Some Useful or Interesting Links

These will be supplemented as the semester progresses. If you find a cool link, please tell me and I will add it to the list!

Databases of structural coordinates and information

• the Protein Data Bank (PDB)

• the Nucleic Acids data base (NDB)

For visualizing and manipulating protein and nucleic acid structures

• RasMol
• or Protein Explorer (both good but old-fashioned)

• Swiss PDB Viewer ("DeepView," powerful but hard to use)

• perhaps the best choice, iMol (free and easy, for Mac users)

For comparing protein sequences and structures:

• BLAST

• DALI (European Bioinformatics Institute)

• SCOP

• CATH

• ExPASy Swiss proteomics server