Cho's group links

Following is a list of usefull links we use on daily basis:

Scientific journals

• Journal of Biological Chemistry
• Biochemistry
• Science
• Nature
• Biophysical Journal
• Biochemical Journal
• Journal of Immunology
• Annual Reviews

Major databases

• PubMed - major citation database with more than 9 millions entries
  
  
• National Center for Biotechnology Information - major source of mainly DNA related information.
  
  
• RCSB (Brookhaven) Protein Databank - database of protein structural information, page allows searches and downloads of information in '.pdb' files. Of interest is a new possibility to view VRML files of proteins using virtual reality plugins.
  
  
• Web of Science - citation database. (To access the database your IP adress has to registered. UIC IP adresses are registered.)
  
  

Group Research Related

• European Annexin Project web page - comprehensive webpage about annexin protein family with a lot of interesting information and links to some annexin research groups in Europe.
  
  

UIC links

• UIC library
  
  
• UIC library - Electronic journals
  
  
• UIC web page - official UIC www page.
  
  
• UIC Chemistry department
  
  
• UIC Graduate College forms - download UIC thesis manual or Student Trawel Awards applications (when you are trying to reinburse conference expenses) from this page.
  
  
• Unix 101 manual - brief introduction to Unix from UIC Computer Center.
  
  

Computer software

• VMD - Visual Molecular Dynamics from Theoretical Biophysics Group at University of Illinois at Urbana. Protein and protein dynamics visualisation. Provides outputs for rendering packages as POV-Ray, Rayshade, Raster3D and Radiance. Runs under Unix.
  
  
• Molscript - THE program of choice for black and white publication quality ribbon diagram visualisation of proteins. Gives also output for Raster3D raytracer and VRML output. Runs under Unix.
  
  
• Raster3D - Raytracing package of programs for molecular visualisation.
  
  
• WebLab Viewer Lite - very nice molecular visualisation program for Windows/MacOS from MSI.
  
  
• RasMol - Fast and quite poverfull visualisation program for all platforms. Very good for first look at the molecule.
  
  
• ClustalX - Program for DNA and protein sequences alignment. Link will connenct to FTP site, for Macintosh binary look for clustalx---.PPC.sea.Hqx.
  
  

Web page design

• Jeffrey Zeldman's: Ask Doctor Web - If you are seriously considering creating a web page, this is the site to look through. Comprehensive tutorial, tons of trics and fixes, tips on what software to use, usefull links.
  
  
• HTML 4.0 specifications - The publishing language of the World Wide Web is HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Site documents HTML 4.0 specifications. Even if you do not use its contents too often, its a handy refference to have around.
  
  
• Brad Biehn's: Creating a Home Page - Now that you have all your files ready and working, how to make them available. Usefull step-by-step manual how to set up site on the UNIX machine using Mac.