Biotechnology is a clearly multidisciplinary field involving biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, immunology, microbiology, pharmacology, fermentation, agriculture, to name just a few. Each of the contributing subject areas brings its own special vocabulary and nomenclature standards and considerable difficulties of communication is the result. This book summarizes the status of the terminology in the various discipline that make up biotechnology.

Activities of the IUPAC/IUB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (JCBN) and the Nomenclature Committee of IUB (NC-IUB)

Nomenclature and Protein Databases
The Nomenclature of Altered Proteins
Nomenclature and Representation of Biopolymer Sequences by Chemical Abstracts Service
Development of Carbohydrate Nomenclature
Enzyme Nomenclature
Interferon Nomenclature
The Nomenclature of Monoclonal Antibodies
Nomenclature Issues in the Human Genome Project
Nomenclature in the Field of Eicosanoids
United States Adopted Names for Drugs
Nomenclature of Biotechnologically Derived Pharmaceutical Substances - A View from Japan
Terminological Activities in Immunology
Trends in Standardization of Vocabulary in Microbiology
Terminology in Pesticide Science
Quantities and Units in Biotechnology
Engineering Terminological Concerns in Biotechnology
On the Conceptual System and Information Management: A Step Towards the Unification of Terminology in the Subject Field of Biotechnology
Computers and Biotechnical Terminology: Accessing and Integrating Data from Diverse Sources
Biotechnology in the Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology - Standardizing the Vocabulary
Nomenclature of Pharmaceuticals
Author Index.