Help for the Biomolecular Structures Tutorial

Textbook and journal references

Collections of PDB files

• Molecules from Chemistry at Okanagan University College
  Organic molecules from methane to Kekulene
• Klotho: Biochemical Compounds Declarative Database
  A large number of small biomolecules like glucose and coenzyme A
  A clickable map of glycolysis is available
• The Protein Data Bank
  A database of protein, DNA, RNA, virus and carbohydrate structures
• PDB At A Glance
  A very convenient hypertext-based classification of the PDB
• Swiss-Model
  Supply your own sequence and get back a theoretical PDB model

Molecular-graphics programs

• Chemscape Chime
• Chime Resources by Eric Martz

• RasMol (on FTP server in Edinburgh)
• Enhanced versions of RasMol (University of California, Berkeley)
  (Up to five molecules can be viewed in the same canvas window.
  Part of a molecule can be rotated about a bond. Etc.)
• The RasMol Home Page on the WWW
• Another WWW page about RasMol

• Mage (on FTP server at Duke University, USA)
• Collections of kinemage files from the journal Protein Science.

Internet tutorials in Biochemistry and Biophysics

Not ready

Utility programs

• TextPad - a very good text editor.
• WinZip - a file compression program.
• WinTAR - a file archiving program.