ABSTRACT

This synopsis of the recommendations of the IUPAC-IUB Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (CBN) was prepared by Waldo E. Cohn, Director, NAS-NRC Office of Biochemical Nomenclature (OBN, located at Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830), from whom reprints of the CBN publications listed below and on which the synopsis is based are available.