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Chemistry International Vol. 21, No. 2 March 1999 News from IUPAC Bioinformatics and the Internet Table 1. Examples of Useful Web Sites in Bioinformatics DNA and Protein Sequence Databases Genomics Protein Structure Literature Searches Homology Searches Structure Prediction Protein Architectures International Organizations Database Type Description URL DNA and Protein Sequence Databases SRS SRS Browser for 38 databanks in molecular biology http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/srs5/ SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL Annotated protein sequence database (78,082 and 178,957 sequences, respectively) http://expasy.hcuge.ch/sprot/sprot-top.html PIR Protein Information Resource (116,372 sequences) http://www-nbrf.georgetown.edu/pir/ EMBL Nucleotide Sequence DNA sequence database (3,046,471 Database sequences) http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ebi_docs/embl_db/ ebi/topembl.html GenBank DNA sequence database (3,044,000 sequences) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/ nucleotide.html DDBJ DNA Data Bank of Japan (3,073,166 sequences) http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/ Genomics Pedant at MIPS Software system for completely automatic and exhaustive analysis of protein sequence sets (21 complete, 21 unfinished genomes) http://pedant.mips.biochem.mpg.de/ TIGR Database Microbial database (20 published genomes, 60 genomes in progress) http://www.tigr.org/tdb/tdb.html Sanger Center Human genome and 24 more genomes http://www.sanger.ac.uk/ Protein Structure PDB Archive of experimentally determined three-dimensional structures (9,179 entries) http://www.pdb.bnl.gov/ Literature Searches Medline Search for citations http://www4.ncbi.nlm.nih. gov/PubMed/ SWISS-PROT journals list List of online journals http://www.expasy.ch/cgi-bin/ jourlist?jourlist.txt Homology Searches BLAST Sequence similarity search in 22 sequence databases and 42 genomes http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/ FASTA Sequence similarity search in 25 sequence databases http://www2.ebi.ac.uk/fasta3/ Structure Prediction Swiss-Model Homology modeling http://expasy.hcuge.ch/swissmod/SWISS-MODEL.html Biotech Validation Suite for Protein Structures Quality checks of protein structures http://biotech.embl-heidelberg.de:8400/ PredictProtein Prediction of aspects of protein structure http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/predictprotein/ predictprotein.html Protein Architectures SCOP Protein structure classification http://scop.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/scop/ CATH Protein structure classification http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/bsm/cath/ International Organizations FAO Partnership programs of FAO http://www.fao.org/GENINFO/partner/ default.htm UNESCO Biotechnology fellowship programs of UNESCO http://www.unesco.org/general/ eng/programmes/science/life/index.htm Back News and Notices - Organizations and People - Standing Committees Divisions - Projects - Reports - Publications - Symposia - AMP - Links Page last modified 11 June, 1999. Copyright © 1997, 98, 99 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Questions or comments about IUPAC, please contact the Secretariat. Questions regarding the website, please contact iupachelp@iupac.org