Bioinformatics Links

MIPS, Munich Information Center for Protein Sequence
Sequence databases and and analysis tools. Access to sequence data for Yeast, Arabidopsis, Human.

TIGR, The Institute for Genomic Research
Access to a lot of sequence data, including completely sequenced microbial genomes.

Protein Data Bank
THE databank for known protein 3D-structures.

CATH
Protein Structure Classification. CATH classifies the known protein structures from the PDB. INTRODUCTION TO CATH

SCOP
SCOP is another classification of PDB protein structures. SCOP: Introduction

SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL
SWISS-PROT is a curated protein sequence database which strives to provide a high level of annotations (such as the description of the function of a protein, its domains structure, post-translational modifications, variants, etc.), a minimal level of redundancy and high level of integration with other databases.
TrEMBL is a computer-annotated supplement of SWISS-PROT that contains all the translations of EMBL nucleotide sequence entries not yet integrated in SWISS-PROT. SWISS-PROT explanation

TOPS
Tool that draws cartoons of proteins. These cartoons visualize the topology of proteins. Explanation of TOPS

Nomenclature for Nucleic Acid Sequences
Contains recommended symbols for DNA/RNA sequences, including incompletely specified bases. Contains further, amino acid codetable and amino-acid one letter code. One may want to see just the tables.

Nomenclature and Symbolism for Amino Acids and Peptides See the contained table for one and three-letter codes of common amino-acids.