Biochem book

[Jason110]

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Out of curiosity, for those of you who took Biochemistry as an undergraduate, what was the textbook that you used? Was it any good?

I personally used Berg, Tymozcko, Stryer. Biochemistry 5th ed. I found it to be one of the best textbooks that I ever had as an undergraduate. It's definitely a keeper!

Jason

 

[uclakid]

I used Lehninger. Pretty good, but my prof was excellent (so basically the book was just a simple supplement).

 

[TRUE]

I used stryer and I use it mainly as a paper weight. I didn't like it all that much...

 

[ATPase]

I used Stryer and thought it was good.

 

[zinjanthropus]

i used the stryer book in my biochem course but i am also familiar with the lehninger book. the stryer book is generally a much better text with much more detailed and clear explanations. plus it does a better job of telling you the 'story' of biochemistry.

 

[Kalel]

Stryer and Lehinger are excellent biochem books that many med schools require or reccomend that med students buy during their first year. So I would keep the book if you have it, but when you get to med school and if don't have either book but your school is telling you that you need it, I wouldn't buy it then because you don't really need it for med school (I probably opened my book 3-4 times just to look random stuff up). Hope that makes sense.

 

[Taleof50]

We used VOET. Horrible book, probably used it because he teaches at my university.

 

[ForensicPath]

I'm using Voet right now, and it is a horrible textbook. I do not like it at all.

On a side note: The Janeway Immunology textbooks is probably one of the best science texts I have had.

 

[dutchmaster]

I am using Lehniger right now and i think it's excellent. It helps when your professors are the authors of the book too.

 

[Tiki]

I used Stryer for Biochem and Janeway for Immunology. Both were great textbooks.

 

[Northerner]

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Very professional and academic I thought. A little over my head though...

 

[gioia]

Very professional and academic I thought. A little over my head though...

 

[Aptamer]

Really...you guys don't like Voet&Voet? At our school, we use Lehninger (some of our research professors are referenced in the current third edition), but I always use Voet&Voet for topics like amino acid degradation. For instance, going through lysine degradation, Lehninger skips eight steps of the pathway. Voet&Voet has both pathways. Look right next to lysine and Lehninger skips nine steps in tryptophan degradation.

Although, I must say, Lehninger is a better read...but Voet&Voet has more comphrensive reaction pathways.

I would buy Lehninger and also buy Voet&Voet. You can find Voet's second edition (1995) for about $40.00 online used if you want to use it as a reference. (Voet's Third edition was recently released in two separate editions. The full version comes out in May.)

I also use Stryer's 5th edition online via the NCBI's website.

Dutchmaster...you're from UW-Madison?

 

[ForensicPath]

Originally posted by Aptamer
Really...you guys don't like Voet&Voet?

There's Voet and there is Voet & Voet I believe. The latter is supposed to be more comprehensive. I am using the former as the text for an undergraduate introductory biochem class.

 

[Quickread]

i used lehninger and thought it was a great book. the teacher sucked, so i had to depend on the book a fair amount. i thought that its explanations and diagrams were excellent and really facilitated the learning and memorization process. my 2 cents.

 

[beastmaster]

I used Stryer. It was a piece of sh1t.

 

[idq1i]

Originally posted by beastmaster
I used Stryer. It was a piece of sh1t.

Agreed. Stryer is total garbage. It has 30% of the material needed to truly understand Biochemistry. Once you people start medical school, don't buy it for the biochem class!!!