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-Ralph W. Emerson
CISAA : : A Complete Information System of Amino Acids
   

·         Primary structural databases

o        Protein Data Bank at RCSB

o        Nucleic Acid Database (Rutgers)

o        Beta-release of the RCSB Protein Data Bank (mostly for expert-users)

o        SeqAlert (alerts you when a structure has been deposited that displays homology to a sequence you are interested in; Weizmann)

·         Front-ends to the structural databases

o        PDBsum (EBI; new site !)

o        Entrez-Structure (NCBI)

o        MMDB, Molecular Modelling DataBase (NCBI)

o        PDB at a Glance (NIH)

o        PDBFINDER (CMBI)

o        SRS 3D (EBI)

·         Visualisation software

o        Rasmol (Bernstein)

o        Chime (MDL)

o        Deep View Swiss-PdbViewer (Expasy)

o        MolScript (Kraulis)

o        MolMol (ETH)

o        WebMol (Java-based viewer; UCSF)

o        PyMOL

·         Structural macro-analysis (folds, classification, similarity, sequence alignments)

o        CATH (classification database; UCL)

o        SCOP (classification database; MRC-LMB)

o        FSSP (Fold classification based on Structure-Structure alignment of Proteins; EBI)

o        TOPS (protein topology database; EBI)

o        STRUCTAL server (superimposing two structures; Yale)

·         Structural micro-analysis (sites, small motifs, waters)

o        PROSITE patterns in PDB entries (EBI; new site)

o        3MOTIF (find sequence motifs in structures; Stanford)

·         Model validation

o        PDBReport (CMBI)

o        Biotech validation server (EBI)

o        ADIT server (PDB)

o        Ramachandran server (Bangalore)

·         Small molecules

o        LigBase (Database of Aligned Ligand Binding Sites; Rockefeller)

o        ChemPDB (EBI)

o        MathMol (Library of 3-D Molecular Structures; New York)

·         Specialised and derived structural databases and servers

o        Structural databases in Nucleic Acids Research list (not all are specialised)

o        PDBsum (EBI; new site !)

o        SAS (Sequences Annotated by Structure; UCL)

o        CDD (conserved domain alignments; NCBI)

o        PROMISE (mirror of discontinued site in Leeds; Scripps)

o        Protein side-chain interactions (UCL)

o        Side-chain and main-chain hydrogen bonding (UCL)

·         Database for specific protein families etc.

o        Protein databases in Nucleic Acids Research list (not all have a structural component)

·         Sequence databases and analysis and comparison servers

o        SWISS-PROT (ExPASy)

o        PIR

o        NCBI

o        GenBank

o        EBI

o        ExPASy

o        EMBL

o        Entrez (NCBI)

o        BLAST (NCBI)

·         Multiple-sequence alignment

o        Tcoffee@igs (Marseille)

o        ClustalW (EBI)

o        MULTALIN (NPS@)

o        MultAlin (Toulouse)

·         Literature

o        PubMed/Entrez (NCBI)

o        PubMed Express (NIH)

o        PubCrawler

o        Bioinformatics (journal)

·         Structure prediction & modelling

o        GlobPlot (predicts order and globularity; EMBL)

o        Protein Structure Prediction Center (home of CASP; LLNL)

·         Structural Genomics

o        TargetDB (PDB)

o        NIH Structural Genomics Initiatives

o        PRESAGE

o        Yeast Structural genomics (France)

·         Education

o        2can bioinformatics educational resource (EBI)

o        Bioinformatics: a tutorial for beginners exploring human visual pigments (University of Southern Maine)