Table el.1 web database directories URL Pedro’s Biomolecularhttp://www.public.iastate.edu/-pedro/research-tools.html Research tools Biology workbench http://biologv.ncsauiuc.edu CmsMolecularBiologyIhttp://www.sdsc.edu/restools/cmshp.html Resources BioTech http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu Protocol Online http://www.protocol-online.net Chem connection httpichEmconnect.com/news/iournals.html AmericanChemicalSocietyhttp://pubs.acsorg/ Table el. 2 biochemical Databases and tools Name Description URL ProteinDataBank(pdb)Proteinstructureshttp://www.rcsb.org/pdbl ed by x-ray and NMr European Bioinformatics DNA sequences http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ Institute(EBD) CenterforVarietyofdatabaseshttp://www.nlm.nihgov/ Biotechnology and resources Information(NCBi) wiss- Protein Proteinsequenceshttp://www.expasy.ch/tools/ and analysis Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Microbial http://www.labmed.umnedu Databases of the University metabolism of many umbbd/index. html of minnesota chemicals RebaSe-thERestrictionrestrictionenzymehttp://rebase.neb.com/ Enzyme Database directory and action GeorgiainStituteofTutorialsonpdBhttp://www.chemistry.gatech.edw/ Technology and RasMol faculty/williams/b Course information/4582/labs/rasmol- db. html297 Table E1.1 Web Database Directories Name URL Pedro’s Biomolecular Research Tools http://www.public.iastate.edu/~pedro/research-tools.html Biology Workbench http://biology.ncsa.uiuc.edu CMS Molecular Biology Resources http://www.sdsc.edu/ResTools/cmshp.html BioTech http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu Protocol Online http://www.protocol-online.net Chem Connection http://chemconnect.com/news/journals.html American Chemical Society http://pubs.acs.org/ Table E1.2 Biochemical Databases and Tools Name Description URL Protein Data Bank(PDB) Protein structures determined by X-ray and NMR http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/ European Bioinformatics Institute(EBI) DNA sequences http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ National Center for Biotechnology Information(NCBI) Variety of databases and resources http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ Swiss-Protein Protein sequences and analysis http://www.expasy.ch/tools/ Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Databases of the University of Minnesota Microbial metabolism of many chemicals http://www.labmed.umn.edu/ umbbd/index.html REBASE-The Restriction Enzyme Database Restriction enzyme directory and action http://rebase.neb.com/ Georgia Institute of Technology Tutorials on PDB and RasMol http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/ faculty/Williams/bCourse￾information/4582/labs/rasmol￾pdb.html