Internet Links

University of Pittsburgh

• Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology Graduate Program
• NMR facilities at the Dept. of Structural Biology

Teaching (MBSB)

• Structural Biophysics - Fall 2008

Former Research Groups

• Griffin Group Homepage 
  (at the Francis Bitter Magnet Lab., MIT, Cambridge MA)
• Roger E. Koeppe II 
  (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville AR)
• Antoinette Killian 
  (Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands)

Conferences and meetings

• SSNMR winter school
• Biophysical society meeting
• Experimental NMR conference (ENC)

Other Scientific Links

• NMR Links
• Dror Warschawski's NMR list (also see the links at the bottom)
• NMR Software (see also here for more info and links related to NMR scripts and software)
• NMRPipe - Powerful NMR processing software. (Updated download and installation instructions)
• Sparky - NMR spectrum assignment program (advanced viewer for multidimensional data).
• CCPNMR / Analysis - NMR assignment program, in heavy development.
• Other Chemistry Software
  • IsisDraw Chemical Structure Drawing Program - It is getting a bit older now, but is free and functional.
  • PyMol molecular modeling system - A nice program to produce images of (biological) molecules
  • Chimera PDB Viewer (and more)
  • Molecular Weight Calculator - This MW calculator is particularly useful to calculate precise molecular mass values for peptides and proteins (e.g. for mass spectrometry)
  • GeomView 3D graphic program to be used with SIMMOL output; final rendering can be done with Pixie (RenderMan compatible)
• Membrane Biophysics Related
  • Membrane protein structure database (Stephen White's laboratory)
  • Membrane protein structures by NMR (Dror Warschawski)
  • LIPIDAT  (database of lipid characteristics)
  • Orientations of Proteins in Membranes (OPM) database
• Biochemistry Reference Pages
  
  • Entrez Pubmed search
  • The RCSB Protein Databank
  • CCTBX - online fractional vs cartesian coordinate transformation