mercoledì 25 maggio 2011

Bioinformatics - Useful websites

Dear beautiful people,
It's bioinformatic time! :)

Prof. Jean C. Shih (USC Neuroscience) - I also want a pic like this! 


First of all let's become familiar with Protein Data Bank (http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/home/home.do), the best website ever to collect informations about our proteins. Here you can find DNA sequences generally in fasta format files, and structures in PDB files.

Are you interested to compare genomes?
Here two easy softwares:

Dotlet: http://myhits.isb-sib.ch/cgi-bin/dotlet

EMBOSS: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/psa/emboss_stretcher/



Are you interested to protein structures?


Swiss-PdbViewer: http://spdbv.vital-it.ch/ (free download)
Application that provides a user friendly interface allowing to analyze several proteins at the same time. This software is able to read file.pdb (file containing protein structures). 


Prosa: https://prosa.services.came.sbg.ac.at/prosa.php
With PDB files of our protein we can get an energetic graph based on the structure.


VADAR: http://vadar.wishartlab.com/
For analyzing and assessing peptide and protein structures from their PDB coordinate data.



P.s. In my previous post i told you about the resazurin problem with the HPLC-MS, well the solution was even easier than I thought. I'm not using it in my samples but only in some control bottle that will not be analysed. Of course according to me this is not such a scientific method but the controls don't show oxygen presence for the moment and my bacteria are growing so well!!! :):):)

Au revoir!