratory A Program in the Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego

Biochemical Genetics- Links to Other Sites

• Organizations
  • ACMG, The American College of Medical Genetics
  • SSIEM, The Society for Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism
  • NSGC, National Society of Genetics Counselors
  • NORD: National Organization for Rare Disorders
• Research Sites
  • Metabolomics
    • HMDB: The Human Metabolome Database
    • Metlin: Scripps metabolomics utilities
    • eMetabolomics and MAGMa Wageningen University, Netherlands eScience/ Metabolomics Centre.
• General Genetics
  • OnLine Mendelian Inheritance in Man : The on-line version of McKusick's classic compendium.
  • National Center for Biotechnology Information : Home of NCBI, National Library of Medicine, and NIH.
  • Genome Database : Many useful links to biologic and genetic databases around the world.
  • National Library of Medicine : Services and links from the NLM.
  • GeneTests (Formerly Helix): A National Registry of DNA Diagnostic Laboratories and their tests.
  • Human Genome Variation Society.
• Genomics Teaching Sites
  • Unlocking Life's Codes: https://unlockinglifescode.org National Museum of Natural History NIMNH/ NHGRI
  • Learn Genetics & Teach Genetics: learn.genetics.utah.edu
  • Biointeractive, HHMI: www.biointeractive.org
  • DNA Learning Center: www.dnalc.org
  • Yourgenome: www.yourgenome.org
  • NHGRI Human Genome Resources: www.genome.gov/education/
  • J Craig Venter Institute www.genomenewsnetwork.org
  • Bio-Alive: bio-alive.com/index.htm
  • USDOE: www.genomicscience.energy.gov/education/index.shtml
  • Genome British Columbia: www.genomebc.ca
  • Progress Educational Trust UK: www.bionews.org.uk/home
  • The Jacskon Lab: www.jax.org
• Biochemical Genetics
  • Metab-L, a mailing list and informational resource for professionals and others interested in biochemical genetics, maintained by Dr. Christian Renner.
  • NetBiochem : Contains several entries of information developed for biochemistry instruction.
  • Metabolic Pathways  (sponsored by Roche).
  • Mitochondrial Research Society, centered at NIH under Drs. Singh and Zullo.
  Molecular Genetics
  • ExPASy molecular biology WWW server of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.
  • EMBNet, services from Switzerland.
  • HUM-MOLGEN, Human Molecular Genetics Internet Forum. Includes lists of scientific meetings and employment opportunities.
• Biochemical Genetics Sites
  • UCSD Biochemical Genetics site of UCSD Pediatrics, Division of Biochemical Genetics.  Includes UCSDW3BG, a www listing of labs and tests in Biochemical Genetics.
  • UCSD Cystinosis site of UCSD Pediatrics, Division of Metabolic Disease.
  • Royal Children's Hospital Clinical Biochemistry, Melbourne, Australia.
  • St. Louis University Metabolic Screening Lab , Jim Shoemaker MD PhD, Director.
  • Emory University Genetics Laboratory, including pages from their Biochemical Genetics Laboratory and resources at Emory, Atlanta, Geirgia.
  • Biochemical Genetics Chemical Standards offered by Dr. Herman J. ten Brink, Amsterdam.
  • British Inherited Metabolic Disease Group, a consortium with a directory of laboratories diagnosing metabolic disease in the U.K.
  • European Directory of DNA Laboratories, maintained in Loverval, Belgium.
  • Center for Inherited Disorders of Energy Metabolism, Case Western University. Guidelines to clinical evaluation and details of offerings from that laboratory.
  • Chemical standards for clinical diagnosis of inherited metabolic diseases from the Universidad Autónoma, Madrid.
  • Please contact me to amend or append this list.
• Medical Sites
  • Medical Coding- ICD-9 codes.
  • UPIN- Unique Physician Idenifier Numbers database.
• Tutorial and Instructional Sites
• Neonatology.org Various interesting things related to Neonatology.
• Tokyo Medical College Genetics Study Group, with several items of interest, including graphic instructional material. Maintained by Dr. Hironao Numabe.
• Biology Education Resource Guide: from "SmartScholar.com"
• BIODIDAC: A bank of digital resources for teaching biology: from the University of Ottawa

• Journals and Publishers
  • Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
  • Archives of Disease in Childhood
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • The Lancet
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • European Journal of Paediatrics
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Elsevier Science - Home Page
  • The British Medical Journal
  • Nature
  • Science
  • The Biochemical Journal
• Support Groups and Patient Information
  • Rare Genes: A list of rare genetic diseases from the Global Genes Project.
  • NORD: National Organization for Rare Disorders
  • National Parent-To-Parent Network: Enabling contact among families with children who have rare disorders or other special needs.
  • UMDF: United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation
  • EMDN: Children's Mitochondrial Disease Network, U.K.
  • Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease Center at UCSD (formerly the Leigh's Center for Children)
  • National PKU News: Directed and edited by Virginia Schuett, MS, RD, Seattle.
  • Gaucher Disease homepage, England.
  • Contact a Family, for families with disabled children, United Kingdom
  • FOD Network On-Line: The Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorder Network, a resource for support, education and communication regarding fatty oxidation disorders.
  • NKH Parent Network: for families with nonketotic hyperglycinemia.
  • Mitochondrial Disease Action Committee: support and advocacy for patients and families affected by mitochondrial disease
  • Please contact me to amend or append this list.

Maintained by bbarshop@ucsd.edu, of UCSD Biochemical Genetics. Please contact me with comments, corrections, additions.