Structure databases
- World Wide PDB
- RCSB PDB
- PDB Europe, at EBI
- PDB Japan
- Metalloprotein database
- BMRDB (Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank)
- BIOISIS: Database of SAXS of Biological macromolecules
- SASBDB: Small Angle Scattering Biological Data Bank.
Structure solution and refinement
- Indexing and related:
- CMCF links
- ADXV: a program to display X-Ray diffraction images
- DPS
- HKL2000/3000
- Mosflm, and imosflm (the new GUI)
- Untangle: separate overlapping diffraction patterns.
- XDS package (xds, xscale, xdsconv)
- ARCIMBOLDO: Ab Initio protein solution far below atomic resolution.
- ARP/wARP
- Auto-Rickshaw: EMBL-HH Automated Crystal Structure Determination Platform
- BnP (The Buffalo and Pittsburgh Interface for complete protein phasing)
- CCP4
- CNS
- Diffraction Anisotropy Server: Ellipsoidal Truncation and Anisotropic Scaling.
- Global Phasing:
- BUSTER-TNT.
- SHARP.
- GRADE: restraint dictionary generator.
- GraphEnt: maximum-entropy maps.
- HIC-Up (Hetero-compound Information Centre - Uppsala)
- JLigand
- Lafire: automatic refinement
- PHENIX : Python-based Hierarchical ENvironment for Integrated Xtallography.
- Phenix documentation.
- phenix.refine, structure refinement.
- Computational Crystallography Newsletter.
- qFIT Server: Multiconformer modeling by constrained fitting of rotamer occupancies.
- REFMAC:
- User's manual at the ccp4 documentation.
- ProSMART: conformation-independent structural comparison of protein chains. Allows to generate external restraints for use in the crystallographic refinement.
- Shake and Bake
- SHARP
- SHELX
- HKL2MAP graphical interface by Thomas Schneider's group
- Solve / Resolve
- TEXTAL : Pattern Recognition System for Interpreting Electron Density Maps.
- TLS Motion Determination
- TNT
- Molecular Replacement
- Balbes, automatic molecular replacement pipeline.
- CaspR, automated approach for molecular replacement.
- EPMR and new open-EPMR
- MrBUMP: automated Molecular Replacement.
- NYSGRC Molecular Replacement server
- PHASER : macromolecular crystal structures phasing with maximum likelihood methods.
- Queen of Spades
- Heavy atoms:
- HATODAS: Heavy-atom Database System
- HEAVY-ATOM DATABANK
- Heavy atom derivatives
- X-ray Anomalous Scattering
- Heavy Atom Reactivity Table
- Heavy Atom Databases at the Shapiro Lab
Model building
- COOT
- MAIN
- O
- Alwyn Jones (A-Z of O).
- O-info , discussion list.
- Turbo-Frodo
- XtalVIEW
Molecular Graphics
- BobScript
- CONSCRIPT: a programm for generating electron density isosurfaces
- Dino
- CueMol
- ENDscript
- ESPrip
- GRASP
- Jmol, a free, opensource molecular viewer written in Java.
- MolMol
- Molscript
- MolSof
- NAMOT (Nucleic Acid MOdeling Tool)
- Povscript+:
- Pov4Grasp : a patch version of POV-ray with direct support for GRASP surfaces
- Pymol
- Rarter3D
- Spock
Structure analysis
- Electrostatic properties :
- APBS (Adaptive Poisson-Boltzmann Solver): evaluating the electrostatic properties of biomolecules.
- Bluues: Electrostatic properties of proteins based on generalized Born radii.
- DelPhi: A Finite Difference Poisson-Boltzmann Solver (DelPhi Web Server).
- PIPSA: comparison of the electrostatic interaction properties of proteins.
- PROPKA, empirical prediction and interpretation of protein pKa values
- Atlas of protein side-chain interactions.
- CaPTURE, cation-pi interaction analysis
- castP: A Server for Identification of Protein Pockets & Cavities
- COLORADO3D: server for the visual analysis of protein structures, includes sequence conservation coloring.
- ConSurf server: identification of functional regions in proteins
- DALI (3-D structure database searches) and Dali Lite (Pairwise comparison of protein structures)
- Disulfide by design: design of disulfide bonds.
- 3DNA analysis, rebuilding and visualization of nucleic acid structures.
- Dynamite: web-server that predicts protein motions.
- DynDom, Protein domain motion analysis.
- elNEMO: computes the low frequency normal modes of a protein, with potential use in difficult molrep problems.
- ESBRI: evaluation of salt bridges in proteins.
- ESCET: analysis and comparison of 3D protein structures by T. Schneider.
- Evolutionary Trace Server (Lichtarge Lab)
- GROMACS: molecular dynamics.
- HBexplore: analysis of hydrogen bonds in macromolecules.
- HOLE: analysis and visualisation of the pore dimensions of the holes through molecular structures of ion channels.
- Indonesia : integrated program package for biological sequence analysis. Includes Structure-based multiple sequence alignment.
- Interhlx : interhelical angles calculation.
- LigPlot : schematic diagrams of protein-ligand interactions.
- Mark-Us: A Function Annotation Server for Protein Structures.
- MESPEUS database: Metal Sites in Proteins.
- NACCESS Atomic Solvent Accessible Area Calculations.
- PARVATI : Protein Anisotropic Refinement Validation and Analysis
- PINTS: Patterns in Non-homologous Tertiary Structure
- PiQSi: Protein quaternary structure investigation.
