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(as at Week 23, 1 June 2003)

The aim of The Week’s Special is to expose selected resources available in WebAnalytes that could be very useful for or applicable to research and education in the analytical sciences; Visitors are invited to send recommendable sites through ghirma2001@yahoo.com

Anti-doping Downloads regulations on prohibited drugs for athletes , e.g Anti-doping Rules and Regulations, blood testing etc

2005 Previous Weeks

HPLC Glossary (Week 31) Seton Hall University, USA

Selectivity in Analytical Chemistry (Week 30) IUPAC Recommendations 2001 (PDF file) Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 73, No. 8, pp. 1381–1386, 2001.Quality Digest: Articles May 2005 issue: Why Your Lab Should Be ISO/IEC 17025-Accredited; Making the Climb to ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation (Week 29)

Brad Olson’s Protein Assay Resource (Week 28) Ultraviolet Absorbance, the Bradford Assay, the Lowry Assay, the BCA Assay

Harmonized Guidelines for Single-laboratory Validation of Methods of Analysis (Week 27) PDF file (IUPAC Technical Report); Pure Appl. Chem. Vol. 74, No. 5, pp. 835-855 (2002)

Chemistry Laboratory Guidebook (Week 26)Test methods used by FSIS Laboratories to support the Agency’s inspection program, ensuring that meat, poultry, and egg products; US DA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)

Forensic Laboratory Guidelines (Week 25)(PDF) Society of Forensic Toxicologists

Absorption and Emission Spectra (Week 24) of the Elements; Choose Absorption or Emission for each element in the Periodic Table; University of Oregon

Use of Ion-Selective Electrodes (Week 23) (PDF file) for Blood-Electrolyte Analysis. Recommendations for Nomenclature, Definitions and Conventions; International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and
Laboratory Medicine; Clin Chem Lab Med 2000; 38(4):363–370

Malaria an Online Resource (Week 22) Including Laboratory Diagnosis, prophylaxis, treatment

Applications Notes for HPLC, TLC, GC … (Week 21)for HPLC, TLC, GC, Biochromatography and Solid Phase Extraction; VWR Chromatography, UK

Pediatric Reference Ranges (Week 20)

Biological Molecule Tests (Week 19)Natural Science Division, North Harris College
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Application Notes: Spectrophotometry (Week 18) Biomedical applications for analytes determinations including enzymatic methods; Biochrom Ltd, UK

Protocol for the International Collaborative Exercises (Week 17) within the International Quality Assurance Programme; Proficiency test programme coordinated by the UN Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) Laboratory in Vienna will act as the coordinating centre for the international quality

Soil Survey Standard Test Methods (Week 16) Instructions on sample preparation and 24 standard physical and chemical test methods Department of Land and Water Conservations; New South Wales

Dictionary of Metal Terminology (Week 15)

EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTROANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY: APPLICATIONS TO THE ANALYSIS OF DRINKING WATER (Week 14) in LABORATORY IN ELECTROCHEMISTRY,Tel Aviv Unviersity
Immobilised Enzymes (Week 13)Immobilisation, Kinetics of Reactors; The University of Reading, UK

Microbiology Laboratory Guidebook (Week 12)Current protocols for analytical tests (microbiological methods) required by regulatory activities on meat, poultry and egg products; US DA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)

Soil Survey Standard Test Methods (Week 11) Instructions on sample preparation and 24 standard physical and chemical test methods for the use of soil; Dept of Land and Water Conservations’ Wellington Laboratory, AustraliaVirtual ChemBook (Week 10) Elmhurst College, USA

Chemical Sensors (Week 9)Tutorials and how-to Power point presentations: ISEs, SSEs, ISFETs, OPTO and mTAS; Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; Examples

	ISE Tutorial
	ISE Sensor Preparation power point presentation

Spectroscopic Identification of Organic Compounds (Week Also contains Qualitative and Elemental Analyses Ultraviolet/Visible Spectroscopy Page

Organic Instrumental Analysis (Week 7) H and C13 NMR, Ultraviolet/Visible, IR; Part of main menu Organic Chemistry

Chemical Tests by Functional Group (Week 6)Functional group identifications by classification test reagents

The Enzyme Explorer (Week 5) A very well organised database with indices for applications, enzyme classes, inhibitors, substrates, lectins, and enzyme co-factors; Sigma-Aldrich

