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Journals of Interest

• ACS Chemical Biology
• Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English
• Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Biochemistry
• Cell
• Cell Host and Microbe
• ChemBioChem
• Chemistry and Biology
• Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• Organic Letters
• Nature
• Nature Biotechnology
• Nature Chemistry
• Nature Chemical Biology
• Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
• Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA (PNAS)
• Science
• Structure
• Trends in Biotechnology

Useful Scientific Resources

Bioinformatic Tools

• RCSB PDB:  the Protein Data Bank
• ExPASy:  the SIB (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) Resource Portal
• ExPASy Translate:  a tool for translating nucleotide sequence into protein sequence.
• ProtParam:  a tool that allows computation of physicochemical properties for proteins.
• NCBI – PubMed:  reference search tool maintained by National Center for Biotechnology Information
• NCBI – BLAST:  the NCBI Basic Local Alignment Search Tool.
• JGI/IMG:  genome browsing and annotation platform maintained by U.S. Dept. of Energy.
• BRENDA:  comprehensive enzyme information system

Homology Modelling

• CODEHOP:  tool for designing degenerate primers.
• HHPred:  homology detection and structure prediction tool from Max-Planck Institute.
• PhyRe:  automatic fold recognition server for predicting structure/function from protein sequence.

Natural Product Prediction

• antiSMASH:  open source program for antibiotic & secondary metabolite prediction from genes
• multiGENEblast:  open source tool for identification of homologs of multigene modules
• NaPDoS:  tool for detection and analysis of C- and KS-domains from DNA or amino acid sequence
• PKS/NRPS Analysis:  domain analysis and prediction for PKSs and NRPSs
• Norine:  database of non-ribosomal peptides and tools for analysis

Operon Predictors

• ProOpDB:  Prokaryotic Operon DataBase, a repository of prokaryotic operon predictions
• DOOR:  database of prokaryotic operons
• PPO:  predictor for prokaryotic operons
• DBTBS:  a database of transcriptional regulation in Bacillus subtilis
• BPROM: bacterial promoter prediction program