- PISA: Protein Interfaces, Surfaces and Assemblies.
- PLATINUM: Calculation and visualization of molecular hydrophobic/hydrophilic properties.
- PRODRG Server-Dundee
- ProMate, prediction of potential binding sites
- Protein Geometry Database
- 2P2Idb: Protein-protein interaction analysis, drugability and inhibitiors.
- Protein-Protein Interaction Server, new server at Sussex
- Pro-Origami: Protein Structure Cartoons.
- ProtSkin, converts a protein sequence alignment to a property file used to map the sequence conservation onto the structure.
- RAPPER server: ab initio conformational search algorithm for restraint-based protein modelling.
- SPASM server, recognition of spatial motifs (Uppsala Software Factory).
- SSBOND: Model building of disulfide bonds (<href="http: hazeslab.med.ualberta.ca="" "="">Bart Hazes)
- Structural Thermodynamics Calculations, free energy calculations from the structure of different complexes.
- STructure ANalysis server (Uppsala Software Factory).
- Surface Racer, calculation of accessible surface area, molecular surface area and average curvature of molecular surface, also analyses of cavities in the protein interior.
- SURFNET : Surfaces, cavities, etc.
- TOPS : Topology of Protein Structure
- Uppsala Software Factory (USF).
- WebFEATURE: Automated function prediction in protein structures.
- Structural alignment :
- 3d-SS: 3-Dimensional Structural Superposition
- CE-MC: Multiple Protein Structure Alignment Server (Univ Albany)
- Dali Lite (Pairwise comparison of protein structures)
- MUSTANG Multiple Strutural Alginment Algorithm (Alternative site).
- Profit: least squares fitting.
- RAPIDO: Rapid Alignment of Protein structures In the presence of Domain mOvements
- STAMP: structural alignment of multiple proteins (Barton group).
- Stralign: Structure alignment for 3D protein structures.
- STRAP: Multiple sequence and structure alignment.
- TCoffee, includes Expresso 3D alignment
- Theseus, maximum likelihood superpositioning and analysis of macromolecular structures.
- Binding sites and pockets :
- DoGSiteScorer: Active Site Prediction and Analysis Server
- FTsite binding site prediction (Structural Bioinformatics group, Univ Boston)
- fpocket: protein pocket (cavity) detection.
- GHECOM (Grid-based HECOMi finder): finding multi-scale pockets on protein surfaces.
- MetaPocket: a meta server to identify ligand binding sites, combines predictions from eight methods.
Crystallization
- C6: Comparison of Crystallisation Conditions at the Collaboraty Crystallization Center
- CLIMS v2 Crystallography Laboratory Information Management System (Whisstock lab, Monash Univ)
- Crystool 4.1
- XtalGrow Software
Teaching and Tables
- Bernhard Rupp's Crystallography 101, An Introductory Course
- Biological X-ray Structure Analysis course, by Ron Stenkamp.
- EMBL Hamburg tutorial (including difracction data)
- Interactive Course of crystallography
- Kevin Cowtan's homepage
- Mike Sawaya Crystallographic Tutorials
- Bart Hazes ( Lab ) : Data collection tutorials. Find other of his tutorials here
- (IUCr) Teaching Pamphlets
- X-tal protocols
- Space groups:
- Space Group Diagrams and Tables.
- Space group Explorer (software).
Synchrotrons
- BioSync, A Structural Biologist's Guide to Synchrotron Facilities
- EUROPE
- BioStruct-X: support for access to multi-site infrastructures.
- ALBA
- User office
- XALOC (BL13) beamline
- DESY (Hamburg, DE):
- Diamond : Macromolecular Crystallography.
- ESRF (Grenoble):
- Swiss Light Source (SLS) at PSI:
- DUO (Digital User Office).
- Guest House
- MX group
- Elettra (Trieste).
- Max-Lab, Lund University
- Soleil
- AMERICA
- ALS (Berkeley).
- SIBYLS Beamline (SAXS).
- APS (Chicago).
- CHESS (Cornell).
- NSLS (Brookhaven): Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography at the NSLS
- SSRL (Stanford):
- ALS (Berkeley)
- Canadian Light Source
- LNLS (Campinas, Brazil).
- ALS (Berkeley).
X-Ray Equipment
- Bruker AXS
- Charles Supper
- Huber Diffraktionstechnik GmbH & Co. KG
- Incoatec
- Mar Xperts (former Mar Research) and Rayonix
- Osmic
- Oxford Cryosystems
- Agillent Technologies X-ray Crystallography (former Oxford Diffraction)
- Rigaku
SAXS
- SASBDB: Small Angle Scattering Biological Data Bank.
- Svergun's Biological Small Angle Scattering Group
- ATSAS, program suite for small-angle scattering data analysis from biological macromolecules.
- ATSAS online web server.
- SAXSVIEW, read, convert and view 1D and 2D-files related to SAXS (includes svplot and svimage).
- BIOSIS SAXS database
- DALAI-GA, ab initio modelling (Chacon group)
- SCATTER: JAVA-based application for basic analysis of SAXS data.
- AquaSAXS server: computing theoretical SAXS profiles with atomic models (Delarue Group)
- AXES server: analysis of SAXS data in explicit solvent.
- SAXS MoW server: MW determination from a single SAXS measurement on a