Poisonous Plants Database (Week 4) Cornell University

Food Chemistry and Analyses (Week 3)Power Point Presentations on: Liquid Chromatography, Gas Chromatography, Spectrophotometry, Physical States of Foods, Water Chemistry and Analyses, Protein Chemistry and Analyses, Carbohydrate Chemistry and Analyses , Lipid Chemistry and Analyses, Mineral Analyses and Vitamin Analyses

Chemical Warfare Agents (Week 2) links lists in 4 or 5 CWA categories to a basic data source and TOXNET databases; U.S. National Library of Medicine

Pediatric Reference Ranges (Week 1)

2004

Encyclopedia of Bioprocess Technology (Week 52)3 Free articles:

Culture Collections |Optical Sensors (+analytical methods) |Xanthan Gum|

Guide to Elements sites on the internet(Week 51)

Encyclopedia of Analytical Instrumentation A-Z Index (Week 50)The Chemistry Hypermedia Project (CHP), Brian M. Tissue, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, USA

Clinical Analyte Unit Conversion (Week 49) Follow steps in page to convert mg/L to umol/L

Ion-Selective Electrode Measurements – Beginners Guide (Week 48)Very useful site to study the basics of ISEs with an excellent Glossary of terms used in Ion Selective Electrode Measurements

Insecticides: Chemistries and Characteristics (Week 47)Jeffrey R. Bloomquist; Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Toxicity of Plant Chemicals and their Lethal Dosage (Week 46)(LD) values for plant natural products: Choose from list (A-Z) and click ”Submit Query” for LD values and Click Chemical’s hyperlink for biological activities and plant species with highest amount; Dr. Duke’s Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Chemiluminescence (Week 45) with illustration: Chemiluminescence of Luminol and bis(2,4,6-trichlorphenyl)oxalate (TCPO)

Normal Laboratory Values (Week 44)(A-Z index) in “Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy”, Clinical reference ranges as determined by different methods , Table 296-2 , Chapter 296

Honey: Composition, Properties and Applications (Week 43) in Foods and Beverages (plus: Honey Substitution Chart, Microbiology of Honey); US National Honey Board

Conversion Factors Caclulators (Week 42 ) Process Associates of America; see also

Basics of Process tools

Understanding Gene Testing (Week 41)

Chemical Search Engines (Week 40 )Search Engines for chemicals from their online supplier catalogues

Flavours Database (Week 39) (Flavornet, Sensory Lexicon) Aroma compounds of natural products (700 odourants) sorted by generic and specific names and CAS Number; has also GC Kovats & Ethyl Ester retention indices; see Home Page for explanations; Cornell University

Nutritional Labelling, US (Week 38) Voluntary and Mandatory, US Nutritional Labelling and Education Act (NLEA) and Tests for Nutritional Labeling Medallion Labs, USA

Starch Test Methods (Week 37) for routine Laboratory Methods; International Starch Institute: Master Index, Science Park Aarhus, Denmark

Famous Electrochemists & other Electro-scientists (Week 36)(Yr 1544- )

Medicinal Plants of South Africa (Week 35) A web site that covers partial information contained in the book “Medicinal Plants of South Africa

Peak Performance (Week 34) Advices for optimising Chromatographic Separation and 8 Trouble Shooting Guides for HPLC; VWR Chromatography

Compendium of Chemical Terminology “The Gold Book” (Week 33) IUPAC 2nd ed., 1997, Ed. A D McNaught and A Wilkinson

African Natural Products (Week 32)

Pesticide Analytical Manual, Volume I (PAM) (Week 31) (3rd Edition 1994, Updated October, 1999) PDF files; 6 Chapters, Appendix and Indices (e.g. Chap 5: GC, 90 pp; Chap 6: HPLC -principles, 82 pp.); U. S. Food and Drug Administration

HIV Testing (Week 30) News and Developments

The Filtration Spectrum (Week 29)(PDF) by method of separation, size of particle size, relative size of common materials, and visibility; Osmonics

Analytical Science News (Week 28) from ScienceDaily

Terms of the Environment, US EPA (Week 27) including abbreviations and acronyms

Water Analysis (Week 26) Compositions (water quality) of aquatic systems and typical tests for water are described

Glossary for Chemists of terms used in Toxicology (Week 25) IUPAC Commission on Toxicology

