Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Nearly twenty years ago one of us (S. P. D., soon joined by G. H. S.), began a distillation of the elements of biochemistry into an alphabetical arrangement. The task was formidable and eventually other editors were recruited, an editorial board was established, and now the work is offered as the Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. It is hoped that the dictionary will serve the needs of the research biochemist or molecular biologist, as well as teachers of the subject and their students. In addition, it should prove of value to practitioners of other fields of study or work seeking the meaning of a biochemical term.
An important function of a dictionary is to provide guidance on current usage in the field within its scope. The original 12-volume Oxford English Dictionary was compiled from about five million slips of paper bearing sentences or phrases extracted by some thousands of 'readers' from classical works of literature and those of the best contemporary authors. It was thus firmly based on good usage. In scientific subjects, specialist terminology is often codified in sets of recommendations regarding nomenclature, meaning, abbreviations, symbols, and so on. These have been agreed by international commissions (e.g. those of The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) as a means of preserving order and facilitating communication between scientists. We have striven to conform as far as possible to the relevant international recommendations, but in some cases, where usage so frequently diverges from a recommendation that adherence to it would seriously detract from ease of use of the dictionary, we have kept to the principle that the dictionary should reflect usage (see the definitions of lexicographer). This does not extend, of course, to cases where usage, however widespread, contradicts sound scientific principles. The internationally agreed recommendation is always also listed. The various compilations of these recommendations that have been drawn upon are listed in Appendix B, together with a number of other sources of information on nomenclature.

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