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Societies

Royal Society of Chemistry - society for British chemists. Contains news, jobs, journals and articles of general interest

American Chemical Society - American equivalent of the above

Biochemical Society - society for British biochemists

Royal Society - society fellows include some of the worlds best researchers. Promotes research and public awareness

Vega Trust - society for the public understanding of science, under the auspices of Nobel laureate Professor Sir H. Kroto

The British Association - promotes the public understanding of science

CNRS - French research organisation

Institute of Nanotechnology - current research on this developing technology

American Peptide Society - conferences, news, etc...

Protein Society - jobs and resources for protein chemists

Biophysical Society - research into the physical forces governing natural systems. Home of the Biophysical Journal

Research Councils (funding)

EPSRC - engineering and physical sciences research council

BBSRC - biological sciences research council

MRC - medical research council

Wellcome Trust - medical-related research

Leverhulme Trust - grants and fellowships for academics

The Nuffield Foundation - project grants, undergraduate research bursaries, commonwealth initiatives

The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 - funding for young scientists

RCUK - research councils UK. Information on research council policy

DTI - department for business innovation and skills. Information on current initiatives

Foresight Programme - predicting future priorities

UK Research Office (UKRO) - information on European initiatives, partner search, etc...

CORDIS - European commission community research initiatives

Journals and Magazines

New Scientist - scientific articles for all backgrounds and tastes

Nature - popular UK scientific journal featuring primary publications, reviews, news and discussion

Science Magazine - popular US scientific journal featuring primary publications, reviews, news and discussion

Bioinformatics Resources

Protein Databank (PDB) - high resolution protein structures

PDB Select - non-redundant version of the above

SCOP - structural classification of proteins

FSSP - database of 3D structure alignments of proteins in the PDB

Dali - network service for comparing the 3D structure of proteins

CATH - a hierarchical classification of protein domain structures

PRINTS - database containing groups of conserved motifs

UNIPROT - powerful sequence database

OWL database - protein sequence database including the SWISSPROT, PDB, PRINTS and NBRF/PIR libraries

SRS - powerful site allowing multiple database searches, including sequence, literature and metabolic pathways

BLAST - search all available protein and DNA sequence databases

CINEMA - programme for the visualising protein sequence alignments

ALIGN - compendium of protein sequence alignments

Pfam - database of domain-based protein sequence alignments

CLUSTALX - perform sequence alignments. Downloadable software

Database of Interacting Proteins (DIP) - experimentally determined interactions between proteins

LIPIDAT - lipid data bank. Includes basic information on lipids (structures, Tm etc)

LIPIDAG - phase diagrams of lipid mistures

LipidBank - lipid data bank from the JBCL. Includes some chemical data

LIPID MAPS Lipidomics Gateway - Lots of information on lipids and their identification. Includes chemical data and structures

Bioinformatics Groups/Information

European Bioinformatics Institute

ExPASy - Molecular biololgy site, with many useful links and tools for bioinformatics and proteomics

Biomolecular Structure and Modelling Group - at UCL

EMBL - European molecular biology laboratory

The Sanger Institute

Other

ISI Journal Abbreviations

Journal Abbreviations - primarily biological science journals

jobs.ac.uk - current vacancies for the UK academic community