Chemicals in Coffee: Coffea arabica L. (Rubiaceae) (Week 24) with refs ; (1) Chemicals found in a plant (in ppm levels), e.g. in coffea arabica, linked -to biological activities and to plants in which the chemical is also found in highest amounts e.g. tea, Camellia sinensis (L.) KUNTZE (Theaceae)) (best example chemical: caffeine ); (2) Click plant name in link; e.g. tea, in turn gives the chemicals in Tea (Home page:Dr. Duke’s Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases)

The Virtual Class Room (Week 23) Best Coverage !!! 5 Undergraduate (General/Organic/Biochemistry; Analytical Chemistry I and II and 4 Graduate Analytical lecture courses – Overall; hundreds of slides and tens of course animations ; James K. Hardy and University of Akron; Examples of courses

Analytical Chemistry I and II Lecture materials from Gravimetry to hyphenated Chromatography (e.g. GC-FTIR, LC-MS); James Hardy, University of Akron; seeView animations associated with the course

Chemical Separations Lecture slides dealing with major separation methods ranging from Solvent Extraction, Chromatographic types to Electrophoresis

Potentiometric Methods Lecture on all types of potentiometric sensing: metal electrodes, reference electrodes, membrane (ion) selective electrodes, enzyme electrodes and applications; James Hardy, University of Akron

(Editor’s note: Since WebAnalytes- Education has been the most popular page of the whole WebAnalytes within the year, The Virtual Class Room under Education>Presentations is selected and presented for the current “The Week’s Special”

Toxicological Profile Information Sheet (Week 22) A ten-chapter profile with appendix (each linked to PDF file) and “Analytical Methods” Reviews for each chemical (every Chap. 6 or 7)

Examples

	Asbestos; Lead; Malathion (Toxicological Profiles for …)
	Manganese (6. Analytical methods, 18 pp.)

Incompatible Chemicals (Week 21) Oxford University

Water Science Glossary of Terms; (Week 20)U.S. Geological Survey

Glossary of Terms relating to Pesticides (VI.4) (Week 19) Pure Appl. Chem. 68, pp. 1167-1193, 1996; 36th IUPAC Report on Pesticides

Glossary of Biotechnology Terms (Week 18)

Chemical Resistance Test Data (Week 17) Select a Chemical or CAS registry number and click info sheet; Best Glove Manufacturing Company

Solvents Database SoI lv-DB (Week 16) Powerful and comprehensive (8 lookup criteria -Solvent name, CAS Reg No, Property name —) Data categories: Health & Safety, Chemical-Physical, Environmental Fate, Regulatory Data

Absorption and Emission Spectra of the Elements: (Week 15) Select type and click element symbol; University of Oregon

Online: Reference Guide to Using the Internet (Week 14) An online Book on the current citation styles and composing web pages

	Full Table of Contents 10 Chapters and 2 Appendices
	Citation Styles

Tables of Chemical Data (Week 13) PSIgate -Physical Science Information Gateway

Bacteriological Analytical Manual (BAM) Online (Week 12) Includes BAM reagent protocols; U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition, January 2001

Lab Methods: Biochemical Tests, Media, Techniques (Week 11) Qualitative Test Methods by action of chemicals on Microorganisms; University of Texas – Houston Medical School

Essential Oils Database (Week 10) A database from the African Laboratory for Natural Products (ALNAP), Ethiopia, with a list of about 100 essential oils -mainly of African origin, with Gas Chromatograms of constituents and structures of major Constituents ; ICS-UNIDO (Trieste, Italy)

NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (Week 9)Full-text online version of Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards for chemical names and synonyms (A-Z); The Guide also has links to NIOSH and OSHA Measurement Methods, e.g. DDT

HPLC Textbook (Comprehensive textbook on Liquid Chromatography) [updated site address] An online popular HPLC text-book by Drs Yuri Kazakevich and Harold McNair, Seton Hall University; visited by nearly 235,000 readers (updated) from September 2000 – 1st week of March 2004

Good Laboratory Practices (Week 7)OECD Series on Principles of Good Laboratory Practices, GLP, and Compliance Monitoring

Analytical Periodic Table (Week 6)When clicked, each element symbol opens the Element’s Profile in a separate window revealing additional analytical details about the element in relation to Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES or ICP-AES) Inorganic Ventures

Pherolist Compound Index (Week 5)Pheromones (insect attractants) database -chemical components identified in sex glands of female Lepidoptera insects and other chemicals attractive to male moths; Pherolist home page for details

