Scopus – A bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles: Go to the author search to obtain the citation information and the “H” index. UIC has a license for the site.
UIC Library – It allows access to all scientific journals UIC subscribes to and more.
Bioinformatics & Computer Graphics Software
RCSB Protein Data Bank – A database of protein structural information. It allows search and downloading of ‘.pdb’ files
Pymol – A powerful and convenient open-source molecular visualization system
VMD – Visual Molecular Dynamics from Theoretical Biophysics Group at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for protein and protein dynamics visualization
RasMol – A fast and powerful visualization program for all platforms. Good for quick examination of the structure
Clustal Omega – Program for DNA and protein multiple sequences alignment