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Biopharmaceutical Glossary, Taxonomies     
and guide to 21st century therapeutics, technologies and trends
Glossary last updated July 13,  2010 Home Page last revised July 13, 2010  5,000+ definitions
compiled by Mary Chitty, Library Director & taxonomist, Cambridge Healthtech Institute, Needham MA



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Biopharmaceutical Glossaries & Taxonomies reviews & accolades
Molecular Pathology Division related links, American Association of Clinical Chemistry, 2007  A very nice set of glossaries for Genomics, Pharmacogenomics, Proteomics, and Structural Biology

Gary B Smejkal, I'm an -omics, you're an -omics, Expert Review of Proteomics, 3 (4): 383-385 Aug. 2006  Thankfully, someone has undertaken the task of comp8iling the growing list of -omics.. 

The drug discovery process at NIBR, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research  Having difficulties understanding some of the terminology used on this page? Visit the Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s drug discovery & development glossary,

Science Magazine Functional Genomics Resources "Finding the right word" A guide to some useful online glossaries  Post-genomics, biotech and bioinformatics Extraordinary, one- of- a- kind site. … The strong focus on, and lengthy treatment of, post-genomics topics makes this an invaluable resource  

Staying current,: Omes, Podcasts, Videocasts,  etc.  Dentistry Library, Univ of Michigan Sept. 2006:  A  motherlode of technical jargon and definitions .. Truly a masterful and comprehensive resource, frequently updated, so always current and at the cutting edge. The place to go when you aren't sure about a new term.

Internet Scout Report, June 20, 2001  Because genomics is an interdisciplinary science that unites biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics, its language is diverse and includes terms not always found in dictionaries. .. links to pages on nomenclature, a bibliography of Web and print resources, and a FAQ page are available at this fantastic Website

"Omics, Schmomics" Jocelyn Kaiser ed. NetWatch Science 292 (5522): 1615, 1 June 2001 Everybody's talking about proteomics and structural genomics these days, but have you heard of transcriptomics? How about cellomics? One site trying to track the dizzying evolution of the postgenomics lexicon is Genomics Glossaries.

More from Mary Chitty
Chapter on genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics in Using the Pharmaceutical Literature,  Sharon Srodin, editor, Taylor & Francis CRC Press, 2006

BioMedical Taxonomies/Ontologies - Current Status, Ongoing Challenges Respondent, ASIST American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting, Oct. 22, 2003, Long Beach CA Biomedical ontologies handout

Special Libraries Association Annual Meeting, Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division sessions, New York, June 11, 2003   Biopharmaceutical Roundtable bibliography Return on Investment: Breaking the Code: Proteomics in Drug Discovery bibliography

Where's my stuff?  Information overload, taxonomies and beyond
Special Libraries Association Annual Meeting, Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division, June 10, 2002, Los Angeles, CA 

ABOUT THE LEXICOGRAPHER  Mary Chitty, Library Director & Taxonomist at Cambridge Healthtech in Needham MA and has written Federal Information Sources in Health and Medicine (Greenwood Press, 1988) and a number of book reviews. She's on the board of the newly formed Taxonomy division of  SLA and was previously Head of Reference at the Library of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Boston MA and supervised the Air Pollution Technical Information Center at the US EPA Library, Research Triangle Park, NC. Starting out as a picture researcher and fact- checker in the US and England, she has an MSLS from the University of  North Carolina - Chapel Hill and a BA (Anthropology) from Yale. When not trying to keep up with the latest developments in molecular biology, she tries to keep up with her website about  19th century American theater and medical history.