GC Derivatizing Agents (Week 4)Reagents from Fluka & Riedel deHaen (Sigma-Aldrich) for Silylation, Acylation, Alkylation, Esterification with identifiers, properties, literature citations and safety information ; 12/01/04

Blood Chemistry Definitions (Week 3)This is more than a definition; well organised reference to the Chemistry of Blood; CellMate Wellness Systems^TM

A Practical Guide to Analytical Method Validation (Week 2) J. Mark Green, Analytical Chemistry 1996(68) 305A-309A; Hot Articles series

SI Units, Physical Constants and Uncertainty of Measurement Results (Week 1, 29-31 Dec 03/1- 4 Jan 04) NIST Physics Laboratory

2003

	Classic (named) Organic Reactions (Week 52, 2003)(A-Z) Practically always with original author(s) publication (bearing the reaction name) and other primary references
	Flame colors/spectra & Emission Spectra (Week 51)
	Persistent Organic Pollutants (Week 50)
	Handbook of Instrumental Techniques (Week 49) for Analytical Chemistry” (PDF files) F. A. Settle (Ed.); 7 Sample Chapters, namely:1, 15 26, 31, 37, 42, 46
	RefCard for SHE Workers (Week 48) A web card with a collection of reference websites that SHE workers may wish them to be in one place for occasional or frequent applications. Improvements to this page, or changes as appropriate, will be made from time to time.
	Stain Removal Guide (Week 47)

	Chemical and Biochemical Sensors (Week 46)One the 5 Free articles of Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, 2003 ; The other Free articles: Hydrogels, Beer, Anti-inflammatory Drugs, Enzyme and Immunoassays
	Pesticide Analytical Manual, Volume I (PAM) (Week 45)PDF files; Chapters 1-6 (e.g. Chap 5: GC, 90 pp; Chap 6: HPLC -principles, 82 pages), Appendix and Indices; U. S. Food and Drug Administration

	Worthington Enzyme Manual (Week 44)Assay methods for Enzymes (and Biochemicals) via Enzymatic reaction-detection
	Minerals by Chemical Composition (Week 43)Click Element Symbol on the Periodic Table linked to minerals and in turn to mineral data; use also A-Z Index or Search to get to the same information; Home: Mineralogy Database;Other Links

Nutrient Search Database (Week 42)for Standard Reference, a comprehensive USDA database (e.g. search for cassava, sorghum, milk, egg; or Food Preparation like baby food; or Component e.g. cholesterol, vitamin A, fat, etc. ); see also its food groups directory Release 16 (linked to PDF files); USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory

NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods (Week 41)Methods list linking to Full text PDF files for organic and inorganic substances; list by Method Name (A-Z) and Method No (1-9999); NIOSH (US National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health)

Compendium on Analytical Nomenclature (IUPACs) (Week 40)(The Orange Book)19 Chapters, PDF files, including

Alphabetical Index

	M a c r o g a l l e r i a (on polymers) (Week 39) Excellent illustrative 5-level resource for polymers: occurrences, uses, chemistry, production and research
	Food additives Approved in the European Union (Week 38)

	Codex Alimentarius FAO/WHO Food Official Standards (1966 – 2001); Free full-text (PDF) (Week 37)
	Anti-doping: Prohibited list of Substances and Methods (Week 36) (PDF) in athletics with Urinary concentrations above which IOC-accredited labs must report findings; WADA, World Anti-doping Agency; see Research & Science for more WADA’s Lab standards and guidelines

	[Analytical Chemistry] Presentations (Week 35) Lectures slides, animations and other presentation materials linked to WebAnalytes -Education
	Dictionary of Units (Week 34)
	AIDSDrugs Structures (Week 33) Substances listed in the US National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) AIDSDRUGS file with viewable structures ( see chemical Structure Viewers)
	Toxicology Tutor I, II, III (Week32)
	Chemistry Data Table (Week 31)
	Analytical Sciences (Week 30) Free Online Journal of Japanese Society of Analytical Chemistry since 1985; PDF
	Psychoactive Chemicals (Week 29)
	(Blood) Clinical Assays/Tests (Week 28)
	Periodic Table (Week 27) Clickable Symbols to several properties
	Biosensors (Week 26) Bioelectrochemistry Tutorials
	Pesticides (Week 25) ”Compendium of Pesticide Common Names”
	Clinical Values (Week 24)
	HIV Testing (Week 23) A 9-page site Teachers’ resource; Museum of Science and Industry